Chapter 206: Strategic Analysis (1)

My Comrade Hu Hansan, did you choose to go to the Baku region to grab oil fields? Or do you choose to go to Orsk, where you die? ”

Vincent did not hesitate to point his finger at Olsk and said:

"I choose to go to Orsk, where I die, but please give me another corps of armored troops, hehe."

"Comrade Hu Hansan, don't rob me like a tyrant, the Panzer Army doesn't have it, but I can give you two divisions of the SS infantry division of you, the most elite infantry division in Germany, the invincible infantry division, do you want it?"

The newly formed infantry division of the Wehrmacht has now been included in the SS battle sequence, and as soon as he changes his clothes, he will become the most elite and invincible SS infantry division in Zhang Jun's mouth.

"Yes, of course, I can completely let these 30,000 SS elite infantry build a defensive circle, and then use my Italian Panzer Corps to form a rapid strike force, which Soviet Yankee would dare to move my Orsk...... He was killing himself, and I would send him to God for free.

Vincent's wild words have come out, I don't know how it will end, and I only know if I have really beaten it.

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After Zhang Jun arranged for Vincent, he personally wrote a report to Hitler when he left Warsaw, carefully analyzing how Germany should defeat the vast Soviet Union. After all, Zhang Jun can only command one army group, and Germany, the head of the European Union, still needs to make up his mind about the specific policy of the occupied areas.

“…… Factors such as size, population, resources, and technology represent to a greater extent a country's war potential, rather than its war strength that can immediately play a role in a war (the most intuitive expression of war strength is whether the armed forces are large or small, whether they are well-equipped, and whether their logistical supplies are sufficient) -- "potential" is not equal to actual "strength." In other words, if a country's war potential is not transformed into war strength in time, no matter how great its potential is, it may fail.

There is a certain relationship between the size of the land area and the number of people and the abundance of resources, and it determines the size of the strategic space and the room for maneuver between the two sides on the battlefield, and to some extent determines the way the war is conducted: positional warfare or movement warfare? Quick or protracted? The size of the population is directly related to the human resources urgently needed in wartime: the number of people of military service age determines the size of the army's reserve force, and the male and female population is the main source of labor for the expansion of military production in wartime.

The abundance of mineral resources has a great relationship with whether a country can produce sufficient war materials and weapons and equipment. Oil, iron, aluminum, coal, rubber, grain, cloth, and all kinds of metals are strategic materials that are in great demand in wartime, without which the war machine cannot function normally. If a country is in a state of blockade in wartime, and strategic materials cannot be obtained through trade exchange, etc., the problem of resources determines the size of its self-sustaining power and its ability to continue fighting.

The level of culture and technology has a bearing on how many weapons and equipment, production equipment, military theories, operational research and other achievements a country can invent in wartime, and they are the amplifier of a country's war strength: advanced weapons can be used as a hundred, excellent tactics can be outnumbered, and excellent theories can maximize the operational efficiency of the war machine. However, the process of transforming war potential is not achieved overnight, and it requires a considerable degree of time, space, and material support. Once it is used by the enemy to succeed in the way of fast and slow fighting: the territory is occupied by a large area, the people are enslaved in large numbers, the materials are plundered in large quantities, and the technology is frantically stolen, the transformation of war potential into war strength will be forcibly suppressed, and the country may even be defeated and unable to turn over, and will never be able to raise its head.

How can a small country overcome a large one? It can be achieved in the following ways, mainly in four aspects:

1. Use a well-organized elite army to destroy the enemy's large but bloated army in large numbers. That is, to defeat mediocrity with elite and eliminate the enemy's direct resistance.

2. Occupy the enemy's strategic points, political and economic centers, important cities, resource mining areas, production bases, and transportation hubs, and prevent the enemy from mobilizing for war, producing materials, assembling troops, and mobilizing troops.

3. For conquered areas: requisition of enemy personnel as laborers or even soldiers; exploit the enemy's mineral resources and use the enemy's production equipment as a supplement to its own war; Use captured strategic points or military bases as your own forward base and supply rear.

4. Establish a puppet government and restore the functioning of society; The local people should be governed by the locals, so that the enemy people can return to the normal production and living conditions before the war as soon as possible under the leadership of the regime that conforms to their own will, so as to weaken the will of the enemy people to resist to the greatest extent. If a country achieves some or even all of the above four points, it will be able to effectively suppress the enemy and prevent its war potential from being transformed into actual war strength, and it will not be impossible for a small country to defeat a large country. The forces needed to sustain the conquered territories are far less than those needed for war, let alone a problem.

All in all, "nourishing war with war, and defeating raze with raze" is the only way for a small country to defeat a big country, and the core is one word, "fast"! ”

Zhang Jun's report has made it very clear, and it euphemistically told Hitler what to do and how to deal with the people in the occupied territories, if Hitler still pursues the same set of policies in your history and implements high-pressure discrimination against the people in the occupied territories. This is tantamount to forcing the Soviet people, who were originally extremely dissatisfied with Stalin, to return to Stalin's camp alive, this is Hitler's own death, Zhang Jun can only do his best and obey the fate of heaven.

