69novels Chapter 673
Chapter 673
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“How is this war being fought? The British army has the advantage of time, place, people and overwhelming military strength, so why did it end up like this?”
In Washington, the capital of the United States, including President Roosevelt, Chief of Staff Admiral Charles, Secretary of State Henry Lewis and others were shocked by the swift offensive of the German army after receiving the latest intelligence from the British army!
With such a small number of troops, the German army achieved such incredible results under the heavy siege of the British army.
This refreshed their impression of the German army, making the German army, which they originally felt was very powerful, even more invincible!
“Mr. President, the main general of the German army is said to be Guderian. His tactics have always been unexpected. In the Gallic War, they suddenly broke out from the Ardennes Forest and completely changed the situation. With this person’s ability, it is not surprising that he can come up with such an incredible tactic!”
A young man behind the Chief of Staff General Charles slowly spoke and answered President Roosevelt’s question.
Everyone looked at the young man in the direction of the voice and found that it was the army rookie, Major Eisenhower. Eisenhower
‘s military rank is not high, but he is the chief assistant in the office of the current Chief of Staff Colonel Charles. It can be said that he is a person of low status and power, and he is a person who can actually affect the national defense and military construction of the Eagle Sauce.
Hearing Eisenhower’s words, many people at the scene couldn’t help but frowned.
Eisenhower is a descendant of German immigrants. If it were normal, his identity would not cause any associations among the people, but at this time, his identity as a descendant of German immigrants seemed very sensitive, especially in the Eagle Sauce. When the imaginary enemy changed from the British Empire to Hans, this identity became even more disadvantageous!
Eisenhower suffered a lot of contempt and discrimination during this period, but he acted as if nothing had happened, with an attitude of neither servility nor overbearing, and it seemed that he could not feel the influence of this identity on him.
But what the real situation is, I am afraid only he himself knows!
President Roosevelt knew Eisenhower and knew that this young man was very talented and was one of the rising stars favored by Admiral Pershing. The other person favored by Admiral Pershing was the older Brigadier General MacArthur.
So after hearing what the other party said, President Roosevelt did not think much about it, but asked,”So, based on your understanding of Guderian, what will the German army do next?”
After Guderian landed, he did not continue to attack Southampton, but marched westward. Despite being at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, he used quick attack tactics to surround the more than 300,000 British troops in the southwest. Although the number of British troops surrounded could not be compared with the nearly 3 million troops surrounded by the Allied forces in the Benelux and other places during the Gallic Campaign.
However, the German encirclement was even more broken. After the British were surrounded, there was little hope of breaking out, because Guderian had no intention of stopping to rest. After Coxmouth, he quickly divided his troops into three groups, with three armored divisions as the vanguard, and began to divide the remaining surrounded British troops, resulting in a large defeat and further division into A smaller part!
It can be said that the more than 300,000 British troops in the southwest are finished. They will be quickly eaten by the German army within a few days. The British troops are currently mobilized to Southampton to protect the so-called South Gate. They no longer have enough troops to support the surrounded troops in the southwest!
If they deploy troops from other places, it will definitely be too late. By the time their reinforcements arrive, the British troops in the encirclement will definitely have been wiped out!
Therefore, the only army they can mobilize is the more than one million British troops stationed in Southampton and reinforced here. However, if this force is mobilized, the safety of Southampton cannot be guaranteed!
The German army controlled Burke. After Enmouth, they can continuously transport troops from the European continent to the British mainland, and with Guderian’s successive offensives, they control a large number of port cities in the southwestern part of the British mainland. The scale and carrying capacity of these port cities may not be as large as Southampton, but their number is large, and if added together, they can fully meet the needs of the German army to dock and unload!
Therefore, it can be predicted that the subsequent reinforcements of the German army will continue to land, and with the success of Guderian’s offensive tactics, the southwestern part of the British mainland will become the safe rear of the German army, and will not be threatened by the British army. They can land here leisurely, and then turn around the disadvantage in strength little by little. Situation!
If the German occupation of Bournemouth only threatened the security of the British mainland and caused a huge loophole in their defense, then at this time, with the German army gaining a safe landing site in the southwest, the balance of victory in the British-British Battle has begun to gradually slide in favor of the German army!
This result is obviously not what the British want to see, and of course it is not what the Eagles want to see!
The Eagles hope that Hans and the British will fight each other and be exhausted in the battle, but they don’t want the war to be one-sided, especially they don’t want to see Hans win the war.
Because if Hans wins the war, Europe will completely change!
“Guderian’s tactical characteristics can be summed up in one word: fast!
At this time, Southampton was still heavily armed, and the British army might need several days to adjust, so this gave the German army a great opportunity to continue the attack and expand the occupied area!���
To be honest, Eisenhower actually couldn’t predict Guderian’s next move. After all, Guderian was experienced and was the best general of the time. His understanding of armored warfare was so deep that it completely surpassed anyone of the same era. The armored forces of the Eagle Sauce itself were not strong, and their army had just completed its expansion. At present, everything was still in a state of chaos.
In addition, the Eagle Sauce had not experienced a war for nearly ten years. Without war, it was naturally difficult to gain experience in battle, and it was also difficult to summarize and explore new tactics.
Therefore, the Eagle Sauce could only learn and imitate from other land powers in Europe and the world. As the strongest land power in Europe, Hans had been at war for many years, so Hans’s tactical thinking was the richest, including Guderian’s blitzkrieg, Model’s flexible defense, Mainz’s large-scale group combat and many other new tactics.
And these tactics, the Eagle Sauce naturally learned and borrowed with great pleasure.