Chapter 884 Nibbling is better than swallowing
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There was a loud noise, and everything on the desk in the Kremlin office No. 1 was swept to the floor by Stalin's arm. The members of the Political Bureau and several of the most senior generals in the office were scared and shivered.
Pavlov and Shaposhnikov did not dare to raise their heads.
The news of the complete failure of the Battle of Gomel just came! In the night battle last night, the tank cluster commanded by General Vatutin fought hard on the plains south of the Dobrush Forest for one night, but it still ended in a crushing defeat.
The cluster commander General Vatujing himself was killed in battle, losing more than 500 tanks/strike artillery, and more than 20,000 Red Army soldiers were killed in battle, seriously injured and missing. If we count the losses of the Tank No. 1 and the Tank No. 2 Army in the previous few days of operations, the two tank troops that Stalin had high hopes for lost a total of more than 1,600 tanks/strike artillery (not all of them were combat losses, many of them were abandoned after a failure).
And the remaining parts of the two tank army that have just retreated to the left bank of Ukraine were chased and bombed by the Brege attack aircraft and the HS129 attack aircraft. In the end, even if the entire army is not wiped out, they will most likely be bombed into infantry!
In addition, a German "armored Army" heading south from Smolensk also completed the encirclement of Dobryansk this morning. The 38th, 40th and 48th Army belonging to the Bryansk Front were also surrounded.
In addition, the 5th Tank Army, which was besieged in the No. 13 collective farm, seems to be a dead end.
At this point, the victory and loss of the joint forces will be divided, and all the six armies of the Soviet Bryansk Front were surrounded or basically wiped out!
The most powerful mechanized cluster of the Soviet Red Army no longer exists! Stalin also lost the bargaining chips to bargain with the Germans in Switzerland.
The cedes of the left bank Ukraine and Eastern Belarus in exchange for peace meant political suicide for Stalin. This is the loss of Ukraine! It was the most precious grain production base in the Soviet Union, the coal mine production area, the steel industry and the machinery industry center!
If lost, the Soviet Union will never be able to become stronger, and Stalin will become a sinner of the country and nation. How can a sinner continue to rule the Soviet Union? How can the Party and the people accept the leadership of a sinner?
This is the Soviet Union (Russia)! The Russian people have always supported tyrants and opposed weak emperors!
"Give power to Molotov," after a while, Stalin murmured, "Tell him... he can give East Belarus to Germany, and... we also promise not to infringe on British India, and we can also provide 10 million tons of crude oil to Germany for free every year. In this way... Germany can defeat the United States with this oil!"
The members of the Political Bureau and the Red Army generals present sighed in their hearts. With the war to this point, how could the severance of half of Belarus be exchanged for peace?
When the Germans have finished cleaning up the main force of the Bryansk Front, Ukraine and Smolensk on the left bank may be out of protection, and Leningrad will most likely fall into a siege again, and even... even Moscow is at risk of losing!
The Soviet Union is now in a crisis of national destruction!
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"Haha, beautifully done! Now the main force of the Soviet tank corps is over!"
At this time, the chief of staff of the German Wehrmachtmann also received a joint news from Marshal Manstein and General Markens.
Although he, the god of war, was a fake, he still knew the value of this "joint battle". Now the field battle on the Soviet-German battlefield is fought by tank corps. If there is no powerful tank corps, it would be just a city with ordinary infantry. It would be impossible to maintain a continuous front line.
In original history, the German armored corps on the Soviet-German battlefield were basically at a disadvantage in number, so the Soviet army could maintain a long front and confrontation with the German army.
Now, after the battle between the junction is completely over, the three Soviet tank armies will definitely be wiped out! If we count the tanks that were lost in Belarus, Smolensk and Bryansk that belonged to the combined army, the number of tanks/strike artillery lost by the Soviet Union is likely to exceed 5,000!
In addition, the Soviet Union will soon lose Donesk, a major city in steel and coal industry, and Kharkov, a major city in machinery industry. Its ability to supplement tanks/strike cannons will be greatly reduced. The losses of these 5,000 tanks/strike cannons will probably be difficult to make up for.
In contrast, Germany, because it has most of Europe's machinery and steel industry as its backing, there is no production bottleneck at all. The only constraint is the lack of oil, but this difficulty will become smaller and smaller due to the start of the British synthetic gasoline project and the increase in Middle East oil fields.
So from now on, the German tank army will not only have an advantage in quality, but also greatly exceeds the Soviet Union in quantity!
