69novels Chapter 335
Chapter 335
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Gauls lost their courage to march forward, and there was no movement in the west, which made Guderian, who was stationed in the Rhine region, quite disappointed
“Damn, if I had known earlier, I should have followed the general to quell the rebellion. I really envy Manstein and the others!”
The Gauls hid in the Maginot Line and Guderian could not take the initiative to attack them.
So the two sides stared at each other in the border area. You can’t do anything to me, and I can’t do anything to you. This is really hard for Guderian!
“General, if we are going to attack Gaul in the west in the future, how do you think we should break through their Maginot Line?”
Since there was nothing else to do, the German army began to discuss it, and the focus of their discussion was the Maginot Line in Gaul.
“A frontal attack is definitely not going to work. The Gauls spent a huge price to build this line of defense, hoping that this line of defense can stop our cavalry. If we attack from the front, we may not be able to break through their line of defense, and the battle may become a stalemate. The enemy hides in bunkers and permanent fortifications. We can’t hit them, but they can hit us. If we continue to fight like this, our casualties will definitely be much greater than theirs!”
Although Guderian looked down on the Gauls’ field combat capabilities, he never underestimated the Gauls’ Maginot Line.
For Guderian, if the Gauls left the line of defense and fought him outside, he was confident that he could defeat the opponent and win the battle with equal forces.
But if the enemy hides in the Maginot Line and doesn’t come out, then even if Guderian has all the skills, he will have nowhere to display them!
“I heard that the artillery seems to have begun to equip 500mm heavy artillery. This kind of artillery seems to be specially prepared for the Maginot Line. If we get this kind of artillery at that time, can we open a gap in the Maginot Line?”
Because the border area between Hans and Gaul is just to the west of the Rhine region, and this is where the Gauls built the Maginot Line, so when discussing how to break through the Gauls’ defense line, everyone’s thinking is limited to this area, and no other places have been thought of.
Guderian has also heard that the Krupp factory has produced a large-caliber cannon, which seems to be called the Gustav cannon.
He has not seen the power of this cannon, but with such a large caliber, the power of this cannon should be considerable!
If there are a large number of such cannons, then the German army may really be able to open a gap in the Gauls’ Maginot Line.
Once the gap is opened, the German armored forces can quickly launch an assault from this gap and quickly tear apart the enemy’s defense line.
However, Guderian thought about it carefully and quickly denied it. The reason for this idea is very simple.
As long as the French army does not lose their composure and there are experienced generals guarding the front line, they should not panic even if some areas of the Maginot Line are penetrated by the German army. After all, the quality of the Maginot Line itself is here, and it is extremely difficult to completely tear this line apart! The
German army may be able to concentrate its forces to penetrate one of the places, but it is certainly impossible to penetrate too many places, so the Gauls can organize reserve forces after the German army launches an attack and concentrate their forces to counterattack the point that was broken by the German army.
Once the Gauls capture this place, the German army that enters Gaul will become an isolated army. Their connection with their own troops behind them will be cut off. Not only will they not receive assistance, they will even lose their logistics and ammunition supply lines. Such an army will be invincible even if it is a battle. No matter how strong they are, they will probably not be able to escape their fate!
Therefore, even with the Gustav cannon, it is still difficult for them to break through the Maginot Line!
If they want to attack the Gauls’ homeland, they must think of another way!
Guderian looked at the map for a long time, and finally locked his eyes on two countries!
Luxembourg and the Belgian Division!
The location of these two countries happens to be a plain area without mountains blocking the way. If they fight here, the advantage of the German armored forces will be multiplied, and the Gauls did not build the Maginot Line in the border area between the two countries. Even if they did so, the defense line in the plains is much easier to attack than the defense line in the mountains.
Therefore, if an attack is launched from the three low-lying countries of Benelux, it is possible to bypass the main force of Gaul in the front unexpectedly and catch them off guard from their flank. Not enough!
However, this tactic was used by the German army during World War I, but the final effect was not very ideal. The German attack did achieve good results in the early stage, but when Gaul and the British reacted, their offensive plan quickly went bankrupt!
Therefore, it is not enough to just have a plan to attack from the Low Countries. They have to further improve their tactics on this basis and come up with a method that the enemy can’t think of anyway. Only in this way can they completely surprise the enemy and achieve the effect of a surprise attack!
Guderian thought for a long time, but he couldn’t think of a good way. He roughly knew that the future attack would be launched from the Benelux countries, but how to quickly break through the French defense line and not leave too much reaction time for the French army was something he couldn’t do!
“Perhaps, General Mainz has already had such an idea in his mind. Maybe when I return to Berlin this time, I can tell the general my idea and see if he has any good suggestions!”
Guderian is a tactical fanatic. He is very persistent in proposing and perfecting a tactic. Since he was thinking about how to avoid the Maginot Line of the Gauls and attack the Gaul mainland unexpectedly, he couldn’t stop for a moment.
In order to perfect his plan, Guderian sent a large number of scouts to secretly go to Benelux and other places for field investigations, and let the scouts record everything they found along the way.
After he collected a lot of intelligence, the transfer order from Berlin finally came! In
February 1925, Mainz returned to the capital Berlin.
At this time, the situation in Berlin had basically stabilized. Manstein’s Third Army had withdrawn from Berlin and was stationed in the Potsdam area in the southwest, while the Brandenburg area was handed over to Mainz’s Fifth Army.
Not only that, Model’s Second Army stationed in Saxony was also moving towards Berlin at this time. They were preparing to go to Silesia to exchange guards with the troops stationed in Silesia.
So, when Guderian returned to Berlin, he saw countless troops along the way, which made Guderian secretly smack his lips. If he had known that he would encounter so many troops, he might as well apply to bring part of the First Army here. In this way, he might be able to have a real-combat exercise with other friendly forces and perfect his previous ideas on the training ground.
“The idea of bypassing the Maginot Line is right!”
After hearing Guderian’s report, Mainz commented on his idea.
“Although the Maginot Line looks impregnable, its shortcomings are obvious.”
Hearing Mainz say this, everyone looked at him curiously, not understanding where the weakness of the Maginot Line he was talking about was.
Especially Guderian, who was stationed in the Rhine region. Among all the people present, he was the one who dealt with the Maginot Line the most, and when it came to the research on the Maginot Line, he must have spent the most time!
But why had he never discovered the shortcomings of the Maginot Line?
If he had found the shortcomings of the Maginot Line, he wouldn’t have had to go to great lengths to circumvent this line of defense!
Seeing everyone’s surprised expressions, Mainz smiled and said,”The biggest shortcoming of the Maginot Line is that it doesn’t move, it’s fixed, it’s dead!” When everyone heard Mainz’s first sentence, they couldn’t help but roll their eyes, but after hearing his next words, everyone began to think about it.
It seemed that what General Mainz said made sense!