Chapter 459: Forward, German Soldiers

With the broadcast in Yan'an, the news of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union immediately spread throughout China. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

People's feelings about this news are mixed. On the one hand, the Nationalist Government had not yet severed diplomatic relations with Germany, contacts with Germany continued, and those in the army who had been trained in Germany were proud. Moreover, although China, the Soviet donor, fought Japan, since Lao Chiang had estranged relations with the Soviet Union and turned to the United States, it did not matter if he fought against the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, on the other hand, had just stopped all aid because of the Neutrality Pact with Japan. This caused the government to gnash its teeth against the Soviet Union and hate it to death.

Although the treaty was signed to tear it up, until it was torn up, the treaty still worked.

The government's diplomacy has shifted away from the Soviet Union and closer to the United States. Under the clamor of the upper echelons close to the Americans, China has even bred feelings of hatred towards Soviet Russia, and this sentiment is growing day by day.

Therefore, the mentality of many people in the national government towards Germany's attack on the Soviet Union is that they hope that they will fight to the end, and it is better to involve Japan and fight Japan out.

On the other hand, since Germany, Italy, and Japan were the Axis powers, and their strength could not help but make everyone worry that Japan would make some crazy moves inspired by the German victory.

At present, the frontal battlefield in China is relatively calm, and only the Japanese bombing of Chongqing after the arrival of spring is considered to be some movement.

Yan'an, for its part, strongly condemned Germany and predicted that the Soviet Union would be victorious. Agreed, Yan'an also called on the people of the whole country to unite against Japan and drive the Japanese out of China as soon as possible.

Soviet-German borders.

It would be inaccurate to call this area the Soviet-German border, because it was the border of power between the two superpowers, and from a territorial point of view, the border passed not only through the Soviet Union and Germany, but also through many other countries. Of course, these countries have been carved up between two superpowers.

On this line, Soviet Germany gathered a large number of troops.

The USSR was aware of the accumulation of these troops, however, this intelligence was misread and was perceived as a strategic smokescreen, a strategic deception. They believed that this was a puzzle that Germany would not easily lay out if it wanted to attack Britain.

From May 25, 1941, Hitler's High Command began to move troops eastward, and from May 25 to mid-June, a total of 47 German divisions, including 28 tank and motorized divisions, were mobilized to the border close to the Soviet Union.

According to the intelligence of the Soviet Union, on June 1, 1941, the German army preparing to attack the Soviet Union had 120 divisions.

By June 1941, the total number of German troops was 8.5 million, 3.55 million more than in 1940, with a total of 214 divisions. And we, including the additional recruits, totaled more than 5 million people.

On the Soviet side, troops were also being transferred, and on 13 May the General Staff issued an order to all military districts to move from the interior military districts to the west

Mobilize the army. Stalin wanted to keep peace on the border, and he realized that Britain and others were trying to encourage Germany to fight against the Soviet Union in order to extricate themselves from the crisis. He was skeptical of intelligence, skeptical of the timing of the war.

On June 13, in the presence of Zhukov, Timoshenko called Stalin and asked for permission to give the order to the troops of the border military district to enter combat readiness and to deploy the first echelon according to the cover plan.

Stalin said: "You propose a national mobilization with the immediate transfer of troops to the western borders? This is war! Do you two understand? ”

Stalin believed that the Soviet military power on the borders was very strong, much greater than that of the German army.

Stalin believed that the Soviet Union's military power on the borders was much greater than that of the German army. Sooner or later, Germany and the USSR would go to war. However, now, the political situation believes that Germany will not attack the Soviet Union.

In the past few days, the German army has approached the border, and the Soviet side can hear the roar of the opposite tank fighting vehicles and feel the shaking of the ground.

Everyone in the German army knew that the Great War was about to begin.

And the Soviets believed that the big war was far from coming, because of the Soviet-German treaty.

Between the two forces is a zone where the living environment is not disturbed by the army.

In the early hours of the morning, German officers read Hitler's letter to the German soldiers, an order to the Germans to brutally turn the Soviet Union into ruins.

Hitler's address to the nation in the early hours of June 22, 1941, was as follows:

German people, German soldiers!

After months of silence, I was finally able to give a public speech. When England declared war on the Third Reich on September 3, 1939, the British government once again tried to thwart any attempt to unite Europe by engaging the most powerful government on the continent.

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I have been forced to remain silent from time to time in the past. Now the time has come to speak, when to remain silent is not only guilty, but also a crime against the German people, and against the people of all Europe.

Today, about 160 Russian divisions are massing on our border. In the past, there were weeks of conflict in Germany, or further north, or even on the border with the Romanians. Russian pilots have developed a habit of ignoring the border, and perhaps this is exactly the implication that we have become their dolls.

On the night of June 17-18, the Russians patrolled again and crossed the German-Soviet border, and only by force could they be expelled after a major battle.

Now it is time to answer the conspiracy devised by their Jewish-Anglo-Saxon warmongers and the Jewish dictator in the Bolshevik headquarters in Moscow.

The German people!

At this moment, a large-scale war unprecedented in the history of the world is about to begin.The victors of Narvik will stand side by side with the Finnish comrades on the shores of the Arctic sea. German divisions under the command of the Norwegian commander, together with the Finnish heroes of freedom and their marshals, defended Finnish land. On the Eastern Front, the German line of defense was organized from East Prussia to the Carpathians. From the banks of the Prussia, from the banks of the Danube to the Black Sea, German and Romanian soldiers rallied around the head of state, Antoniscu.

The purpose of fighting on the front lines is no longer to defend a single people, not even to defend the security of Europe, but to liberate all mankind.

So today I once again hand over the fate of Germany, the tomorrow of the Third Reich and the tomorrow of the German people to our soldiers .

May God bless us to win this war!

At half past three in the morning, the German army launched a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union on a 1,800-kilometer front stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.

At the same time, in several railway stations on the territory of the Soviet Union, dark shadows came out of the trains transporting German supplies. The shadows were quickly taking over the train station.

At dawn, in the morning light, the people could see these people in Soviet uniforms, occupying bridges and other key roads.

It was a Sunday, and the sleeping people were suddenly attacked and panicked. And because it was Sunday, no one organized in time to deal with this advance unit of the German army, disguised as Soviet troops.

The Soviet Union's misreading of German intelligence, or rather, Stalin's misjudgment of the situation, and the misjudgment of the situation from top to bottom of the Soviet Union, brought great disasters to the Soviet Union.