You clearly do not understand. You should actually overtake the retreating enemy and cut him off. One should certainly have the mobile divisions keep advancing as much as possible while keeping a minimum of forces to cordon off the pocket until infantry arrivés.ljadw wrote: ↑02 Jan 2020, 22:26Halder, who knew more than you, said before June 1941 that east of the DD line envelopping operations had no prospect of success . And I believe Halder, not you .The main purpose of deep mobile advances is not to encircle the retreating enemy, but to chase him him .Aida1 wrote: ↑02 Jan 2020, 18:11What a load of nonsense. If the mobile divisions moved at the speed of the ID's they would never have encircled anybody which is one the main purposes of deep mobile advances.Mobile divisions are certainly not helpless without the ID's .They have their own infantry. And fast exploitation in depth is rather difficult if you are hampered by mud. Allows the other side to bring up reinforcements and stabilise the front for which it can use rail.So mud was a major inhibiting factor during Typhoon.And was the reason why it had been the intention to finish the campaign before october.ljadw wrote: ↑02 Jan 2020, 17:19Where did I say that the mobile divisions were moving at the speed of the ID ? They did not, unfortunately for them , and because they didn't they did not achieve much .
I said that the mobile forces had to advance/retreat on the speed of the infantrey , Without the protection of the infantry, the mobile forces were helpless .
The forces of AGC ( better a small part of them ) would have easily advanced to Moscow, IF the SU had collapsed .Mud do not stop a victorious army .Only the enemy ( following the German Übermschen, Soviet Untermenschen ) could do it . If the Soviets had collapsed, the Germans could advance with one division, and the mud does not stop one division, but only a big army : the smaller the advancing armies, the faster they can move .
All the rest are excuses from the losers,to not admit that they were stopped by the Soviets : they were never stopped by the mud .
You are also misrepresenting whatever Halder said.You have a tendency to be extremely simplistic.