Chapter 627

In the Soviet Union, Zhukov just got up and was brushing his teeth and washing his face. This commander, who had been meritorious in the Soviet Far East front, has now become the commander-in-chief of the entire Soviet west front. Every order of his will be faithfully carried out, because after the Great Purge, the Soviet officers and soldiers have no courage to question any decision of their superiors.

Therefore, Zhukov is now in power, and his troops are stronger than those of the Soviet Union, which were destroyed a few months ago. Although the Soviet front-line forces lost more than half of their losses in a few months, the Soviet Union's powerful replenishment speed made them quickly increase their forces to the pre war level.

In addition, 300 T-34 tanks, as well as a large number of KV-1 and kv-2 tanks were allocated to these units. Although the latter two kinds of tanks have been shut down, because Stalin himself ordered to intervene in the production of Soviet tanks, although these two kinds of tanks were eliminated, they still have a huge reserve base. As a result, the front-line Soviet troops had to continue to use these two obsolete tanks, and more than 2000 of them were used. In addition to the huge number of T-26 tanks, the Soviet Union still had more tanks than the German armored forces, and the quality had been improved.

"What about Stalin's tank equipment? I'll let you focus on this and say what you think. " As he wiped his face, Zhukov asked his assistant, a middle-aged colonel and officer.

Of course, the captain will not turn a deaf ear to the chief's words. He has been watching the production of Stalin's tanks recently. After all, they are super tanks named after great leaders. So he stepped forward and quickly replied, "Comrade commander, 15 tanks named after Comrade leader have been produced. Most of them are assembled by hand in the workshop. After all, our technology for producing heavy weapons and equipment is not very mature."

As a matter of fact, the Soviet Union's equipment for producing Stalin tanks was in place. However, due to the delay in starting the steel-making plant near the Ural Mountains, the Soviet Union's steel production decreased significantly in 1938, which also restricted the production speed of Soviet tanks.

It's a pity that Khrushchev's cronies were in charge of the steel. After Khrushchev's retreat to the crimson Peninsula, these cronies were all dealt with by Stalin for various reasons. Now the steel production management is a mess. No one can take over it for a while, and no one can recover until now.

Zhukov nodded his head with satisfaction when he heard his assistant say so. Now he is more concerned about the mature technology and imitates the T-34 tank produced by German Leopard tank. After all, this kind of tank has been used in actual combat. Although the battle record is very general, it is very suitable to replace the numerous T-26 tanks. After all, there are tens of thousands of T-26 tanks, which cannot be replaced by expensive Stalin tanks.

Zhukov was not in a good mood recently. His plan to fight back against the German army in the autumn was rejected by Stalin. Now Stalin is more optimistic about Stalin tanks with low production and complicated production technology, hoping that the Soviet Red Army can fight back later after using Stalin tanks.

This is the origin of the Soviet Union's winter counterattack plan, and also the fundamental reason why the German army dared to dispatch some troops to visit the Balkans. However, it would have to wait until hundreds of Stalin tanks came into service, at least in winter. But if winter came as scheduled, the difficulties faced by the Soviet Red Army would not be less than those faced by the German army.

At least in the news from some Soviet spies lurking in Germany, Zhukov found evidence that the German army was preparing for the winter. For example, he found a piece of intelligence, intelligence shows that the German army is about 3000 prisoners of war involved in logging, ready to spend the winter charcoal. Although the charcoal produced by 3000 logging slaves is not enough for an army, who knows how many concentration camps there are in Poland? How much charcoal these camps can provide is also a mystery that cannot be calculated.

However, if we take into account the stockpile of ammunition and winter clothes, Zhukov has no less than 20 pieces of information about the German army's preparations for the winter. Judging from his veteran who has been fighting for many years, since his opponent is already preparing for the winter's reserves, it is absolutely unwise to expect the winter offensive to work.

So just a few days ago, Zhukov once again risked being disliked by Stalin and uploaded a telegram. He hoped that when autumn came, he could use the rainy season to attack the German defense line and take the lead in opening up the situation. At least he would occupy the periphery of Kiev and use it to bombard Kiev to prevent the German army from using the factories in Kiev to refit and repair tanks.

