War is a stage for men, and only the bravest men can accept the baptism of war. There is no doubt that both the SS and the Red Army at this time are qualified to be called the bravest men. The battle scenes on the Eastern Front battlefield were like Shura hell, showing the world how Germany and the Soviet Union, the two countries with the strongest military power in the world, took the war to such an unprecedented level. A major battle involves millions of troops and thousands of fighter jets and tanks fighting each other. There is no doubt that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union will truly determine the future direction of the world.
The soldiers at the bottom don't know this, but this does not prevent them from being loyal to their motherland. The senior people certainly understand, so they do their best to win, looking for even a tiny opportunity to give their opponents a fatal blow. Germany, which has an overall advantage, now needs to play steadily, but if they can achieve a big enough victory, they will not mind taking one more risk. The Soviet Union was completely different. With no retreat, they had to fight for every detail to win. The battle on the southern front in Moscow is now like a microcosm of the entire Soviet-German war. The Soviet Union, which has been forced into a desperate situation, is trying its best to counterattack. However, the German Army Group Center, which is the main attack point, has become somewhat weak and its offensive is somewhat weak. .
Lin Wei was like a stingy old landowner who tried every means to squeeze out the potential of his troops. He did not hesitate to put himself in danger, but also had to supervise the battle at close range. It must be said that Lin Wei succeeded. He was surrounded on three sides. Only the SS in the northwest corner was still unblocked, and there was no need for Lin Wei to exploit their potential. As long as these soldiers were told the true situation, the soldiers would naturally fight to the death. When all these soldiers who were ready to fight to the death were transferred to the southern front by Lin Wei, the Soviet 49th Army was in trouble.
It is not sensational to suddenly collapse due to lack of strength on the battlefield. It is like two people competing for strength. At the moment when the victory is determined, you can really determine who is the winner. If you just look at the expression, it is absolutely Can't tell. What if a person is faking it? The same is true for the SS and the Red Army on the southern front. The Red Army's numbers and determination exceed those of the SS, but the equipment of the SS is much better than its opponents. For the rest of the day, the battle around Podolsk took on an even tone, with more and more troops piling up here. But when all the troops were sent to the front line, at least General Paul Hausser believed that Germany had won the battle. Don't believe those nonsense about the weak defeating the strong. In most wars, the strong defeating the weak is the mainstream. No one wants to fight the enemy with inferior equipment. Not everyone is a slut like the Japanese Army who can use Iai Slash to attack the T28.
The facts were as General Paul Hausser expected. When the two sides were evenly matched, the more well-equipped SS gradually gained the upper hand. The collapse happened in an instant, just like being knocked down in an arm wrestling match. When the Red Army soldiers could no longer hold on, the battle that was evenly matched just now became one-sided. Every minute, General Paul Hausser was paying attention to the situation on the southern front. When news of the victory came, General Paul Hausser ordered, "Destroy them so that they cannot threaten us in a short time." The defense line is enough, we still have enemies in other directions!" Admiral Paul Hausser's order was completely conveyed to the following.
Later in the evening, news of the victory on the southern front reached Lin Wei. The Kremlin's troubles were immediately put aside by Lin Wei, who immediately called back: "Pay attention to the pursuit method. The pursuit is to achieve the purpose of annihilating the enemy." Attack the retreating enemy to insert into the retreating enemy's rear, encircle, divide and annihilate or capture the enemy group. I don't need you to annihilate them, but you must cause enough chaos!"
There are generally three ways to pursue: frontal pursuit, parallel pursuit and a combination of frontal and parallel pursuit. Frontal pursuit is generally carried out when the enemy has made a planned retreat or when the strength of one's own army, especially the rapid army, is insufficient and disadvantageous, and it is impossible to clear the enemy's retreat path through resolute action. The purpose is to contain the enemy's basic strength on the front of the entire retreat, restricting its maneuvers and delaying its retreat. Parallel pursuit is a pursuit along a route parallel to the enemy's retreat. It can destroy the enemy's marching formation and prevent it from moving forward to the middle area. It also keeps the retreating enemy under the threat of flank attack. The pursuit that combines frontal and parallel pursuits is to use one force to pursue from the front. The purpose is to delay the retreat of the enemy's basic forces and prevent them from escaping, and to use the main force of the group army to carry out parallel pursuits, retreat forward, cut off the retreat road from the flanks of the group, and finally encircle and destroy the enemy.
"Does it look familiar?" Looking at the somewhat astonished Crawford, Lin Wei smiled evilly, "This is a theory that the Soviet Union has not yet formed, called the Great Deep Assault! It was proposed by Marshal Tukhachevsky. Although he was not very powerful when he commanded the army, I have to say that the theories he studied were good. Thanks to Stalin. If it hadn't been for him, Tukhachevsky had really completed the reform, and the Red Army we faced would have been Not the Red Army now!" Lin Wei said, patting Crawford on the shoulder.
