The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 361 Lightning Attack

Wu Aihua's antipathy towards the Russians is exactly the same as his antipathy towards the Japanese, both because of national feuds, and have nothing to do with any doctrine or belief.Wu Aihua must take back the territories occupied by the Russians that belong to China, and he will also take back the capital with interest.Therefore, Wu Aihua was happy if the strength of the Soviet Russians decreased a little, even if only a few more soldiers died.

This short assault in the Soviet-Finnish War gave the Soviets another taste of the power of the Finns.The offensive that the Kremlin spent a lot of energy organizing was disintegrated by the Finns almost in one morning.

If you fight, you can't win or it is difficult to win; if you don't fight, you have already reached this state, how can you stop!

But the Kremlin's concerns are misplaced.After this victory, the Finns returned to their defensive lines and did not launch an attack on the Soviet Red Army.

If you don't attack, well, I will attack.The Soviet Russians began to organize their forces again, bombarding the Mannerheim line of defense indiscriminately!However, the effect of this indiscriminate bombing was much worse than that of the first stage of the campaign.This is because the Chinese Volunteer Army has fully infiltrated the command of the Finnish army (no way, who made the Chinese too capable of fighting).The front is light and the fire is heavy, and the firepower is heavy before and light; tunnel warfare, fortress warfare, three-dimensional firepower, crossfire, reverse firepower, etc. Unheard of tactics began to spread among the Finnish troops.

History has made Chen Dajun's reputation here. At least, in the eyes of the Finns, Chen Dajun, a Chinese soldier, is their savior.The reason why Chen Dajun and the Chinese Volunteers were able to rely on the Mannerheim Line of Defense to resist the indiscriminate bombing of Soviet Russia so confidently was actually based on the experience of later battles.

In the Battle of Shangganling in the Korean War in later generations, two or three companies guarded the tunnels on several hills, and were able to resist the aerial bombing and ground attack of the Americans for several months.It can be said that the battlefield form of tunnel warfare is a Chinese invention.At this time, whether the Soviet Russian aircraft or artillery, it is impossible to be as powerful as the US military more than ten years later!

In this way, after Soviet Russia attacked without any effect for more than 20 days and killed and injured nearly 20 troops, it finally sat at the negotiating table with peace of mind.

However, the Finns did not force the Soviets too much, but made some concessions.Finland leased the Libach Peninsula on the Barents Sea, the four islands in the Gulf of Finland, and the Hanko Peninsula to Soviet Russia for a period of 30 years; while retaining Karelia and Finland's second largest city, Vyborg.In fact, even those places that were “leased” in the past, most of the projects in history were also “cedeed” rather than leased.

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While Wu Aihua was leisurely traveling in mainland China, Germany almost digested the results of occupying Poland.In Hitler's strategic structure, the whole of Western Europe would be taken by him, and Denmark and Norway would naturally bear the brunt.

Denmark and Norway are located at the confluence of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, standing like a gate at the mouth of Germany. Kiel, Germany's main military port, is located on the Jutland Peninsula on the west coast of the Baltic Sea. The narrow waters between the Navia Peninsula (Skagerrak Strait and Kattegat Strait), as long as the enemy country lays mines here, it can effectively block the German navy.

In addition, the iron ore used by the German arms industry had to be transported through the Norwegian port of Narvik. If the area was under the control of Britain and France, the consequences for the Germans would be disastrous.

At the end of 1939, the pocket battleship "Graft Spee" of the German Navy was unable to return to its home port, and fought alone in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It was finally besieged by the British Navy in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay and scuttled by itself. Captured by British forces in neutral waters off Norway in 1940, this series of events just became an excuse for Hitler to occupy the two countries.

In the early morning of April 1940, 4, the German army suddenly blitzed Denmark along the northern border, and the King of Denmark soon announced its surrender.At the same time, the German paratroopers and navy launched an attack on Norway, but encountered tenacious resistance from the Norwegian defenders. Near Oslo, the German navy was severely damaged, and the task force was almost wiped out.However, the German paratroopers' attack achieved effective results and occupied Oslo.

However, the battle for Norway was not over.At Narvik, the British naval fleet attacked the unsuspecting German destroyer fleet that night, and other ships of the German fleet that arrived later fought back against the British; however, the British soon returned.In this way, the Battle of Navi was actually fought until June 6, before Germany completely occupied the entire territory of Norway.

After the Battle of Norway, Britain and France ended the history of "declaring no war" against Germany.

At this time, Germany was fully prepared for the offensive on the Western Front.

