I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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spooky dark castle

wilderness in the morning light

or i pick up the glove you dropped

Either you catch the sword I throw

Either you and I each ride a war horse

Far away from the handsome flag covering the sky

Leaving the battle array like clouds

Decisive victory or defeat in the city"

Five minutes later, the war with the Soviet Union broke out and World War II broke out.

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Chapter 458 World War (1)

"The war has begun! Germany tore up the "German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact" and officially attacked the Soviet Union in an all-round way!"

In the conference hall of the Beiping Camp, Huang Wei held a telegram sent by the German High Command and couldn't help blurting out. His body was trembling, his voice was trembling, and even his expression at this time was a mixture of nervousness, excitement, apprehension, shock, etc. A rare throb of complex emotions.

The scene was silent for a full minute, and then heavy and violent breathing sounded one after another. Zhang Fakui, Fu Zuoyi, Wei Lihuang, Feng Zhian, Xiao Zhenying, Guo Jiqiao, Wang Yaowu, Chen Mingren, Li Yutang, Song Xilian and other senior generals were all there. It suddenly changed color.

Even though all of these generals have gone through great storms, even if their energy-raising skills have reached the point where Mount Tai collapses in front of them without changing their faces, they can't wait for this earth-shattering news and huge changes that can turn the world around. Do not fall into unprecedented psychological shock.

For a moment, no one in the conference hall spoke, and everyone turned their eyes to Jiang Weiguo.

Although he was well prepared psychologically, Jiang Weiguo found that his hand holding the cigarette was still shaking slightly involuntarily.

"Well, the war has begun!" Jiang Weiguo took a deep breath, and he looked at the generals with blazing eyes, "The Soviet war has begun, and the Second World War... has begun!"

The generals stood silently at first, and after recovering, they hurriedly performed their duties.

Whether China will participate in the Soviet Union's war is still highly confidential at present. The generals don't know that "three months later, the Nanjing Army will also step into the Soviet Union's mountain of corpses and blood." There is no possibility of staying out of it.

The heart-piercing ringing of the phone, the sound of sending and receiving telegrams like a drum, the sound of hasty and hasty conversations, and the trotting footsteps of the staff officer... accompanied by an unprecedented solemn atmosphere, it suddenly flooded the conference hall.

Jiang Weiguo slowly exhaled a smoke ring, sighing in his heart: "It really started!"

As Hitler declared before the war, "Once 'Project Barbarossa' begins, the whole world will hold its breath".

Facts have proved that Hitler did not brag, the whole world held its breath at this moment, Peking, Wuhan, Tokyo, Rome, London, Paris, Washington... and Moscow, all fell into unprecedented shock, and all countries were dumbfounded , are all stunned.

World-shattering war broke out on the border between Romania and the Soviet Union.

Under the cover of the fleet of planes covering the sky and the torrent of tanks covering the mountains and plains, millions of German troops poured into the territory of the Soviet Union like a flood of dikes bursting. The artillery shells fell overwhelmingly on the Soviet border guards and important military targets in the trail of bullet marks like a cloud of fire. Thousands of German planes flew through the clouds and fog into the Soviet airspace and bombarded them indiscriminately. The plane was blown into burning scrap iron before it was launched. A large number of Soviet aircraft were destroyed on the runway of the airport. Countless explosion fireballs were like black and red raging waves falling on the Soviet barracks, positions, and concrete. Fortifications, cement bunkers, trench tunnels, ordnance hoarding bases, transportation hubs, railway bridges, oil depots, material transfer stations and other important target locations are blooming and rising into the sky. Thousands of mushroom clouds rise into the sky together with raging fire and billowing black smoke , Straight up to the sky; bloody Soviet soldier limbs, burning tanks and aircraft wreckage, shattered concrete cement blocks, roasted black and bent cannons, and torn pieces of sickles and hammers Red flags scattered flowers together Flying all over the sky.

Amidst the roar of planes and tanks, the mechanized troops of the German army rushed into the territory of the Soviet Union like thunder and lightning.

Stalin, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and Le Brun in their sleep were awakened one after another;

Hitler, Mussolini, Chiang Kai-shek, Jiang Weiguo, and Emperor Hirohito, who had been waiting by the phone for a long time, all tensed up.

Regardless of whether it was the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, or China, Japan, and Italy, the high-level leaders were deeply shocked at this time, because Germany's strength exceeded both the expectations of the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China, Japan, and Italy.

The German-Soviet war shocked the world because of its unprecedented scale.

The German army invested about 250 million troops, more than 5000 aircraft, more than 5000 tanks, and more than 30000 artillery pieces of various types. They rushed towards the Soviet Union, the largest country in the world, with overwhelming momentum.

All countries in the world are shocked: Germany's war power is so powerful!The war against the Soviet Union was the first foreign war officially launched by Germany after its re-emergence.

In just over seven years after Hitler came to power, he rebuilt the impoverished and defeated Germany into such a powerful empire. In just seven years, the national power and military power secretly accumulated by Germany turned out to be so strong that the United States, Britain, France and other countries had to be dumbfounded Feeling terrified.

Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and other neighboring countries of Germany are all terrified, because the strength of Germany's "disaster" far exceeds the previous estimates of these countries, but these countries will all celebrate afterward, because this "disaster" The "disaster water" finally flowed to the east, and the defeat of Germany and Su was what these countries could only wish for.

On the one hand, the United States, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries were shocked by the strength of Germany, and on the other hand, they secretly rejoiced that Germany had attacked the Soviet Union; The fact that "Big Brother" is so powerful has greatly increased the confidence of China, Japan and Italy. For example, Japan is even more happy. The strength of Germany means that Japan and Germany "mix" is a bright road. The promise of "carve up the Soviet Union and return everything south of the equator to Japan" is very likely to become a reality; Finland and the three Baltic countries are all excited, and Germany is so strong that it can guarantee that they will not be reddened by the Soviet Union; Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Poland They were all terrified and secretly glad that among the four countries, Hungary and Romania had defected to Germany before the German-Soviet War, and they were all glad that "their choice was right." Bulgaria and Poland belonged to the fence-sitting faction. On the one hand, they were unwilling to bet all on Germany. At this time, Germany showed great power, forcing Bulgaria and Poland to completely make up their minds to join Germany.

Jiang Weiguo is different from others. He has a very special "skill". When everyone is free, he is the busiest person. When everyone is very busy, he is the most idle person.

Right now, as always, the generals and officers are busy, while Jiang Weiguo sits calmly in a corner of the Nanjing Army Headquarters, smoking cigarettes, thinking seriously, hearing the generals' fierce speeches. Disputes.

Huang Wei: "Germany abolished the "German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact" at once, which completely caught the Soviet Union by surprise. In my opinion, the German army will surely sweep the ground and sweep the ground like a broken bamboo!"

Zhang Fakui: "Not necessarily.

Germany previously made good friends with Britain and France in every possible way, and tried its best to win over Hungary, Romania, Poland, Finland and other countries. It can be said that Germany's strategic intention to attack the Soviet Union is obvious.

The Soviet Union should have been fully prepared, the German army could indeed catch the Soviet army by surprise at the beginning, but it will soon be counterattacked by the Soviet army!"

Fu Zuoyi: "Even so, the German army would be unstoppable in the first few months.

The low combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, we have already figured out through the Far East War, the German army is fully prepared and planned for a long time, and now the whole country is attacking with all its strength, it is difficult for the Soviet army to stop it!"

Wei Lihuang: "You can't say that. Although the Soviet army is strong outside, but the camel is bigger than a horse! After all, the Soviet Union is too big, and the Soviet Union has completed industrialization, and the heavy industry is very developed. According to intelligence, the Soviet army's aircraft, There are more tanks and artillery than the German army, even several times that of the German army.

In terms of aircraft, the Soviet army has more than [-] tanks, the Soviet army has more than [-] tanks, and more than [-] artillery pieces.

In the last war in the Far East, in fact, we were lucky to win. First, the Japanese army helped us consume more than half of the main force of the Soviet army. Go all out!"

Xiao Zhenying: "Well, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Japanese army was superior to us in all aspects. What happened? Although the German-Soviet War cannot be written according to the script, the Sino-Japanese War can indeed become a reference for the German-Soviet War!"

Guo Jiqiao: "The German army is superior to the Soviet army in terms of quality, but the Soviet army is superior in quantity, and the development of the war situation is really hard to say.

In fact, what is the combat effectiveness of the German army?We also don't know, we can't underestimate the Soviet army, and we can't overestimate the German army.

On the other hand, the German army was also subject to too many constraints in this battle. For example, Germany and the Soviet Union did not border each other, and Poland did not let it go at the beginning of the war. As a result, the German army could only attack the Soviet Union through a "narrow channel" less than [-] kilometers from the Rossi border. If the Soviet army blocks the "narrow channel" on the Luosu border, it will be difficult for the German army to continue to penetrate, and it will also be unable to use their hands and feet!"

Wang Yaowu: "Although the Soviet army was huge, it was expanded in a hurry and the combat effectiveness was even more unoptimistic.

Even if there are good guns and cannons, I’m afraid they will be a group of mobs that will collapse at any moment!”

Chen Mingren: "In fact, the German army has only expanded in the past few years. The "Treaty of Versailles" stipulates that the German army can only maintain 10 people, but General Seekert and the others have trained the [-] German troops into excellent middle-level officers. There is a world of difference between China's large-scale military expansion and the Soviet army's large-scale military expansion.

The German army is lean and capable, while the Soviet army is bloated, and it looks like it is not useful!"

The generals talked a lot.

Jiang Weiguo did not participate in the discussion because he was actually a dumb man eating dumplings. He knew what he was thinking, and he calmly smoothed his thoughts. Due to the "butterfly effect", the German-Soviet war at this time has already happened compared with the Soviet-German war in history. huge change.

What needs to be emphasized is that compared with the Soviet-German war in history, the major changes that have taken place in the current German-Soviet war include the following aspects. This is also the "historical truth" that Jiang Weiguo sees very clearly:

International environment: Historically, before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Germany had already waged war with Britain and France (Germany destroyed France, air raided the British mainland, planned to land in the British mainland, and the German-Italian coalition forces fought with the British troops in North Africa), plus Germany and Japan formed an alliance, and Japan It is invading China on a large scale, and it also refers to the colony of French Indochina, exposing its ambition to covet the colonies of the United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia, which puts Germany in a very unfavorable international environment. Britain went to war and prompted the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States to unite against Germany (British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was extremely hostile to the Soviet Union, and even planned to organize the German army to attack the Soviet Union after Germany surrendered).

To put it bluntly, the United States, Britain, and France are both hostile to Germany and the Soviet Union. The three groups would not have become two camps. It was because Germany attacked Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, which led to the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, which hated the Soviet Union, to jointly deal with Germany. Germany's move is Literally lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

Right now, Germany has avoided this major mistake that could be called fatal. Before the war with the Soviet Union, it has tried everything possible to avoid conflicts with the United States, Britain and France. Otherwise, Germany will not tolerate Poland. It is easy for Germany to destroy Poland. An alliance (although Britain and France did not save Poland at all).

Because of these efforts, Germany did not "offend" the United States, Britain and France, so it did not fall into the most dangerous two-front battle.

At this time, the German-Soviet War broke out. The United States, Britain and France will certainly not support Germany, but they will not oppose or hinder Germany.

As for the attitude of the United States, Britain and France towards the Soviet Union, they must have gloated at the beginning and adopted a countermeasure of sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight. Germany and China are about to increase their national strength due to the partition of the Soviet Union. The United States, Britain and France are very likely to intervene, because the result they hope is "both losers" instead of Germany and China stepping on the corpse of the Soviet Union to further rise.

In any case, in the early and mid-term period of the Soviet War, the "good thing" of the Allied Powers attacking the Soviet Union would not be interfered by the United States, Britain and France.

In terms of strategy: In the past, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, because of Hitler’s greed, it formulated many strategic goals, including annexing Ukraine and the Caucasus, and capturing Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, etc. The millions of German troops seemed to be very large, but they were still stretched across the vast territory of the Soviet Union, which made the German army commit the taboo of dividing troops into multiple places, which made the final attack on Moscow seriously insufficient, and then failed.

Right now, because of Jiang Weiguo's interference, the German High Command has greatly revised its operational objectives. In the early stages of the war, the German army had only two strategic objectives. One was to capture or encircle Leningrad and completely block the Soviet Union's external channels. Taking the Baku oil field in the Caucasus region, obtaining the most scarce oil in Germany and the entire Allied countries at this time, also greatly weakened the industrial strength of the Soviet Union. After all, the oil production in the Baku area accounted for the total oil production of the Soviet Union at this time. 2% to 65%, this treasure land of resources was robbed by the German army. Germany would not have to worry about oil during the Soviet war, and the Soviet Union would fall into oil shortages, resulting in the inability of its powerful industries to start.

