Luo Luo begged for a monthly pass, Luo Luo had to struggle for a little more this month, a few more, can you reward a monthly pass to encourage There was a bang, and everything on the desk in the Kremlin's office No. 1 was swept to the floor by Stalin's arm.
Frightened, the members of the Political Bureau and several of the most senior generals in the office trembled for a while.
Pavlov and Shaposhnikov did not dare to raise their heads.
The news of the complete defeat in the battle of Gomel had just arrived: in the night battle of last night, the tank group under the command of Admiral Vatutin fought hard for a night on the plains south of the Dobrush Forest, and still ended in a crushing defeat.
The commander of the cluster, Colonel-General Vatutin, was killed in battle, lost more than 500 tanks and artillery pieces, and killed in battle, seriously wounded and missing more than 20,000 Red Army soldiers.
If we include the losses of the 1st and 2nd Tank Armies in the previous few days of operations, these two tank armies on which Stalin had high hopes lost a total of more than 1,600 tank guns, not all of them were damaged in battle, and many of them were abandoned after malfunctions.
And now the remnants of the two tank armies that have just retreated into the left bank of Ukraine are still being chased and bombed by Breguet attack aircraft and HS129 attack aircraft, and in the end, even if they are not completely annihilated, most of them will be blown up into infantry In addition, a German "Panzer Army" moving south from Smolensk also completed the encirclement of the city of Dobryansk this morning.
The 38th, 40th, and 48th armies, which belonged to the Bryansk Front, were also all encircled.
In addition, the 5th Tank Army, besieged in Collective Farm No. 13, also seemed to be a dead end.
At this point, the victory and defeat of the joint division were divided, and all 6 armies of the Soviet Bryansk Front were surrounded or basically annihilated The most powerful mechanized cluster of the Soviet Red Army now ceased to exist, and Stalin lost his bargaining chips with the Germans in Switzerland.
The cession of left-bank Ukraine and eastern Belarus in exchange for peace meant political suicide for Stalin, the loss of Ukraine, the most valuable grain production base, coal mining area, steel industry and machine industry center of the Soviet Union If lost, the USSR would no longer be able to become strong, and Stalin would have become the sinner of the state and the nation.
How can a sinner continue to rule the Soviet Union, and how can the party and the people accept the leadership of a sinner?
This is Soviet Russia, and the Russian people have always supported tyrants and opposed weak monarchs "Give Molotov," said Stalin after a while, "tell him that we can cede Eastern Belarus to Germany, and that we will promise not to invade British India, and that we can also supply Germany with 10 million tons, nay, 15 million tons of crude oil a year free of charge."
So that Germany can use this oil to defeat the United States."
The members of the Political Bureau and the generals of the Red Army who were present all sighed in their hearts, how could the war be fought to the present level, how could it be possible to cut off half of Belarus in exchange for peace By the time the Germans had finished packing up the main forces of the Bryansk Front, both Left-Bank Ukraine and Smolensk might not be secured, and Leningrad would most likely fall into a heavy encirclement, and even Moscow would be at risk of falling The current Soviet Union is in danger of losing its country "Haha, well done, the main force of the Soviets' tank corps is finished" The Chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht Hersmann also received a joint message from Field Marshal Manstein and General Mackensen at this time.
Although he, the god of war, is a fake, he still knows the value of this "junction battle" Now the field battles on the Soviet-German battlefield are fought by tank regiments, if there is no powerful tank army, it is just a city to defend by ordinary infantry, and it is impossible to maintain a continuous battle line.
In the original history, the German armored corps on the Soviet-German battlefield were basically inferior in numbers, so the Soviet army could maintain a long front against the German army.
And now, after the complete completion of the Battle of the Junction, the three Soviet tank armies will definitely be completely wiped out, if you count the tanks that were lost in Belarus, Smolensk and Bryansk that belonged to the combined army.
It is likely that the number of tank assault guns lost by the USSR will exceed 5000 units And the Soviet Union will soon lose Donetsk, a major city of steel and coal industry, and Kharkiv, a major city of mechanical engineering.
Its ability to replenish tank attack artillery will be greatly reduced, and the loss of these 5,000 tank attack artillery will probably be difficult to make up.
Germany, on the other hand, has the backing of most of Europe's machinery industry and steel industry, and there is no bottleneck in the production of tanks at all.
The only constraint is the lack of oil, but this difficulty will be reduced by the commissioning of synthetic gasoline projects in the UK and the increase in production in the Middle East.
So from now on, the German tank corps will not only have a qualitative advantage, but also significantly surpass the USSR in quantity Of course, the premise for Germany to maintain this dual superiority in the quality and quantity of tank forces is that the Soviet-German war will continue.
