The war of the empire usually has two command headquarters, one is the front-line command, the other is the staff operations department of the Central Military Department, the staff operations department is the core organ of the General Staff, with the systematization of the Central Defense Commission, the General Staff Department, the General Armament Department, the General Logistics Department, and the General Political and Educational Department of the Imperial [***] Department The four general mechanisms have also been launched, and this four-general system has weakened the special surname of the General Staff in the past, but the General Staff is still the head of the four general departments, Its two most important core organs are the General Staff Operations Department and the Central Military Intelligence Department.

The Central Military Department has the final say in strategic decision-making, and the front-line command is responsible for how to fight, and the front-line command must also give immediate feedback on all dynamic intelligence and information on the front line every day.

The Reich's general offensive on the Russian battlefield was in full swing before the German army had planned, and as the war situation continued to develop, the Central Staff Operations Department continued to collect new information, produce a complete map of the military flag, and conduct a comprehensive strategic analysis.

Emperor Song Biao has spent most of his recent time in the General Staff Operations Department, personally checking all the intelligence feedback, sorting out omissions, the war against Germany means that the future fate of the empire is determined by this, even if Emperor Song Biao has absolute trust in the Imperial Defense Force, he must be more cautious about the command of every battle.

Similarly, as the best military strategist in this era, after the various data fed back from the front line arrived in the hands of Emperor Song Biao, even if he did not need to make a clear image of the military flag, Emperor Song Biao knew very well what the situation was on the battlefield.

Whether it is a classical war, a modern war, or a modern war, the experience of a general is the most valuable asset, Zhao Tingzhu, who has commanded many large-scale battles to cross the river, has a very special experience advantage in this Volga campaign, and the various preparations he made have fully proved this.

Admiral Zhao Tingzhu prepared a variety of means of crossing the river, and in order to cover the attack, he also transferred enough air force and artillery units to maintain the suppression of the enemy's artillery units and shore defense pillboxes.

He mainly uses two means of bridge ferry and boat ferry, and at the same time uses airborne divisions to directly descend behind enemy lines for interception and rear destruction, large-caliber cannons and tank destroyers can effectively deal with the German shore defense pillboxes, and the tank destroyers themselves are medium-sized tanks with large-caliber cannons, in addition to being used to attack heavy tanks, the better use is precisely to attack fortifications, which have a greater caliber and power than the main battle tank.

Although the final outcome is not yet clear, in early July, Emperor Song Biao was already generally clear about the total scale of the offensive and the various deployments, with Emperor Song Biao, a military commander who could basically be regarded as an outsider, he believed that it would be difficult for the German army to block the imperial offensive in Kazan on the northern front, even if the German army at this time was supported by the Nazi Army Group North in the Kazan defensive line.

Because soon after the official start of the war, the Nazi German army almost lost the entire air force on the Eastern Front, the position lacked air force cover, and at the same time had to withstand the large-scale attack and bombing of the air force, and the first round of the Kazan offensive launched by the Northwest Coalition Army was indeed the best of the elite, from 7 o'clock in the morning to about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Northwest Coalition Army had broken through the German northern defense line on the Volga River, broke through from Kazan, occupied the German position, and the First Railway Engineering Brigade and the Second Engineering Brigade launched large-scale temporary railway bridge construction on the spot, Efforts were made to restore the railway lines that had been destroyed by Nazi Germany.

The large number of rocket artillery units and air bombardment units provided the Northwest Allied Forces of the Reich with a deeper attack capability, and the shells rained down like a torrential rain all the way to the rear of the German second-line positions.

Smoke billowed from the entire Volga River, and war roared.

Hundreds of thousands of shells continued to rain down the German fortification line, and in such a dilapidated position, it was difficult for tanks, especially medium and heavy tanks, to play an effective maneuver, and even light armored infantry fighting vehicles could hardly advance effectively, so they could only rely on the courage and fearlessness of the soldiers to move forward.

War is like this, when it comes to the most tragic moment, it is inevitable that bayonets and bullets will determine the final winner.