Originally, Zhukov would finally complete the theory of large-depth assault and apply it to the battlefield. But now Zhukov’s life and death are unknown, and we don’t know who will be next to re-improve the theory. Although Lin Wei could only talk on paper, he did understand the theory of large-depth assaults by rote memorization, and here he gave up blitzkrieg without hesitation and used the Soviet method. This is because of the difference between a blitzkrieg and a deep assault.
The core idea of a blitzkrieg is to use armored groups to quickly conduct a deep assault to defeat the enemy when he is unprepared or before the main force is fully deployed. The main method is to concentrate large-scale high-mobility assault groups, break through the defense line, and then penetrate deep into the enemy's depth to encircle and annihilate the enemy's heavily-armed group. Suddenness and mobility are the keys to the success of a blitzkrieg. In the blitzkrieg concept, tank corps are only used for offense. They are concentrated in the first echelon to implement a breakthrough and then carry out a deep encirclement. Then, the chaos caused by breaking through the key points is used to shake the opponent's entire defense line. Therefore it does not need to take into account the infantry's movement speed.
Blitz warfare involves gathering armored corps to form an assault corps, which in turn completes the mission of breaking through enemy positions and subsequent deep combat missions. If the assault group encounters severe resistance and is consumed too much during the breakthrough stage, it will affect its subsequent deep combat capabilities. In large-depth operations, when breaking through the enemy's prepared defensive battles, tank units are usually organized into two parts: direct support tank groups and long-distance combat tank groups. The direct support tank group is mainly composed of independent tank brigades and regiments of each combined army, and is responsible for providing direct support to infantry units that break through the enemy's defenses. The long-distance combat tank group is a rapid group composed of tank corps. Perform deep assault missions after the breach is opened. After directly supporting the tank group to break through the defense line, the long-distance combat tank group is still intact. Even if the breakthrough fails, the long-distance combat tank group can launch a new assault offensive or move to a new assault direction.
Large-depth operations have high requirements on the fire support to cover and support the first echelon to open the breakthrough, as well as the speed of breaking through the defensive position and the timing of the long-distance tank group entering the breakthrough. The breakthrough group must open a breakthrough before the enemy uses its reserves to counterattack and establish a new line of defense. The long-range tank group must enter the breakthrough before the enemy's second-line troops deploy. Otherwise, repeated battles will occur on the position and subsequent combat operations will be affected. Obviously, the SS now meets these two conditions.
Lin Wei raised his wrist and looked at his watch, silently converted the time in his mind, and said, "Two hours are enough for the Southern Front troops to do what they want to do. Remember, don't destroy but chaos! The Southern Front Don't report anything to me. If you have anything, please go to General Hauser!" Indeed, the Kremlin has never disappeared from Lin Wei's eyes from the beginning to the end. The tighter the defense here, the more Lin Wei wants to hang up here. Swastika flag.
Shelling? Air raid? If these were effective, Lin Wei would have used them long ago. Almost as soon as the Kremlin was under control, Lin Wei was surprised to find that they could always show up with enough troops at the right place. Lin Wei had already suspected that the Kremlin was under control. There must be an underground network under the Kremlin that can provide them with mutual support, but Lin Wei still doesn't know where the tunnels of the Kremlin lead to? If it goes directly outside Moscow, things will be really troublesome.
The first tunnel was to capture Kremlin No. 1, a building built in the 1930s where Stalin's office was located. After the SS paid hundreds of casualties, they discovered a tunnel in Stalin's office, but the other end had been blocked. It was unknown where the tunnel led. However, although the discovery of this tunnel has cast a shadow over the operation to seize the Kremlin, there is also a good thing. Judging from the fire of the Kremlin garrison today, they are already very short of ammunition and heavy weapons. It’s basically gone. Normally, there is enough ammunition to last for a long time in the battle, but this is not the case at all in a real fight. The massive amount of ammunition can be consumed very quickly. An extreme example is the British during World War I, where the war started in three hours. The annual output during the non-mobilization period has been reduced. Apparently, the Kremlin's defenders are now encountering the same problem.
"Leader, four-fifths of the Kremlin has been occupied, and only one major building remains. Should we now announce that we have occupied the Kremlin?" Crawford asked.
"Don't worry, Crawford!" Lin Wei looked at the darkening sky and said, "It's getting late, and I'm not ready yet. There are only less than two hundred defenders left to stop them. We can't do it anymore! I would rather hang up the swastika flag on a sunny day. Now let's wait for the news from the southern line. I believe that General Paul and Hauser are ready to make us ecstatic!" Lin Wei said confidently smiled.