At this moment, the battle map of the Soviet front-line command shows that the German defensive positions are becoming more and more regular and scary. The whole preset defensive positions appear regular and jagged, similar to the shape of the battlements of the city walls. Khrushchev realized that his breakthrough in the German positions in the early stage may be that his opponent deliberately gave it to him.
"How can their defensive positions be like this?" Khrushchev looked at the map and muttered to himself.
"Political commissar … if we enter the other side’s position and these troops encircle each other from the two wings," a general said.
"This ….." Khrushchev clenched his fist and seemed to be struggling. He didn’t want to give up the position he had already attacked, and he didn’t want to admit that his attack would be futile.
But after all, he was afraid. He was afraid that he had made a wrong decision to let the main force of the Red Army suffer fatal losses. You know, the troops in his hand had been painstakingly accumulated by the Soviet Union for many years. If he lost the front line, he would probably be eaten alive by Stalin.
So Khrushchev sent a newspaper to Stalin overnight, hoping that Stalin could give him advice as a semi-suspended military commander and shirk some of his responsibilities so as not to be too passive when problems arise in the future.
Of course, Khrushchev also ordered the troops to retreat to the two wings of the existing occupied area in the early hours of the morning to build fortifications to ensure that their troops would not be annihilated by the German encirclement, and Khrushchev decided to keep the offensive situation in the middle of the night to see if some progress could be made to prove that the shape of this strange defensive position was a coincidence.
So in the dark night, Soviet soldiers and front-line commanders are waiting for the early morning. As soon as the morning arrives, they can make a limited retreat to make their dangerous flanks more secure. German troops are also waiting for Li in accordance with the pre-drawn counterattack plan. Li Shuguang is their horn to counterattack the aggressors.
On the long night of April 6, everyone was waiting for the first light of the morning and the moment to decide their fate.
Chapter 461 461 artillery battle
In early April, the weather in Poland was still very cool, but most of the German artillery positions were covered with * * *, and it seemed that the whole scene was in full swing.
A big man with chest hair pushed the shells into the back of the gun bore, and the soldiers pushed in the stacked charges, and then the soldiers helped close the bolt. After a short aiming and adjustment, five 15-mm cannons roared at the same time as the semaphore officer waved the red flag in his hand not far away.
German artillery is slightly stronger than Japanese artillery, but the base is still at the first level. The number of German conventional artillery 15 and 15 mm caliber guns is dominant, but the number of 75 mm caliber guns is even 37 mm caliber guns. This result is also directly related to the German weapons and equipment.
The anti-tank guns equipped with a large number of Germans are 75 mm caliber, but although these guns are huge, they are compared with the main field artillery’s 75 mm mountain guns. At the same time, the German 4 mm anti-aircraft guns are purely defensive weapons, and the number of Japanese 37 mm guns is not as good as that of Japanese 37 mm guns. There are both anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns.
On the other hand, the German infantry support weapon is mainly 6 mm caliber mortar, and the short-range direct support weapon is rocket launcher, while the Japanese army uses rocket launcher as the primary support weapon to cooperate with a large number of mortar troops-it is a legal judgment who is better in artillery support firepower.
Of course, if we count the support for the infantry No.3 assault gun and the rocket launcher, the strength of the German artillery is enough to overwhelm the Japanese army. Of course, this is not something to boast about, because the strength of the Japanese artillery is only a little better than that of their tanks.
On the whole, during the French campaign, the overall strength of German artillery was better than that of Japan, but now the German artillery has been "not what it used to be". They have captured thousands of French cannons and a million spare shells in France, and these munitions have naturally become German weapons and continue to find their place to play their residual heat.
If you add Belgian artillery and war reparations in the French occupied areas to produce artillery, the number will be very considerable. Although this captured weapon has caused some collapse of the German logistics forces, the logistics classification has doubled, but the benefit is obvious: in just two months, the German artillery has increased by one third.
Sometimes the accumulation of quantity will eventually lead to a leap in quality. This is a simple truth that everyone knows. Now the German artillery units have changed their quality by relying on the accumulation of quantity. They even made a four-six account with the huge artillery units of the Soviet Union. The scene is not inferior.
"Boom!" Once again, the volley of artillery shells flew far away at a speed invisible to the naked eye. These long-range artillery units could not see their own achievements. They could mechanically repeat themselves and hit one shell after another to the front line, giving them coordinates and parameters nearby.
"Coordinates 7544! Adjust the parameters! " A second lieutenant next to the guard line held his ear in one hand and hung an earphone while recording the position of the enemy position at the front observation post with a pencil.
"Artillery parameter adjustment! Coordinates 7544! Cannonball loading! " Next to a commandant officer big orders
With the officer’s password, a group of half-length German soldiers got busy again, and loaded their shells and charges into their cannons one after another.
Then the flag flew, and another round of shells were fired over fields and farmhouses, over trees and rivers, over barracks and stopped by roadside tanks, over the front trenches, over the heads of soldiers, over the bodies of the numerous craters in front of the trenches, and then landed accurately on a piece of land full of Soviet attacking soldiers.
A wooden board on the front line set up the ceiling and made a careful disguise. A soldier in the artillery observation post was observing the opposite Soviet position with a scissors periscope, and then he excitedly said the shelling result "Hit the target! What a good shot! The direction of the extended shooting is about 15 meters. "
“44！ I’m 1. I’m 1. Direction invariant distance correction 76! Repeat direction invariant distance correction 76! " Another soldier took the line and reported.
The second lieutenant at the other end of the line once again shouted out the calculated coordinates "coordinates 7644! Adjust parameters! Shoot immediately! "
"Shoot at once! Coordinates 7644! " Keep aside the officer once again big ordered
The semaphore continued to wave. This time, the cannon did not wait for the volley, but there was a slight difference between the front and the back. The deafening and neat sound turned into a series of rumblings.
A German veteran in the front line just squatted and dug the trench with his own hands. Several young soldiers around him were so scared that they were holding their rifles and trembling, and their mouths were still mumbling and praying for the emperor’s blessing.
The veteran is holding his own assault rifle with a cigarette in his mouth and wiping his face gently. There are two battlefield medals hanging on his chest, one from Poland is the Polish War Memorial Medal. Anyone who has participated in the Polish campaign has a very rough commemorative medal. The other is the Battle of France Commemorative Medal, which doesn’t look so good, but it is still cleaned by veterans.
It’s not the same as the sound of a shell falling suddenly. The veteran suddenly frowned and shouted, "Get down and hide!" " As soon as the sound went out, he jumped on the other side of the bomb-proof trench
Although the Germans have not prepared for permanent fortifications, their positions are still carefully constructed. Compared with two years ago, their skills in trench digging and trench warfare have not dropped at all. There are several retired masters in the Defence Force who are best at digging pits. They have studied and made them look down on the current blitzkrieg of the Defence Force with their own eyes.
Almost every meeting, these people will attack the Fuehrer’s blitzkrieg tactics, assuming several times that if they set up a defense line for themselves, they will make the blitzkrieg defeat in a big mess, but when the Fuehrer’s eastern front throws out the theory of defense in great depth, these people are firm and firm, and arcado, the Fuehrer, has won the altar of tactical master.
The current German hiding position can be said to be "the strongest defense in the non-permanent fortifications". This sentence is that an infantry general reported to his master that the Central Plains dialect can be praised by the most powerful antique in trench warfare, so these defense lines are not as simple as some shallow pits.
All defensive positions are required to be shaped instead of a simple straight line. There are also shallow pits and traffic trenches on both sides of these trenches to transfer troops, and behind these trenches are shaped anti-explosion and unloading pits. If the shells don’t hit the multi-point joint of these trenches, the power of these shells will be reduced by 70%. If they are a few meters away, even large-caliber heavy artillery shells will not cause fatal damage to these simple trenches.
After the key part has been reinforced by wood and cement, several defensive points of this defense line have the ability to resist artillery coverage. If it is considered as a large defense theory, the front end of the whole main defense line is preset with 2 kilometers of elastic defense area, which is enough to deal with Soviet attacks.
Arcado, of course, is not a god, but he lacks a giant’s shoulder. In his previous life, Soviet military expert Kursk dug a big hole for German armored forces and was blown by the winner for half a century. Now he brings it to the anti-Soviet Red Army and suddenly feels a sense of pleasure in giving something back to others.
The German veteran threw himself into a zigzag explosion-proof tunnel, and at about the same time, a shell also fell into the tunnel. In another corner, an explosion set off several pieces of soil, which buried the soldiers in the corner who had evaded him for a long time. The aftermath of the explosion finally passed. The German veteran emerged from the soft soil and shook off a helmet with gravel and black mud.
His ears were buzzing with loud noise. Although he covered his ears sometimes, it would take at least a few minutes to recover. This was his experience after being shelled by the French. He shook his head, then picked up his gun from the eluvial soil, and then turned back to his trench and saw several comrades who had just returned.
These soldiers have long been told to listen to the advice of veterans as much as possible. Although they are afraid, they have been training for three months on the eastern front with their own trench digging. They have listened to veterans to wake up and avoid the shells that may hit them. They have just gone deep into the bone marrow, and they have not hesitated to avoid the huge shock wave and shrapnel of Soviet shells.
If the Soviet artillery sees this result, it is estimated that it may go crazy, because a German shell can attack the Soviet army’s position base and take away a dozen or even dozens of lives. However, although the shells they hit are more powerful, they can occasionally add a few wounded soldiers to the German army.
Chapter 462 462 The opponent is coming
Arcado looked at the map of Britain in front of him with his hand behind his back. He didn’t rush to the front of the Soviet-German war because he knew there was a more detailed war plan there to hold on to his western front and stabilize the situation.
Although the Soviet Red Army was not ready for the war, Stalin’s conceit made him decide that the Germans were not ready to fight rashly. Stalin felt that the Germans were unable to attack Britain and defend their eastern front at the same time, so the Soviet Union could easily plant the victory red flag on the roof of the Berlin Fuehrer’s residence.
At this time, however, arcado was not in a hurry to fight back against the Soviet Union. He planned to seize the British islands and build an absolute Atlantic barrier to completely stifle the American attempt to attack Europe
The emperor gave the United States a unique defense environment, and at the same time, he dug a deep pit for the United States. arcado did not believe that the United States dared to counterattack Germany, the British Isles and Germany across the Atlantic Ocean to fight a landing war. Even if the United States wanted to stab the knife in the future, it would never burn the war directly to the European continent-then Germany could really defend itself from the enemy.
When the time comes, the main battlefield will be North Africa and the Eastern Front. arcado is confident that Rommel’s North Africa will play a different ending to resist the pressure of the Soviets. arcado’s middle forces swept the British remnants in North Africa … When the German armored forces entered Romania, the Zionist Jews, powerful Germans, Italians and Turks were enough to turn the Middle East into a pot of paste. The Suez Canal’s North African resources will be in arcado’s hands. At that time, what is the United States?
Powerful industry? Germany also has it! World resources? Europe, Asia and Africa are just fighting North and South America! All Akkado knows better than anyone that the seemingly messy world pattern has really grown. If you want to take North Africa to defend the eastern front and defeat the Soviet Red Army, Germany will be the world’s most ashamed hegemon.
What? The reason is very simple. At that time, Germany is a mainland country with limited expansion and cooperation partners. On the other hand, the enviable geographical advantage of the United States has become a fatal limitation. After the stereotype, the alliance expansion will certainly not span Asia, Europe and Africa.
So arcado seems to want to win two wars, and his road to hegemony is Ma Pingchuan, but he also knows that the two huge problems of winning the North African War and defeating the Soviet Red Army are not as easy as they seem, because the outcome of these two battlefields is unknown, so it is easy for Americans to step in and turn these two battlefields into a dead end that Germans do not want to see.
Of course, considering North Africa and the Eastern Front, it seems a little far away, because the British land war is not over yet. The battle in London has been very fierce. It has been going on for a month. The news that the Soviet Union declared war on Germany and Italy inspired Churchill, who was at the end of the road, and made him more determined to defend London.
"How did it feel to go to Africa?" Arcado suddenly asked a question: There has been no confidant love Rommel behind him.
"My head of state, Italy and North Africa, has many troops, but their combat effectiveness is not so good. These troops have wasted most of their materials and limited the scale of our troops in Africa."
Arcado nodded his head. Rommel said that he knew all these things. Italy and North Africa invested a lot of power, and in all fairness, the fighting capacity was still fairly good. But these troops helped the German team a lot in those years. Without them, the German African Corps could not gain a foothold in North Africa.
However, he still said, "Irwin, I know you don’t think these Italian troops are capable of fighting, but they have few advantages in number. We in North Africa must also have Italian troops because the eastern front has already fought, and we really can’t spare much troops to support you."
"So I really don’t have much confidence that the troops in my hand may not be able to hit Tobruk." Rommel was obviously not satisfied with the number of troops in his hand. After all, he was now responsible for attacking in one direction, and the number disadvantage made him feel a little uneasy.
