Four Hundred and Fifty Eight Unsatisfactory
It is said that life is mostly unsatisfactory. This sentence may be a rare accurate assessment of people's own expectations. Therefore, many people are very, very unhappy, or unhappy. Because they have not been able to get what they want after thousands of calculations, it can be said that their efforts have not achieved the best results.
For example, Akado is very depressed now, because of the incompetence of the Japanese, the Nomenkan event he carefully created did not play a role in delaying the Soviet Red Army's offensive, but only made the Soviet invasion of Germany that should have occurred in mid-March , delayed until early April.
In other words, the last thing he wanted to see happened again. Germany was forced to start a two-front war, and it was forced to carry out the two-front war when the Balkan Peninsula was not conquered and he was not fully prepared. fight.
The British mainland still needs 600,000 to 800,000 troops from Germany; France, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway also need about 700,000 troops to maintain proper order; in Italy and North Africa, Germany has deployed 300,000 (not enough) domestic security and stability requires the maintenance of 300,000 German troops; the 2.3 million troops on the Eastern Front and the 700,000 strategic reserves are on standby—not counting the involvement of troops in the Balkans, Germany has already made itself seem huge The 5 million regular army used up all of them.
Although it is said that Britain and France insist on mobilizing troops, it is estimated that about 300,000 soldiers can be drawn out, but Akado, Brauchitsch and others believe that it is better to maintain the superior force on the Western Front and end the two-front battle as soon as possible. more practical. But everyone knows that even if Germany ends the war on the Western Front, it must retain a standing defense force of at least 1 million troops, and only 4 million troops can be moved to the Eastern Front.
Assuming the end of the war on the Western Front, if you count the troops of Finland, Turkey, Romania, and Italy, Germany can concentrate about 6 million to 7 million troops on the Eastern Front, and about 10 million troops against the Soviet Union. In the German high-level command system, it is not that it cannot fight, but that it is "very sure to win."
Of course, the good news is that the Soviets were not ready either. They hadn't finished their purges yet, they lost a lot of energy and they didn't complete their preparations for war. Under such a major premise, Akado is sure to defeat the Soviet Union's attack, which is a blessing in misfortune.
The Japanese were even more depressed. According to the prior agreement, they bit the bullet and fought a battle of Nomenkan, which caused heavy losses. Not to mention that the Army has lost the right to speak, even the Americans have taken sanctions against Japan-the Japanese authorities in the whole Nomenkan incident can be said to be worth the candle.
Of course, another thing made the Japanese even more anxious, that is, the aid that the Germans had originally promised was completely in vain. The Germans did not give the design drawings of the Leopard tank at all, and only provided a few initial equipment for the coal-to-oil technology. In addition to the 100 me-fighters of the Army Aviation Corps, the three aircraft production lines originally planned to be introduced have also come to naught.
The reason is very simple. Germany and the Soviet Union are preparing to fight to the death. How can they have the time to pay attention to the distant Japanese authorities?
The most irritating thing is that Germany, in the midst of a decisive battle with the Soviet Union, despite ignoring the various demands of the Japanese authorities, dispatched 50 me-combat aids from Romania and Italy to China, which made Japan The military was a little dumbfounded. The Japanese foreign minister threatened to withdraw from the Axis Iron and Steel Agreement, but he did not even bargain, and directly signed the Suzinuo Threshold Treaty.
However, the sanctions imposed by the Americans are a real tactic. Japan's domestic oil reserves are only enough for the Japanese army to operate for three months and the country's industrial consumption. In other words, if Japan does not think of a way, its army will be destroyed after three months You can only fight without tanks, planes, ships and warships. The bullets are fired with one less, and the shells are used with one less—not to mention the United States, even China can hit it all over the place. This is definitely not the news that the Japanese government wants to see.
As a result, many things were disrupted from the original sequence. A series of combat operations prepared by the Axis powers in North Africa were all forced to be postponed, and the plan for the joint attack of Italy and Germany on the Balkans was also postponed indefinitely.
Of course, the British side got a chance and once again lingered. The British royal family boarded Iceland collectively, where they hoarded supplies and prepared to counterattack the war-torn British mainland. Churchill issued a statement in London, brazenly announcing that the last moment of counterattack against Germany had come, calling on people all over the world to unite against Germany's aggression and expansion. Stalin, of course, delivered a speech in Moscow announcing the arrival of revolution in Europe and the beginning of the Soviet war against Germany, the source of the evils of capitalism.
