Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 467: Hitler's Chance

The Soviet and Mongolian coalition forces were defeated again. Compared with the last time, there were many excuses. This time, Saiyin Shanda's disastrous defeat completely stopped those Soviet generals who did not believe in the fighting power of Chen Feng's troops.After the Battle of the Second Company, the Battle of Zamyn-Uud, and the Battle of Saiyinshanda, the Soviet-Mongolian Allied Forces lost a total of 15 troops and 90% of the air force in the Far East. There are only more than 3 Soviet troops left in the Soviet Union, and with the addition of more than 13 people mobilized by the Mongolian People's Army, there are only [-] people.

On the other hand, although Chen Feng's unit stopped attacking, another mechanized infantry division had already penetrated into Ergen. Zhukov and others knew that once this infantry division merged with Chen Feng's guard division, Chen Feng's unit would continue to attack. Ulaanbaatar advances.

The strength of one division has still beaten them to pieces. If there is another one, Zhukov can't imagine how serious the consequences will be.

More importantly, the news from Europe made Zhukov and others extremely disturbed.After three and a half months of bombing, Germany finally failed to force Britain to surrender. When the Soviet Union and other countries believed that Germany would continue to attack Britain, and even did not rule out sending ground troops to land on the beach, Germany unexpectedly stopped. The air strikes on Britain ended, and the Battle of Great Britain came to an end.

Throughout the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe dispatched more than 4.6 aircraft sorties, dropped more than 7 tons of bombs on Britain, and lost about 1500 aircraft.The British Air Force lost 915 aircraft and killed and injured more than 8.6 residents. More than 100 million buildings were damaged and many cities were destroyed.Although the British paid a huge price, they finally kept their homeland and did not let a German soldier land on British soil.

On the evening of June 6th, the main force of the Luftwaffe carried out the last large-scale air raid on London.That night, the German army dispatched more than 15 sorties to bombard London indiscriminately. All the pilots participating in the battle were instructed to leave the bombs anywhere. Most of the night sky.500 London civilians were killed. More than 700 people were seriously injured.

However, in the eyes of many people, this air strike was nothing more than Germany venting its grievances about failure before giving up attacking Britain.That's all.

June 6.British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a radio speech.He told all British citizens that it was the great British Air Force that saved Britain!At the same time, Churchill also said in his speech: "The great British Air Force smashed Hitler's arrogant attempt to force Britain to withdraw from the war with its own toil, tears and blood and sweat. The key of the German Air Force has never opened the door to British defense. "

Germany actually stopped its offensive against Britain. Although small-scale night air strikes were still going on, the large-scale air operations were over.The unexpected actions of the Germans made the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries constantly suspicious. Whether Germany intends to die down or has other plans.

If the flags and flags die down, can we start peace negotiations with Germany?If the Germans had other plans, what were they going to do?

The Americans are okay, after all, the Germans are still far away from the mainland of the United States, and even if Germany makes any moves, it will not be aimed at the Americans.But the Soviets are not calm. Looking at the entire European war situation, Germany has now eliminated Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and also annexed Czechoslovakia and Austria.

And Italy and Spain controlled by the rebels have long been open allies of Germany. After the Soviet-Finnish War, Finland, which lost 10% of its territory, has also defected to Germany. The Romanian government is also actively contacting the Germans. Substantial progress has been made. After removing the neutral country of Sweden, there are very few complete independent countries in Europe.

The only countries that are eligible to fight against Germany are the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. Originally, the Germans were busy fighting in Western Europe, and the Soviet Union did not have a deep understanding of the threat of Germany.But now that Germany has suddenly stopped its large-scale actions against the United Kingdom, if Germany makes any further moves, it will only be able to target the Soviet Union.

Although the Soviet Union and Germany signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", neither Hitler nor Stalin took it seriously. People in their position know that the relationship between countries is definitely not the same. A signed piece of paper will do the trick.If it is said that Germany had to sign the non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in order to attack Western Europe, then now that Germany has given up continuing to attack the United Kingdom, it means that this non-aggression pact has lost its due effect, and the Germans tore up the pact There is nothing wrong with it.

In fact, the nervousness of the Soviets is very necessary. In fact, in the later period of the Battle of Britain in history, Hitler also saw that the Luftwaffe's bombing effect was getting smaller and smaller, while the losses were getting bigger and bigger. The hope of conquering Britain was slim, so Turn your attention to the east and step up your preparations to launch an attack on the Soviet Union.