However, in the territory occupied by Zhang Jun, whether it was the Wehrmacht or Hitler, Zhang Jun decided to implement the same national relaxation policy as Poland, and the Soviet people in the occupied areas would receive 20 acres of land, rescue the people in the collective farms, give full play to the production enthusiasm of the Soviet people, eat a big pot of rice, and no one would actively produce, this was practiced, and the peasants' desire for land could also win the support of the Soviet people as much as possible, so it was difficult for Soviet partisans to appear under Zhang Jun's rule.

The annihilation of the army, the occupation of land, and the exploitation of resources were all commensurate, and in the matter of governing the people, Germany also had a certain advantage in the early stage of the war. The three Baltic states were forced by the Soviet Union to join the Soviet Union, the Poles hated the Soviet Union for stabbing them in the back during the German-Polish War, and the Ukrainians were very disgusted with the Soviet regime, seeing the Germans as liberators and welcoming them with salt and bread.

Another trick was that the Soviets could elect their own leaders, and of course the election was absolutely fair on the surface. And Zhang Jun only needs to control the economy of the occupied territory.

As for how Hitler will treat Zhang Jun's report, now Zhang Jun doesn't know, Zhang Jun called a secretary to fly directly to Berlin, let his secretary hand over the report to Mao Renfeng, and then after the "Barbarossa" plan was opened, he led the two Soviet marshals to meet Hitler, Hitler would treat these two former Soviet marshals like this, Zhang Jun really didn't know, in history, Hitler sent the prisoners of Soviet generals who came to ask for cooperation back to the prisoner of war camp.

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Zhang Jun also carefully compared and analyzed the current and historical "Barbarossa Plan", and also had some summary cognitions:

Germany's superiority also added a number of chips to Germany's victory over the Soviet Union:

1. Strategic suddenness:

On the eve of the Battle of Poland in September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, after which the Soviet Union and Germany partitioned Poland. Until the eve of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war in 1941, the economic, trade and technological exchanges between the Soviet Union and Germany were always relatively close, and Germany even sold some new equipment to the Soviet Union as a sign of friendship. In order to conceal strategic intentions, the German army prepared to hold EU military exercises during the secret build-up to the Soviet-German border, creating the illusion of the Soviet Union. The Germans were making a big deal of fanfare and hype about their hatred of Britain and France, creating the illusion that the German army was about to attack Britain and France: distributing British maps to the troops, equipping them with English interpreters, preparing landing equipment, and holding landing exercises. It also declared that it would carry out a plan of war to attack Gibraltar, occupy the south of France, march into North Africa, and attack Britain with Norway as a springboard, in an attempt to direct the world's attention in these directions.

Germany also mobilized German troops in Finland, Romania, and other countries under the pretext of "training," "changing guards," and "borrowing routes." Although the Soviet leaders, headed by Stalin, realized that the possibility of war between the Soviet Union and Germany was increasing day by day, and adopted measures such as building an eastern front, strengthening the army, and building border fortifications, they still had a paralyzing mentality, a fluke mentality, and a misjudgment of the strategic situation, believing that Germany would not attack the Soviet Union so quickly, which objectively caused the army to be underprepared for the Soviet-German war psychologically and materially. So much so that at the present moment when the war is about to break out, the troops are still not instructed to immediately enter the first level of combat readiness.

2. Military superiority:

At the time of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Germany had concentrated more than 8 million armed forces, equipped with more than 7,600 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 50,000 artillery pieces, more than 8,000 aircraft, and more than 210 ships. It is organized into more than 350 divisions, of which 49 are armored or motorized.

Coupled with the valuable war experience gained by Germany in previous wars, such as the White Plan, the Wieser Exercise, the Yellow Plan, and the Punitive Operation, the use of blitzkrieg warfare is close to perfection. The quality of the personnel of the unit is extremely high and the morale is high. It is no exaggeration to say that the German army at that time was the most powerful army in the world. At that time, the total strength of the Soviet Union was more than 5 million, including more than 300 divisions, more than 7,000 tanks, 100,000 artillery pieces, and nearly 20,000 aircraft. However, the Soviet army was understaffed, poorly qualified, lacking in equipment, and backward in weapons, and in fact was not fully prepared for war. The total strength of the Soviet army deployed on the western border was about 2.7 million men in more than 170 divisions, 1,800 tanks, 35,000 artillery pieces, and 1,600 aircraft, and the ratio of German offensive strength was about 1:3, which was at an absolute disadvantage. Moreover, the Soviet army's war thinking is relatively backward, and it has not completely jumped out of the positional trench warfare thinking of World War I...... (To be continued.) )