Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 294: Mad Wolf (2)

When the Army Intelligence Department came up with this conclusion, to be honest, they themselves couldn't believe it. Isn't that group of Russians crazy? Are they trying to start another war? But a pile of factual evidence is in front of us, and other reasons are simply unexplainable.

Responsible for the Soviet-German border patrol mission. Previously, the German border police and the Nazi stormtroopers were mainly responsible. Only in traffic passes or military fortresses were some regular army units stationed.

This line of demarcation is located in the hinterland of Poland. There is no reason for the Poles to set up a line of defense here. There is no barbed wire fence on the river bank. Anyone can easily cross this border as long as they are fully prepared.

The only thing Germany can do at this time is to strengthen border patrols and search for cross-border people in the controlled area to find out their true identities, as well as their goals and intentions.

Many Polish villages around the border remain. These farmers will eventually relocate to western Poland and beyond. The agricultural land in Poland is quite sufficient, because the war has caused population loss and many places lack sufficient manpower. Go farming.

The German army’s plan is to evacuate all ordinary residents of the border to the German occupied zone from this dangerous area before the end of the year.

The Red Army of the Soviet Union has never been a liberator. It depends on what they did when they invaded Finland. Don't think they won't do it again in Germany. Burning down villages and farmhouses and bombing towns indiscriminately to destroy the resistance of local residents is a conventional tactic that has been unanimously approved by the Red Army.

Clausewitz’s theory of war is also very thorough. War is to use violence to the maximum, and ultimately force the opponent to submit to one’s own will. To put it bluntly, I would do my best to fight until you kneel down and call Dad.

International war laws and the like are only binding on the weak, and a referee is needed when the rookie pecks each other, but the lion and the tiger are fighting each other, and others are only worried about whether they will harm the pond fish, who cares whether they use their claws or tooth.

After September 1940, the German Wehrmacht began to make substantial internal adjustments. The field troops on the Western Front gradually moved to the Eastern Front. In order to avoid an excessive reaction from the Soviet Union, the army was mainly concentrated in Eastern Province, which was originally the territory of the Czech Republic and Austria. The German troops stationed in central and eastern Poland have also begun to move to the western region of Poland. These troops will return to Germany to accept reorganization, replace outdated weapons and equipment, and launch new tactical training.

The basics of these garrisons themselves are not bad. The main problem is that there are too many recruits in the establishment and the weapons used are relatively old.

The northern section of the German Eastern Defense Line was built on the Vistula River. It started from Gdansk at the mouth of the sea, traversed all the way through Poland, and finally reached the southern mountainous area where Poland and the Czech Republic were connected. More than ninety kilometers.

This means that the original border is no longer within the defensive line, and even half of Warsaw’s city has been abandoned.

The Curzon Line is just a dividing line artificially created by the historical environment. From a military point of view, it is not suitable for defense at all. Even if it is fierce and tenacious as the Brest Fortress, it is only a small piece in the face of large-scale military operations. It's just a big stumbling block.

Of course, it is impossible for the Germans to build a Great Wall on Polish soil in one year. Even if it is built, it may not be able to stop the red iron hoof. The lesson of Maginot’s line of defense is in sight, but from a certain perspective, the French design does have many bright spots.

Germany adopted flexible defense tactics that coordinated permanent fortification and mobile defense, mainly building a batch of semi-permanent fortresses at various important traffic nodes on the defense line.

Each fort has been built into a strong self-sustaining firepower base. At the same time, a series of annular anti-tank support points are set up around the core fortress, requiring each support point to not only provide cover to each other, but also to obtain the core Heavy fire support from the fortress.

The mobile and flexible German armored detachment can conduct mobile defenses between these firepower points, and even wait for the opportunity to launch counterattacks against loopholes in the enemy's formation, disrupting the enemy's attack deployment.

This set of defensive tactics was formed by improving and strengthening the defense tactics of anti-tank support points in World War II. Both the Soviets and Germany on the Eastern Front suffered a lot from this tactic. Xu Jun believes that in this time and space, no one knows the power of this kind of tactics better than him.

In order to achieve strategic goals, it is necessary to cover up the true appearance of the Eastern Defense Line. The General Security Administration and the Imperial Intelligence Agency assumed the responsibility of counterintelligence.

The German army's actions in central Poland were very large, and the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Red Army could not be unaware of it. The purpose of these armed men secretly crossing the border was probably to collect intelligence data on these defense projects.

The problem encountered by the German side is that the existing manpower of the General Security Bureau and the Imperial Intelligence Agency is insufficient, and because the eastern defense line has transferred a large number of troops in Poland, as a result, whether it is the German border police or the army on the Soviet-German border The troops, at this time, it is difficult to deploy more manpower.

When Himmler learned of this, he felt that this was a good opportunity for the SS to show its ability to the head of state, so he sacrificed his hidden trump card, the SS special forces training at the Brandenburg School.

Himmler claimed that all the inspiration for the birth of this unit came from a dinner in a certain sub-head of state, and the head of state proposed to him the concept of special operations for the first time at the table.

Himmler's interest in special forces has become more and more eager with the establishment of the "Tomahawk Group". This national leader has long been obsessed with historical literary descriptions of ancient elite troops, and the concept of special forces just hit the itch of the national leader of the SS. He felt that the head of state proposed this The combat mode is simply tailor-made for the SS.

So while the Tomahawk Battalion was still training, he ordered a training plan for the special forces of the SS based on the Tomahawk Battalion course. He requested that in addition to sabotage and infiltration tactics behind enemy lines, each soldier must master at least two professional skills, and also learn to operate all Soviet-standard weapons, and control common vehicles in the Soviet Union, even horse-drawn carriages and dog-drawn vehicles. Sledge.

Himmler knew very well that this unit was going to be on the Eastern Front. To succeed, it had to be ahead of everyone else in everything.

The recruitment of the troops went smoothly. All of them were young players in their twenties who were physically strong. Each of them met or exceeded the National Defense Force’s medical examination standards. This is also the main contradiction between the SS and the National Defense. ~ Both sides urgently need high-quality troops of the right age.

The recruits of this special force are all Nazi youth members. There is no problem with regard to loyalty. The members have adapted to collective life and are very compliant with the management of their superiors.

In contrast, the National Defense Force lacks some political color and emphasizes the relationship between the country and the individual. However, no matter what political views they hold, everyone must swear allegiance to the head of state when joining the army.

Brandenburg trained three SS special forces at one time. The designations were determined as the third, sixth and ninth special operations battalions. Himmler personally gave each battalion a resounding code name. .

The national leader of the SS gave the ninth special operations battalion the code name "Wolfman", and this unit was transferred to the town of Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland. This is just an ordinary Polish town with no characteristics at all. It was almost razed to the ground by the Germans in the 39th War. It took more than a year to rebuild only a small part.

But none of the above is the point. The point is that just on the opposite bank of the Bug River, 30 kilometers east of this town, stands the fortress of Brest.

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