Chapter 25 Planning 6

Before leaving, he handed a stack of paper to Tukhachevsky who came to see him off. "Your Excellency General Tukhachevsky, the magnificence of Moscow is very impressive, but the only flaw is that it seems to lack some iconic buildings with Soviet characteristics, such as the Statue of Liberty in the United States and the Effie in France. You also know that one of my hobbies is architecture and painting. I hope you will hand them over to Mr. Stalin as a way to consolidate the friendship between our two countries. little gift.”

Of course, friendship and other things were left to chance. He worked so hard to draw these architectural drawings for the simple purpose of making the Soviet Union waste more resources.

There are a total of eight architectural drafts here, the first one is the Soviet Palace.

Many people should be unfamiliar with this, or even have never heard of it. After all, this building has been prepared since 1930, but it has been modified and modified until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the design, the 5-meter-high Palace of the Soviets is a perfect combination of classicism and skyscrapers. It was the tallest building in the world at that time. The Pyramid of Khufu is the Hobbit who is 278 meters shorter than him. The Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in the world. The dwarf has a difference of 95 meters, and even the Empire State Building is slightly less than 8 meters.

At its top, the 75-meter-high Lenin sculpture stands facing the wind, dwarfing the 46-meter Statue of Liberty, and the 38-meter Jesus of Rio.

The bottom of the building is a venue for tens of thousands of people, with a capacity of 21,000 seats. If the palace is built, it will replace the Kremlin as the center of Soviet power. It will also be the Soviet Tower of Babel with three laurels - the tallest building in the world and the largest single building in the world. A monolithic building with the tallest sculpture in the world.

The total area of ​​the Soviet Palace is 11 hectares and its weight is 1.5 million tons. If it were built, how many resources would it cost? Steel alone is enough to build several battleships, right? How many fortresses can be built with the cement used?

Thinking about it makes me a little excited.

Is this palace too grand to build? That's no problem, there are still seven remaining building drafts.

These are the famous Seven Sisters buildings in Moscow in later generations, Moscow University, Leningrad Hotel, Model Worker Apartment, Ministry of Heavy Industry Building, Ukraine Hotel, Cultural Persons Apartment, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building.

Yannick did not believe that Stalin would not be moved after seeing this. After all, these buildings were a group of "red" buildings that the bearded man personally proposed to build in Moscow.

Even if you build one of them, you will still make money. After all, one blueprint is worth hundreds of tanks.

Of course, Tukhachevsky, who did not have the ability to read minds, would not know the "Little Jiujiu" in Yannick's heart, so he nodded solemnly. "Please rest assured, Mr. Yannick, I will definitely pass it on to Comrade Stalin."

"Goodbye then, Your Excellency General. And Miss Natasha." Yannik smiled at Natasha, the translator next to Tukhachevsky, and turned around and walked into the carriage.

After a while, the train started slowly and left the station. Yannick summoned the four Guderians into his carriage. "Major Guderian, I hope this trip will not be in vain for you."

Guderian nodded seriously. "Your Highness, this trip has been really fruitful and has opened my eyes."

Yannick reprimanded extremely seriously. "I hope so, Major Guderian. When you were conducting sand table exercises with General Tukhachevsky, I saw that you were using ancient tactics from the cavalry era. I couldn't tell that what you were holding was a modern army. Armored soldiers!!" In fact, this reprimand is a bit unfair to Guderian now. After all, Germany currently doesn't even have a tank. In this case, it is really unreasonable to complain that he does not understand armored soldiers' tactics.

Later generations have many honorific titles for Guderian. He is not only a first-class general of the German Army, but also the father of Nazi German armor and the founder of Germany's "Blitzkrieg". As famous as Rommel and Manstein, it can be called the troika of Nazi Germany.

Guderian not only created the theory of "Blitzkrieg", but also put it into practice, sweeping across Europe and attracting worldwide attention.

It's just that his IQ is high enough, but his emotional intelligence has not kept up. His impatience and impulsiveness and unwillingness to compromise also limit his greater development and vision.

Many things from the last war were deeply ingrained into people's souls. As a former cavalry officer, Guderian was not immune to this fatal influence.

Although he opened a new war model and invented new tactics, he did not fully understand the series of far-reaching changes and requirements brought about by the new model and new tactics. His thoughts were still stuck in the era of Emperor Napoleon and the American Civil War, and he believed in What is unique to veteran cavalry officers is the way of leading a cavalry unit to quickly break through the enemy's position, then go deep into the enemy's rear, outflank and encircle the enemy's effective forces.

But for him, the only change on the battlefield was that the horses were replaced by tanks and armored vehicles. All the strategies and tactics in his head can be summed up in one sentence: "Forward, forward, forward, keep moving forward." Anyone who destroys this idea in his head is a heresy, a cloud, or a treasonous person, and will become ruthless. His impetuous and unyielding character has offended everyone. He is strong and stubborn, fierce but less resourceful.

"Today's military technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and we must keep up with the pace. Sooner or later, cavalry will be replaced by armored forces and withdraw from the stage of history."

The characteristics of cavalry are battlefield impact and rapid mobility, which is the biggest advantage of cavalry over infantry. However, armored troops (mainly tanks) just provide powerful battlefield impact and rapid mobility, which just replace the role of cavalry. And cavalry obviously cannot offset the replacement role of armored forces through some kind of improvement, so they can only withdraw from the battlefield.

"If you don't change your mindset, you will also be eliminated. If you lose the sand table simulation, you will only lose a few soldier cards, but on the real battlefield, you will ruin the lives of thousands of officers and soldiers who trust you!"

Guderian's forehead oozed fine beads of sweat under Yannick's scolding. "I understand, Your Highness, I will keep it in mind."

Yannick nodded and took out a booklet. "This is the combat theory I compiled based on the tactics that General Tukhachevsky is good at. Take it back and have a look, it should be helpful to you. Also, I want to give you a task, write more letters to General Tukhachevsky and ask more questions. Uh, write at least four or five letters a year. It doesn't matter if he doesn't reply, just write yours."