0p0 Third Reich Episode 428
Third Reich Episode 428
Once upon a time, they could only see German generals conquering cities and conquering territory, and then promoted to field marshal.But the Italian army has been defeated in every battle, and has repeatedly lost to European powers.
This has always been a tragic fact that Italian generals are unwilling to admit, but have to face.
However, General Lefer defeated the British twice, and the Italian Navy defeated the mighty Royal Navy.
What could be more exciting than this.
Before Lefer defeated the fleet of British general Forbes, severely damaged the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, and captured Italy's first aircraft carrier "Ark Royal".At that time, many people were already very optimistic about Lefer.
It's just that Mussolini was in power at that time, that fool who always took all the credit for himself and blamed all the faults on his subordinates. Add criticism and accusation.
This is obviously something that an unqualified leader would do.
Now, Italy has a new prime minister with clear rewards and punishments. The generals have discovered that as long as they have military exploits, they can rely on military exploits to get promoted like Lefer. Inspired Italian generals.
More importantly, this gave Italian generals the idea of continuing to participate in the war and strive to make contributions.
This is the most important purpose of Rossi.
Because, Reinhardt, the German head of state whom Rossi is truly loyal to, needs the Italians to continue to contribute to the chariot of the Allies.
Not to mention, on the African battlefield, the Italian army has become an inseparable support for Rommel.
On the Soviet-German battlefield, Reinhardt needed Rossi to send out three Italian expeditionary armies to coordinate operations as soon as possible.
All these are to encourage Italian generals to participate.
For Reinhardt, on the one hand, Rossi is grateful that he extended a helping hand in his most difficult time and saved his life back then.So he swore to be loyal to Reinhardt for the rest of his life.
On the other hand, he did not dare to disobey the German Fuehrer who controlled the entire Gestapo branch in Italy.Otherwise, if Reinhard wants to take everything Rossi has now, there are too many means to choose from.
Under the dual emotions of gratitude and awe to the Führer, Rossi became more and more loyal and continued to play a greater role in Italy for the Third Reich.
Text Chapter 645 Disgusting Zhukov
Zhukov, the chief of the Soviet army's general staff, took the lead in planning the "Operation Mars" combat plan with the theme of preemptive strikes. Since its inception, it has lasted for nearly half a month.
This battle plan reflects Zhukov's typical style. The Soviet army tried to launch a multi-line attack on the German Eastern Barrier defense line with 19 army groups in the north, center, and south directions. The main attack direction was located in the former Hungary. South German province frontage of the area.
According to Zhukov's plan, the main force of the four Soviet armies was supposed to cut through the German defense line from here, encircle and annihilate the 4 SS troops stationed in this area according to Soviet intelligence, and then move northward to launch pincers into the hinterland of Warsaw together with the other 30 armies. Formed offensive, and then encircled and annihilated the heavy German troops stationed in western Poland.
It's a pity that Zhukov's campaign deployment obviously underestimated the tenacity and counterattack capabilities of the German defense.
The German army on the Eastern Front in 1941 was ranked among the top in the world in terms of fighting will and combat quality.
Moreover, after Germany annexed Hungary, it has been operating in this southern province for nearly 20 years and knows this battlefield well.
The SS retreated strategically, relying on the in-depth defense built long ago on the terrain of the Carpathian Mountains, built towns and villages into fortress strongholds to support the defense line, and accurately deployed a cross-fire network to kill and break through the Soviet assault troops.
In addition, the German army also has a strong strategic reserve team on the Eastern Front. After the outbreak of the battle, it continued to reinforce the major battlefields, especially Model, who focused on taking care of the southern provinces.
Just in the hands of Model, three armored divisions and one motorized infantry division's supplementary troops arrived in half a month.These SS troops were basically drawn from the SS sequence on the Western Front to the Eastern Front.
Due to the smoothness of the British campaign, the Wehrmacht and SS strategic reserves prepared for the British campaign on the western front, with a total of 27 divisions, were basically arranged for transportation and went to the eastern front in turn.
Moreover, even among the Allied troops still fighting in the British mainland, they were arranged to leave all the French and Norwegian troops one month later to assist part of the German army, that is, a special armored division and three infantry divisions, to continue to wipe out Remnants of the British Resistance.
The vacated 7 German infantry divisions and 3 paratrooper divisions will be gradually transferred back to the German mainland for repairs and supplements according to the situation after the western strategic reserve team is basically transferred to the eastern front. Ready to throw into any battlefield next.
Now, on the entire Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviet army seems to have made certain progress ranging from 10 to 25 kilometers in the north, center, and south. Turn offense into defense.
In the north, the combat troops of the 24 divisions of the Soviet Army suffered heavy losses in the assault on the German defense line and completely lost their offensive capabilities.And the people of the three Baltic countries had long been strongly dissatisfied with the Soviet occupation and rule, so after receiving the joint news from Germany, they immediately launched riots against the Soviet government in the rear, disrupting the rear of the Soviet army in the north.
Subsequently, the Soviet army turned to suppress the riots in the three Baltic countries. Although the suppression effect was remarkable, it had to further weaken the offensive against the German northern defense line, so that the offensive was gradually stopped in the end, and it was unable to launch a new round of offensive again.
In the middle, Zhukov's deployment was a key foreshadowing. It was originally intended to echo the southern offensive, and finally turned into a pincer offensive.However, because the German army had built a zigzag defensive position in advance, it effectively killed a large number of Soviet soldiers, and the German veteran Rondstadt stationed in the middle also seized the opportunity to cooperate with the armored group commanded by General Bock to counterattack many times.
The two famous German generals used the zigzag-shaped occlusal dual-purpose offensive and defensive positions to encircle and suppress the Soviet troops that broke into the two zigzags through surprise attacks many times.
In the past half a month, 30 divisions of the Soviet army in the middle road have been wiped out in the zigzag position of the German army, and another 70 divisions have lost more than 50% of their personnel.
As for Zhukov's most important southern theater, which was regarded by the Soviet army as the key to the campaign, except for the large area that the German SS voluntarily retreated to give up at the beginning, there is nothing to praise.
In the south, the Soviet army used the Kiev Special Military District (Southwest Front) and the Odessa Military District (Southern Front) at the same time, the strength of the two fronts.
Among them, the Southwest Front Army is also known as the most powerful military region in the Soviet Union. The troops of this military region, in terms of the strength and equipment of each equivalent unit, all have an advantage over the German troops in the same unit because of their supersaturated large-scale units. Obvious numerical advantage.However, because the quality of the German army is far above the Soviet Red Army at this time, the advantage brought by this large establishment is not so obvious.
Of course, General Pavlov, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front Army within the Soviet Army, actually disagrees with the fact that the Southwest Front Army is the strongest military force in the entire Soviet Union.
Perhaps it was because of the grudge between Zhukov and Pavlov during that exercise, or maybe it was because Stalin still wanted to retain the always strong strategic reserve.
Therefore, basically all the troops that could be used on the entire Soviet Western Front were invested in this wave of offensives. Only Pavlov's Western Front Army was left behind as a strategic reserve, and Stalin directly decided when to deploy it. Use, where to use. ?
In this way, it is actually good for Zhukov and Pavlov, the two deadly enemies.At least, Zhukov didn't need to deploy Pavlov's troops who didn't agree with him, and Pavlov didn't need to accept Zhukov's pointers.
Although Zhukov was temporarily promoted by Stalin to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army because of this large-scale battle (the commander-in-chief was left to Stalin himself), but Pavlov has always been jealous of Zhukov's position.
Pavlov wants to yank Zhukov from the position of deputy commander in chief!
In the Soviet military, this is no secret.
"While we stand still at the front, Pavlov is parading in the rear!"
In Zhukov's general headquarters, the deputy commander-in-chief has been completely angered by the small actions of Pavlov's colleague.
"What is he trying to do? Taking advantage of my embarrassment to show off!" Zhukov scolded angrily.
Zhukov is not one to throw in the towel easily.Facing the bad news coming from all fronts, he is still prepared with strong willpower to put all his reserves into the attacking force.
However, with the enemy at hand, Pavlov's small actions in the rear really disgusted Zhukov, who wanted to devote himself to the war.
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Just as in history, Hitler issued an offensive declaration on the third day after attacking the Soviet Union, Reinhardt's counterattack declaration was also 3 days late.
The reason it took so long to release the manifesto was not because the speeches were written days later, but because the most motivating content of the speeches had to wait until allies had expressed their views.
For Reinhardt, in order to wait for the Finn to confirm a counterattack, he delayed for 7 days.And the Finns did not live up to Reinhardt's waiting. One week after the German army successfully confronted the Soviet army, Marshal Mannerheim of Finland and their president confirmed the strength of the German army and indeed saw the hope of defeating the Soviet Union.
As a result, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs finally expressed to Ribbentrop that they were willing to fight side by side with the German army and launch a counterattack against the Soviet army together.
Originally, Reinhardt should have left the attitude of declaring the Allies, raised the banner of the League of Nations, and declared a counterattack against the Soviet invaders in the name of the multinational joint force, launching a holy war.
It's a pity that Stauffenberg's assassination put Reinhard in danger and was in shock, and the speech declaration was delayed again.
So, until the 14th day after the confrontation between the Soviet and German armies, Reinhardt started to prepare his speech again.