Chapter 364: German Advantage
The annihilation of the army, the occupation of land, and the exploitation of resources were all commensurate, and in the matter of governing the people, Germany also had a certain advantage in the early stage of the war. {{ 3 The three Baltic states were forced by the Soviet Union to join the Soviet Union, the Poles hated the Soviet Union for stabbing them in the back during the German-Polish War, and the Ukrainians were very disgusted with the Soviet regime, seeing the Germans as liberators and welcoming them with salt and bread.
Another trick is that the Soviets can elect their own leaders, of course, this election is absolutely fair on the surface, and Li Mo only needs to control the economy of the occupied territories.
As for what Hitler would do with Li Mo's report, Li Mo doesn't know now, Li Mo called a secretary to fly directly to Berlin, let his secretary hand over the report to Tian Tian, and then after the "Barbarossa" plan was opened, he led the two Soviet marshals to meet Hitler, how Hitler would treat these two former Soviet marshals, Li Mo really didn't know, in history, Hitler sent the prisoners of Soviet generals who came to ask for cooperation back to the prisoner of war camp.
Li Mo also carefully compared and analyzed the present and historical "Barbarossa Plan", and also had some summary cognitions:
Germany's superiority also added a number of chips to Germany's victory over the Soviet Union:
1. Strategic suddenness:
On the eve of the Battle of Poland in September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, after which the Soviet Union and Germany partitioned Poland. Until the eve of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war in 1941, the economic, trade and technological exchanges between the Soviet Union and Germany were always relatively close, and Germany even sold some new equipment to the Soviet Union. As a sign of friendship. In order to conceal strategic intentions, the German army prepared to hold EU military exercises during the secret build-up to the Soviet-German border, creating the illusion of the Soviet Union.
The Germans were making a big deal of fanfare and hype about their hatred of Britain and France, creating the illusion that the German army was about to attack Britain and France: distributing British maps to the troops, equipping them with English interpreters, preparing landing equipment, and holding landing exercises. It also declared that it would carry out a plan of war to attack Gibraltar, occupy the south of France, march into North Africa, and attack Britain with Norway as a springboard, in an attempt to direct the world's attention in these directions.
Germany also uses the names of "training", "changing defenses", and "borrowing roads". Mobilization of German troops in Finland, Romania and other countries. The Soviet leaders were headed by Stalin. Although they recognized the increasing possibility of war between the Soviet Union and Germany, and took measures such as building an eastern front, strengthening the army, and fortifying the border, they still had a paralyzing mentality, a fluke mentality, and a misjudgment of the strategic situation, believing that Germany would not attack the Soviet Union so quickly. Objectively, the army's psychological and material war preparation for the Soviet-German war was insufficient. So much so that now at the moment when the war is about to break out. Or did not instruct the troops to immediately enter the first level of combat readiness.
2. Military Superiority:
Now when the Soviet-German war broke out. Germany has concentrated more than 7 million armed forces, equipped with more than 7,600 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 50,000 artillery pieces, more than 7,000 aircraft, more than 210 ships, and organized into more than 350 divisions. Of these, 49 are armoured or motorized divisions.
Coupled with the valuable war experience gained by Germany in previous wars, such as the White Plan, the Wieser Exercise, the Yellow Plan, and the Punitive Operation, the use of blitzkrieg warfare is close to perfection. The quality of the personnel of the unit is extremely high and the morale is high. It is no exaggeration to say that the German army at that time was the most powerful army in the world.
At that time, the total strength of the Soviet Union was more than 5 million, including more than 300 divisions, more than 7,000 tanks, 100,000 artillery pieces, and nearly 20,000 aircraft. However, the Soviet army was understaffed, poorly qualified, lacking in equipment, and backward in weapons, and in fact was not fully prepared for war. The total strength of the Soviet army deployed on the western border was about 2.7 million men in more than 170 divisions, 1,800 tanks, 35,000 artillery pieces, and 1,600 aircraft, and the ratio of German offensive strength was about 1:3, which was at an absolute disadvantage. Moreover, the Soviet army's war thinking is relatively backward, and it has not completely jumped out of the positional trench warfare thinking of World War I......
The whole world has seen from the victory of the German blitzkrieg the astonishing power of modern mechanical warfare that can turn the clouds and rain in an instant and decide victory or defeat, but no other country has had time to adjust the construction, establishment, equipment, ideology, tactics, and training of the armed forces to a mode that suits modern warfare.
In addition, the Soviet purge at the end of the 30s left the Soviet army with a traumatic blow: a large number of experienced senior generals and key military personnel were executed, and substitute officers generally lacked ability and experience, which seriously undermined the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army. In the Soviet-Finnish War, the Soviet Union invested millions of troops and made heavy sacrifices to defeat Finland, which was a small country and a small army, which shows the heavy blow of the Great Purge to the Soviet army.
3. Strategic Posture:
Before the war against the Soviet Union, Germany had already organized a strategic alliance against the Soviet Union, including Finland, Hungary, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey and other countries, all of which sent troops to varying degrees to participate in the war against the Soviet Union. From north to south: The armies deployed on the territory of Finland, German East Prussia, former Poland, Hungary, and Romania formed a crescent-shaped encirclement of the Soviet Union. The strength of the multi-pronged offensive forces and the concentration of assault forces were all directed at the vital points of the Soviet Union: the German-Norwegian Army attacked Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in the Arctic Circle, intending to cut off the only northern supply port of the Soviet Union in wartime;
Finland's Karelian Army Group and Army Group Southeast, in coordination with Army Group North in Germany to attack Leningrad, in an attempt to regain the territory lost in the Soviet-Finnish war; Army Group North wanted to pass through the three Baltic countries and capture Leningrad, the holy land of the October Revolution in the Soviet Union; Army Group Center advanced along the axes of attack of Minsk, Smosopsk, and Moscow, aiming directly at the heart of the Soviet Union; The German Army Group Center assaulted Kyiv with the task of seizing the abundant grain, oil, coal and other strategic resources in Ukraine.
The Romanian 3rd and 4th Armies, together with Army Group South, entered Ukraine in revenge for the forced cession of land by the Soviet Union. In contrast to Germany, the Soviet Union was in an extremely isolated position in the international community: the non-aggression pact with Germany was also cut off from the hope of joining forces with Britain and France; The consequence of the attack on Finland was the expulsion of the USSR from the League of Nations; Actions such as the partition of Poland with Germany, the forced entry of the three Baltic states into the Soviet Union, and the issuance of ultimatums to force Romania to surrender Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina further discredited the Soviet Union in the world and created many powerful enemies.
In addition, the Soviet troops deployed on the western border were too far forward and lacked sufficient depth. Once the defensive line was quickly broken through by the Germans, it was easy to be divided and surrounded. In the early days of the Soviet-German War, the Soviet army was surrounded and annihilated in the form of an entire army and division, and the number of troops lost was as high as one million. (To be continued.) )
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