Chapter 1154: The Soviet-German War Breaks Out

Liu Yimin, who was in a state of turmoil, called Qian Zhuangfei, Li Qiang, and He Xinghua to ask if there was anything unusual that had been found in the recent monitoring of the Japanese army's radio station. ，

Qian Zhuangfei reported that due to the high vigilance of the Japanese army in North China, the Japanese army changed the code almost every time after a major war, and we finally deciphered the code, and the little devils changed it again, and there was no progress in the radio interception of the Japanese army in North China. On the contrary, the surveillance of the Japanese Kwantung Army was effective. Because the password of the Kwantung Army was only changed twice when the 8th Division was annihilated and the 29th Division was annihilated, this time when the 11th Division was attacked in Zhucheng, a Japanese radio station was captured, and our army can now smoothly listen to the signal of the Kwantung Army's radio and quickly decipher it. Judging from the recent surveillance, it seems that the Kwantung Army has made a big move, as if it is deploying military exercises. In addition, in the past few days, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, has mentioned Germany and the Soviet Union several times in the telegrams exchanged with the base camp.

Liu Yimin took the draft telegram from Qian Zhuangfei's hand and read it for a while, but judging from the telegrams from Umezu Mijiro and the base camp, he could not see when Germany would blitz the Soviet Union.

Although Liu Yimin himself knew very well the whole process of the German army's blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union, he couldn't say it, and no one believed it. Therefore, after reading the telegram, Liu Yimin immediately instructed Qian Zhuangfei to send a telegram to the central authorities to report on the radio monitoring. It must be explained that please tell the Soviet side that it is necessary to be vigilant and strictly guard against a sneak attack by the German army.

The Soviet Union now has a liaison group in Xi'an, consisting of five or six translators, doctors, and so on. After reporting to the Central Committee, the Soviet side will soon find out.

After sending away Qian Zhuangfei, Li Qiang, and He Xinghua, Liu Yimin thought about it repeatedly, and felt that the biggest reason why Hitler was able to successfully blitzkrieg the Soviet Union was that Hitler successfully deceived Stalin and made Stalin think that the Germans would not fight on both sides, and that they just wanted to tear up the Soviet-German non-aggression pact and attack the Soviet Union, and they had to defeat Britain before proceeding. (，)

However, after all, Stalin came from the flames of war, and his vigilance was extremely high, and Tang Xingying said that the Soviets were moving factories to the rear when he returned from the Soviet Union, indicating that Stalin, as in history, had long been dealing with German attacks.

When Liu Yimin studied the examples of World War II before crossing over, he knew that when the Soviet-German war broke out, the deployment of the Soviet army was basically-for-tat with the German army, and the tactics of attacking and attacking were adopted. The plan was to launch counter-assault operations on the flanks and rear of the Germans as soon as they attacked, pushing the war beyond the borders. Among them, the Southwestern Front, which was the strongest in the Soviet army, faced the direction of Romania and Hungary, and the Central Front, which was slightly inferior to the Soviet army, was definitely not inferior to the strongest German army group in the center, and the Soviet army took a defensive position in the newly annexed Lithuanian countries. Such a deployment is simply a copy of the German Manstein plan.

At that time, Liu Yimin thought that if the Soviet Union could mobilize for war in advance, enter the war track, launch a strike on Germany first, attract the main force of the German army with the middle line, and implement a detour in the southwest, it would be able to control the Romanian oil fields. Without oil, the Panzer Group of the Germans could not have jumped for a few days.

It is a pity that Stalin did not pay enough attention to the blitzkrieg of the German army, at least not enough research, there were no countermeasures, and after the German army launched an offensive, he still ordered the Soviet Red Army to attack the German army, which was bound to suffer heavy losses.

After thinking about it, Liu Yimin felt that in the early stage of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Red Army would definitely not be able to stop the German attack. This was mainly planned by Hitler for a long time, and the lightning tactics implemented by the German army were relatively new, while the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army had declined too much due to the Great Purge. However, as long as it withstood the frenzy of German attacks, the German army, which had too many enemies on the front line, was definitely no match for the Soviet Union, which had a lot of land and resources. ，

Liu Yimin called Qian Zhuangfei again and asked him to concentrate on listening to the radio signals of the Kwantung Army, and if there was any new movement in the Kwantung Army or the German Army, he would report it immediately.

