Six Hundred and Twenty-Seven Intelligence Gaps

In the Soviet Union, in the Western Front Headquarters, Zhukov just got up and was brushing his teeth and washing his face. This commander, who had been guilty and meritorious on the Soviet Far East Front, has now become the commander-in-chief of the entire Soviet Army on the Western Front. Every order of his will be faithfully executed, because the Soviet officers and soldiers after the great purge no longer have the courage to question Any decision of the boss is up.

So now Zhukov can be said to be in power, and the army in his hands is stronger than the Soviet army that suffered a catastrophe a few months ago-although more than half of the Soviet frontline troops were lost within a few months, the Soviet Union The strong replenishment speed allowed them to quickly increase their troop strength to the pre-war level.

Moreover, these troops were allocated a full 300 t-34 tanks, as well as a large number of kv-1 tanks and kv-2 tanks. Although the production of the latter two tanks has been discontinued, because Stalin personally ordered to intervene in the production of Soviet tanks, although these two tanks were eliminated, a large number of reserve bases remained. So the front-line Soviet troops had to continue to use these two outdated tanks, and more than 2,000 of them were used at one time. Coupled with the huge number of t-26 tanks, the Soviet Union still has more tanks than the German armored forces, and the quality has been partially improved.

"How is the Stalin tank equipped? I'll let you stare at this piece and tell me what you think." While wiping his face, Zhukov asked his assistant, a middle-aged colonel officer.

Of course, the colonel officer would not take the officer's words as a deaf ear. He has indeed been watching the production of the Stalin tank recently. After all, it is a super tank named after the great leader. So he took a step forward and quickly replied: "Comrade Commander, 15 tanks named after Comrade Leader have been produced, and most of them are assembled manually by workers in the workshop. After all, our technology for producing heavy weapons and equipment is not yet Too mature."

In fact, the equipment for the production of Stalin tanks in the Soviet Union was already in place, but because the steelmaking plants near the Ural Mountains could not be started for a long time, the Soviet steel production had a significant decline in 1938, which also restricted the production speed of Soviet tanks.

It's a pity that the people in charge of the steel work have always been Khrushchev's cronies. After the incident of Khrushchev's retreat to the Crimean Peninsula, these cronies were all dealt with by Stalin for various reasons. Well, now the steel production management is a mess, no one can take over for a while, and no one has been able to recover until now.

Hearing what his assistant said, Zhukov nodded in satisfaction. Now he is more concerned about the mature technology and imitating the T-34 tank produced by the German Leopard tank. After all, this tank has been used in actual combat, although the record is very good. Ordinary, but it is perfect to replace the plethora of t-26 tanks. After all, there are tens of thousands of T-26 tanks, and it is impossible to replace them all with expensive Stalin tanks.

Zhukov is actually not in a good mood recently. His plan to counterattack the German army in the autumn was rejected by Stalin. Now Stalin is more optimistic about the Stalin tanks with limited production and complicated production technology.

It is hoped that the Soviet Red Army can wait until later and use Stalin tanks before counterattacking.

This is the origin of the Soviet Union's winter counterattack plan, and it is also the fundamental reason why the German army dared to deploy some troops and traveled to the Balkans. However, it will take hundreds of Stalin tanks to enter service, at least until winter, but if winter comes as scheduled, the difficulties facing the Soviet Red Army will not be much less than those of the German army.

At least in the messages sent back by some Soviet spies lurking in Germany, Zhukov found evidence that the German army was preparing for the winter. For example, he found an intelligence report showing that the German army was letting about 3,000 prisoners of war participate in logging to prepare charcoal for winter consumption. Although the charcoal produced by 3,000 logging slaves is not enough for an army, who knows how many concentration camps there are in Poland? And how much charcoal these concentration camps can provide is also a mystery that cannot be calculated and estimated.

But if you count the hoarding of ammunition and winter clothing reserves, there are no less than 20 pieces of intelligence that Zhukov knows about the German army preparing for the winter. Judging from his veteran who has been on the battlefield for many years, since the opponent has already begun to prepare winter reserves, then look forward to it. It is absolutely unwise that a winter offensive can work.

So just a few days ago, Zhukov once again took the risk of being disliked by Stalin and uploaded a telegram. He hoped that when autumn came, he could use the rainy season to attack the German defense line and take the lead in opening up the situation. At least to occupy Kyiv It was used to bombard Kyiv to prevent the Germans from using the factories in Kyiv to refit and repair tanks.

But before the shaken Stalin could speak, the Soviet Air Force came out and rejected Zhukov's proposal, because the United States wanted to defeat the Japanese army's aggression in the Pacific Ocean, so the 150 P-40 fighter jets that should have been provided to the Soviet Union were all rejected. Detained in Las Vegas, where the air defense force went into battle.

The Soviet Air Force, which had no new equipment and could not be supplemented, refused to provide Zhukov with any air support. Zhukov could only give up his plan to attack the German army in the autumn, and prepare for a "war that both parties expected" in winter.

Recently, the German army produced an ace flight officer. He was flying the latest long-nosed fw-190 fighter jet of the German army. I heard that the plane was not the fw-200 type speculated by the Soviet intelligence personnel, but had a new code name called ta- The performance of the 152 fighter jet is so good that it is unbelievable. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the strongest fighter jet.

And the guy called the Black Tulip Death shot down 104 Soviet fighter jets. The Soviet pilots in that sky changed their expressions for a while, and what's more, when they heard that they were going to that sky, they would rather go to Siberia to mine. Nor take off to perform combat missions.

The nose of this damn German pilot's plane is painted with black tulips. No one knows who this man is, but the Soviet pilots who saw this plane rarely came back alive, even if there are lucky ones who escaped occasionally. When I came back, it was almost full of nonsense.

Thinking of this, Zhukov waved to his deputy, indicating that he could go out, and then walked to the desk by himself, carefully looking at the documents delivered in the morning. The documents here are all-encompassing, and there are even German newspapers from the previous two days, which contain various German news.

Zhukov didn't understand German, but there was a translated text on the side of the German newspaper he was given, so he just had to compare it. The reason why he brought the original text was to compare it with the pictures on it.

At the same time that Zhukov opened the newspaper, Akado also opened a newspaper, but his newspaper was the current day, not the outdated version that Zhukov got two days ago. While drinking coffee, he carefully looked at the above content. If you compare the time, in fact, Akado got up earlier than Zhukov. Because of the time difference, Akado near Warsaw is naturally faster than in Minsk. Zhukov got up early.

And not far in front of Akado, there is also a document from the intelligence department. The purpose of this document is to prove the attack time of the Soviet military, and it is a top-secret high-level information. The content inside is known to no more than five people in Germany, and Marshal Brauchitsch may be the only one in the military who knows the exact content of this document.

The intelligence work of the German army started early, with advanced methods and pervasive means. This is inseparable from Akado’s early deployment in the Wehrmacht. The German army attaches great importance to intelligence, and naturally also attaches importance to the confidentiality of intelligence. Therefore, some such as beggar poison beehive Such high-level spies are directly responsible to Gascoll and Akado, and ordinary people cannot contact them at all-this is also one of the means of protecting them. Akado has always treated intelligence workers well, which is also the German intelligence work An important reason for the astonishing results.

This information comes from the beehive. Zhukov will be surprised if he sees the above information. The above information shows that the Soviet Union is producing the 19th and 20th Stalin tanks, and the latest 18th tank has been driven out of the workshop and is ready to be submitted to the army. . Compared with Zhukov's own news, this German information is even more detailed than what the Soviets themselves knew.

With the evidence of this document, the German High Command came to the correct conclusion. Facts have proved that the Soviet Union is indeed not preparing to launch an offensive in the autumn. The fastest offensive may not be until November 15, and it may even be postponed until before Christmas. Rear. Moreover, this offensive plan came from Stalin's highest order, and even Zhukov had no right to change it without authorization.

"Send an encrypted message to Krupp and Augustus, use... use the highest-level head of state encrypted code." Akado thought for a while and said: "Let them send the ammunition produced by several companies in Italy and France to priority Go to North Africa, support Rommel and end the Egyptian campaign first."

"Yes!" Anna took the electronic document issued by Akado, looked carefully and found no problems, then turned around with a smile and walked out.

When she walked to the door, Akado stopped her suddenly: "Wait a minute, then use the civilian mail channel to send a private letter to Mercedes, asking her how little Caesar is, and you can help me figure out the specific content." Well, read it to me when you finish writing it!"

"My head of state, I'm afraid that when you think about it, little Caesar will call you mother." Anna laughed: "I wrote a letter to sister Mercedes in your name the day before yesterday, Her reply letter may arrive in Warsaw tomorrow, just wait and see how Sister Mercedes scolds you! Dear, dear, yes!"

Akado was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly...