Chapter 678

In fact, the weather on the Ukrainian plain has become a bit chilly, especially for the troops stationed in the field. It is very difficult at night. After all, the weather in Ukraine is very different from that in warm Europe.

Both sides are preparing military supplies necessary for winter combat, including cotton padded clothes, tents, soldiers' guns, antifreeze protective covers and antifreeze fluid. They are doing their best to make the final reserves.

Akado has prepared antifreeze suits made of white snow camouflage cloth for the entire army of 5.3 million on the east line. These short windbreaker hooded antifreeze suits even have two small pockets on both sides that are convenient for loading things on most of the pre processed styles. The workmanship can be said to be very excellent.

The careful German rear even provided four white gun camouflage covers, including the German mp-44 assault rifle, G43 semi-automatic rifle, Mauser 98K bolt rifle and mg42 universal machine gun. In this way, the German team's camouflage in the snow will be a higher level than many times in history.

This time, Germany was well prepared. In order to reserve cotton padded clothes for winter in advance, akado began to build German breeding bases as early as 1925. These bases not only helped Germany hide a large number of management talents and troops under the restriction of the Treaty of Versailles, but also provided Germany with a large number of duck meat in the production process.

Because of a large number of down products, even for a period of time, German duck products were exported to 13 surrounding countries and regions, which once made the French enjoy the consumption experience of cheap duck and goose. Germany, by virtue of this large-scale breeding, secretly reserves inferior down jackets adulterated with chicken feathers. Then with these inferior down jacket in 1937 to 1938 time, realized the rear worker's warm supply.

In addition, Germany occupied France and the Netherlands, acquired a large number of pastures, strengthened the production capacity of domestic animal husbandry and textile industry, making Germany very rich in the production capacity of civil thermal materials.

During this period, the high-quality down jacket and cotton padded jacket, as well as a large number of sweater products, were transported to the front line by the German to supply the military, so that the German soldiers could get enough winter clothes in advance when the weather turned cold. Compared with another time and space, the German army is now well prepared for the winter, and even has some spare materials in reserve.

On the other hand, the German armored forces are more professional and systematic in winter preparation. For two months, using the front factory areas such as Kiev and Warsaw, the German tanks not only thicken the front armor, but also add a device that can heat the engine, at least when the temperature is 35 degrees, This device can effectively increase the heat of the engine to reach the normal starting temperature for fully cooled tanks and armored vehicles.

In addition, with the gradual increase in the production capacity of Romanian oil fields, the German army's oil supply in the eastern line was very timely and sufficient. In addition, the German army had more oil reserves than in another time and space, so the quality and quantity of oil reserves of the German army had been significantly improved, compared with the quantity of oil reserves of the German army in another time and space that akador was familiar with, The German army still has 1.3 million barrels more fuel than it did in the same period. This is already a very good result, because compared with Germany in the same period, the German army now has more equipment to drink oil.

With this capital, Germany's faben company has provided enough antifreeze to enable Germany's proud armored vehicles to maintain a very good condition in the coming winter. In this way, Germany has made all necessary preparations to prevent the vehicles from being damaged by freezing and completely unable to use.

Not only did the fuel burn well, but German armored vehicles also made their own preparations. For example, the track width of German tanks was more than twice as wide as that of No. 3 and No. 4 tanks in those years. The new track made leopard tanks and Tiger tanks get better passing rate in the mud, and adapt to the snow and complicated road conditions, It also gave the German armored forces more confidence to move forward in the winter.

At the same time, the German army's 1 million tons of charcoal and firewood will be ready. These materials will move forward with the army to ensure that the army can make a fire in the field for heating or heating vehicles. The timber is taken from forests in Poland and Germany. In order to prepare these materials, the woodland in Poland has been reduced at a visible speed. Originally, the German army did not need the raw material of wood, but the German army still prepared a large amount of wood, and even some of them were dried. It can be said that there was no waste of any help.

The reserves of these materials support 13100 tanks, 7100 armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, 390000 cars and motorcycles of various models, and 11300 large caliber supporting towed guns of the German armored forces. 5.3 million soldiers are in full readiness. If we add in 300000 Romanian troops, 200000 Finnish troops, 700000 Italian troops and 500000 Turkish follow-up troops, the total German troops on the ground in the eastern front is more than 7 million, which can be said to be strong.

