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Chapter 1,235: The Soviet-German War breaks out

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    After learning that Jun Tada was transferred from the North China Front, Li Guoyao fell silent!

    Li Guoyao still has a very high opinion of Jun Tada.

    "Tada Shun has an average reputation among the thousands of Japanese generals who invaded China, and his commanding ability is not very strong. Overall, he cannot be regarded as a first-rate commander.

    This can be seen from the number of times it was mentioned in later generations, whether it is in the "Dictionary of Japanese Army Generals" or the "Dictionary of Historical Materials and Information on Modern Japanese Figures".

    Even in the National Diet Library of Japan, which has a collection of more than 40 million books, there are only 7 volumes of introductions to Tada Shun, while there are as many as 157 volumes of introductions to Ishihara Kanji, his descendant, at the same time. It can be seen that Tada Jun  In fact, it was not taken seriously either during life or after death.

    But this man is the most unique being in the entire Japanese Army. Many of his ideas are incompatible with his identity as an invader!

    From a historical perspective, Tada Shun can certainly not escape the historical limitations and self-restraints of being a member of the militarists and an old soldier who safeguarded Japan's aggressive interests. In real history, Tada Shun is still an important member of the war criminals.  Serving Japan's strategy of invading China and national interests objectively speaking, it does not get rid of the reactionary nature of the Japanese imperial soldiers and their militaristic nature.

    ¡°Especially between the time when he was stationed in Dalian as the Kwantung Army in 1906 and when he returned to China, he committed many crimes of aggression, for which he cannot be excused.

    ¡°But Shun Tada is opposed to being too cruel to China, and at the same time advocates reconciliation between Japan and China. He has a kind of common people¡¯s feelings, which is worthy of recognition.

    Moreover, from the perspective of judging the overall situation, Shun Tada was worried about the Japanese government and the Army Ministry clamoring to expand the war, he was anxious about the military department going to extremes in the later period, and he was disheartened about the decline of the war, all of which reflected the attitude he had developed since childhood.  He has a compassionate character for the common people, and subconsciously holds a trace of awe and sympathy for China.

    Tada Shun's thoughts and understanding are absolutely surprising in the current environment and are not understood. That's why he is often ostracized in the military and has no trustworthy allies in politics. He is  Substitution is indeed a matter of course.

    However, the waves caused by Shun Tada's departure were soon replaced by more exciting news, because the Soviet-German war broke out!

    At 3 a.m. on June 22, 1941, the German army broke into the Soviet Union in three groups.

    Although the Soviet Union obtained information about the possible outbreak of war from multiple channels before the war, much of the information was contradictory and the information on the specific time of the invasion was very different. The Soviet government did not know the specific time of the German invasion, and even did not know the specific time of the German invasion.  It was unknown whether Germany would invade the Soviet Union.

    Only the day before the war began, the Soviet Supreme Command knew the specific time of the German attack, but it was too late.

    In this battle, the German side assembled 3 army groups and 190 fully equipped infantry divisions, each with about 14,000 to 16,000 men, totaling 5.5 million men.

    ¡° However, there are only 153 infantry divisions with more than 3.8 million people that really belong to the German army. The remaining 37 infantry divisions are the armies of slave countries, including troops recruited from Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and some occupied areas.

    Although the Soviet spy Sorge had already received advance news from Japan that the German army would attack the Soviet Union in late May 1941, the Kremlin still tended to believe that this was a plan to drive a wedge between Britain and the United States, aiming to provoke a war between the Soviet Union and Germany.  war between.

    Therefore, no political measures have been taken to prepare for war. The Soviet Union¡¯s armament plan is still in accordance with the timetable established in 1940, that is, it is expected that the Red Army will not be basically completed until 1942.

    Therefore, this war was sudden for the Soviet Union. In addition, most of the Soviet Union's five western border military districts were in a state of reorganization and formation. Although it seemed that there were a total of 170 divisions and 2 brigades, all the Soviet Union  The division-level troops are not full of personnel and the equipment is not fully distributed.

    ??Among them, 144 divisions have only 8,000 people, 19 divisions have only 600-5,000 people, and 7 cavalry divisions have 6,000 people. Together with the reserve troops who are still training, the total strength is only about half of the Germans.