The great reduction of strategic goals has greatly reduced the combat tasks of the German army, and will no longer commit the taboo of military strategists who divide troops into multiple places.

The whole country is blocked and loses two-thirds of its oil. Even if the Soviet Union can persist, it will inevitably decline and die.

In addition, in order to guard against German attacks, the Soviet Union began to relocate heavy industrial facilities in Eastern Europe to the east of the Ural Mountains in 1939. Historically, the relocation took place for two and a half years, but at this time it was only relocated for more than a year. When the war started, a large number of heavy industrial facilities in the Soviet Union could not be transferred to the rear due to the rush of time, so they would be within the range of German bombers and strategic bombers, which would greatly weaken the Soviet Union's industrial productivity after the war.

In terms of strength: It is difficult to draw conclusions on this point, because the war strength of Germany and the Soviet Union were both affected by Jiang Weiguo's "butterfly effect".

First of all, the time of the war has been brought forward. The historical Soviet-German War broke out on June 1941, 6, but now it broke out on May 22, 1940, nearly one year and two months earlier.

This advance had a great impact on both Germany and the Soviet Union.

As we all know, the "Great Purge Movement" that took place from the end of 1934 to the end of 1938 dealt a severe blow to the national strength of the Soviet Union and the military strength of the Soviet Union. Obviously, as time goes by, the Soviet Union will slowly recover. , the more time is delayed, the better the Soviet Union will recover. There is no doubt that the current German-Soviet war is one year and two months earlier than the original historical Soviet-German war. The recovery of the Soviet Union is obviously not as good as in the original history. Very bad, very good for Germany.

In addition, did the Far East War that broke out before the German-Soviet War wake up the Soviet leadership?After all, the low combat effectiveness of the Soviet army and various hidden dangers within the Soviet army were fully exposed during the war, so that even the Chinese and Japanese troops could "bully" the Soviet army.

Jiang Weiguo thought over and over again and denied this conclusion.

Because in the original history, the Soviet-Finnish war broke out before the Soviet-German war, and the Soviet high-level must have made up for it, but did not see much effect. Now, the Far East war broke out before the German-Soviet war, and the Soviet high-level must have also made up for it. But the effect is definitely not immediate. It is impossible for the Soviet army to become reborn all at once. After all, the time is too tight, so the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army at this time is still very poor.

Although there are many people, they are all local chickens and dogs.

It is also worth mentioning that there was a "Great Thunderstorm Project" in history. It is said that the Soviet Union was preparing to strike Germany before the Soviet-German War, but it was preempted by Germany's "Barbarossa Project".

But right now, it is certain that the high-level Soviet army who was defeated by the Chinese and Japanese coalition forces in the Far East War must not have the courage to preempt Germany. Germany and the Soviet Union did not carve up Poland, and the Soviet Union did not have the conditions to preempt Germany.

Secondly, judging from the superficial strength, the Soviet army has about 400 million troops at this time, and the new troops are constantly increasing (the former Soviet Union has organized a total of about 3000 million armed personnel to participate in the Soviet-German war in history, not only the regular army, but also More militias), of which, about 100 million were defending China and Japan in North and Central Asia, about 300 million were defending Germany in Eastern Europe, and the German army who attacked the Soviet Union was about 250 million, not as many as the Soviet army. The German aircraft, tanks, and artillery It is not as good as the Soviet army, and some are not even half as good as the Soviet army, but this is not a big problem. The quality of the German army greatly exceeds that of the Soviet army.

However, on the one hand, Germany has no worries, and can go all out to deal with the Soviet Union, and its Chinese and Japanese allies cooperate with Germany to attack the Soviet Union. , Japan not only failed to help Germany, but also provoked the United States. At this time, Germany's chances of winning will naturally increase greatly, and the military significance is infinite.

However, because the time has advanced, Germany has many problems.

