Even as the crown prince, Yuhua did not ask General Wei Lihuang too much about the decisive battle intentions and combat strategies. Only Wei Lihuang and the Central Defense Commission now know about it.

The Crown Prince Yuhua stayed on the front line for a long time, went deep into the front line to reward the soldiers of the three armies, encourage morale, and went to the front line to meet the generals who were on the front line and could not attend the state banquet. Even on the battlefield with fire, he was willing to go deep into the battlefield.

On the front line, condolences to the soldiers on the front line.

It was not until Wei Lihuang led the Northwest Army to prepare for a full-scale attack on Poland that a larger-scale comprehensive offensive battle was about to begin, and the Crown Prince Yuhua left the front line and took a special plane to Washington, USA, where he met with US President Roosevelt and

British Prime Minister Churchill.

Emperor Song did not personally participate in the meeting of such giants. Although he knew that the United States had plans to further participate in the war, there was still great public opinion resistance in the United States.

With China officially declaring war, in the United States, the war has actually been decided, even if it takes a few years to wait, the world will re-establish a new order when the war is over.

In any case, the United States hopes to establish such a new order with China, Britain and France, at least participate in the process of establishing the entire order, make decisions together, and work hard to retain more American interests.

The United States needs an excuse, for example, Germany attacks American merchant ships again, but Germany will not do so, because American merchant ships not only transport supplies to Britain and France, but also sell supplies to neutral countries, and a large part of these supplies will enter the Nazi camp.

What's more, Germany was not able to cross the blockade line of the Chinese and British fleets on the Atlantic Ocean at this time. Germany built its own aircraft carrier, but after China's Central United Airlines Fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean, it was established in Lisbon and the port of Milford in the UK.

The naval base, together with the British Navy, formed a huge naval defense line.

Unlike Britain, China's Central United Airlines Fleet has an unprecedented aircraft carrier and powerful anti-submarine force. More than 140 destroyers belong to the formation, which is enough to block the entire Western Atlantic Ocean, Norwegian Sea and the North Sea, making Germany's submarine tactics unable to be

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The entire withdrawal of China from the Japanese battlefield led to the deployment of more than 6,000 J5 series attack bombers in the UK and assisting more than 2,000 British aircraft. Such a huge scale is enough to establish a complete surveillance network throughout the sea area.

With the large-scale intervention of the Chinese Air Force, the British-German air combat has basically lost its suspense. The Chinese Air Force not only has the world's best-performing jet fighter, but also quickly developed a faster P-50 jet with deep technical accumulation.

Fighter, this type of fighter is produced faster in China.

Large-scale rapid production makes the P50 fighter's service life only 150 hours, but it is enough to cope with the overhead in war. The key is that those too exquisite aircraft are not needed in war. Many aircraft do not even have a 30-hour lifespan. On average,

It seems to be a limit to being able to use for 30 hours.

This is how war is. According to statistics, each aircraft will crash during 5 lifts and landings on average.

A combat aircraft can only be used 5 times.

Especially for the Luftwaffe, the aircraft they produce now have become even more clumsy. During World War II, the output of tens of thousands of combat aircraft was pieced together in this way.

Of course, long-lived combat aircraft like the J-5 still exists. The J-5 Tiger Shark fighter has loads and space that surpasses the contemporary fighter jets, which allows it to install more powerful radars and larger fuel tanks.

Cruise thousands of kilometers.

It has two pilots and one flight attendant, and the flight attendant can do different jobs depending on the situation, such as long-term monitoring of the sea surface and throwing deep water bombs.

This made the tiger shark fighter survive in this new era of war like a monster, turning from front-line bombers into reconnaissance aircraft, patrol aircraft, alert aircraft, and anti-submarine aircraft.

They are still giants and actual rulers over the ocean. The result of the huge number of tiger shark fighters combined with the Central United Airlines fleet was to block the entire German navy in the port and could not rush into the Atlantic Ocean at all.

In the Eastern European battlefield, a large number of new Air Force and new models of P50 fighters that had just received training began to appear on the battlefield, with a huge number of them, making up for the insufficient number of elite pilots and J-6 jet fighters.

When war really starts, you always use whatever you want.

Wei Lihuang also wanted more MBT40 tanks. This elite main battle tank not only has the performance that only German medium and light tanks have, but also has the defense power of German heavy tanks, more powerful artillery, and better armor-piercing bombs.

