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Text Chapter 94 The reason why the Soviets bowed their heads

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    It¡¯s okay to criticize, but the war situation in the west has made General Abana Shenk unwilling to go to his superiors, that is, the Soviet commander-in-chief, to sue the Soviet Chief of Ordnance. His short-sightedness has caused huge harm to the Red Army in the battle.  , the same harsh reality faced on the battlefield left the Soviets with no time to care about the previous unpleasant events in Outer Mongolia.

    The Soviets were quite satisfied with the power and versatility of these weapons designed and manufactured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the battles launched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, especially as they could be used as both infantry support weapons and anti-tank weapons.  The powerful recoilless gun made it even more inevitable for the Soviet Union to win.

    After some intrigues and verbal battles, Yang Zhen agreed to use the already produced and stockpiled 1,000 57mm recoilless rifles, 200 23mm twin anti-aircraft guns and design drawings, plus 2,500  One hundred rocket launchers were exchanged from the Soviets for the finished products of 220 M30122 howitzers and 500 ZLS III 76mm cannons, as well as a complete set of drawings and production technology.

    At the same time, Yang Zhen agreed to transfer to the Soviet Union one hundred P-39 fighter jets that had been purchased at a low price by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and were now in reserve, in exchange for the production technology of the IL-2 attack aircraft, and in exchange for the two million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange that the Soviets urgently needed.  In addition, two thousand American-made trucks in stock were transferred to the Soviet Union in exchange for production technology and a complete set of blueprints for the Soviet T-34 tanks, as well as one hundred brand-new tanks.

    Through this transaction, the Soviets also promised not to pursue any further pursuit of this matter, and the Anti-Japanese Alliance agreed to provide the Soviets with an extremely limited amount of equipment in exchange for not pursuing the matter.  It provides six imitation American radars that are imitations of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and have been improved. Compared with the original American products, the performance is greatly improved, the detection accuracy is higher, and the range is farther, for use in the air defense of big cities such as Moscow and Leningrad.

    Yang Zhen even agreed to the Anti-League to provide radar products to the Soviet Union at a ratio of 40 to 6 during radar production in exchange for the latest Soviet production technology in aviation. During the war, he used grain and meat products as payment methods to repay previous debts.  debt to the Soviet Union to alleviate the food shortage problem faced by the Soviets after the loss of Ukrainian grain-producing areas.

    Although this was a relatively fair deal, and the Soviets received the latest anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons technology from the Resistance Alliance, it was obvious that the Soviets still felt that they had suffered a loss, especially when they believed that they were in a difficult situation.  , Regarding the barter proposed by the Anti-League who was also in a state of war, this kind of transaction at least seemed fair, but in fact the Anti-League was somewhat at a loss. I felt that the Anti-League was taking advantage of the situation.

    After several months of war, due to the Soviet army's poor command and even worse military quality, the Soviet army's losses were undoubtedly extremely huge. This kind of loss would be placed in any country, even including Britain and France, the two traditional powers recognized by the world.  I'm afraid they've all been wiped out.

    It was only a few months after the Soviet-German war broke out. Not counting other small-scale battles, only the two major battles, the Battle of Minsk and the Battle of Kiev, were carried out continuously since the outbreak of the war. By the end of September, in less than three months, the Soviet army had already suffered losses.  There were more than 15,000 tanks, more than 70,000 artillery pieces, more than 7,000 combat aircraft, and the loss of soldiers was as high as more than 2 million. In several encirclement battles between the German army and the Soviet army, the German army lost every time.  Thousands of tanks and artillery pieces were captured.

    During the negotiations between the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the Soviet Union on this deal, in the Battle of Smolensk that broke out immediately after the Battle of Kiev, the Soviet army captured 450,000 officers and soldiers and lost 4,500 tanks.  vehicles and 4,800 artillery pieces. After the Battle of Smolensk, Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, can be said to have opened its doors.

    In the Vyazma and Bryansk battles that had already begun, the Soviet army was also facing a very unfavorable situation. In the previous series of battles, too much equipment was lost, and the output of the relocating military factories was far from being able to make up for the Soviet army's losses.  Huge losses in battle.

    The excessive advance speed of the German army and the rigid management of combat readiness materials by the Soviet high command caused most of the original equipment storage warehouses to fall into the hands of the Germans. By the time of the Battle of Vyazma, the Soviet army not only had a heavy equipment quantity  It has dropped to a very dangerous level. Even the equipment of light weapons is very different. Even the Soviet army, which has always been known for its sufficient equipment, has been reduced to the point where even the most basic weapon for infantry, such as rifles, cannot satisfy everyone.  The point of support.

    During the battles of Vyazma and Bryansk, the Soviet army had long lost its original heroic spirit. Not only had the number of tanks dropped by more than one level compared with the original, but the number of artillery and other equipment had also dropped to a level lower than before.  In the eyes of the Soviet generals, it was intolerable.

    By the time the battles of Vyazma and Bryansk ended at almost the same time as the negotiations, the Soviet army still suffered a disastrous defeat.However, since the Soviet army itself was already insufficiently equipped, although the number of German prisoners was still huge, the number of captured tanks was much smaller.

    Although the German army captured more than 700,000 Soviet troops during the battle, the number of Soviet tanks destroyed and captured was not as many as in the much smaller Battle of Smolensk. The more than 1,000 tanks were more than those in each previous battle.  Compared with the number of thousands of Soviet tanks destroyed in the battle, it was undoubtedly much smaller.

    The Soviet army lost not only the soldiers who are currently extremely valuable to the Soviet army in this battle, but the most important thing is the more than 5,000 artillery pieces of various calibers that are extremely important for defending Moscow. Since the beginning of the war, due to  The gap in equipment and personnel between the two sides meant that the Soviet Air Force, which was once large in previous battles, had never controlled air superiority. Under such circumstances, the importance of artillery fire support became increasingly prominent.

    However, after the battles of Vyazma and Bryansk, the amount of heavy equipment used by the Soviet army to defend Moscow dropped to a dangerous level, and could not even meet the needs of the battle. In order to defend Moscow, the Soviet army scrapped nine cows and two tigers.  After all, they had only mobilized more than 900 tanks and more than 600 aircraft. Although the number of artillery was quite large, it reached more than 7,000.

    However, in order to mobilize these artillery, the Soviet army almost exhausted all artillery reserves. Even the last remaining artillery in the Far East Military Region, except for the naval coastal defense artillery that could not be disassembled, were all transferred to Moscow to participate in the war. Even for  After raising enough artillery, the Soviet army even dug out the old artillery produced by the French during the Tsarist Russia era from the warehouse.

    Even so, the amount of equipment that the Soviet army scraped together to defend Moscow was not as large as the equipment of a Soviet front army before the war. Even the number of more than 900 tanks was not as large as that of an ordinary Soviet army group before the war.  There are many tanks under its jurisdiction.

    The reason for this consequence was not only the poor command and strategy and tactics of the Soviet army in the early stages of the war, but also the Soviets' rigid management of the combat readiness warehouse. Otherwise, before the war, the Soviet Union had more than 7,000 artillery pieces a year.  With a production of a thousand tanks, no matter how heavy the losses were on the battlefield, the Soviets would not have gotten to such a state, and they would not be in a hurry to transfer the equipment stored in Outer Mongolia back home.

    The equipment that the Soviets had stored in the combat readiness warehouses they lost at the beginning of the war, and were originally intended to be used to arm the new troops after full mobilization, was not much smaller than what they lost on the battlefield. Since the beginning of the war, the German army has captured tens of thousands of vehicles.  Not all Soviet tanks and tens of thousands of Soviet artillery pieces were captured on the battlefield. A large part of the reserve equipment captured from the Soviet combat readiness warehouses.

    The German army's occupation of these combat readiness warehouses not only affected the Soviet army's replenishment of battle-damaged equipment, but also had a considerable impact on the Soviet army's subsequent mobilization work. In the early days of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet army's reserve of supplies and  The management of equipment is almost inflexible to the point of being outrageous. Compared with its excellent mobilization ability, it can be said to be worse than garbage.

    Although these Soviet warehouses are military warehouses, their daily management is managed by the newly formed internal affairs forces under the NKVD. According to the regulations of the Soviet High Command, the military has no right to manage these combat readiness warehouses. Anyone can activate these warehouses.  War preparation warehouses or bombings must be ordered by Moscow.

    Before receiving orders from Moscow, no one is allowed to use the equipment and supplies in these warehouses, no matter how critical the situation is, even if the enemy forces are under their noses, and the Soviet army's own communication methods are limited.  Being backward and in the most chaotic stage of the war, communication between various places and Moscow was never so smooth.

    Due to the chaos and poor communication, these warehouses were often abandoned by the time they received orders from Moscow. However, because of the delay in receiving orders, a large number of newly mobilized recruits were left with bare hands before they were armed.  And was captured by the rapidly advancing German troops.

    On one side were a large number of unarmed recruits who were urgently mobilized and in urgent need of equipment and troops who had suffered heavy losses in previous battles and were in urgent need of replenishment. On the other side were combat readiness warehouses that had stored a large amount of equipment but could not be activated without orders from Moscow. The situation on both sides formed an extreme situation.  Big contrast.

    The Soviet generals who experienced the great purge of counter-revolutionaries had suffered heavy losses in their original weapons and equipment in previous battles. Not to mention heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery, their current troops even lacked the number of rifles. Especially  The troops that broke out from the encirclement almost became an unarmed force.

    It has even reached the point where the newly formed troops are unable to form combat effectiveness due to the lack of all equipment from rifles to artillery and tanks. The mobilized new troops are captured in large numbers because they have no weapons. The old troops are also unable to be replenished.  And the combat effectiveness is rapidly declining, which is a dangerous situation.

     But except for a few overly courageous generals, no one dared to risk losing their heads and use these combat readiness warehouses without authorization. They would rather let the recruited supplementary soldiers wait for the comrades who fought in front to die in battle, and then take over what they left behind.  They did not dare to open these combat readiness warehouses in their own jurisdiction or defense areas, and use the large amounts of equipment and supplies stored in them to replenish the troops who suffered heavy losses.
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