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The defeat of the German army in the Transcaucasian campaign shattered the myth of the German army's invincibility and catapulted the Armenian army into a regional military power. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Of course, the world did not care about the Armenian army becoming a Transcaucasian power, but was afraid of the strong military power of the Chinese Empire behind Armenia, which excited the Entente and worried the Allies.

The Germans temporarily spared Armenia, because the situation of the war in the USSR had changed dramatically, and the Germans were bogged down in bitter battles in the Moscow direction, which forced Hitler to take defensive measures in the Don direction and transfer forces in the direction of Moscow. At the same time, Hitler instructed the Romanian and Bulgarian armies to continue their offensive in Transcaucasia and fight against the Armenian army.

Turkey, which had been fighting against the Soviet Union, was also concerned about Armenia's entry into the war. Although Turkey did not join the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere, it had a close paramilitary alliance with the Chinese Empire. Armenia's entry into the war showed the military intentions of the Chinese Empire behind it, which forced Turkey to abandon Transcaucasia and avoid war with Armenia. As a result, Turkey became the only country in the Allied bloc that did not declare war on Armenia, and Armenia did not declare war on Turkey.

Without Turkey's response, Romania and Bulgaria were clearly in a vulnerable position in the battle against the Armenian army. If it weren't for the lack of strength of the Armenian army and the fact that the front was too long, I am afraid that it would have been directly hit to Romania and Bulgaria proper.

The Germans focused on the Moscow direction. But the cold winter of the Soviet Union made the German army miserable, and the tanks and military vehicles that used a lot of diesel turned off, and the German army's armor advantage was gone. German units without armored fighting vehicles, in the absence of winter clothing to keep warm. When fighting infantry against the Soviet Red Army, it was clear that it was at a loss.

On January 5, 1942, Zhukov led the Soviet army to launch a large-scale counterattack. At this time, the German offensive capability was obviously exhausted, and the main offensive of the Soviet army was concentrated on Army Group Center. From the next day. The offensive of the Soviet troops was in full swing in the Moscow region.

As early as the critical moment in Moscow, Stalin transferred some Soviet troops from the Soviet-Chinese border area to Moscow, which were well equipped with Chinese weapons, but Zhukov remained for counterattack. He believed the intelligence of the Soviet spy Richard Sorge, and pointed out that the main reason for the Armenian army's victory over the German army was that they were equipped with advanced weapons of Chinese weapons.

Zhukov threw in a large number of reinforcements to counter the German offensive, including the Chinese M28A3 main battle tank and the newly built T-34 tank, as well as the Russian version of the Raytheon-17 rocket artillery system of the Chinese Empire, the Katyusha rocket launcher. At the same time, Zhukov has prepared a number of ski battalions for the winter war.

Although the German generals repeatedly demanded a retreat, and both Guderian and Hepner were dismissed from their posts for retreating without permission. Hitler, however, believed that there must be no retreat, or he would repeat the mistakes of Napoleon.

This time, Hitler made the right decision, because it was because of his stubbornness that he did not jump into the abyss of the Franco-Russian war. There can be no doubt that it was his refusal to withdraw from the Soviet Union and to abandon the area east of Smolensk that his army was able to avoid a catastrophe even more terrible than that of 1812.

Hitler's plan was different from Napoleon's. Instead of retreating on the whole line, it moved to the rear, turning the original advancing supply lines into resistance strongholds, so as to avoid being beaten by the Soviets all the way.

On January 7, 1942, the Soviets recaptured Kalinin, north of Moscow, and the counteroffensive in the western strategic direction was completed. The exhausted German troops had retreated to 100-250 kilometers away. 38 divisions of the German army. 15 tank and motorized divisions were heavily damaged. The defeat of the assault group attacking Moscow alarmed the Germans, and Hitler demanded to hold on to every settlement, not to retreat a single step, until the last soldier was killed. ╔╗

On January 8, Hitler had to sign instructions to go on the defensive on the entire Soviet-German battlefield, including in the direction of Moscow. But the next day, the Soviets recaptured the regions of Rogachevo, Istria and Solnechnogorsk. Hitler's instructions did not work in the slightest, and the main German forces continued to retreat. When the Soviets liberated Tula, Hitler was so angry that he immediately dismissed Army Commander-in-Chief Brauchitsch from his post and personally concurrently served as Army Commander-in-Chief. He issued an order: "Every man should stand in his present position and fight back." When there is no established position in the rear, it is absolutely not allowed to retreat."

