Glorious Mission 1937

The entanglements of Lao Jiang and the others, Chen Feng didn't know and didn't want to know, the current Chen Feng had been a little stunned by this failed battle, although this attack on Hulunbuir was not a failure, it couldn't be said to be a complete victory. Compared with the loss of the navy, it can barely be regarded as a breakeven, which makes Chen Feng very dissatisfied.

In the past, Chen Feng paid more attention to the issue of establishment. He knew Lao Jiang's character very well, and he knew that the chairman who rose from hooligans was quite suspicious, and he was unwilling to provoke him if it was not necessary.If the old man really wanted to do something to you, he really wouldn't be lenient, so he would turn to the Southern Anhui incident. The old man didn't hesitate to order troops to encircle and wipe out the New Fourth Army, so Chen Feng wouldn't idle around and provoke the old man.

However, this time it was he, Chen, who was provoked, and he was greatly stimulated, so he didn't care about those, the old man could be upset if he wanted to!

However, Lao Jiang was not upset for a few days. A sudden news made everyone stop what they were doing and turned their attention to Europe-Germany launched an attack on the Soviet Union!

4月15日，在苏联严寒的冬天即将过去的时候，德军最高统帅部集中了152个师又2个旅，连同芬兰、罗马尼亚等仆从国的29个师又18个旅，共181个师又20个旅约550万人。

In order to win this battle, the German army assembled a total of about 4300 tanks, more than 47000 artillery and mortars, 4980 aircraft, and 192 ships to participate in the battle, and the logistics support personnel in the rear were even more numerous.

The German High Command organized all its forces and weapons into three army groups and three independent armies, and launched an attack on the Soviet Union in three strategic directions.The Northern Army Group is to destroy the Soviet army in the Baltic coastal area.Occupy the port, deprive the Soviet fleet of its base and prevent the Soviets from retreating eastward in order to advance towards Leningrad under strong conditions.

middle.The Central Army Group attacked in the direction of Brest and Minsk, split the strategic front of the Soviet defense, encircled and annihilated the Soviet army in Belarus, and then attacked in the direction of Smolensk, pointing directly at Moscow.

Army Group South is to attack in the direction of Kiev, capture the Soviet positions in Ukraine on the right bank of the Dnieper River in the area south of Kiev, and then attack in the direction of Donbass.

Hitler's generosity once again shocked the world, and at the same time made the Soviets tremble.More than 500 million troops were dispatched at one time.This has rarely happened throughout human history.

Hitler did have the capital of his arrogance. The German Army achieved impressive results on the first day of combat. From the beginning of the battle, the German Air Force was very active in every theater.About 1200 or 800 sorties were dispatched in a short period of time.This means that each fighter has to be dispatched multiple times a day.The Soviet Red Army lost [-] aircraft on the first day.[-] of them were destroyed before taking off.The army has plummeted even more.The so-called eastern defense line is not worth mentioning at all, and it was beaten by the German army.

The Germans benefited from the fruits of the Polish and French campaigns, after gaining air supremacy.Once again in the first phase of the offensive, launch a joint offensive with very strong forces, and then, with the support of the air force, use armored columns to strengthen the offensive where the enemy's defense is weak.

The world was shocked by the news, but almost all countries except the Soviet Union laughed.Yes, that's right, just laughed.The Soviets are indeed qualified to cry bitterly. Facing the rapid rise of the German fascist regime led by Adolf Hitler, Britain, France, the United States and other Western countries have been taking measures to protect their own interests from the German Empire, which is undergoing military expansion. What they thought was a disaster led to the Soviet Union.

When the European War was clouded, Stalin was extremely disappointed with the compromise of Britain and France. He announced the cessation of military alliance negotiations with Britain, France and other countries, and instead temporarily repaired it with the Nazi German Empire in order to gain more time to complete war preparations.

At the same time, because Germany avoided fighting on both the east and west fronts at the same time, it also sought to stabilize the Soviet Union first.In this situation, the USSR and Germany began to approach each other.Although the Soviet Union and Germany were once sworn enemies, due to political reality, they both abandoned the ideological gap that Western countries believed to be insurmountable, and signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact."

The Soviet Union placed high expectations on this treaty, mainly because the treaty included the division of the two countries' spheres of influence in Poland, the three Baltic countries, Finland and other countries in Eastern Europe.The closest relationship is the four irons, that is, they went to the window together, carried a gun, went to whoring, and shared dirty things together.

