Chapter 471: Soldiers Arrive in Leningrad
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Stalin's anger was not really unleashed, and only by this time the German armored forces had just broken through to less than a hundred kilometers inside Russia. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Moreover, these German armored units had their respective targets accurate, ignoring the small barracks on the left and right flanks, and they all drove straight to the barracks of the regimental and above levels of the Russian border guards.
Then, after reaching the target, they opened fire directly, and thousands of tanks were divided into hundreds of tank attack detachments, which were able to attack in an orderly manner.
It can be seen how well the Germans prepared before the attack, and how accurate the intelligence information was. Hundreds of such tank detachments inflicted incalculable losses on the territory of the Russian army.
Many Russian troops were crushed by the German tank groups before they even had a chance to react, and countless Russian soldiers rushed to throw down their weapons and began to flee inland.
And the German tank troops, who had just done all this, did not even clean up the results of the battle, and drove directly to their next attack target.
With the bold large-scale penetration of German tank armored forces, more and more Russian ** teams were attacked by the Germans and were divided and surrounded.
After the tank troops crushed everything that could be crushed in front of them, millions of German troops slowly followed behind the tanks and began to receive the fruits of victory.
Because the roads leading to the cities of Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev were all plains, and the roads were wide and strong, which were very conducive to the movement of mechanized troops, the German three-way army advanced rapidly.
This time, the German Northern Route Army was responsible for the attack on Leningrad, and the vanguard of the Northern Route Army was Manstein's Panzer Group.
Their goal was to destroy all the armies near Leningrad within a month, and within a month to reach the periphery of Leningrad and form an encirclement of Leningrad. If the time is right, take advantage of the situation to attack Leningrad and then occupy Leningrad.
The Central Route Army was the most powerful army group in the three German armies, also known as the German Central Army Group, led by Marshal Bock himself, three armies, three armored groups, and one aviation group, with a total of 2 million troops, all the way to Moscow, the capital of Russia.
It's just that because of Li Tie's guidance, the tasks of their Central Route Army are very different from those of the previous life. In the previous life, they were also the main attacking force, the first to fight Moscow, and the first to engage in the battle to attack Moscow.
This life is different, although they have the strongest troops and the strongest strength this time, the task they got turned out to be a feint. In addition to eliminating as many Russian teams on the road to Moscow as possible, their main task is to build momentum and create a momentum to take Moscow, so that the troops around Moscow, and even the troops near Leningrad and Kiev, will all approach Moscow.
Hitler got Li Tie's suggestion not to occupy the city, but to kill and injure a large number of Russian ** teams, as long as a large number of Russian troops are killed, then these cities are not at your fingertips?
Therefore, although the Central Route Army was also a god blocking and killing a god, and a Buddha was blocking and killing a Buddha, the speed of their march was not faster than that of the other two German armies, and they were ordered that it was best to combine the three armies in Moscow City after the other two armies had completed their respective tasks.
As for Germany's so-called Southern Route Army, Guderian, who had made a great splash on the European battlefield two years earlier, was in the vanguard, and Guderian personally led his 11th Panzer Army all the way to Kiev like chopping melons and vegetables. All the Russian ** teams that stood in front of Guderian were wiped out.
In fact, at the beginning of the mission, the German three-way army was given the same task, that is, to sweep away all the formed Russian ** teams on their respective target roads within a month.
Then they attacked their respective targets, and when Manstein and Guderian's armored forces were the first to conquer their targets, the Northern and Southern armies moved closer to the Central Army, and then the three armies attacked Moscow together.
Hitler gave everyone a deadline of three months to launch an attack on Moscow, and to occupy Moscow before the bitter winter.
For this great goal, the three-way army has been working hard all the way from the beginning of the war. Not to mention, the greater the pressure, the greater the motivation, and within a month, the German army in the north, center, and south had all achieved the set goal. Ground forces also arrived at designated positions.
Among them, Army Group North, led by Field Marshal Loeb, the 16th and 18th armies, the 4th Panzer Group and the 1st Air Group, totaled 1 million German troops, 1,500 tanks, 1,000 aircraft.
The German Army Group North attacked from the east of Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) in East Prussia in the general direction of Daugavpils, Pskov, and Leningrad.
Within a month, the 8th, 11th and 27th armies of the Soviet army in the Baltic Sea coast were wiped out, with a total of 25 divisions and a total of 300,000 troops.
A month later, Army Group North successfully captured the Baltic coastal ports, depriving the Soviet fleet of most of its bases and successfully preventing the Soviet retreat from the Baltic coast to the east.
