The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1105

Everyone obviously saw the problem. Due to the limitations of infrastructure and railway line locations, the direction of the European coalition’s attack was extremely obvious. There was no need to judge at all. It could be seen at a glance.

After seeing that everyone had seen this, Zhukov immediately lowered his baton and pointed to a place that was a million miles away from the main battlefield.

“Caucasus?”

General Rokossovsky asked in surprise when he saw this place.

“The Caucasus region is not suitable for fighting because of the mountains, so we can withdraw all the troops here!”

Zhukov scared everyone as soon as he opened his mouth!

“All evacuated? Are you crazy?”

“That’s right, this is crazy. You know, the native chickens in the south are our sworn enemies. Over the years, under the leadership of Kemal, the native chickens have achieved remarkable results in political reform, religious reform and economic reform. At this time, the national strength of the native chickens is booming, and it has obviously entered an upward channel. Such native chickens lack nothing but a war!

Once they find an opportunity, they will definitely bite us hard!”

Sometimes, the perpetrators are more afraid of or even hate each other than the victims.

Because they know very well how much harm their actions have caused to others, they are always very uneasy in their hearts, fearing that others will take the initiative to come to their door to collect debts one day!

For the Russian bears, they have this mentality towards the native chickens.

After the rise of the Russian bears, they kept fighting with the native chickens, and little by little, they beat the native chickens from the Ottoman Empire to the current native chickens. They can be called Huskies among dogs and Turks among countries!

And the humiliated native chickens must have deep feelings for them in their hearts. The Russians are extremely disgusted and hostile to the Russians, and they are aware of this. It is this self-knowledge that has made them always wary of the native chickens in the south.

If it were a peaceful era, the native chickens would have no chance. Even though the national strength of the native chickens has recovered a lot under the leadership of Kemal, compared with the huge size of the Russians, the native chickens are still much weaker. The two are not in the same league at all.

However, if it is in a war era, every move of the native chickens is very critical!

You know, the Russians and the native chickens are directly bordering in the Caucasus region. And the territories of the Russian Bear in the Caucasus were snatched from the Turkish Chicken.

As for the areas north of the Caucasus Mountains, there is nothing to say. The Russian Bear can definitely defend them. It is impossible for the Turkish Chicken to cross the Caucasus Mountains to attack them from the north!

However, the fatal thing is that the Russian Bear also has hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in the south of the Caucasus Mountains.

These are the meat cut from the Turkish Chicken in one war after another.

For a country like the Russian Bear that is extremely eager to get land, these lands will never be released once they are swallowed!

Therefore, Zhukov’s decision to withdraw troops shocked everyone.

They were very worried that once the Turkish Chicken learned that the Soviet army had withdrawn from the Caucasus region, would it immediately invade the Russian Bear’s territories south of the Caucasus Mountains and take back the lands that once belonged to the Ottoman Empire!

If such a thing really happened, the Russian Bear would not be able to accept it, because it would not only make them lose hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, but also make them lose face in the international arena.

Therefore, after hearing Zhukov’s words, everyone immediately expressed their opposition, and they strongly opposed it.

“Well, since everyone is opposed to it, then we won’t withdraw the troops south of the Caucasus Mountains, but we can withdraw the troops in the north, right?”

Zhukov saw that everyone was so opposed, so he didn’t insist. He knew that even if he insisted, he wouldn’t get Starlin’s approval.

So he settled for the next best thing, and only needed the troops north of the Caucasus Mountains.

“How many troops are there in the north?”

Starling did not agree to his condition directly, but asked.

There were originally quite a few troops in the Caucasus. The White Army used Crimea as a base to fight against the Soviet Army. In order to eliminate the White Army here, the Russians deployed a large number of troops in the Caucasus and finally wiped it out.

Since then, the number of troops in the Caucasus has remained high. At its peak, the number of troops stationed here reached millions!

However, due to the fierce fighting on the Western Front, the Soviet Army drew troops from all over the country to support the West, which resulted in a lot of troops here being transferred away. Compared with the peak period, there should not be many troops left here.

Starling could guess Zhukov’s intentions to some extent, but he didn’t know whether the troops in the Caucasus alone could meet Zhukov’s requirements?

“About 350,000 people!”

Zhukov already had the data he had collected, so he answered immediately when he heard Starling’s question.

Starling hummed and nodded with satisfaction.

It was not known whether she was satisfied with the number or with Zhukov’s style of doing things in a way that was well prepared for everything.

“How do you want to fight back?”

Finally asked the substantive question, which happens to be the question that everyone is most concerned about.

“I am preparing to launch a counterattack in the direction of Ukraine near the Black Sea, and the target of the attack is Romaniya across the street!”

Pick the weak ones, Zhukov did not intend to touch the main force of the European coalition forces, and a head-on confrontation would not do them any good.

On the contrary, attacking from the flanks, attacking the weak points of the enemy’s defense, thereby achieving a breakthrough, and then forming a threat on the enemy’s flanks, forcing the enemy to retreat or having to fight them on the battlefield of their choice, this is what the Soviet army hopes to see!

The European coalition forces were formed by the union of many countries, and it cannot be said that all countries are of one mind, so their tolerance for war is completely different.

If the coalition forces are advancing triumphantly on the battlefield, they may not say anything.

But as long as the coalition forces are frustrated and suffer some losses on the battlefield, the countries may immediately quarrel. After all, there are always some countries with greater losses and some countries with less losses. At that time, the countries will be unbalanced, and then the contradictions will be aggravated or even withdraw from the war, which may lead to the collapse of the coalition forces.

And this is obviously what Zhukov hopes to achieve.