Chapter 92: Cold Wave

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From the siege of Munich to the tragic annihilation, the units of the Austrian Front of the Soviet Army held out in the predicament for a full 21 days, and in this not a short period of three weeks, the three main groups of the Soviet Baltic Front, the Polish First Front, and the Polish Second Front were always held back by relatively weak opponents. The dismissal order came the day after the Germans announced their victory in the Battle of Munich, and the commanders of the main armies and corps of the various armies who were responsible for the offensive were also implicated, and a large number of highly decorated generals had to be investigated and tried by the military council, and if they were found guilty of dereliction of duty or even suspected of treason, the most cruel punishment awaited them.

Because more than 100,000 remnants of the Soviet Austrian Front were still fighting desperately in the Grafen and Wasserburg areas of southeastern Bavaria, and the millions of German officers and men on the front line were still working hard to continue to expand the victory, at the same time, the ruling clique in Moscow quickly selected from among the active generals who were worthy of the great position, and these generals who were ordered in danger did not dare to delay for a moment, and all of them arrived at their posts within 24 hours, and the efficiency was astonishing. Immediately afterwards, the Soviet army units that went south to Bavaria to relieve the siege of their comrades launched a new round of offensive, and the fate of the commanders urged the officers and soldiers on the front line, and the soldiers burst out in the bitter cold with the momentum of seeing death as home, and the Soviet Air Force also forced the attack in this harsh weather condition, exchanging additional losses for limited fire support. However, this investment did not bring the expected progress to the Soviet army, and apart from breaking through a few German positions in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, the superior Soviet forces were kicked into the steel plate in Hesse, Thuringia, and even northern Bavaria. In some areas, the German positions did not move, in others. The Germans only abandoned one or two lines of defense in front of them, and moved to the depth of the existing fortifications to continue the defense, and the concrete style of the Italian football team was used here in an alternative way - the courage of the Soviet officers and soldiers was commendable, and the German officers and men had the iron fighting spirit to defend their homeland and defend the country!

Clever and rational deployment is conducive to bringing into play the combat effectiveness of the existing troops, but this has put forward high demands on the entire command system. As the Soviet army intensified its offensive on all fronts, the German Combined Staff suddenly became a hot pot, and everyone in it was busy to the point where they could not stay. All the reserve forces that have been put into defense have been dispatched to deal with the various contingencies that may arise next. The General Staff had to transfer the rotational units that had been consumed more in the Battle of Munich to the defensive area, and to send several newly formed American armament units to the front in advance. For these excellent German generals, who racked their brains for the troops participating in the war, this was a game of chess that could not afford any mistakes, fortunately. This time, they received strong assistance from across the Atlantic. On the one hand, the U.S. government continued to transfer ordnance stored overseas to the Germans and acquiesced in allowing domestic volunteers to go to Germany to fight in the war, and on the other hand, the German residents who had immigrated to South America in the early days also enthusiastically returned to China and received recruit training in secret training camps in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In the past month, the German army has suffered a huge depletion in terms of men, equipment and ammunition, and without these Western aids, it will be difficult for them to continue the war.

on the battlefield. Outside the battlefield, international public opinion was tilted in favor of the weaker who had been invaded, and even the weather was favoring the disappointed in the two world wars. After entering December, a cold wave that has not been seen in several years hit, and heavy snowfall fell in many places in the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, and bad weather blocked traffic. It seriously affects the normal life of residents. As expected by 60 million Germans, the cold wave easily crossed the strait and swept across the European continent, with rare temperatures in Bremen and Hamburg in the minus 10 degrees, Berlin turned into a snow city, and in Bavaria in southern Germany, the mountains weakened the effect of the cold wave, but the temperature also dropped by several degrees compared to before, and the outdoor temperature remained at minus 6 to 8 degrees during the day. At night, the temperature drops to minus 10 degrees Celsius. Most Soviets, who had lived in Eastern Europe and Northwest Asia for generations, were accustomed to the bitter winter weather, but deep into the German heartland, poor supplies made it difficult for them to obtain sufficient supplies to protect them from the cold, and it became "mission impossible" to continue the vigorous offensive. Despite the urging of the superiors, in eastern Hesse and northern Bavaria. The Soviet offensive had in fact come to a halt, and in Thuringia, the units of the Soviet 1st Polish Front were able to capture a number of insignificant towns and strongholds only after the Germans had withdrawn on their own initiative. …,

At a time when the Soviet top brass was angry about the situation at the front, the hundreds of thousands of German troops assembled in North Rhine-Westphalia took advantage of the weakening of the Soviet air force to launch a counterattack. Although most of the inexperienced recruits who fought in this area were inexperienced recruits, thanks to the good performance of American-made equipment, coupled with the diligence and rigor of the Germanic people, these were developed by Hermann. The troops under the unified command of General Balk delivered a surprising answer during the six-day offensive -- they defeated the veteran Soviet 53rd Army, created a glorious record of encircling and annihilating the enemy's regimental tank units with infantry, drove the Soviet troops out of the North Rhine-Westphalia area, and contained the Soviet army's investment in southern Germany.

