Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 27: Lunch

　　 "No! It shouldn't be like this! Why is it different from what I think, the Germans shouldn't attack now! Our large forces have not arrived here. Don't they want to divide and surround us here?"

　　 Montgomery yelled at Alexander.

　　 "What do those Germans want to do?"

　　 "Time."

　　 Xu Jun satisfactorily forks a piece of juicy and juicy beef from the beautiful silver plate in front of him and put it into his mouth. He satisfactorily savors this rare delicacy on the front line.

　　 The officers at the same table were also enthusiastically cutting the beef on their plates. Now they all stopped their knives and forks and looked at their commander, waiting for him to continue. In fact, they also want to hear the commander personally tell themselves what the ultimate goal of his sophisticated preliminary plan is. They have been privately guessing the purpose of Xu Jun's arrangement of the complicated trap, but so far they have not received two identical answers, not even similar.

　　 "Time." Xu Jun slowly swallowed the beef in his mouth, then took a sip of the red wine placed in front of him, and he satisfactorily watched those who looked at him with expectant eyes Staff officers and adjutants.

　　 "Gentlemen, I just want time."

　　"Can you be more specific? My Lord General."

　　 Xu Jun’s chief of staff, Colonel Weierle, asked suspiciously that he was the chief of the general staff. After hearing what he said, the other officers also nodded their heads in agreement.

　　 Weiller continued to ask: "In the past two days, I have also been speculating on the operational purpose of your preliminary plan. As everyone in this room and I can only see your current plan. Know your plan for the next stage. So I hope that the general can tell us what you want to achieve at this stage, what is your role in the next stage of operations and your ultimate goal? Otherwise, it is really difficult for us to fight for the next stage. Be prepared."

　　"Hahahaha, my Colonel Weierle. You know, for the sake of confidentiality, no one knows all the contents of this plan except for a few generals and staff in the command. Even the command of the group army You can receive detailed orders and don’t know why you did it. It’s understandable that you are confused. Since you want to know the overall content of the plan so much, I can tell you a little bit, but I can only tell you that we are at this stage. The purpose of the campaign and what the future action plan is is for you to experience it yourself. I believe that if you understand what I want to acquire now, you can also think of our next plan."

　　 "Then please tell us quickly." Colonel Weierle said eagerly. "I'm really curious about what you want? Originally we thought you wanted to lead the British out of the canal zone and let the armored forces divide and encircle them and annihilate them. But according to your order, those armored forces started to act last night. They attacked too early. The enemy's large forces have not yet entered that area. Why are you doing this?"

　　" Colonel Weierle, because I never planned to divide, encircle and annihilate those British people in the Alaska Plain." Xu Jun smiled and replied.

　　 "What? Didn't you think that way? So why did we spend so much effort laying out the trap?" After hearing Xu Jun's answer, Weierle was even more confused.

　　 "I said, time. I led them out of the canal area and blocked their way so quickly, just to get precious time." Xu Jun forkped a piece of beef and put it in his mouth. Chew it up.

　　"You mean, you are not going to destroy the enemy there at all. Now the action of the armored forces is not to attack but to block?"

　　 "Yes, to be precise, we are closing the door. We are closing the door of hope for the British Expeditionary Force." Xu Jun swallowed the beef and continued.

　　"If we want to encircle the British troops near Arras, it is technically feasible, but we will also pay a high price for the dying struggle of the British. And we must not forget that the encirclement is still There is the French First Army. They have not taken any action until now. It seems that they are on the sidelines. If they find that we are doing our best to eliminate the British, they may make some small actions behind our interspersed troops and let us. The troops suffered some unnecessary losses.

　　 Even if they don't do that, they will immediately shrink their defenses and hide completely deep in the canal area. It will be troublesome for us to eliminate them at that time. "

　　 "Then can't we let them all run out and eat together?" Randolph asked with a glass of red wine in doubt.

　　 "My dear Captain Randolph, you are too naive. You must know that if we wait until their last troops leave the Canal Zone, their vanguard forces will have been in contact with the main French forces." Weirle took the lead against Randolph After answering his question, he turned his head and asked Xu Jun: “I also understand why you don’t want to fight an annihilation battle in Arras, General. But I really can’t think of what tactics you want to destroy. Those enemies."

　　 "My dear Colonel Weierle, I don't want to annihilate them, I want to capture them all." Xu Jun replied with a confident expression.

　　 "Captive? How is it possible?"

　　" Gentlemen, as I said before, all I want is time, and I have now got the time I need. If we follow our previous style of play, wait until we break through the enemy’s defenses from all directions. When they got to the beach, the British relied on their navy to withdraw to their island.

　　 is different now. I used that trap to gain two days. During these two days, I planted mines in the Strait, completely blocked the Strait of Dover and cut off their retreat at sea. . In these two days, our follow-up troops have also caught up and joined the first-line corps, and our assault strength has also been strengthened. In the past two days, I have accumulated a large amount of ammunition and supplies on the front line, and I am ready for continuous operations in the future. In these two days, we have rested and supplemented the front-line troops.

　　 And in these two days, the British could not do anything but rush back and forth and consume their precious supplies. When they finally understand that they cannot break through our armored defenses, their main force will definitely return to their original position, which will give us more time.

