The Baltic Front was very difficult at the beginning of the war, and the German offensive in the border areas was in full swing - not because of Tukhachevsky's command error, but because of the geographical position and the structure of the army, which created a disadvantageous situation, and the German army in East Prussia was able to choose the best line of attack, unlike in Belarus in the south, where "thousands of troops crossed a single wooden bridge". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The main direction of the German Army Group "North" was set at the junction of the Baltic Front and the Western Front, and the infantry units of the Red Army in these areas had to face the onslaught of the German units that had absolute superiority! The Baltic Front did not take the lead in the original plan of "westward advance," so Comrade Marshal placed the main forces on the second line, intending to fight a short tug-of-war with the German forces in East Prussia -- after the Germans had launched the offensive first, the "Red Napoleon" was shown to be clever in the deployment of troops.

Most of the Red Army guarding the border area between Lithuania and East Prussia was not a domesticated unit, but the main body was the original Lithuanian border guards, and the defense line did not last long under the strong attack of the superior German army.

The main offensive "spearhead" of Army Group North was the 4th Tank Group and the 16th Army, and the 3rd Tank Group struck southeast at the junction of Lithuania and Belarus, with 6 tank divisions, 1 motorized division and 9 infantry divisions on the front!

In the middle of the assault of Army Group North, the spearhead of the attack was directed at Šiauliai, the second largest city in Lithuania (Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania before World War I, was assigned to Poland after the war, otherwise Híauliai could only rank "third"). The two tank divisions and one mechanized division in front of the breakthrough advanced 80 kilometers in three hours, and the front was directed at Siauliai!

The "fantastic" speed of the assault of the German tank 4th Army made the command of the army group ecstatic, and Marshal von Loeb could hardly believe the speed of the assault of his own men! But as an experienced veteran Prussian officer, Loeb sensed a hint of danger: the infantry units attacking in the direction of the Baltic Sea were blocked on the border line, and for three hours they were basically standing still.

This led to the advance attack of the tank troops in the middle and became a lonely arrow! But the command still had confidence in this arrow - after arriving on the outskirts of Siauliai, the infantry, which was closely behind the tank group, would cooperate with the tank forces to divide the Soviet army into multiple arrows to the north, and annihilate each one! It was not much different from the plan, except that the northern road was blocked, the air force was caught in a fierce battle and could not provide sufficient support to the army, and a trace of danger was masked by the high-speed advance of the middle assault cluster.

No wonder Loeb did not think enough, he did not think that in the area between Kretinga and Syralai there was a hidden heavy group of the Red Army! Just a few minutes after the outbreak of the war, Major General Fikochinov, commander of the 1st Mechanized Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, asked Tukhachevsky to fight, hoping that his troops would go south against the German assault group, but Tukhachevsky vetoed it - the "Red Napoleon" would wait until the Germans had penetrated deep before cutting it off!

When the order of the Front was finally issued, the 1st Division was like an unstoppable high-speed steam roller, cutting off the German middle assault cluster with two assault arrows within two hours! After the outbreak of the tank battle, the tankmen of the tank units of the Red Army found the feeling of being in the Haraha River - the No. 3 tank of the German army did not pose enough threat to themselves at all, and they boldly rushed forward at high speed, while the mechanized infantry with their own mechanized infantry rode in armored vehicles to keep up with the speed of the tank's assault, and swept away the remnants like a big broom after the tank disrupted the German formation!

The mechanized infantry of the 1st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is equipped with nearly 300 of the latest "infantry fighting vehicles," all of which were equipped with new equipment of the troops only at the beginning of this year, and the infantry can fight on the vehicle, and when they get off the vehicle for battle, they can get the powerful support of the 23-mm machine gun on the vehicle -- the new equipment that Lin Jun came up with has for the first time exerted enough power in actual combat, allowing the infantry to keep up with the speed of the tank's advance, and the old-fashioned defensive tactics of separating the infantry from the tank have become useless!

Fekochinov's troops had an absolute advantage over the Germans: the equipment was more than one generation advanced! Most of the German infantry is still using K98, while the Red Army infantry is generally AK47, and there is also the support of bazookas, all of which are new small arms! The tanks were T34 with a long barrel against the German No. 3 tank, the Germans even had a pitiful number of short-barreled No. 4 tanks, and many were No. 2 tanks equipped with 20 mm machine guns. In artillery, the artillery of the first division itself exceeded the number of artillery of any German corps-level unit!

