241 Barbarossa and heavy thunderstorms
readx; readx; "In Europe, no one was able to stop us, and now, except for the last bit of Soviet land, everything is under the rule of the Third Reich!"
"We are going to start a war, a war against the USSR, to fight for greater living space for the Aryans to the East, and not to stay in the existing small territories!"
"This battle plan will be extremely serious and serious, this is a battle plan that will not allow any mistakes or delays, this battle plan will be fully committed by the entire empire, because we must achieve victory!"
"We will not lose the war against the Soviets and will not fail, and when the war begins, you will see all of Europe flying under the banner of the Third Reich!"
Heydrich's speech was impassioned, but this time the audience was very small, only limited to a part of the senior generals of the Wehrmacht and the SS, it was a top-secret battle plan, but it was also a very serious and inadmissible battle plan, the code name of the battle plan was 'Barbarossa'!
According to the battle plan, the total number of troops involved in the preparation for this war exceeded 185 divisions, of which 20 divisions were deployed in Greece, and immediately after the start of the war operation, they crossed Turkey and attacked the Caucasus. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At the same time, the German army also gathered more than 8,000 tanks of various types, of which the total number of the latest improved No. 4 tank and Leopard tank has exceeded 1,000, in addition, the German artillery unit also has more than 40,000 towed guns of various types, hundreds of Lion self-propelled guns and more than 1,000 Type 41 smoke-breather improved rocket launchers, and as the support force of these guns and tanks, the German army has a total of nearly 800,000 vehicles. dudu1;
The Luftwaffe also mobilized a total of more than 6,000 combat aircraft of various types for this war, and at the same time, all 300 B-17 bombers equipped by the Luftwaffe were also to be used in combat operations against the Soviet Union.
With the preparations for war in full swing, the mobilization of German troops also began, and a large number of German troops began to go to the Eastern Front in whole formations and stationed in the area close to the Soviet-German border.
In a responsible manner, the German government immediately decided to accede to the request of the two countries, and immediately issued an order for 35 divisions of German troops to be stationed in Finland and 60 divisions to Romania.
The Germans were clearly moving towards the Soviet Union, but the Soviets were not idle either.
As the Great Purge wore off, the strength of the Soviet Union was gradually recovering, and the ambitious Stalin thought that he had reached the moment when he could fight Germany!
He demanded that his generals immediately devise a surprise attack on Germany, which would be carried out no later than May 1, 1941. dudu2;
Soon, a battle plan, code-named 'Thunderstorm', was produced and presented to Stalin, according to which the Soviet army would expand the Soviet-German border to 200 divisions, not including 20,000 tanks, 15,000 combat aircraft, and 80,000 artillery pieces of various types!
Such an army, capable of crushing almost the whole world, would first cut off the ties between Germany and Romania, leaving the Germans without oil as soon as the war broke out, and then a real attack on Germany itself.
This thunderstorm plan made Stalin very pleased, maybe the German team swept through Western Europe in the past two years and won a lot of battles, but in the face of absolute numbers, no matter how experienced the German ** people will die, Stalin sat in his office in the Kremlin, smiling, as if he saw the scene of his own killing in Germany.
With the formulation of the battle plan, the Soviet army began to expand its armaments in an all-round way, conscription was being carried out all over the Soviet Union, and at the same time, various military factories were working at full speed to produce tanks, planes, and artillery!
At the same time, in response to the deployment of troops proposed in the heavy thunderstorm plan, the Soviet army also began to frequently change defense areas, and transferred a large number of troops to the Soviet-German border for the purpose of military training.
Both sides were in a tense deployment and deployment of troops according to their own battle plans, so much so that neither side even noticed the anomaly in the opponent's fanfare. dudu3;
However, it is precisely because the deployment of troops on both sides is almost identical that neither side has noticed the seriousness of the problem. The Soviets concentrated their main forces in Ukraine, aiming to strike at Romania first and cut off the oil supply to the Germans.
Oil was very important to Germany, so the Germans sent a large number of troops to Romania under the pretext of Romania's invitation to protect their oil fields, which was taken for granted by the Soviets, and they did not expect that the Germans were so consistent with their views.
When the Germans found that a large number of the main forces of the Soviet army were in Ukraine, they also thought that the Soviet army was concentrated in order to protect its main grain-producing areas and the Caucasus oil fields behind it, and they did not expect that in fact, such a deployment of troops was to attack Germany.
However, compared with the Soviet Union's single-minded construction of weapons and equipment and recruitment of new soldiers, the Germans obviously had more means, and they were not only engaged in a war of armament, but also a war of public opinion and propaganda.
Since the end of 1940, there have been reports of Stalin's massacres of civilians and disagreeable people in a large number of areas near the Soviet border, and it has been rumored that Sergei Milonovich Kirov, secretary of the Organization Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and member of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, who was most likely to become general secretary of the Soviet Union, was not assassinated by a spurious enemy, but by Stalin in order to become general secretary himself.
And the Great Purge, which lasted for many years, was not at all aimed at catching any enemies, but to kill all those who had an opinion about Stalin, which was Stalin's personal act, not for the sake of the Soviet Union, and even Stalin killed too many innocent people and those who contributed to the red cause of the Soviet Union!
The battle between the open and the dark, the true and false news, in the somewhat cold winter of 1940, permeated little by little...... (To be continued.) )