Chapter 542: A Scorching War
In September 1943, Stalin had been placed under house arrest for a month by the Russian marshal of the real power faction headed by Zhukov, and without Stalin's restraint, with the joint efforts of Zhukov and several marshals, Russia fought well in all battlefields, and although it could not immediately defeat the Germans, it had already won and lost with Germany. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info//. The update is so fast. Copy URL access
Hitler saw that the war situation of the Russians was slowly improving, and he was not willing to accept such an easy defeat in Russia.
Hitler immediately issued an order to all German troops in Russia that they must resolutely resist the Russian counterattack, and at the same time gave death orders to several army groups near Minsk, demanding that all German troops who were resting in Minsk immediately launch a counterattack against the Russians.
At this time, near Minsk, there were not only Army Group Center defending Moscow, but also part of Army Group South where Guderian was located and Army Group North where Manstein was located;
Most of the men and men of the three armies were now concentrated near Minsk, the last strategic city occupied by Germany in Russia.
No one could have imagined that in just one year, the Germans would fall from the full occupation of the developed regions of western Russia to the point of occupying only one strategic city.
Originally, according to the opinion of Manstein and others, it was possible to build a war fortress in the Chek region with Minsk as the center, killing and wounding a large number of Russian soldiers.
When the time is ripe, we will take the opportunity to attack and defeat the Russian living forces in one fell swoop, so as to achieve the goal of a strategic counteroffensive.
Who knew that Führer Hitler would immediately organize a counterattack, which was contrary to the original intention of Manstein and others. But who would dare to disobey Hitler's orders?
Therefore, although the marshals of the army group such as Manstein and Guderian did not approve of Hitler's orders, they had to change their original strategy of waiting for work and forcibly launched an attack on the Russians.
At this time, the German troops had just experienced a new defeat in Moscow, but the overall strength of the German army was still intact, and the strength of millions of German 'elites' was still seven or eight points.
And the Germans did not lack morale at this time, because the Germans had just succeeded in counterattacking the Russian pursuers in Minsk. Therefore, the German troops were not discouraged.
Therefore, when Manstein and Guderian commanded the German 'elite' troops to launch a counterattack against the Russian army near Moscow again, the German soldiers still carried out the task assigned by the two commanders very well.
Thousands of tanks under the command of two military geniuses dealt a major blow to the Russians on the outskirts of Moscow, and thousands of planes kept strangling the Russian team that was rushing in and out.
The German counterattack did not stop until outside Moscow, and millions of Russian troops once again cowered inside the city, not daring to move a single inch.
Seeing that the millions of Russian troops who had just occupied Moscow were about to retreat in disarray again, Marshal Zhukov, the Russian tank commander master, led millions of Russian troops from Kyiv to reinforcements.
As soon as Zhukov arrived in Moscow, he resisted the German attack, because Zhukov was accompanied by tens of thousands of American tanks and armored vehicles;
When Manstein and Guderian heard that Zhukov had reached Moscow and fended off the German attack, they each led their Panzer Army to the east again.
As a result, in this world, several marshals who are most 'proficient' in the battle of armored groups finally have the opportunity to face each other.
Based in Minsk, the Germans continued to 'pump' thousands of tanks, armored vehicles and tens of thousands of artillery pieces from all over the Russian occupation zone, and successively went to the Moscow region for reinforcements.
And the Russians are not bad, the whole of Russia is almost the strength of the country, and with the continuous material support of the United States, Russia has strategic materials that can be squandered.
So Zhukov mobilized all the means at his disposal, using all the materials that could be converted into heavy weapons. Tractors were converted into tanks, and all trucks were retrofitted with steel plates and converted into armored vehicles.
And all movable cars, all kinds of agricultural vehicles, were converted into self-propelled guns by Zhukov. Although these modified heavy weapons generally have the "fault" of poor stability and poor "precision" of firepower, they are better than nothing.
In this way, the Russians simply converted into 10,000 tanks, 20,000 armored vehicles, and 30,000 'guns' of various types under such a patchwork situation. In terms of the number of these heavy weapons alone, the Russians were far more numerous than the Germans.
However, even with such a large number of armored vehicles, the Russians still did not achieve absolute superiority on the battlefield, because the Germans' tanks and armored vehicles were really 'sophisticated', and often an ordinary German tank could destroy several Russian tanks.
Coupled with the fact that the German armored forces were very experienced, the ratio of German and Russian losses in battle was disproportionate. German armored forces are often in a situation of one to five, and can still defeat the Russian army.
However, the advantage of the Russian army is that it is large, and every time it fights with the German armored forces, the Russian army will always fight twice or even three times the number.
Under the conscious use of tactics, with such a numerical superiority, it is easy to form a situation on the battlefield in which more fights less, and in addition, the Russian anti-tank death squads have become more and more harmful.
Several of the best panzer marshals of Russia and Germany once again engaged in a year-long armored strangulation in the Moscow region.
In the protracted war of attrition between Minsk and Moscow, neither Germany nor Russia achieved good results;
The Germans felt that the Russians were really difficult, like cockroaches that could not be killed, and they eliminated one batch and another. The Russians, on the other hand, found the Germans to be so difficult to fight that they lost five times as many troops for almost every German tank they destroyed.
In this way, both sides have their own advantages, and in this situation of having to fight, the soldiers on both sides are constantly fighting.
Two million German 'elites' led more than a million servants, and three million Russian regular troops and two million recruits, both sides launched a strangulation war on the outskirts of Moscow with the aim of destroying each other's living forces.
Since both sides are the main force of fast-moving tanks and armored vehicles, it often happens that your side has just eliminated our troops, and then you are bitten by our reinforcements, and then the two sides go through a big battle, then destroy, then reinforce, and then 'fierce' battle, and finally both sides lose the situation.
Almost every day, hundreds of thousands of people can be seen fighting in the vast expanse of land on the outskirts of Moscow. The battle was fought from early morning to evening, from the air to the ground, and there was not a moment when there was no more fighting, not a moment when there was no more bombing.
It seems that only when night falls, the soldiers on both sides can get a short rest. The war has been fought to this point, and any tactics and tricks are useless.
The comparison between the two sides is strength, that is, willpower, and between Minsk and Moscow, any ambush, any assault will turn into another ambush or another encounter.
The two sides kept increasing their troops and bombing on every 'engaged' battlefield, and the fighting would not stop until there were no more troops on the battlefield.
This strangulation battle that took place on Russian soil was of great significance, and as a result of this strangulation war, the rest of the Russian theater of war tended to calm down.
Because all the battles have to give way to this place, the eyes of the whole world have also been attracted here, and the intelligence departments of various countries are vying to transmit the information of the battles here back to their homes.
After a month of 'engagement', Russia and Germany lost another million men, and in this month alone, the commanders of Russia and Germany felt extremely exhausted physically and mentally.
But no one can stop, because the first side that cannot hold out is destined to lose the victory of this battle, and the victory or defeat of this battle is directly related to the victory or defeat of the battle between Germany and Russia.