Four Hundred Fifty-One East

"We must maintain a defensive state on the Eastern Front. I am very clear about the state of war preparations in the Soviet Union, but Yuan's order is to adhere to the operational policy of strategic defense." General Liszt took the phone to a division commander over there. ordered.

After he hung up the phone, he looked at General Kluge sitting aside, smiled wryly, and raised his teacup: "Kluge, I really don't know why I missed such a golden opportunity. Our Soldiers are ready, a whole 20,000 troops are hoarded on the Eastern Front, but they have to wait for the Soviets to strike first."

"Yuan ordered to wait, and my troops were scheduled to wait." Kluge replied with a smile: "Even if Moscow is right in front of us, as long as I receive Yuan's order, my troops will stop and wait."

Compared with General Lister, Klug's command ability is not outstanding. To put it bluntly, some Klug, like Raeder, was placed on the Eastern Front for the only reason of reassuring loyalty. So Akado is willing to hand over the army to Kluge, the reason is actually because Kluge will never do things that add to the snake.

Some generals are easy to change combat orders without authorization. They are talented and have a strong ability to capture fighters. The reason for their disobedience is that they can win. These generals are relatively strong "geniuses", so Akado gives these people free space , such as Dönitz, Guderian, and Rommel; some people are mature and stable, and they are traditional German military generals. This kind of person is safe to use, and the results are quite satisfactory, such as Lundstedt, Liszt , Keitel; and some people are capable but not easy to use, because of various reasons can only make do with it, such as Brauchitsch, Bock; of course, there is another type of people, they are uncomfortable to use There is also a problem with loyalty, and it has been almost wiped out by Yuan...

And the last type of German generals are generals like Raeder and Kluge. They are loyal to Akado, but their ability to command operations needs to be improved. Akado likes to use such generals, because they faithfully carry out Akado's orders, and under Akado's precise "prediction", they can often achieve unexpected and astonishing results.

Therefore, Accador, the highest commander on the Eastern Front, chose the moderate Kluge instead of the more capable Liszt or Model. And Kluge also tried his best to restrain Liszt and other generals, and wholeheartedly strengthened the defense system on the Eastern Front, waiting for the Soviets to launch a "sudden" attack one morning.

At this moment, several group armies on the Eastern Front are trying their best to complete the defense line in their jurisdiction. Germany has made sufficient preparations for the Soviet attack this time. With the theory of great defense in depth, 15 lines of defense were prepared for the Soviets in Poland.

The tens of thousands of troops are also idle. After training and vacations, the rest of the time is to cooperate with the laborers in the concentration camp in Poland to dig trenches. Although these 15 lines of defense are not permanent fortifications with huge projects, they are used to deal with firepower The Soviet Red Army, which has no advantages in combat and mobility, is definitely more than enough.

These fortifications were deployed in the shape of cogwheel edges, or sort of like the battlements on the Great Wall. Some strong defense lines are in the front, and the sides are also carefully constructed. Once the Soviets start to attack, they will easily break through the existing areas, while some areas cannot advance half a step.

Behind these prominent defensive positions, elite German infantry and armored units are deployed. Once the Soviet Union enters the concave part of these concave-toothed positions, it is tantamount to crashing into the carefully arranged pockets of the German defenders. , The German defenders will close these pockets with the cooperation of the armored forces and the air force, and surround and kill the Soviet "aggressors" inside.

The German Supreme Command conducted countless deduction and assessments of this large-depth defensive position. Brauchitsch and other generals conservatively estimated that the Soviet Union may have to use 10,000 people to fill the front defensive position. Some generals who are more optimistic believe that , This line of defense has no problem at all eating up ten thousand people in the Soviet Union. As for the price Germany has to pay, everyone's predictions are more consistent, with only about 10,000 losses.

However, once the Soviet-German war begins in full swing, there will be about 10,000 reserve troops behind the 10,000 regular army on the German border. The frontal comparison of forces between the two sides is not a simple 10,000 vs. 10,000 troops, but a total of 10,000 troops from Germany, Romania, Italy, and France against the 10,000 troops from the Soviet Union-Germany has an absolute advantage in armor and air force.

If you count the investment of at least 10,000 regular troops from Turkey, a potential ally, and the possible military strength provided by countries such as Finland and Ireland, the Axis group even has an advantage in military strength. As for the extent of the advantage, it depends on the German assault on the frontal battlefield. How well the power plays.

