Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

Seeing that the Soviet army was about to start a war, but the German marshal went on vacation, netizens immediately started complaining.

"German troops take a daily vacation."

Why is German intelligence always so bad?

《I can only say that the Germanic barbarians are like this. 》

"It's useless even if Bushi is here. He doesn't have the ability to command such a large army group!"

"Bushi just didn't perform brilliantly, but he didn't make any mistakes of principle."

……

Canopy.

【The Soviet army is about to begin the attack. 】

【But before the offensive, Soviet engineers had a special mission. 】

【That is to clear the mines. 】

[Both the Soviet Union and Germany have deployed a large number of mines in front of their defensive positions.]

[And now the Soviet Union needs to clear these mines. ]

[However, a simple detonation method cannot be used. ]

[Because if the German army saw the Soviet Union, they would start to remove and clear the mines in front of their own positions.]

[That can only mean one thing—the Soviet Union is about to launch an attack.]

[In just two nights, Soviet engineers removed 34000 mines.]

[Only some minefields in front and behind the German positions remained.]

[On June 1944, 6, the Soviet army began to conduct strong armed reconnaissance. In order to reduce the vigilance of the German army, this time the vanguard attack did not deploy tanks, but only infantry. ]

[But this still made the Third Panzer Army commander Reinhardt very nervous and he requested a retreat.]

[Because although he commanded an armored army, he actually did not have enough armored troops.]

[Almost all of them are infantry.]

[Of course, Reinhardt's request to retreat was quickly rejected.]

[The next night, the Soviet armed reconnaissance turned into an offensive.]

[The battle officially begins.]

[Bombs rained down, and the flames of war spread across the German positions.]

[Soviet infantry and tanks began to coordinate their attack on the enemy.]

[The Il-2 ground attack aircraft also launched a fierce attack on the artillery units in the rear of the German army.]

[Il-2 fighter - fierce firepower, strong armor, but limited in speed and maneuverability. ]

[This sometimes puts the Il-2 at a disadvantage when fighting in the air.]

[However, in June 1944, the German Army Group Center had only 6 fighter planes available for deployment.]

[It was no longer able to resist the Soviet Union's massive air raid.]

[Soon some German front-line troops were surrounded.]

【For example, the important city of Vitebsk. 】

【General Reinhardt proposed to withdraw the German troops from the encirclement. 】

【He believed that the German army had the strength to break through. 】

【But Hitler had already proposed the tactics of town fortresses. 】

[It means that at some important strongholds, the defenders must hold on even if they are completely surrounded.]

【For example, Vitebsk at this time. 】

[German Field Marshal Busch conveyed Hitler's direct order to hold the position at all costs.]

[Until the third day of the battle, as the two Soviet fronts joined forces, more German troops were surrounded.]

[That evening, Hitler allowed the withdrawal of troops from Vitebsk, but one division was required to remain to defend the city.]

[The German 206th Infantry Division, which was responsible for defending the city, became the scapegoat.]

[However, the German army's breakout plan ultimately failed, and they had no choice but to leave the city and run to the jungle area southwest of the city to continue holding on.]

[But that place is also within the Soviet encirclement. ]

[Under the attack of aircraft and artillery, the four divisions of the German 53rd Army had no way to escape.]

[This group of German troops held out for less than a day before being completely wiped out.]

[After five days of fighting in Operation Bagration, more than 5 soldiers of the 53rd Army were killed and 2 were taken prisoner.]

[In the Rogachev direction, the Soviet army successively dispatched more than 2300 aircraft to assist. ]

[The Luftwaffe launched an attack on enemy firing positions and trenches, followed by a heavy bomber raid that lasted from late night until dawn.]

[While the smoke from the bombs dropped by the bombers had not yet dissipated, the Soviet artillery and Katyusha troops launched a new round of attacks. ] [Taking advantage of the continuous artillery fire, the Soviet mine-clearing tanks appeared on the battlefield. ]

[Advance forward in a V-shaped formation.]

[The mines laid by the German army were detonated one after another, and the mine-clearing tanks immediately opened up a wide passage in the German minefield.]

[The German army held on very tenaciously for a time. ]

【However, the Soviet army seized the weak points of the German army and broke through the defense line within a day. 】

[It turned out that Rokossovsky's tactic of seeking two breakthroughs at the same time was completely reasonable.]

【Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Soviet army marched rapidly through the jungles and swamps of Belarus. 】

[The German army's only armored division was completely unable to stop the Soviet attack. ]

[At Rogachev, the German defenses quickly collapsed.]

[On the fourth day of the offensive, the Soviet Ninth Guards Tank Army, the 4st Infantry Army and the First Guards Tank Army successfully joined forces.]

[The 70,000 German Ninth Army was completely surrounded and stopped resisting after two days.]

[5 men of the entire Ninth Army were killed in the battle, and more than 2 German soldiers were captured.]

[At this time, the German Central Army Group only had the Fourth Army and the Second Army in the far south, which still had relatively complete combat effectiveness. ]

In line with the narration on the sky screen, the Soviet army's lines in the picture are advancing on a large scale.

A large amount of German equipment was destroyed, and images of soldiers being captured were also broadcast simultaneously.

All the ancients.

Even the most fanatical German army fans in ancient times had to admit it at this point.

This time, the German army suffered a crushing defeat.

Han Dynasty.

Huo Qubing stroked his forehead, sighed and said:

"Well, I didn't expect that."

"I didn't expect it at all."

"It's not like the Soviets haven't launched large-scale offensives before, and there have been battles involving 100 million or even 200 million troops."

"But the German army was at a disadvantage, surrounded and forced to retreat."

"But there has never been such a situation where the entire front was breached and surrounded everywhere."

"Tens of thousands of soldiers surrendered in just a few days."

"Remember the last time we talked about the Cherkassy Steel Encirclement Battle, where 6 German troops were surrounded and the Soviet army suffered a lot."

"The Soviets had every advantage, but they paid a price many times greater."

"It can only eat 20,000 to 30,000 people."

"The remaining German troops have fled."

"It's impossible to be like what's happening in Tianmu right now. The Soviets surrounded tens of thousands of German troops with one charge."

"After a few days of bombing, tens of thousands of German troops simply surrendered."

“This is unimaginable.”

"Has the Soviet army's combat effectiveness really become so much stronger?"

"Or is it that the German army's combat effectiveness has deteriorated too much?"

"Could it be that the Allied landings in Normandy on the Western Front caused the Germans to transfer all their elite troops to the Western Front?"

Huo Qubing made many guesses.

The most accurate reason is still unknown to Huo Qubing.

However, given Huo Qubing's personal military talents, he was naturally also very clear about it.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

The once invincible German army suffered a total defeat when facing the all-out attack of the Soviet army.

This is definitely not a simple reason.

All I can say is yes.

The once invincible German army.

I'm afraid it has really reached the critical point of collapse.

Huo Qubing, a fan of the German army in World War II, looked at the sky with concern.

Want to see what it's like to face an unfavorable situation?
Those famous generals of the German army.

Can Manstein, Guderian, Model and others turn the tide? (End of this chapter)