"Damn, I'm starting to miss what happened when I fought side by side with de Gaulle in France, at least at that time, we wouldn't be worried about the road conditions and the bad supplies, and despite the German bombing, we would at least have enough ammunition and oil, enough bread and canned spam food, but here we don't even have enough fuel! And that's not what we usually use gasoline! The quality of the fuel supplied by the Russians is completely inferior! The wax is scary! "When Montgomery came to visit Patton, the grumpy American general once again expressed his displeasure with the situation on the Eastern Front!

"When Lao Tzu was in France, there was a German Tiger tank in front of it, and a German FW190 on his head. With the German fleet next to us, none of our supplies have been so embarrassed as they are today! Our heroic engineering troops were not crushed by the heavy artillery and bombs of the Germans, but were defeated by the poor Russian traffic and muddy land! It's hard to understand! Barton continued to grumble.

"But you've not lost weight, which means that the supply is still within the tolerable range." Montgomery laughed and joked. "You know what? General Patton, I now suddenly find myself in a position where I don't seem to know how to fight! We are also fighting in an extremely unfamiliar environment, everything around us is very different from our previous understanding, we simply cannot formulate our battle plan according to the original standards, and most of the friendly forces around us can be described as unreliable! ”

What's the saying? The ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, and after setting foot on the land of Russia. The GIs of the United States and Britain have a deep understanding of this so-called great country! According to the words of some veteran generals who participated in the 1st World War, Russia at this time was even weaker than Russia before the 1st World War! It's even more unbearable!

1 before the war. Russia is a great power at all, although its economic strength and industrial technology level are relatively poor. But the military strength of the people, especially the army force, is still very strong, surpassing Austria-Hungary is certain, compared with Britain and France, it is difficult to say how it is, if it is not for some reason, Russia may be able to hold out for a longer time! It is not an exaggeration to say that Russia is an army power, but its opponents are too strong.

And even though the industry is relatively backward, the Russians can still produce the vast majority of army weapons. Machine guns, artillery, early tanks, and airplanes are all OK. But now, when the British set foot on Russian soil again, they were surprised to find that the Russians had lagged behind in their technological level! In Montgomery's words, they must now learn how to work with an army that is 10 years behind the world's mainstream forces! And there is such an ally, in a way, sometimes more terrible than the enemy!

Although, the Americans have a rough estimate of the situation of Russia, which has been suppressed by the great powers of the two countries and whose territory has shrunk by three-quarters. Although the Americans began to find ways to strengthen the Russians before World War II, and although the Americans provided Russia with a lot of aid and equipment during the war, it has been proven that if you want to make a big country really strong. You can't just send it! Especially if a big country wants to buy a world-class army, it will not work!

The Americans can give the Russians tanks and accessories, but they can't give Russia a whole tank industrial system! Not to mention the suspension, artillery, engine, transmission, which are more technical. It's just armor and tracks, the Russians themselves can't do it! If some of the problems of Russian armor in history can be attributed to the decline in the quality of wartime. Then the Russian armor of this plane can be described as a technical coffee table. And the poor road conditions and logistical supply situation on the Eastern Front made the intact rate of weapons and equipment sent by the United States and Britain very low! Even an American second lieutenant in charge of repairs said that if they wanted to fix a tank, they could only pray that some parts of the other broken tank would still work! They are used unless they use original American tank parts. Otherwise it would be almost impossible for this tank to complete a major overhaul!

If fading out of your logistical supplies and allies coffee table can already make the US-British generals feel very tricky, but they can overcome it by trying to find a way, then the change in the battlefield situation has made the US-British generals find that the military strength they have learned and the strategic plans they have made now seem to be a pile of waste paper! In addition to various human factors, Barton and Montgomery found that the Eastern Front was really *** vast! Throwing millions of troops on the Eastern Front can only form a continuous line of defense! And this line of defense is not straight yet! The Germans have a huge salient in the Ukrainian direction again!

