Chapter 451

"We must maintain a state of defense on the eastern front. I am very clear about the state of war preparations in the Soviet Union, but the order of the head of state is that we must adhere to the operational policy of strategic defense." General Liszt took the phone and ordered to a division commander over there.

After he hung up the phone, he looked at general Kluger, who was sitting on one side. He gave a wry smile and then picked up his tea cup: "Kluger, I really don't know why I missed such a golden opportunity. Our soldiers are ready. 2.3 million troops are hoarding in the east line, but we have to wait for the Soviets to do it first. "

"The Fuehrer ordered to wait, and my troops were supposed to wait." Kruger replied with a smile: "even if Moscow is in front of me, as long as I receive the order from the head of state, then my troops will stop and wait."

Compared with general Liszt, Kluger's command ability is not outstanding. To put it bluntly, the only reason Kluger, like Randall, was placed in the east line was his reassuring loyalty. So akkado is willing to hand over the army to Kluger because Kluger never does anything to add to the situation.

Some generals are easy to change their operational orders without authorization. They are intelligent and have a strong ability to capture fighter planes. The reason for their disobedience is that they can win. These generals are relatively strong "geniuses", so akado gives these people room to play freely, such as Donitz, goodrian and Rommel; Some of them are old-fashioned and steady, and they are traditional generals. They are easy to use, but the results are just right. For example, lundstedt, Liszt and Keitel; But some people have the ability, but it is not easy to use, because of a variety of reasons can only make do with, such as brauchich, bok; Of course, there is another kind of people who are not comfortable with it and have problems with loyalty. They have been almost wiped out by the head of state

The last kind of German generals are the generals like Reidel and Kluger. They are loyal to akkado, but their ability to command combat needs to be improved. Akado likes to use such generals, because they faithfully carry out akado's orders. Under akado's accurate "prediction", they can often achieve surprising results.

So akkado, the highest commander on the eastern front, chose Kluger as the mean, rather than Lister or modle. Kluger also tried his best to restrain general Liszt and other generals, and wholeheartedly strengthened the defense system of the east line, waiting for the Soviets to launch a "sudden" attack one morning.

At this moment, several group armies on the eastern front are trying their best to complete the defense lines within their jurisdiction. Germany has made sufficient preparations for the Soviet Union's attack this time. In order to cope with the possible large-scale attack of the Soviet forces, akado advanced the theory of defense in depth and prepared 15 defense lines for the Soviet Union in Poland.

Millions of troops are idle as well. Apart from training and vacation, the rest of the time is to dig trenches with Polish concentration camp workers. Although these 15 defense lines are not huge permanent fortifications, they are more than enough to deal with the Soviet Red Army, which has little advantage in firepower and mobility.

These fortifications were deployed in the shape of cogged edges, or rather like the crenels of the Great Wall. Once the Soviets began to attack, they would find that some areas were easy to break through, while others were unable to move forward.

Behind these prominent defensive positions, elite German infantry and armored forces are deployed. Once the Soviet Union enters into the concave part of these concave toothed positions, it is equivalent to crashing into the pockets carefully arranged by the German garrison. With the cooperation of the armored forces and the air force, the German garrison will close these pockets and encircle the Soviet "aggressors" inside.

The German Supreme Command has made numerous calculations and evaluations of this defense position in depth. Brauchich and other generals have conservatively estimated that the Soviet Union may need 1.5 million people to fill the first 10 defense positions, while some more optimistic generals think that it is no problem that this defense line will eat up 2 million people of the Soviet Union. As for the price Germany will pay, everyone's prediction is relatively consistent, with only about 200000-300000 people lost.

However, once the Soviet German war starts in full swing, there will still be about 700000 reserves behind the 2.3 million regular troops on the German border. The comparison of forces between the two sides is not a simple comparison of 3 million to 5 million, but a total of 5 million troops from Germany, Romania, Italy and France against 5 million troops from the Soviet Union - Germany has the absolute advantage in armored force and air force.

If you take into account the investment of at least 700000 regular troops from Turkey, a potential ally, and the forces that Finland, Ireland and other countries may provide, the axis group even has an advantage in terms of forces. As for how much advantage it has, it depends on how well the German assault forces play on the frontal battlefield.

