The Third Reich in Desperation

Finally, the teacher slowly got to the point: "I think, maybe we can ask Germany to contact those businessmen who stayed in the Soviet Union, contact those officials they bribed, and surrender to Germany on the condition of protecting our family... ..”

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"General Paulus."

Through the established telephone line, Model, who commanded the SS, was having a direct conversation with Paulus about the battle situation.

"You can change direction and attack further north." Model on the phone remained calm and calm, without a hint of anxiety.

With his left hand behind his back and the microphone in his right hand, he said to Paulus: "I appreciate your kindness, but I hope that the SS will carry out all the face-to-face battles in the southern provinces."

"Kilponos finally chose to mobilize the main force to deal with General Manstein." Someder's tone was flat, as if he was talking about something unimportant, "Partially, your Sixth Army and Manstein General Stein's 11th Army is superior in strength."

"However, if we don't divide the troops, the pressure you face will be..." Paulus maintained his usual respectful attitude: "I have no other meaning, but, according to the plan you proposed, the SS It will face nearly twice as many Soviet troops as itself."

Originally on the southern front, the ratio of troops between the two sides was close to one to one.But if Paulus and Manstein were to take on fewer Soviet troops at the two ends, then the number of enemies left for Model to deal with would naturally be more.

"Execute," Modle paused, and his tone gradually became cold and sharp: "Although the SS has fewer troops in this battle, the border of the southern province was lost from our hands before!"

"What we throw away, we take back ourselves!"

Text 699 Fourth German Field Marshal

Contrary to the Soviet army's southern line Kirponos actively choosing to attack against attack, Voroshilov also chose to lead the troops to launch an offensive in the north after discussing with Zhukov.

However, Voroshilov's current attack position is much smaller than that at the beginning of the war.He didn't even count as the attacking position, he had only a second-line position left.

In the first few days of the war, the German Army Group North penetrated into the Soviet Union at a depth of 80 kilometers with a coherent counterattack, and occupied the Dubisa River ferry near Ailogala.And here, it was originally an area that could become a solid defensive front for the Voroshilov Army Group.

If Voroshilov ordered to blow up the large highway viaduct near Ailogala, then the German counterattack force would inevitably stagnate in this area, and the Soviet army would also be able to gain time to defend and organize on the steep high ground on the other side of the river. defense.

However, the German army only used one army of the 56th Panzer Corps, which consisted of the 8th Armored Division, the 290th Infantry Division, and the 3rd Motorized Infantry Division. Together, the three divisions broke through the Memel River and rushed all the way to the Exit Dinaburg.

"Damn it, no one can stop the Germans?"

In the headquarters, Voroshilov roared while looking at the combat schematic diagram in a state of desperation.

"Marshal, the total speed of the German armored forces is too fast, we can't stop it at all!" A general with the rank of major general, amidst Voroshilov's roar, Nuonuo reported.

Voroshilov, the Soviet Field Marshal and winner of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, has always been considered one of the core figures leading the entire army in combat.

His elite cavalry unit once recaptured Ukraine from the Polish army. It is one of the few elite units in the Soviet cavalry that is not afraid of the Polish cavalry.

However, such a general who once shined in the civil war is helpless against the German army's style of play at this moment.

Because his understanding of war still stays in the cavalry era in some aspects, and he does not have enough understanding of the new situation in contemporary warfare, so it seems that his record is very mediocre, and he cannot be highly praised by people like he was in the previous civil war.

Coincidentally, Voroshilov's opponent, General Loeb, commander of the German Army Group North, was also a general who had little contact with armored tactics.

Although Reinhardt was appointed by Reinhardt to command the German Army Group North because of his stability and reliability, the highest position he held before was the commander-in-chief of Army Group C on the Western Front, which was responsible for the feint attack in the French campaign.

When Le Bu commanded Army Group C on the Western Front, he had only some basic infantry divisions and reserve divisions under his command. The latter had to be mobilized, and their equipment and training were not very strong. can command.

The Northern Army Group governs two armies and one tank group, with a total of 25 infantry divisions, 3 motorized divisions, and 3 tank divisions. It is considered to be the least powerful of the 3 Wehrmacht Army groups outside the SS at the beginning of the German Eastern Front.

And its mission is quite a bit less. It is to advance from East Prussia to destroy the Soviet army on the Baltic Sea coast, seize the Baltic Sea ports, and then capture Leningrad and Kronstadt, causing the Baltic Sea Fleet to lose its base.

At the same time, according to the "Barbarossa Counterattack Plan", the Northern Army Group should also respond to the rapid corps of the Central Army Group that will attack Smolensk later, and divide troops in time to provide support.

Therefore, the Barbarossa counterattack plan stipulates that Lebu's Northern Army Group should try to advance forward with a strong right-wing fast corps first, so as to enter the Opochka area as soon as possible, prevent the Soviet army from retreating from the Baltic Sea coast, and prepare for the future. Create conditions for a quick attack on Leningrad.

The theater that Marshal Kreb faced had the most unfavorable terrain on the entire battlefield, and the contours of the Soviet-German border forced Lebu's entire army group to concentrate densely near the border of East Prussia and the lower reaches of the Nemen River. On both sides of the strait, it is completely impossible to carry out a planned encirclement of the Soviet army directly from the deployment area.

In front of him was Marshal Voroshilov's elite Soviet troops.Although there have been heavy losses in the offensive these days, the total strength is still larger than that of the German Northern Army Group.

In this case, General Loeb, who was also commanding the armored forces on a large scale for the first time, obviously did a lot better than Voroshilov of the Soviet Army.

It is true that Le Bu is not an excellent armored commander, but he can be called an excellent strategist and a qualified group army commander.

Even though he didn't have a complete understanding of the combat effectiveness of the armored forces, Le Buu just analyzed the battle situation and judged that only by creating very favorable conditions, his Northern Army could achieve a breakthrough from a relatively southerly direction. Surround the Soviets and destroy them before they retreat.

Therefore, Lebu used the armored forces in his hands to liberate the three Baltic countries in one fell swoop, and then went deep into the Soviet Union's hinterland for 80 kilometers in just a few days, completely completing the transformation from strategic defense to strategic offense.

"The commander on the Soviet side is called Voroshilov, right?" Le Bu, after receiving the news that the Dubisa River ferry near Ellogara had completely fallen into his own hands, asked the commander in the headquarters with great interest. The combat staff commented with a smile: "He will probably be very aggrieved at this time, right?"

After careful planning, Lebu has ordered Admiral Busch's No.16 Army to attack Daugavpils and its north along both sides of the Ebenrod-Kaunas road, allowing Admiral Kuchler's No. The .18th Army carried out the main assault on Riga along the Tilsit-Riga road, and ordered Admiral Heppner's fourth tank group to advance north of the lower Neman River to the Fenske and West Dvina Rivers and seize all crossing points , Attack on Apoka.

The result of this arrangement is that the Northern Army Group quickly broke through almost every Soviet defensive position along the way, and seized the strategically important Riga.Then it reached the West Dvina River and defeated the last resistance of the Soviet army here.

At the same time, the fourth group of German tanks swept across the countries along the Baltic Sea. Under the cooperation of the resistance organizations of the Baltic countries, they wiped out the Soviet troops in the southern part of the Baltic Sea at lightning speed, and liberated the Baltic countries by the way.

In this round of combat alone, Lebuk annihilated and captured nearly 30 Soviet troops, and became the German general who liberated the most countries so far in World War II.

Sure enough, with this record and the international reputation of liberating the three Baltic countries, Lebu then heard a special announcement on the German army's liberation of the three Baltic countries from the radio, and received a personal message from Reinhardt about promoting Lebu Telegram for the German Field Marshal!

Sincerely, Lebu officially became the fourth field marshal in the German Wehrmacht after Brauchich, Bock, and Rundstede.

Body 700 Conspiracy

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It has been a week since the German military observation team arrived at Nuomenkan. In the past week, we have only observed a successful Soviet attack under the arrangement of the Soviet high-level, and checked the positions of the Japanese Kwantung Army that were later occupied by the Soviet army. The overall sense as follows:

From the perspective of the Soviet army, the overall strength of the Soviet army surpassed that of Japan.

I don't know why, but the Japanese dared to provoke a dispute and launch an attack first, even though they had far fewer offensive forces than the Soviet Union, which puzzled us.

However, the exchange ratio of the Soviet army is not good.

When we first visited the Soviet Army General Headquarters, we found that after the orders issued here, the regimental commanders and even the division commanders below were often unable to complete them accurately.

Moreover, their middle and senior commanders are even younger and frightening.It was as if he had been promoted just after graduating from military academy.

After 7 days of observation, we found that these young officers did not have the ability to command large forces.

In them, many command orders cannot be effectively completed.

And as far as the successful attack we observed, the tactics displayed by the Soviet army were also very rigid.

We saw with our own eyes that a large number of middle and senior Soviet commanders ordered to launch one after another "human sea charge" to attack the Japanese positions.

Although they won in the end, their losses were terrifyingly huge!

If this kind of behavior is in the National Defense Forces, I believe that the general who ordered it will definitely go to a military court.

In the end, however, the Soviet commander who commanded the battle was honored.

However, considering that General Zhukov, the supreme commander of the Soviet army, had shot and killed two division commanders who retreated without authorization within two days of our observation team's arrival, it is understandable to commend this commander who is not afraid of casualties.