The Germans mainly relied on lighter anti-tank guns and 30mm caliber light infantry guns, as well as conventional mortars and machine guns to provide heavy firepower, while the Reich was in a similar way of warfare, through radio indication of coordinates, requiring the air force's attack aircraft group to carry out ground strikes, this time in the Battle of Kazan, the Reich also used the first generation of propeller-powered helicopter gunships for the first time, and the main means of attack on the battlefield were aviation guns and rockets, although the armor and speed of the helicopter gunships called "Snow Owl" were very low, the lack of effective attacks on armored vehicles and tanks, but its special flight flexibility made a large number of helicopters detour to the rear of enemy troops, with the main task of attacking enemy trucks, artillery positions.

Even on the front lines, the Snowy Owl helicopter could add a new link to the Reich's frontal offensive system, making the Reich's offensive more three-dimensional, with the Reich generally equipped with individual bazookas and large-caliber mortars, as well as a very high rate of fire 25mm cannon compared to the anti-tank guns and light infantry guns that the Germans were more equipped with.

In fact, the basic equipment of the Chinese and German armies is basically the same, whether it is tanks, armored vehicles, machine guns, anti-tank guns, mortars, general-purpose machine guns, or other grenades, mortars, etc., this is generally because of the in-depth cooperation between the two sides in military science and technology and military industry, but the performance and combat methods of the two sides on the battlefield are completely different. The Imperial Army, which had more ferocious firepower at the individual and squad levels, clearly had a greater advantage.

Coupled with the superiority of the air force, the defensive front of the Nazi German army quickly retreated from Hapenabin on the other side of Kazan to Buinsk, losing 70 kilometers of defense in one day, which was a great shame for the Nazi German army, which had previously swept across the whole of Europe and the former Soviet Union, especially the most elite Army Group Center of the Nazi German army.

The times make heroes.

Zhao Tingzhu, Wei Lihuang, Xue Yue and these generals are compared to the Nazi Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock, Heinz. Guderian, Heinrich. Are Wittinghoff and others strong or weak?

This is a very strong thing to say, but in war it is always the winner who wins.

Since I defeated you, I'm strong.

It's a simple truth.

The German rout began on this day, and in the following week, the Panzer Corps and Tank Brigade of the Imperial Army successively crossed the Volga, and when the 4th Panzer Group of the Nazi Northern Army arrived in Tambov, the Reich Northwest Allied Army concentrated the main forces of armored tanks in the Ulyanovsk area on the west bank, trying to launch an encirclement offensive against the German 3rd Panzer Group.

In order to avoid being encircled and annihilated, the German 3rd Panzer Group was forced to retreat sharply, Wei Lihuang, who was in charge of commanding the operation, immediately made a decision, changed the original battle plan, and took advantage of the situation to attack Saratov on two fronts.

Wei Lihuang did not intend to eat the Central Army Group immediately, but instead pulled out the main force, met the reinforcements of the Northern Army Group at Balashov, came to besiege the city for reinforcements, and routed the reinforcements, and then mobilized the main force to besiege the main force of Nazi Germany that fell into Volgograd.

MacArthur is a generation of famous generals, equipment and materials are absolutely superior, in the Korean battlefield is still not Peng Marshal's opponent, so the Chinese do not have to be inferior, China has never lacked famous generals in any era, not to mention that since ancient times, famous generals are always a battle coffin, not worlds apart from each other, more or fate.

Overview, many famous generals in World War II, such as Rommel, Guderian, and Montgomery, are still very good at eating all over the world, while most of the Chinese generals are known for being fickle and good at improvising.

The law of impermanence.

The first lesson of the Central Military Academy in "Classical Military Science" is this topic, and the change of military affairs lies in the ever-changing, from the indefinite, in response to the situation and constantly changing with it is the principle of victory.

…… Volgograd.

Before Stalingrad, now Volgograd has become the new focus of the Sino-German war, in the south of Volgograd, Su Bin's Tenth Army took the lead in capturing the port city of Astrakhan, and made a strong attack on the northern Caucasus, the former Soviet Union's oil production areas are mainly concentrated in this region, Nazi Germany and the Axis countries are more dependent on this surname, although Romania can also provide a large amount of oil production capacity, but compared with the North Caucasus is still a small thing.

