Chapter 458 458 Unsatisfactory
81_81266 It is said that life is mostly unsatisfactory, this sentence may be a rare accurate assessment of people's own expectations. Therefore, there are many people who are very, very unsatisfactory, or unhappy. Because they have not been able to get what they want after thousands of calculations, it can be said that their efforts have not achieved the best results.
For example, Accardo is now very depressed, because of the incompetence of the Japanese, and the Nomenkan incident he carefully created did not play a role in delaying the attack of the Soviet Red Army, but only delayed the Soviet invasion of Germany, which should have been born in mid-March, to early April.
That is, the last thing he wanted to see was born again, Germany was forced to start a two-front operation, and it was forced to conduct a two-front operation when the Balkans were not conquered and they were not fully prepared.
Britain also needed 60,000 to 80,000 German troops to fight on its own soil; about 70,000 troops were needed in France, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway to maintain proper order; in Italy and North Africa, Germany had deployed 30,000 (but not enough) African expeditionary forces; domestic security and stability needed to be maintained by 30,000 German troops; 230,000 troops and 70,000 strategic reserves on the Eastern Front were on the table. Not counting the military involvement in the Balkans, Germany has already wiped out its seemingly huge 5oo regular army.
Although Britain and France insisted on drawing troops, and it was estimated that about 30,000 soldiers could be drawn, Accardo, Brauchitsch and others believed that it would be more practical to maintain the superior forces on the Western Front and end the two-front battle as soon as possible. But everyone knows that even if Germany ends the war on the Western Front, it will have to retain at least 1oo0,000 troops as a standing defensive force, and the most that can be moved to the Eastern Front is only 4oo0,000 troops.
Assuming that the war on the Western Front is over, if the troops of Finland, Turkey, Romania, and Italy are counted, Germany can concentrate about 6oo to 700,000 troops on the Eastern Front, and about 1oo0000 troops against the Soviet Union.
Of course, the good news is that the Soviets were not ready, their purge was not yet complete, their vitality was lost and they did not complete the war preparations, but they hastily intervened in the war after seeing that Germany was dominant. Under this premise, Accardo was sure to defeat this Soviet attack, which was a great luck in misfortune.
The Japanese were even more depressed, and according to the prior agreement, they fought a battle of Nomenkan, which caused anger and heavy losses. Not to mention that the Sixth Army had lost its right to speak, even the Americans had taken sanctions against Japan -- and the Japanese authorities could be said to have gained more than they had gained in the entire Nomenkan incident.
Of course, there was another thing that made the Japanese even more anxious, that is, the aid that the Germans had promised was completely lost. The Germans did not give the blueprints for the Leopard tank at all, and the technology of switching from coal to oil was not provided with only a few initial equipment. In addition to the 1oo ME-1O9C fighters of the 6th Army Air Force, the three aircraft production lines originally planned to be introduced have also come to naught. The reason is very simple, Germany and the Soviet Union are preparing for a death match, how can they bother to pay attention to the distant Japanese authorities?
The most infuriating thing is that in the midst of the decisive battle with the Soviet Union, although Germany ignored the various demands of the Japanese authorities, it transferred 5O ME-1O9C combat assistance from Romania and Italy to China, which made the Japanese military a little crying and laughing. The Japanese Foreign Minister threatened to withdraw from the Axis Iron and Steel Agreement, but he did not even bargain, and directly signed the Suzhino Gate Treaty, which demarcated the actual control area of the two sides and then made a complete truce.
However, the sanctions imposed by the Americans are really fatal, and Japan's domestic oil reserves are only enough for the Japanese army to operate for three months and consume its own industry, in other words, if Japan does not think of a way, its army will have to fight without tanks, planes, ships, and warships after three months. If one bullet is missing, and if one shell is used, there will be one less -- not to mention the United States, even China can hit it all over the ground, and this is absolutely not the news that the Japanese Government wants to see.
As a result, many things were disrupted, and a series of Axis operations in North Africa were postponed, and plans for a joint Italian and German attack on the Balkans were postponed indefinitely.
Of course, the British side got the opportunity to hold on once again. The British royal family landed in Iceland en masse, where they stockpiled supplies for a counterattack on the war-torn British mainland. Churchill declared in London that he shamelessly declared that the last moment of the counterattack against Germany had come, and called on the people of the world to unite against Germany's aggression and expansion. Of course, Stalin spoke at Moscow, announcing that the revolution in Europe had arrived and that the Soviet Union's war against Germany, the source of capitalist evil, had begun.
