Chapter 481: The Second Brusilov Offensive
The German Army, which can be said to be the first in the West in all respects, was already stronger in combat than the current Soviet and Russian Red Army, and this time only two army groups were dispatched, which naturally must be the elite of the elite, and it would be even more powerful. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Coupled with the fact that it has been marching close to the coast, it has both maritime support and logistical supply, and strong fire support from naval artillery, which is even more powerful, even if Frunze's Petrograd Front (shortly after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the major fronts of the Soviet Russian Red Army changed to the name of the theater of operations they were responsible for. No effort could prevent it from approaching Petrograd little by little.
Fortunately, the mentor made a timely decision, and at the risk of Finland's gain, he ordered the Baltic Fleet to spread mines to seal the entrance to the Gulf of Finland himself, so that the German army lost the support of naval artillery after crossing the port of Tallinn (now the capital of Estonia), and the land supply line began to lengthen, and its invincible edge finally began to weaken, which gave the instructor a lot of confidence in holding Petrograd. It was only by this time that the total casualties of Frunze's First Front had exceeded 300,000, and if it were not for the large number of Bolshevik party members and strong cohesion in this army, I am afraid that it would have completely collapsed.
However, the price paid by the Germans for such a huge casualty of such a strong army as the Petrograd Front was certainly not small, the total number of casualties was close to 100,000, and considering the huge advantage of the Germans in terms of fire support, such an exchange ratio was enough to make them respect their enemies. In particular, the heroic behavior of many Red Army soldiers who learned from China to pull the glorious bullet and drag the enemy to death together made the German officers and soldiers deeply frightened, so that they did not dare to ask for prisoners of war at all (which in turn forced the Soviet Russian Red Army to fight to the death).
Obviously, although they are still a little immature in terms of actual combat experience, the Soviet Russian Red Army, which is still full of revolutionary enthusiasm, undoubtedly far surpasses their juniors during World War II in terms of combat will, not to mention the Soviet army in the early stage of World War II, even the Soviet army that later began a major counteroffensive cannot be compared.
However, this also strengthened the determination of the Western powers to completely extinguish the Russian Revolution, and during this time, the Allied fleet was constantly busy even if there was no combat mission, helping to transport more than 100,000 additional personnel and a large number of supplies from Germany, so that the two German armies on the northern route still had the spare strength to continue to advance towards Petrograd. On the other hand, the Allied Army Command has also become more and more cautious, the middle route army with the largest number of troops, but the combat effectiveness of the troops is not as good as that of the north route, has been steady and steady, step by step, so even if the North Road German army has lost the protection of naval artillery, Budyonny's First Cavalry Army does not dare to move, because they outflank the rear of the German army on the north road, and they will be attacked on both sides by the German army and the enemy's middle army with a total of more than 1.3 million troops, so the middle road battle situation is so frozen. And it is slowly moving in a direction that the Bolshevik top does not want......
The battle on both the northern and central routes was a source of great concern for the Mentor, and the Southern Front, which he considered the least important, was rewarded with unexpected surprises, thanks in large part to Alexei Alekseevich Brusilov, who had been sent to the command of the Southwestern Front.
After Brusilov came to the front line, he soon found that although the enemy had a large number of troops, the composition of the personnel was extremely complex, which can be seen from the fact that he used as many as a dozen languages, and these troops, who often did not understand each other, would have great difficulties in coordinating and cooperating, and it was okay to attack, because the initiative was on their side, and they could be prepared first and then attacked, but if the enemy attacked, it would be easy to have big problems.
Another point is that as an old Russian general who has long regarded Austria-Hungary as the second imaginary enemy, Brusilov is very familiar with its national and military conditions, and after coming to the front, it is not difficult to see that the Austro-Crènate army actually relies on the Austrian army group to suppress the formation, as long as they are eliminated, the Austro-Hungarian army will collapse by itself. However, if it was only a passive defense, Austria-Hungary could have forced the troops of the non-Juche nation to rush up as cannon fodder to consume the strength of the Red Army, while the Austrian Army Group retained its strength and only entered the battle after the appearance of fighters, so the loss rate would never be high, and the Red Army could only take the initiative to attack and carry out targeted and focused strikes on it.
Originally, Brusilov was worried that his troops were not enough, because the enemy also had more than 600,000 troops, and the Southwestern Front also allocated a part of its forces to protect the flanks (Note 1), but fortunately, the mentor was also decisive, and after listening to Brusilov's statement on the phone, he decisively decided to use the Caucasian Front, which was designated as the first reserve, and when this huge army came to the battlefield on the Southern Front, the total number of troops that Brusilov could command reached more than 1.2 million, which was twice that of the coalition army on the Southern Front, which made his appetite suddenly swell violently. With so many troops, not to mention an Austrian army group, there are more than 600,000 enemy troops on the southern route, and he is all covered!
Although there is a big gap between the quality of these Red Army and the two trump cards of the First Front and the Cavalry Front, in the "Second Brusilov Offensive" that Brusilov is about to launch, the shortcomings in the quality of the soldiers have been made up for to a large extent, because the most important thing in the crowd tactics is only strength and firepower!
On a wide front of more than 400 kilometers in length, no less than 1 million Soviet Russian Red Army launched a fierce attack on the current enemy at the same time, supported by thousands of artillery pieces and mortars, accompanied by the sound of "Ula" that resounded in the sky, rows of Red Army infantry rushed to the enemy's position with submachine guns raised. The coalition officers and men on the positions fought back desperately, but after the machine-gun fire was quickly knocked out by the 60mm mortars one by one, the sparse rifle fire alone could not stop the enemy's overwhelming onslaught.
In particular, the Russian Red Army also adopted the artillery offensive tactics learned from China, and the mortars were like completely ignoring the lives of their own infantry, even if the infantry was about to rush to the enemy's position, the artillery bombardment was still uninterrupted, which greatly hindered the counterattack of the coalition forces, and when the Red Army approached the enemy's position, the rain of bullets fired from countless submachine guns easily shattered all resistance......
Note 1: Although the main force of the coalition army in the middle was fierce and the southwest front could not stop it in any case, as long as it could withstand it for a few days, Budyonny's cavalry front would be able to rush to sandwiches, so the danger of the flanks was not great, but if there was no arrangement at all for the enemy to drive straight in, it was because he had lived too long......