    So when the war started, the Soviet Union fell into an extremely passive situation. On the first day of the battle, the Soviet Air Force lost 1,200 aircraft, 800 of which were bombed before taking off.

    At the same time, a large number of Soviet border strongholds were quickly surrounded by German troops, and the Red Army border defenders fell into desperate resistance alone.

    The biggest shock that the raid brought to the Soviet Red Army was not the time of the raid, but the large number and close cooperation of German troops attacking Soviet territory at the same time.

    The German offensive also ignited the independence movements in many Soviet occupied countries. On June 22, 1941, LithuaniaAnti-Soviet riots and a declaration of independence were issued the next day, with approximately 30,000 Lithuanians joining the ranks.

    As the German offensive to the north progressed, the rebellion also spread to Estonia.

    In just 18 days, the German army advanced 600 kilometers into the Soviet Union.

    On the Northern Front, within two weeks, the Soviet Red Army retreated 400-450 kilometers, abandoning the entire Baltic Sea coastal area. 24 divisions of the Soviet Red Army were completely defeated, and 20 divisions lost 60% of their personnel and equipment. The German Army Group North soon reached Lenin  Below the city of Gullah.

    And some areas in the three Baltic countries and Western Ukraine were dissatisfied with Soviet policies, causing local nationalists to take advantage of the opportunity of the German offensive to take violent actions to assist the German army.

    The central front was the focus of the German assault. The German army completed the encirclement of the Western Military District of the Soviet Union through a double-pincer offensive. Minsk, the capital of Belarus, fell. The Soviet Red Army retreated 350 kilometers, 30 divisions were annihilated, and 70 divisions lost more than 50% of their troops.  personnel.

    Subsequently, the German Army Group Center launched a second pincer offensive in the Smolensk area. As the Soviet Red Army effectively organized defense, the German army made slow progress.  However, after two months of battle, the German army still completed the encirclement and annihilated 300,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers.

    The war situation in the southwest is also worrying. Although the Ukrainian military region has the strongest numerical combat effectiveness, the Soviet Union's poor officer education and command efficiency have hindered the Soviet army's combat readiness.

    Even in 1945, when the Soviet army was at its strongest, 142 of the 2,952 Soviet generals still did not receive any military education.  Including even 2 generals, there are 33 generals who have not even served for 5 years. This problem was just as serious before the war.

    Even senior Soviet officials publicly stated: We do not have highly qualified staff staff and therefore do not have a coordinated and effective headquarters, and our officers are culturally unable to adapt to the needs of war.

    Officers with low command levels are simply unable to adapt to modern warfare, and they retain some of their backward tactical ideas.  In 1941, which was already the age of mechanization, the Soviet army also revoked the independent operations of the mechanized army in its instructions.

    Even after the war broke out, Budyonny hastily organized 30 cavalry divisions, dreaming of defeating the fascists through light cavalry raids like the Napoleonic Wars.

    What¡¯s even worse is that in the face of the German invasion, the Soviet Union launched counterattacks from all directions without much preparation.

    Under this circumstance, Ukraine¡¯s Southwest Front Army also had to use a motorized force with insufficient training and equipment to fight against the steel torrent of the German army.

    On June 24, Major General Kondrushev, commander of the 22nd Motorized Corps, was killed in the first counterattack. His troops were repulsed by the Germans after 36 hours of fierce fighting.

    ?????????????????????????In this battle, the German general Heinrich?  Guderian said those domineering words: "I don't have time to capture you! You have to put down your weapons and get off the road so as not to block the road."

    On the 26th, four understrength motorized corps launched an attack before the infantry corps was in place.  When the officers were unable to effectively coordinate the infantry and tanks, they crashed in front of the German First Armored Group.

    Afterwards, the 8th Motorized Corps was encircled and torn to pieces in Dubno, the 19th Motorized Corps was also pushed back to Rivno, and the 9th Motorized Corps was forced to retreat after holding on for two days.

    In just one week, the three armies of the Southwest Front suffered heavy losses under the strong and rapid German attack and had to retreat in an all-round way.  The German Army Group South marched straight in, aiming directly at Kiev.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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