For example, in the past, before Germany fought the Soviet Union, Germany had already occupied a large area of ​​other countries’ territories and obtained a large amount of resources (such as Norway’s iron ore), but now it does not. In addition, the German army also has problems. In the past, the German army had fought all over Northern Europe, Western Europe, Southern Europe, and North Africa before the war with the Soviet army. The actual combat experience was very rich, but now there is no actual combat experience. Speaking of which, middle and high-level officers and many ordinary soldiers in the German army participated in World War I and have actual combat experience during World War I). Taking blitzkrieg as an example, the Soviet Union will be the first to experience a real large-scale war before Poland and France. The taste of blitzkrieg, the Soviet Union will be caught off guard more than in the original history. In history, Germany blitzed Poland and blitzed France, which shocked the Soviet Union greatly. Therefore, the Soviet authorities re-emphasized the executed Marshal Tukhachevsky At this time, the Soviet Union did not know the advantages and power of the blitzkrieg. Naturally, the "great depth" strategic defense line was impossible to talk about.

However, the German army has not really used blitzkrieg in actual combat, and has not "practiced" with Poland and France. It is obviously a bit hasty for the German army to fight the Soviet Union as soon as the first battle of blitzkrieg comes up.

Because the time was advanced, the preparations of the German army were not as good as in the original history. The number of soldiers, aircraft, tanks, and artillery were all discounted.

Not only that, but the German army was also subject to many constraints in attacking the Soviet Union. In the past, Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland, and Germany and the Soviet Union bordered on all sides. Therefore, after the outbreak of the war, the German army was dispatched on a long front that stretched hundreds of kilometers. But right now, the German army can only pass through Romania attacked the Soviet Union (Poland did not allow German troops to pass through its territory at the beginning of the war), so the 250 million German troops participating in the war could not enter the Soviet Union "all at once", and the front line changed from "one" to "丨", causing the first batch of Only about 70 German troops entered the Soviet Union. Obviously, this is not conducive to Germany.

After much deliberation, it is difficult for Jiang Weiguo to draw a conclusion. After all, there are too many factors to change this war. He can only wait and see, and wait for the facts to speak.

The German-Soviet War, which shocked the world and attracted worldwide attention, showed a surprisingly one-sided situation in the first week. Blitzkrieg, a new method of warfare, made its debut. The German troops pouring into the Soviet Union consisted of a dozen armored divisions, mechanized or The motorized infantry division formed a powerful and fast assault group, which was invincible and invincible. It easily broke through the Soviet defense line, tore the overall defense integrity of the Soviet army, and inserted into the rear of the Soviet army, causing the Soviet army to be in chaos. , followed by the German infantry unit rushed to the Soviet army that had been torn apart by the German mechanized units.

During this battle, the German Air Force played an irreplaceable and important role. At the beginning of the war, it gained air supremacy, shot down, destroyed, and blew up more than [-] Soviet aircraft, and then launched a frantic attack on the important facilities and transportation networks behind the Soviet Army. Bombing, a two-pronged approach, has yielded numerous victories.

In just five days, the German army crossed the Nanbug River in southwestern Ukraine on a large scale, defeating more than 30 divisions of the Soviet border guards.

When the good news came, there were thunderous cheers in Berlin, and Hitler, who was actually a little uneasy before the war, was greatly relieved.

However, the German army did expose a lot of problems in the initial battles. For example, it did not pay enough attention to the armored forces. It only established armored divisions belonging to the infantry army and did not form a separate armored army. As a result, the power of the armored forces was restricted to a certain extent. Not only that, but the German tanks also had many problems. The No. [-] and No. [-] tanks with weak armor and firepower performed poorly on the battlefield and suffered heavy losses. The No. [-] and No. [-] tanks appeared to have overlapping functions, and the No. [-] (Panther) tanks were insufficient. etc.; on the other hand, most of the mid- and low-level officers in the German army are very competent, able to take the lead and boost morale, but it also leads to a high casualty rate among officers, making some battles chaotic due to lack of command. Most importantly, This German-Soviet war was the first time that the German army launched an actual battle, and it was a battle with a scale of several million people, which made the inexperienced German army very difficult, and the coordinated operations of multiple arms were not satisfactory, and the troops mixed with each other during the march. , Battle timidity and accidental injury on the battlefield also occurred from time to time. This kind of confusion gave some Soviet troops many opportunities to counterattack.

But overall, the situation is basically in favor of the German army, and the German army is fighting against the Soviet army.

Within a week, the German army advanced more than 300 kilometers in the territory of Soviet Ukraine, capturing one-third of Ukraine.

All of the southwestern Ukraine west of the Dnieper River and south of Kiev was captured by the German army, and more than 50 divisions of the Soviet army were wiped out and defeated.