Chapter 428 leads but does not start
In the early morning of June 22, 1941, the German army suddenly dispatched hundreds of planes to bombard 26 airfields of the Western Special Military District of the Soviet Red Army, destroying 738 Soviet Red Army planes on the same day and gaining air supremacy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The German 3rd Panzer Group started from the Suwałki area, broke through the defenses at the junction of the Western Front and the Northwestern Front of the Soviet Red Army, and then developed an offensive in the direction of Vilnius and Minsk, followed by the 9th Army; The 2nd Panzer Group departed from the area east of Warsaw, detoured to the Brest fortress, and then advanced rapidly in the direction of Slutsk and Minsk, followed by the 4th Army.
On June 23, the Germans occupied Grodno.
The 10th and 3rd armies of the Soviet Red Army each launched a counter-assault on the city, but it did not achieve its goal.
On 24 June, the Germans occupied Vilnius, and General Pavlov urgently ordered the reserves of the Western Front to move out of the Bialystok salient.
On 25 June, the Germans encircled the far rear of the Western Front on both flanks, putting them in danger of being encircled.
The 3rd and 10th armies of the Soviet Red Army were ordered to evacuate the salient through a corridor only 60 kilometers wide.
On the 26th~27th, two German armored groups successively advanced to the outskirts of Minsk and occupied the city on the 28th; The 11 divisions of the 3rd and 10th armies, the main forces of the Western Front, were encircled in the area near Novogrudok between Bialystok and Minsk.
On the 29th, the German 9th and 4th armies converged in the area east of Bialystok and divided the besieged Soviet Red Army into two parts.
On July 9, 1941, most of the besieged Soviet Red Army was annihilated, some of them broke through the encirclement, and one part carried out guerrilla activities in the rear of the German army.
According to the German war report, about 324,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers were captured in this battle, 3,332 tanks and 1,809 artillery pieces were captured, and almost the entire territory of Belarus was occupied.
Mosko's beard was under tremendous pressure, and the Soviets were caught between the German and Japanese armies, and it seemed a little powerless to block the attacks of the Axis German and Japanese armies at the same time.
Strategically, Mosqua needs to make a choice, and he must divide the main and secondary battlefields in the east and west.
There is no doubt that Europe is the focus of Mosquah, and more importantly, Mosquaw is too close to Germany to concentrate his forces against the German offensive.
However, the eastern battlefield was too far away, and the Japanese could not threaten Mosco for a while, so it was the inevitable choice for Mosco to transfer troops from the eastern battlefield to support the western battlefield to resist the German attack.
The bearded man held a large cigarette pouch in his mouth, staring intently at the map, thinking about what to do.
Taking a sharp breath, he let the smoke rise and dissipate from his eyes, and the bearded man sighed: I can only rely on the vast and long front of Siberia to wear down the sharpness of the Japanese army, and with such a distant supply line, I don't believe that the Japanese can fight in Europe, and what can they rely on to support this war.
This was a helpless move, he had hoped that the Chinese army could hold back the Japanese army, and the situation on the Chinese battlefield had indeed changed, but it was strange that the Japanese army was willing to lose the northeast occupation zone without any counterattack, which was too abnormal.
He also sent people to liaise, hoping that the 18th Group Army would send troops to the north and drag the Japanese Far Eastern Army back.
However, there was no use for birds, and the 18th Army, which had high hopes, did not listen to the greetings at all, and there was not even a single response.
Mosquard couldn't figure out what was wrong, and the relationship with China was becoming more and more estranged anyway.
What's more, the Northland Volunteers are blocking the north, and even if they want to send troops, they may not be able to do so.
The lack of any strength in the East to borrow from this has to be very frustrating and marks the failure of Mosquah's strategy in China. In this situation, the bearded man was able to rely on his own strength to save himself.
The bearded man decided to shrink his forces from the east and set up a final line of defense in Tomsk to resist the attack of the Japanese army.
He believed that even if the Japanese army came here, the long supply line would be difficult to guarantee, and hoped that the Japanese army would be able to retreat despite the difficulties.
Of course, he didn't know that the supplies of the Japanese Far Eastern Army were provided by the Far Eastern Trading Company, and if he knew, he probably wouldn't have made such a decision.
The shrinking forces of the Soviet army greatly reduced the resistance of the Japanese army, and the Japanese Far Eastern Army advanced rapidly along the Trans-Siberian railway line, and by September it had advanced to Krasnoyarsk.
The Japanese army continued to push forward, trying to advance to Tomsk before the onset of winter.
The Japanese armies of the Indian subcontinent continued to pursue the British Empire and swept across the Indian subcontinent.
As a strategic corps of the Southern Army, the Japanese Southern Army commanded 250,000 people in 11 divisions, and Emperor Kinmei Terauchi was the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army.
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the Southern Army made rapid progress and fought in four directions, with Yamashita Fumi's 25th Army along the Malay Peninsula-Singapore direction, Honma Masaharu's 14th Army along the Philippines direction, Iida Shojiro's 15th Army along the Burma-Thailand-India direction, and Imamura's 16th Army along the Java direction.