The "Sea Lion Project" has been aborted, and the reason why the air strikes against the United Kingdom have been delayed until 41 years is completely to hide its ambition to attack the Soviet Union, and the "Sea Lion Project" has actually become a strategic camouflage to cover up the German invasion of the Soviet Union .

If there was no sudden disruption by Chen Feng's subordinates, then things would still develop as in history, step by step, slowly deal with the British, then secretly mobilize troops, hoard supplies, and even make a move to land in the UK.After all, Hitler also knew that it was a fatal mistake to turn around and head east before taking Britain!Fighting on two fronts is a taboo for military strategists.Hitler didn't want to go against the sky, and doing things against the sky often didn't end well.

But now Chen Feng's actions in the Far East gave Hitler a chance, a chance to start a war with the Soviet Union.If war was launched against the Soviet Union at this time, Germany would certainly be fighting on two fronts, but why not the Soviet Union.

The most important thing is that Hitler was extremely pleasantly surprised by the information coming from the Far East. It was exactly the same as his own judgment. The Soviet army was really weak, and even the kid in China couldn't beat it.

Of course, Hitler would not think that Chen Feng's troops would be more heroic than his German Wehrmacht, nor would he think that Chen Feng's troops would be more powerful than the German Army. It is entirely because of the Soviets' own problems.As for whether there is no problem, it goes without saying that the Soviet Red Army at this time lacks experienced officers, especially senior officers.

The Great Purge of the Soviet Union is clear to Germany. After all, Germany has regarded the Soviet Union as an unprecedented enemy from the very beginning. They have been secretly collecting military information about the Soviet Union. It is impossible for the Germans not to know about such a big political event as the Great Purge.

The Germans not only know it, but they know it very well.The Germans even took advantage of Stalin's eagerness to consolidate the regime and his own authority, and designed the greatest Field Marshal Tukhachevsky since the founding of the Soviet Union and others.

Thinking of this incident, the corners of Hitler's mouth couldn't help but rise. This was the most successful spy war he directed. He successfully used Stalin's hand to remove his rival Tukhachevsky and others, and even triggered Stalin's attack on the army. System cleaning.

In fact, what Hitler didn't know was that Stalin's purging of the army on the surface originated from the false information made by the German SS that Marshal Tukhachevsky was disloyal to Stalin.The reason is that in 1936 the Soviet Union published a very strange news in foreign newspapers, saying that Hitler was preparing to attack the Soviet Union.At the same time, Germany falsely left behind a false document through its own spy agency, saying that the real identities of Jakir, Tukhachevsky and others were spies of the German General Staff.And this so-called 'confidential' document fell into the hands of Czechoslovak President Benes, who handed it over to Stalin out of good wishes.Subsequently, Yakir, Tukhachevsky and others were arrested and then executed, which also triggered Stalin's purge of senior military officers.

In fact, Stalin didn't need information from the Germans at all, all he needed was an excuse to purge the army, because Tukhachevsky threatened him too much.Tukhachevsky was not only a field marshal at the time, but also a defense commissioner.In addition to his outstanding military achievements, Tukhachevsky is also an excellent commander with keen strategic thinking and vision. He is different from Budyonny's cavalry-style bravery and is also different from Voroshilov's political marshal.

For a long time after the founding of the Soviet Union, Marshal Tukhachevsky was considered one of the most important leaders of the Soviet military scientific work after Frunze's death.Like General Guderian of Germany, General Charles de Gaulle of France and others, he clearly realized that the technological revolution had brought about a huge revolution in the way of war.He advocated the mechanization of the army, the development of aviation and tank forces, and experimented with airborne operations, tank breakthroughs, infantry coordination and other multi-arms coordinated operations and large-scale battles. Many of his views were verified by the practice of World War II.

But no matter what the reason was, Tukhachevsky was still dead. He was also executed together with Yakir, commander of the Kiev Military District, Upolevich, commander of the Belarusian Military District, and Putin, deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District. Markov, Dean of the Frunze Military Academy Kolk, Director of the Central Organs of the Red Army Fehrman and others.This is a group of generals with outstanding military exploits, but this is only the beginning.

These actions of Stalin were seen by the Germans. Although Hitler had long believed that the Soviet Red Army was not as powerful as they appeared on the surface, he did not take the risk.However, after the Soviet-Finnish War and the ongoing Sino-Soviet War, Hitler believed that he had seen the reality of the Soviet Red Army, so he did not intend to pretend any longer. He wanted to take action and use German tanks to fight for the German people. space. (To be continued..)

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