Facts have proved that Guderian's sixth sense was quite accurate. A quarter of an hour later, Medeles sent back a telegram requesting help, saying that they had been ambushed by the Chinese army and encountered a mudslide, and begged the headquarters to send reinforcements immediately, "...
Our luck is really bad. We actually encountered a damn mudslide. Now, the mudslide has completely blocked the road. Now, except for a part of our tanks at the rear of the formation, all the other tanks are buried or blocked... surrounded by our troops.
The Chinese army should number around 30,000 people..."
Guderian's words came true. Marcus was surprised and wanted to say something flattering like "Your Excellency has a wonderful plan", but Guderian's face was darker than the bottom of the pot.
His mouth moved several times but he swallowed it hard.
"Mudslide, it's not the rainy season now, how could a mudslide happen?" Guderian read these words with sharp eyes.
"It should be man-made by everyone in China. Sir, what should we do now?" Marcus continued,
A good blitzkrieg has been going on so far and failed to cause any trouble for the Chinese, but it first staged a self-inflicted trap. Guderian's depression can be imagined. It was okay for the 1st Cavalry Division to throw itself into a trap, but the problem was that it disrupted the situation.
In his overall arrangement, although there is more than one road from Yanauer to the Sabi front line, this route is the most efficient. This is not the most critical thing. What makes him difficult to accept is that because the cavalry must be rescued first
division, he had no choice but to give up the option of changing the route and continuing the blitzkrieg. In this case, it would be unknown when they would appear in Sabi again, and their significance as reinforcements for Army Group A would no longer exist.
"The Chinese army has about 30,000 people." Guderian suddenly stared at Marcus and said,
Marcus looked through the telegram carefully again and immediately answered in the affirmative: "General Medeles said so."
Guderian thought for a moment, and his face looked much better. He seemed to be talking to himself or to Marcus, and said: "The Chinese plus the so-called coalition army only have a total of about 200,000. If we can quickly
Defeating or counter-encircling these 30,000 Chinese troops should arouse the vigilance of the Chinese commander-in-chief. The Chinese commander-in-chief will face two choices, either to ignore it or to mobilize troops for support. The Chinese commander-in-chief is called Zhang Zizhong
Is that right? Marcus, you go to Jonas immediately and ask him to bring over all the intelligence he has collected about Zhang Zizhong. Also, give me an order. In addition to monitoring the troops of the Yanauer garrison, the entire army will immediately
Heading towards Mount Larbu at full speed."
Marcus responded loudly and went. Guderian sat down in his seat, picked up the car phone and called Schwepenburg, ordering him to immediately let the 10th Motorized Division go first and rush to the "Lalb Mountain" at full speed.
": "Medles was surrounded by the Chinese at Mount Larbu. I don't ask Motil to rescue them, but at least the road to Mount Larbu must be kept clear. Do you understand what I mean?
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"The First Cavalry Division is surrounded by the Chinese." Before Schwepenburg could digest the news, Guderian had hung up the phone. The war had developed to this point, and Guderian still refused to give up the magic weapon of blitz warfare easily.
, intelligence about the Chinese Far East Expeditionary Force flashed through his mind quickly, and then he wanted to call Herbert Wahl, commander of the SS "Imperial" Division. As a traditional German soldier, Guderian did not agree with the Nazi Party. However,
, because the SS "Imperial" Division is indeed the best-equipped and most combat-effective unit under his command, so whenever he encounters a more difficult task, he first thinks of this unit, which can be regarded as a commander's helplessness.
,
"Herbert, we have a difficult task now." After the call was connected, Guderian said straight to the point,
Hulbert was holding a glass of red wine and preparing to start his dinner. After hearing these words, he immediately put the red wine down and said, "Sir, do you need our 'Imperial' division to take action?"
"You should know about the Chinese missile force."
"Yes, I heard that Winter was defeated at their hands, and he was defeated miserably."
"This is also our biggest enemy, Herbert. Now I need a force that can go deep into the enemy's army to find and annihilate this force. As you can see, the Chinese are not as unbearable as we thought. It is conceivable that
You know, as the trump card of the Chinese, the Chinese will definitely spend a lot of money to defend it. This is the difficulty of this mission. You may encounter twice or even more enemies."
Herbert was silent. Although he was used to being arrogant as a member of the SS, this did not mean that he lacked the wisdom to survive on the battlefield. After thinking about it, he asked: "Sir, can you ask me more about why you suddenly
I am interested in the Chinese missile force."
Guderian knew Herbert quite well, so before he decided to call him, he had expected that he would ask such a question, "The 1st Cavalry Division was surrounded by the Chinese at Mount Larbus"
"Obviously, the Chinese have a way to target our blitzkrieg. I have to save the First Cavalry Division, and if we don't want to be led by the nose, we must make some changes."
"I understand, Your Excellency, I accept this task."
"Herbert, thank you."
"Your Excellency, everything is for the empire."
"Yes, we are unanimous on this point, the empire will win."
"Hi Hitler."
Marcus is right. The mudslide that trapped the 1st Cavalry Division was indeed artificially created by Jiang Tiezhang and others. This can be regarded as a bonus for Jiang Tiezhang's always being friendly to the Soviet Russians and actively dealing with the Soviet Russians.
When he led his troops to advance towards Yanauur, he passed through Larbu Mountain. Because he heard from the Soviet guide that mudslides often occurred in this area, he had the idea of creating a mudslide to trap the Germans.
After carefully surveying the terrain, he realized that this idea was completely feasible, so he left about a regiment of troops early and asked them to transform parts of "Lalb Mountain" according to their own ideas.
Destiny always favors those who are willing, and everyone knows what happened next. Jiang Tiezhang just wanted to cause a little trouble for the Germans at first, but he got a surprise. A planned small mudslide turned into a
The roar of mud and rocks "flooded" almost all the tanks of the First Cavalry Division. Witnessing the power of nature with his own eyes, even Jiang Tiezhang couldn't help but be stunned, and then he happily cursed: "NND, you made a profit
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Not only did they make a profit, they only consumed less than 200 kilograms of explosives, killed at least 300 German soldiers, and paralyzed almost all the German tanks. In fact, they had made great gains in this ambush.