Manstein walked around in the bunker as the command center, and there were a group of officers standing in front of him that they didn't dare to say anything.

"It's right in front of us, right in front of us!" Manstein pointed to the direction of the Baku oil field and said: "We can even clearly see drilling and black oil in the telescope, but now it's blocked and can't move forward in half a step!"

"Marson!" Wagner, commander of the 28th Hunter Division, suggested: "Their fire trenches are blocking us, why don't we cross the sea like before?"

"You mean, using an amphibious landing ship?" asked Manstein.

"Yes!" Wagner pointed to the map and said, "The Caspian Sea is behind Baku. As long as we walk along the fire wall to the end of the southeast, it should be..."

As he said that, Wagner pointed at a point and said, "Then Silfan, as long as we capture this place, we can use amphibious landing ships and amphibious landing tanks to circle!"

Manstein did not answer, but turned his attention to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan knew what Manstein meant, so he replied: "Sorry, General. I can't agree with your approach!"

"Why?" asked Major General Wagner.

"First of all!" Qin Chuan said: "From this firewall, we know that the Soviets were prepared for their defense this time! And they also know that we have amphibious landing ships and amphibious landing tanks... Then, the Soviets will definitely be on guard against the Caspian Sea!"

The German officers couldn't help but nodded in agreement. If they did so, the strategic intention would be too obvious.

"But what if they know?" Major General Wagner asked: "Do you send a warship to intercept it? Or a submarine?"

After pausing, Major General Wagner continued: "That was the Caspian Sea, Major, the Soviets had only five warships and a submarine from World War I. The others were gunboats and fishing boats. Our planes could easily suppress them!"

Major General Wagner was right. The Caspian Sea is the inland sea, which means it is isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, etc. outside, so it is impossible to encounter the enemy's fleet. Therefore, the Caspian Sea fleet is also called the "fleet kept in the fish tank."

(Note: The Don River goes to the Black Sea, and the Volga River goes to the Caspian Sea. The Soviet Union built a canal between the Volga River and the Don River in 1948. The canal was built in 1952. At this time, the Caspian Fleet's small tonnage ships could pass through the Volga River-Canal-Don River-Black Sea and then go to the outer sea. Before that, the Caspian Fleet was closed in the inland sea)

It is precisely because of this that although the Caspian fleet is the oldest fleet, it has always been the weakest fleet... Without enemies, of course there is no need to develop unless enemy warships can drive into the Caspian Sea from land.

In this case, the 500 amphibious landing ships of the German 11th Army could almost ignore the existence of the Caspian Fleet.

"The Caspian Fleet may not be worth mentioning!" Qin Chuan said: "But general, the Soviet Union has troops in Baku. They can fully deploy the key points along the Caspian coast and wait for us to penetrate the sea! At that time, we will be frantically fired by Soviet planes, cannons and tanks on the sea!"

"We can attack at night!" Major General Wagner said: "Just like before!"

"For the Soviets, there will be no night!" Qin Chuan replied: "They can ignite a wall of fire in front of us, and they can also burn the Caspian Sea into a sea of ​​fire!"

Wagner had no sound.

Qin Chuan is right. Baku has some oil and gasoline, and these things are all floating on the water. As long as they are poured into the sea with fishing boats or something else, they can use gasoline and oil to cover the sea.

In this way, any time the German amphibious landing ships attacked, they could fall into a vast sea of ​​fire.

The German officers obviously knew what this meant, so they vetoed Major General Wagner's idea without hesitation.

"Why don't we fill the road?" asked Meyerman, the commander of the 22nd Armored Division, "I mean, fill those trenches with bulldozers! We seized a lot of this stuff from the Soviets!"

"This is not a good idea either!" Qin Chuan replied: "Although it is indeed feasible, it is foreseeable that the enemy's artillery fire will increase us a lot of difficulty. On the other hand, even if a gap is filled in the firewall and rush in, it will be seriously injured due to the enemy's artillery fire blockade... What's worse, how can we ensure that the Soviets have no second, third or even more firewalls?"

The officers nodded in agreement.

If the Soviets had a fire wall, it might be possible to have a second fire wall. After all, it was not difficult to dig a trench and pour oil into it.

If the German army pushed forward one by one, I was afraid that the troops were all out and they were not halfway through.

"So, what should we do, Major?" Manstein looked at Qin Chuan: "We can't wait like this anymore!"

Qin Chuan understood what Manstein meant.

The German army can't wait like this anymore. Not only does the supply be less and less, the Soviets' defense in Baku will be more and more perfect, and at the same time, there will be more and more reinforcements. With the almost uninterrupted bombing and harassment of Soviet fighter jets, it is not necessary to say more about the outcome of the German 11th Army.

but……

This line of defense that stood in front of the German army was almost insurmountable.

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan said, "Marson Marshal, there is no way to go in the front and the Caspian Sea!"

"You mean..." Manstein looked at Qin Chuan with confusion: "Caucasus?"

"Yes, the Caucasus!" Qin Chuan nodded and replied: "We flipped over the Caucasus mountains!"

"This cannot be successful, Major!" Major General Freco, the commander of the 1st Mountain Division, said: "That's the Caucasus, which means we have to discard all the heavy equipment!"

"It is precisely because of this that it is even more unexpected!" Qin Chuan replied: "I think it's time for us to throw away our equipment!"

The German officers could not help but look at each other, which meant abandoning tanks, cannons, amphibious landing ships and other things.

"But how did we deceive the enemy?" asked Major General Wagner: "If they find us entering the Caucasus, they will launch a counterattack and trap us in the Caucasus mountains!"

"They have a wall of fire!" Qin Chuan replied: "We can leave a unit, feint the attack on the front and build momentum in the direction of the Caspian Sea, so that they think we are ready to intersperse from the Caspian Sea!"
Chapter completed!