Chapter Twenty-One: Even the Eastern Army Will Attack!

"Where is the Soviet-German war going? Maozi's Far Eastern troops? The Kwantung Army of the book? ”

Silently reading the question of the deputy general staff, combined with the previous deployment of Desan's troops, Huang He immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, and he stared at the small map in front of him and began to think and analyze.

Compared to the situation in memory, the current war has changed dramatically, and can even be described as unrecognizable.

Not to mention the number of participants on both sides and the various weapons invested, the general mobilization just mentioned by the tiger in the forest is outrageous.

Judging from the existing industrial base of the German trianth, even switching to "partial mobilization" or "wartime economy" is a very terrifying thing.

The original timeline has proven everything, after all, the German military industry has the strength to increase production in the face of strategic bombing.

Now that the battle is suspected of entering the "general mobilization" at the beginning of the battle, it is difficult to imagine what kind of combat effectiveness the three major army groups attacking on the Eastern Front will have.

After thinking for a moment, Huang He looked at the fifth-level general with a serious face.

"In other words, before Operation Barbarossa began, Da Linzi arranged a total of how many troops to fight."

"What is the rate of equipment ownership at all levels of troops, how many aircraft, tanks and artillery are they prepared? You have to think about it, I need to compare the strengths of both sides to make reasonable inferences. ”

"It's important and it's about what we're going to do."

Without waiting for the Tiger in the Forest to answer, the Deputy General Staff Officer took out a few pieces of paper directly from the folder on the table. In the vision of the Yellow River, he also vaguely saw the familiar French.

"Let's take a look, this is the secret information sent by our allies in North Africa three days ago, and it contains their estimated woolly bear troop deployment."

"According to Charles's exact words, it took them two months to read the contents of this piece of paper."

At this moment, the benefits of having a reliable ally are clear at a glance.

In addition to its own only surviving spy network, the Free French also shared some non-top-secret information with the British to a certain extent.

Before the official start of Operation Barbarossa, Qiu Fatzi, who was far away in Britain, was the one who wanted to pull the forest into the water to participate in the battle, and it was reasonable for the other party to have the basic data of the woolly bear's troops.

What's more, the intelligence sent to the border area by the North African allies will be repeatedly screened in advance, and the credibility is very high.

Hearing the words of the deputy general staff, Huang He took the lead in approaching the edge of the conference table.

"The total strength of the army is 7 million people, including 50,060 artillery pieces of various calibers, 16,000 tanks, and 10,200 aircraft."

Compared with the memory, this data has also been strengthened to a certain extent, but it is not as exaggerated as Desan.

When the above figures were presented in the small conference room, the bigwigs present let out one exclamation after another, because the psychological shadow area caused by the lack of firepower expanded again.

The unit's 1st Division alone has the ability to crisscross North China, and 300 advanced Hurricane fighters can suppress the ground air of the North China Front.

With the current command experience of the people, it is difficult to imagine what it is like for thousands of planes to fight in an airspace at the same time.

However, at present, Mao Zi is still a nominal ally of the Eighth Route Army, and it is a good thing that the other party has such a strong army.

With the comparative data, everyone except the Yellow River and the tigers in the forest breathed a sigh of relief. They believed that on paper, the strength of the Soviet Union and Germany should be in equal ranks.

From the perspective of the bigwigs, although the former has fewer troops and artillery, tens of thousands of tanks and planes are enough to make up for the not too big gap.

What's more, in local operations, the defenders occupy a favorable position and people, and the troops have a certain blessing in combat effectiveness.

Considering the special situation in the north, the advantage of the heavenly time will be counted in a few months, after all, General Winter is not joking with the enemy.

As long as the war enters a stalemate, Da Linzi will not transfer too many troops from the Far Eastern Military District. Even if the Kwantung Army of the book has thousands of ideas, it has to be honestly guarded in the Northeast.

But Huang He knew one thing, the troops in the north really looked good on paper in the early days of the war, and as long as they engaged, they would expose many flaws.

Take the pilots of the Maozi as an example.

These people have very little practical experience, and most of them are novices.

Only a small number of elites participated in the Spanish Civil War, the Chinese Aid Flying Team, or the Soviet-Finnish War, and the flight time was seriously insufficient.

