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Since now the Soviet army dares to tear through such a small hole and advance so much, it shows that their commanders are not good, but the equipment is very good.

According to reports from the front, these Soviet troops were not equipped with Soviet-style equipment, but with strange tanks with a steamed bun turret, and the barrels of these tanks were very short, seemingly no more than 1 meter in length. Ji Feng immediately knew in his heart: this was the legendary M4A1 "Sherman" (also known as "Sherman" or "Sherman") medium tank, equipped with a 75mm M3 short-barreled tank gun, capable of firing armor-piercing shells, high-explosive grenades or smoke grenades. The standard crew is 5 people, in addition to the commander of the command tower with an M2HB anti-aircraft machine gun. [Note 1]

It was reported from the front that the Soviets also had a very strange armored personnel carrier, and Ji Feng knew that it was either M2 or M3.

Stuart or something also appeared, and the submachine guns in the hands of these Soviet infantrymen, although they had fewer bullets, were extremely lethal, and sometimes even able to penetrate the armor of the SD.KFZ.251 half-track armored personnel carrier.

The rifles in their hands seemed to be fired eight times in quick succession before they could be reloaded, and the rate of fire was so fast that the German soldier holding the Kar.98k could not lift his head at all.

The equipment, which had suffered countless casualties during the Normandy landings, was now very difficult to destroy, because many of the infantry divisions of the German ** team lacked large-caliber anti-tank guns, and the infantry divisions in the place where they were broken through dragged the enemy for less than two hours at the cost of all their members.

The front-line personnel were undoubtedly very heroic, as they were confronted with Sherman's heavy machine guns that could keep them in position, and 75mm high-powered shells that allowed them to be buried alive in the position.

Even if someone survives, they will need to face the extremely strong firepower of the follow-up infantry. It has to be said that, at least for now, it seems that the German soldiers are being beaten unilaterally on the front line, and they are also under the pressure of enemy fire, which is enough to break down. For many soldiers of the 211 Infantry Division, the first day of the Soviet offensive became the last day of their combat career.

The commander of the 211th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General Rudolph, was smashed to pieces in the heavy fire of the Soviet troops, and he was not even able to retrieve his identity tag.

The Chief of Staff of the 211th Infantry Division, Colonel Goth, was on an inspection tour of the 441st Infantry Regiment when he was shot through the head with a 7.62 mm rifle bullet fired from 450 meters away.

The 221st Infantry Division only had 27 officers and soldiers on leave, and the highest rank was only Major and Battalion Commander, which means that this unit has completely collapsed, and the soulless unit has no meaning, and it will either be abolished or merged into other units, and the number will be reserved for the later troops.

So Ji Feng wanted to rebuild the 211th Infantry Division in Berlin, and use the dozens of remaining soldiers of the division to reorganize the division (when Ben Fun played Germany for 44 years in "Steel Three", the Western Front finally calmed down, and as a result, the Eastern Front was defeated by the Soviets with more than a dozen divisions...... This division will use the latest German weapons, becoming the first German demonstration panzergrenadier division, and renamed the 1st demonstration panzergrenadier division. The original number became the number of the next Wehrmacht infantry division to be formed. Under Ji Feng's coercion and temptation, Brauchitsch agreed that the commander of the 1st Demonstration Panzergrenadier Division would be temporarily handed over to Ji Feng himself.

Because German soldiers will be trained when they join the army, and they will be assigned to various units after training, Ji Feng has a sufficient source of soldiers. Plus their own orders, and the weapons were quickly put in place. After a short swearing-in event, the 1st Demonstration Panzergrenadier Division was built to travel to the front by train.

The 1st Demonstration Panzer Regiment travelled on three 50-car wagon freight trains, while the 11th and 12th Panzergrenadier Regiments traveled in a 40-car coach. The 1st Demonstration Assault Artillery Brigade and the 1st Demonstration Artillery Regiment took three trains, the 1st Demonstration Armored Engineer Brigade took a shorter train, and the rest of the units (division logistics units, propaganda units, etc., anyway, it was very cumbersome, so I won't write about it) took a 50-car train to the front.

