The Third Reich in Desperation

Even commanding such a not-so-elite force, Dizhou Libing can still cause huge losses to the Soviet elite under Zhukov's reasonable command, making the ammunition consumption of the Soviet army in a battle of Nuomenkan almost close to The total consumption of China's eight-year war of resistance!

From this we can see how tenacious the Japanese army's terrifying fighting willpower is.

This also proves from the side that those Chinese soldiers on the Chinese battlefield who were intercepted and killed by the Japanese army's elite troops and supported them to the end are by no means as vulnerable as most people think!On the contrary, their willpower will never be lower than that of the Japanese army!

Returning to the theme, in this pre-war meeting of Dizhou Libing, he was still boosting morale again and again: "The heavy artillery brought by Major General Eitaro Yamaha is already in place, and the rapid-fire artillery troops are also deployed in the attack of Soviet tanks. Direction. Now, it is our best and last chance. If we don’t go all out now, we will never have such a chance!”

"Long live the Great Japanese Empire!" Libing Ogizhou took the lead in shouting this most common slogan.

"Long live the Great Japanese Empire!"

"Long live!"

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From the beginning to the end, Dizhou Libing did not mention their weaknesses and crises in the meeting.It's not that he didn't realize it, or that he was overly optimistic, but that the current generals of the Kwantung Army are already quite fragile psychologically.Dizhou Libing was afraid that if he mentioned pessimistic words again, perhaps before the Soviet army attacked, these generals would be overwhelmed by tremendous mental pressure!

Can't go on like this!Whether it is life or death, the worst is to fight with all your strength.If the fate of failure is unavoidable in the end, then the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain.

He, Dizhou Libing, has always had the temperament that he would rather be shot in the head than five shots in the chest and die of blood loss.

Although the Sixth Army relied on the large amount of artillery it had just added, it would be no problem to rely on the line of defense to resist for another month.

But in that case, although it is safe, it violates the strategic goal of the Kwantung Army Command to win.Relying on defense alone will not be able to cross the Nuomen threshold, which is a hurdle in the heart of the Kwantung Army. Only offense can have a chance of victory.

"Gentlemen, I, Dizhou Libing, can only be here to pray for everyone. I wish you good fortune!" Resisting the pessimism in his heart, Dizhou Libing wished for everyone in a self-deceiving way.

"Don't worry, Lieutenant General, we will serve the country with death and swear to be loyal to the emperor!" A group of generals of the Kwantung Army finally squeezed out after drinking the last bowl of pre-war chicken soup from Dizhou Libing. A trace of momentum.

"Okay!" Seeing that his ultimate goal of boosting the morale of these generals who had failed in succession had finally been achieved, Lieutenant Dizhou breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the pre-war meeting, and concluded for the current situation: "Using troops is to use danger. Risk means no victory. If you can’t defeat the group of Soviets here now, it will be difficult to fight them back in the future. For the great cause of the northward advance, let us join hands again and create a miracle that will determine the destiny of the country!”

Therefore, the Japanese army in World War II was very fanatical in fighting, and the way of doing it can be seen from the pre-war meeting like Dizhou Libing.

Thinking about it from another angle, the so-called pre-war meeting of Dizhou Libing actually has nothing to do with combat.Dizhou Libing did only one thing from beginning to end, and that was brainwashing, brainwashing over and over again!

On the one hand, he emphasized that the enemy has suffered heavy losses from his own tenacious combat.On the other hand, they moved out of the Beijin faction, moved out of the emperor, and moved out of Guoyun to shout slogans and improve everyone's sense of mission.In later generations, with this kind of brainwashing ability, it is enough to run to do pyramid schemes and harm people.

It's a pity that in Japan during World War II, there were too many methods of cleaning up troubles, and the frequency was too ordinary, so that many Japanese soldiers were full of crazy thinking like bushido.

Although this kind of thinking also played a big role in the Battle of Nomenkan, it abruptly helped the soldiers of the Kwantung Army to muster up their courage to face the crushing of the Soviet armored forces time and time again.

However, from an overall point of view, it is definitely not a wise choice to pin the hope of winning on this kind of immature and uncalm fanatic thinking.

It is only necessary to make a simple comparison between the European German army and the Asian Japanese army, which also called for fighting tenaciously. Even ordinary people can see how naive the Japanese army's so-called pure fanatical fighting spirit is to hit the enemy.

In contrast, the German army is always accustomed to blitzing the enemy like a stream of black iron silently, while the Japanese army always likes to rush towards the enemy hoarsely and clamorously.

From this, it is enough to see which one is calm and calm, and which one is strong on the outside but dry on the inside.

But Dizhou Libing would not think that his thinking was wrong!Compared with the national industrial level, Japan is by no means an opponent of the Soviet Union.In terms of the quality of equipment, the Kwantung Army, even though it is expensive as the "Flower of the Imperial Army", has the best equipment in the Japanese Army.But compared with the Soviet army, it is still too outdated.

Besides spirit, what else can the Kwantung Army compare to?

Body 2 Chapter [-] Envy and Jealousy

On October 1939, 10, the news of the total fall of Poland had spread all over the world along with Reinhardt's Warsaw military parade.At this time, the Italian Prime Minister Mussolini, who was far away in Rome, could not sit still.

The German army dispatched troops from the border on September 9th, and they will be able to parade in the capital of Poland on October 15th. The speed of this kind of victory is really too fast!

"Speak! I know you have been holding back a lot of words." Mussolini tried his best to pretend that he had expected everything, and signaled several important representatives of Italy who were called by him to discuss the situation to speak freely.

At this time, in his secret meeting, a total of 3 types of people gathered.

The first category is Ciano, Balbo, De Bono and others.Not only were they firmly opposed to joining the war, but they also all had varying degrees of willingness to get rid of their German allies.

Such people had a short-lived upper hand when the Polish campaign was about to begin.On the morning of September 9, the first day the German troops sent troops to Poland, a month ago, Mussolini, at the instigation of Ciano and others, sent a telegram to Reinhardt, asking the German head of state to lift the Italian embarrassment. All obligations of the Iron League.

In the letter, Mussolini stated that Italy could not face the danger of an attack by the British and French armies, so whether Germany wanted to or not, it had to agree to Italy's request.

If Reinhardt knew that Italy's sending troops was meaningless to his plan, he would probably be pissed off by such a "smart ally".

When Italy needs it, the German army should do its best to send troops.When the German army went to war, Italy did not want to fulfill the treaty and did not fulfill it.This is simply to put the Germans as idiots, and the Italians are the only ones in the world who are smart.

Reinhardt is quite open about this matter. Anyway, he knows the ending. It is not impossible to satisfy Mussolini's wish before the start and help others reduce the psychological pressure for Italy.After all, when he is still useful in Italy in the future, it is quite necessary for Italy to see Germany's powerful military power and rich victories.

Therefore, on September 9, Reinhard made an unprecedented public statement that "Germany does not need any military assistance from Italy in this war."

For this reason, Mussolini also developed a considerable affection for the German head of state who was considerate of his own difficulties.

"Leader, this is the end of the matter, we should congratulate the Germans first." Governor Balbo, who had taken the lead in persuading Mussolini not to intervene, excused embarrassingly: "Although we did not directly help the Germans militarily. , but we contained a large number of French troops in the Alps, which indirectly reduced the military pressure on the Germans on the Western Front."

Balbo, a Mussolini confidant who has served as the governor of Libya since 1933, transformed Libya from a backward colony into a model of an Italian province for Mussolini's "Great Roman Empire Plan", and he is known as the Italian province. fourth coast.

In the eyes of many people, Balbo is a "visionary" governor.The important town in East Africa, Italy, where he is based, has 9 Italian infantry divisions, 3 black shirt divisions, and 2 Libyan native divisions, a total of 14 powerful legions with 323 old-fashioned aircraft.

As Mussolini's "General of the South" who stayed in Libya, Balbo's previous suggestions had a great impression on Mussolini.If it weren't for his various suggestions, Mussolini would not have violated the alliance treaty so decisively.

However, Balbo's suggestion is not wrong, at least it has allowed Italy to obtain a lot of diplomatic "results".

In order to win over Italy, Britain and France provided a large number of orders to Italian factories and purchased a lot of military uniforms, military blankets, machine tools and other goods.For a while, the stock market in Rome soared, and the economic situation was very good.

But Mussolini was an ambitious man, and he didn't like this kind of soft fruit.What he wants is a glorious Warring States like Germany achieved, and the huge dividends he seeks through war!

Mussolini couldn’t deny the defense of Balbo’s confidant: “What you said makes sense, but the Germans will definitely not be happy about our breach of contract. Although the sergeant Reinhardt said nothing, But he probably already hated us to the core.”

Sergeant, that's Mussolini's private slur for Reinhardt.He always felt that his qualifications were much older than Reinhardt. He thought that when he became the Prime Minister of Italy, Reinhardt was just a young child.

Ke Reinhardt, an ordinary person who only climbed to the position of sergeant in 1923, actually rose all the way in the next 10 years, constantly promoted at an almost abnormal speed.

Since Operation Rainbow, Reinhardt's ascent seemed to be on the loose.It took only one month to go from sergeant to second lieutenant.Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant, less than a week since last promotion.From lieutenant to captain and from captain to major, it happened to coincide with the most chaotic period in Germany's internal affairs. Even the most basic procedures were not completed, and it was passed under Ludendorff's arrangement.

Later, this guy was taken by Sickert, who was the commander-in-chief of the German Wehrmacht, and was taught as a student.Who would dare to object when the disciple of the commander-in-chief of the army wants to be promoted to lieutenant colonel? !

As for the reason for being promoted to colonel, it was also to give Reinhardt, who was in charge of the Soviet-German cooperation at the time, a suitable level, so that the Soviet partners could feel the sincerity of the German side.

The road to promotion to the general level should be slower. It took 3 years in total, and on average, it only took one year to advance to one level.To put it bluntly, it was also aimed at his previous promotion speed.To put it on a normal officer, many people have spent their entire lives failing to cross the hurdle from colonel to major general.

This fucking is still in peacetime, and the speed of climbing is actually faster than the promotion of those legendary generals in war!

Mussolini reached the sky in one step, riding the east wind of a Roman march. For this, he prepared for 15 years, a full 15 years!

On the other hand, Reinhardt reached the pinnacle of power in just ten years.

However, this kind of nouveau riche actually took one step at a time, walking fast and steadily.

First in the army, he was promoted from sergeant to general.Then he switched to politics, got what he wanted time and time again, and finally became the head of state of Germany.Having experience in the army, Reinhardt's control over the troops is much higher than Mussolini's.

Participated in the planning of Operation Rainbow, quelled the Kapp coup, presided over the secret cooperation between Sood and Germany (in order to appease Italy's fear of war, Reinhardt secretly informed Mussolini), and defeated the French-Belgian coalition invasion in the Ruhr.He is full of feats and a legendary experience all the way, so that it is impossible to refute his high position.