What answered these voices was not the roar of the head of state Accador, but 5,000 German tanks and nearly 4,000 aircraft of various types that were silently and slowly driving towards the border area. At 7 o'clock in the morning on April 6, the largest battle in human history officially kicked off, and the Soviet-German War began.
"Hey! I said... We are about to approach the border, be careful of German planes." In the blue sky, a Soviet i-16 fighter jet modified into a closed cockpit is flying on the white clouds. The speed of this improved fighter jet has already More than 450 kilometers, it is a fairly advanced Soviet fighter. And behind this Soviet fighter jet, there are 110 Soviet fighter jets of the same model flying densely.
These fighter jets were ordered to cross the Soviet-German border, cover the Soviet bomber unit and attack aircraft unit after the war, and destroy the German front-line airport.
"Red 4, pay attention to your sky! Watch your sky! I see German fighter jets! Oh my God! I see German fighter jets!" Inside the headset, the commander of the fighter unit shouted loudly.
Since the German army already knew the arrival of the Soviet army, they would naturally not foolishly wait for the Soviet Air Force to attack at the airport. The German planes on the border were guided by the radar on the ground and accurately found the location of the Soviet aircraft fleet.
"German planes! German planes! Scatter! Scatter!" shouts filled the earphones, and before Second Lieutenant Krinovich, who was flying in the center of the Soviet fleet, reacted in his own plane, disaster struck. He was on the Soviet flying unit.
At a distance of almost a thousand meters, the Luftwaffe, which has an altitude advantage, suddenly opened fire, and this time it fired, the Luftwaffe used rockets on a large scale in air combat for the first time. Each of the German fighter jets can carry about 8 large-caliber rockets. Hundreds of fighter jets fired rockets in one go. One can imagine how spectacular the scene was.
This is a pain for the fighter pilots of the Soviet Red Army. For better command and combat, they are flying in a dense air formation at this moment. Below them are the Soviet bomber and attack fleet as bait. The entire air formation is densely packed. There are three upper and lower floors, and each floor has a dense formation of nearly a hundred aircraft. Did you win so many German rockets?
After such a moment of hesitation, the flight formation of Soviet aircraft was completely fired. One after another, the planes were hit by German rockets, and exploded in the air in a ball of gorgeous fireworks. A good flight formation was smashed into chaos by the German Air Force in just a few seconds.
"Climb! Climb! Dodge the German fighter jets! Be careful! Watch out for your left wing! Accelerate! Idiot!" Shouts filled the earphones, and Krinovic hurriedly drove his plane to climb, only a step behind him. The second wingman was hit by a German 30mm machine gun, and fell to the ground with thick smoke, but hit another downed Soviet plane in mid-air and exploded into a ball of flames.
The German fighter jets began to dive and attack, frantically slaughtering the Soviet i-16 fighter jets with backward performance at the superior distance and superior altitude. In such a short confrontation, at least 150 Soviet aircraft of various types crashed, while the Luftwaffe almost Nothing to lose. The fighter jets of both sides fought at an altitude of 8,000 meters. This happened to be the most suitable flying altitude for German fighter jets. German pilots played with their Soviet opponents like a game.
Soon, an order to retreat came from the earphones. Krinovich looked at the few friendly planes left in the sky, and quickly accelerated into the clouds. As a Soviet pilot, he was lucky today, because Until the end, he was not targeted by German pilots, and as the Soviet Air Force of this day, he was unfortunate. He saw the gap in the strength of the two air forces and witnessed the process of the Soviet Air Force losing air supremacy.
For the Soviet Air Force, the disaster of this day had just begun. After the Luftwaffe destroyed several Soviet Air Force units that were going to attack in one breath, it appeared over the Soviet airport under the cover of a black bomber.
The Soviets were preparing to attack on this day. They expected that the air force had already destroyed the German airport and gained local air supremacy on the battlefield—but the Soviet pilots who returned were mournful. The human bomber swarm arrived.
This day is destined to belong to the Luftwaffe. After shooting down 970 Soviet fighter jets in the sky, the Luftwaffe's assault paralyzed another 1,500 Soviet fighter jets on the ground. On April 7, the second day, the Soviet Air Force that was able to take off to face the German fighter jets had only a pitiful 110 fighters, and what they had to face was their German counterparts with a total of more than 1,000 fighters.