Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

[On April 4, the Soviet Supreme Command finalized the general offensive plan:]

[Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front attacked the Oder River head-on;]

[Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front outflanked from the south;]

【Rokossovsky's troops pinned down the Germans in the north.】

【Stalin said meaningfully at the meeting: Whoever enters Berlin first will leave his name in history.】

【For this battle. 】

【The Soviet Union assembled an unprecedented army.】

[250 million troops, 6250 tanks, 4.2 artillery pieces, 7500 aircraft! ]

[On April 4, German reconnaissance planes sent back a breathtaking picture: the Soviet positions on the other side of the Oder River stretched endlessly.]

[There are countless.]

[The commander of the 9th Army, Busse, could only desperately issue a final warning to Berlin: "We can only hold out for 48 hours at most."]

[Faced with a desperate situation, Hitler's command became increasingly insane. ]

[He ordered Berlin to be turned into a fortress and mobilized 80 troops, including the National Commando (composed of old men and young men).]

【Declaring that "every house is a fortress." 】

[The German army built three lines of defense along the Oder-Neisse River, with a depth of 100 kilometers.]

【Zero Heights becomes a key barrier. 】

[The terrain here is steep, and the German Ninth Army has laid dense anti-tank trenches, mines and 88mm anti-aircraft gun positions.]

【But the German defense was already at its last gasp. 】

[The fuel shortage has reduced tanks to fixed artillery positions, and the air force has only more than 300 fighter planes left. ]

[On the night of April 4, SS General Steiner secretly ordered the abandonment of the outer positions of the Oder River and the withdrawal of troops to the suburbs of Berlin.]

[This disobedient retreat was later proven to have saved tens of thousands of German troops.]

[But when Hitler learned about this, he roared angrily: Even my SS betrayed me! ]

[At this moment, the Soviet Army's Katyusha rocket launchers have illuminated the eastern sky...]

……

The war is about to begin.

Barrages of comments also flew out.

"Wow, 250 million veterans, more than 6000 tanks, it's terrifying!"

《Although the battle has not started yet, it seems that the despair of the Berlin defenders can be felt.》

"The German army had actually given up the Western Front at this time. If the Allies attacked Berlin at this time, they would encounter much less resistance than the Soviet army."

"But at the Yalta Conference, it was decided that the Soviet Union would be responsible for the eastern part of Germany, and the Allies would fight the Soviet Union to get the meat."

Churchill: Fight? It's a deal!

"Britain was no longer in a good position at this time, so it wanted to stir up internal strife between the other two countries. Hitler noticed this."

"Stir it up, stir it up! It's already 1945 and the British are still trying to stir up trouble!"

"If the mustache had not intervened at the time and all military decisions were handed over to military strategists like Manstein and Rundstedt, perhaps the defeat would not have been so quick."

"Fortunately, Heinrich came on in the end."

"He can be said to be the German general who was best at fighting defensive battles during World War II, except for Model."

"Heinrich is actually better than Model."

"Yes, if Guderian had not supported Heinrich and continued to let the chicken farmer Himmler command the army group and be responsible for the Battle of Berlin, it would be funny."

《The final chapter of De San, there is no way to save it now no matter how hard we fight.》

"Even gods can't save him at this point. Dezi can only discuss how he will die."

"At this time, the German army's strength was actually at its peak, but the German armored divisions were seriously understaffed, and most of the armored divisions were empty shells."

"San Dezi is researching super weapons in the end. If he succeeds, he might be able to turn the tables."

"How could a comeback be possible? Unless Hitler transformed himself into a great magician and summoned a meteorite directly."

……

And outside the canopy.

Late Warring States period.

Bai Qi looked at the picture on the sky.

Combined with the strategic diagram and roadmap, combined with the many sky-high video contents about World War II that I have watched during this period.

In his mind, he quickly simulated the scene of the Berlin front and the defense deployment at that time. Bai Qi thought and watched.

At the same time, he slowly expressed his speculation:
"From a broader perspective, Germany's defeat is inevitable."

"In the Battle of Berlin, the German army saw no hope of winning."

"Although the German army can use the city's advantageous terrain to mount a tenacious defense."

"And even if the German army's combat effectiveness has declined, it should still be able to fight."

"But facing 250 million Soviet troops, there is really no way."

"Even if the German army performed bravely and defeated the Soviet army's attacks one after another."

"Kill 1 on the first day, and 1 on the second day."

"But the Soviet Union prepared 250 million people!"

"After a few days, can the German army, which is short of oil and artillery, still hold out?"

"I'm afraid it can't be stopped."

"Let me see how they perform in this final battle to annihilate Germany in World War II."

"Is it a miserable and swift demise?"

"Or should we display the best of the German army in the final battle?"

"As for how long can Germany hold out in the Battle of Berlin?"

"Considering the current war situation."

"It's probably unrealistic to expect Berlin to hold out for half a year like Stalingrad that Tianmu mentioned before."

"It depends on whether Germany can hold out for three months."

This is how Bai Qi expressed his judgment.

But then he shook his head.

He smiled in self-denial:

"No, if I were Stalin, I would not allow the German army to block me in Berlin for another three months, no matter what the cost."

"After all, even Tianmu just said it."

"Germany counted on the American and British allies on the Western Front and Soviet infighting on the Eastern Front."

"Obviously, the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States and Britain was not very good either."

"If we really stayed outside Berlin for three months, it would be unacceptable to the Soviet Union."

……

[In the early morning of April 1945, 4, darkness enveloped the Oder-Neisse front, and everything was silent.]

[An artillery bombardment unprecedented in the history of human warfare is about to break the silence. ]

[At 1945 a.m. on April 4, 16, Zhukov issued the order for a general attack.]

[With Zhukov's order, more than 140 searchlights instantly illuminated the night sky, exposing the German positions.]

[Immediately afterwards, more than 4 artillery pieces roared in unison, and shells rained down on the German defense line. Every square kilometer of land was bombarded with more than 300 tons of ammunition.]

[The Ninth Army deployed by Heinrich has 11 men.]

【Face Zhukov's 100 million troops! 】

[As the battle began, there was a two-and-a-half-hour artillery attack, which completely turned the German army's painstakingly built frontier positions into scorched earth.]

[The surface temperature soared to hundreds of degrees Celsius, and the concrete fortifications were reduced to dust in the violent shaking. ]

[The Soviet army's steel torrent followed closely behind. ]

[Thousands of T-34 tanks formed a wedge formation, crushed the barbed wire and barricades, and forced their way through the mud filled with craters.]

[The remaining Panther tanks and Tiger II tanks of the German army resisted stubbornly by relying on trenches and rubble.]

[However, faced with the numerical superiority of the Soviet tank cluster, they could only launch sporadic counterattacks.]

[At Seelow Heights, the Germans used the terrain to build multi-layered fortifications, which made the Soviets encounter the most tenacious resistance since the beginning of the war.]

[Although the slope of the high ground is only 7 degrees, it became the "Berlin Lock" that the Soviet army could not cross. 】

[It was a very foggy day, and the searchlights caused glare in the fog.]

【Disrupted the Soviet army's own formation.】

[The first wave of Soviet tanks fell into chaos in the mud, while the Germans used 88mm anti-aircraft guns to turn the T-34 into a burning coffin.]

[German army's dense anti-tank firepower and minefields. ]

[The Soviet army only advanced 5 kilometers on the first day, and hundreds of tank wreckage and tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers' bodies piled up like a mountain! ] (End of this chapter)