The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1104

Starling watched coldly as Vasilevsky and Budyonny started to quarrel.

Although Starling was not as familiar with military affairs as the generals present, he had fought in the battlefield and had some experience.

Moreover, Starling was very confident in his ability in terms of big strategies. He believed that although he was not good at leading troops to fight, he was indispensable in making some strategic plans!

Therefore, Starling actually had his own opinions on the content of the discussion between the two.

Budyonny advocated a radical attack so as not to lose the initiative.

Starling agreed with this point in his heart. He believed that the party that took the initiative to attack in the war would have a higher chance of winning. This was because the party that took the initiative to attack had made preparations in advance, and the weapons and equipment, troop deployment and material reserves were all done to the extreme, while the defensive party.

Unless the defensive party completely saw through the intentions of the attacker, once the war began, the defensive party would definitely pay a very heavy price without sufficient preparation.

On the battlefield, when a complete line of defense is broken by the enemy, the entire line of defense will immediately collapse, and the troops stationed on the line of defense will immediately fall into danger. As long as the attacker seizes the opportunity to eat up the enemy’s army deployed on the front line, they can achieve a brilliant victory at the beginning of the war. The

German army has repeatedly proven this on the battlefields of Europe. Whether it is the Borland people, the Gauls, or the British coalition forces, as long as their lines of defense are torn by the German army, then what awaits them will be a rout!

The actions of the German army show that in modern warfare, almost no line of defense can withstand the onslaught of hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops, especially with the cooperation of heavy artillery, tanks and aircraft, such an attack is almost indestructible!

The rapid development of weapons after World War I made the advantages of the attackers become obvious. After gathering enough troops and powerful heavy weapons, any defense line in front of them was like paper. In this case, if you still follow the traditional thinking to fight positional warfare and defensive wars, you may not even know how you died! Therefore

, Starling is also a firm main attacker!

If there is a chance, he would rather be the initiator of the war than the victim of the war!

After all, no one likes to be beaten passively!

However, any assumption needs to be based on the actual situation and combined with the actual situation to play a role. It is a fantasy if it is separated from the actual situation.

Although Starling also wants to have the initiative, the Soviet army can no longer quietly gather troops to launch an attack, because in addition to the German army, they must first face the European coalition forces.

Although the combat effectiveness of this coalition has been affected by the internal differences and disputes among countries, the strength of this coalition should not be underestimated. Although they are temporarily unable to continue the attack, it is difficult for the Soviet army to completely drive them back, let alone quickly defeat them!

In this situation, the Soviet army actually had no choice but to keep gathering troops to the border area to strengthen defense and then wait for an opportunity to prepare for a counterattack.

However, in this way, the Soviet army would not be able to take the initiative to attack the German army. Even if Starlin wanted to take the initiative, he could only face reality and give up his fantasy.

Therefore, he rejected Budyonny’s suggestion from the bottom of his heart.

“”Okay, that’s enough!”

Stalin interrupted the quarrel impatiently. He did not intend to ask them.

He turned his head and looked at Zhukov on the side and asked:

“Zhukov, what do you mean?”

Zhukov was stunned for a moment, as if he did not expect to be named. There were many famous generals present, and his qualifications were not as good as these people, and his ability had not been proven. Compared with these famous generals who have been famous for a long time, his gap seemed to be quite large.

However, after a moment of surprise, Zhukov immediately reacted. After realizing that this was an opportunity, he immediately replied:”Chief, I think we should launch a counterattack in a local area!”

“”Oh? Tell me about it?”

Starling really didn’t expect Zhukov to say that, so he immediately became interested in what Zhukov said.

Local counterattack?

Is this a balance between the plans of Vasilevsky and Budyonny?

Abandoning Budyonny’s radical plan, but not being as conservative as Vasilevsky, is it called a local counterattack?

To be honest, Starling didn’t really like this kind of moderation, but at the moment he didn’t care so much, it was all because he was very interested in what Zhukov said and wanted to know what he was going to do.

“Look, everyone!”

Zhukov was obviously well prepared. He did not come up with this idea after hearing the two people’s opinions. Instead, he already had his own plan in mind before the two people expressed their opinions!

“This is the Eastern European front, which is the area where we are currently exchanging fire and confronting the European coalition forces.

Zhukov pointed his baton at a jagged front on the map and said to everyone.

This is the latest military map drawn based on the latest intelligence from the front line. It details the control range of the two armies and the numbers of the troops stationed on the front line.

Some fierce and important battles and campaigns that have already broken out are also marked on the map.

It can be clearly seen from this map that the fighting area between the European coalition forces and the Soviet army is mainly in the eastern part of Poland and the southwestern part of Baige. This is the hinterland of the East European Great Plain, with flat terrain and a wide field of vision, which is very suitable for large-scale combat. Moreover

, most of the roads from Eastern Europe to the capital of the bear are here, and for the European coalition forces that rely heavily on railways and roads to transport logistical supplies, it is almost impossible for their troops to leave the railway too far.

The infrastructure of the bear is very bad.

Not only are the railroad tracks wider and not compatible with the tracks in Europe, but there are relatively few railroads in the bear country and the lines are relatively simple.

Compared with the already densely packed railroad lines in Europe at this time, the railroads in the bear country are pitifully few!

After all, the bear country has risen for a relatively short time.

During the Tsarist Russia period, the bear country was large but not strong, and its industrialization has always lagged behind Western European countries.

Moreover, the domestic economy is very bad, and there is no money to vigorously develop railways.

In addition, the bear country is so large that a railway can easily be several thousand kilometers long. Compared with the small countries in Europe, it is obviously more difficult and more expensive to build railways in the bear country.

This makes the number of railway lines in the bear country relatively small, and many places do not even have railways at all.