The 757 big surrounds a good appetite

The counterattack in the Ramier Heights was in a white-hot state from the very beginning. Both sides are constantly moving forward with troops, and neither of them will take half a step back, as if they are ready to fight to the death here! Du Yuming also sent the last two White Russian divisions in his hands to move forward under Soviet artillery fire. At the same time, he also drew an infantry division from the 17th Army and launched a frontal counterattack to distract the Soviet commander. At this time, the squadron was already in the upper hand on the heights of Layère, and the impact of 300 tanks was really extraordinary, and the exhausted Soviet infantry finally began to collapse after desperately resisting for a while. And Tukhachevsky, who reacted, was not to be outdone, and immediately blocked the battlefield with superior firepower, and at the same time threw the fresh forces in his hands into the high ground one by one. The artillery, which also did not take into account the squadron, blocked the path of the advance of the Soviet troops! The shells fell in a staggered manner, and the smoke, dust and fire shrouded the entire battlefield, and the passages where the reinforcements from both sides advanced were even more explosive and roaring. Almost half of the people were cut down by sideways shrapnel before they reached the high ground!

The Ramier Heights trembled in the fierce fighting, and the Soviet Red Army fought to the death with bayonets, grenades and anti-tank guns, and the view re-established a front. Again driven away by Chinese tanks and infantry. Colonel Luo Zemin was guarding a half-collapsed trench, with the few companies of reserves at hand. Dispatch at any time to a certain front on which the Red Army had already seemed shaken. Half of the 300 No. 1 tanks of the two tank regiments have now been lost, and most of the rest have become fixed points of fire, supporting a precarious defensive line. Between the tanks, Chinese or Russian infantry set up rifles, machine guns or mortars, and all the firepower exceeded the swarming Red Army, and the bullets from both sides came and went in the air, forming rivers of fire, and columns of smoke from shell explosions rose and fell around the entire battle line. The young lives of both sides continue to be burned in this battlefield furnace.

The Ramier Heights were finally conquered by the stubborn onslaught of the Chinese expeditionary force before dawn. This night counterattack greatly surprised the Soviet commanders. Under such tremendous pressure, they can still launch a counteroffensive! Marshal Tukhachevsky was furious at the gains and losses of the heights, and on the spot suggested that the commissar Kirov arrest the commander of the 135th Division of the Red Army, which was responsible for defending the heights. In this night battle, both sides are estimated to have suffered more than several thousand casualties. The squadron lost nearly 200 light tanks, most of which were destroyed by brave Red Army fighters with cluster grenades. But the remaining 100 or so No. 1 tanks have already driven into the trenches that have just been captured, and they have been used as fixed fire points, and the 15mm thick turret armor is not an ordinary grenade fragment can penetrate it, plus a 20mm machine gun, such a fire point is indeed not so easy to deal with.

As soon as the new defensive line of the squadron was laid out, a larger counterattack of the Soviet Red Army began. The Soviets, especially Marshal Tukhachevsky, had been cornered by the stubborn fighting of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. If you continue to entangle with the Chinese repeatedly. Then it was impossible for them to open the door to Riga until the main German reinforcements came up! Their desperate campaign this time, especially the plan to break through the German Army Group North, will turn into a dream! The Soviet Union's 1st Baltic Front mobilized all the forces it could muster, and from 16 November onwards, launched repeated attacks without stopping, regardless of casualties. This Red Army military god is now red-eyed, and he now has only one thought in his mind, that is, he must eliminate the Chinese who are entrenched in Valmière before the arrival of the Germans, and leave no one behind! Time is ticking by the minute. On November 17, 1937, the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution in Soviet Russia, the swastika flag symbolizing the fascist German ** team was finally raised over the Ramier Heights - the first German reinforcements finally arrived! The Soviet army's "Baltic Operation" may really stop at this small Latvian city of Valmier!

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Luo Yaoguo gently put down the telegram in his hand and unconsciously tapped the table with his fingers. His expression was playful now. There is a little excitement and a little regret, but more often than not, it is the kind of indifference that a person who has been in a high position for a long time has that joy and anger cannot be desired. The battle of Valmière had already been frozen, and with the arrival of the first German infantry division, the Soviets were destined to have no way to form a breakthrough there, and as for the breakthroughs they had achieved in Aluksny, Rezekne, Daugavpils and other places, they were not fatal to the German Army Group North, but the entire front was forced back by the Soviets for more than ten or twenty kilometers. It looks like the last efforts of the Soviet Reich were doomed to failure! The countdown to the country's national glory has begun......

The door of the office opened with a bang, and Luo Yaoguo looked up and saw An Sihua standing at the door with a smile, he was still wearing a straight military uniform, looking like a stereotypical Prussian soldier. He had returned to Wuhan from Beijing two days earlier to serve as deputy chief of the general staff of the National Defense Forces, and the newly appointed General An Da nodded at Natalie, who opened the door for him, and then walked into the office with a big grin, sat down, and then put a document on the desk.

"This is ......" Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, raised his hand and opened the document to take a look, this is a draft battle plan, and it is also a battle plan for annihilating the main force of the Soviet army in Estonia! This General Anda's hand is really stretched a little long! It seems that subconsciously, you still think of yourself as half German, right?

"Supplement, I have been brewing this plan since the beginning of the Latvian campaign." An Sihua spread out a map of Estonia on the desk in front of Luo Yaoguo. "You see, this is Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and it is also the choke point from Estonia to Leningrad. Tallinn is also a port city located on the Baltic Sea coast, across the sea from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Now the control of the Baltic Sea is completely in the hands of the German Navy and the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, and Stalin's Baltic Fleet does not dare to leave the Kronstadt military port at all...... If a few elite German infantry divisions had landed in Tallinn now, with the cooperation of our six Zhenyuan-class battleships of the Germans, we would have been able to cut off the Soviet First Baltic Front from Leningrad, and perhaps even encircle the main Soviet forces in Estonia...... At that time, their only retreat was the thin ice on Lake Chud to the east! ”

Luo Yaoguo laughed and closed the document. "Then more than a million Soviet troops will be finished! Do they still have troops to guard Leningrad? ”

An Sihua also smiled slightly: "No, it is impossible at all." Nearly 1.7 million Soviet troops were trapped in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, more than 600,000 in Central Asia, and more than a million on both sides of the Bouag River to resist the counteroffensive of the German Army Group South and Polish troops. There were also at least 2.5 million men besieging German Army Group North in Latvia and 700,000 troops pinning down German Army Group Center in Lithuania...... In this way, at least 5.5 million troops have been pinned down on various battlefields, plus the garrisons on the vast territory of the Soviet Union, the garrisons guarding Moscow, the navy, the air force, the logistics and transportation troops, and the huge internal guard forces used for domestic suppression, there are always 7 million to 8 million troops who can no longer move, although the Soviet Union has a large population, but their heavy industry strength is limited, and they can't supply more troops! As long as the Tallinn landing plan is successful, Leningrad will most likely be able to go down without a fight. ”

"Yes, that would save Leningrad from excessive destruction, and it would be better for Anastasia to maintain her rule." Luo Yaoguo was extremely excited, he thought about it, and said to An Sihua: "Go and ask the Minister of the Navy Chen Si to come over, I want the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet and the Expeditionary Force to propose this plan to the Germans together." The Germans don't seem to have fought a landing war, so let the successful landing of the Chinese navy in Taiwan convince them. ”

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East Prussia, Wolf's Lair.

Although the battle of Valmière continued, the outstanding performance of the Chinese expeditionary force made every German in the wolf's den look at their eastern allies with admiration, and at the same time let go of their hanging hearts a little. These guys in Hitler's General Headquarters on the Eastern Front may seem to outsiders to be the most warlike people in the world, but the truth is that most of them have not been exposed to real war for 20 years!

And the millions of young Germans who make up this actually the most powerful army are simply new recruits, and their combat experience is far inferior to that of their opponents, the Soviet Red Army! At the beginning of the Latvian campaign, the atmosphere in the wolf's den was very gloomy for a few days, and the news from the front was varied, most of which were very bad, either the army was repelled by the Soviet army, or the front-line generals were complaining that the troops were not well trained, and the German soldiers who had not experienced the baptism of war were panicking in front of the sea of fire and people of the Soviets......

Those who experienced the First World War knew that this fear of war and death was a hurdle for every recruit, and even if they had received the most rigorous training in the world, it could not help them overcome their fears, and when they went to the battlefield, they would not be able to perform at the level of training they should have. And for an army of millions of recruits, there is nothing more dangerous than being beaten by an experienced opponent in the first battle, and the shadow of defeat in the first battle will hang over the army for a long time. On the contrary, if they win their first battle, the confidence to win every battle will be built in their hearts, which is a crucial step for them to become an invincible army.

Therefore, the Chinese expeditionary force's struggle in Valmière was indeed a pull for their German allies at the most critical moment, and it really won the respect and trust of this group of racists.

"Hey! Hitler! A blonde SS soldier gave a salute to Sheng Shicai and Long Tenghui, who were striding in stride. Then out of the door came a second lieutenant of the party ranks, who, after carefully examining the documents presented by the two Chinese generals, bowed respectfully to them: "Hey! Hitler, the Führer is waiting for the two generals in the large conference room, please come with me. With that, he opened the heavy door and stretched out his right hand in a false gesture, while the two Chinese generals entered the door without hesitation, as the German SS officers and men saluted.

