The American battlefield was raging, and the Soviet-German battlefield was also experiencing sudden changes.
As early as the 20th, the Soviet army had sent reinforcements to the Western Front and Southwestern Front respectively, and assembled troops in the Vologda, Shcherbakov and Kalyazin areas northeast of Moscow.
At the same time, the Soviet Supreme High Command strengthened the strength of the Volkhov Front, Bryansk Front, and Voronezh Front as strategic reserves, and reorganized the Karelian Front and Leninger Front that were abolished due to the collapse of the organic system.
Lech Front, Stalingrad Front, Southern Front and Caucasus Front.
In late June, as weapons, equipment and strategic material resources continued to be delivered to the front line, the Soviet army's counterattack preparations were basically ready. On the 28th, under careful arrangements, Soviet Air Force fighters and bombers flew in batches from northern Moscow
Field airports in various cities took off one after another. When the first batch of fighter planes flew over the German positions, the ground was still hazy, and the sudden sound of air raid sirens disturbed the Germans' dreams.
Facing countless Soviet fighter planes, while arranging air defense, German commanders at all levels had to seize the time to evacuate their troops and take shelter in nearby air raid shelters.
Within a short period of time, the German anti-aircraft artillery fire deployed on the position began to fire into the air. However, due to the hasty preparation time, the anti-air firepower appeared disorganized and could not form a tight fire blockade network. This allowed the Soviet bomber group to
Carry out low-altitude bombing more calmly.
At this time, the main combat direction of the German army was to violently attack the Soviet defense line from the Protva River southwest of Moscow to the Moskva River from the center. The German Air Force was also mainly deployed in this direction.
Therefore, the German Air Force did not immediately counterattack when the northern region was suddenly attacked by the Soviet Air Force.
Amidst the ear-piercing roar, more than 4,000 fighter jets of the Soviet Air Force flew majestically over the wilderness of the Eastern European plains, followed closely by more than 2,000 bombers of various types. Such a large fleet was the Soviet Air Force's
The largest strategic decisive force in history.
The Soviets placed as many large orders as they wanted, and wiped out South China's arms inventory in one fell swoop.
Not to mention the large amount of Soviet-style individual equipment, the Anjia Army captured a large number of Soviet-style weapons in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran, but they never had time to deal with them, and now they have all been sold out in one go.
The low-cost mosquito foreign trade model G1, the A26 foreign trade model G2, and the A27 foreign trade model G3 are now open for supply. Among them, the mosquito is divided into three types: fighter, bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. It can be said to be a universal model.
There are also more than 3,000 fighter jets that were converted from the Anjiajun Air Force and are limited to pre-A28 types, and have become the targets of the Soviets. Because the pilots of the Anjiajun have maintained them properly, these once-mothballed fighter jets appear to be
Brand new, equipped with a full set of electronic equipment, it can go into battle with a full tank of fuel, but due to depreciation, the price is only half of that of a new fighter, which made Soviet purchasers ecstatic.
The rookie pilots of the Soviet Air Force who were airlifted from the Soviet Union and simply received short-term flight training happily drove these new toys back to the Soviet Union, and then conducted a week of assault flight training, which lasted forty or fifty hours.
After accumulating flying skills, they are sent to the front line. Let these newbies in the air grow up in the flames of war.
The German army deployed a total of more than 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of various types and calibers on the long front from Lake Onega in the north to the city of Kalinin in the south, a considerable number of which were also purchased from Nanhua.
These include anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns that the Germans lost in the West Asian battlefields, as well as some 88mm anti-aircraft guns manufactured by Nanhua's military industrial enterprises based on German metallurgy and gun casting technology.
Even though there are so many anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, there are not many evenly distributed on the front line of thousands of kilometers. In front of the staggering number of Soviet aircraft groups, the German air defense firepower seems so weak and seemingly dense.
The net could not stop the Soviet bombers from raining bombs on the German defenses.
Behind the front line of the confrontation between the two sides, the Soviet armored group, which purchased a large number of Leopard I tanks and foreign trade Hound tanks, was patiently waiting for its own strike fleet to weaken as many breakthroughs as possible in the long German defense line.
Click, there will be a key node to open the battle.
Groups of Soviet fighter jets and bombers operating in two- and three-plane formations were constantly swooping down from high altitudes, looking for all German targets to attack, destroying the German defense lines that were already riddled with holes over and over again.
There were more and more Soviet fighter planes, and accordingly the black smoke exploded by the German army in the air became more and more dense. After continuous air-to-ground battles, the blue sky was almost wiped out of its original color by black smoke clouds, and there were constant bombardments.
The bombed fighter plane fell like an eagle with broken wings, and the few parachutes were quickly used as moving targets by the vengeful Germans.
"Attention, there are three enemy planes rushing towards us in the eastern sky! No, there are also ones from the north..."
On a German air defense position equipped with twelve 88mm anti-aircraft guns and sixteen high-level and low-level dual-purpose machine guns, the sweating German air defense commander roared loudly and constantly allocated anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to adjust their directions.
and strafed the bombers that were swooping over.
Since the entire sky was occupied by Soviet Air Force fighter planes, various German air defense positions were unable to estimate the position and distance of these Soviet aircraft groups that could roar at any time. Under the command of grassroots commanders, German gunners wearing helmets
They struggled to turn the cranks and constantly adjust the shooting elements, while the anti-aircraft machine guns were wildly aiming at the air and shooting, trying to drive away the Soviet fighter planes with a dense firepower network.
Although the gun positions and firing positions of all air defense positions are covered with green, yellow, and brown camouflage nets, the muzzle flames ejected have already exposed these air defense positions.
Above this air defense position that was under attack, although two Soviet bombers were shot down, the remaining four bombers successfully broke through the fire net and dropped bombs. Huge explosions were heard one after another. Every mosquito bomber
Both were equipped with two 500-kilogram-class aerial bombs, and the four bombers dropped eight bombs in an instant. The air defense position with a radius of more than 200 square meters was enveloped in a fire and smoke from the explosion, and the air defense position instantly went silent.
The Soviet fighter jets also devoted themselves to the ground attack without fear of death. On the unprotected German anti-aircraft gun emplacements, anti-aircraft soldiers were constantly being swept to the ground by machine gun bullets and aircraft machine gun bullets. The Germans were killed and wounded.
Tragic, corpses everywhere!
Completely suppressing the German anti-aircraft firepower and destroying all the carefully constructed positions of the Germans, it still seemed that the Soviet pilots were not satisfied. They carried out fierce assaults deep into the German defense lines and dived from high altitudes from time to time.
Next, they strafed the German troops trying to support the front line, and sometimes climbed to an altitude of seven or eight thousand meters at high speed to observe the situation on the battlefield, especially to prepare for the German fighter groups that might appear at any time.
Around ten o'clock in the morning, more than 800 bf109k fighter jets of the German Air Force taking off from airports in Leningrad, Smolensk, Bryansk and other places hurriedly arrived over the battlefield.
The German BF109K fighter has a maximum flight speed of 686 kilometers per hour. It is equipped with a 30mm cannon and two 13mm aviation machine guns. Its performance is ahead of the old Soviet fighters. However, when a tiger encounters a wolf pack, a BF109K is often attacked by four
After being surrounded by five fighter planes, the German pilots achieved a record of shooting down more than 900 fighter planes, and many surviving pilots became aces after this battle. However, they also lost more than 300 planes, and had to fight after the ammunition was exhausted.
Withdrew from the battlefield in embarrassment.
Seeing that the sky was firmly occupied by their own fighter planes, the morale of the Soviet army was greatly boosted.
At 12:30 noon, after an hour-long artillery fire coverage, more than 4,000 Soviet tanks rushed towards the German positions in dense numbers.
Under the command of Marshal Zhukov, the Soviet army selected Kalinin and the Chikheven Canal in the north as the main direction of attack. The Soviet Air Force's fighter planes focused on attacking the German positions in these two places, dropping at least five to six thousand tons on the heads of the Germans.
Bomb. Almost every inch of the land was taken care of.
In front of the German position, T34 medium tanks and KV heavy tanks manufactured by the Soviets, as well as Hound tanks purchased from Nanhua, were gathered together to form assault arrows, guiding the infantry to attack the German position.
