The first thousand one hundred and six chapters of blood and snow in Moscow (thirteen)(1/2)
The new battle started without warning. After only less than two weeks of silence, the German and Soviet troops in Moscow fought again.
The first fight between the two sides was not ground troops but air fighters. More than a thousand German fighters took off directly in rare sunny weather to try to clean up the exposed Allied positions in Moscow City/.
Of course, the Allied forces refused to let the Germans realize their ideas, because the strangeness shown by the Germans allied fighter jets that had been transferred to China returned.
At the same time, the newly trained pilots from Canada also followed General Dowding to the Soviet Union to assist the Allied ground forces in combat. Kalinin tried his best to prepare an army of 150,000 for Cuikov and then rushed to the front as the second group of troops supporting Moscow.
The new troops organized by the German army in the rear had also taken shape and rushed towards Moscow. Mussolini, Italy, also allowed 300,000 Italian support troops to start.
This battle was originally a battle between the Soviet and German sides, but gradually changed under the struggle between the various parties. At this time, Moscow became a huge volcano and a crazy millstone.
Crazy steel flames erupted here at any time, destroying all people and things. Every inch of the land here grinds all the people who come in to the city into blood and minced meat.
In the crazy Moscow, the total number of troops invested by the Allied and German troops has reached more than four million since the battle. The casualties on both sides have ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands until now, and the total casualties have reached nearly one million.
The German army was afraid of this huge flesh-and-blood mill. And why were the Allies not afraid? If Zhukov's troops had not arrived at the most critical moment, perhaps the Allies would have been in a semi-collapse state now.
With Zhukov as the support from the outside, at least the Allies knew that they had not been given up. As long as they knew this, they would dare to continue fighting.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang..." The machine cannons and machine gun ammunition flew everywhere in the sky. The Allied and German fighter jets were fighting in full swing.
Nowadays, after experiencing a hard battle with the German army, the Allies have gradually become mature. From being directly killed, to being able to gradually resist.
By now, the two sides have fought evenly. Allied pilots with rich practical experience have been sent to the rear to train new pilots.
Some Chinese National Defense Force pilots were also invited to the Allied Forces to teach their combat experiences and served as instructors of a large number of Allied Forces pilots.
Here we have to sigh at the foundation accumulated by the British and American countries. Both Britain and the United States have a large number of small aviation schools. Among their citizens are a large number of people with experience in aircraft flying.
These people are fully qualified for some combat pilots with just a little point of guidance. They will gradually mature and become excellent air force combat pilots if they only need to take off to fight several times.
In terms of ground staff, because there are a large number of aviation schools, they themselves have a large number of ground staff. These personnel can be transferred to the army during wartime.
They only need to understand certain military commands and learn some of the army's unique take-off and landing commands and regulations to be competent for ground work. These good backgrounds are deeply envious of the pilots of the National Defense Forces.
These conditions are completely inseparable from the current coalition government. There is no way to do so. The country is too poor. Even if it is three heads, six arms and seventy-two changes, it cannot immediately raise a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country to a country like Europe and the United States with more than a hundred or even hundreds of years of industrial accumulation.
These require a little bit and cannot be implemented immediately. Even if you open an aviation school in China now, how many people can participate?! The high driving training fees and aircraft rental fees are completely unaffordable.
"Step... Damn it! These British and Americans are getting more and more difficult. Who trained them?! This bastard should receive their medals, but should be assassinated by our Gestapo!!"
The German pilot complained in anger on his flight channel that the team that followed him had now been shot down two of them, and the rest were also in the storm.
Although they had shot down more than five Allied fighter jets, these pilots were the best pilots in the German army. The captain felt that it was not worth it to switch to the Allied forces like this.
"Captain, what should we do?! Do we still have to continue fighting?!" Soon, the pilot who shot the cannon "bangbang..." and shot down an Allied fighter plane and asked his captain through the communication channel.
"The tower did not give me the order to go back, we had to fight to the end..." The captain whined directly to his team members: "Die in this airspace, or kick those damn Slavic pigs and their ** friends down!"
"Fuck them to death!" A wave of roar came from the German communication channel.
In fact, these German soldiers are the most sensitive to the disadvantage of the battle. This kind of combat method of fighting between the two sides for 1 for 2 or 1 for 4, 5 and 6 is simply unfavorable to the German army.
The Allies can mobilize a large amount of manpower to continuously form new combat troops, and then quickly form combat power under the leadership of veterans to continue fighting against the Germans on various positions.
But the German army was completely impossible to do this. First of all, Germany's population itself is limited. When it comes to population, they are completely unable to compare with the Allies. Secondly, although Germany can compete with the Allies for the time being.
But if the war continues for a long time, a large amount of rare minerals scarce in Germany will be consumed, or it may be due to the lack of manpower, and production will be stopped.
On the other hand, the allies have no such concern at all. Or, their concern is not a concern at all. The United States has a large number of idle staff, all of whom have left the company during the economic crisis.
These people can fully serve as jobs required for the current war, and they can also participate in the army and directly participate in the war against Germany.
Moreover, the Allied forces have a joint political axe with extremely large population resources. The joint political axe with hundreds of millions of people can provide labor exports and bear all the labor services between the participating countries.
The huge and highly combative defense force was even more feared by the German army. Once Japan was solved and millions of defense force were put into the Soviet battlefield, the German army might not be able to hold on for long.
"TuTuTuTuTuTuTu...boom!!" A German fighter plane was blown up in the air. The fragments of the fighter plane were covered with blood. The burning corpses dragged their tail flames and fell from the sky...
"God...what should we do..." The German Flight Brigade Captain was approaching collapse. They shot down a large number of Allied fighter jets, but they were welcomed with more Allied fighter jets.
These allies seemed endless, and they were always able to appear in groups. The Germans shot down three or five, and then they could immediately see seven or eight flying towards them.
"General, we have lost more than 138 fighter jets so far. The General Staff recommends that we should temporarily stop supporting Moscow..."
In General Hugh Dauding's command, the adjutant passed the opinions of the General Staff to Hugh Dauding, but Hugh Dauding didn't even read it, and he kneaded the proposal into a ball and threw it out the window.
"These idiots only feel sorry for the fighter planes. What else can they do?!" Hugh Dowding shouted with a pale face: "Now is the most critical moment for us to fight with the Germans. If we retreat at this time, the Germans will go further! At that time, the entire Moscow airspace will be occupied by them!"
"Only by taking advantage of the fact that the German-supported air force troops have not arrived and we will first severely damage their existing air force combat group, so that we can have the opportunity to regain the initiative in the Moscow airspace..."
"General, I know what you think. But the reality is that the only 1,200 fighter jets we have in our hands lost 138 in less than an hour... No, now there are 160!"
At this time, a British general with an ugly face walked in. He was the current chief of staff of the British Imperial Air Force and Hughes Holden, the chief of staff of the Allied Air Force, the Moscow Theater Air Force.
"Horton! I don't care what you think, but the attack must not be stopped. Otherwise, the attack ahead will be in vain!" Hugh Dauding stood up and stared at Horton.
But when Horton saw Hugh Dowding's appearance, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Then Horton handed over a document in his hand to Hugh Dowding, saying: "This is not something we can decide. In the face of huge losses, our command has chosen to retreat..."
Hugh Dowding's face suddenly changed, and then he snatched the documents and looked at them. He could only fall into silence.
This was a request sent by the Soviet Kalinin to the Allied forces Ottawa and Washington, who demanded that the current Allied forces must stop supporting Moscow. Because in their opinion, such support now has no benefit to the situation in Moscow except for causing its own significant losses.
Rather than wasting these precious air force forces, it is better to save them to cultivate the Soviet Union's own air force. The Soviet army has now received the promises provided by a large number of fighter jets.
What they lack now is a large number of pilots, a large number of skilled pilots. In Kalinin's view, it is better to let them train their own pilots than to consume these pilots over Moscow.
"If this happens... we will not be able to gain the air superiority over Moscow for a long time..." Hugh Dowding smiled helplessly.
In fact, he understood Kalinin's idea very well. After all, the Soviet Union did not develop as well as in history. The current situation is even worse than that in China.
Under such circumstances, it was normal for the Soviet Union to choose to borrow the power of the Allied forces to improve its own strength.
"General, what should we do now?" Holden asked Hugh Daudin. As the chief of staff, he could only have the right to suggest. The command power was really in the hands of Hugh Daudin.
But, at this time, what else can Dowding do?! The British side does not want its own air force to consume over Moscow, while the US air force is redirecting or preparing to fight in Japan. It has no time to support the Soviet Union.
In the early stage, the Allied forces were still fighting with great success without the support of fighter jets. Therefore, the senior leaders of the Allied countries had the idea of withdrawing the air force and training the Soviet Air Force at the same time.
The early battles resulted in a large number of experienced Soviet Air Force pilots losing all in the air combat, and the Allied forces are now limited to qualified fighter pilots.
Therefore, it became an imminent matter to train local fighter pilots in the Soviet Union.
Both the Soviet Union's top leaders and the British and American leaders hope that the Soviet Union can have a large number of its own pilots to reduce the support pressure of the Allied forces, and the Soviet Union itself also hopes to train a large number of fighter pilots belonging to the Soviet Union.
The two sides hit it off, so support for Moscow can only be temporarily suspended.
"Notify the fighter planes in front and take them down..." What else can Hugh Dowding say?! With tactical and local strategic considerations, even if you suffer a certain amount of losses, as long as you can gain Moscow's airspace advantage, these sacrifices are worth it.
But the top leaders of the allies considered the overall strategy of the entire war. Both sides considered it correctly, but their focus was different. After all, Daoding was just a general and he could not violate the command orders of the top leaders of the allies.
Just as he could not violate the orders of the British Parliament, even if this order was too much a soldier, he could only obey it.
"Bang bang...boom!!" At this time, the largest air battle since the war in Moscow airspace began gradually came to an end. Both the Axis powers and the Allies suffered huge casualties.
In this air competition, the German army temporarily gained the advantage of Moscow's airspace under the Allies' abandonment. Nearly 200 Allied fighter jets were shot down, and nearly 150 German fighter jets also fell in the air battle. Both sides fought a defeat.
"The Allies gave up for the time being, but I don't think these guys just abstained so easily." Lundstey also saw the performance of the Allies on the battlefield, and his face looked very bad.
In the early days, the Allied fighter jets could not compete with the German army at all. But now, they can compete with the German army. This is not good news for the German army.
"The war has reached this point today, and we have no other choice but to go on." German Air Force Commander-in-Chief Goren has flew to the Moscow peripheral position and is now attending a meeting of senior German generals.
The once fat commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe Air Force has lost weight now. This is not because he voluntarily lost weight, but because the air force has suffered too much in Moscow recently, which has caused him to increase his pressure.
The cold weather in Moscow and the huge losses of the Air Force made the commander startle and shocked him. Hitler was extremely dissatisfied with the performance of the Air Force and repeatedly hinted that Gorene would get out if he couldn't handle it.
So his originally obsessive figure gradually faded away, and in the end he could only bring his elite pilots to the Moscow battlefield and come to the front line to see it in person.
"Fight, or we will kill these bastards. Or, we will be killed by them." Gorin said with a fierce look on his face and irritated: "We have no other choice!"
Beside Gorene, the generals are now shining. Admiral Albert Kesseling, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet theater of the Luftwaffe, General Albert Kesseling, who has deep knowledge of aviation technology, and General Hugo Speer, who has profound experience in air combat command and is known as "the strongest general of the German Wehrmacht."
At the same time, Goering also brought a large number of Luftwaffe aces. Hitler couldn't wait, Germany couldn't wait. Goering himself couldn't wait, so he even used the most violent means to bridge the rift between Kesseling and Mirch, and gave the two the highest authority to only win the battle.
The battle that was originally just a regional surname has now become a battle between the Axis powers and the allies to decide life and death. Both sides are competing, hoping to destroy the other side's greatest reliance with the smallest loss in this battle.
As of now, the German army still had an advantage. Although this advantage is extremely limited, it was the German army who took the initiative.
"Marson Lundstey, what I want to say is that since the Allies have chosen to retreat temporarily, we should seize this opportunity to take Moscow in one fell swoop!"
A sharp look flashed in General Michel's eyes, and the huge losses of the Luftwaffe also made the Air Force extremely angry. Even the total of the Battle of England and the Battle of Low Countries did not suffer much damage over Moscow.
The changes in the Allied Air Force's strength were clearly seen by this general of technical background. He knew very well that if the Allies were not strangled as soon as possible, the German air elite would eventually lose all of them in this war of attrition.
At that time, what the German army will face if they lose air superiority is completely imaginable.
"Our ground forces are ready. As long as the Air Force can destroy all designated orders in Moscow according to its strategic tasks tomorrow, we will be able to launch the Second Battle directly..."
Lundstey looked at the generals present and said, "At present, the most important thing for us is how to cut off all the support of the Allied forces. The Soviet army sent some support troops, and we need to stop them from supporting the city..."
Although the Germans could not judge Zhukov's position in the night, they still judged the Allies in the city through the intensity of the battle and received support.
But unfortunately, Zhukov's troops all support Moscow at night. Therefore, even if the German army knew about this situation, they could not make effective blocking.
"Tonight we will dispatch night bombers and fighters to try our best to cut off the Allied support channels. But we cannot guarantee that the Allied forces will not be able to get support..."
After hearing Lundstey's request, Goering looked directly at Michel. As the general with the most solid technical foundation in the Luftwaffe, Michel quickly answered this question.
"Tomorrow we will also bomb Moscow for an hour and we want to know the artillery arrangements of ground forces for our two sides to coordinate."
Under the tremendous pressure from the Allies to defend Moscow, the German army and air forces had to cooperate more closely. Fortunately, Germany did not have the awkwardness of the Japanese army and navy that was lacking in brains.
As for the Air Force, which has become a good reader, many generals also come from the army. Therefore, the cooperation between the two sides is still very tacit, which is much stronger than the internal friction of the Japanese army.
To be continued...