Chapter 914: Pig Teammate
In fact, the entire German battle plan is very simple, that is, surprise attack and siege and attack.
Yes, although Germany did not say so, the concept reflected in the battle plan is indeed these two words.
It is roughly divided into two parts. The first is a surprise attack to quickly defeat the regular army deployed by Russia in the west. Then it is to siege and attack, using several important cities in Russia to effectively kill the reserve troops coming to support Russia.
Although Russia has a population of hundreds of millions, as long as millions of Russian troops are eliminated in a short period of time, even a country with a huge territory and population like Russia will definitely not be able to bear it.
It is worth mentioning that this battle plan, which seems very grand to the German Prime Minister, was only copied nine copies in the whole of Germany.
In addition to one copy each for the army, navy and air force, the remaining six copies were all kept in the German command for emergency use.
In addition, in order to prevent leaks before the outbreak of the war, only a very small number of German senior officers knew about this final battle plan, and some generals were not even qualified to access this battle plan.
This not only effectively avoids the possibility of intelligence leakage, but even if the intelligence is leaked, the person who leaked the intelligence can be quickly locked in a few people.
Moreover, if the prime minister does not believe that the British and French espionage methods can be so advanced, they can train their spies to become high-ranking officials at the level of German marshals.
You know, if you want to become a senior officer at the level of marshal, you must either become the absolute confidant of the German prime minister, such as Goering, the British Air Force Commander who is famous for flattering.
Or it is a traditional German officer who was already famous before World War I. Because of his high reputation in the military, he will also be wooed by the German prime minister and given the position of marshal.
But both of these are basically impossible. If you want to become the absolute confidant of the German prime minister, you must follow him and go through all the difficulties before he grows up.
Britain and France cannot predict the future, so how could they have thought that this guy who was just an ordinary non-commissioned officer in World War I could quickly grow into the ruler of Germany before the outbreak of World War II?
If there is really the ability to predict the future, there is no need to send intelligence personnel. After all, you only need to predict the future to know the movements of the German army. Isn't this much simpler and safer than intelligence work?
Of course, the German side also understands that the mobilization of the army can't be concealed from Britain and France for long. You know, the German army was still frantically attacking the British and French armies a week ago.
Although there is a feint attack now, the scale of the attack has obviously been reduced too much compared to a week ago.
For a short time, Britain and France may think that Germany is repairing the army, replenishing weapons, ammunition and war preparations.
But once the time is too long, Britain and France will react sooner or later. After all, it is impossible to disguise if more than half of the army is missing.
The fact is just as the Germans expected. About a week after Germany mobilized troops from the Western Front, Britain and France finally noticed something wrong.
At first, the French army thought it was a normal rest for the Germans. But after seven consecutive days without feeling the strong attack of the German army, the British and French armies felt a little unusual.
In the reconnaissance of a small number of British and French air forces, it was found that the size of the German army had been reduced a lot, far less than when they launched a large-scale attack a week ago.
This also caused the British and French governments to have a question, where did the missing German troops go?
This is actually a very scary question. At least one million German troops disappeared. If it is impossible to find out where they went, it will be equivalent to adding a layer of hidden danger to the war on the front line.
No matter where these one million troops go, they will pose a fatal threat to Britain and France. If they go to northern Italy, it means that southeastern France will be attacked by millions of German troops.
If they go to the Balkan Peninsula, it means that the Balkan countries led by Yugoslavia are likely to perish in Germany's blitzkrieg.
Therefore, figuring out where these millions of German troops went has become the most important thing for Britain and France at present.
However, Britain and France don't have to think about it, because just the next day, the Australasian ambassador to the UK found British Prime Minister Churchill and told Churchill a piece of intelligence that stunned Churchill: these millions of German troops have all gone to southeastern Poland.
What does this mean? This means that the German army is likely to launch an attack on Russia.
Why do they do this? You know, the wars in France and the Balkans have not ended yet. If the Germans do this, it will undoubtedly be a risky move.
"Ambassador John, are you sure that what you said is true?" Churchill was stunned for a moment, then he reacted, looked at the Australasian ambassador in disbelief, and confirmed again.
"Of course." Ambassador John nodded calmly, not caring about Churchill's questioning tone.
"These are photos of the German army stationed in southeastern Poland taken by our people. Please take a look, Mr. Prime Minister." Ambassador John took out three photos and looked at Churchill with a smile.
Churchill was shocked again. This time it was not because the German army went to southeastern Poland, but because of such a top-secret military operation in Germany, the Australasian intelligence department was able to take photos.
What does this mean? There is a high possibility that there are Australasian spies in the German army, and they are in high positions.
This is what really makes people think about it. Although it is normal for countries to send spies to each other, it seems that so far, no one of the spies sent by Britain to Germany has been able to reach the top of the German military.
A very important part of the reason is that the sudden rise of the current German Prime Minister directly disrupted the British and French layout for Germany.
Originally, Germany should have been a two-power struggle between Kaiser Wilhelm II and President Hindenburg, but after the rapid rise of the current Prime Minister, he quickly mastered the loyalty of the army and overwhelmed Kaiser Wilhelm II to become the real power holder of the German government.
Obviously, Britain and France have no way to complete the layout in these few short years and place intelligence personnel under the current German Prime Minister.
But the current Australasia has done it, which makes Churchill very impressed by the work ability of Australasia intelligence personnel, and has some attention and doubts about it.
Churchill even suspected that there are many Australasia intelligence personnel in the British government. After all, the main population of the two countries is British, and they all believe in Protestantism and speak authentic British English.
Coupled with the good feelings of many British people towards Arthur and their nostalgia for the Victorian era, it seems very normal for Australasia to place intelligence personnel in Britain and gain the support of some British people.
Although shocked by Australasia's intelligence capabilities, Churchill certainly couldn't say anything at this time. After all, the two countries are still close allies, and the most important thing at present is to defeat the common enemy, the German Empire.
"What is His Majesty's plan?" Churchill pondered for a moment, then looked at Ambassador John and asked.
As we all know, the person who can really make the final decision in Australasia is Arthur, which is why Churchill directly asked Arthur for his opinion.
Arthur's opinion represents the opinion of the Australasia government. For Britain at this time, it is also very important to ask the opinions of allies appropriately.
"Hide the news for the time being, and notify the Russian government when Germany is about to act." Ambassador John said slowly.
Churchill nodded, and Arthur's opinion made no sense.
Although in theory, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Britain and Australasia should cooperate with Russia to defeat the Germans together.
But the problem is that Russia is obviously a potential enemy for Britain and Australasia.
It is necessary to defeat Germany, but at the same time, it is better to defeat Russia, a potential enemy, to achieve a win-win situation.
What is a win-win situation? Of course, Britain and Australasia win twice.
"I really didn't expect that Germany mobilized millions of troops for the purpose of attacking Russia." Even though it was confirmed that Germany's target had become Russia, Churchill was still a little unbelievable and said with emotion.
"His Majesty the Emperor once said that Germany is a crazy country, and the current German Prime Minister is even more crazy.
Two crazy guys together will only make Germany even crazier now. It is for this reason that Germany must be eliminated, and no country can follow the path of Germany."
Churchill nodded and agreed with Arthur's words conveyed by Ambassador John.
At present, it seems that ideas similar to those of Germany and Italy can quickly unite a country, but it will also make the country crazy.
At present, such ideas are popular among the three major powers of Germany, Italy and the island of Italy, and these three countries have become much crazier.
Germany and Italy are almost fighting against the whole of Europe, or even half of the world. Although the island country is not so crazy, as a militaristic country, it is already a manifestation of madness.
Such a crazy idea is also a shock to Churchill himself. After the victory of this war, Churchill also intends to advocate a comprehensive ban on such ideas to ensure that no country in the world will become as crazy as Germany and Italy in the future.
After all, such an idea is also a bonus to the combat effectiveness of the army. Except for Italy, which is a fool who can't be helped at all, both Germany and the island country have a certain improvement in the combat effectiveness of the army.
If there is no strengthening in will, the combat effectiveness shown by the current German army will definitely not be so exaggerated.