Ji Feng took a relatively fast Ju-52 transport plane to the front line.

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Although the BF-109 fighters of the rear follower squad escorted the whole process without dead ends, Ji Feng still used his divine sense to alert the situation around the aircraft.

As they were about to reach the airport, a La-5 fighter came to harass them, but was then shot down by the BF-109, and the plane reluctantly fell to the ground with smoke from its left wing, and finally made a forced landing in a field of farmland.

Ji Feng saw a commotion at the airport - there was a team of trucks, cranes and other means of transportation to bring the pilot, who had landed with his plane, back to the airport.

The reason for this is that the airfield was attacked by Soviet fighters and bombers a few days ago, and many of the planes were damaged, most of which could not be repaired. So now we have to find as many other aircraft as a spare parts provider. For most aircraft components, they are interchangeable in small increments.

Aunt Junker successfully landed after a few jumps on the runway, and when the plane came to a stop, Ji Feng walked down with the staff headquarters of his 1st Demonstration Panzergrenadier Division.

The captured pilot happened to be taken by car to the vicinity of the airport tower, so Ji Feng walked over. After touching the La-5 and getting the general composition of it, he walked over to the captured pilot.

Ji Feng asked directly in Russian: "Young man, where are you from?" ”

The pilot was surprised, because the person in front of him should be the legendary German Führer, but he was so kind to ask himself the name of the pilot who was shot down after the failed sneak attack. But the pilot still stammered, "Ya...... Yakov Kuznetsov. ”

Ji Feng looked at his rank, he was a second lieutenant. Considering the situation of the Soviet pilot, Ji Feng asked: "Young man, how long have you been flying this model?" ”

Yakov said: "Thirty-nine hours. Yakov was also very arrogant. Proud expression, it is true that the quality of the Soviet Air Force deteriorated rapidly after the Great Purge, and now the number of newly reequipped La-5s is very small, and it is unlikely that they will be used to perform any air safari missions.

Ji Feng asked, "Tell me, did your superiors ask you to attack and kill me?" ”

Yakov didn't answer, but Ji Feng saw a glimmer of light in his eyes.

Ji Feng laughed and said: "Actually, you are cannon fodder, our pilot has to fly for 200 hours before taking off to fight, even if he is already an ace pilot, he can only participate in the battle if he is familiar with the aircraft." And didn't your commander think about it when he sent people like you to heaven? ”

After the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, there was a shortage of suitable air generals, and even most of the air force generals were promoted from pilots "on rockets" before the sneak attack on Germany. In contrast, these pilots are better suited to command a squad of fighters than an aviation division.

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Now that the Soviets have broken through so much, it is obviously not appropriate to knock back little by little, and there are no ports in the part occupied by the Soviets, only a few small non-permanent airfields, which cannot take off and land large transport aircraft, including the mainstream Soviet transport planes. It's great. At least for Ji Feng, this is really good, because he is ready to wrap this part of the Soviet army into a big dumpling.

Now, if you want to make a dumpling, you have to do strategic flickering, because Ji Feng knows from history that the Soviet Union's American weapons were transported from Murmansk, a perennial ice-free port in the north, and some of them were obtained from Vladivostok (Vladivostok), which was more in comparison to Murmansk. So Ji Feng ordered Goering to dispatch all super-heavy bombers with 12 tons of bombs to attack the port of Murmansk.

The reason why I don't take some anymore is because the temperature is too low north of the Polar Circle, and I need to use more cold-proof equipment, plus the theoretical range of the high-altitude flight with thin air is those, and I don't know how much the real range is. It's good to be on the safe side after all.

This bombing operation was named "Northern Fortitude" by Ji Feng (there seems to have been a "Southern Fortitude" deception operation before the Normandy landing, mainly to make the Germans think that Calais was the real landing site, so they missed the best opportunity to defend), and the main task was to turn the Soviet Union's attention to the direction of Murmansk as much as possible.

[Note 1] Most of the M4A1 commander's conning tower is equipped with M2HB heavy machine guns, of course, a small number will choose to install M1919 heavy machine guns.