Now Army Group North has even joined forces with the Finnish Resistance Army on the outskirts of Leningrad, and Army Group North has successfully surrounded Leningrad, the holy land of the Russian revolution, with a total of 1.5 million troops of the Finnish Resistance Army and some German servant troops.
Today, there are 500,000 Russian troops in Leningrad who have fled from the German-Russian border, as well as 1 million temporarily conscripted militiamen and workers' and students' armed forces.
At the same time, there are 5 million people in the city who are bent on resisting the enemy.
Within a month, Army Group North wiped out all formed armies in northern Russia, including the border with Finland. At this time, however, the defense of Leningrad had just begun, and many important military installations had not yet had time to be reinforced.
However, Leningrad is the birthplace of the Russian Revolution, and the people in this region are extremely warlike, and when millions of German troops just started to attack Russia, the people of Leningrad, who were the first to know the news, have spontaneously begun to hoard all kinds of war materials, and are fully prepared for a protracted war.
When a few days later, when the news of the German attack on Russia was confirmed, the commander of the Leningrad Corps, Voroshilov, directly called on the residents of the city to start building three defensive trenches around Leningrad.
Today, millions of citizens throughout Leningrad, from the elderly in their sixties and seventies to children in their seventies and eighties, are now distributed with tools for digging trenches.
Because Leningrad has a good revolutionary tradition, and the people are well organized and disciplined, as a result, as the vanguard of the 4th Panzer Group, when the 56th Panzer Corps led by Manstein arrived in Leningrad, he saw three deep trenches on the perimeter of Leningrad that could bury tanks.
Outside these trenches were the Leningrad Engineer Corps, working overtime day and night to lay mines. There are so many buried that even the sappers themselves can't remember, anyway, according to the sappers themselves, as long as they get out of the trenches, don't think about coming back alive.
In the same way, if you want to attack Leningrad, you should not first level the mines outside the city, and do not think about coming in. Hearing such an irresponsible report from the sappers, Voroshilov not only did not get angry, but greatly rewarded the sapper commander.
In Voroshilov's opinion, it was pointless to remember where the mines were buried, because they were doomed to live and die with Leningrad, so no amount of mines could be put on them by the Red Army.
So when Manstein's dozens of tanks just entered the perimeter of the trench and wanted to make a tentative attack, the ** that was detonated everywhere and the mines that were crushed by tanks everywhere deeply shocked Manstein.
He now sees that Leningrad is no longer a city that can be conquered by humans, but a tomb full of fierce ** from top to bottom, and as long as you touch it, you will end up with this tomb.
Looking at the trench in front of him, where there was almost no way out, Manstein frowned deeply, and he called the intelligence officer to record the situation outside Leningrad.
Then it was quickly transmitted to the General Staff of the Interior and to Marshal Loeb of Army Group North, who could now only stand still, waiting for news from the General Staff of the Interior and the arrival of the sappers of Army Group on the other.
In fact, thanks to Manstein's reckless action, it turned out that in Leningrad at this time, whether it was the elderly, children, young people, or women, as long as they could hold guns, they all walked through the tunnels inside the city to the trenches outside the city.
The city was built like a meat grinder, full of hidden forts and anti-artillery holes, I don't know if it was because of Li Tie, the German army in this life has achieved a lot more, and the speed of march has also increased a lot, but the corresponding Russian defense work is also much better than the previous life.
For example, Marshal Voroshilov, the commander of the Leningrad garrison in this life, many of the ideas of Leningrad's defense measures today are actually that he learned from the defense of Nanjing and Changsha against the Japanese army in China.
It was the classic example of the squadrons in Nanjing and Changsha defeating the strong with the weak that deeply touched the hearts of the commanders of the Leningrad defenders. He also spent a long time researching it, not to mention that this time he really let him learn and sell it for use.
Just look at the current defensive layout of Leningrad, fortunately, Li Tie was not on the scene, otherwise he would definitely ask for the copyright fee of the Russians, and the defense of the entire Leningrad cottage is better than Li Tie's defense.
After all, Russia is an industrial country, and Leningrad is also an industrial base, a port city, and the cradle of the Russian Navy.
Therefore, Leningrad almost wanted everything, plus the soldiers used their lives and the people did their best, so this defense work was also done exceptionally well.
You must know that in the previous life, Leningrad was defended for three whole years, dragging down the German Army Group North. The whole of Leningrad did not surrender even though 1.5 million people died of starvation, 600,000 people died in battle, and 300,000 soldiers.
It can be seen how strong Leningrad's combat effectiveness was as the base of the Russian revolution. It's just that in this life, due to the arrival of Li Tie, can Leningrad still hold on as always?
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