In fact, these days the Soviets are not idle, they are actively preparing to "burn the red flame all over Europe". Millions of Stalin's followers took up arms and became the Red Army of the Soviet Union, ready to fight against Germany, the source of evil. For this war, the Soviet Union prepared a total of 5 million regular troops. These troops were not the soft persimmons when the Soviet Union attacked Poland in those years, but the real Soviet Red Army after strengthening. They were not even inferior to the invincible Germany in armored forces, and even had advantages in some departments.

Summing up the experience and lessons of other countries in the past two years, Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, paid more attention to the construction and development of armored forces than the United States. Soviet engineers improved the T-26 tank and strengthened the front armor. Of course, in addition to the T-26 tanks that had already suffered losses in front of the Germans, the real killer of the Soviets was 2500 KV-1 heavy tanks. The Soviet army, which has 5000 tanks on the border between the Soviet Union and Germany, has reason to believe that their troops deliberately break through the German defense line. Stalin and Khrushchev are full of confidence in the Soviet Union's surprise attack on Germany. They feel that they have the chance to win. Stalin even appointed the mayors and secretaries of Warsaw and Berlin. Moreover, some Soviet generals who are familiar with the German army are also very optimistic about this battle. For example, Zhukov, who has become the Deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet army in the Far East, is full of confidence in attacking Germany. After studying the combat methods of the German army, he put forward the view that the number of German artillery is insufficient. Zhukov accurately found the short board of insufficient German artillery, and put forward his own view of the war: the German army kept advancing in the process of attack, that is, they kept moving fast, so they preferred flexible small caliber artillery, so they were not good at defensive operations, and they lacked artillery support in defense, It's going to collapse faster than any other opponent. This is not just his view, but the view of many Soviet generals. Therefore, the high-level argument of the Soviet Union is: "instead of waiting for the Germans to attack, we should concentrate on fighting first. In this way, the German can only be forced to defend, we have an advantage At this point, I have to give a brief introduction to the differences in details between the Soviet Union's troops and those of other countries. The Soviet Union is used to sealing up obsolete weapons, storing some unused weapons and equipment, and having special personnel to maintain them. Although these weapons belong to obsolete equipment to a certain extent, they are still usable. In peacetime, every major division of the Soviet army had a division commander and two deputy divisions. In the same way, every regiment has two deputy commanders, every battalion has two deputy commanders, and every company has two deputy company commanders, and every platoon has two platoon leaders... Once the Soviet Union enters a state of war, the main division is ordered to go to the front line, leaving behind one deputy division commander, two or three deputy commanders, four or six deputy battalion commanders, and a dozen deputy company commanders, Hundreds of deputy platoon leaders - now you know, this is almost the skeleton of a division. Of course, in terms of combat effectiveness, the "shadow division" left behind is certainly not as good as the main division left behind. However, with the addition of troops, this is indeed a division, a new unit capable of fighting. The new unit is made up of reservists and retired personnel, and is equipped with obsolete old equipment. These old equipment are just the weapons that the reservists and retired soldiers are familiar with, so the army five years ago or even ten years ago can immediately form combat effectiveness, and can quickly put into front-line combat. This is why in another time and space, after Germany wiped out 3 million troops of the Soviet Union in one breath in World War II, the Soviet front still maintained more than 3 million troops. That's why the Soviet forces seem to have endless "secrets.". As in another time and space, the German spies did not break this simple secret. They truthfully reported to the German Supreme Command the intelligence they tried to find out: intelligence showed that there were about 370 Soviet divisions, with a total force of about 5 million to 6 million. As far as the Soviet Union is concerned, akado knows that the real combat force of the Soviet Union is about 10 million - provided that they have so many weapons and equipment to arm these soldiers. Compared with Hitler, akkado and the current German generals have an invisible advantage. This advantage is that Britain and the United States will not supply as much as they did in 1942. Britain is now too busy to provide so much material for the Soviet Red Army. So it's hard to say whether the Soviets can get American aid and how much they can get - but akado knows that there will be no more.