If the peace talks were to succeed in the near future, there would be no need for Germany to pursue numerical superiority.
"Heinz," Hersmann said with a smile to Guderian, "with this victory, the initiative on the Eastern Front is completely in my hands, and glorious peace is not far off." ” Guderian just nodded, noncommittal.
Hersman continued: "Our focus will also need to shift in the near future, and once peace is reached, the Army will not need to take up as many resources and labor.
The time has come to start drawing up plans for the reduction of the army and effective control of the newly occupied territories, of course, disarmament does not mean a significant reduction in the combat effectiveness of the army, and the Soviet Union is not willing to accept defeat, and we must be prepared.
Therefore, the army's armored divisions and panzergrenadier divisions must still be retained, and the E50 tank plan must also be carried out to the end.
In addition, before the E50 tank goes into production, the Tiger G tank and its modifications should become the main tank of the armored forces, and the No. 4 tank can be gradually retired from active service. ” As the Tiger became more mature, the value of the existence of the No. 4 tank also declined.
At present, the advantage of No. 4 is that it is relatively maneuverable.
But if Germany wins peace on the Eastern Front, then the Wehrmacht's task on the Eastern Front will be defense in the future.
Then mobility is not as important as defense and firepower.
So Hirschmann was ready to phase out No. 4 after the Soviet-German peace talks, and replace it with a "medium tank" that was actually transformed into a "medium tank" similar to the historical Black Panther, that is, the Tiger G tank with 88 guns and the E50 tank under development.
In Hersmann's view, the day of peace between the Soviet Union and Germany seemed to be not far off.
"Marshal of the Reich, can't we really think about restoring the Russian Empire" Guderian couldn't help but say his thoughts, "The Soviet Union is a scourge after all, although it is defeated by us now, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not rise again in the future." ” "Russia is back up," Hersman laughed.
A Soviet Union, which has lost Ukraine, Belarus, and the three Baltic states, is not much stronger than Russia, which has lost its national strength in later generations.
In the 1990s, some people may have said that 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was just a joke.
Moreover, the Soviet Union, which lost the world war in this time and space, faced an even more sinister international and domestic situation.
It's a miracle to be able to survive for 20 years without collapsing, and it's a dream to want to start again.
Hersman shook his head and said: "The Soviet Union without Ukraine will only get weaker and weaker, how can it be restarted, and our peace treaty with the Soviet Union is not valid forever."
"Isn't it always valid," Guderian asked, "will there be a second Soviet-German war?"
Hersman shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "That's not necessarily, we now have grain, coal, and steel in Ukraine, Lviv has huge iron ore and non-ferrous metals, and we also control the oil sea in the Middle East."
The next 10 years will be one in which Germany's national power will grow by leaps and bounds.
And the Soviet Union not only lost its most valuable industrial base and grain-producing areas, but also greatly diminished the authority of the Bolshevik Party.
In the next 10 years, it will not be easy for the Bolshevik Party to maintain power without losing it, where will there be any strength left to build after 10 years, there will be a more powerful German Empire that unites the whole of Europe, and is afraid that it will not be able to destroy the Soviet Union, so the Bolsheviks who overthrew the Soviet Union do not need to be in a hurry, and the immediate priority is to compete with the United States for the leadership of the world.
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As long as the world obeys Germany, the Soviet Union is just a big dish that can be cut and forked at any time. ” Hersman's path is to nibble, eat one bite at a time, digest it one bite at a time, and then move on.
With such a volume in the Soviet Union, it is a little difficult to swallow in one bite, it is better to eat slowly.
Moreover, at the moment Germany is not the only opponent of the Soviet Union.
There is also the United States across the Atlantic, and if Germany wants to go to war on two fronts, it will fight the Soviet Union on the one hand and join Japan to beat the United States on the other.
That's not enough oil The current Soviet-German battle has basically not left the railway line far, and the fuel consumption is already distressing.
If the Soviet Union is to be destroyed, the battlefield does not know where it will run, and then the fuel consumption will be even more terrifying.
In addition, the United States is not so easy to deal with.
Now the superiority of the German and Japanese navies is only to make a time difference and temporarily suppress the US Navy before the US "dumpling ships" are launched.
However, the "dumplings" are coming, and Germany has been preparing for this, and shipyards in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and even the United Kingdom are now rushing to build ships.
But these ships must have oil to start, and now the scale of the European Combined Fleet costs 20,000 tons a day, and if all the ships piled on the slipway are launched, 50,000 tons or 60,000 tons a day may not be enough t1706231537: