"After many years, we finally have such a strong army, they are stronger than the army of the Normanov dynasty, and they are better equipped than the French army. Together with your country's air force and a steady stream of support, we are well placed to deal with the Germans and the remaining forces in Eastern Europe. In the presence of the U.S. envoy, General Gallen talked about the bright prospects for the future and the traditional friendship between the United States and Russia. Everyone reminisced about the past, looked forward to the future, and jointly described the beautiful world after the end of World War II. The scene was very harmonious, at least that way.

"What do you think about the war that is about to break out? I don't understand it right now. "When the American representative left accompanied by the reception staff, Zhukov, who had been hiding next to him and silent, stepped forward and asked, leaning on a Sherman tank that had just arrived." What do you think of these guys. Tell us what you think. General Gallen did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

"It's all old stuff, something outdated from the early days of the war, and maybe it was just the destroyed tank that was repaired and thrown at us. If you look at the traces in the rear of this turret, it is clear that it was plugged by armor-piercing shells. The means are extremely simple. It is estimated that the battlefield repair was completed. And this gun, the rifling has been worn out somewhat. This gun fired at least 200 shells. Zhukov said very dissatisfied. The Americans treat us like rags, and they want to send us away when they take something. ”

"More importantly, these things are outdated, and at the beginning of the war they could only fight the Germans' No. 4 tank. When you meet the tiger style, you will be crushed. However, the new weapons that we urgently need such as the Huaxia Dragon tank and the Type 35 tank have not been delivered for a long time. The Americans are no different from the Chinese, they just treat us as cannon fodder that can be used, and our status in their hearts is even inferior to that of France! Zhukov now had some doubts about the appropriateness of Russia's entry into the war.

"Nope. There is still a difference, follow the United States. We still have a chance to rise again, and follow Huaxia. They won't give us a chance. If we want to reclaim the territories that were once ours in Eastern Europe, we must join this war and side with the Americans. In addition, it is said that the Americans will also send their own armored units to Eastern Europe to cooperate with us. They have a new Pershing tank, which is enough to deal with the Tiger. General Gallen replied.

When Trotsky and the American representatives signed the relevant documents on Russia's accession to the Second World War, the countdown to some preparations had begun. Take advantage of the final preparation time of winter and the following spring. The Russians had almost wiped out almost all of their money to prepare for this battle of national fortunes. However, it is a pity that Russia was dismembered after World War 1 and was suppressed by Germany for so many years, and the development of the military industry was very slow. Even in the case of the United States supplying a large amount of equipment, and Huaxia sold some tanks and armored vehicles to Russia. The overall level of equipment in Russia would also be able to reach the lower middle level of the Austro-Hungarian army.

Although the Russians can now make up more than 5,000 tanks, there are even Type 26 tanks and American M3 tanks that have long been used in China! The variety is complex, the maintenance is poor, and the scarcity of spare parts makes people can't bear to look at it directly! After inspecting the so-called armored forces of the Russians, an American officer once said: "The transmission equipment of our American tractors is better than that used in Russian tanks!" In terms of equipment alone, the Russians were not suitable to fight the Germans, but only to fight the Turks, and even a little reluctant to deal with Austria-Hungary! ”

A military power can't buy it just by buying it, not to mention that Russia doesn't have much money to arm its own army. The Americans finally discovered a big hole in their plans. It took a long time to find a little brother to give it, but this little brother is not a tiger but a sick cat! But even so, the Americans pinched their noses and accepted the established national policy of the United States to integrate post-war Europe into their camp. It can't be changed! And Russia is an indispensable part of it, and after much hesitation, the Americans decided to come to Eastern Europe and fight with the Germans in person!

Since the United States is going to take matters into battle. Huaxia is also willing to help. When the Americans arrived in China on troop carriers, China Airlines planes could send these American GIs directly from various ports in the east to Russia. And a large amount of equipment, except for a small part purchased from China. The other part was transported to Murmansk, Russia, via the Northern Sea Route. Maybe someone said that the Luftwaffe and the Navy don't care? In this plane, Germany did not launch an attack on the three Nordic countries, and the planes did not have enough range from the German mainland. And the Navy? A small number of submarines are nothing to the US transport fleet with escort carriers.

I have to say that the sea transport capacity of the United States and Britain is still very strong, and so far, the total number of American and British troops in Russia has reached more than 500,000! It is equipped with more than 4,000 tanks of various types, including about 1,000 new Pershing tanks. In terms of the investment of troops and materials, the investment in the Russian battlefield has far exceeded that of the Indian battlefield. Rather than helping Britain hold on to its colonies, Americans were more willing to do their younger brother a favor. A powerful force is gathering on Germany's eastern border, and a stormy battle is coming!

The Americans are still quite confident about the war on the Eastern Front. The U.S. military believed that the gap between the U.S. and the Germans was mainly reflected in the equipment, and if the Germans did not have those tall and powerful Tiger tanks, the U.S. army could have relied on Sherman to have a relationship with the No. 4 tank. And when the new American Pershing tank was put into the battlefield, the powerful Tiger tank was not invincible. After the technical conditions were almost equal, the American generals did not think they would be afraid of the second-rate German troops guarding the eastern border.

In addition to the army, the US and British air forces have also stepped up their deployment in Russia. After all, Britain is just a little place, and supplies need to be transported from the other side of the Atlantic, and what the United States and Britain lack is not aircraft, but airfields that can accommodate these aircraft and supplies that can support these planes to continue fighting. England is too small. It was not suitable for more aviation forces to be deployed, so after the army opened up the battlefield on the eastern front, the US and British air forces also opened up the battlefield on the moving front. Moreover, thanks to the Tyumen oil fields in China, their supply lines were greatly shortened. And many aviation accessories are also common with Huaxia. So the Air Force is deployed faster than the Army!

The United States deserves to be the existence of a double crown in the history of producing 100,000 aircraft of various types a year, both in quantity and quality! The word guarantees the deployment of more than 20,000 aircraft of various types in the United Kingdom and more than 5,000 aircraft of various aircraft deployed in India. It can also draw up a powerful aviation force of 8,000 aircraft! Among them, the B17 bomber even flew directly from Alaska to China, and then came to Russia after several transfers! When the Russians first saw hundreds of B17s flying through the sky. They were stunned.

It's not that the Russians don't read the newspapers, they know the size of the American and British air fleets over Germany, but the numbers in the newspapers and what they see with their own eyes are completely different things! It's like people don't have any idea of writing tens of thousands of troops in the history of war, but sometimes they are shocked when they see thousands of people gathered together. Don't look at the hundreds of B17s flying in the air. But the Russian media dare to add a zero to the back! With such a powerful air force, Russia is still afraid of a ball? The Americans inadvertently flexed their muscles. But it gave the Russians great confidence!

After some arrangement, Uncle Sam thought that it should not be a big problem for the Entente forces limited to Russia to deal with the second-rate army of Germany and the Luftwaffe, which was caught in two major battlefields. According to the Americans' estimates, the German Army's most elite should be used in India and the Middle East to deal with China. Not to mention the Air Force, the United States and Britain were beaten bloodied as the attacking side, and the Germans also paid a heavy price. It would be nice to be able to sustain the situation on the European battlefield. The Americans don't think how much more forces the Luftwaffe can deploy on the Eastern Front, of course, all this is what the Americans think, in fact?

The Germans knew very well about the small actions of the Americans and Russians that if it were not for the fact that it was really not suitable to launch a preemptive strike now, the German army would have launched a "preventive war" long ago! The Americans still underestimate the industry and strength of the German Empire in this plane! You know, in history, Germany was able to hold back 39,000 planes in 1944! It is also possible for this plane to hold 80,000 aircraft with the industry fully open. Of course, the quality is still a lot worse than the situation of B17 and B29 in the United States.

But this kind of industrial scale can still hold up when used in defensive operations, after all, in defensive operations. Even if 2 fighters are exchanged for 1 B17, the Germans earn ah, and they still earn several times! More importantly, because of the expansion of the country's territory, the strategic bombing of the United States and Britain could not cover Germany's territory in Eastern Europe. Don't look at the cities in the west that have been bombed enough, and the air forces of both sides are tearing up all day long. But the eastern part of the country was relatively safe, and a large amount of German production capacity was transferred to these places before the war. As a result, the impact on arms production is greatly reduced. There will not be a situation in this plane where a bearing factory is blown up and the entire military industry is trembling. On the one hand, there are too many bearing factories for the Germans, and on the other hand, many factories are out of reach of the United States and Britain.

Especially now. After the decisive abandonment of Transcaucasia by the popular baron, Germany's air forces on home soil were actually somewhat rich, and the plans for a jet force that had been planned to rush into battle were temporarily suspended. And after a large reduction of 4 bombers and 2 bombers, the production capacity of German fighters has once again reached a new level. And with the Army also expressing the idea of withdrawing from South Asia, the consumption of the German Empire has also decreased somewhat, and those saved supplies can continue to increase the production capacity of the air force.

After realizing that the United States and Russia would move on the moving line, the Red Baron readjusted his deployment and transferred the four air corps that had been corrected to the moving line, and cooperated with the other two air corps that were originally stationed in Eastern Europe, and the Germans concentrated a total of six complete air corps and some other remnants. Moreover, the German air force deployed on the Eastern Front was mainly based on fighter units. Although the Americans have 8,000 planes and the Russians also have some planes, if we only count the fighter units, the fighter units of the United States, Britain and Russia on the moving line may not be much stronger than the Germans, and compared with the density of the air forces in Western Europe, the moving line can simply be described as an aviation desert, and there are only a few air forces in the vast field, and the long station line dilutes the attack power of the air force!

And in terms of the army, the Germans were even more worthy. You must know that in history, the Germans were able to save millions of land forces, although the huge production capacity and materials of this plane were distributed to the air force and navy, but overall, the army of this plane is still stronger than in history. The strength of the German Army is beyond the imagination of the United States and Britain, even if the German troops stationed in the Middle East and South Asia are thrown out, the current German army has no problem at all if it wants to put together a corps of more than 2 million on the Eastern Front, and these more than 2 million troops are much stronger than the German army in history in terms of equipment and quality!

And what made the Entente even more unexpected, the Pershing tank they painstakingly researched was like that in front of the Germans, there were indeed not many Tiger heavy tank troops on the moving line, and even the dilution effect of the long station line became limited, but at this time, the German Army no longer relied solely on the Tiger and a large number of No. 4, because during this time, the Germans' Leopard tanks were finally mass-produced! Like tigers, leopards in this plane are tougher than leopards in history!

THE NEW LEOPARD TANK WEIGHED 48 TONS, WAS ARMED WITH AN 88MML56 TANK GUN LIKE THE TIGER TANK, AND THE ARMOR THICKNESS ON THE FRONTAL HAND WAS 90MM AND INCLINED 60 DEGREES. THE THICKNESS OF THE LOWER ARMOR IS 90MM AND THE INCLINATION IS 45 DEGREES. THE SIDE ARMOR IS AS THIN AS HISTORICALLY, BUT IT ALSO HAS A THICKNESS OF 75MM AT THE FRONT AND 45MM ON THE MIDDLE AND REAR SIDES. It is equipped with a diesel engine with a maximum processing capacity of 650 hp. Thinking that it was positioned as a 40-ton class tank at the beginning of the design, the stability of this plane Leopard tank is still quite good. This medium tank is designed to emphasize frontal defense and firepower. The German Army has high expectations for it, hoping that these tanks can completely replace the No. 4 tank and achieve a complement to the Tiger tank!

According to the practice of the Germans, since the Leopard tank has been mass-produced, then the tank destroyer modified from the same site will also be launched! THE GERMANS IN THIS PLANE HAVE BEEN CHOOSING THE FIREPOWER OF THE LEOPARD TANK DESTROYER, WHETHER TO USE THE 88MML71 GUN OR THE 105MML62 GUN? The data of the former has a good penetration depth, and the reserve amount is relatively large. And the latter seems to perform better when hitting large-angle armor, and the grenade is huge!

And the final choice of the Germans was unexpected, and the German army was armed with 2 types of artillery at the same time. The Leopard tank, armed with the 88MML71 gun, was called the Cheetah tank destroyer. THE PANTHER TANK, ARMED WITH A 105MML62 GUN, WAS CALLED A PANTHER TANK DESTROYER.

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