What shocked the German army was that a tank they had never seen before appeared in the Soviet offensive line. This tank was extremely large and immune to any kind of German artillery, even the 88mm gun.
There is no way to stop them from advancing slowly and steadily towards the German positions, especially its huge gun barrel, which has a caliber of over 120 mm. No tank can stop them from firing, and no fortifications or bunkers can stop them from carrying armor-piercing projectiles.
Under the blow, it was reduced to ashes.
It was not until more than a month later that the German army learned through intelligence that this was the IS2 heavy tank secretly developed by the Soviets, and its performance was equivalent to the German Tiger tank.
Looking from the air to the ground, the entire front was filled with fire and gunpowder smoke. The embankment built by the Germans finally collapsed in the face of the tidal wave of Soviet attacks.
During the summer offensive that lasted for more than a month, the Soviet Kalinin Front regained the city of Kalinin, and in the subsequent battles, they successfully advanced the front line from Lake Ilmin to Erzhev, liberating the Pola River and the Volga.
A large area of land east of the river. The Soviet Northwest Front advanced along both sides of the Rybinsk Reservoir in the direction of Leningrad. Before the end of the summer offensive, it successfully advanced the front to Lake Onega - the Sver River - Volruf
The front line of the river is connected with the defense line of the Kalinin Front and threatens the security of Leningrad occupied by the German army.
The Soviet army's unexpected attack disrupted Hitler's military deployment. Although at this time he did not realize that the northwest area of Moscow would suffer consecutive defeats in the next more than a month, and would have to demolish the east wall to repair the west wall.
To replenish the losses on the front line, but with an extremely keen sense of smell, Hitler sent a telegram to Heydrich and Zhong Lei, who were stranded in Kulen, the capital of Mongolia, on the second day after the Soviet Red Army launched its summer offensive.
to strive for peace and prevent the German army from fighting on multiple fronts at the same time.
After Zhong Lei received the mission five days ago, in order to avoid suspicion, he invited Heydrich to visit South China with him.
As the second deputy head of state of Nazi Germany and in charge of the SS and the secret police, Heydrich was also worried about the current chaotic situation and wanted to leave the domestic circle and see the situation clearly from the outside. Heydrich was telling Hitler
After the report, Hitler agreed to Heydrich's request for a visit.
Heydrich asked Zhong Lei if there was any way to meet An Yi directly. Zhong Lei said that he had served as a confidential adviser to Yin Jinan for a year, and had studied together with his old boss at the Berlin Military Academy for three years, and they had a deep relationship.
, maybe you can ask Yin Jinan for help.
Heydrich was overjoyed. When Yin Jinan served as the military attaché of the Nationalist Government's Embassy in Berlin, he had a close relationship with Hitler and other senior Nazi Party officials. There was mutual favor and incest between them, so the two hit it off and called Yin Jinan through the diplomatic department.
, immediately take a special plane to Cullen.
The two arrived in Kulun and were cordially received by Yin Jinan, who was temporarily in charge of the military and political affairs of South China, Mongolia, Far East, Northeast and the Han Peninsula. After a cordial meeting and exchange, the two finally explained their purpose of coming.
Yin Jinan said that he was busy with work and could not leave for the time being. He would only be free to leave for Chang'an on June 30 to attend the Army Day celebration ceremony on July 1.
Under this circumstance, accompanied by the staff arranged by Yin Jinan, the two visited the economic construction situation in various parts of Mongolia and were amazed at the rapid changes in Mongolia.
In more than five years since the end of 1937, Mongolia has gone from a poor industrial desert to an annual production of 50 million tons of coal, 4 million tons of steel, and 300,000 tons of copper. It can also produce aircraft, artillery and tanks.
, almost completely replicating the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan in Mongolia, which is amazing.
Mongolia is currently undergoing detailed geological exploration work. Once completed, a huge north-south water diversion project will be implemented in the future. By then, the desert will be turned into an oasis, and Mongolia's development will be even faster.
After receiving Hitler's telegram, the two did not dare to delay and made another request to Yin Jinan. This time Yin Jinan readily agreed and decided to take a special plane to Chang'an that afternoon.
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