Chapter 540: A Fierce Battle

In June 1943, the combined forces of the bandit army, which was confronting the German army in Leningrad, suddenly began to attack Leningrad with all their might. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info (.. )

First of all, the pilots of Huaxing Airlines flew hundreds of planes aided by the United States and fought the Leningrad ** team day and night for a whole month.

Then there was another month-long artillery battle with the German artillery by the artillery units of the Jewish Foreign Legion. In the end, it was the tank units that from time to time took part in attacking the Germans.

It's just that what is very strange is that the daily fighting between the two sides seems to be extremely fierce, but the real casualties are really not much.

It turned out that the German ** team defending Leningrad at this time turned out to be the Seventh Panzer Army led by Guderian. Guderian was one of the few generals in Germany who believed that Germany was finally defeated.

Besides, Guderian also had a good relationship with Li Tie, and he even admired Li Tie's tank cluster tactics, and he was really worried that he would accidentally fall for Li Tie's tricks.

In addition, the combined army of bandits far exceeded his Seventh Panzer Army, and he wanted to leave some more seeds for the empire, so he didn't want to fight Li Tie's bandit army in Leningrad.

And Li Tie's bandit army also had the intention of not working hard, so after private communication between Li Tie and Guderian, the two sides finally reached a secret agreement.

That is, the combined forces of the bandit army attacking Leningrad and the German ** team will have a very high-tech tactical exchange in front of the world.

As for why this plan will be vigorously coordinated by the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army, it is entirely because the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army do not want to die for the Russians, and they still have to keep their useful bodies to liberate their newly independent countries.

Therefore, when the soldiers on both sides did not want to fight, even when the fighting was at its most intense outside Leningrad, the two sides did not dispatch large-scale ground troops on the ground.

As if they had agreed upon a negotiation, the two sides sent their corresponding air forces and artillery to fight at the designated places every day.

Today you will send 100 planes to practice fixed-point bombing, and tomorrow I will send 100 fighters to your position to carry out retaliatory bombing.

Occasionally, there are occasional tank group battles, but the so-called tank group is at most a few dozen tanks that have undergone measured military training.

But even though both sides were putting on a show, in order to achieve realistic results, the troops on both sides would report to their superiors on a daily basis with exaggerated casualties.

And fighting every day like this, the consumption of the battlefield is also extremely huge, so Britain, the United States and other countries, who do not know the inside story, greatly appreciated the spirit of the bandit army in fighting the Germans to the death in Leningrad, and more military aid was continuously sent to the bandit troops.

Unlike the battle in Leningrad, which was heavy and rainy, the battle outside Moscow was going on extremely hard at this moment.

The same air force duel, the same artillery bombardment, the same tank battle, the same infantry charge. Outside Moscow, millions of troops fought to the death every day, and the losses of the Germans and Russians were enormous.

In this lifetime, the scale of the Battle of Moscow exceeded that of any previous battle, and Germany at this time prepared more than 2 million German troops, more than 6,000 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 10,000 artillery pieces, and more than 2,000 aircraft in Moscow.

And this is not counting the support for the Battle of Moscow, Hitler once again gathered millions of troops in Kursk and Leningrad, thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, ready to support the German army in Moscow at any time.

Stalin also mobilized the strength of the whole country to share the victory and defeat with Hitler in Moscow, so after more than half a year of preparation, with the strong support of Britain and the United States and other countries, in the campaign to attack Moscow, he prepared a full 6 million Russian troops, 5,000 aircraft, 10,000 tanks and armored vehicles, and tens of thousands of artillery pieces.

So the battle in Moscow has been fierce from the very beginning, with thousands of planes fighting in the air every day, thousands of tanks and armored vehicles fighting every day, and tens of thousands of artillery pieces pouring ammunition on each other every day. Every day, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of people are fighting each other.

For the same two months, the fighting in Leningrad continued, but the daily casualties there increased by single digits.

But the fighting near Moscow was very different, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of casualties every day. In two months, more than 2 million soldiers were killed or wounded on both sides, and the Germans alone suffered more than 700,000 casualties.

You must know that the German ** team are elite soldiers who have been trained for many years, and the Russians are different, although these Russian soldiers have a lot of blood. However, Russian soldiers generally lacked military training, so every time they fought with the Germans, the Russians had to pay double or even several times the casualties in order to win the victory.

With such large casualties, not to say that the Germans could not stand it, even the Russians could not stand it either. Therefore, in the third month of the battle for Moscow, several Russian marshals led by Zhukov suggested to Stalin that they could not continue to attack like this. If this continues, even if the battle is won, their Russian elite soldiers will be exhausted.

But Stalin was determined to defeat the Germans in one fell swoop, and he would rather sacrifice more than defeat the Germans defending near Moscow.

At Stalin's time, Russia received a large amount of military aid from the United States, Russia used almost all of its strategic reserves, and reinforcements from several surrounding cities were still coming, so Russia was still in an advantageous position in the battle in Moscow.

However, Zhukov and others insisted that the Germans spent more than half a year building countless permanent fortifications in and out of Moscow.

If such a strong attack continues, even if Moscow is obtained, the entire Russian ** team is afraid that there will be little left. At that time they will become sinners of the entire Slavic people.

But at this time, Stalin had already killed his eyes, and his strong political will had already overwhelmed him, and he sternly rejected the suggestions of several marshals, and reprimanded several marshals on the spot. Several marshals could only retreat secretly when repeated persuasions were ineffective.

It's just that after leaving Stalin's official residence, several marshals finally couldn't help but come together, and everyone quietly came to Marshal Zhukov's residence.

It turned out that Zhukov had summoned several like-minded Russian marshals to discuss a major event that caused a sensation in the world.