Chapter 361 Reflection
Hu Yunfeng handed over the military affairs to Jiang Baili and Cao Yuanzheng and returned to the villa. He was relieved to hand over the army to Jiang Baili and Cao Yuanzheng. There was no reason for him to hand over the army to Jiang Baili and Cao Yuanzheng. Jiang Baili's character and ability did not need to be questioned. Cao Yuanzheng followed him for five years. Although he became the general political commissar of the army at a young age, in recent years he has not only served as the political commissar of the army, but also has to be responsible for the logistics of the army, the training and logistics of the special forces, including the female special forces. Hu Yunfeng also has to hand him some other things from time to time, but Cao Yuanzheng showed his ability to be inconsistent with his age and arranged everything in an orderly manner.
Hu Yunfeng had a heart-to-heart talk with Cao Yuanzheng when he was in the Dabie Mountains, which made him believe that Cao Yuanzheng would not have any unfaithful intentions. Moreover, the entire army was firmly controlled by the "Blood Guard Society", and Sandra's intelligence personnel were mixed in the army for surveillance. Therefore, Hu Yunfeng boldly handed the army over to them.
Hu Yunfeng is self-aware. He is very clear about his strengths and weaknesses. As a sniper from a special forces, if you want to survive in war, you must understand your strengths and weaknesses, play to your strengths and weaknesses without making mistakes, so that you can use your strengths and opponents’ mistakes to eliminate your opponents and allow yourself to survive in war.
Therefore, Hu Yunfeng only needs to use his foresight to master the general direction. Although he has traveled through time, he is not a god after all, and he cannot take care of everything.
Before going to Germany to participate in the battle against the Soviet Union, Hu Yunfeng had to send four of his pregnant women to Australia, arrange to forge Soviet currency and turn opium into heroes. After returning to the villa, he immediately reflected on why Germany had failed in the Soviet-German war. He learned from the lessons and did not make mistakes made by Hitler and Germany again when seizing the Far East, and fought for a blow. Of course, he did not want the Soviet Union to be destroyed by him and Germany. The Soviet Union was his pawn for the future confrontation against the United States and Britain. Moreover, if he destroyed the Soviet Union with Germany, he knew very well that the Soviet port would not be too far from the time of destruction.
The reason why the Soviet-German War ended with the failure of Germany was that strategic and tactical experts and military fans of various countries had made countless analysis and speculations. Hu Yunfeng of course understood that the Battle of the Soviet-German Moscow was the turning point of the decline of the Third Reich in Germany. The Battle of Moscow was the weakest time of the Soviet Union, and Hu Yunfeng's plan to seize the "homeland" in the Far East was also prepared to be implemented at that time. Therefore, understanding why Germany failed in the Battle of Moscow was something that Hu Yunfeng had to think clearly before going to Germany.
Hu Yunfeng thought and took notes. The Soviet port had not yet been established. He simply relied on deception to gain support and tolerance from the great powers. But he understood the importance of diplomacy after the founding of the country. So he first analyzed the internal and diplomatic situation of Germany before the attack on the Soviet Union.
Long before Hitler ran for Prime Minister in Congress, Hitler and his Nazi Party tried every means to please the German Army, hoping to get the support of the Army in a series of future plans and conspiracies. However, the German Army's always professional nature made them unwilling to be interfered by politicians. Therefore, when Hitler became the head of state and dreamed of conquering the entire Europe and even the world, the generals of the Army expressed their coldness. They did not have Hitler's ambitions and did not want to be led by this "outsider".
But later a series of facts emerged. The German army was not bloody about the occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, and was easy to win against Poland and Norway. These victories made the generals of the army better towards Hitler and began to support him. Although this support cleared some obstacles for Hitler to lead the army, the fact that Von Braušic was appointed commander-in-chief of the army also showed that the army had lost their previous professionalism, and the Army General Command became an execution tool for Hitler to issue orders. This arbitrary military style will inevitably become a serious hidden danger in future large-scale offensive operations.
In terms of economic and industrial production, Germany is a country with severe lack of resources. What made Hitler even more trouble was that the German offensive mainly relied on the leading assault role of the armored forces, but with Germany's industrial capabilities, it could no longer achieve a qualitative breakthrough in tank production. According to the requirements of General Guderian, the father of the blitzkrieg, with the offensive goals that Germany would achieve in the future, the German military factory needed to increase the tank production to 800-1,000 vehicles/month, and the minimum standard could not be lower than 600 vehicles/month. However, under Hitler's strong request, despite the 100% effort in the operation of the military industry, the tank production can only be increased to 230 vehicles/month.
In terms of fuel supply, Germany can no longer buy a large amount of oil through trade. The easiest solution is to first achieve control of the Balkans and Southern Europe. Germany needs every drop of oil from Bulgaria and Romania to maintain the operation of armored and mechanized forces.
In terms of the Axis Alliance, although the alliance between Germany and Italy expanded the fascist power in form, the three countries did not reach a tacit understanding in the overall strategic policy, and the alliance between Italy and Germany relied heavily on Germany's strength. In addition, the lack of military strength between Italy and Italy and Italy were destined to be a burden in the German war of aggression from the beginning. In the eyes of the *** people, their naval strength was comparable.
The army is stronger, more reliable and more deterrent, and the Battle of Nomenkan in 1939 proves this more profoundly. If the Soviet Union, which was defeated by Finland, could not gain any advantage, even if the people of the *** were not afraid of the Soviets, they knew very well that their army was not the opponent of the Soviets. Therefore, it was inevitable that *** would give up the plan to attack the Soviet Union to seize Siberian oil, and *** would also give up the support for the German war of invasion of the Soviet Union.
The ambition of the Italians, in terms of military strength, is more like a fantasy than ambition. The Italian army attacked the Mediterranean and North Africa under heavy blows. After the failure of the end, it had to ask for German support. The German army drew two armored divisions to North Africa. Perhaps the reduction in troops would not cause too many difficulties to the German war of invasion of the Soviet Union. However, without an excellent general, it is impossible to estimate how much damage it will cause to the strength of the German army. Of course, this general is General Erwin Rommel.
Hu Yunfeng also expressed his sympathy for Hitler and Germany when he thought of this. Although he would cooperate with Germany and would give Germany some support at that time, he could not allow Germany to successfully occupy the Soviet Union. Regardless of whether history has its arrival or not, the Germans are doomed to fail.
However, it is not his business whether the Germans fail or not, as long as he can get benefits from the Soviet-German War. Hu Yunfeng's idea of breaking it up again, and began to analyze the most direct factors of winning the war, the German army's weapons equipment.
According to General Guderian's idea, the German army will have two different uses in future wars, one is the main battle tank equipped with anti-tank guns, and the other is the infantry support tank equipped with close-range and medium-range howitzers. This idea eventually formed the Panzere iii and Panzere iv tanks. However, due to the limitations of the Versailles Contract, Germany did not allow the equipment of armored vehicles, which made Germany still underdeveloped in tank design. Putting aside radio technology, in terms of the three basic performances of tanks - firepower, protection and mobility, German tanks, especially before 1941, were much worse in overall performance than French and Soviet tanks.
Although French tanks do not pay attention to mobility, the speed of the main medium-sized tank Soma 35 is higher than that of the Mark III type. France also has BB heavy tanks, and Germany's development in heavy tanks is even more blank. The achievements made by the Soviet Union in tank development are even more out of reach by the Germans. Taking the BT series tanks as an example, the BT-7 tank's maximum speed reached 80 km/h, and the 45mm guns equipped with it can compete with the 50mm L-42 guns equipped by the German No. 3 tank before the Soviet-German War. Although the BT series tanks are thinner and are easily destroyed, relatively speaking, at the same distance, the BT series tanks can also destroy Germany's No. 3 tanks. In addition, the Soviet Union had equipped the more advanced KV series tanks and T-34 tanks in 1940, Germany's lightning attack in the Soviet Union will inevitably suffer huge losses.
The limited industrial capacity and the overload requirements in tank production have made German tanks not only slow production speed, but also often new technical problems. Panzell iii tank was developed as the main battle tank of Germany. It was originally planned to install a 50mm L-42 gun and was forced to modify the 37mm gun due to technical reasons. The power was reduced a lot. What's more serious is that even normal tank production is difficult to carry out, and in the end, one can only choose to produce a kind of firepower stronger than that.
The Panzeel ii tank of the No. 1 tank, and the No. 2 tank is equipped with a 20mm gun, which can fire at the air. Its total weight is only 13 tons. It was originally developed as a light reconnaissance tank. No one would have thought that this kind of tank would become the main battle tank for Germany to blitz Poland and France. Although the German army firmly grasped air supremacy in the entire combat operations against Western Europe, the weaknesses of the German tank themselves were obviously exposed, namely: insufficient armor protection and poor artillery power.
In terms of other weapons, Germany had only 2,400 combat aircraft that could be invested in the Soviet War and could not increase. In the French Battle, the German Air Force invested as many as 4,000 combat aircraft. Even so, the damage of German tanks reached 50%. Germany's attack on the Soviet Union was only a little more than half of the number of fighter aircraft that was invested in the French Battle. It would be so difficult and unrealistic to complete all ground support tasks when dealing with the Soviet Union, which had a territory of 22 million square kilometers.
Hu Yunfeng shook his head helplessly when he thought of this. The troops in the Soviet port now have messy weapons and equipment, which has caused difficulties in logistics support, and Hu Yunfeng was unable to do so.
Hu Yunfeng can only implement the weapons of the Soviet port after the capture of the Far East. Fortunately, what he can rest assured is that although the military equipment in the Soviet port is messy, the military equipment in the Far East is mainly weapons of Germany and the Soviet port, and the heavy equipment parts of the Soviet port can be produced.
Hu Yunfeng lit a cigar and continued to think about Germany's military deployment and combat ideas before the war against the Soviet Union.
As soon as the Balkans ended, the German armored troops began to march eastward and joined forces that were already in place on the Soviet-German border. The start of the Soviet war was re-set on June 22. The German army invested 75% of the total army's total force in the Eastern Front, with a total of 3.05 million people. However, Germany's general mobilization has not yet begun. One reason is that Hitler and the Army Baseball estimate the forces that the Soviet Union could invest too low. They believe that the Soviet Union deployed 200 divisions within the territory, but in fact the Soviet army deployed more than 360 divisions in the territory. Of course, Hu Yunfeng had already disclosed the Soviet intelligence to Hitler. As for whether Hitler believed it, Hu Yunfeng didn't know, and could only wait until Germany to know.
Historically, in the French Battle, Hitler reserved 45 divisions of troops as a general reserve team, while on the eve of the Soviet War, Hitler reserved only 15 divisions of troops, which shows that Hitler's ideological preparation for the Soviet war was far from enough, resulting in serious shortage of reserve troops and some special supplies, including his proposal to refusal to prepare winter supplies for the German army.
This creates two hidden dangers. If the German army fails to achieve the predetermined goal within the remittance time due to insufficient troops in the war against the Soviet Union, there is not enough force to mobilize; if the German army cannot complete the decisive victory in the Soviet Union before the arrival of winter, then the German soldiers can only wear single clothes to fight in the harsh Russian winter. The result can be imagined. Hitler once again made a serious mistake in his nerves, and whether the negative impact of this mistake is afforded by the German army is entirely up to fate.
In order to attack the Soviet Union, the German army was divided into three major army groups in terms of its headquarters deployment. In the northern and central clusters, Hopner, Hott and Guderian were all smart, capable and decisive commanders. Klester, the commander of the 1st armored cluster, was the most thoughtful army officer in the German army. He was born in an infantry and expressed doubts about the ability of armored troops to break through deep into the enemy. During the Battle of France, his conservative orders were often the main reason for the dispute between Klester and Guderian. Hitler asked the general to be the commander of the armored cluster, which greatly reduced the tactical breakthrough ability of the Southern Army Group, which had the most powerful infantry among the three army groups, almost fell into the quagmire of positional war shortly after the war started.
In the entire Barbarossa plan, the Northern Army Group encircled the Baltic Sea coastal areas, and the Central Army Group completed the annihilation of the main Soviet army's defense on the western front by encircling Minsk and Smolensk. After that, the two Army Groups will work together to capture Leningrad, and the German army will occupy some important ports to maintain supplies and complete the northern combat plan.
The Southern Army Group will penetrate deep into Ukraine and advance along the Dnieper River, then attack the Soviet Southwest Front and annihilate it. After that, the Southern Army Group will attack the Caucasus with the main purpose of cutting off the Soviet Union's main oil transportation. In other words, the German army must first launch a general attack on Moscow on the premise that the Southern Army Group will occupy Leningrad, Smolensk and the Southern Army Group will complete the annihilation of the Ukrainian Soviet army.
However, in terms of specific details and new situations that may exist in the offense, Hitler did not consider the problem from a positive perspective. He just said, "Whether Moscow is the main attack direction should be determined according to the situation." This simple idea made him repeatedly and rashly change the active direction in the Soviet-German War and abandon the priority of strategy. In addition to Hitler's own reasons, the Barbarossa plan itself has many "taken of for granted" details. For example: Hitler emphasized that it must be in the first place.
The Soviet army was annihilated to the west of the Nieper River and the Devina River, but the mission of the Southern Army Group did not clearly state that it must cross the Dnieper River when advancing southwest in depth. It is obvious that the Soviet army could not easily allow the German army to cut off its retreat from the Dnieper River as if it was cut into cakes. Therefore, Kiev, located on the Dnieper River, either attacked half of it and gathered a large number of troops to prevent the Soviet army from carrying out counterattacks on the other side of the river, or crossed the Dnieper River and attacked Kiev with heavy troops.
From this we can see that no matter which plan the Southern Army Group implements, it will not be able to meet the predetermined plan. At that time, the German army will inevitably draw flank troops from the Central Army Group to provide support, which creates a new question: How can the Central Army Group, which was transferred to the Southern Wing, complete the plan to encircle Leningrad with the Northern Army Group? There is only one conclusion: the Barbarossa plan is a hasty and inoperable plan. After a year of careful preparation, Germany has to take one step in the most important link and look at it.
These were all fatal mistakes made by Hitler and Germany, but Hu Yunfeng was preparing to remind Hitler after he arrived in Germany. Moreover, he asked Uncle Lin to produce and reserve a year ago. First, he prepared for the Soviet port army to seize the Far East. Second, of course, he would blackmail Hitler a lot at that time.
Another considerable amount of income will be made. Hu Yunfeng will record it first and notify Uncle Lin later to arrange for the winter clothes to be shipped to Armstrong for storage.
The above three aspects are the reasons for Germany's failure to seize the Soviet capital Moscow. Some of them can be changed, and some are flaws that Germany itself cannot make up for. But Hu Yunfeng believes that the most important reason is that Hitler made one fool-like mistake after another when attacking Moscow. This is also the teaching and training that Hu Yunfeng must learn, and it is also the reason why he handed over the army to the military expert Jiang Baili for command. He doesn't want him, a layman, to command professionals, which leads to the failure of the Soviet port to seize the Far East.
Hitler made many irreversible mistakes when the German army attacked the city of Moscow. Hu Yunfeng recalled and wrote down the notes to warn himself.
On June 22, 1941, at 3:15 am, the German army and his Pucong team suddenly launched a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union with a total force of 5.5 million troops. The Soviet-German War broke out for nearly four years. The three German army groups all won the border war shortly after the war broke out, while the Central Army Group made particularly rapid progress. In less than a month, they captured Smolensk, the gateway to Moscow. In the north and south, the German army's progress seemed slow and did not have enough ability to effectively advance. This first exposed that Hitler did not fight against the Soviet Union.
Chapter completed!