The total amount of equipment and armies that seemed to be a lot of them swung towards the eastern front, and the density plummeted, and the depth on both sides was very large. In this way, the role of the air forces on both sides has decreased, and the Americans are better, after all, whether it is P47 or F6F, the range of these aircraft is at least okay, and it is the British who are really sad! In order to maintain the number of aircraft stranded in the air on one battlefield, the British needed more planes than the Germans! If the Americans could control a battlefield with 100 aircraft, the Germans needed about 140. Then the British need at least 200 of them! The range of the British Spitfire is even more tragic than that of the BF109!

There is a saying that there is no worst, only worse. Although the range of the main combat aircraft of the British is very tragic, but if you want to say that the British do not have long-range fighters, it is the Black British, the dignified British Empire can even press the 24-cylinder engine on the fighter, and won the title of low-altitude king! What's so hard about people getting a long-range fighter! Isn't it going to fly far? Wouldn't it be okay to make the plane bigger? Is the typhoon just a third heavier than the FW190? What's this! The 24-cylinder liquid-cooled engine can be carried! The British use technology that is tougher than that of the US imperialists to tell everyone a truth! The engine NB and refrigerator can be NB up at low altitude! A sense of academic tyrant is coming!

Who is the real worst? Naturally, it's still Russian! If the short range of the British Spitfire is a matter of demand and design guidelines, then the Russian aircraft of this plane is a matter of the double coffee table of technology and industry! Historically, the Russians' La series, Yake series, and MiG series were all known for their short legs. (Of course.) Historical Russians also have a remote version. But most of what is said here, if you say it by force. The British Spitfire also has a Range Plus version. The 650-kilometer oil range of the 7th zone can almost be said to be the bottom line of the 2nd combat aircraft, and this plane. Because of the engine problems of the Russians, in order to ensure the flight performance of the aircraft, they almost reduced the weight that they could reduce! Naturally, the weight of fuel can't avoid this knife! As a result, the range of the Russian fighter in this plane is only a tragic 500 kilometers!

And then the question arises, logistics is not good, the Air Force is not good, the allies and allies are not good, themselves? It seems that the US-British coalition is not good compared to the Germans? Although the US and British armies are equipped with new Pershing tanks, they are new equipment after all. There are some problems that need to be slowly grinded in, how can a group of American GIs who have just gotten a new toy compare with those German elite armorers who have been using Tiger tanks for more than 1 year? What's more, the Tiger on this plane is so strong, and Pershing is similar to in history, of course, Huaxia also has this problem, but the problem is that the Dragon tank is really much stronger than the Tiger. The technical performance overwhelms the operational hits, the level of results, and it's like if you were playing WAR3. A wyvern of the same population will never be the same as a gargoylee of the same population.

Even in the last moments of the European theater, the US-British coalition forces still managed to launch local counterattacks. Concentrate superior forces, break through at a certain point on the station line while the opponent is unprepared, and then launch a limited attack on the depth This is because the depth of both sides is relatively shallow. Once the defensive line is breached, and there are not enough reserves to defend it, then the logistics organs, transport lines, and support firepower units are exposed to the opponent. Even the most lame armored unit can pose a great threat to the opponent as long as it can tear a gap! If it is said. When the Germans and China were deadlocked, the US-British-Russian coalition forces could still rely on the advantage of the inner line to finally stabilize the line in the face of the limited preventive offensive of the German Army. So now the question is, when the above requires that the coalition forces on the Eastern Front must defeat Ukraine within 1 year, both Patton and Montgomery are in difficulty, how to fight this offensive war?

But on the Eastern Front, it was different, the defense line of a division actually stretched for about 20 to 25 kilometers! Such a line of defense is indeed easier to break through, after all, the decrease in the density of troops directly leads to a decrease in the intensity of the defense. But the question is what happens after the breakthrough? You talk about facing each other hundreds of kilometers in depth! The opponent has plenty of time to mobilize reserves to close the gap, and the logistics or transportation hub you want to attack may be a hundred kilometers away! Even if you don't develop in depth, if you want to encircle the opponent, you are just encircling a little bit of troops, Patton and the others don't know how to spread the encirclement larger, but the strength is limited! And there are fewer troops that can be used, and the mobility of the Russians simply cannot keep up with the pace of the American and British troops, and in previous defensive battles, it has often been the case that the American and British tanks have bitten the opponent, while the Russian infantry is still halfway there!