Compared with the army, the preparation of the German air force can be described as complete. In four months, with the help of engineers and prisoners of war, the German Air Force built anti freezing shelters for 20000 aircraft on the east line, This allows all German aircraft from Poland to Ukraine to be placed in the house when the temperature drops and the snow is all over the sky - this project is incredible to akkado. The German high-level officials are even trying to think of a stupid way and a good strategy, and they have never let go of any idea.

In addition, the German also prepared protective tents for airplanes and cut wooden skeletons, which were used to quickly build a front-line Field Airport when the German army pushed into Minsk and Smolensk. Farther away, the German army did not make much preparation, but only had a follow-up support plan. After all, according to the passage of operation time, it is expected that when the attack is near Moscow, it will be spring and summer. Because of the intelligence, Germany still adopted a defensive posture. Nearly 6 million troops were waiting for the advance attack of the Soviet Red Army. Although they did not prepare for the crenel defense system like that in Poland, they prepared a large defense system in depth in the front area, especially with Kiev's two wings as the core. Similarly, under the leadership of Zhukov, the Red Army of the Soviet Union is preparing for the winter offensive. Compared with the German army, which has rich experience in fighting in Europe, the Red Army of the Soviet Union has very rich experience in fighting in cold Russia. Not to mention anything else, just by looking at the number of cotton padded clothes the Soviet Union has on hand, we can see that they are quite familiar with winter combat. When winter comes, snow is often accompanied by mud and cold. At this time, a large number of Soviet Red Army troops relying on livestock mobility ushered in the best time to fight. Cossack cavalry on their horses will make a large-scale circuitous assault in cold weather, which will become a nightmare for the shivering enemy infantry. The Soviet people's stronger resistance to cold makes them more adaptable to attack in cold weather. Compared with the German army, the total strength of the Soviet Red Army has an obvious advantage. They have prepared 9.1 million soldiers in three echelons on the eastern front. Although most of these soldiers did not have the elite of the Soviet Red Army when they began to attack in Poland, they still maintained combat training for more than one month and have fairly good basic combat capability. After two months of delay, the strategic materials provided by the United States to the Soviet Union were also transported from the remote Bering Strait to the foot of the Ural Mountains. These advanced lathes and processing equipment provided the Soviet Union with a huge industrial capacity. In order to counter the performance advantage of German armored forces in aiming optical collimator, the Soviet Union also ordered 500 sets of original imported M4 Sherman aiming system from the United States. After the calibration, it was installed on the Stalin tank to improve the accuracy of its firepower and give it the ability to counter the main German tanks such as tiger leopard. In two months, Soviet ordnance enterprises worked overtime to provide more than 2000 T-34 tanks for the front-line Soviet Red Army, so that the Soviet Red Army still had a certain number advantage over Germany in tanks. Of course, only God can know how big the quality gap is. In order to increase production, T-34 tank adopts a new round casting turret, which is integrated and has excellent bulletproof appearance. It can be said that compared with the most primitive KV-1 tank, it has been significantly improved. After the tank arrived in the army, the armored soldiers loved it very much, at least when they replaced the T-26 in their hands, they were very happy. But this is only the paper data of tank performance provided by Soviet engineers. In the real situation, no one knows how much protection capability this new type of T-34 tank with turret has. After all, under the extreme situation that the workers work overtime day and night and produce 35 pieces a day, the number of bubbles and impurities in the steel body of the integrated casting turret is not under the subjective control of the producers. Of course, in fact, there are still some high-quality tanks produced by the Soviet Union. For example, at least 50 Stalin tanks are almost hand-made by workers, and the quality can be guaranteed. Most of these tanks and other mass-produced Stalin tanks are scattered inside the Soviet armored forces, giving a fatal blow to the German tanks in the situation of cold arrows. In the other two months, more than 170 mass-produced Stalin tanks were produced, and the manual version finally fulfilled Stalin's production requirements for such tanks. In this way, during the winter offensive, the Soviet Union will have more than 220 Stalin tanks, more than 2300 T-34 tanks, almost 100 kv-2 tanks, more than 5100 KV-1 tanks, more than 5500 T-26 tanks and 400 m3 and m3lee tanks assisted by the United States.