Germany and the Soviet Union carried out the industrial revolution almost at the same time, and they learned from the master of the United Kingdom together. It can be said that they are classmates, and they can barely be regarded as classmates.Let alone carrying a gun, the two countries met on the battlefield every day during World War I. Although they were enemies, whoever said that enemies could not "love" each other.Coupled with the fact that everyone carves up Poland together, and they are all thieves who share the spoils, it is conceivable that the relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany is absolutely extraordinary.

In addition, in order to stabilize the Soviet Union, Germany deliberately launched large-scale economic and political exchanges with the Soviet Union, which greatly relaxed the Soviet Union's vigilance against Germany.Who would have thought that this ally would turn his back on him as soon as he said it, which is purely dog-faced.

The most painful thing for the Soviets was the eastern line of defense they painstakingly managed. For this line of defense, the Soviet Union did not hesitate to carve up Poland with Germany, and quickly pushed Finland, Romania and other countries to their opposites. It has been widely condemned by countries all over the world. It can be said that it has sacrificed its inner and face, and the food is as ugly as it is.

However, this Eastern Line of Defense, which the Soviets placed high hopes on, played an extremely limited role in the war, and it was crumbling in just one day, which made the Soviets helpless.

The Soviets cried, but the Americans and British, as well as the Japanese and Chinese laughed.Originally Churchill was crying. When Greece was invaded by Italy, the British made a decisive move and sent about two understaffed infantry divisions to Greece to participate in the war, and also sent the navy to severely damage the Italian fleet.

But at this time the Germans took action. On January 1941, 1, 6 German planes bombarded Belgrade and the main transportation centers of Yugoslavia indiscriminately.Using Bulgaria as a sortie base, German forces quickly cut Yugoslavia off from Greece.

Before Yugoslavia had even finished mobilizing, the Germans took Skopje and Zagreb on the 8th.Italians, Hungarians and Bulgarians all flocked to join in the massacre; on the 9th Belgrade fell.

The British only had time to rescue King Peter and the Yugoslav government and bring them to England.There the king joined the growing ranks of exiled monarchs.Hitler decided to deal with Slovenia alone, setting it aside for now.The Hungarians took part of the Banat; the Italians took Dalmatia and some islands; Croatia and Montenegro were declared independent; Yugoslavia was reduced to a small piece of Serbia, which fell under German occupation.For some small countries, it is extremely unwise to resist or oppose Hitler's Germany.

After fighting Yugoslavia, the Germans did not stop. They came this time to vent their anger on their ally Italy, so the next target of the Germans was Greece, a tiny country.Although Greece defeated Italy, it even reached the territory of Italy for a time.

But this does not mean that Greece is strong, on the contrary, their strength is still extremely weak, but their enemies are too weird.The Royal Greek Air Force had only ever fought in Albania, with only fifty aircraft, but when the Germans arrived, the Greeks did not use even those fifty aircraft to their full potential.

The Germans attacked Greece from Bulgaria on the same day they attacked Yugoslavia.The Greeks in Albania did not think of retreating until three days later, but it was too late; the German army, including an armored division, had gone straight down from Monastir and outflanked their retreat.

The Greek troops were also attacked from the direction of Thessaly, and one by one they were routed and fled into the mountains, where they were ordered by their leaders to disperse. At the beginning of February, General Papgos asked the Germans for a truce; up to this point the Italians had not crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier, and the Greek rearguard never ceased partial counterattacks against them as they retreated.

But these small victories had little effect on the fate of Greece, and soon Athens was occupied and the swastika was raised at Acropolis.King George and his government fled to Cairo, and most of the Greek navy and merchant fleet took refuge in Alexandria.At this time, the British had hardly fought a battle and were struggling to retreat from Greece and the Peloponnese.Once again they were humiliated by the situation at Dunkirk, only the troops were rescued and all their equipment was lost.

After defeating Yugoslavia and Greece, the Germans still did not stop expanding, and they set their sights on Crete again.From the beginning of the war, the British had recognized the importance of Crete in controlling the western Mediterranean; they were particularly attracted by the hidden anchorage in Souda Bay on the western side of the island, which they wanted to use as a naval base, as a Scapa Flow in the Mediterranean.

But a big airborne paratrooper by German paratroopers completely shattered the dream of the British. This time, the Germans used 710 six planes, including 430 bombers, including troop transport planes capable of holding 500 people and 72 gliders. An entire airborne division consisting of three mountain infantry regiments, one armored battalion and one motorcycle battalion was dropped.

With just one such sudden move, the attacker showed his strength.Like a fifth column that descended from the sky, they penetrated into the heart of the enemy's defensive position, the defenders faced the sea, and the enemy took their rear.Facing the frenzied attack of the German army, the defenders of Crete declared that the battle was on the verge of despair, and then began to retreat, once again only withdrawing personnel, regardless of equipment. (to be continued..)