What is a war in Europe? This may be a very difficult question to answer, but in some details, we may be able to get a glimpse of the essence of the European steel war. At the end of the railroad in the Far East, Soviet engineers were unloading one tank after another under the command of a German officer, and the entire station was congested with too many supplies.

This small station is not actually in the Far East in the direction of Komsomolsk, but in the Mongolian region, which is not far from Nomenkan, and is the edge of the area where the Soviet and Japanese armies fought in those years. I heard that a Japanese reconnaissance plane was shot down here, but compared to other places in the world, in fact, this place can be described as peaceful.

Rather than the rolling mountains and rivers on the Sino-Soviet border, and the primeval forests of the Hung Yen Mountains as far as the eye can see, the German troops preferred Mongolia, a vast steppe suitable for the German armored forces. Just like the nomadic soldiers of ancient times, tanks have a unique advantage here.

The only drawback was that there were no decent logistical support points here, and it was impossible to quickly establish support for the huge consumption of German armored forces. However, it is clear that the Germans are trying to improve this shortcoming, and try to make it as suitable for armored forces as possible.

In the last two months, in order to put enough pressure on the Japanese army in the Far East, the German army is transporting one panzer division and two panzergrenadier divisions to the Far Eastern front, and these units are equipped with a total of almost 500 tanks and assault guns, and according to the rough calculation of 500 shells for each tank, more than 20,000 shells will be transported just to prepare the shells needed for these tanks.

If you add in the light infantry, paratroopers, and special forces that can be mobilized to the Far East at any time, the supplies that the German army needs are really too heavy on the thin Far Eastern Railway. This is the main reason why the German army has so far only invested 10 tanks - getting an armored regiment to work in the Far East is not a simple project.

Of course, there were also some reasons to increase the amount of these logistical supplies, because the Japanese army had used chemical and bacteriological weapons on the Far East front, so Accardo personally issued an order that all troops marching into the Far East should carry gas masks and prepare enough biochemical isolation clothing.

You must know that the Führer started in the army because of poison gas prevention and control, and the front-line combat units inexplicably fell in favor of him, and he actually really strengthened his ability to prevent poison gas. As a result, the troops transferred to the Far East even had to borrow some gas masks from friendly forces in order to meet the Führer's demands.

In the chaotic station, Soviet soldiers carried the logistics supplies of a German division in horror, and these soldiers fighting in the Far East could not connect the mountains of things in front of them with the divisional units - they thought that one army, or at least two armies of Germans had reached the Far East.

"30 armored trailers, 7 engineering cranes for sappers...... There are also two bridge-building tanks, 5 rocket-clearers. Looking at the list of items in his hand, the Soviet officer in charge of the station frowned like two caterpillars. It was rare for Soviet combat sequences to see such a large logistics vehicle, which made him doubt the size of the German troops.

If he had known that if Marshal Catherine had not assured the Führer three times that his air force would be able to guarantee air supremacy in the Far East, and that it was not necessary for the troops to carry too many anti-aircraft weapons, there should have been 16 towed anti-aircraft guns of 88 mm caliber and 20 quadruple self-propelled anti-aircraft guns accompanying the operation...... He's probably going to have a complete breakdown.

Even so, he could not comprehend the Germans' dependence on weaponry and the extent of their obsession with these highly effective killing machines. A whole transport brigade, 43 Odin helicopters arrived at the secret field airfield in the Far East in advance with all kinds of urgently needed supplies, and these supplies were not transported by rail, otherwise there would have been more things arriving this time......

Of course, a whole tank division is not the only logistics unit with low combat effectiveness, in fact, 110 tanks have arrived in the Far East, and they have been trained locally for adaptation - in addition to 10 tanks participating in actual combat, the crew members of the remaining 100 tanks are still practicing climbing slopes, recognizing road signs, and learning simple Russian Japanese.

Even so, when another batch of 80 Leopard tanks arrived at the same time, they were parked neatly in the field next to the small station, which still brought enough visual shock to the local Soviet soldiers. The tanks were neatly parked in a phalanx, and because of the German persistence, all the barrels were adjusted to a uniform angle, like a forest of steel, which was as awe-inspiring as a forest of steel.