People, the quality of people also has a lot to do with it, otherwise no matter how good a weapon is, it is a pile of scrap iron! The Germans were well trained, and the soldiers had basically gone through the test of war, which had a certain advantage over the Red Army, but their opponents were Fekochinov's troops!

Most of the commanders and fighters of the 1st Division participated in the Battle of the Haraha River, and the training was also the most arduous in the Red Army: the 1st Mechanized Division, a unit directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was an honor! The "uncrowned king" of the Red Army - the first ace division of the Marine War! The quality of the commanders and fighters was no worse than that of any German unit, or even better! The proportion of young soldiers among the Komsomol was more than 60 percent, which was also unique in the Red Army (do not measure by the current proportion of party members, in the USSR in 41 years it was very difficult for young people to become Komsomol members, only the best young people who were absolutely loyal to the Soviets and could give everything for the Soviets could become Komsomol members, note: it is possible!). Communists and Komsomol members are the strong core of this army!

Historically, the Soviet Red Army had a strong fighting capacity in the Soviet Red Army, and an army with a high proportion of party members such as the 1st Division could fight until the casualties exceeded 90 percent and still resolutely charge or fight to the death!

After two hours of fierce fighting, the 1st Division and its supporting forces basically cleared the Germans in the encirclement, and did not pursue the Germans retreating south at high speed - Tukhachevsky, who was far away in the city of Riga, Latvia, needed to establish a strong defensive line, which was on the Palanga-Shyauliai-Kaunas line. All the Red Army units that were fighting fiercely on the Lithuanian border were to retreat in a campaign, and the surprise attack of the 1st Division was only to first meet the Northern Army Group, disrupt the German offensive deployment, delay the German advance and stabilize the defensive line, and wait for the Supreme Commander to give him enough strength to launch a major counteroffensive.

"Red Napoleon" is not only synonymous with attack, he also knows when to retreat - Lin Jun told him that he can retreat at the right time, as long as everything else is acceptable for the sake of final victory! It is precisely because of this that Tukhachevsky was able to make such a decision - he was "giving" half of Lithuania to the Germans, and if it were not for Lin Jun in Moscow, it is possible that he, the commander of the Front, would have come to an end after making such a decision!

It would have been easier to destroy the Lithuanian nationalists with the help of the Germans than it would have been for Alexander's men to do it - Lin Jun had become a politician!

There were strong fortified belts and sufficient defenders along the Šiaulière, and the 1st Division would continue to march south - Tukhachevsky could not ignore himself and forget Zhukov in the south, and asked the 1st Division to strengthen the forces of the combined forces of the two fronts and prevent the Germans from outflanking Minsk from their own side!

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What does the deputy commander do? Lin Jun will know! -- It's better to go to the front line and be an ordinary fighter pilot! If I were on the front line, I would have been flying a fighter plane to fight a fierce battle with the Germans, and the war broke out, and doing desk work made me miss the days when I would fly a plane and gallop in the blue sky, but not now!

Stalin is busier than Lin Jun, the Supreme Commander is responsible for the overall situation and makes decisions in the general direction, and Lin Jun, as his deputy, needs to decide a large number of "trivial matters" that need to be coordinated by the Supreme Command!

Nine hours after the start of the war, Vukinskaya walked into Lin Jun's Kremlin office, behind him Landskocchi carrying two large suitcases.

Putting down the papers in his hand, "Kaya, what's the matter?" ”

Landscoch put down his suitcase, turned to leave the office, and closed the door with his hand.

His wife walked up to her and straightened a trace of messy hair on Lin Jun's head. "Knowing that you are busy with work, I brought all the clothes I needed to change at home. The child has been sent to Zhukov by the nursery, and you can rest assured that you are here. ”

Lin Jun touched his wife's face lovingly, and saw that she seemed to have something on her mind.

"The party committee in the hospital has just been held to organize a medical team to go to Minsk, but the party committee did not agree to my request to join the medical team. There will be a lot of wounded in a big battle at the front, Andrey, I want to go, I don't have much role in Moscow, I and my medical team can do the most complex surgical operations! ”

"It was Comrade Stalin who made the decision not to allow you to go anywhere in danger. Unless ......"

"Unless you agree!" Vukinskaya was resolute.

As a first-class surgeon in the whole Soviet Union, Vuginskaya will not be of much use in Moscow - it is impossible for the seriously wounded to be sent to Moscow, in fact, not even in a city like Minsk will see many wounded, and there must be a shortage of medical personnel in the front-line field hospital, and an excellent surgeon like her will definitely be able to save the lives of countless Red Army commanders and fighters in the field hospital! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )