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Chapter seven hundred and twenty seventh mobilization

The German senior executives would be disdainful of this and there is a reason for them to make them dissatisfied.

This is because the combat effectiveness of the German army is generally higher than that of the Soviet army. Generally speaking, the combat effectiveness of a group of Soviet army is only equivalent to a full German army, and the military of the Soviet army is roughly equivalent to a German division.

In this way, as long as the German army's flanks on both ends of Stalingrad were placed with mechanized troops, it would be enough to resist the attack of a Soviet army group.

As for the crisis of those servant countries, they are just the weak combat power of the front line.

On the other hand, Hitler received an information from the Military Intelligence Bureau, which showed that the Soviet army had no reserve force worth mentioning for it to fight on the Eastern Front battlefield.

Hitler believed this information because he thought the Soviets had exhausted their reserve forces in the previous Battle of Stalingrad.

Since that's the case, what else can Germany worry about?

However…this information was provided by Canaris.

Many people in history believe that Canaris intends to provide Hitler with wrong intelligence to make wrong judgments, such as the previous "meat filling plan", and provided Hitler with intelligence that was beneficial to the Allies during the Allied "Torch Plan". Some people even suspect that Canaris let General Giro away France's General Giro, otherwise General Giro would not have been able to escape from prison.

It is really impossible to know whether these are, but at least the information provided by Canaris to Hitler was wrong at this time. The fact is that Zhukov had already assembled another front army, that is, the Southwest Front, and prepared for a counterattack.

Of course, if it were just this, Germany might still be able to defend the defense line between the two rivers.

However, the Allied forces also began to take action to cooperate with the Soviet Union... On the one hand, a large number of supplies were transported to Siberia of the Soviet Union through the Japanese sea, and then transported to the Soviet front by train.

On the other hand, a large number of troops gathered in the UK, and there were also transport ships, aircraft, warships, etc. The American army in the UK had even surpassed the British army.

Moreover, when doing these, the US military did not hide anything, and most of them carried out transportation under the eyes of German submarines.

As soon as the news reached Hitler's command, Hitler began to feel embarrassed.

The purpose of the US military assembled in the UK is very obvious, that is, to land in northern France... At this time, the US military had the only possibility of landing in northern France.

The reason is that the African defense line is in a stalemate with the German army. The British and American coalition forces were unable to break through the Tunisian Strait and therefore could not land from southern France; landing from northern Germany would undoubtedly be subject to resolute resistance from German military and civilians, and they could only be used as a secondary option.

So the best landing point is the northern part of France.

After thinking about it, Hitler ordered: "Since the Battle of Stalingrad has ended, we can transfer part of the troops on the Eastern Front to France!"

"But your Excellency, Master!" the staff advised: "But the report on the Eastern Front is that a large number of Soviet troops are gathering!"

"The Soviets are not able to launch a counterattack!" Hitler replied: "They are just bluffing. If we are scared by them or even retreating, then we will be fooled!"

After hearing this, the staff officer didn't dare to say anything anymore, because he knew that Hitler was too confident in his successive victory on the front line, so nothing he said now was useless.

Qin Chuan knew nothing about these things until Colonel Slain called that afternoon.

"Major, General Rommel told me to tell you that he went to France to report his duties." Colonel Slein said: "He hopes that he will have a chance to fight with you in the future!"

"The general was transferred to France?"

"Yes!"

"Has the 21st Armored Division been transferred together?" Qin Chuan felt a little uneasy.

"No, Major!" Colonel Slain replied: "Some troops were transferred, but you know, these are not what we need to know!"

Qin Chuan understood that this was the order Hitler issued before. Each department only needed to understand the information related to its own mission. For example, Qin Chuan only needed to care about helicopter training.

But Qin Chuan didn't think so.

Qin Chuan was worried that although he helped the German army win the Battle of Stalingrad, he could not help the German army to be precisely the 6th Army to escape the fate of being surrounded by the Soviet army in Stalingrad and finally having to surrender.

For example, now, at this critical moment, when the Eastern Front is about to usher in a cold winter, will Rommel be transferred to France?

It is not strange to transfer Rommel to France, because in history, Rommel was transferred to France by Hitler to strengthen the "Atlantic Barriers" to deal with the possible landing of the Allied forces in northern France.

It turned out that Hitler was very prescient, because only Rommel accurately judged that the Allies would land in Normandy and made many preparations in Normandy, although this ultimately failed to resist the Allied offensive.

In other words, the United States and Britain made new moves in northern France, which led Hitler to mobilize troops from the Eastern Front to France at this time.

But doesn’t this mean that the Eastern Front is short of troops?

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan asked the communications soldier to answer Alexander's phone number.

"Is there any problem, Major?" asked Alexander on the other end of the phone.

"This is exactly what I want to ask you." Qin Chuan said: "Are we in some trouble?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, then Alexander replied, "Yes, Major. You guessed it right, we are in trouble! Can you come to the commander?"

"Of course!" Qin Chuan replied.

Paulus's command center, Alexander was waiting for Qin Chuan outside the door. As soon as he saw Qin Chuan's jeep stop, he came up and said, "Major, I may not tell you about these situations, but I want to hear your opinion!"

Alexander said while welcomed Qin Chuan into the command center.

Paulus was not among them, and later Qin Chuan learned that he was going to "werewolf" to find Hitler.

Several staff officers in the command center recognized Qin Chuan, and when they saw Qin Chuan coming in, they came forward to shake hands and greet Qin Chuan.

"That's right!" said Alexander: "The troops we deployed on the second line for mobile defense have been transferred to France!"

"What?" Qin Chuan asked in surprise: "So who should our wings rely on?"

"Romanian army!" Alexander replied: "There are also Italian army and Hungarian army!"

As he said that, Alexander raised his head toward the map.

The map clearly indicates the areas defended by each unit... The flanks of the Don River line are the Romanian 3rd Army, the Italian 8th Army and the Hungarian 2nd Army.
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