In the early hours of May 5th, the 10 divisions of the German right-wing Army Group B (including 28 armored divisions and 3 motorized division) under the command of Admiral Fedor von Bock, the German sword suddenly pointed at Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The Three Kingdoms, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg surrendered without a fight.Under the cover of the air force, the armored troops of the German Army advanced in three columns from the Ardennes in the south of Belgium and Luxembourg. The depth of the advance reached 1 kilometers that day. The Belgian army was defeated by the German "blitz". captured by the German Army.

The Dutch army destroyed roads, bridges, and barricades to block the advance of German armored vehicles, but with little effect; the fate of the Netherlands was no better than that of Luxembourg and Belgium.

In fact, when the Dutch army was destroying the roads and bridges that the Germans must pass through, the Luftwaffe's ju87 Stuka bombers were also working hard to destroy the roads and bridges behind them.

The German Army Group B achieved unprecedented victories in its attack on the above-mentioned three "Low Countries".French troops hurried to help.It turned out to be in Hitler's arms. I heard that Hitler was so excited that he cried because the French went to rescue these three countries, which hit the German plan.

When the German Army Group B was attacking the three low-lying countries, the German Army Group C also concentrated 17 divisions to "attack" the Maginot Line. where?

The real trump card of the Germans is Army Group A in the middle. Army Group A concentrated Germany's 64 elite infantry divisions (including 7 armored divisions and 3 motorized infantry divisions), led by General Gert von Rundstedt, when they passed through the dense Ardennes forest Finally, Luxembourg, a small country with a population of only 30, surrendered without a fight that day.

给伦德施泰特上将打头阵的是保罗amp;amp;#8226;冯amp;amp;#8226;克莱斯特将军指挥的装甲兵团，该兵团下辖古德里安的第19装甲军，赫尔曼amp;amp;#8226;霍特的第15装甲军和乔尔格.汉斯.莱因哈特的第41装甲军。其中以古德里安的第19装甲军战斗力最强，它作为克莱斯特装甲兵团的主力和先锋部队编有3个装甲师。而第15和第41装甲军仅各辖2个装甲师。

It took Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps just two days to cross the 110-kilometer-long canyon of the Ardennes into the French territory after easily breaking through loose Belgian resistance.

On the afternoon of May 5, Guderian's three armored divisions had reached the north bank of the Maas River and captured the famous French fortress city of Sedan.That night Guderian began intense preparations for crossing the river.For this reason, Guderian threw in all his three armored divisions.

"The Germans forcibly crossing the Meuse River was the key to the battle of France. There were other equally bold actions in the next five weeks, but none of them had such an amazing impact on the development of events." Commentators of later generations commented The value of the Battle of the Meuse.

5月13日上午11时，德军出动近400架ju87斯图卡轰炸机分批次对马斯河南岸的法军阵地和炮兵群进行了长达5个小时的狂轰滥炸，并使法军的精神发生了瘫痪现象。

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the German army began to forcefully cross the Meuse River in hundreds of rubber boats.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, the German army finally gained a foothold on the south bank of the Maas River, and the German engineers immediately began to erect the pontoon bridge.

到了下午8时，古德里属下的第1装甲师已经穿透法军阵地，突入相当纵深。第2装甲师和第10装甲师也在午夜全部渡过了马斯河。同一天，赫尔曼.霍特的15装甲军属下的埃尔温.隆美尔的第7装甲师也在西面40英里远的南特附近渡过了马斯河。

With the loss of the Meuse River defense line, the road to Paris and the English Channel was opened. The British and French troops fighting in Belgium faced the danger of being outflanked. The United Kingdom quickly sent 10 fighter squadrons to join the British Air Force in France and the French Air Force to counterattack the Germans!

On the afternoon of the 14th, the most intense air battle broke out over the Meuse River since the beginning of the war. The British Blenheim bomber and the latest French Breguet bomber, under the cover of fighter jets, headed straight for the Meuse River. About 5 German troops The fighter jets of the wing took off to intercept, and the two sides invested more than 500 aircraft each.

As a result of this air battle, the British and French lost about 300 aircraft, while the German army only lost more than 40 aircraft, and most of the German pontoon bridges across the river were intact.

At 5:14 pm on May 6th, China time, the air battle over the Maas River had already ended. Wu Aihua sent a congratulatory telegram to Hitler and Guderian in his personal capacity. The content of the telegram was "Congratulations"!

It's no wonder the Germans couldn't win the air battle!Historically, the Germans also won this air battle, but they lost nearly 200 aircraft. After Germany acquired armor and aircraft technology in China, German tanks became stronger and stronger than the same period in history. sharp!