Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 87: Planning

The first conflict of opinion broke out between Guderian and Bok. The main reason for the dispute was the current direction of the German offensive. www.geiliwx.com

Conservative Bock believes that it should be steady and stable, first consolidate the landing area, accumulate enough troops, and then start to radiate to the outside. According to the plan of the command, follow the coastal road to Dover and Folkestone and then detour to fight for the British The mobile force of the United Kingdom encircled the sea at one time, and then seized the ports of Dover and Folkestone. As long as they can occupy these two complete harbours, the German team can continuously set foot on the British land. By then, the United Kingdom will be round. Bian just messed around with Germany at will.

And Guderian has his unique view. He believes that the existing armored assault force should be concentrated directly on London before the British can react, because most of the British forces have been attracted to much On the front line of Forr, London was almost undefended for the Germans.

Bock expressed doubts about this, because even if the British were slow to respond, they would not leave any area out of contact for 24 hours and remain indifferent. Similarly, how tightly Germany's shielding of battlefield intelligence can guarantee that there will be no slips.

Although there are no British civilians left in the landing area, investigation teams have reported that some small farms in the surrounding areas still have some single-family British farmers left behind, and there was even a brief exchange of fire between the two sides. The report of the British paratroopers also showed that there are still many small-scale garrisons and outposts in the middle area, although the paratroopers have eliminated all enemy forces they encountered. However, there is no guarantee that the other party did not sound the alarm when the attack occurred, and there is no guarantee that no one will escape during the attack, because the attack happened at night. Although the moonlight is bright, there are many bushes and groves in the English countryside, and there are countless corners in the village where people can hide.

Bock conservatively estimates that Germany can guarantee that the battlefield intelligence is interrupted for only 20 hours at most. Then, in any case, the British will definitely find that the German army has landed.

If this time is used for marching, then it is indeed possible to rush down to London. But now it is not marching after all. It is in combat, and various emergencies will be encountered on the road. It can be seen from the intercepted telephone calls and telegrams that along the road to London, there are still many towns and villages still inhabited by residents, and there are still a large number of National Self-Defense Forces and a small number of army garrisons.

It is impossible for the German army to advance without alarming them. The German army will definitely encounter obstacles from the soldiers along the road. As long as they bury some mines or destroy roads and bridges, the offensive will definitely be blocked. The British government will have enough time to adjust its strategy. If Churchill chooses to organize the defense line on the spot to resist. Then it can be reluctantly accepted if the British government chooses to abandon London and retreat to the west. That would be the most unwilling result of the High Command. The German army is likely to fall into troublesome mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare, and the manpower and material resources paid are incalculable. The prolonged delay will inevitably lead to unpredictable variables, such as the intervention of foreign anti-German forces.

Although the High Command has analyzed Churchill's character and thought that as long as he was given some illusion of hope, he would choose to stick to London before he was completely desperate, but all this was just a prediction. In history, there is no shortage of guys who look tough but end up being cowards, so Xu Jun has always emphasized the grasp of the attack rhythm. Try to avoid stimulating Churchill before the final thunder strike.

At present, the German army’s landing force is still insufficient, and it is impossible to completely encircle the London area. Of course, it cannot prevent the British government from withdrawing from London. Blindly attacking London will inevitably lead to an overwhelming response from the British government.

Now Guderian’s armored forces should give priority to ensuring the defense of the landing area. If this force leaves the landing area and strikes London, once it is counterattacked by the British resistance on the road, it will be mixed by layers of enemy troops. If you get stuck, the British army in the Dover area will definitely take advantage of the news and launch a counterattack against Dier.

Although the landing zone lacking armored force can be guaranteed by the fire support of the Luftwaffe and the navy, the supply line of this armored force will definitely be cut off, and the final result will be both sides.

Guderian was finally convinced by Bock. He admitted that this veteran army commander did have an extraordinary view of the overall situation. Compared with him, his vision was still narrower, only considering the tactical level. It seems that more experience is needed to accumulate more battlefield experience and broaden your strategic vision.

German armored forces have been shrouded in the invincible aura of invincibility, but tank commanders of the level like Guderian know very well that the appearance of invincibility of German armored forces actually hides very obvious weaknesses. The German tank troops of Germany can barely cope with operations in Europe, and it is not the perfect armored fist in their minds.