In fact, as in history, the Soviet Union had already received 84 pieces of information about the imminent attack of the German army on the Soviet Union. Among them, there are five pieces of detailed and accurate information. One is the scout of the 4th Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army. Information sent back by Sorge. He was in Japan at this time, and he saw from the German ambassador Ott that the exact time of the German attack was June 22, and as early as May 15 it had been reported to Moscow. It is a pity that the intelligence of the Red Spy King Sorge in the Soviet Union was ignored. Second, the British used the "Enigma" machine, which compiled an irregular code, to decipher the signals of the German radio, and Churchill, risking the possibility of leaking his super-secrets, personally wrote a letter to Stalin, informed him of this information, and ordered the British ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kripps, to forward it to Stalin. Unexpectedly, after seeing it, Stalin actually thought that Britain was trying to get rid of its own crisis and provoke Soviet-German relations. Third, the KGB agents stationed in the Czech Republic received information from a senior engineer disguised as a German officer of the famous machine-building factory Czech Skoda Company that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union in late June, and immediately reported it to China, pointing out that the information was absolutely reliable. Stalin, having looked closely, signed "The provocation of the British!" Re-analyze and analyze!" opinion, returned the intelligence to the KGB. Fourth, the German ambassador to the Soviet Union, von Murray. Morality. Count Schulenburg found out in his conscience that on May 5, 1941, the Soviet ambassador to Germany, Dekanozov (who had been the head of the KGB Foreign Division), who had returned home to report on his duties, said that Hitler had decided to go to war with the Soviet Union on June 22. After Dekanozov reported to Stalin, Stalin said at a meeting of the Politburo of the CPSU that "disinformation has begun to spread at the ambassadorial level." Fifth, the achievements of our party's hidden front. Gui Yongqing, the military attache of the Nationalist Government in Germany, learned from a conversation with a German official that Germany was preparing to attack the Soviet Union, and promptly transmitted the information back to China. Yan Baohang, an underground party member who was active as a major general in Chongqing, learned about it from Yu Youren, asked Sun Ke for confirmation, and then promptly reported to Vice Chairman Zhou. After a while, Pan Hannian, who was active in Hong Kong, also bought intelligence that the German army was about to invade the Soviet Union and reported it to Vice Chairman Zhou. For this reason, more than a month after the outbreak of the war, the Soviet side sent a telegram of thanks to Commander-in-Chief Zhu in the name of Voroshilov, saying that the intelligence of the Chinese comrades "helped us a lot." In the 90s, the Russian government also issued a medal to Yan Baohang's intelligence team, but unfortunately Pan Hannian had already died unjustly in the Cultural Revolution.

With so much reliable information, even if Liu Yimin reported it again, it might not be able to attract Stalin's attention.

This amount of intelligence did not attract Stalin's attention, because Stalin did not believe that the Germans would attack at this time. In Stalin's view, the Germans could only attack after winter at the earliest. This was so because Hitler's deceptive tactics paid off.

Although Hitler was a war maniac, he was a war maniac with brains. He recognized long ago that it was necessary to defeat the Soviet Union and seize its strategic resources. And also knew that the war against the Soviet Union was different from the blitzkrieg against Poland, and it was necessary to conceal one's intentions to the greatest extent. Therefore, Hitler had long since ordered the German intelligence services and propaganda services: "Do everything possible to create a false appearance, to divert their attention (referring to the Soviet Union) astray, to confuse Moscow, to make them think that we have been preparing for an attack on Britain, and when they come to their senses, it will be the moment when our bombs fall on their heads!" ”

Under Hitler's orders, the Germans implemented a series of deceptive methods. First of all, at the end of 1940, Hitler personally met with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, vowed to guarantee that Germany would absolutely fulfill the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, and beguiled Molotov to say that the next step was to expand Germany into Africa, and the Soviet Union wanted to expand south to the Persian Gulf and India through Baku. Hitler's performance convinced Molotov that the Germans would never attack the Soviet Union until they had defeated Britain. Immediately afterwards, the Germans created false information about the imminent landing and invasion of Britain, so that even the German people believed that the German army was about to invade Britain. Later, until the German army began to move eastward, the on-demand program of German radio also included the "Guards officers and soldiers sent their wounded company commander three bottles of 'Hennessey' wine, wishing him a speedy recovery!" "and so on, making people think that Hitler's elite troops, the Guards, were on the Western Front, and it was very likely that they were in France.

The Germans were dazzled by a series of deceptions. On June 21, 1941, 10 hours before the outbreak of war, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU held a meeting. At the meeting, the head of Soviet intelligence and the well-known GRU leader Glikov reported on the massive build-up of German troops on the Soviet-German border. At this time, Grikov not only mastered the number and commander name of the German army's assembled troops, but even knew that the code name of the German attack was "Barbarossa". However, Glickoff swore that the Germans were not ready for war, and said that he would be willing to accept the punishment of the Politburo if there was a mistake.

Ten hours later, at 3:15 a.m. on June 22, 1941, more than 7,000 German artillery pieces of various calibers fired high-explosive shells at Soviet targets. Immediately afterwards, the huge German army was divided into three parts: Army Group North, Army Group South, and Army Group Center, and launched a blitzkrieg operation on all fronts against the Soviet Union. The northern route will attack Leningrad along the Baltic Sea, the central route will attack Moscow along Minsk and Smolensk, and the southern route will attack Kiev, Kharkiv and Donbass, with a front length of more than 1,500 kilometers.

After the German fascists had already carried out a blitzkrieg for one and a half hours, the German ambassador to the Soviet Union submitted a statement to the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union Molotov, declaring that the German government had decided to declare war on the Soviet Union because of the threat to the security of Germany due to the concentration of Soviet troops on the eastern border of Germany.

By dawn, all 1,830 Luftwaffe aircraft were thrown into battle, bombing Soviet airfields. 66 airfields on the border with the USSR were bombed. By noon on June 22, the Soviet Air Force had lost 1,200 aircraft, 800 of which were blown up on airfields.

The Soviet-German war broke out!

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