81_81266Lying on the 'bed', enjoying this leisurely vacation that I don't know when it will end, Wren was almost moved to tears by his wise decision-Copy URL Interview WènHe did not choose to go to war-torn England, nor did he apply to be transferred to North Africa, where a big war was about to occur, but chose the Eastern Front, which seemed to be the most peaceful at the moment.

At this moment, he is already the commander of the 502nd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion of the 1st Company, and he actually carries the rank of captain on his shoulders. You must know that this is already the level of a battalion commander in some non-main forces.

So as a real officer, he had his own break room and didn't have to huddle with the rest of the soldiers. Of course, because of the peculiarity of the teaching company, his rest room was not his own rest room, but the rest room shared by the five people in his crew—unfortunately, the curtain 'bed' for the commander was occupied by Alice.

He was holding a thick Russian dictionary and reading it with great pleasure, Rennes had been a very good foreign language for a long time, he studied both French and Spanish, but the crew knew that he used to say that the best he spoke was Russian, and unfortunately no one had ever heard him 'talk' in Russian.

There was a knock on the door, and the members of the Rennes crew who were sitting together playing cards all looked at the position of the door. There's a very underwhelmed face there. Marcus seems to have made up his mind to repay Wren's big 'legs', and even refused the position of a company commander to stay on Wren's troops to serve as a wingman for Wren. According to Marcus's own words, following Wren will meet good luck.

"The battalion headquarters had a meeting and heard that the troops were going to be deployed. "Marcus is the kind of well-informed guy wherever he goes, not to mention that the logistics supply company of the 502nd Battalion is the old man they have known for a long time.

Wren got up from the bed, closed the dictionary, and carefully placed it next to his bed' headrest. Then he stretched his arms twice, 'pulled' a notebook from the personal cabinet by the wall, took out a pen and checked it, and walked out of his dormitory with his friend Marcus. The two of them walked to the battalion headquarters not far away, and saw several familiar commanders on the road.

When they arrived at the battalion headquarters, the commanders all found a place to sit down. Wren and Marcus were no exception, and they randomly found two seats next to each other, like a group of elementary school students waiting for the teacher to start the class. After a while, the battalion commander and deputy battalion commander arrived, and the meeting officially began.

"The intelligence provided by the reconnaissance force shows that the German ** team opposite us is moving frequently, and it seems that there are signs of attack. The battalion commander lifted the curtain on the blackboard. 'Lu' took out the map inside, pointed to the border direction with his whip, and said: "The front of the 102nd Division. That is, where we were ordered to go and reinforce, and the Soviets deployed about a regiment of tank troops......"

The information is very detailed, and it can be seen that the Germans knew the movements of the Soviet troops very well. With the infiltration of the spies and the repeated confirmation of the reconnaissance troops, the German front-line troops knew the number and combat effectiveness of each of the opponent's troops, and even knew the names of their division commanders.

"More than 50 KV-1 Modified Tanks, Haven't the Soviets Suffered Enough?" A two-page article was passed to Wren, with an analysis of the number and models of tanks in the Soviet army, accompanied by detailed photographs.

"This is more than one regiment of Soviet troops. Marcus took the text and read it carefully for a few seconds, then said to the battalion commander: "A full 70 T-26s are combined with more than 50 KV-1 modifications. That's about the strength of two armored regiments of the Soviet Union. ”

The battalion commander nodded and said with a smile: "Like us, the opponent is also a main force, otherwise it would not have pushed us up." They were one of the main regiments of the 1st Guards Tank Division of the Soviet Union, and I heard that Khrushchev, the number two man in the Soviet Union, once visited this unit. ”

"I don't see it, it's still the main force. But when the main force encounters us, it has to be a man with its tail between its legs! We just let him not be a 'becoming' person. Marcus sneered and handed Wen Jiàn to one of the commanders below.

"It is expected that the front of the 102nd Division will be broken through, and the first line of positions here will be abandoned within 1 hour after the enemy attack...... Behind here is a small open area, and we can lie in ambush in the woods at the end of the field beforehand, waiting for the enemy armored forces to appear at the other end of the open area. The battalion commander pointed to several locations on the map.

"Fight for how long to retreat. A nearby commander raised his hand and asked.

"In about half an hour, we had to retreat, giving up the second line of defense to the Soviets. The battalion commander nodded to the map of the Soviet rear: "They have an advantage in artillery. We must be careful with their artillery, the woods are not safe, and we must retreat if we take advantage of it. ”

"The battalion headquarters set up a supply point here, and the various vehicle groups returned here to assemble and stand by as soon as they completed their tasks. And then we have other combat missions. Seeing that no one asked any questions, the battalion commander continued to introduce the mission and said: "After returning to the dormitory, count the items, check the status of the tanks, and no one is allowed to leave the barracks. Twenty-four hours on standby in the camp. ”

"Yes!" everyone replied on their feet.

