According to the photo analysis, the Soviet army gave up all positions between Rostov and Georgia. The Soviet Red Army alone had more than 300,000 in the Baku area. With the strength of the Georgia, the franchise republic, the total strength of the Soviet army in Baku will not be less than 500,000, and the Soviet Union had more than 600,000 regular troops in Stalingrad.

Of course, the Soviet army had no way to go out to Stalingrad to attack Paul and the others. From the aerial photos analysis, the Soviet Union arranged several lines of defense in Georgia, and each time it arrived, the Baku Peninsula was completely cut off. The depth of this line of defense was very deep, extending all the way to Azerbaijan and in front of the Baku area.

Based on these latest situations, Paul, who had left Rostov, quickly sent a telegram to Li Mo, explaining the true realization of the Baku region of the Soviet Union. It was not that Paul was timid and did not dare to attack, but that Paul was afraid that he would not be able to break through the Soviet Union's huge deep defensive position and affect the strategic plan of the entire Southern Army Group.

Li Mo received the telegram and felt that the situation was urgent, so he quickly asked Boke to discuss countermeasures:

"My deputy commander-in-chief, I think we are in trouble. The Soviets invented a tactic specifically to restrain our blitzkrieg, called the Great Depth Strategy. Come and have a look."

"Ah! Dongdongdongdong..."

When Boke heard that the Soviets had invented the latest tactics, he quickly left the work at hand and ran to Li Mo. He took the telegram from Li Mo and looked at it. He shook his head in a daze, saying that he didn't understand the latest tactics of the Soviet Union. Li Mo didn't understand Boke, so he had to pull Boke to the huge map. He explained to Boke in detail:

The idea of ​​large-depth combat was first proposed by Soviet military theorists Tukhachevsky, Triandafilov, Yegorov and others in the 1920s. They made a preliminary discussion on the theoretical principles of large-depth combat in their own military works.

However, due to Stalin's policy of purge, this tactic was forced to be interrupted. Now this tactic was valued by the Soviets and began to be used in the battle to defend Baku. Look at their defensive positions, which are more than 500 kilometers wide from east to west and seas on both sides. We have no way to attack in a roundabout way, with 700 kilometers deep from north to south.

Such a huge defensive position. The Soviet Union had at least one million troops. Of course, their regular troops did not have so many, but there were many men in Georgia and Azerbaijan. They were all very good cannon fodder troops. Don’t underestimate these cannon fodders. If they fight to the death, the troubles they will definitely bring me...

We are talking about the latest tactical theory of the Soviet Union - the strategy of depth. It includes two tactics. The first is the offense and the elastic defense of the depth. According to the Soviets' offense tactics, it is to concentrate as many people and artillery as possible in the weak links of the enemy on the front line, and then tear open one or several holes with overwhelming attack. Then the rapid armor cluster cuts in, the infantry division completes occupation and expands to both sides to tear open a larger hole, and the rapid armor cluster continues to advance toward depth and completely destroys the enemy's logistics and defense depth.

The large-depth defense tactic is actually a variant of the country's elastic defense. It does not pursue the defense of the front line of the border outside the national gate, establish a defense depth of multiple ladders and multiple lines, and uses cannon fodder troops to absorb and consume the enemy's offensive power, and then concentrate as many reserve teams as possible, as many fast armor clusters as possible, and conduct defensive counterattacks.

Whether it is attack or defense, the Soviets' deep tactics emphasized the reservation of enough reserves and use these troops at the most critical moments. Should they be used to block the gap and fight counterattack after the front line is broken, and should they be used to fight counterattacks and annihilation wars after the enemy's offensive decline. In addition, the Soviets emphasized extremely that firepower was always concentrated as much firepower as possible on the front of the attack. A Soviet infantry division was generally only responsible for one kilometer of frontal attack or defense, and in attack and defense, it often concentrated the firepower of an artillery brigade or even the artillery division for fire support. This artillery fire density is extremely terrifying.

From the above examples of war, it seems that this tactic is a very effective and practical tactic. But I think it is not so much a creative invention by the Soviets, but rather a compromise between the Soviets and the Soviets' reality - although there are many tanks, they are far from being able to squander at will.

So the infantry became victims. Whether it was to resist the enemy's attack in defensive wars or tore open the enemy's defense line during attacks, the infantry was responsible for cannon fodder tasks with great casualties (of course, generally speaking, the infantry division would be strengthened by a regiment or a brigade of tanks). Compared with this, the Germans and Western countries preferred to rely on powerful tanks to complete this task.

After tearing the positions open, the rapid cluster composed of tanks and mechanized troops broke into depth, and the infantry division completed the task of occupying and expanding to the two wings. This practice is actually a compromise. Because the Soviet infantry division and artillery units lacked motor vehicles and could not follow up on the attack of the mechanized rapid group, the two units with mismatched maneuvers must take on different tasks separately. In this way, if they encounter opponents who also love to reserve reserves, it is quite possible that the armored cluster that broke into the alone will be made into dumplings."

This problem in history is actually similar to the situation where the German mechanized group repeatedly suffered blitzkriegs in the middle of World War II. As the warring countries matured against anti-tank tactics, simply concentrating as many tank troops as possible could be invincible quickly. However, in 44, the Germans basically had a huge gap in military strength. The Germans basically had no reserves, and the Soviet Union's large-scale attacks were successful again and again. Otherwise, I am afraid that the situation might not be so ideal? No matter Germany's blitzkrieg and the Soviet Union's large-scale strategy, they were not perfect. After the battle, they could only be the final showdown of the comprehensive strength of the two countries.

"I understand that the Soviets are now using large-depth elastic defense. Once we attack, the Soviets will use a large number of infantry as cannon fodder, resist step by step, consume our offensive, and hold us back. When we are exhausted, it is the time for them to counterattack, right? Commander-in-Chief."

"Yes, that's basically what it means."

Bock began to remain silent, and Li Mo and Bock began to look for ways to solve the current dilemma in front of the huge map.

"Report."

"read."

"The new Ukrainian government calls and the railway from Germany to Rostov has been restored."

"Okay, okay, order all trains stockpiled on the border to take off all kinds of substances immediately to Rostov."

"yes."

The communication officer turned around and left. Li Mo's face was still full of frosty face just now, but now it was a little improved. If all the materials were to be transported by trucks, the fuel consumed by 400,000 trucks from Germany to Rostov was definitely a huge amount. Although Germany had some oil reserves for the time being, it could not withstand such squandering and wasting.

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