ps: It's a little late, sorry......

The rumbling sound of tracks came from the spring soil of the Caucasus plain, and an endless column of steel was marching rapidly, all of which were SS troops, subordinate to the right flank cluster of the SS Thor's Hammer Special Panzer Army (hereafter referred to as the Hausser cluster). Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The entire marching formation was headed by the Guard Flag Division, the Reich Division and the Skeleton Division as the two flanks, followed by the Hitler Youth Division and two Panzergrenadier Divisions, and then followed by other infantry units marching in trucks, spreading out more than 100 kilometers, and the Supreme Commander of the Army, Paul Hausser, who was nicknamed "Daddy", followed the battle map on an armored command vehicle of the Sdkfz.251 type, and did not hesitate to issue combat orders.

Originally, according to his rank, he could enjoy a Tiger heavy command vehicle (modified with a Tiger chassis, and the artillery was camouflaged with wood, which was not capable of combat), but he thought that this kind of closed heavy command vehicle was not bright and breathable enough, and still liked the half-track armored command vehicle of the division commanders, and then turned around and gave the Tiger heavy command vehicle to General Theodore Ike, the commander of the 3rd Skeletal Division of the Waffen-SS, not that Ike was afraid of death, but precisely because Ike was not afraid of death, and often rushed to the front line, So Hausser thought it necessary for him to equip such a heavy command vehicle.

The trajectory of Theodore Ike's fate was also changed by the changing circumstances on the Soviet-German battlefield, he was originally hung in the Third Battle of Kharkov in 1943, but now he is alive and well commanding the Skeleton Division.

Speaking of which, in addition to the continuous rise in military ranks, the positions of these commanders have not changed for a long time, such as Ike has been a division commander since he was ordered to form the Skeleton Division in 1939, and he has always been a division commander, many of the Wehrmacht officers of the same period may have been just a colonel in 39 years, and now several have even sat in the position of commander of the group army, as for the lucky ones like Mandolfer, who have been in charge of the 41-year-old battalion commander and are now the commander of the 7th Armored Division and even serve as the commander of the cluster (group army level).

But the first rule of the SS members is obedience, and after witnessing these steel formations and elite forces, even the most critical commander can say nothing -- if you want to be promoted, there are a large number of generals and lieutenant generals in the reserve army waiting to change positions with you, and after there is no divisional establishment and Hoffmann is only keen to replenish the old troops, and no longer blindly expands the new troops, it is extremely difficult to become a division commander with real power, and it is even more difficult to become the commander of the main division, and it is even more difficult to be the commander of an elite division who can take the lead in completing the 1944 type establishment reform. Theoretically, a colonel can now be a division commander, but in fact, except for some antiaircraft artillery divisions and guard divisions, there are not even major generals as division commanders, and most of the first-line division commanders are lieutenant generals, and generals are also common.

Hausser, who was serving as commander of the army group for the first time, was also full of ambition. Not only was he typical of the old Prussian officer, but unlike many SS officers, he behaved in a dignified and polite manner, and received a good orthodox and military education - very different from Dietrich and Ike.

Hausser not only retired from the Army with the rank of lieutenant general (1932), but also served as an operational staff officer of the 1st Reserve Army, commander of the 38th Regiment "Field Marshal of Count Moltke" and a staff officer of the General Staff during World War I. Before the war, he even went to the navy for three years of training and aviation training, so he can be said to be a well-rounded talent who is proficient in land, sea, and air.

It was extremely difficult to be promoted to a general in the Wehrmacht of 100,000 Weimar Republic, not to mention Guderian, Rommel, Zeitzler and others, and even Manstein was no match (lieutenant colonel in 32 years). In the entire German armed forces system, the only people who can be older than him are the old commander Rundstead and the commander of the reserve army Blomburg. If Hauser had not chosen the National Society and had continued to work in the Wehrmacht, at least one army group would have been titled commander and marshal, but he never regretted his choice.

He now has an unprecedentedly powerful armored division in his hands, each with 378 tanks (tannihilation), more than 200 artillery pieces and more than 800 half-track armored vehicles of various types. He had 4 such armored divisions. And these divisions are not like the American armored divisions with 400 tanks (Tan Annihilation) and take some light tanks to make up the number, which are all genuine medium or heavy tanks, whether it is a 38-ton Leopard or a 48-ton Tiger, all of them are the best in the field of combat vehicles, even the Raider tank destroyer (T-34 chassis), it is also unrivaled equipment in this field.

Of course, the Soviets' new IS-1\IS-2 still poses a certain threat to the troops, but Haussert is not without a way to deal with it, he still has 4 heavy armored battalions equipped with Tiger 2 tanks in his hands - due to the delay in the investment of Thor's hammer until late May, the number of equipment of the Tiger 2 tank heavy armored battalion has reached 8 - Hausser's cluster has taken 4, Marshal Hult has taken 1, and Guderian has taken 3.

And Hauser believes that there must be a better tank than the Tiger 2 in the country, because he has personally heard the Führer talk about the existence of a top Tiger King. ，

He was satisfied not only with so many tanks, but also with the Panzergrenadiers and Armored Artillerymen who were all carrying half-track armored vehicles, which gave the division unparalleled mobility, and in order to ensure the operation of such a large number of mechanized equipment, the entire division was also equipped with more than 3,000 European standard trucks.

The German Army's standard military truck was the Opel Lightning, which played a huge role in the blitzkrieg in Western Europe and still performed well in North Africa, but on the Eastern Front, the Opel Lightning encountered the problem of insufficient access to standardized roads. Although the nominal load of Opel is claimed to be 2.5 tons or even 3 tons, it actually needs to be discounted in bad road conditions. Overall, Opel's performance is good, better than Mercedes, Borgward, NSU trucks. But the truck is the most afraid of people than people, after the seizure of the American-made GMC ten-wheel truck, Hoffman became dissatisfied with the Opel. Therefore, he ordered the production of a new truck on the basis of Opel Lightning, combined with the technology of the US military, codenamed the European standard truck.

After three months of design, the new truck was quickly finalized, with the front end identical to the existing Opel front, but the rest of the chassis, transmission, and engine have been replaced, and it is actually exactly the same as the American product. In other words, it is the head of Opel and the body of the American ten-wheel calorie. Of course, the German designers did not simply copy it, they replaced the American GMC270 gasoline engine with a 247GL diesel engine from MAN, and the maximum power was upgraded from 104 hp to 116 hp.

In fact, this engine has been successfully developed for several years, and was originally intended to be used in wheeled armored vehicles, and earlier the 1038GL engine (190 hp) was intended for use in the No. 2 tank, but Germany has always been limited by the shortage of crude oil, and the synthetic fuel is only gasoline, and the result of integrating diesel fuel to the Navy is that it is difficult to see diesel engines in the army. But since the takeover of the Middle East, Germany's oil supply situation has improved dramatically, and even the production of synthetic fuel plants has been slowly reduced or even stopped, and all the coal saved has been invested in power generation - the Third Reich's electricity consumption has increased dramatically due to the Super Bomb project.

At the same time, after the start of trade with Japan, a large amount of natural rubber began to be imported (this is the second largest fist product used in Japan for trade, the first largest is gold and silver), and the original consumption of crude oil synthetic artificial rubber has become temporarily unnecessary, natural rubber is not only cheaper and more durable, this part of the fuel consumption also continues to decrease, and even tanks have begun to transform the original hard steel wheels, began to use some rubber products.

It was only after the diesel supply that a large number of T-34 chassis vehicles entered service, but new problems began to arise, because the Navy's diesel consumption also remained stable - the Anglo-Canadian route was repeatedly interrupted by the main aircraft carrier formation, and the submarines could not find anyone to break the relationship, except for the S boats and the new XXI submarines who were in the limelight, many old submarines began to lie on their stomachs. As a result, an unexpected new situation arose, and the problem of unbalanced gasoline and diesel consumption began to appear, and there was a situation of diesel hoarding in China. Waste is reluctant, in order to effectively proportion, can only reduce gasoline consumption and increase diesel consumption, so diesel trucks are on the agenda.

Hoffmann agreed with this flexible idea, so the German (European) standard truck was born, this kind of truck in bad road conditions standard transport volume of 3 tons, on the road or other good traffic on the ground, can easily achieve a load capacity of 5 tons, this refitting process, not only the heavy equipment is replaced with a new model, the standard truck is also fully listed.

The main armored division of the SS took the lead in completing the 1944 type of rearmament, and it is not without controversy to be honest, after all, the last time the 1943 type was redressed, it was a situation where the SS and the Wehrmacht were half apart, but at the insistence of the Führer, all sides finally passed, 7 of the 9 armored divisions in the first batch of refitting were SS divisions, and the other two places were given to the flying fortresses and armored instructors, although the next large-scale refitting of the Wehrmacht, but now that the war is imminent, the supply of new tanks must give priority to ensuring the replenishment of the original units, The other armored divisions are busy fighting, and I am afraid that they will not be able to change their equipment for a while.

Moreover, does not the chronological order of time fully illustrate the recognition of the Wehrmacht's recognition of the sacrifices and exploits of the SS over the years? Although it was also suggested that if the troops were redressed according to the Model 1944, the finances and national strength would simply not be able to bear it, but Hausser tried not to think about it.

The Führer once confidently shouted the slogan: "The living conditions of American soldiers are world-class, and the equipment conditions of German soldiers are world-class......