69novels Chapter 1004
Chapter 1004
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: 0.097s Scan: 0.653sManstein doesn’t care who the Eagle Sauce wants to invite to serve as the commander-in-chief of the US military. For him no matter who comes out it will not be able to quickly change the current decline of the US military. The initiative of the war is in the hands of the German army and the fate of the US military is also in the hands of the German army.
If the US military continues to maintain its current weak situation then Manstein can slow down the military operations on the front line and instead focus on digesting and absorbing the areas they have occupied.
However if the US military is carrying out any military reforms that may pose a threat to the German army in the future he will not hesitate to send troops to disrupt this process. Anyway Guderian has been eager to try. Find him something to do I believe he will be very happy!
Therefore what Manstein has to do is to work closely with Himmler’s intelligence agency and judge whether to send troops based on the actions of the US military. What the US military can do is to look at the face of the German army!
Fight or not when to fight where to fight how large the scale of the battle these are all up to the German army. The US military is completely unable to influence and change the German army’s decision. They can only passively bear it!
The initiative of the war is in the hands of the German army so Manstein naturally does not need to worry!
Therefore after persuading Guderian Manstein began to focus his attention on digesting and absorbing the territories that the German army has occupied!
So far the German army has controlled more than two-fifths of the territory of Eagle Sauce. With Model’s rapid progress in the western region the territory controlled by the German army will be further expanded.
Moreover this is not counting the sparsely populated states in the central part of Eagle Sauce but the land area is large!
The area of Eagle Sauce is as high as more than 9.6 million square kilometers of which the area of the core area is about 3 million square kilometers and a large part of the remaining areas are uninhabited and unsuitable for living.
For example the mountainous areas around the Rocky Mountains and the desert Gobi areas north of Texas and the cold and frozen areas such as Alasha State in the north.
These areas are large in area but have a small population so they are not in the first batch of German offensive sequence.
The reason is actually very simple. The less populated the area the less industrial base it lacks and the lower the value of local industry and economy. With limited German troops it is obviously not cost-effective to waste a large number of manpower in such a place!
Moreover occupying this place will not directly help the German army nor will it weaken the strength of the Eagle Sauce. On the contrary once the German army divides its troops to control this place the US military will be very happy because this will invisibly reduce the pressure they face on the front battlefield.
Therefore if you want to weaken the Eagle Sauce as much as possible and hit the Eagle Sauce’s vital points you must aim at the Eagle Sauce’s most populous most developed industry and most prosperous economy. These areas are obviously in these plains in the east especially these coastal cities near the western Atlantic.
However this strategy has to be adjusted now mainly because the speed of the German army’s two-wing attack is too fast resulting in the German front line presenting a V-shaped structure.
Because the sparsely populated areas in the central part were not under control the German front line was stretched very long. These areas became a salient on the German front line posing a threat to the communication channel between the left and right wings of the German army.
Therefore in order to eliminate this huge hidden danger and to smooth out the long front line of the German army sending troops to attack these states was a more beneficial than harmful thing for the German army at this time.
Although the area of these states is not small the population is not large and the number of American troops stationed here is not large so the German army does not need to waste too much manpower.
Once they successfully occupy here the southern states will become the rear of the German army in North America and will no longer be threatened by the war on the front line. In this case the German troops stationed in these areas can be greatly reduced thereby adding a lot of additional troops that can be put into combat for the German army.
And counting the troops saved on the smoothed front line the capture of these areas will not only not occupy the German army’s troops but also save the German army’s troops. After calculating this account Manstein immediately decided to launch a military operation against the central region of Eagle Sauce!
The commander of this mission is undoubtedly Guderian.
The central region of the United States is very large and such a large area is very suitable for Guderian to take his armored forces to play their best blitzkrieg.
As for the command work in the eastern region Manstein did not intend to take over personally. He planned to transfer Eisenhower from Texas and promote him to be the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Theater.
As for why he did this it was actually due to two factors.
On the one hand in the previous battles the German army has always been the protagonist. Whether it was Model in the early stage or Guderian in the later stage the protagonist on the battlefield has always been the German army and Eisenhower’s Southern Army has always played a supporting role which is actually not suitable for the empire.
Therefore before he set off for North America Mainz privately told him to pay attention to the balance work and not let Eisenhower and the Southern Army feel that they are outsiders and inferior beings. In that case they will unconsciously wander outside the system of the German army or even the Third Reich and their inner self-identity will have problems.
After all they are immigrants who have lived in the Eagle Sauce for many years and they are not real Hans. If even the last trace of their sense of identity with the country disappears to be honest even if Mainz is generous he dare not employ them boldly because there will definitely be problems!
Therefore promoting Eisenhower and reusing the Southern Army has always been what the Empire has been trying to do.
This time deploying them to the most important Eastern Theater is a reflection of their importance.
Another point is actually very important. Whether it is Eisenhower or the Southern Army they were originally Eagle Sauce people so they have a deeper understanding of the culture and customs of the Eagle Sauce than the German army.
The eastern coastal area of the Eagle Sauce is their most densely populated and most economically and industrially developed area. The German army can occupy it by force but it cannot rule it by force.
If you want to truly digest and absorb it you have to use both kindness and force and rule it with carrots and sticks.
As an external force the German army will naturally cause rejection by the locals. At this time it will definitely be difficult to let the German army do this work here. The language barrier and cultural customs will make it difficult for the German army to carry out its work.
Eisenhower and the Southern Army are different.
They have the core of the Eagle Sauce culture and are very familiar with the cultural customs of the Eagle Sauce.
So letting them manage this place will better reduce the resistance of the locals.
With the powerful military force of the German army as a backing it will be much easier to assimilate and absorb the locals and then make the industry and economy here work for me!
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