The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1001

See more

: 0.138s Scan: 0.614sWhile the British and the Russians were discussing the art of trading in the Kremlin, the capital of the Russians, a tense meeting was also taking place in Chicago, the temporary capital of the Eagle Sauce in North America.

“Just got the news that the German Chief of Staff Manstein has landed in Florida and is heading to the German front in the middle of the country. The Third Army and the Fourth Army have also arrived with him. The German army now has more than 1.3 million troops in North America!”

Manstein arrived in North America with the powerful forces of two field armies, which is itself a huge bad news!

For the Eagle Sauce people, even if the German army did not send reinforcements, they would already be a bit overwhelmed with just the two German armies in their country, not to mention that the German army has sent two more armies!

If the German army had only two armies before, then they seemed to have a slight theoretical chance of a comeback, but at this time, with the German army’s strength increasing exponentially, the little possibility that they only existed in theory has completely disappeared!

With the current strength of the US military, it is impossible for them to defeat the German army with millions of troops, not to mention that after… After the previous battle, the strength of the Southern Army supported by the German Army was also tested in the war. They used actual combat to show that although their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the German Army, they could definitely compete with the US Army on the battlefield!

Therefore, the enemy that the US Army needs to face is definitely not just the more than one million German troops, but also the millions of Southern Army attached to the German Army!

With the addition of more than one million Southern Army, the total strength of the German Army easily exceeded two million. The comparison of the strength of the two sides was completely tied at this time, and the US Army was even at a disadvantage!

This situation was clearly presented in front of everyone present through statistical data, which made the atmosphere in the venue serious, so serious that it was silent!

“With the complete failure of the previous battle, we no longer have the ability to actively launch an attack on the German army in a short period of time. In the next period of time, it is very likely that the German army will attack and we will be in a passive situation of defense!”

The words of Chief of Staff Marshall made everyone’s mood worse!

Losing the initiative in a war is a very terrible thing, because losing the initiative means being completely passive. They cannot decide where and when to start the war, nor can they decide the scale of the war. All this depends on Hans’s face! The German army can completely concentrate its superior forces to attack a place where their defense is weak, so as to ensure 100% that they can break through their defense line to achieve the purpose of a successful attack!

Moreover, before, so many troops were concentrated to launch an attack and they still failed. At this time, the defensive side faced an enemy with far more troops than themselves and much stronger combat effectiveness than themselves. No one thought that the US military could hold on!

However, if they can’t hold on, the consequences will be very serious. It is extremely serious!

After the two disastrous defeats in the Florida Campaign and the Texas Campaign, not only the gates of the southern region were wide open, but also the defenses of the central and even western regions were completely broken.

This means that as long as the German army is willing, it can completely seek breakthroughs from these directions. The US military will then have to face a dilemma!

Should they strengthen the defenses in these areas to restrict the actions of the German army?

If the defenses in these places are strengthened, more troops must be sent here.

However, whether it is the central or western regions, these areas are not the core areas of the Eagle Sauce. Although they are very important, they are far less important than the real core areas, that is, the eastern coastal areas!

Moreover, the US military has limited manpower. Although they control The territory still has a population of over 60 million. Theoretically, at least millions of people can be mobilized to join the army. However, because of the continuous disastrous defeats in the past, the enthusiasm of the people to join the army has dropped sharply. After all, an army that cannot win a battle and is suffering a major defeat, it is conceivable how attractive it is to ordinary people!

Although the Eagle Sauce government tried its best and barely recruited some new soldiers and expanded part of the army, their manpower gap is still very large. These recruited troops are not enough to protect the security of the core areas, not to mention the security of those relatively unimportant areas!

Therefore, when such a choice was placed in front of the Eagle Sauce government, most people did not hesitate at all and directly rejected the proposal to send troops to the western and central regions.

And they rejected The direct impact of this proposal was that the German army’s westward strategy was extremely successful.

After Manstein arrived in North America, the three famous generals gathered together, and Manstein, relying on the direct appointment of the head of state and the power and prestige that exceeded the other two, enabled the German army in North America to unite as a whole and carry out large-scale strategic operations!

So, Model accepted the task and began to march westward with his Second Army. Starting from Texas, he soon crossed the Rocky Mountains and entered the California region in the west.

The California region was originally an important military base for the Eagle Sauce. This is their base camp for maintaining their strategy in Asia, so for the US military, California is actually very important!

However, this importance is actually relative to the navy. For the army, the importance of California is not too high.

In addition, under the current circumstances, they could not dispatch troops to reinforce the west, resulting in the fact that the originally small number of defenders in California were unable to resist the attack of Model’s Second Army. It took only half a month for Model to control most of California and was still marching forward, ready to sweep across the west of the Eagle Sauce, and then go north from the west to threaten the northern part of the Eagle Sauce from the flank!

Faced with such a situation, the Eagle Sauce side did not have any good solutions. The moment they decided not to send troops, they were destined to have such a result.

Therefore, facing the fall of California, the Eagle Sauce government in Chicago could only watch, but could not do anything!

Originally, if California was sacrificed in exchange for the safety of the eastern coastal areas, then this deal would not be a particularly bad deal.

However, their strategy of abandoning the west and focusing on defending the east did not work.

Because Manstein gave two of the three armies in his hands to Guderian, and by the way, gave most of the troops of the Southern Army to Guderian, allowing Guderian to attack from the east!

Guderian is good at attacking, and he is good at blitzkrieg.

The eastern part of the Eagle Sauce is flat, and most of the area is plains, which makes Guderian’s blitzkrieg effective here. Although the US military has assembled heavy troops, it is still retreating and can’t hold it at all!