The mobile US-British forces were able to barely break through, but they were unable to secure Russian support with sufficient infantry. This problem, the three sides have coordinated countless times, and the final result is only one, that is, if you want to play a successful offensive, then the United States and Britain must concentrate on the main attack task, while the Russian army will launch a large-scale offensive in the shallow and deep positions, constantly consuming and containing the opponent, when the Germans have consumed their forces to a certain extent, the American and British troops will choose the weak point to intersperse!

Of course, this is only a requirement for the Army, which, as the Air Force, has a heavier task! They want to suppress the Luftwaffe in the entire Ukrainian direction, to strike at Germany in depth to make up for the lack of the army, this will be a long-term process, and it will be a complex mission system that takes into account battlefield air supremacy and strategic bombing at the same time! The plan itself requires the US and British air forces to carry out two strategic missions at the same time when their forces are limited, and generally speaking, when there are too many planned tasks, the results are often worse!

But does the United States and Britain have a choice? No! At this time, Germany was unprecedentedly weak, and if the United States and Britain could not deal with their opponents at this time, what would they talk about integrating Europe? What else to talk about and Huaxia to dominate the world? If you can't even pack up a Germany, how can you face a more powerful China? Therefore, this time, the United States and Britain resolutely pressed a lot of capital! The Navy's aviation has been transferred to support the operation!

And as an important ally of the United States and Britain, the Russians also attach great importance to this! They have to pay even more than the United States and Britain! If the United States and Britain only paid a large amount of materials and a certain number of troops, then in this operation, Russia paid for the future of a nation, yes, you read that right! It is the future of the nation! Because in this world gamble, the only thing the Russians can come up with is not resources, not industry, not weapons, they can't even do food self-sufficiency in wartime, the only thing they can take out is people! That's right, living people! With the lives of countless young people, gamble on a country, a chance for national rejuvenation! If the Russians win the bet, then they can get part of Ukraine, Belarus, the three Baltic states, and even Poland, and the rich land can fully compensate for the losses of this war!

But what if it fails? After paying millions of young lives, after fighting out a generation of elites, what is left of Russia? They only have backward industry, underproduced land, not a lot of mineral resources, and the suppression of the superpowers of the two countries! They will slowly shrink, and the once powerful Russian nation will go back a few hundred years! Of course, they can also choose not to go to war, but the end result will only be to become an insignificant country, a third-rate country! This is something that is unacceptable to the Russian leadership! So they're going to give it a go! Go and gamble on the fortunes of the country!

The national strength of the Russians and the materials distributed to them by the United States and Britain doomed Russia to have the ability to independently tear apart the German defense line and develop in depth, and the only thing they could do was to fight a World War I-style trench attack with the German troops on the front line! Constantly wear down the opponent with human lives, and gradually draw the German reserves from the depths, and then create opportunities for the American and British troops! In order to achieve this goal, the entire Russian army has been specialized, they lack mobility, but they are equipped with a large number of artillery and defensive weapons, the tactics of high concentration of technical forces that the Russians have engaged in in history are resurrected at this moment, and the Germans are trying their best to concentrate heavy weapons on more advanced military units in order to gain a firepower advantage in a certain direction, but at this price, the equipment level of the grassroots troops is extremely low! According to the British, they were even inferior to the firepower of the British army in the late 1 war! And how to make up for the shortcomings of the equipment? It can only be human life! This method is almost the last choice for Russia, because they have a relatively sufficient number of soldiers, and as long as the technical equipment is retained, a conscription order can make up for the loss of personnel! It's brutal, but it works!

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