Chapter 1084: The eerie calm of the front line
"According to the information provided to us by the Tiger, the Germans' train guns have already been shipped. They will be at the front of the position in two weeks at the latest......" Eisenhower said to Montgomery and Tukhachevsky in front of him.
Moreover, the key point in this piece of information is that a man named Otto. A small commando organized by Officer Skorzny's German **. Eisenhower nodded on the table and looked at the crowd: "What we need to pay attention to is the special thing about this small commando force: they are not affiliated with any army group, but directly with Hitler himself. ”
"At the same time, the IDF intelligence network has no access to the formation, training, armament and combat missions of this small commando unit. According to the analysis, they are most likely to be similar to the small infiltration units of the Wehrmacht that support us......"
Eisenhower's words made the faces of the two people present change several times, although they did not understand the combat methods of Commando A18. But the achievements of Commando A 18 are obvious to all.
This small force directly destroyed the train artillery that posed the greatest threat to the Allies, and then retreated under the heavy encirclement of the German army. Although this is also due to the assistance provided by the Allies such as intelligence and hiding points, this does not diminish the toughness they have shown.
"Can we get that commando team from the Wehrmacht to help us find this Otto and get rid of him?!" Tukhachevsky pondered for a moment and said to Eisenhower.
"If it's such a team, I'm afraid it's hard for us to deal with it alone. None of us had the experience of fighting such a small commando force. ”
Montgomery nodded, as a mature commander, he knew when he shouldn't be a hero. To be a hero in this kind of thing is to make fun of the soldiers under his command and his own lives.
"I'm afraid it's difficult, Commando A18 can only have great combat effectiveness when they are combined. Once separated, they may not be able to deal with such an unknown small detachment......"
After a pause, Eisenhower said, "The tiger has also sent a telegram." The small teams they have come with are only able to help us protect some of the important strategic nodes. It is almost impossible to cope with such a special operations detachment......"
This telegram was sent by Tu Menghu, but it was a bit of a pretense to say that Commando A18 could not cope with the German commandos. They are not a newly formed team like Otto, they have a wealth of practical experience and rigorous training.
If such a small force were to be tracked, they would not be completely impossible. It's just that Tu Mengben didn't want his commando team to face the Germans like this.
On the one hand, he was worried that his own side would suffer casualties, and on the other hand, he also wanted to let the other Allied forces feel the damage caused by this kind of commando battle.
"That commando, at least for now, we don't see where their damage is. What I'm most worried about now is the German train guns......" Montgomery said with a wry smile: "At least I think our current positions are really not able to withstand the bombardment of German train guns." As soon as their train artillery arrived, our positions ......"
Montgomery didn't go on. But everyone understands it in their hearts. As soon as the train artillery arrives, then what awaits the Allies. Four train guns were enough to destroy the entire Allied positions with non-stop artillery bombardment.
Even the defensive positions of the city of Moscow will be directly smashed by this crazy artillery fire.
Unfortunately, they didn't know that the Germans even sent a large number of rocket-booster bombs. If this news had been known, these commanders of the Allied forces would probably have a headache.
Now the two sides are engaged in a fierce air battle, and the Allies only rely on the P-51 and P-47 to occupy a slight advantage. If the Allies were forced to assist the ground forces, the attack would be greatly reduced.
At that time, no one dared to say that the Allies would be able to maintain their superiority in air warfare. You know, the German BF-100 is, after all, an extremely good fighter.
And almost all of their pilots were trained with French, British and Soviet fighters, and they had extremely rich experience in air combat. In this regard, the pilots of the US military are far inferior.
Fortunately, the U.S. military has a strong industrial base as a backing support, and at the same time, a large population as a source of soldiers. This barely held up on the battlefield in the USSR.
"General Eisenhower. How many new fighters can the United States provide us with now?! Just as everyone fell silent, Tukhachevsky suddenly spoke.
Eisenhower was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "If the Soviet Union needs it, we can provide 2,000 warplanes for the Soviet army to use by the end of this month......
"That's enough! We're going to fly these two thousand fighters. Stop the German offensive! Tukhachevsky's face was cold, and there was a bloodthirsty glint in his eyes.
