The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 511

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: 0.033s Scan: 0.021sKleist felt Paulus’s regret.

Although he was a member of the Sixth Army, because he was the commander of the Cavalry Division, there were few places where the Cavalry Division could play a role in the attack on the Iron Tower City!

The French army reacted quickly. After confirming that the German army was marching towards the Iron Tower City, they immediately carried out layers of resistance in various towns along the way, relying on train stations and railways.

Their troops were weak, and such resistance would definitely not be able to stop the German army’s advance, but the Gauls used this method to successfully slow down the speed of the German army, so that the German army could not threaten the Iron Tower City itself in the first place!

The Iron Tower City in a broad sense refers to the metropolitan area with the Iron Tower City as the core, covering the surrounding seven provinces. The core population here exceeds 8 million, which is the most densely populated and prosperous area in Luxembourg. In a strict sense, the Iron Tower City actually refers to the main urban area within the Great Ring Road, with an area of about 105 square kilometers and a population of about 210.

The population and area of the Little Iron Tower City are no different from those in later generations, because the houses in the Little Iron Tower City are basically old houses from the Middle Ages, and no large-scale infrastructure has been newly built.

Even in the war years, because the Gauls took the initiative to withdraw from the Iron Tower City during World War II, the German army took it without a single soldier, so the Iron Tower City did not suffer too much damage from the war, and the main urban area was kept very intact.

In this regard, Hans’ capital Berlin was not so lucky. At the end of World War II, in order to take Berlin before the Allies, the bears dispatched millions of troops and thousands of planes and tens of thousands of cannons to launch a fierce attack on Berlin for half a month.

The result of the Battle of Berlin was the complete destruction of the Third Reich, which was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength and had reached the end of its road. The bears conquered the capital of Hans, and the destruction caused by the war was so great that the entire Berlin became a ruin, and large-scale reconstruction had to be carried out after the war.

Therefore, compared with the Iron Tower City, which was not severely damaged by the war, Berlin’s urban construction is newer and looks more modern. Of course, because there are no ancient buildings, Berlin is not as good as the Iron Tower City in terms of tourism and cultural development.

The Gauls of later generations, relying on the reputation of the romantic country and the romantic capital, vigorously developed the cultural tourism industry, receiving tens of millions of tourists every year, and earned a lot of money from tourists.

Hans did not have such a good life. He could only use his expertise and focus on industry. He became the largest industrial country in Europe and created a large number of world-famous car brands. Although he did not develop the tourism industry, he could still make money standing up. His life was pretty good. At least the GDP was much better than that of Gaul!

However, in this time and space, because Gaul did not experience long-term domestic political and economic chaos, and the people’s martial blood had not completely dried up, their government did not show too obvious surrender tendency.

Originally in the history of World War II, when the German army broke through the Meuse River defense line and penetrated the Weygand Line hastily formed by the French army, the Gallic government realized that the general situation had been resolved. So the government took the initiative to leave the Iron Tower City and retreat to the south, and at the same time declared the Iron Tower City an undefended city, which was equivalent to handing over the German army.

However, in this history, the Gallic government obviously did not intend to do so. It put on a posture of preparing to fight to the death with Hans under the Iron Tower City. On the one hand, it frantically summoned and mobilized young and middle-aged people across the country to join the army and rush to the north for emergency assistance.

On the other hand, they mobilized troops from the Maginot Line and the Ardennes Forest in the north, and even transferred back the troops of Degaulle who were responsible for the rescue mission.

This clearly meant that they were going to fight to the end, so under the Iron Tower City, the two sides would definitely have a bloody battle, and it was an unprecedented bloody battle!

After conquering Nebigon, Dietrich sent troops to attack Welbry to the south of the Wass River, and Kleist’s First Cavalry Division was also in the attacking team.

However, his main task was not to attack, but to find a suitable place to cross the Vasse River and assault the Iron Tower City as soon as possible.

It was helpful to let the residents of the Iron Tower City see the German army as soon as possible, which would disrupt the deployment of Gaul, create a sense of urgency and crisis, and increase the panic of the Gaul people and the army.

As long as the Gauls were overwhelmed in momentum, they would become cautious and conservative on the battlefield.

The German army did not have an advantage in terms of manpower. If they wanted to defeat the enemy, they could only rely on this method to confine the enemy to their own positions and prevent them from running around. In this way, the German army could use the flexible and maneuverable way of the armored forces to bypass the enemy’s defense line and attack the Iron Tower City from the flank.

This way of fighting was completely different from the previous operations of the German army. In the past, the German army would try its best to force or lure the enemy out of the solid defense line, and then lure them to the open area, and then dispatch the armored forces to use their powerful attack power and swift speed to divide and surround them and then annihilate them one by one.

However, this tactic cannot be implemented under the Iron Tower City. Firstly, the width and breadth of the battlefield have been greatly compressed to the area of less than 50 kilometers in the north of the Iron Tower City.

Even if the German army mobilized the enemy and forced them to leave their fortifications, they could not immediately defeat them, because the enemy forces were very close to each other.

If the German army surrounded one enemy, the enemy in another place would quickly move over.

At that time, the German army would have to divide its forces to deal with the enemy reinforcements, and their forces would be dispersed, and they would not be able to quickly defeat the enemies in the encirclement!

If this situation is delayed a little, the final result must be that a large number of enemy reinforcements will come and fight with the German army from all directions.

This kind of battle is not what Dietrich wants.

He wants to exert the greatest pressure on the Gallic government in the Iron Tower City in the shortest possible time, from���Shake the Gallic government’s determination to resist!

As long as their determination is shaken and they retreat from the city of Gaul, the fighting will of hundreds of thousands of French troops on the front line will also be shaken. At that time, they will definitely abandon the Iron Tower City and retreat.

Once they retreat, the German army can take down the Iron Tower City without firing a single shot, and when the opponent moves, they can seize the opponent’s exposed weaknesses and launch a fierce attack on the enemy.

Dietrich’s tactical characteristics rely on two words: speed!

Before seizing control of the Gas River and building a pontoon bridge, the German tank troops cannot cross the river.

Therefore, he can only use the cavalry!

Kleist knew Dietrich’s plan, and he was very grateful that the other party assigned him such an important task. However, when he thought of his troops’ lack of offensive capabilities and could only be separated from the combat system of the entire army group, he was in a bad mood!