But before the wavering Stalin spoke, the Soviet Air Force came out and rejected Zhukov's proposal. Because the United States wanted to defeat the Japanese invasion in the Pacific Ocean, all the 150 P-40 fighters that should have been provided to the Soviet Union were detained in Las Vegas and put into combat as air defense forces there.

The Soviet air force, which had no new equipment and could not be supplemented, refused to provide any air support for Zhukov. Zhukov could only give up his plan to attack the German army in autumn and prepare for a "war expected by both sides" in winter.

Recently, an ace flying official of the German army flew the latest German long nose fw-190 fighter. It was said that the aircraft was not the FW-200 speculated by Soviet intelligence personnel, but a new code named ta-152 fighter. Its performance was so good that people couldn't believe it. It's not too much to say that it was the strongest fighter. The guy called black tulip death shot down 104 Soviet fighter planes. For a moment, the Soviet pilots turned pale. What's more, when they heard that they wanted to go to that sky, they would rather go to Siberia to mine than take off to carry out combat missions. The head of this damned German pilot's plane is painted with black tulip. No one knows what kind of sacred person he is. However, few Soviet pilots who see this plane come back alive. Even if occasionally lucky guys escape, they are almost full of nonsense. Thinking of this, Zhukov waved to his deputy, indicating that he could go out. Then he went to his desk and carefully looked at the papers that had been sent in the morning. The documents here are all inclusive, and there are even German newspapers published two days ago, which contain all kinds of German news. Zhukov doesn't know German, but there is a translated text beside his German newspaper. He only needs to read it by comparison. The reason why he still brings the original text is to compare the pictures above. Just as Zhukov opened the newspaper, akado also opened a newspaper, but his newspaper was the same day, not the expired version of the previous two days that Zhukov got. While drinking coffee, he carefully looked at the above contents. Comparing the time, in fact, akado got up earlier than Zhukov. Because of the time difference, akado in Warsaw got up earlier than Zhukov in Minsk. Not far from akkado, there is a document from the intelligence department. The purpose of this document is to prove the attack time of the Soviet military. It is a top secret high-level intelligence. There are no more than five people in Germany who know the contents of the document. Marshal brauchich may be the only one in the military who knows the exact contents of the document. German intelligence work started early with advanced and pervasive means, which is closely related to akkado's early deployment in the national defense forces. The German army attaches importance to intelligence, and naturally attaches importance to the confidentiality of intelligence. Therefore, some high-level spies, such as beggars' poison hives, are directly responsible to Gaskell and akkado, Ordinary people have no access to them, which is also one of the means to protect them. Akado has always been kind to intelligence workers, which is also an important reason for the amazing achievements of German intelligence work. This information comes from the beehive. If Zhukov sees the above information, he will be surprised. The above information shows that the Soviet Union is producing the 19th and 20th Stalin tanks, and the latest 18th tank has left the workshop and is ready to be submitted to the army. Compared with Zhukov's own information, this German intelligence is even more detailed than the Soviet Union itself. With the support of this document, the German Supreme Command came to the correct conclusion that the Soviet Union was not prepared to launch an offensive in the autumn, and the fastest attack might have to wait until November 15, or even around Christmas. Moreover, the attack plan came from Stalin's supreme order, and even Zhukov had no right to change it“ Send encrypted messages to Krupp and Augustus. Use... The highest level of Fuehrer's code. " Acardo thought for a moment and said, "let them give priority to sending ammunition produced by several enterprises in Italy and France to North Africa and support Rommel to end the Egyptian campaign."“ Yes Anna took over the cable document signed by akado, looked at it carefully, found no problem, then turned and went out with a smile. When she got to the door, akado suddenly stopped her: "wait a minute, send a private letter to Mercedes through the civil mail channel and ask her how little Caesar is. Please help me to think about the specific content and read it to me after writing it!"“ My Fuehrer, I'm afraid that when you think about it, Little Caesar will call her mother. " Anna laughed: "the day before yesterday, I wrote a letter to sister Mercedes in your name. Her reply may arrive in Warsaw tomorrow. You just wait to see how sister Mercedes reproaches you! Kiss, love, love Akado was stunned, and then he grinned bitterly