"Of course, general, please take us to your combat headquarters. We need 5-10 staff officers in a large sand table and accurate maps!"
With all the ideological baggage gone, Manstein began his performance.
After hearing Manstein's request, Tukhachevsky immediately asked his subordinates to do it.
The Soviet combat command headquarters was very crude. , naturally cannot be compared with the German General Staff, but no one pays much attention to this kind of thing. After all, they are on the front line now, everything is simple, and naturally they cannot ask the bear according to the requirements of the German Army Headquarters.
"General Tukhachevsky, if we want to conduct a battle deduction, we need to know the detailed deployment of your army, including detailed data on troop distribution, weapons and equipment distribution, soldiers' training level and logistics support!"
Manstein's request at this time made Tukhachevsky a little difficult to handle!
He did not dare to easily agree to Manstein's request, because doing so would inevitably reveal a lot of intelligence about the Soviet army.
Especially Involving intelligence on weapons and equipment and soldier training, if this information is leaked, the German army will be able to comprehensively assess the Soviet army's combat effectiveness based on this data!
"Do you need this data?"
Tukhachevsky himself felt that his words were a bit stupid. If he didn't tell the other party the details of his side, and expected the other party to deduce this battle without knowing it, wouldn't it be funny?
"certainly!"
Sure enough, after hearing Tukhachevsky's words, Manstein looked at him as if he were a fool and gave an affirmative answer without hesitation.
Okay!
There is no other way. I just planned to test it. The German army asked them to conduct a battle simulation, but they did not expect that they would taste the consequences of this move so quickly, and Tukhachevs would swallow it with tears.
Ji gritted his teeth and said to the people around him:"Tell them the detailed data!"
The Soviet soldiers reluctantly handed over various detailed data on the number, equipment and training level of the Soviet troops to the German officer corps.
After obtaining these data, Manstein Others also have a general understanding of the Soviet army's combat effectiveness.
In general, most of the Soviet army's establishments are lacking in personnel. They have many divisions, corps, and even group armies, but the number of soldiers in them is small. However, the number of soldiers was not satisfactory. Most of the troops were not fully equipped, and the lack of weapons and equipment was also quite serious.
To make matters worse, these Soviet troops also lacked specialized training. Many of them were just farmers before. The Xiong Recruitment Committee called them up temporarily, stuffed a rifle into them and sent them to the battlefield!
These are just a bunch of new recruits!
The German officers who heard the news were very surprised, Manstein said in shock. :"Have you ever fought against the Allied forces in this state before?
Second Lieutenant Zhukov, who was proud of the Soviet Army, straightened his chest and said proudly:"Of course!""
After I finished speaking, I still felt a little disdainful.
Look at these Hans guys.
They seem to have no knowledge.
Aren't they just short of soldiers and guns? What's the big deal? This kind of thing is not a problem in Mao Xiong at all.
From Tsarist Russia During this period, this situation has always existed in the army.
In order to drink the blood of the soldiers, the Tsarist officers not only withheld the soldiers' military pay, but also tried every means to sell off the property in the army.
Various weapons were sold after being sent.
The weapons and equipment given to the soldiers were worn out and unfit for use!
The tsar did not treat his own people as human beings, and it was even less likely that the noble officers would treat them like gray animals!
, now in the Red Army, although they still lack weapons and equipment, at least their organization is accurate. There is no such thing as the Tsarist Russia era when a division only had 5,000 people but reported 10,000 people and ate 500 people's empty pay! This fine tradition of free pay still exists in many White armies.
A large part of the reason why Mao Xiong was able to survive the joint stranglehold of the Allied Powers and the White Army was because of the White Army. The number of people was not as large as they advertised!
The Allies did assist them with many weapons, but after these weapons entered the hands of the White Army, most of them were sold in the blink of an eye, and some were even sold to the Soviet Army and became The weapon used by the Soviet army to fight the White Army.
If the Allies knew about this, they would be so angry that they would vomit blood! After hearing Zhukov's answer, Manstein could only smile helplessly.
After seeing this, he originally thought that the armies of various countries should be like the German army, with unified and sufficient equipment, sufficient and well-trained soldiers, and complete logistical support system support. However, he now discovered that this situation seemed to only have Only the German army had it. Even the Allied forces that he had seen before seemed unable to completely solve these three problems.
Because of his new understanding of the Soviet army's combat effectiveness, Manstein lowered his response. The psychological expectations of the Soviet army. During the battle deduction, because he felt that the Soviet army had insufficient troops, insufficient weapons, lack of training and lack of supplies, he felt that the probability of the Soviet army winning this battle was not high, no more than 4 at most.
This result was unanimously recognized by the five generals of the German army. Everyone thought so.
"Haha, does your army really think so?"
Tukhachevsky was not angry about this result. He was obviously slighted, but he didn't mean to be angry at all. On the contrary, Company Commander Zhukov was very angry!
"Sorry, we believe that if your army could capture Kursk a week ago, then even if your army lacks troops, weapons and supplies, the chance of winning this battle would still be more than 50%. In fact, within our During the deduction, General Mainz believed that your army had a 70% chance of winning!"
"Um? Did General Mainz also conduct such a deduction?"
As soon as he heard that Major General Mainz also made predictions about this battle, Tukhachevsky suddenly became interested.
For rising stars like Manstein, Tukhachevsky was relatively unfamiliar. Before this He has never been in contact with or knows these people at all, but for Major General Mainz, because they had been in contact with each other the year before, he knew the opponent's strength very well, one who could defeat Prussia in a very short time. A large group of veteran generals with great military achievements, who became Hans's commander-in-chief, is definitely not an easy person!
Tukhachevsky can ignore the opinions of Manstein and others, but he cannot ignore Mainz. Manstein was a little confused.
He didn't know why the other party's eyes suddenly lit up.
When he was deducing it before, the other party didn't seem to care much, but when he said the beautiful thing. After the name of Major General Intz, the other party's reaction immediately changed!
Since the other party handed over detailed information about the Soviet army so frankly, the German army did not need to be secretive, so Manstein simply Mainz's previous deduction in Hamburg was introduced.
"General Mainz believes that there are two key points in this battle, Kursk and the Sumy area in the south.
If the Soviet army can capture these two areas, then the Allies can only eat up to 200,000 Soviet troops.
If the Soviet Union The Soviet army only captured Kursk but not Sumy, so the Soviet army will lose at least 500,000 people in this battle.
If the Soviet army fails to capture any of them, the 1.
2 million Soviet army will be completely annihilated!