Nine Hundred and Sixty-Five Variables in Moscow
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When Zhukov and Stalin decided to let the main force of the Soviet army go south to start the Battle of Kursk, Stalin drew up another battle plan without telling Zhukov. ?The senior officials and generals of the Soviet Union thought the same as Stalin, that is, Stalingrad is the top priority, but Moscow is the foundation and cannot be easily abandoned.
This idea is understandable, so the battle to the south kicked off, and Stalin devoted all his belongings to support Zhukov in a battle of fate. But Moscow's empty defense is undoubtedly a haze in everyone's mind, so Stalin began to think of ways to strengthen the defense of the central region.
Mobilizing the old women on the spot is naturally a necessary part, but everyone knows that relying on these shrimp soldiers and crabs will not be able to stop the grandson Rundstedt. After thinking about it, since Stalingrad in the south cannot be easily abandoned, and Moscow in the middle must be kept as hard as possible, then we can only abandon another direction.
So Stalin decided to abandon Leningrad, the "city named after the former leader". In the spirit of being a bachelor who never dies as a friend, the 570,000 infantry of the three armies of the Soviet Union's Northern Group rolled up their blankets and began their retreat to the south to help Moscow.
Stalin's idea was simple: I don't want those places in the north, and Moscow can support it for a while with these hundreds of thousands of troops! And the sudden southward movement of the Soviet Union's northern cluster did make the two German commanders Rundstedt and Kluge feel a lot of pressure. After all, the extra infantry out of thin air did increase the variables of the Moscow battle.
Once the tens of thousands of troops from the northern cluster gather around Moscow, it is very likely that Moscow will become the next Stalingrad. Germany does not have so many allies and resources to fight another large-scale urban street battle. Now the aftermath of Stalingrad is still in Germany. The occupied area and the allies are boiling.
Hundreds of thousands of young lives were intentionally filled by the Germans in street fighting pits, and the impact of the disturbance would not be easily subsided. If it happened again, it is estimated that Ukraine, Belarus, and even Italy and Romania would all become guerrilla gentlemen. Any so-called smart person's plan is not without flaws, at least the kind of strategy that kills two birds with one stone only looks good on the surface, but in fact there are many sequelae.
Germany is preparing a plan for the two fundamental purposes of weakening the occupied area and reducing its own losses to capture Stalingrad. Mobilizing the young and strong in Ukraine and other regions, and consciously consuming the strength of these regions, this plan sounds good and is completely in line with Germany's interests. However, after careful study, it is not difficult to find that this seemingly multi-purpose plan is nothing more than overdrafting the hatred of Russia in Ukraine, Belarus and other regions, as well as the favorability of the Third Reich. The strength of personnel is obtained by shaking the sentiment in the region, so it makes sense why Germany is desperately aiding the construction of Ukraine.
The German army on the entire Eastern Front is replenishing its troops and training the army. Receive a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks to save your strength for the next summer offensive.
On the first day after the Battle of Kursk, the G Group Army received a supplement of 71 King Tiger tanks.
The tanks of almost two armored battalions gave the 1st Armored Army a breath of life. The 1st Armored Regiment of the 1st Armored Division, which had been almost wiped out, finally recovered some construction after receiving 17 tanks** . It is a pity that the loss of armored vehicles and anti-tank guns is difficult to make up for for a while. After all, the loss caused in an instant cannot be filled by the production capacity immediately.
At the same time, about 40,000 Wehrmacht soldiers who had just finished training jumped off the train and joined the heavy-loss G Group Army sequence. Guderian didn't even think that he could get so many troops and personnel immediately. He thought that it would take at least half a year for the g group army to return to a fighting state.
Comparing the Soviet army at this moment, we know how quickly Germany is replenishing the consumption of its frontline troops: at the same time, the Soviet Union has replenished a total of 170,000 young and strong soldiers to the frontline, but only a pitiful 144 tank.
Even if the hundreds of lost planes are counted, only one was added even if the aid from the United States is included, and there are only a negligible four bombers.
But these additions are all new additions to the Soviet Union. Assigned to the head of Zhukov's southward group, he only got two soldiers and two tanks, as well as a fighter jet of various types that was not enough at all. Compared with Guderian's G Group Army, the difference in treatment seems to be heaven and earth.
After the German Air Force lost many aircraft of various types, it added the latest ta152 fighter jets, 35 Stuka 2 aircraft, 15 medium-sized multi-purpose bombers, and the butcher bomber almost replaced its own All losses have been made up.