These voices were answered not by the roar of Yuan Accardo, but by the 5ooo tanks and nearly 4ooo planes of various types that slowly drove towards the border area in silence. At 7 o'clock in the morning on April 6, the largest battle in human history officially kicked off, and the Soviet-German war began.
"Hey! I said...... We are approaching the border, watch out for German planes. "In the blue sky, a Soviet I-16 fighter converted into a closed cockpit is flying over the white clouds, this improved fighter is already 45o kilometers old, and it is a fairly advanced Soviet fighter. And behind this Soviet fighter, a full 11o Soviet fighters of the same type flew densely.
These fighters were ordered to cross the Soviet-German border, cover Soviet bomber and attack aircraft units after the start of the war, and destroy German front-line airfields.
"Red No. 4, watch your skies! Watch your skies! I see German fighters! Oh my God! I see German fighters!" shouted the commander of the fighter unit inside the headset.
Since the German army already knew about the arrival of the Soviet troops, they naturally did not stupidly wait for the Soviet air force to attack on the airfield, and the German planes on the border were guided by the radar on the ground and accurately found the location of the Soviet aircraft group.
"German planes! German planes! disperse! disperse!" shouted everywhere in the headphones, and before Second Lieutenant Krinovich, who was flying in the center of the Soviet fleet, could react in his own plane, disaster befell his Soviet flying unit.
At a distance of almost a kilometer, the Luftwaffe, which had a high superiority, suddenly opened fire, and this time the Luftwaffe used rockets on a large scale in air combat. Large-caliber rockets, each of the German fighters can carry about 8 rockets, and hundreds of fighters fire rockets in one go, so you can imagine how spectacular the scene is.
In order to better command and fight, they are flying in a dense air formation at this moment, and below them are the Soviet bomber groups and attack aircraft groups used as bait, and the entire air formation is densely packed up and down three layers, and each layer has a dense formation composed of nearly 100 aircraft, so can they capture so many German rockets?
Just after such a momentary hesitation, the flight formation of Soviet aircraft completely opened the pot. One plane after another was hit by German rockets, and it exploded in the air as a brilliant fireworks, and a good flight formation was thrown into chaos by the German air force in just a few seconds.
"Climb, climb, dodge German fighters!Be careful! Watch your left flank! Plus! idiot!" shouted everywhere in the headphones, Krinovich hurriedly piloted his plane and began to climb, and the wingman, who was only a second slower than him, was hit by the German 3omm cannon and dragged the smoke to the ground, but it collided with another downed Soviet plane in mid-air and exploded into a cloud of flames.
German fighters began to dive and attack, frantically killing the backward Soviet I-16 fighters at superior distances and altitudes, and in such a brief encounter, at least 15o Soviet aircraft of various models crashed, while the Luftwaffe suffered almost no losses. The fighters of the two sides fought at an altitude of 8ooo meters, which was exactly the most suitable altitude for the German fighters, and the German pilots played with their Soviet opponents like a game.
Soon, the order to retreat came from the headset, Krinovich looked at the few friendly planes left in the sky, and quickly got into the clouds, as a Soviet pilot he was lucky today, because until the end he was not targeted by the German pilots, and as a day of the Soviet Air Force he was unlucky, he saw with his own eyes the gap in the strength of the two air forces, and witnessed the process of the Soviet Air Force losing air supremacy.
For the Soviet Air Force, the catastrophe of the day had just begun, and after the Luftwaffe had knocked out several Soviet air units that had gone to attack in one go, bombers covering black pressure appeared over Soviet airfields.
The Soviets were preparing to attack on this day, and they expected that by this time the air force had destroyed the German airfields and gained partial air supremacy on the battlefield -- but the returning Soviet pilots were so mournful that before they could cry out about their defeat, the German bomber group arrived.
The day was destined to belong to the Luftwaffe, and after shooting down 97o Soviet fighters in the sky, the Luftwaffe assault paralyzed a whole 15oo Soviet fighters on the ground. On April 7, the next day, the Soviet Air Force was able to take off to meet the German fighters, with only a pitiful 11o, and they had to face more than 1ooo of their German counterparts - 104+ 2013274 - >.