In fact, the Soviets have not been idle these days. They have dispatched troops and are actively preparing to "burn the red flames all over Europe." Tens of thousands of Stalin's followers took up arms and were armed into the Soviet Red Army, preparing to launch a great war with Germany, the source of evil. For this war, the Soviet Union prepared tens of thousands of regular troops. These troops are not the persimmons that the Soviet Union attacked Poland, but the real Soviet Red Army that has been strengthened. They are not even inferior to the mighty in terms of armor Germany even has advantages in some areas.

Summarizing the experience and lessons of various countries in the past two years, Soviet leader Stalin paid more attention to the construction and development of armored forces than the United States. Soviet engineers improved the T-26 tank and strengthened the frontal armor. Of course, apart from the t-26 tanks that have already suffered in front of the Germans, the real killer of the Soviets is the entire kv-1 heavy tank.

The Soviet army with 2 tanks on the Soviet-German border has reason to believe that their troops deliberately broke through the German defense line. Both Stalin and Khrushchev were full of confidence in the Soviet Union's surprise attack on Germany. And the mayor and secretary of Berlin have been appointed.

Moreover, some Soviet generals who are familiar with the German army are also very optimistic about this battle. For example, Zhukov, who has now become the deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army in the Far East, is full of confidence in attacking Germany. After studying the fighting methods of the German army, he proposed The view that the German artillery was insufficient.

Zhukov accurately found the shortcoming of the insufficient number of German artillery, and put forward his own views on the war: the German army kept advancing during the offensive, that is, they kept moving fast, so they preferred flexible small caliber artillery, so they are not very good at defensive combat, where they lack artillery support and will collapse faster than other opponents.

This is not just his opinion, but the opinion of many Soviet generals. Therefore, the argument of the high-level Soviet Union was: "Instead of waiting for the Germans to attack, it is better for us to concentrate our forces and fight there first. In this way, the Germans can only be forced to defend, and we have the advantage."

Having said that, I have to briefly introduce the differences in details between the Soviet army and the armies of other countries.

The Soviet Union is used to sealing up obsolete weapons, sealing up some unused weapons and equipment, and having special personnel to maintain them. Although these weapons are outdated equipment to a certain extent, they are still usable real guys.

In the peaceful years of the Soviet army, each main division had a division commander and two deputy division commanders. In the same way, each regiment has two deputy commanders, each battalion has two deputy battalion commanders, each company has two deputy company commanders, and each platoon has two platoon leaders...

Once the Soviet Union enters a state of war and the main division is ordered to go to the front, there will be one deputy division commander, two or one deputy regimental commander, four or six deputy battalion commanders, more than a dozen deputy company commanders, and several deputy commanders. The squad platoon leader—now everyone knows that this is almost the skeleton of another division.

Of course, in terms of combat effectiveness, the "shadow" left behind...

Division" is of course not as good as the main division that left, but after replenishing its strength, it is indeed a division, a new unit that can fight.

This new force is made up of reservists and ex-commissioners, receiving obsolete equipment. These old equipment happened to be familiar weapons used by reservists and retired soldiers, so the troops five or even ten years ago could immediately form combat effectiveness and quickly put into front-line battles.

This is why in another time and space, after Germany annihilated the Soviet Union's 10,000 troops in World War II, the Soviet front still maintained more than 10,000 troops. That's why there are seemingly endless "secrets" of Soviet troops.

Just like in another time and space, the German spies did not see through this simple little secret. They truthfully reported to the German Supreme Command the intelligence they worked hard to detect: the intelligence showed that the Soviet army had about one division, with a total strength of about 10,000 Between ten thousand. However, Akado, who knew the reality of the Soviet Union, knew that the real combat strength of the Soviet Union was around 10,000—provided that they had so many weapons and equipment to arm these soldiers.

Accador and the current German generals have an unseen advantage over Hitler, and that advantage is that Britain and the United States won't have as many supplies as they did in 1942 in another time and space. The United Kingdom is now overwhelmed, and there are not so many supplies to the Soviet Red Army. So whether the Soviets can get aid from the United States, and how much they can get, it's hard to say now-but, Akado knows, there will definitely be no more.