In the Reichskanzlei Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, an important military conference is taking place. Almost all the top and core figures of the German Army and Air Force attended this important meeting www.biquge.info report to their Führer, Adolf Hitler, on the progress of the war on the Eastern Front and discuss future deployments.

"Hey! My Führer! When Hitler stepped into the conference room, the generals present neatly raised their right hands, saluted a "German salute," and shouted their familiar slogans.

Hitler walked to his place, raised his right hand, saluted the generals with a "German salute", and then made a gesture to the generals to sit down.

"Franz Halder!" Hitler's eyes showed a sense of anger. He directly called the chief of the German General Staff, General Franz Halder, by his full name, and then asked: "Now, how is the situation on the Eastern Front?" ”

Historically, when Halder was Chief of the Army General Staff, Nazi Germany was at its peak of strength, and he planned the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France, and achieved great victories, for which he was awarded the Knight's Iron Cross, the highest honor of the German army.

However, the chief of the General Staff, who had a brilliant record and made a lot of achievements for Hitler, did not like Hitler in his heart and had always opposed the Nazi regime.

As early as 1938, shortly before the "Sudetenland", Halder and some anti-Nazi elements in the German military secretly planned a plot to overthrow the Nazi regime and attempted to kidnap Hitler, but it was never carried out, so he could still appear alive in front of Hitler.

Because he did not join the Nazi Party, it is no wonder that Hitler rarely referred to Halder as "comrade" at important military meetings.

"Führer," Halder said, lifting his glasses, "now that the fighting on the Eastern Front is basically stable, our army has advanced to the old border of the Soviet Union and is confronting the enemy. They began building a series of fortifications in the area as early as the 1920s, which have been upgraded and strengthened in the last two years.

According to our reconnaissance and reports, the Soviets' defense line was covered with machine-gun bunkers and anti-tank bunkers. Quite a few of the bunkers, especially the anti-tank bunkers, were disguised as country houses. ”

Hitler looked at his Chief of the General Staff with questioning eyes and said: "Country cottage? ”

"Yes, my Führer. According to a report submitted by the 3rd Tank Group, one of their tank companies was under fire from anti-tank guns while driving on a road in Belarus.

They destroyed 4 of our tanks, but our soldiers still couldn't find the location of the enemy's fire. In order to avoid further losses, we had to retreat.

After the retreat of the tank company, the regimental headquarters sent scouts over. They searched for a long time, only to find that the enemy had installed their anti-tank guns in a wooden house. ”

"And then?"

Halder continued: "Then we sent Stuka bombers to bomb the two wooden houses, and they blew up the wooden facades at once, but after the bombing we realized that the inside of the wooden houses was a complete concrete anti-tank bunker. ”

"And then? Has this bunker been destroyed? "Hitler, who was in a hurry to achieve quick results, did not care about the process, only wanted to know the result.

"It was destroyed, but we lost a total of 2 assault guns No. 3 (Sturmgeschütz_III), 3 tank No. 4, 6 tank No. 3, and 40 sappers."

"Rubbish! You shit! When Hitler heard of the results, he was furious and showed the Führer's anger in front of the top brass of the German army and air force. He casually picked up the cup full of warm water on the table, threw it to the side, and smashed it against the white wall, letting out a crisp "poof! "A bang.

The water that had been in the cup was scattered all over the ground, and Halder's military uniform was also wet, but he did not show a trace of anger, and could only sit here obediently and be scolded.

"Who guaranteed that the casualties would be kept to 100,000 in the first place?" Hitler continued to roar: "Now, just over a month after the war, the Wehrmacht has already killed 230,000 people, wounded 600,000, more than 6,000 planes shot down, and more than 4,000 tanks destroyed!" You say, how much more do we have to pay, how much time do we have to take Moscow? ”

After more than a month of fighting, the Germans managed to occupy a large area west of the old Soviet border, and all the land that the Soviet Union had expanded in 1939 was occupied by the Germans, except for Estonia. However, while occupying large tracts of land, the Germans paid a heavy price of casualties, and the speed of their replenishment and defense production was far from keeping up with the needs of the front.

If this trend drags on for a long time, sooner or later the men in Germany will run out and the resources will run out. In the event of a large-scale offensive by the Soviet army, the Germans may not be able to withstand it.

"Adolf, now the situation in the front-line air force has improved." Air Marshal Goering reported: "In the early days of the war, the Soviet Air Force had air supremacy.

They have more aircraft than us, and many of them are newly developed Caila-7 and Yak-3 fighters, which are ahead of our BF-109F fighters in terms of performance, firepower, protection and other aspects, and even our newly developed Fw190 fighters are not comparable to them.

However, the Imperial Air Force was not without superiority. Our pilots are highly trained and have a wealth of combat experience. On the contrary, the pilots of the Soviet Air Force were not sufficiently trained and had no combat experience to speak of. In such a situation, even the Soviet pilots who flew the La-7 fighters would not be our opponents.

After more than a month of fighting, we have gradually gained partial air supremacy in Belarus and the Baltic states, and the heroic Imperial pilots have destroyed a number of enemy aircraft, many of which are new fighters such as the La-7 and Yak-3.

If we can have more aircraft and develop more superior aircraft as soon as possible, I believe that we will soon be able to achieve full air supremacy. ”

"Führer, Marshal Goering was right," Halder added: "In the early days of the war, although our land forces were well advanced and occupied large areas of Soviet territory, our troops were often subjected to Soviet air raids, which should have been one of the reasons for so many of our casualties.

In addition, our most advanced tank No. 4 was no match for the Soviet T-34 tank and the KV tank. Their tank guns were able to easily penetrate the front armor of tank No. 4 at a distance of a kilometer, but our tank guns could not penetrate the armor of Soviet tanks at a distance of 400 meters.

To win this war, we need not only to regain air supremacy, but also to gain armor superiority. It was imperative to replace all the No. 4 tanks with 7.5 cm KwK40 tank guns, and at the same time to develop a more advanced tank with powerful firepower and protection. ”

After listening to the report, Hitler thought about it calmly, and then said: "Order the Henschel company to complete the research and development of the VK3601 (H) project (Tiger tank) as soon as possible, and put this powerful tank on the battlefield as soon as possible to deal with the new tank of the Soviets."

At the same time, it is necessary to drop part of the Air Force of the Western Front to the Eastern Front, and to carry out the upgrade of the BF109 fighters, and order the aviation industry to put the Fw190 into production as soon as possible! ”

"Yes!" (To be continued.) )