When Major General Antichi was distressed about the casualties of his soldiers, there were others who were as distressed as he was.
"The casualties of such an attack would be too great."
In the German headquarters outside the city, the chief of staff handed the casualty statistics report to Lieutenant General Gustav and couldn't help but say something.
After taking the report and glancing at the total number of casualties, Lieutenant General Gustav nodded with satisfaction and said, "Such casualties are within my expectations and are acceptable."
The lieutenant general's satisfied tone made the chief of staff a little dissatisfied. "Are you satisfied with this casualty report? 2,468 people were killed and 2,501 were injured, of which 1,541 were irrecoverably seriously injured and disabled. This number of casualties was more than 5,000.
Are you satisfied with the report?"
Faced with the emotional questioning from his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gustav continued to speak in his calm tone. "You also have to see the number of casualties of the defending enemy. As for the defensive side, the casualties are about 13,000.
This is not a good number. You must know that they are fighting defensively and have fortifications as support, but the casualties are still so high. It seems that the enemy's troops deployed outside the city are not very effective."
Lieutenant General Gustav Crooked Lou's skills were pretty good, which immediately made the Chief of Staff look away from the casualty report. "It seems you are right, so will we continue this attack?"
Facing the topic that the Chief of Staff was concerned about, Gustav smiled and shook his head. He waved the casualty report in his hand and said, "Such casualties are enough to make the soldiers attacking today feel nervous. This needs to be slowed down. And if
If we continue to carry out such a strong attack, it will scare the commander of the garrison. If he does not defend the outer positions because of too many casualties, should we let our soldiers fight in the streets?"
After Lieutenant General Gustav finished speaking, he looked at some photos on his desk. Above were the fortresses and fortifications built by Major General Antici in the city of Suceava. It seemed that the Germans had already known about Suceava.
Seventy-seven, eighty-eight, I also have enough knowledge about the degree of fortressization of Suceava, so being able to kill the defenders on the periphery is also a good choice for the attacking German army.
The German army's attack on Suceava was suppressed for the next two days, and the daily casualty figures of close to seven to eight thousand people made Major General Antici very uncomfortable. He almost licked his hair for this reason.
"Are there so many casualties today?"
Looking at the casualty figures for two consecutive days, Major General Antic felt as if he had fallen into the enemy's trap.
The chief of staff, who looked even uglier than Antic, vented at the casualty figures. "Now we have suffered 30,000 casualties in three days. If this continues, we will have no one left in a week."
The words of the Chief of Staff made Antici, who had been paying attention to the German offensive, a little stunned. Thinking back to some of the actions of the German offensive in the past two days, an idea flashed through his mind. After realizing it, he slapped his head and reprimanded himself loudly.
"Damn it, Antic, you are a fool, you were taken advantage of by the enemy."
The chief of staff was not slow to respond. He said directly, "You are saying that the enemy did this deliberately in the past two days."
"should be."
Major General Antic continued to talk about the difference he had in mind. "No wonder the Germans had a chance to capture our outer positions in the past two days, but they were late in reinforcing troops. Now it seems that the enemy did this deliberately. Before I
It’s strange that the enemy has no brains, but now it seems that I am the one who has no brains.”
After hearing Antici's analysis, the chief of staff intervened and asked, "So what should we do now? Are we ready to withdraw to the city immediately?"
Facing the chief of staff's proposal, Antici waved his hand to stop it. "No, it would be too easy for them to withdraw like this. Since they set a trap for us and consume our troops, then I have to teach them a lesson."
Facing Major General Antic's words, the Chief of Staff asked directly, "What are you going to do?"
"Right now, it's just an idea. I need to think about it."
After a silent night, the morning of the fourth day came, and the German army began to prepare for the attack again. As usual, the artillery bombarded first, but the Romanian counterattack artillery still came as scheduled. The artillery fire from both sides came back and forth. The German army was in Gus.
Under the order of Lieutenant General Taaffe, they continued to attack the defensive Romanian positions.
"Attack quickly."
The German attack was under the command of the officers, and the soldiers poured into the Romanian positions like a tide, but the counterattack on the positions was still so strong.
"Watch out for enemy defensive machine guns."
"Watch the enemy's movements on the position."
The attacking German soldiers, under the command of their officers, advanced towards the position with skillful movements.
"The resistance strength of the enemy's position is decreasing?"
A junior officer said with some surprise when he saw the counterattack firepower on the position.
The feeling of attacking the German troops was also seen by Lieutenant General Gustav who was watching the battle from behind. However, unlike what he observed from the front, he could accurately observe through the telescope that this was a decrease in firepower on a section of the position.
Faced with this situation, the chief of staff who was watching the battle asked curiously, "What are these Romanians doing, and why is there a firepower gap?"
The words of the chief of staff left Lieutenant General Gustav a little confused. If he planned to resist for a while and then retreat, then the firepower of the position should be reduced. This was the first time that he had seen this situation where the firepower density of the position dropped.
Faced with the confusing situation, Lieutenant General Gustav could only point to that section of the position and issue an order. "Let the commander in the middle of the attack pay attention. Just pay more attention during the attack. The rest will continue as planned."
The situation is not bright yet. As the commander, Gustav cannot give up the attack because of some abnormal behavior of the enemy. This will be irresponsible to the attacking soldiers. Now we can only ask the frontline commanders to pay more attention.
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Just as the German troops attacking this position were approaching, the counterattack firepower on the position suddenly increased. Observing this situation, Gustav nodded and said, "It turned out that they wanted to use fire density tactics, but this did not take us seriously.
It’s over.”
As soon as Lieutenant General Gustav finished speaking, the commander responsible for directing this attack immediately increased the intensity of the attack. For a time, the intensity of the firefight in this position was far more intense than in other areas.
However, such a firefight would not last too long, mainly because the defenders could not compare with the attacking German troops, so after a period of fierce firefights, some of the weak defenders began to retreat.
"Hey, the enemy didn't send reinforcements this time?"
Lieutenant General Gustav said with some surprise after seeing his soldiers attack the position.
"Maybe the garrison commander has noticed our intentions."
The chief of staff who also observed this situation said uncertainly.
The chief of staff's words made Gustav couldn't help but mutter. "Then what's the point of the defenders still continuing to resist here?"
An idea flashed through his mind, and Lieutenant General Gustav's expression changed drastically. "Not good."
"What's wrong?"
"This position is dangerous, and the garrison commander wants to trick us."
Unfortunately, the conversation between the two was not heard by the frontline soldiers in time. Just as they were talking, there were deafening explosions in this position.
I saw that this section of the position exploded violently. The German soldiers who had just entered the position were basically affected by the explosion and suffered heavy casualties. At this time, the defenders suddenly burst out with fierce artillery fire, bombarding the attacking German troops. This made them accustomed to the artillery being destroyed by their own side.
The suppressed German soldiers were inexplicably panicked. The defenders took this opportunity to immediately grab their weapons, break away from the Germans, and move to the rear. The whole process was clean and neat, and it looked like it was premeditated.
Seeing this situation, Lieutenant General Gustav felt a surge of blood in his heart. At this time, he did not know that he had been tricked by his opponent. However, after many years of fighting, Lieutenant General Gustav held his own.
My body, I have suffered a heavy loss. If I get knocked down again, I will probably make my opponent laugh out loud.
After recovering for a while, Lieutenant General Gustav said to his chief of staff with a smile as usual, "Very good, it seems that I will definitely bear this loss now."
Lieutenant General Gustav's right hand, which no one noticed, had already made a big hole in a report in his hand.
As for Major General Antic, who had deceived the attacking German army, he was also checking his own gains and losses.
"In order to prepare for this explosion, we have used 60% of the explosives in our inventory. And in order to ensure the evacuation of the troops, all our artillery counterattacked the enemy, causing us to lose fourteen. The casualties in this battle were not large, only the loss was
More than a thousand people."
After talking about the battle losses, the chief of staff continued to report the results. "This time we destroyed at least 3,000 German troops. We can completely accept this result. Moreover, the German troops suffered a dull loss this time, which made our soldiers emotionally unstable.
Less, the next battle will be much easier."
"No, you are wrong Chief of Staff."
Major General Antic interrupted the chief of staff. "To be precise, the enemy has been angered. Our next battle will be much more difficult. I don't know how many soldiers will hate me after the battle."
The losses suffered by the German army in Suceava also reached the ears of its commander, Marshal Mackensen, but after glancing at the report, he asked his chief of staff, Major General Max Huffman, "The Romanian army has reinforcements.
Any sign of coming up?"
The planning genius of the Battle of Tannenberg and many other battles replied. "We know that the situation is not yet known, but their main forces in Transylvania are being continuously transferred back, and some of them are arranged to be assembled in Buck."
Ukraine, and the other part was gathered on the former Bulgarian territory."
Major General Hoffman's words allowed Marshal Mackensen to find the location of Bacau on the map. Looking at Bacau, which was separated from the German army in Suceava by Homann and Iasi, Mackensen spoke plainly.
"It seems that our opponent, General Courtois, is a little afraid of our surprise attack."
Mackensen's words made Hoffman nod in agreement. "Yes, Marshal, our opponent is very cautious. This is to put his fist behind his back."
"Then now the only way to force the opponent to take action is to capture Suceava first."
"Marshal, I will give Lieutenant General Gustav an order to take over this city as soon as possible."
"There is no need to issue an order. He is already irritated. I can smell his anger from the report. We just need to wait now."