"Being able to fight an enemy of this level for a year, Marshal Zhukov is simply a genius commander. Looking at the members of the German tank crew, leaning against the tanks, enjoying the fresh air of the Far East and the quiet of the war, the Soviet officer in charge of the station let out a self-praise in admiration.

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At the same time, at the core of the Japanese army in the Far East, the commander of a Japanese tank lowered the telescope in his hand. In response to the German counterattack in the direction of Komsomolsk, the Japanese high-level and the Germans were very unanimous in their thoughts - it was just a small fight over there, and what could really affect the situation of the battle depended on who was the victor in the battle in Mongolia.

Therefore, the German Far East troops made their first large-scale appearance in the Nomenkan area. They decided to teach the Japanese a lesson to the Japanese attacker in the place where the Japanese army provoked the Soviet army in those years, so that the Japanese commanders could take a good look at what they should have done to win the war.

History always likes to make a joke on the details, when the Japanese army was still in the stage of cooperation with the German army, Germany also discharged an observation group to visit the Japanese army's battle of Nomenkan - time has passed, those officers who visited Japan back then have now been sent to the Far East as a minority of Japanese experts, and many are still commanding the German army near Nomenkan.

At that time, they had witnessed the defeat of the Japanese army at Nomenkan, but today they want to teach their former ally Japan a good lesson in this familiar place, and the name of the topic is actually very simple, it is called: "On how to use superior armored forces to break through the enemy's defense line on the vast terrain." ”

"General Ishihara has deployed our armored wing here, which is really a bit of a fuss...... The Japanese armored commander put down the binoculars in his hand, turned his head and said to his subordinates behind the Type 97 tank beside him: "We suffered heavy losses in the Nomenkan area back then, and then we learned from the pain, and felt that it was impossible to catch up with the Soviets in a short period of time in terms of armored forces, so we laid a large number of anti-tank mines in the border area......"

He pointed to the vast area not far away, and said confidently: "Even if the Soviets and Germans dig with sappers, if I want to completely clear the mine belt, it will take more than ten days, not to mention that there are infantry interfering in the defensive positions behind?"

"Chief Miyamoto, according to the information coming from the lookout post ahead, a large number of tanks have been found to be moving in the Nomenkan area, and the Soviets may have to launch a large-scale attack nearby...... Wing Commander Kawasaki has gone to the front, and the artillery team is already on alert!" A herald ran over panting, relaying the information he already knew to the commander of the armored unit here.

The officer, Miyamoto, was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, he really didn't know whether to say that Kawasaki, the commander of the infantry, was making a fuss, or whether to say that the Germans and Soviets on the other side had their brains in water. No matter how strong the Germans' tanks were, even more powerful than the American M4 Sherman tanks, could their tracks not be afraid of anti-tank mines? Wouldn't it be a bad head to launch an offensive in such a heavily defended area of the Japanese army?

"Go, tell Wing Captain Kawasaki that I'm ready for battle here! Let his infantry cover the flanks of our tank units as much as possible, after all, our armor is not very suitable for head-on combat with the Soviets' tanks. ”

Fearing the Soviet Union's superiority in armor, the Japanese dug a large number of tank bunkers when they laid out the defensive line near Nomenkan, and they hid the part below the turret of their tanks into the bunkers to make up for the lack of armor thickness. Most of Miyamoto's tanks were hidden in such bunkers, ready to wait for the opponent's tanks to approach within a certain distance before opening fire and ambushing them.

Watching the herald run down the trench into the distance, Miyamoto looked up at the sun that was close to noon, the sun was as dazzling as ever, he narrowed his eyes and withdrew his gaze, and then picked up the binoculars and observed the distant place opposite his position.

In his mind, the commander of the Japanese armored forces was still thinking about the information he had just heard, he knew that the Germans and Soviets were already preparing for an attack, but even so, he still felt that the mines in front of him and the tanks in his hands could stop the other party's attack.

"General Ishihara...... It's really a last resort...... As long as we can annihilate a German force here, then maybe the war in the Far East will be over, right?" Miyamoto muttered to himself while looking at the billowing smoke and dust rising from the distant horizon with his binoculars: "Give orders to all tank troops! Armor-piercing shells are prepared! Hold our positions at all costs! Do everything possible to destroy the enemy's tanks!"

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