Chapter 185, Plan
With their plans ready and all the supplies and equipment in place, the Germans launched a campaign that would change the situation on both sides half a month before the onset of winter. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The Germans invested about 1 million men in 17 army groups, divided into two lines, thinking about Molotov's rear bread.
When the battle began, the German planes and artillery suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Maoxiong position, and these troops in the rear were taken by surprise.
The Germans took their blitzkrieg tactics out of the way and launched a surprise attack on the woolly bear troops.
The rear was interspersed with German attacks, which made Zhukov furious and hurriedly organized troops to rescue, but by the time he reacted, it was too late.
The Germans on multiple fronts succeeded in cutting off Molotov's rear line and encircling it, resulting in Molotov being besieged by the Germans.
When the bearded man heard this, he was quite furious, and immediately gathered a large number of troops to counterattack the German army, and then united with Molotov's army to come to the center to blossom.
Originally, the plan was to end the war before the arrival of winter, but Molotov's defenders were very tenacious and numerous, more than 500,000 woolly bears, and the pressure was not ordinarily great in the face of a million German attacks.
The German attack almost never stopped, from the start of the battle, artillery shells were falling on their heads every minute and every second, the front line under the fierce attack, turned into a sea of fire, the German army liked to use white phosphorus bombs, a large number of white phosphorus bombs on the position of the woolly bear, but also emitted white smoke, for the attacking troops to cover.
The battle lasted until October, and when winter came, Molotov could not fight it according to plan, and without him, the resistance of the woolly bears was too fierce, and it completely aroused the blood of the fighting people in their bones.
Heavy snow began to fall in the sky, and it started to snow in October, a little early, but for the woolly bears, it was not surprising that they had all seen snow in August, not to mention that it only snowed in October.
Overnight, the whole world turned white, and the earth was covered in silver, and it looked magnificent.
However, this kind of magnificence is not what the Germans want, the temperature plummeted, so that many soldiers did not react, and the cold equipment behind was not all in place, resulting in many German troops losing their combat effectiveness at once.
The main thing is frostbite, they can't get out, they can only gather around the camp tent to roast the fire, they are not volunteers, they don't have the great perseverance of the volunteers.
On the third day of heavy snowfall, the woolly bears launched a major counteroffensive against the German army, and countless hairy bears came out of the snow and rushed towards the German army.
"Quick, light the fire!"
In the German tank, the commander hurriedly urged.
"I can't point it!" The driver's hands trembled in a hurry, but the more anxious he was, the more the tank could not be lit.
The commander listened to the clanging sound of the tank firing, but he just didn't care, he only stomped his feet in a hurry, stretched out his head to look at the army of hairy bears that were getting closer and closer, and had no choice but to abandon the car.
"Let's go, I can't count it, it's useless to light it." The Commander said quickly, as he saw 59-3 caught in the furry bears.
Because of the sudden heavy snowfall, the German army faced a crushing defeat, but the German army's reaction was not slow, and the team was organized to defend against the impact of the woolly bear, once the wave of the woolly bear was blocked, it was not afraid.
The weather was suddenly cold, and a lot of tanks were frozen because of diesel fuel, and they couldn't ignite fire, and there were not many tanks that could go to the battlefield, a lot of 59-3, and only a few of them charged with the troops.
On the contrary, the German tanks, because they burned gasoline, did not have to worry about being frozen.
In the face of the army of woolly bears, the German tanks were not to be outdone, and launched a counter-charge against the hairy bears, anyway, the hairy bears did not have tanks, only a few 59-3 were not worth mentioning, they had more tanks, and more ants could bite the elephant to death.
The woolly bears were a little panicked when they saw the oncoming German tanks, but they still had their heads up, and many people had already taken out the prepared Molotov/cocktail, this home-made anti-tank weapon, the anti-tank effect was not bad, as long as it was thrown on the engine case of the tank, plus the German tanks used gasoline, which was easier to ignite.
The Tiger and King Tiger tanks charged at full speed, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.
Hundreds of tanks charged together, and the momentum was indeed huge, but they still couldn't stop the sea of people from the woolly bears, and a large group of people rushed up, and even the machine guns of close defense could not stop it.
The bears smashed the cocktails they had lit on the Tiger Tank, and suddenly a fire broke out on the Tiger Tank.
Although these 100 tigers were destroyed by the woolly bear, they also successfully curbed the momentum of the woolly bear's charge.
However, Mao Xiong recaptured the previously lost positions in one fell swoop, and brought the battle back to the beginning of the battle.
Seeing this, the German commanders were quite angry, they were angry that the sudden heavy snow had broken their plans.
This cold winter of the Mao Xiong family is a very severe test for them, and if they can't survive it, it will have an impact on the war on the entire Eastern Front.
The fighting here continues, and on the other side, Britain, the United States, France and other Allied powers are discussing plans to land in Europe.
The plan had been proposed before, when the British army organized a landing of more than 6,000 men in Diep, France, but failed miserably, with more than 5,800 casualties and a casualty rate of 96.5%. The landing was very hasty, mainly because Britain and the United States were forced to organize such a landing at the strong request of the bearded man, and the United States was unwilling to send troops to participate in the landing, so Britain had no choice but to come by itself, and the landing naturally ended in failure.
After the successful landing in Sicily, the Allies discussed the landing plan, compared to the previous landing in Diep, this landing they will plan in great detail, and the landing force has increased from only the British army to Britain, the United States, France, Canada, Poland, the Netherlands, by the way, and Greece, a total of six countries. This landing, Lu Qiang also mixed in.
However, Lu Qiang did not attend the meeting, but asked Zhang Zhongliang and the monkey to attend a meeting organized by the allies to discuss the landing in Europe.
Britain and the United States kept sending people to England to investigate and find a suitable landing site, and because of insufficient preparations, the landing time was postponed again and again.
For this landing, the Allies made a lot of effort, and there was no time to pull the strings and mobilize a large number of supplies to Britain.
In fact, at the outset, Britain insisted on postponing the landing on the European continent on the grounds that the complexity and danger of a large-scale amphibious landing required caution, citing the failure of Diep. The British wanted to take advantage of the Soviet-German rivalry, and the United States wanted to restore their pre-war British Empire's traditional power in North Africa and Southern Europe.
Naturally, Britain could not hide this little effort from the United States, and was opposed by the United States, so Britain still compromised and agreed to set up a general staff of the Anglo-American Special Planning, which was responsible for formulating a landing plan in Europe.
With the arrival of Zhang Zhongliang, the Special Planning Staff became the staff of Britain, the United States and Greece, and the other allies were ignored. (To be continued.) )