Imperial Overlord

It is not known who will be responsible for the accident, but Vladimir was captured without bloodshed, and of course it is impossible to return it to the Soviet Union.

The German upper echelons began to deploy more trucks to deliver enough supplies to the G group so that they could gain a firm foothold in Vladimir.

The code name of the whole plan is "September", which means that the G cluster can last until September in Vladimir.

The supplies from the central and two northern army groups, which were already seriously deteriorating, became even worse for this operation.

Manstein had to cancel the plan to attack the Kyiv railway station, and instead stabilize the existing line of defense to prevent the Soviet army from counterattack.

Therefore, after putting down the phone with Marshal Brauchitch, Marshal Lundstedt immediately connected the call to the command of the G group on the front line.

It was Guderian who answered the phone, which made Lundstedt's face look a little better, because it proved that Guderian was indeed in the command, instead of following the so-called "reconnaissance unit" to "reconnaissance"...

"Our supply line is too long... This time it is really not allowed to continue the attack! Guderian!" Holding the phone, Lundstedt's face was not very good-looking.

He was warned by Marshal Brauchitch, and I heard that the Führer also knew about it. If his face looks good, he will be damned.

"I understand! It's my responsibility to rashly dispatch a reconnaissance force to the Vladimir region... I'm very sorry." Although Guderian was a little unconvinced, the work on the surface was still to be done.

He had to admit his mistake and thank the Army Group for helping his group. This is the attitude that a subordinate should have, after all, he is under the control of Marshal Lundstedt.

Although winning Vladimir is a credit, Guderian himself knows how much consumption it takes to transport a ton of fuel to his location.

By this time his troops were almost at the edge of the area that the German transport troops could reach.

If he moves forward rashly, his armored troops may be defeated by the remnants of the Soviet army due to the loss of fuel and ammunition.

Unlike the developed communication lines in Germany, the railway and road traffic in the Soviet Union is a scatter-like primitive structure.

In the most elite areas of the Soviet Union around Moscow, the traffic lines basically start from Moscow and radiate to all the surrounding places.

Such a primitive structure led to a fatal problem: if the German army did not occupy Moscow and wanted to encroach on the cities east of Moscow, they would have to face the terrible problem of no road support.

Guderian's G group, because of the mission of encirclement, has moved to the east of Moscow, so it can only rely entirely on field force transport trucks to complete the supply.

The previous article has already explained that although the German army focused on cultivating automobile supply troops, the scale was still insufficient to support large-scale war needs.

The inability of the auto troop to keep up with demand led to shortages and untimely supplies. In a short period of time, the Germans can think of their own solutions, but after a long time, there will be no good solution.

There is another problem, which also makes Germany high-level dread, and that is the issue of air superiority on the battlefield.

If you want to control the air superiority of the battlefield, you must rely on fighter jets to drive out the opponent's aircraft. Without fighter jets, nothing would be possible.

As we all know, the Luftwaffe is equipped with a large number of ME-109 fighters. Although the performance of these fighters is unparalleled, their weaknesses are also obvious.

ME-109 fighter jets, even including FW-190 fighter jets, have more or less "short legs", and the lack of range makes these fighter jets need support from numerous front-line field airfields.

Therefore, judging from the combat radius of the front-line fighters, the combat limit that the Germans can actually advance quickly is probably just over 200 kilometers.

After all, considering the airtime of the fighter jets, hovering patrols also wastes a lot of voyages. Then calculate the distance between the front-line field airport and the forefront position, 200 kilometers is already a very optimistic estimate.

Also, the further away you are from the airport, the less likely you will get timely air support. The time delay will become larger and larger, and the timeliness and effectiveness of air strikes will be greatly reduced.

These problems, in turn, have to be compensated by increasing the number of aircraft and consuming more fuel, which will further increase the failure rate of the Air Force and easily cause pilot fatigue.

The location of the Guderian cluster was already on the edge of the limit of air support—the closest German field airfield was probably west of Moscow.

Although the German army is already building field airfields south of Moscow, it will take time and material input.

Obviously, the advancement speed of the Guderian cluster is much faster than the construction speed of the field airfield. Therefore, he could only stay in place~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and wait for the follow-up German support to catch up with the speed of his advance.

There are actually Soviet field airfields near Vladimir. Unfortunately, if the Germans want to use these field airfields, they have to let the fuel and ammunition supply the planes bypass most of Moscow and arrive at these airfields.

At this moment, the transportation capacity of the G group that supplies Guderian is insufficient, let alone the consumption of an additional air force that consumes a lot of energy.

Although the German logistics transport force has been trying to improve the transportation conditions between Poland and Smolensk, and between Kiel and St. Petersburg, Guderian's advancement made all their efforts "in vain".

From Poland to Smolensk, and from Kiel to St. Petersburg, the transportation conditions of the German army were indeed improved.

But the transport between Moscow and Vladimir consumed all the poor transport capacity saved by the Germans.

Although Guderian was reluctant to admit it, he also knew that his advance this time was too reluctant, to the point that the entire strategy was affected.

This is also a lesson. It is not that the farther forward an attack is, the more successful it is. It also needs to be coordinated with the grand strategy and meet the actual requirements of our own troops.

"Constrain your troops, establish an effective defense between Ryazan and Vladimir, and prevent the Soviet army from counterattacking..." Lundstedt was also unwilling to criticize Guderian, so he said.

Because if he was in that position, he would have chosen the same approach - dispatching troops to Vladimir, because this was the best tactic the Germans had learned from the French battlefield.

After all, everyone knows that extensive "tactical reconnaissance" can pick up such a bargain, right?