After arriving at Atyrau, the border city between Kazakhstan and the Soviet Union, Su Bin realized that after a large number of German troops were transferred north and the main army group of the Northern Army was intercepted, the German garrison in the North Caucasus was seriously insufficient, and once he led the Tenth Army to insert into the North Caucasus, the German army would face a dangerous situation of being surrounded and annihilated by the Northwest Army on three sides.

The Germans had no better countermeasure than a large-scale retreat, and if the Germans completed a large-scale retreat, the war would definitely last longer, Su Bin quickly made a bold new idea, and reported it to the Northwest Army Command Headquarters, in view of his special status, Zhao Tingzhu agreed to Su Bin's risky strategy despite Wei Lihuang's opposition.

Attacking the North Caucasus is not an adventure, Su Bin's real intention is to take advantage of the emptiness of the German garrison in the North Caucasus, use the large-scale assault capability of two or three armored corps, cross the North Caucasus, directly attack the Polish army in Ukraine, and force the Polish garrison to withdraw from Ukraine through both diplomatic and military roles, so that the Northwest Army will cut off the retreat route of the German army back to the mainland, and force the German army to withdraw to the Moscow region.

Once the German army really withdrew into the Moscow area on a large scale, the Reich Northwest Army had every chance to completely divide the main part of the German army into two, and finally encircle and annihilate the Nazi Army Group North and Army Group Center crowded in the Moscow area.

This was a very bold operational plan, and the Central Military Department quickly approved this plan, and transferred a number of newly organized group armies from the former South Asian Allied Army in Central Asia to form the Second Armored Corps of the Northwest Army with the Tenth Group Army.

…… In Volgograd, the Chinese and German armies launched a truly large-scale positional battle, with both sides fighting a tank decisive battle of unprecedented scale on the north bank of Volgograd with armored vehicles and tanks as the main forces.

The Nazi Army Group Center had previously tried to attack the defense line of Volzhsky on the eastern side occupied by the Northwest Army, but due to heavy losses in the air force and aviation, as well as a large-scale raid by the helicopters of the Imperial Army Air Corps at low altitude across the river bank on the rear artillery positions, Guderian's main armored group not only failed to cross the river, but was successfully counterattacked by the air forces of the Northwest Army, losing a large number of tanks and artillery.

Fedor. Feng. Marshal Bock tried to retreat in order to preserve the strength of Army Group Center, but this plan of self-preservation was rebuked and severely opposed by the Führer, and Marshal Bock was forced to engage the Northwest Army in Volgograd, which had just encircled and annihilated the 4th Panzer Group of Army Group North, in an attempt to crush the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th armies, the main force of the Northwest Army, which were the most elite armored armies in the Reich, especially the Second Army, which also added an army aviation brigade with helicopter gunships WZ3 as the main force.

The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Armies were the main forces of the most elite Panzer Army of the Northwest Army, which had been deployed in the Kazan area before, and after breaking through the Kazan defensive line, the three Panzer armies quickly moved south to encircle and annihilate Erich. In Hopna's fourth armored group, the gap between the total number of tanks between the two sides is not very large, and the No. 4 tank developed on the basis of the MBT30 tank is not at all the opponent of the MBT35\35B\40 main battle tank.

The No. 4 tank is based on the MBT30 improved 75mm tank gun, compared with the MBT35\35B 90mm rifled gun and the MBT40 90mm smoothbore gun, the gap is too obvious, the gap between aiming, fire control automation and maneuverability is also too large, in actual combat, only heavy tanks can compete with MBT series tanks, but the heavy tank's maneuverability is too weak, it is easy to be hit by MBT35\35B's armor fragmentation projectiles, and the number is too small.

Germany must admit that the gap between the German army and the Chinese National Defense Forces, which have truly stepped into the world hegemony level, is obvious, and if the German army continues to adopt this tactic of relying too much on machinery and equipment, it will be impossible to engage the Chinese Wehrmacht head-on.

