Chapter 38 The Helpless Silence of Manstein and Marshal von Kruger
Twenty minutes later, Chen Yanlong put on his head's clothes and came to the conference hall of the "Werewolf" command center.
In the relatively simple decoration conference hall, Chen Yanlong was surprised to see a large group of senior German generals from the Eastern Front.
They included Marshal von Kruger, commander of the Central Army Group, General Hot, commander of the 4th Armored Army Group, Marshal Manstein of the Southern Army Group; and Commander of the 9th Army Group, General Kempf of the Armored Forces, Neilin, commander of the 24th Armored Forces, commander of the 6th Air Force, General Von Grime, commander of the 4th Air Force, and General Alexander Lehl, and finally General Anti-aircraft Artillery General Desloch.
After a little surprised, Chen Yanlong looked at the crowd briefly for a while; then showed a bright smile, using the memories of Hitler's past life that had been integrated; imitating Hitler's body movements and tone of speaking, first greeting everyone enthusiastically, and then asking everyone to sit down.
After everyone sat down, Chen Yanlong just smiled slightly and did not give a long speech like Hitler.
Everyone was nervous, curious, confused, but nervous about this. In short, everyone had their own expressions at this moment.
These performances are good, bad, and hidden.
"Today I want everyone to come here, I just want to say what the combat style of our Kursk Battle is like!"
After seeing the expressions and reactions of the people for a while, Chen Yanlong went straight to the ground and made a clear idea.
After the conversation, the whole audience was silent, and no one interrupted or wanted to interrupt Chen Yanlong's words.
I don't know if these senior German generals were used to Hitler's long discussion before the meeting, and then formally talked about the main topic and the focus of the matter, so no one interrupted Chen Yanlong's speech and made a speech at this moment.
Seeing this, Chen Yanlong was reluctant to ask for it, without any embarrassment.
"The first thing we need to do is to make all the senior generals and leaders of the Soviet army have an illusion; they all think that the target of our attack is to surround the Soviet army in the Kursk region through good coordination and rapid advancement; use two attack armies to launch a centripetal attack from the southern regions of Belgorod and Orol respectively to wipe out the Soviet army in the Kursk outcrop! This is like the siege battle we attacked Minsk, Uman, Kiev, Viazima and other places in the past few years, and it is the same combat method!"
"In fact, our real way of fighting is to focus on defense, and at the same time, we also carry out continuous local major blows to the enemy, weaken their vitality and material supply lines. We make them sacrifice and capture a large number of their personnel, accumulate small amounts, and finally force the senior Soviet army to seek peace with our army!"
"Of course, in local wars, some combat opportunities were created by the Soviet army, but when the Soviet army did not take the initiative to attack, we can also take the initiative to attack and create local wars to continue to consume the opponent's vitality! The above combat methods were proposed by Marshal Manstein, and I also feel good! So I decided now to follow Marshal Manstein's suggestion and start from today to build a large number of defensive positions in our rear positions! We must establish a defensive position that is deeper, more mine arrays, and more difficult to conquer than the Soviet army!"
Then he said roughly what he had talked to Manstein earlier.
After listening, the entire conference hall boiled from the silence for a moment.
Some people objected, some kept silent, and some agreed with Chen Yanlong’s new way of combat.
However, in the end, whether it was suddenly proposed to launch the fortress operation first and wipe out the Soviet army deployed in Kursk; or the commander of the Central Army Group, Marshal Von Kruger, who was on the side of the war, Chen Yanlong ignored it, and insisted on making the final decision:
"My decision will fight like this. Now you all will return to your position and send additional personnel to build our super defensive position immediately; wait for the Soviet army to attack, or wait for my new order to let you carry out local campaign sneak attacks!"
Hearing this, some people let go of the big rocks in their hearts and breathed a sigh of relief; some people were deeply irritable and worried, and of course some people were ready to move and wanted to do a big fight...
However, in the end, all the generals left the conference room one by one, as usual, with their own complicated moods, followed Chen Yanlong's orders.
However, when everyone left, there were still a few generals who wanted to say something to Chen Yanlong, and they were left behind.
They are Manstein, von Kruger and Moder, as well as General von Gram, commander of the 6th Air Force, and Alexander Leal, the 4th Air Force.
"Martyr Manstein and Marshal von Kruger, you two should go back to me first! And after you go back, write me a copy of your defensive position construction plan and plan to carry out a local battle; I will launch a defensive war and a counterattack in a local battle in the short term! Because I still have some things to discuss with Model, von Grime, and Alexander Lehl!"
Seeing this, Chen Yanlong said decisively.
"But Yuan, head of state, we feel that now is the most vulnerable time for the Soviet army. If we launch a large-scale siege on them now, then we can completely wipe out the Soviet army troops of the Kursk protrusion, so that we can regain the initiative on the Eastern Front!"
But Manstein still hurriedly said that he had changed his mind.
"Well! Why did you change your mind again! Marshal Manstein, have we all discussed our new way of combat on the Eastern Front some time ago?"
Chen Yanlong narrowed his eyes and stared at Manstein with a sharp look.
"My thoughts have not changed much, but I feel that now is a good time; we can eat a lot of Soviet troops in one fell swoop, so I re-suggest that we should give it a try!"
Manstein said with embarrassment and blushing.
"Sorry! Marshal Manstein! My idea is decided, you can do it as I just ordered!"
Chen Yanlong interrupted the other party's words unhappy and impatiently, and decisively.
"First of the People's Republic of China, I actually feel that Manstein's proposal is correct..."
Seeing this, Marshal von Kruger wanted to echo Manstein's suggestion.
"Don't say much. What I want now is to let the Soviet army be beaten by us to seek peace, and then give me time to build our motherland into an economic power, so that our citizens can live a good life! Other territorial expansion battles will be temporarily stopped!"
Chen Yanlong interrupted without hesitation.
After that, before he could wait for Marshal von Kruger and Manstein to respond, he stood up and signaled to Model, von Grime, and Alexander Lear to leave the conference hall with him.
Chapter completed!