Chapter 337 Barbarossa 1

On June 22, 1941, Hans's armored cluster suddenly and silently crossed the border into the territory of the Union. The unsuspecting Union border guards were still immersed in the hypocritical "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact", and there were even jokes about them coming up to greet Hans with good wine and food.

In the early hours of the next morning, the inspiring Comrade Steel, who was preparing to leave for the Far East, watched over and over again the battle reports from the front, and he fell into endless contemplation. Because it was only on August 23, 1939 that the two countries signed a non-aggression pact and jointly divided the Great Wave.

Even though Comrade Iron had a premonition that Hans would make a move on the Eastern Front, he did not expect that the Hans would move so quickly!

Not long ago, the top of the alliance formulated a thunderstorm plan to invade Western Europe, the purpose of which was to defeat Hans, obtain the absolute right to speak in Europe, and then dominate the world.

Although the alliance side was taken by surprise, but the military machine has begun to move, and the heavy army group on the western border is still there, so Comrade Iron and Steel is now more worried about the actions of the Kwantung Army, if a few hours ago he thought that a war with Japan could be avoided, now Comrade Iron and Steel is not optimistic at all, this is obviously a routine that echoes each other from afar, and things go hand in hand.

If the Japanese knew that Comrade Iron and Steel thought like this, they would probably cry out loudly, don't look at Hans gathered a large number of juniors to do things, and the troops mobilized were close to 6 million, but they really did not notify the Japanese in advance, and the Japanese government still received the notification after the attack, but the problem is that things are not so coincidental.

The point is, this matter is not only believed by the alliance, Hans, Bald Eagle, Britain and other countries also believed, Hans needless to say, for this little brother who is very satisfied, the Chancellery has already spoken, whether it is money or technology, it is easy to discuss, as long as the Hans Empire has it, there is nothing that cannot be given to the allies.

As for the Bald Eagle, in addition to the joy, he was a little more worried, as long as Japan and the alliance fight, then, Japan will have to take a defensive position against the Bald Eagle in the Pacific, so that the Bald Eagle will avoid uncontrollably joining the war, but the problem is that the performance of the alliance is too weak, and there are signs of a rapid avalanche.

If the alliance really loses, who will be the target of Hans and Japan? Britain? Don't be kidding, the remaining strength of the Britons can't even pick up one of these two countries, let alone two, well, it seems that there is still a noodle country, opposite the noodle country.

When the time comes, the unstoppable Axis bloc will definitely challenge the Bald Eagle, but the Bald Eagle has been pursuing isolationism until now, and is not ready for war at all, and the navy and air force may be okay, but the army is not as much as the noodle country, and the combat effectiveness is not even as good as that of the noodle country.

As a result, Bald Eagle's national policy changed almost in a few days, from initially supporting Japan's northward expansion to containing Japan's military expansion, at least not allowing Japan to quickly crush the alliance.

But how? It is not yet time for me to end up on my own, economic sanctions cannot be put in place at once, and domestic capital still needs time to turn.

The rest seems to be the only choice left, that is, to find a thug, to find a reliable thug, but who are you looking for? Coalition? Chinese?

In the early morning of June 23, Bald Eagle Western time, amid the continuous bad news coming from Europe, the special envoy of the disabled president headed east on a passenger plane, and as for the destination, no one knew at all except a very small number of people in the president's inner circle.

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Historically, Hans tore up the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" and, together with the client states, assembled 190 divisions with a total of 5.5 million men, 4,900 aircraft, 3,700 tanks, artillery pieces, and 190 warships, divided into three army groups, and launched an attack on the alliance in the form of blitzkrieg from the north, center, and south.

This time, because of Wang Yue's participation, Hans's Barbarossa plan also deviated, and the original 5.5 million troops became 6.5 million, of which the extra ones were mainly 50 volunteer divisions from country F, which were well-equipped and very strong in combat effectiveness, not to mention the army of the client country, even Hans's second-line troops were not as good as these volunteers.

In addition, the end of the war in the Mediterranean freed up a large number of troops and technical weapons for Hans and the Noodle Country, so they were also concentrated on the Eastern Front, with 6,000 planes, more than 5,000 tanks, and artillery reaching an unprecedented level, which is why the alliance will avalanche faster than in history under the blows of Hans.

In terms of offensive focus, the Axis powers have also made corresponding adjustments, and the historically extremely important southern front operation has changed from the previous seizure of oil in the Caucasus to the destruction of the alliance oil industry in the Caucasus, which seems to have changed only one word, but it has indeed decreased exponentially in the difficulty of implementation, and even the troops on the southern front have just broken through the border line, and the troops of the Hans Air Force have already swept the alliance oil fields in the Caucasus, oil wells, oil pipelines, smelters, reserve depots, and oil terminals on the Caspian Sea, All of them became targets for the Hans Air Force.

Bombs + napalm, the large depth penetration of auxiliary paratrooper assault squads, in 24 hours after the start of the war, the amount of crude oil and refined oil delivered from the Caucasus plummeted by 80%, if this momentum is not contained, it will only take a week for the alliance to completely lose the oil of the Caucasus, and once that happens, the armored cluster that the alliance is proud of will become a pile of scrap metal.

According to the original history, when Hans launched a military operation against the Alliance, there was already a serious problem with fuel reserves, so neither the army nor the air force could get enough fuel, which is why many historians in later generations will criticize the Hans Air Force for making such and such mistakes in the air raids against the Alliance.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it is the lack of fuel and ammunition reserves, so there must be a trade-off when bombing, not to mention keeping some reserves to protect against the Britons behind them, but the current situation is that the Hans Air Force is not short of crude oil at all, and it is the kind that cannot be used up, in addition to fuel, they also have low-cost napalm, as long as they want, they can bomb any target of the alliance as they want.

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