Chapter 1507: Reinforcements of the Kalinin Front

The United States is a country of immigrants, all its citizens are immigrants, and the native Indians have been killed and driven away.

So, they come from all over the world, they speak all kinds of accents, they share the idea of freedom and democracy, they don't have a long history, but they have become a powerful country.

This also includes people of Japanese descent, also known as Nissi.

In war, how to deal with immigrants from enemy countries is a rather difficult problem, especially in a country like the United States, which is composed entirely of immigrants.

The attitude of the United States is different, and Americans do not have too much wariness when dealing with Germans, after all, Germans are the largest immigrant group in the United States, and there are also a number of Germans in the top echelons of the US military, such as Eisenhower, who are Germans.

However, the Japanese are different.

Although there are constant conflicts with Germany, it is only recently that Germany has made a move in Iceland, which can be regarded as a head-to-head confrontation with the United States, but what about the island countries? As soon as the war began, the island nation attacked Pearl Harbor.

Therefore, the situation of the Japanese Americans was miserable, and they were transferred to the West Coast of the United States, where they were kept under strict supervision.

The Japanese are dissatisfied with this situation, they want to show their loyalty, they want to fight bloody battles to prove their innocence, they want to go to war!

Originally worried about their loyalty, Roosevelt had an idea and simply sent them to Europe to defend Moscow!

Now the Soviet Union is about to come to an end, and if the United States does not transfuse blood, then the defeat of the Soviet Union is almost inevitable, and after the Soviet Union is defeated, Germany will definitely attack the United States with all its might.

Look at the fact that the Soviet Union has not yet fallen, and the Germans have hit Iceland.

In this case, the Nissi finally came to the USSR.

After receiving this news, the expression on Stalin's face changed again, there was no dissatisfaction, only very bland, no matter what, in short, this is also a formed army.

He looked at the map: "Now, the northern corps of the Germans is closest to us, transfer these American reinforcements to the north and guard Kalinin." ”

As long as they are American nationals, they are all Americans, so it is still American reinforcements, and now, Stalin did not look at this force in his eyes, the whole of the United States is only 120,000 Nissi, and this time, there is only one infantry regiment, although the number is as high as 14,000 people, but no one can afford them.

With Nomenkan's experience, they felt that these Nissi must have no combat effectiveness, and they would be sent to be cannon fodder, and Stalin could also understand what Roosevelt meant, and sending these Nissi to this is the purpose.

He didn't know that the combat effectiveness of these Nissi had indeed opened their eyes.

"Poof!" The train emitted a puff of white smoke and stopped at the railway station in Kalinin.

The city of Kalinin is located in the western part of the upper Volga basin and in the northern part of the Tver Mountains. The city is located on the main railway and road lines between Moscow and St. Petersburg, 160 km northwest of Moscow and 484 km from St. Petersburg.

Straddling the banks of the Volga River, the city has the Ivankov hydroelectric power station and the Ivankov reservoir in the upper reaches. The Volga River divides the city into two parts from west to east. The city also has the Tvercha River, a tributary of the Volga River, and the Zimaka River, a right tributary.

It has a long history, dating back to 1135, and in 1247 it became the capital of the Duchy of Tver, a center of resistance to the Mongol-Tatar invasion and the biggest competitor of the Muscovy. In 1485, it was annexed to Muscovy. From 1796 to 1929 it was the capital of Tver Province.

Since 1935, it has been the capital of the Kalinin region and has been renamed the city of Kalinin. It was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union that the old name was restored.

Now, guarding here is the Kalinin Front.

This front was formed a month earlier, on the instructions of the headquarters of the Supreme High Command, for the purpose of unified command of the troops covering Moscow from the north-west. It has jurisdiction over the 22nd, 29th, 30th, and 31st armies on the right flank of the Western Front. The field command was rebuilt from the headquarters of the 10th Army of the Reserve.

Ever since the formation of the Kalinin Front, it has been confronted by the powerful German Army Group North, which is surging from Petersburg and seems to be able to eat it at once.

However, the German attack was not very violent, and only now did the German advance appear on the outskirts of the Kalinin city.

On the one hand, it was because of their layers of resistance that delayed the Germans' movements, and due to the large number of waters in the north, it was difficult for the Germans to advance, the bridges along the way were blown up, and the Germans had to engineer bridges and so on, and the progress was not fast.

On the other hand, I am afraid that the supply of the Germans is not particularly sufficient, the advance of the armored forces, the logistics supply is astronomical, and when the Germans cross Petersburg, the momentum of the offensive will be slowed down.

In short, now Kalinin is still in the hands of the USSR, but on the outskirts of the city, the German strikers have already begun to appear.

It was at this time that the Kalinin defenders finally received the reinforcements they had been waiting for.

Moscow attaches the most importance to the west and the south, because the Germans have the most armored clusters there, and the newly pulled reserves are almost all filled to the west and south, and the reinforcements that have arrived this time are what they have been waiting for for a long time.

As soon as the train stopped, the compartments of the stuffy tank car behind were opened, and when the soldiers inside jumped down, the chief of staff of the Kalinin Front, Vladimir Vasilyevich Kurasov, who came to greet him, was immediately dumbfounded.

The superiors said that it was reinforcements from the United States that arrived, which made the Kalinin Front attach great importance to it, and sent the chief of staff of the front like him to greet him.

They are about 1.5 meters, the tallest is less than 1.6 meters, the long American standard rifles on their bodies, plus bayonets, are taller than themselves, and they are wearing the uniforms of the American army, obviously, they are all too big, and the armed belts are tied, as if they are theater robes.

Such a person, what kind of reinforcement do you come to be a reinforcement? It's just for fun, right?

Kurasov's eyes were full of disappointment, these people, it seems, are the islanders of the East, did the Americans send prisoners of war from the island country? It's not right, the Americans don't seem to have won any battles, where to take these prisoners of war?

Although Kurasov was full of disappointment the moment he saw these people, he was satisfied with the performance of these soldiers.

They got out of the car, there was no noise, everyone was quiet, and under the command of the officer, they soon lined up in the open space in front of the railway station, and their quality was quite good, much more disciplined than the troops pulled up by their own reserves.

Then, a lieutenant colonel came down.