This is an indisputable fact, and it will be even more obvious in the Battle of Volgograd.

…… Every war is complex.

Fedor, who still has the trust of the Führer . Feng. Field Marshal Bock continued to command his Army Group Center, which he placed in large numbers of fortifications on the battlefield of Volgograd, avoided frontal engagements of armored vehicles, avoided the superiority of the North-Western Army in armored and tank forces, and used all measures to strengthen the air defense and perimeter defense of the artillery units as much as possible.

Such a war situation made Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock felt extremely painful, the rapid destruction of the 4th Panzer Group and the previous successive defeats of Army Group Center had made him realize that it was impossible for the students to defeat the teacher.

The German Army's blitzkrieg theory and equipment system are actually born out of the mechanized revolution theory of the Chinese Wehrmacht, but it is just for the so-called national glory and avoid talking about this matter within the German army...... None of them can be an opponent of the Northwest Army.

In the event that it is not possible to retreat, Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock completely abandoned the mobile surname of the tank force, repaired the fortifications on a large scale, and used most of the tanks for temporary reinforcement around the fortifications, so that the German tanks' activity space was greatly weakened, and they could only be reduced to mobile batteries on the field defense line.

Fedor. Feng. Marshal Bock took advantage of this self-abandonment to build a large number of new very solid defensive positions, and launched a blockade of the Northwest Army in the positions around Volgograd, dug trenches, and strengthened air defense to stop the rapid advance of the armored forces of the Northwest Army, and a large number of mines were also laid on the battlefield.

Army Group Center had lost the support of the Air Force at this time, and the reinforcements of the new Nazi Air Force would not arrive for at least a week or so, and they had also lost the support of the Allies, and the main force of Army Group North had been annihilated, and they could only continue to defend the Moscow region, and could not send more troops to support Army Group Center.

War is change and counter-change.

The North-Western Army soon turned against Fedor. Feng. Faced with this situation, Wei Lihuang immediately convened a meeting of the Staff Operations Bureau to adjust the tactics of the Northwest Army, strengthen the cluster bombing of the air force and the infiltration operations of the ground forces, and at the same time draw more artillery to strengthen the artillery bombardment.

The main means of attack is still tanks, but one defense and one attack.

Either the battle is not fought, or if it is fought, there will be a major battle of unprecedented scale, and the bow is fired and the arrow is not returned, even if the sacrifice is great, then the final victory must be won.

The change of tactics of both sides brought the Battle of Volgograd back to the period of the Soviet-German war, with large-scale positional battles repeated in offensive and counter-offensives, and the battle became more tragic and brutal.

Emperor Song Biao has been paying close attention to the changes in the Russian battlefield, even if hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers die on the front line every day, Emperor Song Biao will not have the slightest hesitation, and will never give up this battle, as long as he wins, so will Hitler's Führer, the war is fought to this extent, who can win the final victory in China and Germany, to a large extent, depends on the resoluteness of the two heads of state.

No one can back down.

Now it is a hard fight between the Chinese Empire and the Nazi Third Reich in terms of overall strength, and whoever has a stronger will to war and whose country is stronger will will to win the final victory.

From October 5 to 17, 1941, the Central National Defense Commission convened three successive meetings of the Standing Committee, which successively approved the incremental requirements of the Northwest Army three times, and continuously transported all the materials, personnel, and equipment requested by the headquarters of the Northwest Army to the theater to meet all their demands at all costs.

In addition to the three railways running at full capacity, in addition to the large amount of war materials hoarded by the Northwest Army in the rear of the Northern Theater, the Central Military Headquarters of the Empire mobilized more than 13,000 medium and large transport planes, which concentrated almost half of the Empire's airlift capacity, and sent new troops to the front line on a large scale, and transported new weapons, ammunition and other materials to ensure the operation of the frontline troops.

The Reich even ventured to carry out two [***] airdrops of supplies to the Tenth Army and the Eighth Army, which were deep in the North Caucasus battlefield, pinning its hopes on this Northwest Second Panzer Corps.

(To be continued)