Section 528 The golden drum on the Western Front urges people to grow old

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On September 1, the 19th year of the Taichu Dynasty, the Russian army launched an offensive in several areas along the Russian-German, Russian-Polish (German-occupied areas), and the Russian-Romanian border. With the support of the wealthy British and American, the Red Russian army, which had always been relatively poor, also trembled. Although the 152 mm howitzer shells are not easy to find, the shells of the 75 mountain artillery are some, and the planes of the Red Russian army are full of American-made and British-made aerial bombs. Anyway, it's all for Hans, does it matter who sends the courier?

After two hours of firepower preparation, the three front armies of the Red Russian Army launched a fierce battle with the German army of less than 300,000 on the Eastern Front, but in the face of the well-prepared German army, the Russian army suffered a crushing defeat in other areas except for the northern end of the battle line, and was forced to stop the offensive, readjust the deployment, increase the number of troops, and prepare to attack again.

To the east of Warsaw, the Russian army failed to break through the Polish lines. Russian army Vsevolod?? Fedorovich?? Yakovlev's 7th Army, which had 7 infantry divisions, 1 tank corps and 2 tank brigades, formed a far-reaching battle formation and a deep echelon battle formation, and carried out the main offensive in the direction of Shedelce, while the other two weaker infantry corps carried out a diversionary attack in the area of Ostrovenka and Puevaya, with the main assault directed in the direction of Warsaw. The offensive began in the northern part of the Russian-occupied zone in an attempt to attract German reserves in Poland to move north, followed by a major assault in the middle section.

The German army concentrated the forces of 2 corps and 6 divisions to defend the area, first defending the narrow approach areas in the support zone with covering forces. During the day, the German Wehrmacht used rocket artillery provided by China to supplement the German army's own superior melee firepower, relied on combat fortifications to kill and wound the enemy's living forces in front of the formation under favorable conditions, and destroyed Russian tanks from close range with various anti-tank weapons; At night, an assault detachment armed with mortars, grenadiers and plumbers' submachine guns was sent to harass the rear of the Russian army, assaulting the Russian army sleeping in the field, and beating the Russian army to exhaustion.

Although the Russian army invested one echelon after another, attacking in turns, due to the failure to understand the main defensive zone and support zone of the German army, the failure to find out the fortifications and obstacles of the German army, coupled with poor coordination and poor command, by mid-September, after paying a heavy price, only captured the German army's 20~60 km deep support zone. At this time, the Russian army was no longer able to break through the main defensive zone of the German army and was forced to stop the offensive on the spot. The two sides formed a confrontation and turned into a war of attack and harassment.

The southern front was in the northeastern part of the province of Santa Cross, and most of the 2 divisions of the Russian army were annihilated and forced to go on the defensive. The 8th Army of the Red Russian Army had 5 infantry divisions and 1 tank brigade, and carried out attacks in the north and south. Its task was to contain the German forces from the flanks and to cooperate with the offensive of the 7th Army. After crossing the border, the Russian army was blocked by two divisions of the German army and harassed by partisans at night, and its progress was slow. Six days later, the Red Russian Polish Front advanced 40 kilometers on the southern route. In the area of Ostero Comfort, fierce fighting broke out between the two sides. As a result, the Russian army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, had no source of supplies, and was forced to go on the defensive, never daring to attack again. After advancing more than 40 kilometers on the southern road cluster, it carried out offensive and defensive battles in the Starahovice area for more than one month, and by October 12, it was divided, encircled, and supplied by the German army, and most of the two vanguard Russian divisions were annihilated, with more than 19,000 casualties, and the rest of the troops retreated and turned to the defense until the end of the year.

In the northern section of the German-occupied Polish border, two divisions of the Red Russian Red Army were annihilated, and the rest retreated. Red Russian army Vasily?? Ivanovic?? Chuikov's 9th Army, with four infantry divisions, divided into two routes, north and south, attacked in the direction of Vomza, attempting to cut the German defense forces in two sections from the swamps north of Ostrovenka. The northern road cluster attacked along two forest roads covered with deep snow in the direction of Ostrovenka. After the Russian vanguard division reached the village of Shinyadovo, which was about 40 kilometers from the border, it was stubbornly resisted by a small detachment of German troops relying on roadblocks. The division was forced to spread out into a longitudinal formation of more than 20 kilometers along the road, thus providing fighters for the German army to divide and encircle. At this time, one division of the strategic reserve of the German army rushed to the battlefield, and by the end of September, the first annihilation of the division was won, and then the transfer of troops to intercept the other division of the Russian army that was trying to reinforce it, and cut it off and annihilate it. In the first battle of Shinyadovo, the German army annihilated more than 23,000 enemies, creating a glorious example of winning more with less.

Because most of the German troops in East Prussia went west to Britain to participate in the war, and the main garrisons were SS (armed forces that had not yet undergone field training) and some police units, the Russian Northwest Front did not encounter fierce resistance after crossing the border, and by September 16 it was approaching Grujonz, posing a great threat to the German army. The Wehrmacht transferred 1 division from the reserve to cooperate with the East Prussian SS units to carry out continuous assaults on the flank of the Red Russian Red Army. The Red Russian Red Army had no choice but to retreat to the area of Lake Yegiolak because of its confusion about the enemy's situation, and it did not dare to take active action in this area because of the constant attacks and harassment of the German partisans.

At the southern end of the front, Russian troops seized the Romanian border near Moldova. The 3 infantry divisions under the jurisdiction of the 28th Army of the Russian Army attacked in the direction of the Black Sea coast with the cooperation of the Black Sea Fleet, and without resistance from the Romanian army, they quickly occupied most of the Black Sea coast of Romania and blocked Romania's passage to the Black Sea.

On October 16, the 19th year of Taichu, Uncle Bearded, in view of the heavy losses of the Russian troops on all fronts, decided to stop the offensive, redraw the battle plan, and organize a new offensive. On October 21, the commander of the Southern Front, Semyon?? Konstantinovich?? General Timoshenko was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Western Expeditionary Forces and succeeded Marshal Budyonny as Commander of the Polish Front. The Front Army was under the jurisdiction of the 7th Army and the newly formed 13th Army. At the same time, 4 tank brigades, 24 infantry divisions, 20 artillery regiments and 15 newly created aviation regiments were transferred to the westward expeditionary force. Since November, the invading Russian army has stepped up reconnaissance and training, practicing effective methods of breaking through the prepared defensive line and destroying strong fortifications.

At this time, the German army also adjusted the deployment of troops in the area, increasing the front-line strength from 35 divisions to 66 divisions, and retaining only 11 divisions as reserves in Germany itself. At this time, Germany had entered a wartime state of full mobilization, and under the rule of the Workers' Party, Germany was like an efficient war machine frantically expanding its military strength. Just two years ago, during the blitzkrieg attack on Poland, Germany mobilized 56 divisions with 1.6 million troops, 2,700 tanks, 10,000 artillery pieces, and 1,300 warplanes. (Another 200,000 Red Russian, Slovak troops entered the war). By the time it occupied France a year and a half ago, Germany had mobilized 141 divisions with 3.35 million troops, 2,445 tanks, 7,378 artillery pieces, and 5,446 warplanes. (Another 700,000 Italian troops entered the war). Now facing a full-scale invasion by Red Russia, Germany has mobilized 181 divisions with 5.5 million troops, 4,300 tanks, 47,200 artillery pieces, 4,980 warplanes, and 192 ships. (Including the armies of Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and other countries). And after receiving the strong support of Chinese equipment, the quality of the equipment of the German army has been greatly improved, although the original MG34 is easy to use, but expensive, and now the MG40 grafted with China's "ruler" machine gun technology has become a cheap and easy-to-use class firepower pillar, plus a large number of 60 mortars, grenade launchers, M41 disposable anti-armor individual rocket launcher equipment, so that the armored forces of the Red Russian army suffered. Not to mention the fact that the Chinese "Hound Dog" improved tanks and "Howling Eagle" attack aircraft are themselves the nemesis of armored forces, and a salvo of 107 rocket launchers in certain narrow areas is enough to make a company of Russian tanks lie on their stomachs.

"The Red Russian side has changed its generals." In the large conference room of the General Staff Headquarters, His Majesty Emperor Wu Chenxuan, dressed in military uniform, and General Zhang Jianyuan, Chief of the General Staff, Admiral Yin Chengzong, Admiral Chen Jialiang, Admiral Zhu Yunjie, Lieutenant General of the Special Forces He Houxiong, and Lieutenant General Nie Zhixun of the Strategic Force, studied the German-Russian war situation together. "It seems that the Georgian bearded man of Red Russia is already somewhat dissatisfied with Marshal Shaposhnikov, and the replacement of Budyonny is just a signal, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian army on the Western Front will have to be replaced in the next step. Moreover, if there is a stalemate, for Red Russia, there will only be an increase in troops, and the Eastern Front will inevitably be further weakened, and our offensive timetable will be determined. ”

Regarding General Zhang Jianyuan's argument, Wu Chenxuan was noncommittal, the bearded man is not in vain, he has fought with the Chinese National Defense Forces for several rounds and lost by points, he is by no means a military novice, he has never relaxed his defense against China, and he will not fail to consider this point in the deployment of troops. "To what extent is Red Russia mobilized now?" Wu Chenxuan pondered for a moment and asked:

"The regular army of the Russian army has 5.373 million people, of which the army accounts for 4.553 million, the remaining 476,000 air force and more than 300,000 red navy. But a little explanation needs to be made here - this includes their respective field forces (called combat readiness forces in Red Russia) and reserve forces (that is, reserve forces called by Red Russia), of which about 500,000 were in reserve and the remaining 4,827,000 were the combat readiness forces of the Red Army at that time. The Russian army has another 154,000 internal affairs troops, which none of the Chief of the General Staff Shaposhnikov has the right to cover, and its number is comparable to the current German SS and should not be ignored (in the ensuing border battles, 74,900 border and internal affairs troops, together with the Russian troops of the five major military districts, will join the attack on Germany). Current intelligence suggests that 2.68-2.9 million Russian troops were deployed near the western border before October 22. 2.68 million Red Russian troops in the five military regions: This includes all the army and air forces of the five western military regions, including 2.43 million in the army and 250,000 in the air force, and the sum of the two is 2.68 million, which has been confirmed long before the outbreak of the German-Russian war. ”

"Are you saying that the Russians have not done their best, they still have a million reserves to mobilize, so there will be no reduction in forces on the Eastern Front?" Admiral Zhang Jianyuan* understood the meaning of the general seat as soon as he heard it, and although Germany and Russia had temporarily died down, both sides still had spare strength, and it was impossible to do good.

"Yes, the golden drum on the Western Front is more urgent, and our time is not yet ripe."