The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 362 German strategic issues

In the historical World War II, although Germany took down France in a flash and drove Britain back to the British Isles, the German Air Force has never achieved any strategic or tactical advantages in the long-term aerial combat between the air forces of the two sides. The reputation of the Air Force.

A war with absolute superiority turned into a war of attrition that was extremely unfavorable to Germany.Coupled with the strong material delivery capabilities of the United States, the Germans' good situation was finally ruined.

After the Meuse River air battle ended, the entire French war became Guderian's "one-man show".

The speed at which the young armored general led his 19th Panzer Corps on French territory not only caught the British and French allied forces by surprise, but also disturbed the German High Command. His boss, Kleist, twice ordered Guderian to suspend Forward, but he did not hesitate to resign to fight.

Later, after the ban was lifted, his speed was faster than before, so that when he encountered a group of scattered French soldiers on the road, he didn't want to delay the time to get out of the car to take prisoners. He just shouted through a loudspeaker: "We don't have time Take you captive, lay down your weapons, and get out of the way so that you don't get in the way."

On May 5, Guderian urged his three armored divisions to turn westward, with the goal of reaching the Dunkirk area on the east coast of the English Channel.

On May 5, Guderian swept across Amiens and reached the English Channel near Abbeville.At this time, the German High Command did not expect that the battle in France would go on so smoothly. Therefore, it did not know how to deploy troops for a while.It was not until the next day that they gave the order to the tank troops: advance northward from Abbeville, with the goal of occupying the ports of the Channel.

However, Guderian's dazzling performance finally had a negative effect within the German High Command. On the afternoon of the 24th, when Guderian's 19th Panzer Army was still 10 miles away from Dunkirk, the 41st Tank Army on the other side happened to Together with the 17th Tank Army, when encircling Dunkirk, an order came: "The armored group stops advancing immediately, and the Anglo-French coalition forces in Dunkirk will be dealt with by Marshal Goering's air force!"

The order came from Führer Hitler!

At 6:11 p.m. Chinese time the next day, that is, [-]:[-] a.m. German time, Wu Aihua sent a telegram to Hitler, which was also a sentence: "His Excellency, you may regret the order you issued yesterday!"

后世关于希特勒不让古德里安的装甲集群追击敦克尔刻的英法联军，有很多种说法。但无论怎样说，最后让32.4万英法联军（其中法军8.5万人）能够从5月26日到6月4日之间安然撤离到英国本土，都是希特勒犯的一个极其严重的错误。

Because later, these soldiers became the main force to counterattack Germany; at the same time, it also gave Britain the power to stop the Germans from crossing the sea.

However, the situation at that time was indeed quite peculiar. In other places in France, such as the Maginot Line, nearly one million French troops were wiped out, and cities including the French capital Paris were waiting to be occupied by the German army.A small Dunkirk, with only 30 troops, is really nothing in front of the powerful German tanks.

Another peculiar thing is that at the beginning of the war, Italy did not declare war on France, but when it saw that the German army was about to win, Italy started to do it.Fortunately, Hitler had a particularly good temper at this time, and did not express any dissatisfaction with Italy's seizure of the fruits of victory.

敦刻尔克大撤退，从5月26日至6月4日历时九天，总共有32万人撤回英国，其中英军约21.5万人，法军约9万人，比利时军约3.3万人。但这些部队撤离时将重装备全部丢弃，带回英国只不过随身的步枪和数百挺机枪而已，在敦刻尔克的海滩上，英法联军共丢弃了1200门大炮、750门高射炮、500门反坦克炮、6.3万辆汽车、7.5万辆摩托车、700辆坦克、2.1万挺机枪、6400支反坦克枪以及50万吨军需物资。

These materials have become the spoils of war of the Germans.It's just that the Germans got these trophies, but they failed to win this epic battle!

In order to allow the defeated troops to withdraw to the UK, the Royal Air Force dispatched more than 2700 sorties to carry out aerial strangulation with the 2nd and 3rd Air Battalions of the Luftwaffe and combat aircraft flying from the German mainland. Strategic purposes, but the loss of the British Air Force far exceeded the historical period, reaching an astonishing 600 aircraft, while the historical period only lost 106 aircraft.

In fact, in Dunkirk, a parallel time and space, the British and French allied forces do not have the ability to completely withdraw to the UK. If the German army really wants to keep these 30 troops in Dunkirk, it is barely feasible to rely on the air force, and the British and French allied forces cannot find anything more A good way, but Hitler showed extremely contradictory psychology here.On the one hand, he wants to teach Britain a lesson; on the other hand, he wants to give the British a face, because in Hitler's strategic layout, he did not think about conquering Britain with all his strength.