A few minutes later, after passing through layers of levels, Sheng Shicai and Long Tenghui finally came to the core of the wolf's den. In a not too narrow aisle, it was already full of people at this time, and Sheng Shi took a closer look, these people were all high-level leaders of the German ** team. Including the big fat Air Marshal Herman. Goering, commander of Army Group Center Fedor. Feng. Admiral Bock, Admiral Keitel, Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, and Admiral Raeder, Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy. Seeing Raeder, Long Tenghui sighed secretly, he knew that the battle plan proposed by him on behalf of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to land in Tallinn and cut off the rear route of the Estonian Soviet army had already received Hitler's attention, and today's meeting was probably used to discuss this matter. When Sheng Shicai and Long Tenghui greeted them with a smile, everyone's expressions were very enthusiastic. No, it should be said that I was very friendly and talked with them for a while and learned about some of the Taiwan landings during the 9.18 war.

After about ten minutes of discussion, a herald walked in and invited everyone into the conference room, and everyone put on a serious expression, and the atmosphere of the scene became solemn again.

The venue is a small conference hall within a large conference room. It was originally a venue for Hitler's small meetings, with a long conference room – as is often the case with military meetings held in the country. The more than 20 people attending the meeting had corresponding seats according to their military ranks and positions. The two Chinese generals were placed in two chairs very close to the Führer, which made Sheng Shicai feel a little doorway.

But Hitler's arrival interrupted his musings, and he came in from behind. He was flanked by Goering and Raeder, with Keitel sitting next to Raeder, and it was clear that the Navy was the protagonist of today's meeting. After the sound of chairs moving, everyone stood in silence, and only after Hitler was seated did they sit down. Hitler's expression was serious, and without any opening remarks, he spoke directly about the military situation.

"At the moment, the situation of the war is in our favor," he said. In Latvia and Lithuania, we contained the offensive of Soviet troops, and soon there will be a counterattack, expelling them from German territory. This is very gratifying to me. Hitler spoke quickly in Bavarian-accented German: "In Poland, Army Group South is also making satisfactory progress, the Soviet invaders have been driven across the Bouag, we have successfully defended this brave ally, and we will help them regain lost ground." However, this is still a long way from our ultimate goal of destroying the Soviet Union, a red terrorist state, so I feel that it is necessary to accept the proposal of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and further revise the "Barbarossa Plan" to allow our navy and the Chinese expeditionary fleet to play a greater role, and I decided that it is necessary to conduct a landing battle in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, in order to cut off the Soviet First Baltic Front from Leningrad and create the possibility of encircling and annihilating this front. At the same time, the encirclement and annihilation of the Second Baltic Front and the Western Front of the Soviet Army by Army Group Center and Army Group South will still be carried out as originally planned. ”

As soon as Hitler's words came out, the scene suddenly became much more lively. Although, near the end of the Latvian campaign, the launch of a counteroffensive was expected by all. But they did not expect that Hitler's appetite would be so great! Not only did the 1st Baltic Front of the USSR eat about 1.5 million people, but even the 2nd Baltic Front of the USSR and the Western Front of the USSR wanted to deal a annihilating blow! If these two plans were implemented at the same time, the allied forces of Germany, China, Russia, Poland and other countries would have to surround the Soviet Union's more than 5 million troops with less than 4 million people! And it's a bit difficult to split it into two sides. Hitler, on the other hand, ignored the comments of everyone present, and continued to say with an unchanging face: "Now. There is an opportunity to encircle and annihilate two Soviet military clusters at the same time! Although there is a certain risk, the corresponding benefits will also be huge. He continued: "Now that Britain, France, and the United States are supporting us against the Soviet Union, this is a golden opportunity. But in the future it is difficult to say, maybe it will not be long before they will no longer support us, so we must seize the time to deliver a complete blow to the military power of the USSR! Only in this way can we succeed in our business! ”

After glancing at the crowd with a sharp gaze, Hitler suddenly waved his hand heavily, and then shouted: "Now is the best chance for a decisive battle, we cannot wait until next year or the year after." The reason is that, as far as the current situation is concerned, the whole world is in favor of the erasure of the Bolshevik terror regime from the face of the earth because of the aggression against Poland! After a pause, he continued: "And only I can call on the people to rise up and destroy the Bolsheviks, and destroy the Soviet Red Army." So we will soon achieve victory, a brilliant victory, and the only question will be what to do with those Bolsheviks! What to do with the captured Soviet Red Army, this is a big headache. ”

At this time, it was when Hitler was drooling on stage. Sheng Shicai and Long Tenghui both sat stiffly in their chairs, and they did not understand Hitler's last words. I was just stunned by Hitler's courage to prepare to annihilate the main force of the Soviet army of 5 million at once, and at the same time I was calculating the possibility of realizing this plan?

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