He pointed to the map and continued, "Part of the existing 7 th Armored Division, 2 infantry divisions have been transported to North Africa. I think we should wait for the 7 th Armored Division to arrive at me to have some chances of winning."
"oh? Wait for the follow-up troops? Direct counterattack? " Arcado picked his eyebrows and asked with a smile.
"If the 7th Armored Division arrives, I will have the confidence to defeat the British troops here and here to fight back," Rommel confidently replied.
In order to confuse the British troops, he ordered his truck to pass through the viewing platform repeatedly for inspection by Italian officers in North Africa, and then he disguised bushes with wooden sticks, tents and other materials, which forced the British reconnaissance plane to expand the size of the German armored forces by two times. Now the British army is facing losing ground, and the Italian troops have no face pressure. The main reason is that the strength of the German African Corps is overestimated.
Rommel’s altruistic delaying tactics made the British give up the attack voluntarily. An armored force prevented the British from occupying the plan of * * * * * without firing a shot. Of course, the large-scale appearance of German troops in North Africa was also an important reason for the British to stop attacking. After all, losing the local battlefield system was not good news for a general.
When arcado and Rommel were talking, the front line in North Africa had just arrived, and Montgomery also tried to persuade his company, "General, the Germans are definitely not as strong as we look, so we should fight the Italians at one breath!"
"oh? You said that military reconnaissance information is false? See? " The old general obviously didn’t want to take risks, so he asked faintly.
"Although the Italian e19 fighter is not as powerful as the German fw19d fighter, it is more than enough to defend the war in North Africa. Our fighter still does not occupy any cheap reconnaissance plane!" Montgomery said, pointing to the table intelligence.
The old general waved his hand and still didn’t want to believe his deputy. After all, this man who fought with the Germans didn’t win, but was sent to North Africa to replace his old partner.
He seriously suspects that this general Montgomery has been frightened by the Germans and has even lost the spirit that a British general should have. He is now enthusiastic about Montgomery’s attack on Italian troops before the arrival of the Germans. "General Montgomery’s Italian defense has been strengthened by the Germans. This is military intelligence. You can’t overturn this evidence just because of your subjective doubts."
"There are Italian logistics supply analysis and their transportation capacity report in that pile of information, which can prove that German troops will not appear in North Africa on a large scale so soon!" Montgomery is going to be pissed off by this stubborn old man in his face. He just won’t take action, which makes him helpless.
Obviously, the credit for defeating the Italian North African army has been enough for the old general to enjoy for a while. He is not in a hurry to create greater achievements to keep his title as commander-in-chief of the British army in North Africa, but Montgomery can guess that Germany is rushing troops to North Africa.
Britain is hoarding about 250,000 troops in North Africa, but there are not so many troops that it can push to the front line. After all, it has to defend Ethiopia and other areas. The British front-line troops are actually 160,000 less than Italy, and most of them are locals.
It can be said that this unit is still very abundant in fighting 350,000 Italian troops. After all, the actual combat effectiveness of the 350,000 Italian troops in North Africa is at most 130,000, leaving only Ukrainian Union Rommel’s eyes full of wave food garbage. Of course, there is garbage to help the main force hold the rear. These troops can still be completed.
As more and more Dodd troops appear in North Africa these days, German dive bombers attack British supply bases in droves. Montgomery is getting more and more anxious about the war situation in North Africa. The main reason is that Montgomery knows very well that if more than 10 thousand German soldiers and an armored force arrive here, British soldiers at the front line will be in danger of annihilation.
So he is doing his best to strengthen the defense of Tobruk fortress recently, but in the future, this fortress will stop the German attack and save the British expeditionary force in North Africa, while others have rushed to the front line in the hope that they can say that they are the first to attack and disrupt the enemy’s strategic deployment before the Germans are ready.
But obviously he failed.
"Intelligence shows that the Germans have appeared in North Africa, and we have failed to stop the German naval forces," the old general pointed to the map and said, "A few hours ago, we intercepted a newspaper that the Germans informed the high command of the Italian North African forces that we had cracked the Italian code."
"oh? What do you say? " Montgomery hurriedly asked
"Face is to inform the Italian officer life Irving? Rommel was ordered to be the supreme commander of the Italian North African Army and the German African Corps. "The old general replied," Our opponent is coming. "
Chapter 463 General 463
"The Italian transport ship has just set sail from the southern port and is expected to arrive at * * * * * * at this time of the day." Rommel, a staff officer, typed a document behind him to report on the logistics supply process of the German African Corps.