You know, Germany is a country that was restricted militarily for 20 years after World War I. In addition to the toughness of the Germans themselves, the influence of such an idea on the Germans is also a very important part of the rapid return to the throne of the world's first army power after 20 years of military restrictions.
About half a month later, the preparations of the German army were almost done.
Seeing that the Germans were about to launch an attack, after consultations between Britain and Australasia, on April 4, 1937, British Prime Minister Churchill personally sent a letter to Russian President Sudarin, which stated the mobilization of German troops and the intelligence that Germany might launch an attack on Russia.
The letter was sent to Sudarin's office in Moscow and was seen by Sudarin himself.
But the problem was that the relationship between Britain and Russia was not good at that time. This letter, which seemed to be a reminder to the Russians, made Sudarin himself think that it was the British who were trying to sow discord between Germany and Russia.
Why does Sudalin think so? Because long before the outbreak of World War II, Britain and France had repeatedly sowed discord between Germany and Russia, and tried to draw the attention of the Germans to Eastern Europe, so that a war would start between Germany and Russia.
But Germany at that time was not stupid. Most Germans hated the French. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to start a war with the Russians?
In addition, Russia, which has always been excluded by Europe, also wants to keep a low profile, so the sowing of discord between Britain and France has no effect, but makes the relationship between them and Russia more tense.
What people didn't expect was that because of the bad relationship between Britain, France and Russia, the British's kind reminders were not taken seriously by the Russians, but made the Russians feel that the British had bad intentions.
At the internal meeting of the Russian government, Sudalin also mentioned the letter from the British Prime Minister, and confidently stated that the mobilization of the German army was only for strategic defense against Russia, and was a manifestation of fear of the Russians, and was definitely not an attack on Russia as the British said.
Sudalin even called Churchill's letter a belated April Fool's joke, and said that before the Western European battlefield had not been decided, the Germans would definitely not have the troops to attack Russia.
This matter was left unresolved, because Sudalin did not care, no one in Russia took the German army's mobilization seriously, and the front-line troops had no preparations for response.
On April 7, 1937, German Ambassador to Russia Schulenburg bluntly revealed to Russian Ambassador to Germany V. Dekanozov in Moscow at the time that Germany was about to attack Russia, and gave the detailed date of the attack.
Schulenburg firmly believed that it was not good news for Germany to attack Russia at this time. He hoped that Dekanozov could report the news to the Moscow government and let the Russian and German governments contact each other to avoid this war that should not have happened.
When Dekanozov heard what Schulenburg said, he immediately became terrified and went to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to report the news immediately after the meeting.
On the same day, Sudalin convened a political meeting and told everyone about the warning of Schulenburg, the German ambassador to Russia.
But the blindly arrogant Sudalin also did not take Schulenburg's warning seriously. Instead, he kept emphasizing to all officials that this was just Germany scaring people.
Sudalin even vowed: "Germany hopes to convey false information to us through diplomatic ambassadors to attract the attention of Britain and France and achieve the goal of a surprise attack on France.
We don't need to worry about Germany's attack at all. Our border will be as strong as steel, and the powerful Russia will not be in any danger."
On April 8, Russian spy Sorge also reported to the country that Germany might attack Russia, and attached a copy of the telegram that German Foreign Minister Ribbentnow mentioned in private that Germany planned to attack Russia in mid-April.
But for the blindly confident Sudalin, he obviously regarded such intelligence as misleading in Germany and did not take it seriously.
On April 10, 1937, the German army completed all mobilizations and was currently waiting for the last batch of military supplies to be shipped to the front.
On the evening of April 10, Churchill reminded Sudarin again that the German attack was real, and advised the Russian army to defend the border.
Compared with the last letter, Churchill's reminder this time was more sincere, and he even really wanted Russia to prepare in advance and not suffer heavy casualties when facing the German attack.
After all, what Britain wanted was for Germany and Russia to consume each other, and Britain did not want Germany to quickly defeat Russia.
But what Churchill did not expect was that Sudarin once again regarded Churchill's advice as British intelligence misleading, and disdainfully burned the entire telegram.
On April 11, Russia's most famous media Tass issued a statement: "The news about the possibility of Germany attacking Russia that appeared in newspapers in Britain and other countries is all misleading public opinion in these countries and a trick against Germany and Russia.
The Russian people believe that any remarks about Germany wanting to attack Russia are without any basis, and such rumors are hurting the trust and goodwill of all Russian people."
Good, very good, very good.
This is Churchill's reaction after seeing the response of the Russian domestic media.
Churchill had completely given up on the arrogant Russia and Sudalin.
Since the Russians were so arrogant, let Germany and Russia fight. Anyway, Russia had a population of hundreds of millions, and losing a few million people was not a big deal for Russia.
As for whether Russia would be defeated by Germany in a short time, Churchill himself still trusted Russia.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Russian army was an unknown, the Russians' desire for territory meant that any country that wanted to occupy their territory had to face a crazier Russia.
Especially now that Russia had a new government, it was really unknown what the result would be with Germany.
Besides, even if the Russian army was not prepared at all, it was basically impossible for Germany to quickly defeat Russia.
The vast Russian territory meant that the German army would spend at least half a year to a year on Russia. Such a long time was enough for Britain and France to dispatch troops and organize a large-scale offensive.
Although the German army felt that they could defeat Russia in a short time, Britain and France let the German army know that Britain and France could also defeat the German army in a short time, although only a small number of troops were left to defend.
On April 13, a piece of intelligence about Germany's attack on Russia was ready and it only needed to wait for the final attack time to launch a full-scale attack was sent to Sudalin.
For such continuous intelligence, Sudalin not only did not consider it at all, but also directly replied on the intelligence: "Let the spy who sent this intelligence go to hell. He is not an intelligence officer at all, but a false intelligence maker recruited by the enemy."
It has to be admitted that Russia is blessed to have such a blindly arrogant and self-willed ruler.
If Russia is ready to deal with the attack of the German army, all statements from their government and media can be regarded as a disguise to Germany to paralyze the Germans.
But the problem is that the Russian government and Sudalin himself are obviously not ready to attack Germany. Such a statement is not that they are paralyzing the enemy, but that they reflect their stupidity and ignorance from the inside out.
The good news is that such a statement really paralyzes people.
The bad news is that such a statement paralyzes the Russians themselves.
Under the continuous statements of the Russian government and the media, the Russian people and the Russian troops on the border relaxed their minds and bodies, and they also believed that the German army could not attack Russia at such a juncture.
But the development of the plot is so bloody. When the Russian government was about to announce to the world that Germany's attack on Russia was just a rumor, the Barbarossa plan that was about to shock the world in Germany also officially began.
On the morning of April 14, 1937, a large-scale top-secret military meeting was held in the Chancellery in Berlin.
In order not to attract attention, all the participants in this meeting were divided into three batches and arrived at the venue separately.
The first to arrive were the generals of the Eastern Army Group, followed by the generals of the Northern Army Group, and finally the generals of the Southern Army Group.
Without too many extra words, the first sentence of this meeting was to discuss the specific war goals of the three major army groups in the first few days of the war, and issued combat arrangements for their respective war zones.
Then, the Army Air Force and the Air Force also reported their respective plans and determined which theater the specific air force formation should take care of.
The whole meeting lasted from more than 7 o'clock in the morning to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the generals had time to rest and eat.
But no one expressed dissatisfaction, because they understood that at present, the only thing Germany lacked was time.
The German Prime Minister had a detailed understanding of the deployment and combat plans of each army, and just listened quietly without interrupting.
When he heard the military report that although the Russian army had an advantage in quantity, the overall quality of the army was very poor and would not pose a threat to the German army, the German Prime Minister nodded with satisfaction and expressed an optimistic attitude towards the entire war.
Although a considerable number of German generals had other views on attacking Russia, at least they believed that it was not appropriate for Russia to fight on two fronts now.
Seeing the Prime Minister's confident smile and the orders issued by the military leaders, they could only swallow their saliva and hide their hesitation and worries temporarily.
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