In fact, in the strategy formulated by Germany, Britain only needs to occupy the three low countries and northern France to build a security barrier for Germany, because Germany's real strategic direction lies in the east.It's just that because the German armored group is too powerful, and because the British and French allied forces really couldn't stand the beating of artillery fire, they beat them into the appearance of later generations by accident and occupied the whole of France.

Next, there was the eight-month long war against Britain in history.

The Germans concentrated more than 3 combat aircraft in three flying armies, and under the command of Air Marshal Goering, they rushed to the British Isles.The British had only 2400 aircraft and less than 1300 anti-aircraft guns left.Because the British army lost a lot of equipment on the other side of the English Channel.

The outcome of this air raid and anti-air raid was basically the same as that of the same period in history, because the Germans did not occupy the British Isles in the end; the combat process was extremely tragic, and the airports, bridges, factories, seaports, etc. in England were almost completely blown up. Net, in the middle of the fight, the British planes did not dare to take off to fight.

However, after all, Britain has the most powerful naval fleet in the world. When Germany was bombarding the British mainland indiscriminately, the British navy was also besieging and annihilating the German sea fleet, even German fishing boats, which were also attacked by British naval gunboats. within range.

The Germans would not be caught without a fight. They dispatched a large number of submarines to deal with the British naval fleet and achieved a lot of results.But in any case, the air and sea contest between the British and British sides is completely a result of mutual losses.

At the critical moment when the British were about to lose their hold, American cross-sea support came. Under the desperate escort of the British Royal Navy, 10 American 3-ton freighters brought 500 aircraft and 800 anti-aircraft guns to the British. , and a large amount of ammunition.

Even against this background, it is not impossible for Hitler to occupy Britain.Because the German paratroopers are stronger than the same period in history, they forcibly surrendered to Britain and established a stronghold. As long as a tank division crosses the English Channel, Britain may declare its surrender.If this is the case, history may be rewritten, and the Second World War will have another ending.

Of course, history will definitely be rewritten, but the people who rewrite it are not Hitler and his Germany, but Wu Aihua and the Chinese.

During this period, the General Staff of the National Defense Forces put forward many tactical insights regarding the Germans' battlefield performance. Wu Aihua asked the General Staff to send all of these insights to the German headquarters in order to improve the Germans' tactical level.

What was the tactical level of the Germans in World War II?Wu Aihua of the later generations only read about it from the materials and had no sense of personal experience; while Wu Aihua of parallel time and space can quickly obtain first-hand information, even before the battle starts, he can obtain relevant information.

The overall impression of Germany in World War II should be a "tough guy" image!He punches upright and crushes the enemy with strong strength; moreover, his punching speed is extremely fast, he is a heavy boxer and fast boxer, so at the beginning of the war, his enemies are not his opponents.

If you want to say what tactics the Germans have, then apart from his "fast boxer" style being a tactic, the other is "precision". The Germans' understanding of war is the same as their understanding of machines. "Precise", such as his paratroopers and his armored clusters, can well reflect precise tactics and fast tactics.

However, the weakness of the Germans is too obvious.One is that he lacks stamina, that is to say, although Germany is a tough guy and a big man, but because he has provoked too many enemies, the so-called two fists are hard to fight with four hands, and the Germans lose their strength when they fight.Especially when he provoked a big man like Su Russia. Although the opponent's punches were not fast and not heavy, but the opponent had good stamina, had room for maneuver, and was not afraid of pain.

The second is that Germany's tactics are very precise, but its strategy is very vague.Just ask Hitler now: what do you really want?Hitler probably couldn't answer either.Because many of his strategic performances are contradictory or halfway.The third is that Hitler's personal character or character flaws caused him to control the German tanks too tightly, and it was precisely his flaws that made the German tanks do a lot of useless work.

When the air battle in the English Channel reached the later stage, Wu Aihua personally sent a long telegram to Hitler, asking: Your Excellency, what do you need?Don't you want to have a long-term show with the British over the English Channel?

"Yeah, what do I want to do?" Hitler was really stunned by this question.

At this time, Major General Jiang Jiahui, director of the Naval Equipment Bureau of the General Armament Department of the Chinese National Defense Army, brought the "Monster Dragon Type 1" ("Big Yellow Croaker" 1945-class heavy submarine, 3100 tons, but the model with the missile launcher removed) produced by the meritorious service system. And "Youlong Type 1" ("Little Yellow Fish" 1945-class light submarine, 800 tons) information is to Berlin.