German armored forces are the tip of the spear of ground forces in the blitzkrieg. The success of German tanks in the Czech Republic and Poland is actually based on the enemy’s outdated combat concepts and outdated equipment, which cannot cope with high-speed assaults and continuous air strikes by mechanized forces. Based on.

The German armored forces faced the enemy's large army of infantry. The tactics were old-fashioned, slow to move, unresponsive, and lack of anti-armor weapons.

So relying on the weakly armored No. 1 and No. 2 tanks, the German army can easily break through the infantry defense line. At the same time, relying on the flexibility and high speed of the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks, as well as strong cross-country passing capabilities, they can rush to retreat from the enemy. The infantrymen of the United States completed a roundabout on both wings, surrounded the collapsed enemy unit, and cooperated with other subsequent troops to annihilate the enemy forces in the encirclement.

However, the German armored vehicles do not have a clear advantage over their counterparts in the enemy army. His enemies actually have a lot of armored vehicles with better quality and performance. German armored forces are often technically crushed when confronted with the opponent's armored forces.

The problem is that the enemy's use of tanks is still in the First World War. Tanks are regarded as support forces for infantry offensive. Therefore, tanks are often distributed to various infantry units. At the same time, the enemy lacks a combination of infantry and tanks. Combat training. Infantry and tanks often lose touch with themselves in combat.

Therefore, although enemy tanks can often defeat German tanks in frontal combat, the Germans will rely on local numbers to deploy some tanks to entangle the enemy armored forces. Send another part of the tank from the flanks to the back of the enemy's armored units to smash the enemy's rear command post and baggage and cut off the enemy's supply line.

Under normal circumstances, the opponent will quickly fall into chaos and begin to retreat. The infantry may still be able to run away, but the tank units that have been cut off from their supplies have little endurance at all, continuous combat and mechanical wear. Soon they will fall into the embarrassing situation of running out of ammunition and exhausting the engine. At this time, the German army will send infantry to cooperate with artillery to solve these steel targets one by one.

But once the German tank encounters an enemy armored unit of equal strength. The result often turns into a one-sided defeat. At this time, the German tanks only had a few more combat experience than their opponents, and most of them attacked infantry and bunkers, and did not have much experience of real confrontation with armored forces. The German tank soldiers can only be considered to have shed their shells a few days earlier than their opponents, and they are far from the point where they have experienced many battles in the later period.

On the French battlefield, the German tank forces encountered several frontal assaults by the French tanks. As a result, he was beaten into embarrassment, and the burning tanks No. 3 and No. 2 covered the entire battlefield.

Furthermore, the German tanks have a weakness caused by blitzkrieg tactics. Due to tactical requirements, commanders are too pursuing long-distance tank attacks and high-speed breakthroughs, but the infantry divisions attached to tank troops are mostly semi-mechanized or even pure mules and horses. Therefore, tank units advancing at high speeds are often out of touch with their attached infantry units, resulting in logistic supply lines that are often exposed to enemy fire.

On the European battlefield, if it weren't for the opposing enemy forces already in chaos, they could not organize an effective attack. Otherwise, as early as the French campaign, the German armored division would be divided and surrounded by the enemy several times and suffered heavy blows.

At the same time, the German tactics pursue high-speed continuous attacks. The mechanical wear of the German armored forces is very serious, and the German tanks are too sophisticated. Once the wear exceeds the limit, they will immediately fail. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the logistics supply line unobstructed at all times to ensure the follow-up of spare parts and repair services. Once there is a problem with the service support, a large number of tanks will soon appear due to failure.

It's okay if you are on offense. The German army can recall and repair these vehicles at any time. But in the event of a retreat, these tanks can only be abandoned to the enemy on the spot. This scene is in the original world. It often happens on the battlefields of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union and Germany. A large number of expensive tanks are often abandoned on the way of retreat due to some very minor faults. These faults can be easily repaired and restored in peacetime, but because the troops are in a retreat state, the lightly armed logistic repair and supply unit ran in front of the armored troops, and the tanks serving as guards could not even find a trailer. These vehicles can only be thrown on the battlefield for nothing. Of course these are the original history. In the current time and space, these have not happened yet, and Xu Jun will not allow this to happen.

