The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1192

“”What’s that lake in the south?”

Standing on the right bank of the Volga River, Guderian pointed to the wide lake in the distance and asked the people around him.

A staff officer found their location on the map and shouted,”General, that’s not a lake, it’s the Caspian Sea!”

“Oh? Is that the Caspian Sea? Let’s go and take a look!”

Hearing that there was a sea to the south of him, Guderian suddenly became interested.

His Southern Army Group had just come from the east, broke through the Soviet Southwestern Front’s flank defense line, and surrounded the area in the direction of the Volga Delta.

The battle had just ended, and the bodies of countless Soviet soldiers who died were lying on the battlefield, while the German soldiers were cleaning the battlefield.

Check whether any of their own soldiers were killed or injured, and then finish off those Soviet soldiers who were injured but not dead.

For seriously injured soldiers, if they cannot get treatment in the first time, it is better to give them a quick death, otherwise, they will slowly die in great pain. That kind of pain and despair is quite suffocating.

For the German army, the Soviet army is their enemy, and they naturally will not Waste time and energy to rescue the enemy’s seriously wounded.

However, for the wounded soldiers on their side, no matter they are seriously injured or slightly injured, as long as they still have a breath, they will try their best to rescue them at all costs.

After all, they are fighting on the battlefield, and bullets have no eyes. No one knows when they will be shot, and no one knows whether they can survive to the next battle.

Therefore, when encountering wounded soldiers on their side, do your best to treat him and try to revive him. This is not only to help your companions and comrades, but also to help yourself.

Because this behavior will be passed on as a spirit of the German army. If they are injured in the future, their companions will also do their best to rescue them.

Timely rescue may save their lives.

Therefore, when the German soldiers are doing this work Extremely careful and serious.

Guderian took a look, nodded with satisfaction, and then took a large group of staff and officers to the south coast to enjoy the beautiful seaside scenery.

The Caspian Sea is the largest inland lake in the world. Although it is called a sea, in fact, this sea has no direct connection with other oceans. Therefore, it can only be regarded as an inland lake, but it is a special inland lake with a very large area. The fishery resources of the Caspian Sea are very rich, and the coastal areas have extremely rich reserves of oil and natural gas. The Caucasus coast in the south has always been the main oil production area of the Bear.

Just when the German army was besieging the Soviet army in the Volga Delta, another army of the Southern Army Group had already moved south into the Caucasus region and began to control the situation in the Caucasus region.

The terrain of the Caucasus region is not good. The Caucasus Mountains The existence of the veins created a natural chasm between the north and the south.

However, no matter how steep this natural chasm is, and how difficult it is to walk, the German army must occupy it completely.

Because here you can directly enter Central Asia. Once the German army occupies this place, the millions of elite troops who have finished fighting on the battlefield of the Russian Bear can immediately move south from the Caucasus region, advance into Central Asia, and deal with the enemies in Central Asia. To the south of the Caucasus are the two major countries of Turkey and Persia, and to the south is a large colony of the British Empire.

Many countries in later generations have not yet become independent at this time and are still under the control of the British Empire.

However, last year Rommel’s North African Corps once hit the Middle East, causing the British Empire here to flee and run away completely, so part of the Middle East is actually now under the control of the German army.

“What is the hydrological condition of this sea?”

Guderian jumped onto a reef by the sea, put his hands over his eyes, and looked into the distance.

The north of the Caspian Sea borders the hinterland of the bear, and the south is directly connected to the north of Persia.

There is no barrier like the towering natural moat of the Caucasus Mountains, but only a vast Caspian Sea.

Therefore, if they want to go south, they can go directly through the Caspian Sea. In this way, whether it is the transportation of soldiers or large equipment, such as tanks and armored vehicles, which are very heavy and difficult to pass through the rugged terrain of the Caucasus Mountains, they can enter Central Asia.

However, the Caspian Sea is not connected to the outside world, which requires them to build in the Caspian Sea region. A shipyard must be built to build transport ships here.

Building a new shipyard requires a lot of money, and building ships also requires a lot of expenses.

If the expenses are too high, such an action will seem a bit uneconomical.

However, these are issues that those people in the General Staff should think about and worry about. Guderian is only responsible for proposing his own combat ideas.

As for whether to spend money and how much money to spend, that is not what he should worry about!

Therefore, he only needs to find out the depth of the sea, whether the waterway is unobstructed, and whether large transport ships can be used.

As for other things, let the guys in the General Staff worry about it!

“We asked the fishermen nearby, and they said that the water in this sea is very deep, with the deepest reaching thousands of meters. However, there are no large shipyards here, and there are not many transportation businesses in the surrounding area, and there are few economic exchanges. Therefore, the Caspian Sea is mainly populated by small fishing boats and some bulk carriers with a tonnage of about 1,000 tons!”

The staff officer’s answer satisfied Guderian very much.

As long as the water is deep enough, it will be fine. As for the problem of ships, he had not counted on the ships here.

When he came, he had seen that the active ones in this sea area were small fishing boats with a tonnage of about 40 to 50 tons.

This kind of fishing boat can carry a dozen people at most, and heavy equipment cannot be carried at all.

If you rely on them to transport troops, it will definitely be a blind man.

To transport tanks and armored vehicles weighing dozens of tons, you can only rely on tank landing ships with a tonnage of more than 3,000 tons or dedicated large transport ships.

And these are not available in this sea area, so they need to build a shipyard, or find a way to move ships from other sea areas.

Guderian thought about it himself and felt that the Black Sea was so close, so was there a waterway that could connect to the Black Sea and allow ships to come in from the Black Sea?

“General, since the ships have already reached the Black Sea, why not board the ships directly on the northern coast of the Black Sea and then land on the southern coast? Doesn’t the southern coast also belong to the Middle East?”

A staff officer felt that Guderian’s plan was too troublesome, so he proposed his own idea.

Not to mention, his idea was more reliable than Guderian’s. Guderian thought about it and felt that the other party’s idea was better!