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In addition to annihilating the number of enemies, the German army also recaptured Kharkov in the Battle of Kharkov and took advantage of the victory to capture Kursk, the world's largest iron mine, and Orel, the southern gate of Moscow. The road to the Soviet capital Moscow was
After this, the 6th Army moved north to capture Rostov and effectively ensured the security of the flanks of the German Army Group South. Under this situation, no matter how much Mustache himself objected, seeing that the generals of the Wehrmacht were all eager to try, they
They had no choice but to agree to march to Moscow.
However, at this critical moment, the weakness of the German army's continuous combat capability was once again exposed. Manstein's Southern Army Group took too long to repair after the victory of the two major battles, resulting in Guderian's Central Army Group, which was responsible for the main attack on Moscow.
Nor dared to go deep alone. This gave the Soviet Union enough
They had time to gather forces to defend the capital, and even had time to build three lines of defense outside Moscow. Although the field fortifications had relatively poor defensive capabilities, they could weaken the effect of cloud explosions. In the eyes of the Soviet top brass who had already had a psychological shadow on them, this was very
It may become the key to winning the battle to defend Moscow.
However, the cleverness of the German army's use of cloud explosions exceeded the expectations of the Soviets. It is true that the damage radius of cloud explosions is slightly worse than that of ordinary melons on a relatively open field battlefield, but the absolute damage radius is far from the latter.
Because grenades mainly rely on splashing fragments to kill enemies, there will always be people who are lucky to escape, while cloud explosions use high temperature, high pressure and suffocation without blind spots to kill, even if they do not die, all enemies within its killing range will be killed.
They will also fall into a coma and lose the ability to fight back.
In other words, if the artillery group uses high-explosive grenades to cover the enemy position with firepower, the killing efficiency of the single-shot artillery may be higher. But it is almost impossible to kill all the enemies in the area covered by the artillery fire, and as long as there are still people on the position,
If a few people survive, they can more or less block the subsequent infantry attack. If the troops in the rear are fast enough,
Fast, it is entirely possible to provide timely reinforcements to the position. This is why the attack failed, and positional warfare can easily turn into a see-saw. It is precisely because of this that many experienced generals rely heavily on firepower in the face of the enemy's superiority.
At times, troops are often deployed in a "light in the front and heavy in the rear" manner to reduce casualties under the sudden attack of enemy artillery fire.
However, the emergence of cloud burst has changed this situation. Although its killing effect will be greatly reduced when used in the wild, it is still easy to use it to tear a hole in the enemy's position, because the enemies in the attacked area are all
destroy, make
The German mobile troops were able to rush into the gap before the enemy's reinforcements at a super-high speed that was close to marching, thereby disintegrating the Soviet defense system and forming a double-team on the Soviet troops on the flanks. If they retreated slowly,
The German army could even make a few dumplings
Under the tactical advantage generated by the cloud explosion, the defensive positions that the Soviet army thought were very strong were lost one after another, and the number of casualties continued to increase. However, just when Guderian, the commander of the German Army Group Center, was looking forward to rushing into Moscow to start a massacre, the German army
It was hard to save up before
The incoming cloudbursts have been almost exhausted. Although the rear is working hard to produce and continuously transport them to the front line, due to limited production capacity (the production of cloudbursts conflicts with the crucial synthetic rubber and also consumes oil) and insufficient transportation capacity, the German army
It is difficult to maintain the same high dosage as before.
At this time, the Soviet commander Zhukov also found a way to deal with the German tactics, "Flanking attacks are impossible to break, but the German fascists are also afraid of flanking attacks. They have cloud explosions to break through positions, and our Red Army also has them.
And more, better!”
After Stalin gritted his teeth and agreed to put into use a large number of cloudbursts bought at a large price, Guderian was also at a loss what to do and was soon forced to return all the previously captured positions to the Soviet Red Army. However, due to the German army's
The tactics are not as rigid as the Soviet army. When the situation becomes unfavorable, their retreat is much more decisive than that of the Soviet army when they attacked before. Therefore, they are less likely to be surrounded and annihilated, and their losses are relatively small.[
At this time, Manstein, who was not involved in the war because he was responsible for the cover, took the lead in seizing the key to victory in the Moscow battle - "air supremacy" because of the clear knowledge of bystanders. "As long as the Soviet aircraft cannot take off, their clouds will
If it explodes, it cannot be thrown down, and the artillery group is also just the prey of our bombers."
Mustache immediately asked Goering to send as many planes and outstanding pilots to the front line as possible, and to maximize the limited transportation capacity towards aviation gasoline. However, Stalin also saw the significance of air supremacy. In order to defend Moscow, he was even willing to
Taking the risk of another large-scale bombing of Baku, which currently provides almost all of the Soviet Union’s oil production, he personally ordered the elite air force of the Caucasus Military District to be
Rui was urgently transferred to the Moscow area, while the U.S. transport fleet also shuttled back and forth on the Arctic Ocean routes, transporting barrels of precious aviation gasoline thousands of miles to the Soviet Union regardless of the cost. The decision-makers of the two camps had the same judgment and full investment.
, making the Battle of Moscow not only a tragic land battle like in history, but also a super large air battle that was called the "Ace of the Aces" by later historians.
During the Battle of Moscow, in addition to the ace pilots of the German HNA, most of the air force aces of the two countries participated in the battle. Even Pokryshkin, who was strictly ordered by Stalin not to take to the air to fight in person, was killed due to the tremendous air defense pressure.
He went into battle many times against orders (Note 1), and was even shot down by the enemy once.
Fortunately, he parachuted and landed on his own position, otherwise Pokryshkin, who preferred to die as a prisoner, would have sacrificed his life for the country. When Stalin learned about this, he was furious. Not only did Pokryshkin have his rank reduced, but he also had himself
A security guard was sent over to keep an eye on him, and Pokryshkin completely lost the opportunity to fly the aircraft in person.
Although he was shot down once, Pokryshkin's performance was still worthy of the title of the world's top air combat ace. He shot down 19 enemy aircraft in 15 battles and killed (killed or captured by Soviet ground troops) 6 (if counted)
Only 9 people successfully parachuted to escape.) The astonishing achievements of the German ace pilots made his reputation as the "Ace Killer" fly out of the Soviet Union and spread throughout the world.
Note 1: Due to the more tense war situation in the Soviet Union in this time and space, those ace pilots could not retreat to the rear to train rookies as they had in history, but often had to continue to fight on the front line, which resulted in most of them not surviving.
The war is over, but another
On the other hand, the record number of Soviet pilots' number of kills is much higher than in history. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote at Qidian (qn), monthly vote, your support is my biggest
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