The 392nd and 394th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army could not stop the attack of the 11th German Army.

Part of this is because the German 7th Airborne Division airborne to the Caucasus area behind the Soviet army... This can almost be said to have cut off the logistics of the two Soviet divisions. If they do not retreat, they will probably face the situation of being surrounded and annihilated like the previous four divisions.

So, the 11th Army entered a land of no one and passed through Tuapse, Sochi and then entered the wider Transcaucasus region.

Qin Chuan was riding an American Willis Jeep and advanced with the troops.

The jeep was seized on the road to Sochi, when it was overturned in the mud on the side of the road, and perhaps because it was in a hurry to escape, the Soviet officer who owned it abandoned it.

German soldiers dragged it out of the mud, and there was no malfunction after the fire broke out... The quality of the Americans in World War II, especially the equipment used for military use, was nothing to say.

The German soldiers who dragged the jeep did not take it as their own... This is clearly stipulated in the German military discipline, and the spoils must be handed over and distributed uniformly by superiors.

In fact, this regulation is not so strict, especially when fighting or pursuing the enemy, do you say that you have to snatch a rifle from the enemy and you have to turn it over and come back to fight? So many times you turn a blind eye.

These German soldiers are more "law-abiding" and they don't know how to deal with this car. It happened that Manstein's jeep passed by them, and one of them came forward to ask for instructions: "Marson, we seized a jeep, but none of us are officers!"

"Very good!" Manstein replied, and asked, "Do you know the 'Legend Sergeant'?"

"Yes, Marshal!"

"He is not far behind me!" said Manstein. "You can hand him this car!"

"Yes, Marshal!"

So Qin Chuan got a jeep, an American Willis Jeep.

In the imagination of Qin Chuan, a "experienced", the United States and the Soviet Union should be two mortal enemies, so it is awkward to see American equipment, especially American Jeep, on the Soviet battlefield, but I own one. If I wear a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of my nose and hold a cigar in my mouth, it would be no different from what I saw in the movie.

But Qin Chuan was not thinking about this.

Perhaps because he had a better vision from the car and had a better view, Qin Chuan saw the people who were frightened and resentful in his eyes... Georgia is the hometown of Stalin, and most of the people here are proud of this. Most of them are firmly standing on the side of the Soviet Union, unlike Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine that the Germans occupied before.

The German army's results should be said to be quite good. They captured cities and land, and three days later they met with the 7th Airborne Division. The battle with the Soviet army almost turned into a marching.

But everyone knew that the battle would not end so easily, because the Soviets' retreat was obviously planned... The people who could withdraw followed, and the materials that could be moved were removed, and those that could not be moved would be blown up and burned, and they would never be left to the German army.

This made it difficult for the German army to seize anything in the next period of time.

"They want to drag us down!" Eberhard, who was sitting next to Qinchuan, looked at the map and said: "The Caucasus Mountains are more than 1,200 kilometers from west to east, which means that our supply line will exceed more than 1,000 kilometers. In fact, we can even say that there is no supply line!"

Qin Chuan understood Eberhard's words.

The 11th German Army did not have a supply line, because the supply had to go from the Kerch Peninsula through the Taman Peninsula and then enter the Transcaucasus through Novorossiysk.

However, due to insufficient troops, the German army had actually given up the Taman Peninsula's full attack on the Transcaucasus region. In this way, the German supply line from Kerch to the Transcaucasus had actually been cut off.

It should be said that the German army still has two supply lines, one is transported from the Black Sea by a port, but this does not work because the German army has almost no large transport ships in the Black Sea. At the same time, Soviet ships and submarines are everywhere on the Black Sea, and they will attack German transport ships at any time.

The other is to transport aircraft in the air... This is also the main supply method for the German army at this time. They occupy the airport wherever they attack, and then use their powerful air superiority to protect the transport aircraft to transport supplies.

However, the transportation capacity of the transport aircraft is very limited, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, the main source of supply for the 11th German Army was actually the Soviet military supplies seized in several cities such as Novorossiysk and Sochi Port.

"Are we playing another kind of game!" Qin Chuan replied: "Do we beat them first, or do they drag them until we have no supplies!"

"You thought from the beginning that this situation would happen?" Eberhard looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

Qin Chuan made acquiesce.

"And you still plan to do this?" Eberhard asked: "I mean, I suggest Manstein attack the Transcaucasus!"

"Otherwise, what else can we do?" Qin Chuan asked back.

Eberhard rolled his eyes, and he couldn't understand the idea of ​​the young major sitting next to him... This battle was actually taking risks with the entire 11th Army, including himself.

But what Eberhard didn't know was that Qin Chuan would take this risk, because in his mind... if things were allowed to develop, the German army would be sure to defeat the Caucasus and Stalingrad.

The disastrous defeat in these two directions determined that the German army would no longer have the strength to compete with the Soviet army. The reason was that the German army lost 1.5 million people in these failures, and a considerable part of them were troops with good quality and strong combat effectiveness. Since then, the defeat of the German army has been doomed.

(Note: Some people also believe that the turning point of the Soviet-German War was the subsequent Battle of Kursk)

Therefore, Qin Chuan believes that no matter how big the risk is, it is worth it, otherwise no matter how much he does, he will probably not be able to reverse the situation.

Eberhard was right, that's what General Cholenev planned on the other side.

Because Stalin gave him a death order, he must defend Baku.

In fact, Stalin's order was not given to Chulenev alone, nor was it just for Baku.

Because at this time, the other direction was Kharkov, the Soviet army also suffered a crushing defeat, and the German army had launched a full-scale counterattack against the Soviet army.
Chapter completed!