However, such tanks are more complex and easier to produce. The tanks are MBT35, which are produced in large quantities. Although there are some differences in MBT35 produced by each factory, the quantity is their biggest advantage.

The number of rocket launchers that are easier to produce far exceeds tanks and other armored vehicles.

Wei Lihuang only had rocket launchers. No matter what other equipment he needed, only the number of rocket launchers could be distributed to him several times. If he wanted 10,000 vehicles, the Central Military Department could give him 20,000 vehicles.

Because this kind of thing is indeed easy to produce, it is easier than producing artillery.

All Wei Lihuang could do was lead the Northwest Army to change the original tactical system, use the JP30\50\70 rocket launcher that was so large that the German army could not face as the core force of tactics, and use large-scale rocket attacks to break it.

The enemy defends in depth, and then uses large-scale armored legions to penetrate the opponent's defense line.

However, Wei Lihuang's next main offensive target is Poland.

He concentrated the main force of the armored forces in his hand into three armored corpses and began to concentrate the armored forces. The First Armored Legion was arranged in Tambov's threat to the German Northern Army Group, and the main force was concentrated in the Ukrainian war zone.

He gave up his plan to attack Romania and concentrated his military forces to attack Poland, isolate the German Northern Army Group in Moscow and surrounding areas. Finally, he will eliminate the German Northern Army Group here.

Only after annihilation of the main forces of the two major armies of the German army would he divide his troops into two groups, one to go south to the Balkans to eliminate the Nazi servants of Romania and Bulgaria, and the other to attack the Czech Republic and Austria, and launch a large-scale peripheral annihilation war against Germany.

Attract the German army's headquarters and complete a great annihilation of the German army's vitality on the battlefields of Hungary and Czech, rather than the final decisive battle between the German army on the German land.

Among all the servant countries of Nazi Germany, Poland is the strongest because it was originally supported by the empire, and today, the empire will also destroy it with the same hand.

On December 5, 1941, shortly after the Crown Prince Yuhua left the front line, General Wei Lihuang issued combat orders in the name of the Chief of Staff of the Northwest Army, and launched a comprehensive operational plan to Poland in accordance with the combat plan negotiated and formulated by the Northwest Army and the Central Military Department.

fast attack.

In Lublin, a large-scale head-on war broke out between the armored legions of both sides.

Battle of Lublin.

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The German army drew a large number of troops from its headquarters and the Western Theater Command, plus the troops of Hungary and other minion countries, and launched an unprecedented decisive battle with the Northwest Army with more than 3.4 million troops.

The German army, Poland and its vassal state invested a total of 4.2 million troops, 14,000 aircraft, 23,000 cannons and 15,000 tanks. This was the full-scale counterattack of the German army and Poland that gathered the entire Western Front's combat power. This was the great will of Head of Hitler.

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It was not the Polish head of state or the Polish general who was responsible for commanding this battle, but the German field marshal Hans von Kruger. It is hard to say which is better between Marshal Kruger and General Wei Lihuang, but in

In terms of strength, the two sides are actually not equal.

The Northwest Army has gathered nearly half of the military strength of the empire, with 45,000 aircraft, 27,000 artillery and 23,000 tanks on the battlefield.

This is an unprecedented decisive battle.

Wei Lihuang is one of the few military commanders in this era who have fully realized air supremacy. In the preparations for this decisive battle, his first requirement is to have air supremacy with absolute dominance. The decisive battle of the air force should be carried out before the army.

Only by seizing air supremacy will a large-scale land war be launched.

Marshal Kruger has a natural disadvantage in this regard. Without the command of the air force, he could not mobilize more air forces to fight against it. In the British-German air battle, the number of aircraft lost by the German army was difficult to make up, and the greater losses were the source.

In the losses of the pilots.

After the battle began, the German army quickly lost air supremacy. The Luftwaffe, which was too dispersed and could not be effectively combined with the army's air defense forces, was quickly swept away and lost most of the airports, so that the Luftwaffe needed to take off from Germany and the Czech Republic.

Only by effectively supporting combat.

The Luftwaffe even lacks cooperation with the army, nor does it have the strategic intention of protecting the German army. The simple chivalrous spirit and the military thinking of trying to shoot down more Chinese fighter jets alone are completely unacceptable to the changes in this modern war.

The Imperial Air Force began to enter Germany's mainland and the Czech Republic for the first time, attacking airports in eastern Germany. The Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses and had lost its strength to fight on the Polish battlefield before January 1942.

Before the colder winter came, the Northwest Army finally launched a large-scale attack, and two armored legions attacked the defense lines of Poland and German troops head-on, tearing down the positions of the eastern Polish army group.

Continuously grow and change in war.

The military reform of the Northwest Army of the Imperial Defense Force has been continuously advancing and developing. In order to adapt to this large-scale legion battle, Wei Lihuang and other generals made a lot of attempts and reforms, concentrating the main tank troops into three armors.

The legion, with the main battle tank as the core, established a tactical system around the main battle tanks, and cooperated with them with a large number of infantry armored vehicles, light tanks, and tank destroyers to build three truly powerful armored legions.

In addition to these three large-scale armored legions, the Northwest Army transformed eleven of the fourteen armies under its jurisdiction into a mechanized army, mainly with infantry armored vehicles, allowing the troops to operate large-scale mobile operations in the form of a group army.

, the three armies were retained to maintain a light mechanized organization and used for decisive battles in mountain and urban positions.

In terms of reserve forces, the Northwest Army has another 45 new infantry divisions. Some of these new infantry divisions are mechanized armored divisions, most of which are light mechanized units with relatively cheap and large numbers of troops.

On the 7.62mm rifle bullet, the Imperial Army's light weapon system has developed to its extreme.

The Imperial Army has all equipped with 7.62mm caliber M35\35B\40 assault rifles. In a large-scale battle with millions of military forces, soldiers are still the main force to kill the enemy. In actual combat,

About 70 enemy soldiers still have to be killed by soldiers on the position, and less than 20 are killed by air force bombing and strafing. The role this series of M35 assault rifles can play on the battlefield is huge.

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Compared with the Polish troops, which are still dominated by semi-automatic rifles and the German troops that use submachine guns to make up for the front line fire, the Imperial Army's land operations have stronger killing efficiency, especially in the parallel propulsion of the positions, surrounding the main battle tanks and infantry armored vehicles.

, the soldiers and assault troops of light tanks can quickly occupy enemy positions.

The excellent quality and numerous advantages of tanks allow the Imperial Army to concentrate tank troops to penetrate defense, and also deploy a large number of MBT33\35 tanks in various mechanized armored armies, as the main force of front-line impact, tearing the German army and Poland apart.

The defense line of the troops.

On January 20, 1942, after a month of competition, the Northwest Army easily crushed the Polish and German coalition forces with huge advantages, and annihilated more than 3 million Polish main forces on the Lublin battlefield.

This is a battle that is simply asymmetric.

Behind the similar strength on the surface, there is actually a gap that both sides cannot make up for. In addition to their comparable strength in artillery and their advantages in the general officer of the army, there are huge gaps in all aspects.

On January 27, 1942, the Northwest Army captured Warsaw.

The Polish government declared unconditional surrender.

The Head of State Hitler immediately established a new Polish pseudo-government in the Poznan region, but it was of little significance. Poland's military power had been basically shattered, and the remaining troops could not pose any threat to the Northwest Army.

The German army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Lublin and completely lost the initiative in the war. Only the Northern Army Group was guarded in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The German Army Group's Southern Army Group was cut by the Northwest Army, and the Northern Army Group was completely isolated and surrounded.

The disastrous defeat of the Battle of Lublin made it difficult for the Nazi German army to stop a large-scale attack in a short period of six months, and could not effectively counterattack the Northwest Army to avoid the annihilation of the Northern Army Group.

The severe cold weather gave the Nazi Germans a temporary chance to breathe.

The two sides stopped in February and did not launch a large-scale attack. Even on the battlefields of Western Europe, the alliance forces formed by the Empire in Spain and the Iberian Peninsula did not launch a large-scale attack.

Marshal Montgomery was responsible for commanding the alliance coalition forces, while Liu Gengyun left the Western European war zone and headed south to command the operations of the Imperial African Army, expelling the Italian army from North Africa.

As World War II developed to this period, the situation was already very unfavorable to Germany.
To be continued...