Tukhachevsky's words made Eisenhower think about what he would do. Suddenly a stream of ice rose in Eisenhower's heart, and there was no doubt that Tukhachevsky was planning to fill the position with his human life!
After those fighters were handed over to the Soviet Union. Presumably, the Soviet army will not have any training, so it will directly send people to fly fighter planes into the air to fight.
Intellectually, Eisenhower could have accepted this approach. After all, now the war has reached such a state. The Soviet Union really did not have the time or energy to train its troops.
The battlefield is their training ground, and the soldiers who can survive the battlefield will eventually become the elite of the elite. This approach uses the law of survival of the fittest to the extreme.
Emotionally, however, Eisenhower could not accept such an approach. Bringing untrained soldiers into battle is hardly any different from murder.
They don't know how to operate weapons, they don't know how to dodge stray bullets. They went up, and the odds of surviving were slim. This is especially true for a high-tech branch of the Air Force.
"Don't think too much, General Eisenhower. As long as the United States provides us with enough fighters, we will be able to buy enough time for the Allies. Tukhachevsky looked at Eisenhower with a wry smile and said.
"This is our home, we have no choice......"
"If the war is going on to the end, our soldiers will die on the battlefield. Then I will also personally go to the battlefield, exist with this country, or give my life to protect him......"
Outside Moscow, the faces of the senior German generals such as the German army command Nelundstein finally looked better. The Führer sent them four train guns, which will arrive in the near future.
At the same time, there are also a large number of heavy bombs boosted by Mace rockets, and as for that squad, in the eyes of Rundsteint and others, this may be the Führer's new toy. They were simply sent to the battlefield for fun.
Rundstein and others, who have always regarded themselves as orthodox, would not have thought that such a small detachment would play any role on the battlefield. The real war still needs the guns under their command to complete it.
"These whimsical kids, I'll have my troops tell them how ridiculous these unrealistic ideas really are." The commander of the army, General Bock, once said to his subordinates: "Believe me, they will find themselves useless on the battlefield!" ”
Naturally, this ridicule and resistance also reached the commander of the SS special commando unit, Otto. Skorzny's ears. Otto was quite able to understand these doubts and hostilities.
There is only so much military spending, and the division of a part of a detachment means that the ration of other units is forced to decrease. However, this squad was personally controlled by the Führer, and no one else was even qualified to intervene.
This made several officers at all levels of the entire German Wehrmacht unhappy and even secretly hostile. The presence of the SS and SA was already very unpleasant for the Wehrmacht units.
Now there is such a huge consuming squad, which makes them even more angry. I don't know how many people this squad has, but the monthly consumption is equivalent to the consumption of a regular division of the German army, which is one of the reasons why the German generals are extremely unhappy.
At this moment, the battlefield outside Moscow suddenly calmed down. The fierce attacks, which had been happening every day, suddenly stopped. Rundstein: They found out about this, but in their opinion, it was the Allies who found that this was not going to work, so they stopped fighting.
The Allies stopped attacking, in fact, Rundsteint and others were also relieved. The fierce attack of the Allies during this period can be said to be a strong attack without regard for casualties.
Although this kind of Seiko German army blocked, the price paid was not small. More than 300,000 casualties have drastically reduced the combat effectiveness of various units. This kind of contest of attrition is the last thing the Germans want.
Knowing your own situation, Germany is not a country with a large population. If the number of troops consumed is too large, they will have to re-recruit troops from the rear, which will cause a sharp reduction in the productivity of the rear.
Hitler and the German military top brass were well aware of their shortcomings, so their carefully prepared blitzkrieg was to end the war directly with the fastest and strongest combat methods.
Once Germany is caught in a long-term war of attrition, then in the end Germany will have to fight like the First World War and have to withdraw from the war in the end.
Although Lei Daxiang and others did not directly assist the Allied forces in their defense, they still did a lot of assistance in strengthening the defense. For example, the arrangement of the secret whistle, the number of password changes, and the way of concealment...... Wait, it can be regarded as teaching the Allied troops a little bit of the training content of the special commandos.
But in fact, the core content, or as the most important training content of the commando, Lei Daxiang was not taught at all.
In the eerie calm, the combat units of the German army were also adjusting. The original garrison at the front began to be gradually withdrawn and repaired, and the troops that were originally used as reserves were gradually replaced on the front line.