Chapter 32 The Stillborn Plan(1/2)
"Fake attack on Kiev! Be careful, it's a feint attack. Don't really attack it with all your strength!"
"If you want to fight, then fight. What's the point of feinting?" Mr. Ao was a little confused. He could obviously capture Kiev, but why did Mao still have to feint.
"If you really capture Kiev, Napoleon will retreat immediately if his supplies are cut off.
Our troops in Tsaritsyn do not have armored troops. In the pursuit of this matter, we have no advantage at all.
And you are under attack by the Israelis, Napoleon's million-strong army, and the British army to the west, and you will not reap any good fruits.
It would be better to launch attacks in places like Kursk and Kharkov.
Let the Israelis mistakenly think that we are going to attack Kiev.
Drag the Israeli army to Kursk and Kharkov.
Napoleon saw our main force here and thought we would storm Kiev.
In this way, he will also storm Tsaritsyn."
"Wait a minute! More than a million people are storming the Tsaritsyn front line. You only have over 200,000 people in your hands, which is five times your strength. Can you withstand it?"
"yes!
I heard that where Tsaritsyn is in our hands, only the railway station and an area near the railway station are left.
The total area is less than a quarter of Tsaritsyn!”
"It's just because the defense area has been reduced that we can barely hold it.
In addition, the Russian army under Kutuzov also increased its troops by 200,000.
The main force of the French army is attacking the last part of Tsaritsyn city, and the pressure on them is not that great.
There is no problem in holding the east bank of the Volga River.
I just want Napoleon to think that we are going to storm Kiev and cut off his retreat.
And the Israelis can stop us!
In this way, he will be able to attack Tsaritsyn frantically with confidence.
I can use places like Tsaritsyn to consume a large number of French troops.
Knowing the remaining area, do you know what the density of artillery fire is?
Not counting mortars, there are eight front-facing howitzers per kilometer. They are all over 100 mm!
Oh, right!
Rocket launchers of various calibers are not included!
Moreover, a large number of fortifications and bunkers were built in the area around the train station before the war.
All buildings have been reinforced, and even a 155mm howitzer may not collapse them.
The underground bunker is even supported by steel beams. The upper floors are all made of reinforced concrete!
Now that the ground is frozen hard again, the French artillery fire is no longer a problem."
"Then it's over. Even if the French fight to the death, they can only die, not fight!
There are so many large-caliber artillery pieces, and there are planes in the sky constantly calibrating them."
"Don't forget, there is also a 480mm train gun.
That thing is more powerful than the cannons of the damn navy."
"You can pull it down. They are all of the same caliber and the shells are the same. How is this possible...!"
"It's true, I saw it with my own eyes."
"Pull him down...!"
"Okay, just like two old ladies.
The second one landed in Napoleon's hometown. After taking Corsica, he had a base to attack the French mainland.
Napoleon couldn't afford to delay anymore. He had to capture Tsaritsyn as soon as possible and then continue to march towards the Central Asian Railway.
End the Russian battlefield in the short term, and then concentrate on dealing with the Second World War's landing in southern France.
We just want to take advantage of this impatience and desperately consume the strength of his men.
Then, you can go south along the Don River.
Insert directly behind Napoleon!
I have a huge appetite this time and will eat the entire French legion."
The two people who were arguing immediately opened their eyes wide and looked at Li Xiao as if they were ghosts.
The appetite is really big, the French Legion, together with their allied forces the Italians, the Spanish, and the armies of those small European countries.
There are almost more than 1.3 million people!
There have been wars of annihilation, and this time the encirclement and annihilation of the Central Allied Forces led by the Austro-Hungarian Empire is an example.
But this was only the annihilation of more than 400,000 people!
To annihilate the French Army, it would take 1.3 million men, three times as many as the Austro-Hungarian Allied Forces.
This appetite is too big!
Although these two are also extremely bold and crazy, they don't have such crazy ideas.
"What's wrong?" Li Xiao seemed to have recovered from his hysteria.
"Brother Xiao, you have almost 200,000 troops.
Even if you have intensive artillery fire, there are fortifications to cover it.
But if we can defend against an attack with a superior force five times yours, the losses will definitely not be small.
Things are different now. In the past, there was a generational difference in weapons between us and the yellow-haired people.
But now the Huangmao people also have artillery. Their weapons are not as good as ours, but they are still lethal enough.
It is impossible to achieve the previous exchange ratio!
Together, we have less than 400,000 people, but we want to kill more than 1.3 million people.
Brother Xiao, are you okay?"
"With a million people, their numbers are huge and they consume a lot of money. As long as we destroy their logistics supply lines and command nodes at all levels, they will be nothing but scattered sand..."
"You should rest for a while, the battle cannot be finished in one day.
Your plan is too risky and we can't count on the Russian army.
In fact, it would be nice if they didn't delay and retreat.
We send our troops south, what will happen to the four to five million Israelis?
You expect the Russians to stop them?
It would be great if the Russians were not eaten by them!
No, it would be nice if the Russians didn’t let their superiors starve to death.”
Master Ao sneered at Li Xiao's battle plan.
"So, we must force Napoleon to fight us desperately at Tsaritsyn.
Let’s first use up their tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Tsaritsyn!”
"Brother Xiao!
It is not easy for us to save such a small amount of money. You only think about the more than one million French people, but there are more than half a million Israelis.
All put together, there are more than two million people...
When that time comes, what will you do?
You will have to export your capital and profits from what you won previously.
There is no way, who can let people have more families?
Unless you invest more troops in Russia, at least half a million."
To Li Xiao's surprise, Ao Ye and Man Ye shook their heads together and disagreed with Li Xiao's battle plan.
This is the difference between Ao Ye and Man Ye. No matter what kind of advice Li Xiao makes, Shi Dewei will resolutely implement it.
If you object, don't dare to say a word.
But Man Ye and Ao Ye dared to directly stop Li Xiao's battle plan.
"It's not a big problem to recruit another 500,000 people, but it will take another two to three months to equip and train the 500,000 people.
By the time they arrived at the front line, the day lilies were already cold."
Li Xiao still insisted on his plan. Although the plan took some risks, he was able to severely damage the coalition forces and took the initiative on the Russian battlefield.
No one in this world knows the true power of blitzkrieg.
To be continued...