In less than half a year, the Southern Army invaded Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and many islands in the South Pacific, and captured a large area of land 10 times the size of the Japanese mainland, rich in natural resources, and a population of 150 million.
At the same time, the Japanese side suffered very few losses, including the navy, with only 15,000 casualties, 380 aircraft and 4 destroyers.
Due to the absence of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the British Empire army had no choice but to retreat to India, and only about 10,000 of the more than 40,000 troops remained.
After the end of the Indochina War, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army immediately ordered Shojiro Iida, commander of the 15th Army, to lead the 4th, 16th, 31st, 30th, and 56th Divisions to continue westward and attack India.
The British Empire's troops in India were seriously insufficient, and with the retreating of more than 10,000 people, the total strength of the British army was less than 50,000, which could not withstand the attack of the Japanese army in the west, so it could only be temporarily supported by the Indian division, while the British Empire army continued to retreat westward.
Ah San's army was all cannon fodder, and they were also sent to death when they went up, causing the commander of the Japanese and Western Advance Corps to drive straight into the unstoppable.
The Japanese army was coming, and Sheng Shicai did not dare to stay in this land anymore, coercing those refugees to go northwest, and the accompanying personnel increased significantly, coercing those who fled from the Indian subcontinent to go with them.
During this time, Sheng Shicai's power was also expanding, and there was no shortage of weapons, and he seized a lot of rifles in the battle with the British Empire, and traded with those so-called bandits in exchange for some guns and ammunition, and it was not a problem to control some chaotic people.
The Northland Volunteers drew a tempting pie for Sheng Shicai, and Sheng Shicai couldn't be moved, a small force like him wandering outside was already very good with that kind of ending.
Sheng Shicai believes that the Northland Volunteers will not play tricks on a small force like him, as long as they work hard to do this well, the Northland Volunteers will fulfill their promises.
The routine is still the same, creating a no-man's land, and continuing to coerce the refugees to move forward.
Millions of people roared to the northwest under the drive of Sheng Shicai's army.
Feng Tian has been paying close attention to the progress of this global war, except for Lao Maozi's life being a little difficult, the Western battlefield has not changed much.
In the last World War II, the Japanese army did not really start the Siberian War, and it was relatively easy for Mosko's bearded man to concentrate on dealing with Hitler.
However, I am afraid that it is not good right now, and Mosquard is under the pressure of two battlefields, East and West.
Whether it can stand up or not is a test of the wisdom of the bearded.
The Eastern Battlefield and the North American continent have changed greatly, and unlike in the previous life, the Japanese army actually landed in North America, and the key is that the American navy was defeated by the Japanese and Japanese navy, so that the whole army was annihilated.
The United States has not been at war since World War I.
Therefore, the number of US troops is not large, and the level of fighting of the newly recruited officers and men is really not flattering, and they are losing and retreating one after another in the North American battlefield.
At the critical moment, the Canadian army joined the warband.
It was precisely because of the addition of the Canadian army that the US army finally withstood the attack of the Japanese army, temporarily stopped the continued expansion of the Japanese army, and the two sides entered a stalemate stage.
Feng Tian has been waiting, has been preparing, just like all wars, hoping that the blow will work.
There is no doubt that Feng Tian still wants to use the old routine to carry out surprise attacks, implement blitzkrieg, take the other party by surprise, complete the war at the minimum cost, and obtain the greatest benefits.
Timing is important, and Feng Tian waited patiently.
In three years, Feng Tian made a lot of war money, whether it was the Germans or the British, they all needed strategic resources, as long as they gave money, mainly gold, Feng Tian would never refuse.
In three years, Fengtian vigorously developed the navy, and warships were launched one after another like dumplings, and six aircraft carriers were built at once, and they were the most advanced aircraft carriers in the six-ton class.
Because shipbuilding itself is Fengtian's strength, he also had the foresight to break the most advanced shipyards from Europe, all the conditions are in place, and it would be strange if he could not build warships again.
Fengtian has built so many warships, won't foreign forces such as the Japanese and Japanese warships notice it?
It doesn't matter if you perceive it, not to mention that Han Province adopts strict military control, and more importantly, the personnel composition of Han Province in the coastal zone is relatively pure, and most of the employees of the enterprise are original people, plus the army, engineering troops, and agricultural reclamation troops.
As for those laborers, they also did not have access to these military secrets under strict control.
Three years is enough time for Fengtian to have enough time for the Northland Volunteers to develop and grow, and constantly improve all arms, through these years of training, the combat effectiveness of the Northland Volunteers has reached a higher level.
Of course, with the continuous progress of science and technology, Fengtian selectively manufactured some new types of weapons and equipment, and constantly enriched them into the army, and the Beidi Volunteer Army has entered the missile age.
Although Feng Tian is strong enough, he just can't trigger it......