Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 103: Firepower (1)
The German head of state has a special insight into the future, which has almost become a well-known secret in the German command. Of course, this is a topic that can only be discussed in private, otherwise it would not be called "Secret".
The general strategy of the High Command is still relatively optimistic, because the Wehrmacht has never been as strong as it is today, and it is constantly and steadily strengthening at all times. If Germany is given sufficient time to prepare, the red giant in the east The bear will soon cease to be a threat.
But will the Soviet Union give Germany this time? If Stalin’s brain has not been spoiled by vodka, he will definitely feel that Germany’s pressure on the Soviet Union is increasing. He is an egoist like Hitler, absolutely not Will let this situation continue.
The Soviet Red Army has always advocated proactive offense. The founders of the Red Army firmly believed that offense was the best defense. What's interesting is that the root of this idea comes from the Prussian Army. After the fall of Napoleon's French army, there is no more active offensive army in Europe than the German army, if any, it was also trained from the German school.
The judgment of the head of state and the high command is the same, that is, a war will inevitably break out between the Soviet Union and Germany. This is not a problem that can be solved by one or two agreements or a memorandum of reconciliation. The two sides are not only in the national ideology. Fierce conflicts. At the same time, in terms of geopolitics, the contradictions between the two sides are also difficult to reconcile. Stalin wanted to expand his sphere of influence in Europe, but Germany blocked his expansion, which was impossible for the proud Georgian. Tolerable.
In history, Stalin was also wary of Germany, but it was not as serious as it is now. The intelligence obtained so far shows that the Soviet Union is launching an espionage war against Germany, and judging from the intensity of operations, it is clear that the Soviets have begun to Germany regards it as the number one threat.
In history, at the end of 1940, Germany was still facing Britain on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht was busy building submarine caves and coastal fortresses along the French coast, while the navy was engaged in fierce battles in the Atlantic Ocean. No matter how you look at it, it looks like they are preparing to smash to the end with the British. Therefore, the Soviet Union believes that Germany will not completely tear its face with the Soviet Union before the problem of the Western Front is resolved. Moreover, with the strength of the German troops deployed on the eastern border, it is completely unable to do so. The mighty Soviet poses a threat.
But the current situation has changed drastically. Germany has conquered the whole of Europe and is integrating the power of European countries at an astonishing speed, pulling them into its new political system, and establishing a solid military Alliance, it is conceivable that once they complete this project, the Soviet Union will not only face Germany and his weak slave countries, but an extremely powerful Europa alliance.
If the Soviet Union does not want to succumb to the pressure of the European Union in the future, it can only launch a swift and destructive one with the goal of crushing the enemy alliance before its opponents can accumulate enough power to destroy the Soviets. , A preemptive lightning war. The most effective way to crush this alliance is to defeat or even completely destroy the foundation and core of this alliance, the powerful German Third Reich.
The Soviet Red Army has a good understanding of the German blitzkrieg theory. Don’t forget that the Soviet Union and Germany have had long-term military cooperation. A large part of the German armored forces and pilots were trained on the Soviet land. During the honeymoon period of the cooperation between the two countries, the senior commanders of the two sides also had a lot of substantial exchanges on the use of armored forces and air forces. The Soviet Red Army is really no stranger to the German air-ground joint strike method. .
The Soviet Union also has its own deep combat theory. In fact, it has many similarities with the German Blitzkrieg theory at the tactical level. From a certain perspective, it can be regarded as a Russian enhanced version of the German Blitzkrieg.
The Soviet Union itself had excellent conditions that were completely unattainable by the Third Reich at that time. It had a vast territory, a huge population, and countless energy and mineral resources.
The Soviet Red Army never has to worry about its lack of troops and equipment, let alone worry about fuel and raw materials. Soviet weapons will not give up mass production because a certain part requires rare metals, let alone rack their brains to find replacement materials, resulting in a decline in the quality of weapons.
The huge population base gave the Soviet Union an almost endless number of reserve soldiers. Just like what happened to the German army in history, you destroy an infantry division on the other side, and two will emerge from behind. Face this kind of never The end of the tug-of-war, even the German veteran who has experienced many battles has to feel pessimistic.
At this time, the Soviet Union not only completed the industrialization transformation, but also formed a considerable scale. She has enough labor and resources to create an army of steel in a very short time.
She is one of the very few countries in the world that can be self-sufficient. The long border makes it difficult to be completely blocked. Even if the direction of Europe is blocked by Germany, she can still be found in the Far East Breakthrough.
These innate conditions of the Soviet Union, coupled with the technical and economic support of Germany and the United States and other countries, enabled her to build a huge Red Army that surpasses any European country in terms of technical and tactical aspects. , All have reached the upper middle level of the contemporary era.
The performance of Soviet weapons has approached or even surpassed some mainstream European countries. This has been clearly demonstrated in the Spanish Civil War. That is, the Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War and the left-wing wave extending to the Balkans led to the entire Europe is beginning to be wary of threats from the East.
The huge size of the Soviet Red Army is the most important condition for realizing the theory of large-depth combat. To put it bluntly, it relies on almost infinite soldiers to launch a large-scale blitzkrieg that continuously advances toward the enemy.
It’s just that because of the limited number of infantry and equipment, the German army can only focus on armored forces to launch a point-to-point raid, and then the infantry can consolidate the occupied area, encircle and sweep the besieged enemy, although it can successfully break through the enemy. However, the armored forces were limited by the consumption of fuel and ammunition during the battle, and soon lost the ability to continue to advance in depth.
Compared with the exquisite and fierce blitzkrieg of the German army, the Soviet tactics were quite simple and rude. What would happen if the Soviet Red Army was allowed to attack the target faced by the German army?
The Soviet commander can easily assemble four or five times more armored forces than Germany, and then divide these armored forces into several clusters, each of which has a combat effectiveness equivalent to that of the German main cluster.
When the offensive begins, the Red Army will use the first cluster to break through the enemy’s line of defense, opening a gap in the enemy’s position, and then this cluster will no longer advance, but will cooperate with the infantry to consolidate the results of the battle. Defensive enemy counterattack blocked the breach again.
Next, the Red Army will let the second armored cluster, which has been recharged in the rear, pass through the breach and attack in the depth of the enemy ~ IndoMTL.com~ until it reaches the second line of defense of the enemy, and then the second cluster launches an attack and opens. After the breach, the third armored group with high morale unscathed passed the breach and continued to assault in the depth, followed by the fourth and fifth, until the strategic reserve team was put into combat.
Such continuous armored assaults would theoretically completely disrupt or even destroy the enemy’s command and logistics system, causing the enemy forces in the entire depth area to lose their unified command and supplies, and ultimately to the Red Army, which possesses absolute superiority in strength. The infantry troops were divided, surrounded and wiped out.
Of course, the actual combat is not as simple as the author said. This is a very complicated combat theory system that requires the cooperation of the infantry, tank, artillery, and air arms. It cannot be explained in a few words.
In fact, most Soviet commanders did not really understand the essence of this theory until the end of World War II, because the battlefield situation on the Eastern Front was too complicated, and they rarely had the opportunity to accumulate the power to use this tactic. At the same time, they lack the material conditions to use this tactic, so most of the time they still use the most conventional Soviet tactics.
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