Steel Soviet Union

Compared with the intrigues, deceit and abduction in the existing history, in this timeline fanned by Malashenko's butterfly wings, the cooperation between the Japanese and the Germans has been greatly strengthened.

The Germans are not only willing to provide actual samples of Tiger tanks, but also a full set of drawings, technical support and some production equipment.

Seeing that the Japanese sent enough gold, the Germans also "generously contributed" and sent an entire support team including technical experts and military experts to the Japanese.

It not only helps the Japanese build factories to produce knock-off versions of Tiger tanks, but also allows the Japanese's fragile tank industry to be able to use super-standard things like the Tiger at once.

Because the Japanese are taking bigger steps and want to become fat in one breath. They plan to imitate the German Wehrmacht and form an armored division with a similar structure but a larger organization. They need supporting military guidance, so they also sent them by the way. An entire Wehrmacht officer corps.

There were a lot of people, led by an armored lieutenant colonel, various instructors, accompanying soldiers, and escorts, totaling a little over 200 people.

After all, the Japanese are planning to create an armored division, and it is not a reduced version of the triple division, but a serious five-armed division.

In order for the five Japanese regiments to master the equipment, become proficient in tactics, and know how armored soldiers fight as quickly as possible, a military guidance team of 200 people is very necessary.

Even if divided equally on a per-capita basis, the actual number of supporting Krauts that can be allocated to a regiment is not that many, only 40 people.

Moreover, the number of 40 people is not only small, but even a little too small and insufficient.

Considering that the Japanese army's concept of armored group operations, which is developing rapidly, is still almost at the level of "nonsense", and everyone from the grassroots to the command level needs teaching guidance, how busy these 40 people are actually not touching the ground. That's to be expected.

On the other hand, it does have to be said that the Japanese have a big appetite.

Counting various auxiliary troops and baggage units, the number of the five-united armored division has soared to an exaggerated level of 50,000 like a balloon. In terms of heads alone, it is even stronger than the Second Division has ever been. Strong.

In terms of the actual organization of the five combat regiments, there are two combat vehicle regiments, two infantry regiments, and an artillery regiment.

Adapting modern and serious armored forces is enough to give the Japanese army, which is an old-style army, a headache.

As for the synthesis of the leading army, which has been reduced to the battalion level.

Sorry, let alone just playing around, you are holding a textbook and telling it to the Japanese devils, and the reaction of these idiots is just like listening to a fairy tale.

Laughing to death, I can’t understand it at all.

With the help of the Germans, the establishment of a serious armored force at the wing level is almost the limit of the Japanese army at this stage.

Even so, the Japanese army's ignorance of the concept of armored combat and its rigidity and dogmatism in military command and tactical arrangements still opened their eyes and suffered a lot for the Germans responsible for teaching and guidance.

Give a very simple example.

If the combat orders are not updated, the grassroots officers of the Japanese army will be almost like children's toys that spin on their own after being wound up. They are so rigid that they have no brains at all, or dare not have any.

Even if the orders that have been received are completely inconsistent with the battlefield situation, they will carry out the orders until death without any subjective initiative at the grassroots level.

This does not mean that the generally understood advantages of thorough execution, thorough execution, and strong execution of orders are not such a thing.

But even if the machine gun firepower on the opposite side is so strong that it is just a one-sided massacre like cutting grass and harvesting wheat, the Japanese army's grassroots officers will still let the soldiers die without hesitation, and in the end, they will even jump on them to eat bullets and finish them off completely.

This is not the merit of resolutely following orders, but pure stupidity and brain damage.

The Germans, who had a deep understanding of and realized this situation on the training ground, said, "I can't understand the board, but I was shocked." This made it even clearer why the Japanese were so defeated in the battle for the Pacific Islands. It was tragic, so many people died, and they were all sent away with their heads.

It is also the case that grassroots combat units like the Japanese army are simply stupid machines that execute orders.

The Germans, whose attainments in armored group combat concepts can be said to be second only to the Red Army, were left scratching their heads and at a loss.

The reason is very simple. Armored combat is a highly time-sensitive and fast-paced combat mode that places great emphasis on the subjective initiative of grassroots combat units.

Rather than the slow pace of traditional infantry combat, most problems can be solved, at least basically, by the rear commanders taking command.

Look at the armored aces of the German army. It is almost impossible to fight by following the script.

From Carlus to Wittmann to Konisper, all of them are masters with strong subjective initiative, long brains, and the courage to fight and charge.

After the rear commanders understand the frontline armored combat situation, they can update the combat orders and pass them on to the armored troops on the firing line for execution.

Not to mention winning the battle, the day lily is already cold.

If you don't lose, just burn incense and kowtow. Do you still expect to win? Just want to eat shit.

It was precisely the Japanese army's consistent practice of treating junior officers like pig-headed fools that put the German instructors into a helpless embarrassment of "not being able to teach even if they teach them".

This is a structural problem at the root of the Japanese army. It cannot be solved by taking a few classes and teaching some advanced tactics.

Grassroots combat units cannot open their minds and have almost no subjective initiative. No matter how advanced and ready-made tactics are, they are useless. They are like rootless duckweeds with no soil to survive.

The German officer corps, who had to bite the bullet and continue to teach the Japanese, and what kind of teaching was purely based on appearance and luck, with no guarantee of the final teaching results, have been busy like this.

But he didn't expect that he was so busy here. From 1944 to 1945, he was so busy that he died.

After receiving the news of the defeat of the Nazis and the suicide of the hair-washing man, the German officer corps were shocked for a moment and then looked at each other at a loss.

Not to mention that going back at this time is purely seeking death, just how to go back is already very problematic.

Back then, this group of people had traveled all the way across the ocean on an ocean-going submarine of the German Navy. It was almost impossible for this group of landlubbers to ride on a submarine for the first time in their lives.

Now that Dönitz and his U-boat army have all been sent with the Nazis, and the sea blockade has been completely blocked by the Americans, it is no longer possible to return home by the same method and route.

What if I could go back? Should he go to court as a Nazi remnant or go to a Soviet prisoner of war camp to think about the rest of his life?

Fortunately, the former Japanese allies were relatively generous and provided a solution that was now the only way out for the former Wehrmacht to choose.