The Western Front, the Kalinin Front and the Bryansk Front of the Soviet Army carried out an offensive campaign to attack Vyazma. Owing to the lack of experience in carrying out large-scale offensive operations and the lack of rapid corps, it was not possible to fully complete the tasks assigned to it to encircle and annihilate the basic strength of Army Group "Center".

At the beginning of February, German reinforcements (12 divisions and 2 brigades) from Western Europe and troops on the northern flank of Army Group Center carried out counter-assaults.

Due to the continuous strategic defense of the Soviet army, a large number of Soviet troops were good at fighting defensive battles, and suddenly launched a large-scale counteroffensive against the German army, which made the Soviet army inexperienced, and the various units were too scattered and lacked mobile offensive capabilities, causing the retreating German army to suddenly adopt counter-assault operations and once again inflict heavy losses on the Soviet army.

In order to avoid the success of the German counter-assault again, and to avoid the deterioration of the situation on the battlefield in Moscow. On April 20, the Soviet High Command ordered the West to move its troops to the defensive and withdraw its combat units from the outside.

Seeing that the Soviets were no longer counterattacking, the Germans also gave up the offensive and deployed defenses on the spot, and the Battle of Moscow ended. The Soviet Union paid a heavy price of more than 900,000 casualties and prisoners, 9,800 tanks, and 12,000 artillery pieces, and won the final victory in the defense of Moscow.

After the Battle of Moscow, the German army's ambition to annex the Soviet Union in one fell swoop came to naught. ╔╗In the winter war, 35 senior German generals, including Marshal Brauchitsch, Marshal Bock, General Guderian, and General Strauss, were dismissed. In the Battle of Moscow, the German army lost more than 500,000 troops, surrendered 90,000, lost 3,300 tanks, 14,000 artillery pieces, 15,000 automobiles and countless other technical equipment.

The defeat of the German army in the Battle of Moscow. Marked the complete bankruptcy of Hitler's blitzkrieg. This was the first major defeat of the German army in World War II, and it was far from comparable to the defeat of the German army in Transcaucasia.

Despite the Soviet victory in the defense of Moscow, the Soviet Union was still in danger in a grand strategic situation. The Germans simply abandoned the tactics of an all-out offensive. But the German offensive was far from stopping, and on the whole the Soviets were at a disadvantage, and then fierce Soviet-German battles broke out again in the Stalingrad and Kursk directions. The German army deployed new weapons and equipment in a targeted manner, which made the Soviet-German battlefield fall into a stalemate.

Despite the fact that the Germans met in the Soviet-German theater and the Transcaucasian theater. But on the battlefield on the Western Front, it unexpectedly opened up the situation.

At the beginning of January 1942, when the Soviet Army launched a counteroffensive and the German army was forced to retreat strategically, Hitler transferred 15 mechanized divisions and 22 infantry divisions from the French front line in order to reinforce the Soviet-German battlefield, resulting in a sharp reduction in the strength of the German army in the Western European battlefield.

The Anglo-French Allied High Command was also informed of the Soviet-German reversal on the battlefield and rejoiced at the victories in the Caucasus and Moscow campaigns. The myth that the Allies were undefeated was finally shattered, and it was inferred that the end of the Allies was imminent.

Soon, the Allied spies discovered that Germany had transferred elite troops from the Western Front on a large scale, and with Germany's strong transportation capabilities, they were quickly transferred to the Soviet battlefield, intending to save the passive situation of the German army on the Soviet battlefield. ╔╗

The Anglo-French Entente deduced that the elite of the German army was transferred to the Soviet Union, and the pressure on the Western Front was greatly reduced, and Stalin also happily proposed to Britain and France a battle plan to destroy Germany. It was pointed out that the Soviet army was carrying out a major counteroffensive on all fronts, the German army was retreating on a large scale, and the Soviet army planned to attack the German mainland within three months, but asked the British and French Entente to provide military support and immediately launch a large-scale offensive on the Western Front.

The Anglo-French Entente immediately acceded to Stalin's request. However, Britain and France delayed launching a large-scale offensive and waited only for the opportunity to transfer the main forces of the German army to the Soviet Union. By this time, Britain and France were still calculating the Soviet Union.

When the main German army was secretly transferred from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, the Anglo-French Entente immediately organized a huge counteroffensive corps with a total strength of 2.5 million people, of which 42 mechanized divisions included almost all the mechanized elite troops of Britain and France. Britain and France were ready to take advantage of the Soviet Union's opportunity to drag most of Germany's main forces, a one-time major counteroffensive to crush the German army on the Western Front, and then burn the battlefield directly to Germany proper.

To this end, the Anglo-French Entente countries imported weapons and equipment and various combat materials from the Chinese Empire with a total amount of 84 billion dragon coins, including 1,500 M28A3 main battle tanks, 600 W30 wheeled infantry combat vehicles, 320 Z29 anti-tank combat vehicles and other army main battle equipment, and the Air Force purchased 3,000 Jian-10 fighters, 400 H-5 bombers and 200 H-6 bombers, as well as 24,000 transport vehicles and 800 military transport planes. He even wanted to lease the battleships and aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire, but was rejected by the Chinese Empire.

Of course, even with the strong industrial production capacity of the Chinese Empire, it would take at least three months to produce these materials. However, the Anglo-French Entente was very lucky this time, and among the major arms dealers of the Chinese Empire, a group of arms dealers had already begun to speculate on World War II, and they secretly hoarded a large amount of weapons and equipment and strategic materials. At this time, he took advantage of Britain and France, and saw that Britain and France were eager to obtain this batch of weapons and equipment in a short period of time, and sold them to the British and French Entente at a price 20% higher than the market price, and for this reason, he severely knocked the British and French Entente countries a lot. ╔╗

Britain and France no longer cared about being blackmailed by the shameless arms dealers of the Chinese Empire, they only cared about the success or failure of this great counteroffensive, and the two countries were ready to destroy Germany in one fell swoop.

However, Hitler was not a fool, and he certainly did not dare to actually transfer all the elite troops to the Soviet battlefield. Despite the reversal of the situation on the Soviet battlefield, Hitler believed that the Germans could hold on, or at least delay the Soviet counteroffensive.

When the German OKW Intelligence Bureau found out about the changes in the Anglo-French Entente, Hitler and the German General Staff Headquarters decided to plan as planned, ostensibly transferring most of the elite units of the German army to the Soviet front, but in fact only a quarter of them actually went to the Soviet front. The reserves continued to train to the Soviet front, while the elite units of the German army remained as reserve units.

The Germans deliberately acted in secrecy. Inflict realistic military operations on Britain, France, and the Soviet Union to convince them of the truth. For this reason, only a few high-ranking German officers knew about the plan, and the middle and lower ranks of the German army and even most of the high-ranking officers did not know the plan of the General Staff Headquarters. I really thought that the reinforcement of the Soviet front was so smooth that the spies of Britain, France and the Soviet Union were successfully concealed, and even the spies of the Chinese Empire failed to grasp the real information of the German army. So much so that it failed to warn the Anglo-French Entente.

Hitler's tactical deception succeeded, as the Germans on the Soviet battlefield successfully withstood the Soviet counterattack. And a local counterattack victory was achieved. At the same time, a large number of German reserve troops marched into the Soviet Union, for which Hitler launched the Battle of Stalingrad, giving Britain, France and the Soviet Union the false impression that the German troops entering the Soviet battlefield were transferred from the French battlefield.

As a result, the Anglo-French Allied High Command immediately launched a major counteroffensive operation plan. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French President Albert personally sat in the command to form the general headquarters of the Anglo-French counteroffensive and gather all the military forces of Britain and France. In order to defeat the frontal German army in a short time, and push the battlefield to German territory before the main German army on the Eastern Front returned to help, and even, if possible, the Anglo-French army would directly attack Berlin before the German army could react, ending the war.

At 4:15 a.m. on February 3, 1942, the British and French forces began artillery preparations. 6.7 Multiple cannons of various calibers fired high-explosive shells at various fixed targets in the opposite German positions. More than 3,000 bombers of various types rained down a cascade of bullets on airfields, military headquarters, and transportation centers deep in the heart of German positions.

The battle plan, codenamed "Nemesis' Wrath", began.

According to the plan. The Anglo-French forces attacked on three fronts.

On the northern route, Army Group North, under the command of British Army General Sir Charles Pol, set out from the northern French city of Amiens and launched an attack on the German-controlled Arras and Lille lines, targeting Brussels, the capital of Belgium. The strategic task was to completely annihilate the main German forces in northern France and liberate Belgium and the Netherlands. In order to assist the Entente** in the occupation of Arras, several armies organized by the government-in-exile of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway launched a feint from the direction of Dunkirk to pin down the German reinforcements in Lille.

The center, the so-called "center" army group, was an army consisting mainly of French troops, commanded by French Field Marshal Pétain. The purpose of the operation was to launch an offensive against the German-controlled French town of Metz, with the aim of occupying Metz, and then destroying the main German army on the front line of Metz, and directly burning it to Germany after the war, and the long-term strategic goal was to capture Berlin before German reinforcements arrived.

On the southern route, Army Group South, led by French Army General Scott, crossed the mountains of Colmar from the Maginot Line, set out along the mountain road, and attacked in the direction of Alsace via Baccarat, with the strategic aim of recapturing the industrial area of Alsace.

The war was raging on three fronts at once. On some of the warring border rivers such as the Reims, the Anglo-French forces took a number of bridges by surprise a few minutes before the start of the general offensive. When the awakened German soldiers ran to get their weapons, they were swept down by the machine guns of the British and French commandos. Where there were no bridges, British and French commandos smuggled across the river on rafts, or forced ashore in attack motorboats, and some German soldiers did not even have time to shoot. In some sections, some of the Anglo-French underwater tanks that had been intended for use on the battlefields of Spain and Italy climbed across the riverbed and broke through the German lines.

The vanguard of Army Group Center soon broke through the weakly fortified German positions, and the Entente was immediately convinced that the elite German forces had been transferred. The Allied tank forces drove straight on the road to Metz without encountering large-scale German interceptions, but were quickly dispersed by occasional small German forces.

However, the Allied Army Group North met with stubborn resistance from the Germans, as it was impossible for Hitler to abandon the Netherlands and Belgium, which were the key points of the German army's final de facto strategic outflanking of France, and at the same time the key port for the German navy to control the English Channel and access to the North Sea. If the Germans easily abandoned there, it would soon cause alarm in Britain and France.

Therefore, Hitler placed a large number of German troops there, and they received orders to put up desperate resistance. The Anglo-French forces were met with fierce resistance from the Germans and were unable to advance for a while.

At the initial moment of the outbreak of the battle, because the German army wanted to be more realistic, so that the Entente ** team thought that the German army on the opposite side was vulnerable, so it deliberately placed a large number of false targets in some important parts, such as the airport, for the Allied planes to attack and shell, creating the illusion that the German army was not in charge of firepower, and luring the Allied ** team out of their positions.

Three hours after the start of the war, the British and French air forces began to bomb all German field airfields and bombed deep into the German depths. The Germans were bombed at 43 airfields near the Western Front, but most of them were false targets. The new field airfields secretly built by the Germans in some hidden areas escaped the attacks of the British and French air forces.

By noon on February 3, the Luftwaffe had lost 1,200 aircraft, 800 of which were blown up on airfields, but 90% of them were false targets, and most of the others were irreparable planes, specially designed for the British and French air forces to blow up, and the real German planes had actually been transferred a few nights before.

On the vast front from the English Channel to the Swiss border, there have been hours of bloody fighting, and many German troops do not know that this is a ploy by the German army to lure the snake out of the hole, thinking that the German army has been defeated by the British and French forces, and a considerable number of them panic and flee, although the German high command is very dissatisfied, but it makes the British and French forces more convinced that the main German army is not here. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )