"I know!" Marshal Kruger said in a gloating tone when he learned that the Soviet Union was attacking Orel: "We should not believe that Manstein had that 'Legend Sergeant'. The Soviets launched an attack in front of us. What's worse is that Orel did not have much defense preparation!"

After thinking about it, Marshal Kruger called Hitler.

"Hissergeant!" Marshal Kruger reported on the phone: "Olol was attacked by the enemy. Conservatively, the enemy has two fronts..."

"I know this, Marshal Kruger!" Hitler interrupted Marshal Kruger.

Hitler was in the "werewolf", and every move on the Eastern Front would be transmitted to Hitt at the first time, and these did not require the report of Marshal Kruger.

But in fact, Hitler did not understand Kruger, so Kruger just used the report to "remind" Hitler should not follow Manstein's advice.

"I ask you to allow us to withdraw from Orel, Master!" Marshal Kruger said: "Because in Manstein's plan, they only made offensive preparations but not much defense preparations!"

"No, I won't allow you to do this!" Hitler replied: "You should keep Orel, do you understand?"

"Yes, Master!" Kruger hung up the phone without saying anything.

Hitler felt a little strange after hanging up the phone, but after thinking about it, he quickly understood, especially when Kruger just mentioned "Manstein's plan".

In other words, Kruger actually did not intend to retreat from the beginning, he just used this to express that Manstein should be responsible for the current situation.

Thinking of this, Hitler couldn't help but frown. The Central Army Group and the commander of the Southern Army Group were disagreeable, which was not a good thing for this battle.

On the other hand, Manstein was also in trouble.

"The Soviets broke our defense deployment!" Manstein frowned at the meeting and said, "Obviously we misjudged their main attack direction... They threw the main force on Orel!"

Then Manstein pointed to the map and said: "To the north is the Soviet Union's Western Front, the Bryansk Front within the protruding part, and even the central front located in the protruding part may be their reserves..."

Everyone understood this situation as soon as they saw it.

Although Orel and Belgodro are the throat positions of the protruding part of Kursk, they can cut off the connection between Kursk and its rear, they are also in the corner of the Soviet defense line. Once the left or right wing defense line is broken by the Soviet army, there will be a danger of being surrounded.

"How is the situation?" General Hort asked.

Hort is the commander of the 4th Armored Army, and of course he is indispensable for such an important meeting.

"It's much more serious than we thought!" Manstein said: "We initially estimate that the first batch of Soviets invested two armies and one air force army to launch an attack. The number of tanks and aircraft was at least thousands, and artillery was even more incalculable. Moreover, they seemed to have fully mastered quite detailed information. The first round of artillery attacks caused quite heavy losses to the radar, artillery positions of Orol's defenders!"

After pausing, Manstein added: "But they still blocked the Soviet attack, but you know... Once the defense line is broken, they are at risk of being surrounded at any time!"

"We should provide them with reinforcements!" said Hort. "I mean, let the Central Army Group send them reinforcements!"

Manstein shook his head and replied: "Master Kruger refused to do this because he believed that if other troops were transferred to reinforce Orel, it would lead to Kursk's frontal defense line being too weak, and it would also be attacked by the Soviet army!"

In some ways, Marshal Kruger's statement is still correct.

This is a problem that the lack of troops and cannot be avoided by taking a defensive moment... If you want to defend a certain line of defense, you must distribute the troops evenly, because you don’t know where the enemy will launch an attack, and you cannot mobilize troops to "demolite the east wall and make up for the west wall". The reason is that the Soviet army with more troops can attack the east wall when the German army "demolite the east wall".

This is also one of the reasons why Marshal Kruger insisted on launching an attack before the Soviets attacked.

"Then!" General Hort glanced at Colonel Slein and said, "We may use the 1st Infantry Regiment to reinforce Orel!"

Manstein nodded and asked Slein and Qin Chuan: "What do you think, colonel, lieutenant colonel?"

Qin Chuan understood the meaning of Manstein and General Hort.

The 1st Infantry Regiment has helicopters that can quickly reinforce and Orel in this harsh weather, poor traffic conditions.

More importantly, the 1st Infantry Regiment has ME63, and there are more than 5,000 units so far. They can obviously cause a fatal blow to Soviet tanks on the battlefield, so that Orol's threat will be resolved.

But Qin Chuan didn't think this was the best time.

"Marson, General!" Qin Chuan said: "More than 5,000 ME63s, even if we hit the 5-to-1 hit rate, we can only destroy one thousand tanks, and the enemy's tanks will be much more than us, but we will not have ME63 available at that time. What's more serious is... the armored troops stationed in Orel have not coordinated with ME63, and they don't know how to fight with us!"

The latter is the key, and the importance of coordination is obvious. If you can cooperate with each other on the battlefield, you will have one plus one greater than two combat power, otherwise it will be the opposite.

"I know these, Lieutenant Colonel!" Manstein replied: "But we have no other choice now. The Soviets deceived us, which made our original offensive plan impossible to implement. At the same time, we cannot give up Orel, otherwise there will be a gap in our defense line, and the Soviet army that is ready for attack will surge into our defense line like a tide and threaten the rear of our army!"

Qin Chuan understood what Manstein said.

The original offensive plan was that Orel's 2nd Armored Army fought south and the 4th Armored Army stationed in Belgorod fought north, so that as long as they were half each, they could surround the Soviet army in the Kursk protrusion.

Therefore, the 2nd Armored Army and the 4th Armored Army were respectively equipped with a "Tiger" tank battalion (thirty "Tiger" tanks) for forcibly propulsion.

But now, the Soviets attacked Orel, so Manstein's plan went bankrupt instantly.

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan said, "Why don't we continue to launch an attack as planned? Even without the cooperation of the 2nd Armored Army?"
Chapter completed!