Chapter 484: The Great Reversal (Part II)
The German General Staff naturally did not sit idly by and watch the annihilation of these two elite troops, and immediately used it as an emergency means (the German government also saw the sinister intentions of the British, so the enthusiasm was not very high, and only sent two army groups to deal with the pressure from the British, by the way to test the waters, and the second group of troops had to see the evolution of the war situation before deciding whether to send or not.) www.biquge.info The second group of troops was sent out, but the two armies were resolutely blocked by the Russian Red Army, which was very strong, and the Germans used their strength to eat, and after all, they failed to open the land line of communication between the trapped Germans and the port of Tallinn, before they were completely annihilated......
After eating the two main German armies, the Russian Red Army, which still had some spare strength, planned to eat the same large number of reinforcements, but after all, the latter was not far from the port of Tallinn, and the coalition forces had already achieved certain results in their minesweeping work, and they were supported by naval guns after a slight retreat, and the commanders of the Red Army did not want their men to die in vain under the fire of naval guns, so they could only regretfully let them go.
However, the mentor was relieved, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that the two German armies before had deceived people too much, fought all the way to the outskirts of Petrograd, and didn't wipe them out, the Soviet army and civilians would not have been able to swallow that breath, and the Germans didn't know the strength of the Soviet Russian Red Army, and he actually wanted to let the Germans go in his heart.
Because the teacher saw very thoroughly, the reason why the contradictory Western capitalist powers were able to unite and intervene in the Russian Revolution was that Britain, the strongest of them, was able to suppress the other powers, and if Germany, which was second only to Britain in strength among the European powers, was defeated too badly, it would help the British to consolidate their international position as the Western hegemon, and then the coalition forces would inevitably be more in lockstep, and the situation of Soviet Russia would be even more dangerous.
Therefore, after the outbreak of the war, the Mentor said to the commanders of the major fronts that, if given a choice, priority should be given to Britain and its hardcore allies, and to try to strike as little as possible against Germany and its allies, with whom they had potential rivalries. It's just that the two German armies were so arrogant that the Soviet Russian Red Army had to kill them, plus the results of the previous battles and reinforcements, no less than 200,000 German soldiers were killed before and after, and nearly 300,000 prisoners were captured......
Wilhelm II's heartache, the mentor doesn't know, but he himself is really heartbroken now, although there are many annihilations on the northern front, but his own losses are also terrible, especially his "hammer and sickle" are almost broken.
The Petrograd Front was repeatedly defeated before the follow-up reinforcements arrived, and single-handedly blocked the two main German armies outside Petrograd, and its own casualties were not small, plus the losses suffered when encircling and annihilating the enemy later, the Petrograd Front had a total of more than 130,000 killed, more than 40,000 missing, and 290,000 wounded.
Budyonny's cavalry had greater merit and no less losses, taking part in two crucial battles in a short period of time, both of which played a decisive role, and it was impossible not to pay a huge price. In particular, the cavalry front twice cut off the rear road, inevitably suffered the enemy's most frantic counterattack, and then when pursuing German reinforcements, they rushed to the front and suffered the main casualties, even if the elite of the cavalry front surpassed that of Soviet Russia, the total number of accumulated casualties exceeded 350,000, of which more than 100,000 were killed and missing in battle.
These figures do not seem to be as many as the Petrograd Front, but it must be noted that the cavalry front is far less than the total strength of other fronts because of the higher threshold of the troops, not counting some special subordinate units that cannot follow the cavalry to carry out high-speed maneuvers, such as heavy artillery, the cavalry front has more than 500,000 troops when it is fully staffed, and the casualties of more than 350,000 people have accounted for six or seven percent of the whole army. The bravery of the "Red Cossacks" is incomparable, and the glorious tradition of the Soviet Russian Red Army not being able to get out of the line of fire with minor injuries undoubtedly played a great role. But in any case, the vitality of the cavalry side could not be changed, and like the Petrograd front, unless there was really no other choice, the mentor would definitely not let it go into battle until it had completed its reorganization.
Not only the two trump cards, but also the Southwest Front and the Caucasian Front, which played a majestic role in the "Second Brusilov Offensive", also suffered considerable losses; the destruction of millions of enemies was certainly awesome, but its own losses were also quite large, although it was not to the extent that the two trump cards were broken, and the casualties of two or three percent were enough to greatly reduce their attack capability, and the Southwest Front and the Caucasian Front were not as elite as the "hammer and sickle", and they could not be demanded of them by the same standard.
In the first two months of this Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Russian Red Army not only completed a major counteroffensive that shocked the whole world in the reverse trend, pushed most of the front outside the original line of control, but also annihilated nearly 2 million coalition troops, of which more than 600,000 were killed, and the number of prisoners was as many as more than 1.3 million, and by the way, Romania was liberated, so that Soviet Russia had its first little brother.
However, the Russian Red Army also paid a huge price for this, with a total of more than 1.2 million casualties, more than the total losses in the previous civil wars. In addition, the war that once burned into the territory also caused a large number of Soviet and Russian civilian casualties, and the Polish army burned and plundered and committed heinous crimes, and the human and economic losses caused by the resurgence of the White Army were even more staggering. According to the estimates of the Soviet government, in just over two months in the early days of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet Russia lost more than 2 million people (including dead and rebellious), which was undoubtedly worse for Russia, which had already lost a large number of people in the Three Kingdoms War.
In other words, although the Soviet Russian Red Army achieved a huge military victory, the actual losses of Soviet Russia were greater than those of the coalition forces. What's more, even if it is the same loss, with one country against 28 countries, there will be no good results in the long run.
It was precisely because of this awareness of these problems that while the military and civilians in Soviet Russia were celebrating the victory, the mentor had calmed down and began to think about how to end the war......