After the first Battle of Jifu, Manstein and others completely changed their stereotype of the Soviet army!
Originally, according to their speculation, the Soviet army had a 40% chance of winning. However, they did not expect that the Soviet army, led by Tukhachevsky, actually rescued 1.2 million Soviet troops who were surrounded. Got it!
Moreover, what Tukhachevsky did didn't seem to be anything particularly remarkable. He just used one move to attack the east and the west, and divert the tiger away from the mountain!
He successfully deceived the Allied forces, and then took advantage of the opponent's opportunity to divide their forces and immediately launched an attack on the enemy's key areas. In the end, he successfully opened up the strategic location of Sumy and controlled both Sumy and Kursk. In the hands, thus ensuring the smooth withdrawal of the Soviet troops in the encirclement.
In the first few days, Manstein didn't think Tukhachevsky was very powerful. He felt that Tukhachevsky was just that. The tactics he used were those of a student who had just graduated from the military academy. It doesn't seem like anything special!
But as time went by, and after Manstein repeatedly thought about the entire process of the battle, his thoughts finally began to waver.
He had to admit that Tukhachevsky still had two skills!
"The performance of the French army was really terrible.
I have seen the terrain of Sumei.
That place was originally located on a mountainous area.
They only needed to occupy the commanding heights, hold on to a few highlands, and then build a fire blockade from high above to block the Soviet Union.
Even if the Soviet army is not afraid of death, it is not a body of steel.
If they rush forward, they can only serve as a living target for the French army and be beaten to death by machine gun fire!
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Molde believed that the key reason for the Soviet army's success this time was that the Allies, especially the Gauls, lost control at a critical moment!
In his opinion, if the Gauls did not escape, the Allied army's defense line could hold on for at least a while. Time!
The weapons and equipment of the Bolan people around the Gauls were much worse than them. They didn't run away, but the Gauls with better weapons and equipment ran away instead. This is really surprising!
"I heard that many soldiers in the Gauls' army were homesick and didn't want to continue fighting a meaningless war with the Bear Army in this foreign country, so they chose to escape. In my opinion It should be a normal thing to come!"
Kesselin was the oldest and knew the Gauls well, so he tried to analyze the reasons why the Gauls fled from the internal factors.
"Haha, they have been fighting wars for several years. They should have stopped the war three years ago, but in the end they still insist on fighting everywhere. If I were one of those soldiers, I would have been tired of the war long ago!"
Guderian didn't have a good impression of the Gauls. He believed that the Gauls were not worthy of being victors in World War I. If it hadn't been for the help of Sun Never Set and Eagle Sauce, Gaul would have been pinned down by the German army. The ground rubbed repeatedly!
Everyone has experienced war, so they know how much the war weariness Guderian said has an impact on the military's will to fight.
For soldiers, obeying orders is their bounden duty. In the early days of the war, soldiers. Everyone will probably be nervous and expectant about the war, but when the war reaches a stalemate and there are heavy casualties, the atmosphere in the army will change. As time goes by, the soldiers will become more and more opposed to the war. During World
War I, the brutal trench warfare caused many soldiers who participated in the war to collapse. Many soldiers ended their lives with their own guns and committed suicide to get rid of this nightmare life.
The battlefield can be called the most cruel battlefield in human history. The trenches are more than one meter deep and nearly two meters deep. The trenches are filled with smelly feces, urine and mud. The humid environment allows parasites here to breed crazily. Almost everyone Hundreds of lice were raging on the soldiers' bodies.
Moreover, there were corpses of fallen soldiers everywhere inside and outside the crowded trenches. Under the blockade of enemy machine guns, no one dared to clean up these corpses. Therefore, a large number of people lived in the trenches. The rats from the underground crawled out one after another, feeding on the corpses of the fallen soldiers, gnawing at the corpses in front of the surviving soldiers day and night.
Moreover, the rats not only gnawed at the corpses, but sometimes even living people.!
On the one hand, the soldiers have to endure the attacks of enemy machine guns and snipers, and on the other hand, they have to contend with the dirty environment, annoying parasites and terrible rats!
Ordinary people cannot stay in this environment for an hour, but Soldiers from various countries have to persist in such an environment for more than four years!
How can this prevent them from feeling war-weary?
Based on the words of several people, it seems that the reasons for the French army's failure can be found from external and internal factors. However
, Manstein did not easily conclude the coffin.
"I think we still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army. Regardless of whether the French army retreated or not, the Soviet army could win this battle. After all, the strategic advantage was already great enough when the Soviet army approached the city of Sumei!"
Manstein was the first to elevate this victory to a strategic level, so as soon as he spoke, everyone stopped their meaningless teasing and all looked at him, wanting to hear what he had to say. below
"From the perspective of God after the fact, we may think that Tukhachevsky and the Soviet army just made some very ordinary decisions. However, if we look at the problem from the perspective of the Soviet army, we may get different results. s answer!"
Manstein's words aroused everyone's thinking. Everyone may not agree with his point of view, but at least they think what he said has some truth. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is indeed the case.
The Soviet army did not know about the Allied Powers in advance. Based on the deployment of the army, Tukhachevsky can take the lead in attacking the area guarded by the British army and mobilize Allied troops to support it. This in itself is a manifestation of his ability.
Imagine if Tukhachevsky attacked! If the Allies were not stationed in Kharkov and the sun never sets, would the Allies still pay so much attention to the life and death of the army stationed in Kharkov?
After all, when Belgorod? When attacked, the Allied Powers failed to respond immediately and send reinforcements.
However, when the British army was attacked, the Allied Powers mobilized two groups of troops to rescue them in a very short period of time.
After the first group of troops was ambushed by encirclement and reinforcements, the second group was still sent.
This kind of treatment was obviously not something that the Pineland Army or other Eastern European servant armies could have predicted in advance!
, and keenly seized the opportunity, which shows that the Soviet commander's strategy was very clever.
Moreover, the Soviet army's attack on Sumei was also carried out very suddenly, and the two in Tukhachevsky's hands had already been defeated. It should be impossible for the weakened group army to capture the heavily guarded town of Sumy by the Allies.
However, Tukhachevsky was able to contact the Soviet troops in the encirclement while launching the attack! , attack from the north and south, and jointly attack the enemy, thus completely solving the problem of insufficient troops, and causing the panicked French troops to flee the battle.
They can accurately calculate everything and do it every step of the way. Making the right choice, such a seemingly simple matter, was put into the role of a Soviet commander. Standing in his position, Manstein found that this was extremely difficult.
At least, he couldn't do it now! Arrived!
No wonder his brother is so afraid of this Tukhachevsky. It seems that he is really capable!
Thinking of this, Manstein suddenly became curious: Mainz, who was favored by Tukhachevsky, What about his true strength?
If he were given the command to fight this battle, how would he fight it?