As the Second Soviet-German War shifted from a Soviet inflection to a stalemate between the Soviet Army, the countries that had suffered Soviet humiliation in the previous war were also quietly changing their positions. The number of non-belligerent ships entering the North Sea under various names has increased, and a department similar to a joint command has been formed under the banner of strengthening exchanges, and a group of American and British submarines have also sailed through the Skagerrak Strait into the Baltic Sea at the "friendly invitation" of Sweden; Rumors that the Allied forces stationed in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium had expanded by the largest margins since 1948, and that the 16 best-equipped armored divisions of the U.S. Army were massing behind the Allied lines at full strength, and that some of the divisions had been taken over by the Germans were shaking the confidence of the Soviet army's rank-and-file officers. In addition, the German battlefield has gradually become an ideal place for the United States and Britain and other countries to test new equipment, the Soviet Air Force and ground air defense forces have shot down more than a dozen jet fighters with typical Western style, to the Soviet military top brass is that these fighters have been equipped with epoch-making guided weapons, and the Soviet Union is far behind Western technology in this field, brave Soviet pilots have to shoot down each other at a greater cost than before, and on the ground battlefield, The strategic significance behind the newly emerged American-made wire-guided anti-tank rockets has caused serious harm to the Soviet army's proud armored forces with its outstanding performance......

On December 14, 1950, in response to the armistice proposal issued by the "United Nations" led by the United States, Britain and France, the Soviet government sent diplomatic and military representatives to Switzerland to negotiate with representatives from the GDR on armistice. In response to the Soviet side's demand for a thorough investigation, transfer, and punishment of the war criminals of the Third Reich, the German side made a-for-tat demand, that is, the Soviet Union hand over the KPD personnel who provoked the dispute, cut off all assistance to these rebels, and refrain from stationing heavy troops in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria adjacent to Germany. Since neither side was willing to accept the demands of the other side, the first armistice talks ended in failure, and the two sides resumed "dialogue" on the battlefield. After the influence of the cold wave weakened, the Soviet army, which had been greatly strengthened, launched a new offensive, but at this time, the Soviet troops trapped in the Grafen and Wasserburg areas for more than a month were no longer able to continue, and more than 40,000 Soviet officers and soldiers under Lieutenant General Davarich surrendered to the German army.

After cleaning up the battlefield and transferring prisoners, the Germans took the initiative to give up the fiercely contested areas of Würzburg, Ingolstadt and Freising, and the main forces participating in the siege of Bavaria quickly retreated to the west to recuperate, and the German troops fighting in Austria also took the initiative to retreat without being intercepted by the Soviet troops. On 23 December, the Soviets captured Munich and the next day Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, but the Soviets were not happy the following Christmas, as the anti-Bolshevik camp became more provocative. At the appeal of a considerable number of domestic people, the US Congress once again discussed and voted on the bill to aid Germany, and since the situation in the second Soviet-German war had changed fundamentally from the previous vote, more than 60 percent of the congressmen voted in favor of using the German army to resist the torrent of the Soviet Union. In accordance with the legal procedures, Thomas. President John Dewey signed the bill before the New Year of 1951, which meant that the "American Factory," which was a world leader in productivity and creativity, would openly provide material support to Germany. Prior to this, although the United States had secretly handed over hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons and equipment to the German armed forces, this did not include the various main equipment developed and equipped by the United States after the war -- the "Patton" series of tanks developed and manufactured to counter the Soviet armored forces, the improved "Pershing" series of tanks, the F84 jet fighters put into mass production for the purpose of controlling air supremacy on the battlefield, and the P-51D fighters with considerable numbers and outstanding performance. After restrictions are lifted, the U.S. military will send a large number of instructors to Germany while providing equipment assistance to help the German government double the size of its military in four months and achieve a balance of quantity and quality on the battlefield.