A week has passed since the end of the Second Kharkov War, and the Soviet and German armies have basically determined each other's new defense lines.
Currently, the Soviet army is building a field defense line an average of fifty kilometers away from the Oskol River. In the initial German attack, the Soviet army consumed a lot of manpower and material resources and defeated any German breakthrough attempts. The key point is North Donne.
Sksk, the city is still firmly in the hands of the Soviet army, but its strategic value is rapidly decreasing.
This is a city stained with blood. The German infantry could not capture it, so its air force used it as a target to vent its dissatisfaction. The city was bombed indiscriminately, and tens of thousands of civilians died. The injured deputy commander of the Southwest Front, Kosjian
During the bombing that lasted for many days, Ke finally fulfilled his belief - to live and die with the city.
The new time and space did not give this general more luck. He was actually lucky enough to lead the soldiers and civilians of Severodonesk to defend the city. He died like a hero, and his death in battle was a great blessing to the southwest, which was facing huge military pressure.
The front army suffered huge losses and their morale was severely damaged.
Timoshenko clearly realized that the Soviet army was able to block the German army. Although his own desperate defense played a certain role, the enemy's lack of offensive stamina was the reason why the enemy stopped attacking. Now is the dangerous interwar period, and the enemy
While they are polishing their swords and gathering strength, have the Soviet army's shields been forged?
The war situation did not make the marshal optimistic at all.
This is a strategist with a big-picture view!
The Soviet intelligence network spread across Europe, and even had their tentacles in the Far East. The Soviet authorities already knew the details of the great battle between Japan and the United States in the Pacific, and also knew the truth about the Soviet Union's defeat in Kharkov and the United States.
Reflected. The reaction of the United States pleased the Supreme Soviet, because from the standpoint of the United States, if the Soviet Union was defeated, Germany and Japan would attack the United States from both sides, which would be a disaster for the United States. With this attitude of the United States, large-scale strategic assistance would not be
Then there is the matter of time.
The Soviet Union is most concerned about the crisis at hand. Intelligence agencies stationed in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and even Sweden have mastered some important intelligence. This intelligence shows that the German army is increasing its troops on the Eastern Front. New troops are moving from Germany to Ukraine.
Assembling some new weapons and equipment, railway transportation has also begun.
Spies even claimed that they learned that the Porsche factory in Germany was producing a powerful land warfare weapon.
This is exactly the tiger.
As history develops, the design concept of the Tiger tank can be traced back to 1940, the days before Yang Mingzhi traveled through time. Historical trends cannot be fundamentally rewritten by a small butterfly in an instant. If Yang Mingzhi is really
What role it played was to speed up the manufacturing and fielding of Tiger tanks.
At the outbreak of the war, the disastrous defeat of the German 7th Armored Division shocked the Germans. They saw the power of individual rocket-propelled grenade weapons. This powerful and simple-to-operate anti-tank weapon was quickly captured by the Germans.
Get imitations.
In the subsequent battles, both the Soviet Union and Germany used this weapon, winning and losing each other, and also found ways to restrain this weapon. For example, welding fence nets on existing tanks, or placing some debris,
Even wood blocks. Or alloy materials that increase the armor thickness and armor, that is, nickel-chromium alloy steel armor.
The effective range of super-caliber rocket-propelled grenades is not far, and the Soviet army has never used this weapon intensively. The anti-tank pressure faced by the German army mainly comes from anti-tank guns and the Soviet T3476 medium tank.
Today, the T3476 tank, as the mainstay of the Soviet army, has slightly surpassed the German Panzer IV tank in terms of combat performance. The reason for this result lies in the Soviet army's 76mm tank gun and their shells.
As early as the end of 1941, the German army found the magic weapon to counteract this kind of tank-the 88mm anti-aircraft gun.
This kind of anti-aircraft gun with an extremely high rate of fire is bound to be fatal if it hits an enemy aircraft. In the later stages of the failed Moscow offensive, the retreating German officers and soldiers had to use various artillery to shoot at the counterattacking Soviet troops. Among them, this kind of anti-aircraft gun
The performance shocked the Germans because every Soviet tank hit by it turned into a magnificent fireball.
The German army needs a tank with strong protection and powerful firepower. Now, the German army has already had the site and engine for such a tank. Now it has also found the appropriate artillery!
As early as early 1942, the Tiger tank was officially put into service.
The "Tiger" in this plane not only has the famous 88mm anti-aircraft gun and a box-like chassis, but also has a steel fence added in line with the times. For the sake of appearance, a layer of iron wood is covered on the fence. The military industry paints it
Wearing autumn camouflage and the iconic Iron Cross.
The Tiger is fatter, and its tonnage is as high as 57 tons! In this era, Germany was still unable to produce the over 1,400-horsepower engine that drove the Leopard 2 tank in later generations. Therefore, the Tiger's maneuverability was not as good as that of the No. 4, and its turret was just as heavy and did not rotate quickly.
, fortunately it is powerful!
Just on Hitler's birthday in April 1942, an independent heavy tank battalion was formed, a powerful force that mixed Tigers and Panzer IVs.
This unit is still in the experimental stage. They stayed in Germany and did not participate in the Battle of Kharkov at the end of May. However, in a series of tests, they showed strong combat effectiveness, which made the German army believe that once such tanks become large-scale
With large-scale installation, quantitative changes will turn into qualitative changes!
Hitler firmly believed in the Blitzkrieg and also looked forward to the tiger.
Throughout the first half of 1942, Hitler was very disappointed with the war situation. The German army failed to continue to expand its results and was counterattacked by the Russians. There were many reasons for this. In the meeting of the Supreme Command in Wolfsburg, many generals reached an agreement.
How to defeat the Soviet Union and attack Moscow is already an impossible task. Marching into Southern Russia has almost become the only possibility to defeat the Soviet Union.
The Kharkov Offensive Battle took place under such conditions. After this battle, the Soviet army's poor performance made Hitler, who was once nervous, and even many generals rekindle hope in quickly defeating the Soviet Union! Especially this
Paulus, a German general with a mysophobia, immediately became a popular figure around Hitler.
The German army has stopped attacking to the east. The German Sixth Army is confronting the Soviet Southwest Front in the eastern Donbass area. At the same time, the German army has also strengthened its attack on the southern front. The ultimate goal of its attack is to occupy the entire Crimea.
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The combined comprehensive strength of the Southern Front Army and the Crimean Front Army is not as good as that of the Southwest Front Army, so their continued defeat is logical.
The German armored forces are moving towards the Crimea. Today's German armored forces, the main tank is the improved version of the Panzer IV. These Panzer IV tanks with thickened frontal armor are already immune to long-distance fire from various Soviet anti-tank guns.
The 45mm anti-tank gun with the most equipment in the Soviet army could only penetrate the Panzer IV's armor within 200 meters.
The German army not only continued to use Gustav train guns to bombard the Soviet army's powerful coastal forts and important targets, but also widely used Karl mortars that could fire two-ton heavy shells. Under the bombardment of these crazy weapons, the Soviet army
After losing the Sarpen Mountain defense line, a large number of troops retreated to Savastopol and the Kerch Peninsula, and relied on the naval guns of the Black Sea Fleet to stabilize the war situation.
During this period, the heroic female sniper Pavlyuchenko was forced to evacuate from Sevastopol on a submarine. The Soviet authorities had lost confidence in holding Crimea. All the local Soviet troops could do was to protect young and old people and
Before evacuating the wounded, try to defend as much as possible!