Once the novices join the fray, there is a high probability that they will repeat the mistakes of the Winter War. At the beginning, it was not only the army that was humiliated, but also the air force's battle loss ratio.

On the other hand, their enemies, the opposing pilots, have not stopped attacking since 1939, conquering one country after another.

Compared with the air force of the German three, the hairs in the early days of the war were still too tender.

What's more serious is that tens of thousands of aircraft seem to be a huge number, but they are mixed with a lot of old fighters, and you can even see the two-winged I-15 and I-153 on the front line.

In the face of the BF109 fleet led by many ace pilots, the fate of those Maozi pilots can be imagined.

Of course, it's not that the north side is without new aircraft.

It is a pity that the time for the new equipment to be installed in the troops is only a few months, and the pilots are barely familiar with the basic performance, and they have not yet formed a reliable combat effectiveness.

In addition, due to the large land area, the above-mentioned various types of aircraft are scattered all over the country, and once they fight, they will definitely be pressed and beaten at the airport by Meyer's men.

The situation with tanks is not much better, the tens of thousands of vehicles in the intelligence are mainly cute T26, and the number of T34 and KV1 is pitiful.

The T26, which can dominate the Asian war, can only stabilize the front in numbers on the brutal European Eastern Front, and even face the problem of insufficient fuel at any time.

In addition, the generals who were good at armored operations basically died in the Great Purge, and at the beginning of the war, no one could lead the team to block Guderiangahot's crazy advance.

With the above-mentioned troops fighting against Desan, the best result is to buy time with numbers, and Da Linzi estimates that he will have to shout the classic slogan some time in advance.

The Motherland, although large, has no way back, and behind us is Moscow.

After a cursory analysis of the current situation, although Huang He could not predict the end of the war based on the memories of his previous life, he was sure of two things.

First, the entire eastern part of Europe will inevitably be scorched to the ground, and both the level of industry and agriculture will have to regress. Whoever the eventual victor was, the first question they faced after the war was surely how to rebuild their kingdom from the ruins.

Second, the tragedy of the whole war will inevitably intensify, at least twice as exaggerated as the ending in memory, and the death of a generation of young people may be the best ending.

When everyone present was relatively optimistic about the current situation, Huang He was forced to reluctantly pour cold water on everyone's heads.

"Personally, I think the pressure on the north side is definitely going to be very high before this winter comes."

"Based on what I know about the hard power of the two countries, if the Woolly Bear doesn't have strong and continuous assistance, the mustachioed Barbarossa plan really has a certain chance of success."

"Therefore, we must be mentally prepared for Da Linzi to withdraw most of the troops from the Far East."

Hearing Huang He's astonishing inference, the bigwigs all showed thoughtful expressions, and even the tigers in the forest waited patiently for each other's next steps.

After all, the young people in front of him have a strong sense of judgment about the international situation.

Last year, most people were optimistic about the European hegemony, but he was the only one who expressed the view that France would not last long before capitulating.

Facing the expectant eyes of the bigwigs, Huang He brought the above ideas together.

During this period, whenever the real combat effectiveness of the troops in the north was mentioned, the Tigers in the Forest, who had been cultivating in Moscow for nearly three years, would always nod their heads in agreement at the first time, and even add their own opinions when mentioning the infantry.

Half an hour later, everyone present had a preliminary understanding of the views of the Yellow River. Combined with the current available information, everyone reached an agreement on the fact that Dalinzi would definitely draw troops from the Far East.

The only question now is how many troops will be left to keep an eye on the Kwantung Army.

"Well, it doesn't look like time is on our side. As for the battle plan in the Suiyuan area, we have to take a long-term view. ”

"If we had been more decisive and sent troops to the whole territory of Shanxi and Suiyuan while supporting Zhongtiao Mountain, maybe it would have been possible to recover the lost territory without the devils being prepared."

"At least at that time, the Kwantung Army could not act at will, and the North China Front Army alone would definitely not be able to stop us."

Looking at the deputy commander-in-chief with a sad face, Huang He began to continue to recall in his heart.

In his memory, the book will draw up the "Outline of the Imperial National Policy to Adapt to the Evolution of the Situation" tomorrow.

This document specifically states that the woolly bears in the north should be secretly attacked by force at the right time to ensure the security of the northern border.

