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"Second, strategic deception

Now Germany has made all the above preliminary preparations, this is the time for us to implement the second step of attacking the Soviet Union, we need to use 4.5 million German elite troops, these forces are almost 80% of the German regular army, and EU countries may send troops to help us, the number is about 2.5 million, of course, although the military strength of these allies is not enough for a frontal attack, but stationed in the place, maintaining order, and some other secondary strategic tasks, This allows us not to have to disperse our forces for the garrison of the occupied territory. {{ 3

The transfer of 7 million troops, according to this huge number, it is absolutely impossible to keep it secret, we must think of a foolproof strategic deception plan, in which I arranged it like this, under the pretext that Germany and the Allies are going to hold a large-scale military exercise of the alliance of European countries, and at the same time invite the Soviet delegation and representatives of other countries of the world to visit the exercise, and all journalists can ask to interview any of our troops, that is, this exercise of ours is completely public, It's just that advanced weapons and equipment prohibit journalists from approaching.

I think we can only paralyze the Soviet Union by openly and blatantly carrying out strategic deception in this way, and of course the specific effect depends on the actual situation, even if we do not paralyze the Soviet Union, we have enough ability to break through the defenses of the Soviet army, and then penetrate in depth.

Third, on the comparison of the military strength of the two sides:

The German army that attacked the Soviet Union was organized into three army groups, Southern, Central and Northern, with 20 army groups and 6 armored groups under its jurisdiction. There were 252 divisions and three brigades, totaling 4.5 million men, accounting for about 80% of the strength of the German field army. We prepared 7,350 tanks, 6,300 combat aircraft, and 47,146 artillery pieces for the attack on the Soviet Union, and the EU countries sent about 2.5 million troops, with a total strength of 7 million.

Speaking of our offensive strength, and then analyzing the strength of the Soviet Union now deployed on the border, according to intelligence, the Western Border Military District and Navy of the Soviet Union have a total of 170 divisions and 2 brigades, with a total of 3.9 million people; 1800 heavy and medium tanks, 1540 new aircraft and a large number of old aircraft. 34965 artillery pieces and mortars. 269 surface ships, 127 submarines.

Judging by the above data, we are in an absolute advantage, although the Soviets have more artillery. It is because of the prevalence of their artilleryism. This little bit of numerical advantage of theirs. It was not enough to change the strategic disadvantage of the Soviet Union, so our odds were very high. ”

The German army group had several army groups under its jurisdiction. Each group army has 3-5 corps, each corps has 3-5 divisions, 12,000 German armored divisions, and 16,800 infantry divisions.

Air Corps (Army Group Level): It is the largest front-line combat unit in Germany, under the jurisdiction of several air corps, aviation divisions, aviation regiments, brigades and ** units. It is mainly responsible for air operations and support to the army throughout the region. Now Germany has 7 air forces, numbered in Arabic numerals, and the Air Corps - consisting of several aviation divisions as well as airborne divisions. There are about 300-700 combat aircraft. Numbered in Roman numerals, aviation division: commanding 3-4 or more aviation regiments, numbered in Arabic numerals: also called wings, the largest tactical establishment, generally under the regimental headquarters and 3-4 brigades, the 4th brigade is usually a training brigade, and now the 4th brigade of the aviation regiment has also become a formal combat unit. The regimental headquarters has about 4 combat aircraft, and each brigade has about 40 combat aircraft, about 164.

"Fourth, attack, attack, attack again:

(1) General attempt: The armored forces should fight decisively, wedge into the deep depths of the enemy, annihilate the main forces of the Russian army deployed in the western regions of Russia, and prevent their combat-capable units from withdrawing to the deep Russian areas. Then, it was necessary to make a quick pursuit in order to form a front from which the Russian air force would no longer be able to attack the territory of the German Empire.

The ultimate goal of the operation was to establish a line of defense against the Asian part of Russia, roughly along the Volga-Arkhangelsk line. In this way, if necessary, the air force could later destroy the remaining industrial regions of the Russian Urals. In the course of this operation, it was imperative that the Russian Baltic Fleet quickly lose its bases. Thus also losing its combat effectiveness. At the very beginning of the operation, it was necessary to deliver a powerful blow to the Russian Air Force to prevent it from effectively entering the war......

(2) Possible allies and their tasks:

1. On the two flanks of our operations, Romania and Finland can be expected to take an active part in the war against Soviet Russia. When the two countries entered the war, placing their armies under German command, the Wehrmacht High Command would consult and make a decision at the appropriate time.

2. The task of Romania is (the countries that later joined the European Union, typical of the wall-riding faction): at least at the beginning of the offensive, to support the offensive on the southern flank of the German army with strong combat units; pin down the enemy in the direction of non-German operations; In addition, support duties were carried out in the rear areas.

3. Finland should cover the deployment of the German Northern Group (1st Cluster 1) transferred from Norway and coordinate with it. In addition, it was also tasked with conquering Hanko.

4. From the beginning of the war at the latest, it was possible that the railways and roads in Sweden would be used for the advance of the German Northern Group.

The other allied forces quickly occupied the vast rural areas of the Soviet Union, destroyed the Soviet grassroots regime, and at the same time carried out the policy of land reform, each Soviet peasant would receive twenty acres of land, and in the national policy, the implementation of a relaxed national policy, this was very necessary, after our practice in Poland, this was a necessary means to dismantle the Stalinist regime, and those prisoners and civilians who hated the Stalinist regime would be used by us.

(3) Implementation of the operation:

1. Army: In the two theaters of operations, the north and south, which are divided by the Pripyat marshes, the main forces should be used in the north. Here it was planned to put into service two army groups. Of these two army groups, Army Group South - in the center of the entire front - the task was to carry out a surprise attack from around Warsaw and from the northern part of the territory of Belarus with particularly powerful armored and motorized corps...... In the south, the Donets Basin, which occupies an important position in the defense economy, was captured in advance, and in the north, quickly reached Moscow. The capture of the city meant a decisive political and economic victory, as well as the loss of the most important railway junction for Soviet Russia.

2. Air Force: The task is to weaken and eliminate the role of the Russian Air Force as much as possible and to support the combat operations of the Army in the main directions, especially Army Group Center, and the combat operations on the main flanks of Army Group South. Russian railways should be cut off, depending on their importance to the operation, or parachute and airborne troops should be used decisively to occupy the most important targets in their vicinity (such as ferries...... (To be continued.) )

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