The 3rd SS Panzer Division was the unit responsible for the ambush to the right of the defensive position of Pocket 5, while the 1st Wehrmacht Division was to the left of Pocket 6. In this way, the units of the 1st Panzer Army could converge into a concentrated force after encircling the Soviet forces.

"Battalion commander, what if we fight too hard and run away to the Soviet tank troops?" Marcus shouted again when everyone had already dismissed, which made everyone laugh at the meeting.

"Behind this Soviet Guards Tank Regiment there is a division headquarters of the Guards Tank Division, behind the division headquarters of this Guards Tank Division there is a headquarters of the Guards Tank Army, if you Marcus can defeat the 1st Guards Tank Army of the USSR, our 502nd Battalion will give you credit to the Führer. The battalion commander said with a smile on his lips.

"Hahahaha. Everyone laughed. Everyone laughed unscrupulously, a bit of a taste of venting before the big war. I have to admit that with such a pistachio as Marcus, the atmosphere in the entire tank battalion is much more lively.

Wren laughed twice, and then regained his facial paralysis, because he suddenly remembered Clarke, and remembered the old company commander Carter. Marcus has asked for credit, but what about them? Who remembers these people who have left the world? Who will still take credit for them? And who will put a 'flower' wreath on their tombstones many years later?

The rest of the matter was relatively simple, the commanders went to the logistics department to receive the distributed canned food, brown bread and other food that was easy to store, and they all went to the tank parking site to check the paint and equipment details. Afterwards, the crew members were assembled and began to test the car and check the stock of shells and machine gun ammunition.

Germany dug a total of 29 pockets for the Soviet Union on the wide frontal battlefield of the Eastern Front, and these pockets were defensive positions that were 'finely' arranged according to the terrain. As soon as the Soviet army began to attack, these defensive positions would become a bloody mouth to strangle the Soviet Union's vital forces, and the 'elite' troops on the Soviet front line would be eaten clean in one go.

This line of defense was proposed by a not-so-distinguished chief of staff on the Eastern Front, who was well-known within the army and was promoted to lieutenant general under the name Manstein for proposing the blitzkrieg against France.

General Manstein's proposed defensive position was called the cog within the German army, and the Führer personally preferred to call this line the Great Wall. This gear-like line resembling a battlement was not a permanent fortification for entrenchment, but a bloody quagmire designed for the sake of slaughter. From the day of its birth, this line of defense had only one purpose, and that was to kill the living forces of the Soviet Union, killing efficiently and quickly.

The High Command estimated that about half of the 29 pocket-shaped defensive positions on the Soviet-German battlefield would be able to perform normal functions, but as long as more than 15 pockets successfully strangled the Soviet offensive troops, the Soviet Red Army would lose more than 1 million 'elite' soldiers.

Manstein himself was called a master of defense by Brauchitsch because of this line of defense, because it was he who systematically put forward the theory of defense in great depth and the theory of efficient defense with the core idea of killing and injuring the opponent's living forces. He boldly proposed that defensive operations should focus on killing and injuring the opponent's troops, rather than defending one city and one place, and won the reputation of "the first tactical master of the German army".

Only Manstein himself knew that the Führer standing behind him was the real inventor of these timeless military theories, and that he was only a technician who was responsible for using his knowledge to revise and perfect the Führer's astonishing tactical revolutions.

Once the Soviets and Germans went to war, then Germany's 'elite' Eastern Front troops would use a near-perfect defensive counterattack to wipe out the entire strength of the Soviet front-line combat forces. The Germans would run through countless small encirclement and annihilation operations in large encirclement and annihilation operations, which were already as subtle as regiments or even battalions. For a large army of millions of people, it is simply a huge picture scroll with needles embroidered with small 'flowers', of course, if this plan can be completed, then this work can definitely be called a masterpiece.

On the morning of March 25, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced economic sanctions against Japan to curb its expansion in the Far East. The Japanese government and the opposition were shocked, but they did not make any 'radical' moves. In the early morning of 6 April, before the negotiations on the Suzhno 'Gate' incident had ended, the Soviet Front High Command issued an operational order to attack Germany on all fronts.

At 7 o'clock in the morning on April 6, the Soviet-German war broke out in full swing -- 93337 + dsuaahhh + 29470712 -- >.