　　 While they were desperately rushing to Arras, we have been attacking the Belgian defense line for two consecutive days. If we now increase our offensive strength according to our plan, I believe it will be within 24 hours. The Belgian army will collapse. We can force the Belgians to surrender before the British can rush back to their defenses and then take over their defenses. In that way, we can not only free up more troops to directly deal with the British and French forces, but also tear a large hole in their defense line, making their canal defense line completely meaningless. "

　　 "Ah, it is wonderful, my general, you are really the greatest war genius I have ever seen." Weierle finally understood Xu Jun's thoughts, as an experienced staff member Officer, he immediately understood Xu Jun's meaning, and now he was finally completely convinced by Xu Jun's plan.

　　 Weiller added happily: "Also, if the British and French know that their breakout plan is not feasible, their morale will fall sharply after they have caught our trap. And when they know When their only sea channel is blocked by us, they will fall into complete despair. At that time, their command organs will become panicked and their soldiers will lose their fighting spirit.

　　 I think their supplies should be almost used up. You let them waste two days of time, which means that they used up two days of supplies in vain. At that time, the British and French will only rely on airdrops to maintain the survival of the troops. Of course, you won't let them get airdrop supplies so easily.

　　In that way, when our troops defeated the Belgians and rushed to the beach, they would be completely surrounded in a small area, with no way out, not enough ammunition, or even enough food, and morale was low. At the extreme, we won't be able to hold on for much time even if we don't attack them.

　　According to their habit, when all hopes are shattered and all retreats are cut off, they will not continue to fight a hopeless battle, they will definitely choose to surrender. "

　　 Weierle got more and more excited as he spoke, the other staff officers and adjutants finally understood Xu Jun's plan, and their faces were full of joy.

　　 "Yes, Colonel" Xu Jun said with a smile.

　　 "At that time, we will be able to achieve the greatest victory at the least cost. And according to my plan, we may have unexpected prizes in addition to the 500,000 troops."

　　 "What prize?" Weierle asked eagerly.

　　"Haha, I don’t want to say it now, you will understand later. But we can’t think of the enemy as simply, they will make the final struggle. At that time, it was a serious matter for any troops that fought with them. The test. This must be made clear to the frontline troops. We are facing the elite of the British, not the incompetent French troops.

　　The British have started mine clearance in the strait. From the intelligence point of view, they will be able to clear a channel for large ships to navigate in three days. Now the enemy still has the possibility to escape. Our task is still very arduous. We have to speed up our offensive and block the retreat before they start to retreat. Although we have the upper hand from the current situation, we still have to maintain a high degree of vigilance. Any small mistake may ruin a war. Such examples abound in history. "

　　 "Understood, General." The officers all stood up and replied solemnly.

　　 "That's good, everyone sit down, our lunch is not over yet? What do you think of today's beef?"

　　"It’s really good, my deputy head of state. Hahahaha, it’s delicious. I didn’t expect to have such delicious beef on the front line, just like I ate it in a Berlin restaurant. Remember. I was still..." Randolph said happily with a piece of beef on his fork.

　　 Dogen sitting next to him felt that the guy seemed a bit too proud, so he gave him a vicious kick under the table.

　　 "Ouch." Randolph cried out in pain, and he turned his head to find Daogen theory. But when he saw Daogen's gray eyes staring at him viciously, he flinched again. Everyone burst into laughter at Randolph's aggrieved appearance.

　　 "Hahaha, Lieutenant Colonel Dogen, do you have any opinion on today's beef?" Xu Jun asked with a smile.

　　 "Ah, the deputy head of state, I have no objection. This beef is very delicious and very good." Daogen replied hurriedly and respectfully. By the way, he gave Randolph a fierce look. Now this guy is still showing up. Holding a fork in a circle on the plate in an aggrieved look, the SS face was completely lost by this guy.

　　 "Haha, I thought you were dissatisfied. The head of state personally ordered the air force to send me the beef from Berlin. It is definitely a good item. Speaking of the air force, Hans." Xu Jun turned his head to look. Hans, who was drinking with a glass on the side.

　　 "Ah, yes, your sir." Hans quickly put down the cup.

　　"When will the large airport that we built next to the military camp be completed? You know, all the direct air divisions assigned by the head of state have been deployed~IndoMTL.com~Just wait for the airport. Once completed, they can move in immediately. This air division will play a very important role in our next phase of operations. I hope to complete the construction of the airport before the next phase of operations begins."

　　"Yes, General, I have been urging the engineering units to speed up the process, and the speed has been greatly improved since the engineering units sent by the Air Force joined. But this airport is too big to accommodate an Air Division aircraft , Ammunition, materials, and command agencies are not competent for ordinary field airports. But now it is about 90% completed. Only some auxiliary facilities and command system debugging are left. If they are asked to work overtime , It should be completed tomorrow night."

　　 "Very good, Hans, you did a great job." Xu Jun nodded in satisfaction.

　　 "Gentlemen!"

　　 Xu Jun stood up and took the wine glass.

　　 "For our victory in this stage of combat, and for the success of the next stage of combat, I suggest that you all have a toast."

　　The officers quickly stood up with their cups.

　　"For Germany, for victory!" Xu Jun drank the glass of wine in one gulp.

　　 "For Germany, for victory!" The officers also drank their wine.

　　 "Then we should serve dessert next?"

　　 A voice suddenly rang, and everyone turned their heads and stared blankly at the young SS officer with a look of naive expectation.

　　 With a crisp sound, Lieutenant Colonel Dogen crushed the cup in his hand.