The Kwantung Army would then conduct two exercises over the next two weeks, flexing its "muscles" at the junction with 14 divisions and 600 aircraft.

Although in the original timeline, the Japanese army finally chose to go south.

But that's because even when the Soviet-German battlefield was at its most dangerous, Da Linzi did not draw too many troops from the Far Eastern Military District, and even increased his troops regularly.

But now the situation is different, in the face of the comprehensively strengthened Desan, it is difficult to say whether the Maozi can stabilize the final front as they originally did.

If the frontal battlefield is on the verge of collapse, Da Linzi will definitely be forced to scrape together to fill in the line of the front-line Cypriot troops.

If, in a few months, Mustache uses West Siberia as a bargaining chip, inviting his allies to go north to flank the woolly bear.

In the face of a weakened Far Eastern Military District, who knows if the book will send troops?

After all, the devils have built a large number of supply bases and warehouses in the occupied areas, and the total capacity of food, ammunition, fuel and other materials can be used by 180 to 200 divisions and regiments in wartime.

With such a full family background, who dares to say that they don't have the confidence to go north.

After a few moments, Huang He got up from his stool and made his final opinion.

"I think Da Linzi will definitely draw troops deployed in the Far East, but he will definitely leave at least half a million troops to guard the Kwantung Army."

"In order to continue to occupy the four eastern provinces, the Japanese army needs to leave an equal number of troops to confront at the border. This means that even if we send troops to Suiyuan, we will only have to face the North China Front plus 200,000 Kwantung Army at most. ”

"So, you can fight!"

The above analysis of the Yellow River is based on the actual situation and the memories in the mind.

Since the Meiji Restoration of the book, the four eastern provinces have been regarded as a lifeline by them, and they are key expansion areas that must not be easily abandoned.

The Japanese Army has always regarded it as its largest territory and confining territory, and its control and operation over the local area has even exceeded the mainland in a sense.

After all, it is rich in resources, fertile land, and developed industry and agriculture.

Compared with the mainland of the island, which is located in a small area, the whole of Tohoku has many advantages.

Even they have always had an idea internally, in case the mainland is lost one day in the future, they will all move to the northeast.

With the encouragement of the eyes of the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy general staff, Huang He continued:

"Now the situation at home and abroad is very chaotic, and we should take the opportunity to seize this period to actively regain lost ground."

"Even if we don't attack the Suiyuan area now due to the pressure of the Kwantung Army, the enemy will definitely deal with our big trouble first after relieving himself."

"Shanxi is so big, raising another 100,000 troops at most is the limit. If we can't step out of our comfort zone, we will never be able to drive the aggressor away on our own. ”

In fact, there is still a reason why the Yellow River has not been spoken, and now the Red Spy King is still active in Japan.

If the book still makes the decision not to declare war on the north this year, then Sorge will gather information from all sources and send the news back to Moscow.

Before Tokusan's Barbarossa operation began, Da Linzi received a warning from his own red spy king, but at that time he did not believe that the mustache would fight on two fronts.

Any information sent back by Sorge will now be taken seriously, and then the troops in the Far East may be transferred by mid-October.

Even if Japan launched the Pacific War due to resource problems, the Kwantung Army would have the remaining time to support the troops directly under the Mongolian Army and the North China Front.

Therefore, the matter of attacking Suiyuan cannot be delayed.

After listening to all the thoughts of Huang He, the bigwigs fell into a short silence. It is not difficult to see from everyone's expressions that everyone is struggling.

The current changes in the army are very big, but because of this, they will be targeted by the devils.

Take the initiative to attack and grasp the initiative. Defending passively can buy more time to prepare.

It seemed that seeing everyone's hesitation, Huang He decided to add another fire.

"We are not completely alone at the moment, in addition to our comrades in the Tohoku region, we actually have a reliable ally in the Kwantung Army."

"Maybe they are not strong now, but they are definitely a big bomb buried inside the enemy. As long as we can hold back the enemy, the speed of this bomb will explode. ”

"Maybe we don't have to do it, and there will be problems inside the enemy."

The Kwantung Army is difficult to write, and everyone understands why. The way I can think of at the moment is to fish them out little by little.

(End of chapter)