In the current combat experience of the German army, the armored units of the German army are usually specially used to beat the enemy infantry, and the final solution to the enemy armored units is often the German infantry and artillery. They die in clusters. Grenades and tanks under 37 door knockers actually accounted for a large part of the loss of enemy tanks.

This is the true face behind the legend of the German armored forces victorious in all battles. The Germans only took a half step longer than his enemies, and it was this small half step that made most of his enemies hate on the spot.

In 40 years, the main tanks in the German tank division were the fragile No. 2 and No. 3, and some 38t produced in the Czech Republic. This is the tank with only 50 mm armor. It was once in the original history. As the main equipment of the Sixth Tank Division, it was used as a heavy assault force.

Most of the current main models of German tanks are unable to fight frontal tank battles with British and French tanks. In addition to their small and flexible appearance, most of their important performance indicators are not at an advantage, and they are criticized for their barren firepower. The only German army that can face off against the enemy's heavy tanks is the newly developed No. 4 tank, but because it has just been mass-produced, at the beginning of the French campaign, the entire army only had more than 100 vehicles.

This time Xu Jun had taken out his capital and incorporated a large part of the No. 4 tank that was mass-produced in more than two months into the landing force. With the addition of the company drawn from several armored divisions, he just made up There were two hundred and twenty No. 4 tanks, of which 60 were the latest No. 4 G type. These tanks formed eight heavy armored battalions and were directly under the command of Guderian.

This is the first armored unit in the German sequence that can face all the tanks in service in the world. It is very close to the goal of the perfect armored unit in Guderian's eyes. If it can be equipped with enough auxiliary artillery and mechanized infantry . Guderian believes that he can rely on this force to defeat all armored forces of the same size and easily shred two to three times more conventional infantry units.

The problem is that there are only three armored battalions that have come ashore, and one of them is a light armored battalion, which is used as a peripheral armed reconnaissance force. Although the subsequent tank battalions are continuously landing, it will take at least half a day to gather an armored force of sufficient scale. Guderian had to stand in the office on the second floor of Dillburg, holding compasses and The slide rule faces the map luck.

At this time, the German landing trestle has developed to twelve, and it can transport one regiment of personnel, equipment, vehicles and materials to land every hour. Bock predicts that before the sun goes down, there will be two infantry divisions, and more than 50,000 German troops will be on the British mainland. Bock will personally lead one of the infantry divisions to cooperate with the armored division led by Guderian and go around Dover. Behind your side, the British army's last mobile force surrounded the Dover area, and then these forces were divided and annihilated according to the plan.

At the same time, before midnight on the second day, the third echelon of Reichenau will complete the landing. Two tank divisions and a mechanized infantry division will launch an assault on London, and strive to complete the siege of London in the morning of the third day. action.

Because starting from the fourth day, there will be two consecutive days of severe weather over the strait, and London is also within the range of the storm. Although the severe weather will hinder the German attack, it will also hinder the evacuation of the enemy.

This combat plan is the only thing that can correspond to the current situation and can be implemented among the bunch of plans made by the command for the landing. It is really a sweat to think of it.

At the moment, the battle seems to be going smoothly~IndoMTL.com~ But it is a mess in the command room of the command. The British plan has disrupted all the German plans, the precise moment. The watch was completely waste paper, and the German General Command could only adapt to the actual situation and explore follow-up actions.

Fortunately, the most dangerous moment has passed. The German army can be said to have established a firm foothold on the British mainland. When the main British army in Dover is eliminated, the German army will be able to directly transport troops ashore from the port of Dover, a large troop carrier. It can carry infantry of one brigade to land at a time, and the German army will soon change its posture with the British army to take advantage of the force.

Just when the generals of the high command lined Bok’s attack plan with flags on the map, in the middle of the English Channel, following the end of the Battle of Jutland 24 years later, the main force of the British and German navy The fleet collided again with full strength, and the British Royal Navy and the German New High Seas Fleet launched a final battle in this strait that has carried the Royal Navy's centuries-old glory. (To be continued)

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