Of course, the prerequisite for Germany to maintain the dual advantages of quality and quantity of tank troops is that the Soviet-German War will continue.
If peace negotiations can be successful soon, Germany will not have to pursue a numerical advantage.
"Heinz," Hessman smiled at Guderian, "With this victory, the initiative on the Eastern Front battlefield is completely in my hands, and glorious peace is not far away."
Goodrian just nodded, not commenting.
Hessman continued: "Our focus will also need to be transferred in the near future. Once peace is reached, the army will not need to occupy so much resources and labor. Now we should start to formulate plans to cut off the army and effectively control the newly occupied territory... Of course, disarmament does not mean that the army's combat effectiveness is greatly weakened. The Soviet Union was unwilling to fail, and we must be prepared.
Therefore, the Army's armored division and armored grenade division must be retained, and the e-50 tank plan must also be implemented to the end. In addition, before the e-50 tank is put into production, the Tiger G tank and its improved model should become the main tanks of the armored forces, and the No. 4 tank can be gradually retired from active service."
As the Tiger tank becomes more mature, the value of the existence of the No. 4 tank continues to decline. The current advantage of No. 4 is that it is relatively mobility. But if Germany wins peace on the Eastern Front, then the task of the National Defense Force on the Eastern Front will be defense in the future. Then mobility will not be as important as defense and firepower.
So Hessman is preparing to phase out No. 4 after the Soviet-German peace talks, and replace it with a Tiger G-type tank that has actually transformed into a "medium tank" (similar to the Black Panther in history, with an 88mm gun) and an e-50 tank under development.
In Hessman's view, the day to achieve peace between the Soviet Union and Germany seems to be not far away.
"Marshal of the Empire, can't we really consider restoring the Russian Empire?" Guderian couldn't help but express his thoughts, "The Soviet Union is a scourge after all. Although it is defeated by us now, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not rise again in the future."
"Soviet Russia is rising again? Haha," Hesman laughed.
A Soviet Union, which lost Ukraine, Belarus, and the three Baltic Kingdoms, is not much stronger than Russia, which was weak in later generations. If the Soviet Union emerges again, in the 1990s, some people may have said that 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was probably just a joke.
Moreover, the Soviet Union, which lost the world war in this time and space, faced a more sinister international and domestic situation. Being able to hold on for twenty years without collapse is a miracle, and I want to dream again.
Hessman shook his head and said, "The Soviet Union without Ukraine will only become weaker and weaker. How can it be revived? Moreover, our peace treaty with the Soviet Union is not always valid!"
"Isn't it always effective?" asked Guderian. "Will there be a second Soviet-German war?"
Hessman shrugged and smiled, "That's not certain! We now have Ukraine's food, coal, steel (Lviv has super large iron ore) and non-ferrous metals, and also control the oil sea in the Middle East. The next 10 years will surely be the 10 years of Germany's rapid national strength.
The Soviet Union not only lost the most precious industrial bases and grain-producing areas, but the authority of the Bolshevik Party was greatly damaged. In the next 10 years, it will be difficult for the Bolshevik Party to maintain its regime. Where can we still have the strength to build it? Ten years later, will there be a stronger German empire that united the entire Europe, and are you still afraid that it will not be able to destroy the Soviet Union? Therefore, the Bolsheviks who overthrew the Soviet Union did not have to rush for a moment. The most urgent task at the moment is to compete with the United States for leadership of the world. As long as the world obeys Germany, the Soviet Union is just a big deal that can be used to make a knife and fork at any time."
Hessman's way is to eat, eat it in one bite, digest it, and then continue. It is a bit difficult to swallow it in one bite in the Soviet Union, so it is best to eat it slowly.
Moreover, Germany is not the only opponent in the Soviet Union. There is also an America across the Atlantic Ocean. If Germany wants to start a war on two fronts, it will fight the Soviet Union while joining Japan to beat the United States. That... it is not enough oil!
The current battle between the Soviet Union and Germany has basically not left the railway line, and the fuel consumption is already so high that it makes people feel distressed. If the Soviet Union is to be destroyed, I don’t know where the battlefield will go? The fuel consumption will be even more scary at that time.
In addition, the United States is not so easy to deal with. The advantage of the German and Japanese navies is just a time difference, and temporarily suppressing the US Navy before the US "dumpling ship" was launched.
However, the "dumplings" are coming in the end! Germany has been prepared for this. Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and even the British local shipyards are now rushing to build ships.
Chapter completed!