The German Führer had a special insight into the future, which became an almost every-known secret in the German High Command, and of course this was a topic that could only be talked about in private, otherwise it would not have been called a "secret".

The High Command was still relatively optimistic in terms of overall strategy, because the Wehrmacht had never been stronger than it is today, and it was steadily increasing at all times, and if Germany was given sufficient time to prepare, the Red Bear in the East would soon cease to be a threat.

But will the Soviet Union give Germany these time, if Stalin's brain has not been spoiled by vodka, he must have sensed that the pressure on the Soviet Union is increasing, he is an egoist like Hitler, and he will definitely not let this situation continue.

The founders of the Red Army believed that the best defense was the attack, but the roots of this idea came from the Prussian Army. After the fall of Napoleon's French army, there was no more active army in Europe than the German army, if at all, it was also trained in German military schools.

The judgment of the Führer and the High Command was unanimous, that is, war between the Soviet Union and Germany was inevitable, and this was not a problem that could be solved by one or two agreements or memorandums of reconciliation, and that the two sides were not only in a fierce conflict over the ideology of the people, but also in geopolitics, the contradictions between the two sides were difficult to reconcile, and Stalin wanted to expand his sphere of influence in Europe, but Germany blocked his path of expansion, which the proud Georgian could not tolerate.

Historically, Stalin was wary of Germany, but not as serious as it is now, and the information available so far indicates that the Soviet Union is waging a spy war against Germany, and judging by the intensity of its actions, it is clear that the Soviets have begun to regard Germany as the first threat.

Historically, at the end of 1940, Germany was still confronting Britain on the Western Front, the Wehrmacht was busy building submarine caves and coastal batteries along the coast of France, and the Navy was in full swing in the Atlantic.

But now the situation has changed dramatically, Germany has conquered all of Europe, and is gathering the forces of the European countries at an astonishing rate, pulling them into their new political system, and building a strong military alliance, and it is conceivable that once they complete this project, the Soviet Union will not only face Germany and its weak client states, but an incomparably powerful Europa League.

If the Soviet Union did not want to succumb to the pressure of the European Union in the future, it would have to launch a swift, devastating, pre-emptive blitzkrieg aimed at crushing the rival alliance before its opponents had amassed enough strength to destroy the Soviets. And the most effective way to crush this alliance is to defeat or even completely destroy the foundation and core of this alliance, the powerful German Third Reich.

The Soviet Red Army was quite familiar with the German theory of blitzkrieg, and let's not forget that the USSR and Germany had a long history of military cooperation, and a large part of the German armored troops and pilots were trained on Soviet soil. During the honeymoon period of cooperation between the two countries, the senior commanders of the two sides also carried out a lot of substantive exchanges on the use of armored forces and air forces, and the Soviet Red Army was really no stranger to Germany's air-ground joint strike methods.

The Soviet Union also had its own theory of large-depth operations, in fact, at the tactical level, there were many similarities with Germany's blitzkrieg theory, and from a certain point of view, it could be regarded as a Russian enhanced version of the German blitzkrieg.

The Soviet Union itself had excellent conditions that were completely unattainable for the Third Reich at that time, with a vast territory, a huge population, and untold energy and mineral resources.

The Soviet Red Army never had to worry about running out of troops and equipment, let alone suffering from fuel and raw materials. Soviet weapons did not abandon mass production because a certain part required rare metals, let alone rack their brains to find replacement materials, which led to a decline in the quality of the weapon.

The huge population base brought the Soviet Union almost endless reserves, just like the German army encountered in history, if you destroy one infantry division of the opponent, two will come out later, and in the face of this never-ending tug-of-war, even the veteran German army has to feel pessimistic.

At this time, the Soviet Union had not only completed its industrial transformation, but also formed a considerable size, and it had enough labor and resources to create an army of steel in a very short time.

She is one of the very few countries in the world that can be self-sufficient, and its long borders make it difficult to completely block it, even if the European direction is blocked by Germany, she can still find a breakthrough in the Far East.

These innate conditions of the Soviet Union, coupled with the technical and economic support of Germany and the United States, enabled her to build a large Red Army that surpassed any other European country, and at the same time, both in terms of technology and tactics, it was already at the middle level of its contemporaries.

The performance of Soviet weapons has approached or even surpassed that of some mainstream European countries, which has been clearly demonstrated in the Spanish Civil War, that is, the Soviet Union's intervention in the Spanish Civil War, and the wave of the left that extended into the Balkans, caused the whole of Europe to become vigilant against the threat from the East.

The sheer size of the Soviet Red Army was the most important condition for realizing the theory of large-depth operations, and to put it bluntly, it was to rely on an almost endless number of soldiers to launch a large-scale blitzkrieg that constantly advanced into the depth of the enemy's forces.

It's just that because of the limited number of infantry and equipment troops, the German army can only concentrate armored forces to launch a point-to-point raid, and then the infantry consolidates the occupied area, encircles and clears the encircled remnants, although it can successfully break through the enemy's defense line, but the armored forces are limited by the consumption of fuel and ammunition during the battle, and soon lose the ability to continue to advance in depth.

Compared with the delicate and ferocious blitzkrieg of the German army, the Soviet tactics were quite simple and crude, and what would happen if the Soviet Red Army were allowed to attack the target that the German army was facing?

Soviet commanders could easily amass four or five times more armored forces than the Germans, and then divide these armored forces into clusters, each with the same combat effectiveness as the main German cluster.

When the offensive begins, the Red Army will use the first cluster to break through the enemy's defenses, open a gap in the enemy's position, and then this cluster will no longer move forward, but cooperate with the infantry units to consolidate the results of the battle on the spot, defend against the enemy's counterattack and re-block the breakthrough.

The Reds would then let the refueled 2nd Panzer Group in the rear pass through the breach and strike in depth until it reached the enemy's second line of defense, then the 2nd Panzer Group would attack and open the breach, and then the 3rd Panzer Group, unscathed and morale-high, would pass through the breach and continue to assault in depth, followed by the fourth, the fifth, and until the strategic reserves were all engaged.

Theoretically, this kind of continuous armored assault will completely disrupt or even destroy the enemy's command and logistics system, resulting in the loss of unified command and supply of the enemy's forces in the entire deep area, and will eventually be divided, encircled, and annihilated by the Red Army's infantry units, which have absolute superiority in troops.

Of course, real combat is not as simple as the author says, and this is a rather complex system of operational theory, which requires the cooperation of the infantry, tank, artillery, and air branches, and it is not something that can be explained in a few words.

In fact, most Soviet commanders did not really grasp the essence of this theory until the end of World War II, because the battlefield situation on the Eastern Front was too complicated, and they rarely had the opportunity to accumulate the strength to use this tactic, and at the same time lacked the material conditions to use this tactic, so most of the time they still used the most conventional Soviet tactics to fight.

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