Under the special mobilization system of the Soviet Union, Germany has already survived the stage of quickly recruiting soldiers. Now the Soviet Union is no different from Germany, and can only rely on slow replenishment to transfuse its frontline troops. Under the influence of the situation on the entire battlefield, the priority for the Soviet Union to strengthen must be Moscow, not the surrounding areas of Kursk, which has lost its offensive capabilities.
Therefore, even if Zhukov cried for his father and mother, he only got a poor supply bottom line in the end. The 1st Armored Front Army of the Soviet Main Guards, commanded by Konev under his command, lost a full 10,000 people, but could only be supplemented by people. It is conceivable how much the combat capability has dropped.
What is even more exaggerated is that several Soviet front armies lost tanks of various types during the attack, most of them were elite kv1 and t34 tanks, but they only received one new tank, how to allocate it is simply desperate .
The organization of a large number of Soviet tank units had to be cancelled, and the independent armored brigades and tank regiments disappeared almost immediately. The messy remaining tanks, regardless of model, were filled into the 1st and 3rd Front Guards, which gave these two fronts the ability to continue fighting.
In comparison, the Soviet army in the direction of Moscow has been strengthened to a certain extent. In addition to the Dowan northern group that is approaching them, it has also been supplemented by 10,000 recruits. Stalin personally ordered the mobilization of 84 tanks to form the "Stalin's 1st Armored Division" in the direction of Moscow.
Of course, there is good news, that is, the Far Eastern Front Army commanded by Cuikov in the Far East held back the Japanese army going north. Under the command of Chuikov, the Soviet Red Army fought a wave of beautiful tank battles near Vladivostok, and directly educated their "guests from the Far East" with the classic sickle of the German armored forces in the Battle of France.
After the Japanese army used poison gas in the Far East, they did not achieve the results they imagined, because after all, the Soviet Union and the poor and weak China are not in the same breath. At least the Soviet troops are still very popular and in place in terms of infantry equipped with gas masks. .
It is precisely because the Soviet army has done better than the squadron in this regard, and the quality and education level of the soldiers is higher, so that Cuikov's army did not appear to be chaotic and collapsed. As a result, although the Japanese army used about a dozen types of poison gas shells, they did not have the desired effect.
Cuikov's armored group finally killed the so-called Japanese armored forces on the flanks. With a destructive momentum that the Japanese army had never seen before, it directly swept across the two divisions of the Japanese army advancing forward, and when the Japanese army was beaten to the ground. Only then did the Japanese army finally see the huge gap between its armored forces and the mainstream European army.
A surprise attack carefully planned by Wanji Ishihara eventually turned into a battle of attrition similar to the battle for islands. More than 20 Japanese divisions and hundreds of thousands of troops were trapped in the area south of Vladivostok. Cuikov, who lacked a reserve team, for a while There was nothing he could do about it.
This time, not only Ishihara Kanji, but all Japanese high-level officials including Hideki Tojo knew that relying on the Far East looting to feed back Japan's domestic combat plan had completely failed. As for the consequences of this war and the wasted materials and troops, the Japanese army can only "pay" silently.
In the northwest of Australia, the Japanese army trapped in the port of Darwin is fighting desperately with the superior forces of the United States. These Japanese troops endured the continuous bombing of hundreds of aircraft by the U.S. Air Force, allowing Americans to see the horror of street fighting and the terrifying combat effectiveness of Japanese elite infantry.
These Japanese soldiers shot very accurately, and had the consciousness and courage to fight to the death. Many Japanese soldiers even used gun packs to fight against American tanks, regardless of sacrifices, and frantically launched night counterattacks and desperate charges. This strongest World War I force left a deep impression on the United States, and also used its tenacity to make Americans realize the cruelty of war.
More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers competed with the U.S. military for every house and every street in Darwin Harbour, using their bushido spirit to turn Darwin into the Stalingrad of the East. After the United States lost two tanks and more than 10,000 soldiers, it still failed to fully occupy the port city.
The scene of American battleships bombarding Darwin day and night was also made into a documentary. However, the Japanese navy fished in troubled waters, and the I-19 submarine took the opportunity to sink three US Navy cruisers at night with torpedoes, which opened the prelude to the Japanese combined fleet's lightning strike on Darwin.
In just a few days of fighting, the Japanese Navy sank 4 warships and transport ships of the U.S. Navy at the cost of 4 destroyers and 22 submarines, creating another great victory after the "Solomon Naval Victory". It is a pity that at noon on May 22, Darwin Port was occupied by the US military, and the Battle of Australia ended in the disastrous defeat of the Japanese Army.
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