The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Tukhachevsky laughed after hearing this, and sure enough, he was not wrong!

It turned out that in his heart, his estimated winning rate was similar to Mainz's estimate, and Tukhachevsky also felt that he had a 70% chance of winning, but that was before, and now he is a week slower than expected, so the winning rate will definitely decrease, but Tukhachevsky still thinks that he has at least a 60% chance of winning!

However, these German officer corps did not seem to think so, so Tukhachevsky wanted to tell these German officers who looked down on him and the Soviet army with practical actions that the Soviet army was not as weak as they thought!

They are strong!

On January 12, 192, the Battle of Jifu officially began.

This mega battle, which gathered more than 200,000 troops and affected 12 countries, attracted the attention of billions of people around the world!

Throughout the month of January, all the news outlets around the world were reporting on the battle in Eastern Europe.

Western Europe, headquarters of the German army.

Mainz is also paying attention to the situation on the front line, although the German army did not participate in this war, Mainz is still very concerned about the situation on the front line.

This is largely due to the fact that during the Second World War, there were many large-scale battles involving millions or even millions of people in the region where the war broke out.

This area at the junction of Ermao and Damao is a strategic point for the entire Mao Xiong, so they will definitely fight all the invaders to the end for this place!

As the biggest enemy in the future, Mainz paid more attention to the Soviet army than the British and French armies, and he knew that the German army would have a war with the Soviet army in the future, so he planned to collect information about the Soviet army from now on, and by the way, complete the field investigation of this strategic place!

This is also the reason why he sent Manstein and others to the front line, it is very likely that these people will lead and command the German army in the future, and let them go to the future battlefield to observe at this time, which can accumulate a lot of first-hand information for them to use in future battles.

Immediately after the Battle of Jifuke, the Soviets launched a fierce attack on Belgorod, garrisoned by the Allies, to the south, and the two sides fought bloody battles around the city.

Garrisoned in Belgorod were the Romanija servant army and part of the Gallic army, which numbered about four divisions and 56,000 men!

After learning detailed information about the strength of the enemy's forces, Tukhachevsky directly dispatched two army groups to launch a fierce attack on the Allied forces in the east and west directions.

The battle was extremely bloody, and the Soviet army, lacking heavy weapons, paid a very heavy price when attacking, only on the first day of the battle on January 12, the Soviet army suffered more than 12,000 casualties and disabled four divisions.

The Romanija army stationed here behaved unexpectedly, they did not collapse as quickly as expected, but stuck to their positions, fought side by side with the Gallic army, and repelled Soviet attacks many times!

However, Tukhachevsky was also a ruthless man, he didn't even look at the heavy casualties of the Soviet army, and after the troops on the front line were disabled, they immediately switched to a new offensive!

Moreover, in addition to a direct attack on Belgorod, he also had a cavalry division to cut off the railway link between Kharkov and other Gorods.

At this moment, the Allied troops on the front line began to panic, and after the railway was destroyed and they lost contact with the rear, the Allied troops stationed in Belgorod began to panic.

And the Soviet army carried out the final mobilization before the war, and Tukhachevsky called on the commanders and fighters of the Red Army to overcome difficulties, carry forward the spirit of hard work and sacrifice, repel the invaders, and defend the newborn red woolly bear!

Mao Xiong's ideological mobilization effect is good, most of them are peasants and Soviet soldiers, fed up with the days when the nobles rode on their heads, if it weren't for Mao Xiong who opened the old aristocracy and used the agrarian revolution to give them land, most of them were still serfs of those nobles and landlords at this time!

In the tsarist era, serfs with a population of hundreds of millions were not people at all in the eyes of the aristocracy, but a group of livestock, they lived a life that was not even as good as livestock, landlords, nobles, and capitalists could ride on them as a prestige, and only the red woolly bear gave them equal social status and gave them arable fertile land!

Therefore, in order to completely break the shackles that oppressed them and defend the fruits of victory that they shared, the Soviet army carried out an extremely bloody flesh bomb attack on Belgorod!

Due to the lack of large-caliber heavy artillery, the Soviet soldiers used explosive treasures, cluster grenades, etc. to blast the enemy's positions one by one, and in the process, a large number of heroic Soviet soldiers were knocked down by enemy machine guns, but even if the people in front were killed, the people behind did not even frown, and immediately rushed forward, took the explosives bags of the people in front and continued to crawl forward!

Under this fierce and ferocious offensive, the defenders stationed in Belgorod were finally crushed!

On the afternoon of January 3, the defense line on the periphery of Begorod had all fallen!

On the evening of the day, the Soviets began to launch a general offensive here!

The two sides launched a bloodier and more fierce street battle around this small town!

Street fighting continued all night, and by the morning of January 14, the Soviets finally routed the defenders and conquered Belgorod!

In this battle, the Soviet army destroyed 3.7 enemies, paid a heavy price of more than 70,000 casualties, and opened up the strategic road to Kharkov!

After the war, Manstein and others walked into this completely destroyed city on a blood-stained road, and everyone's faces were very ugly, and everyone was shocked and speechless!

They had never encountered such an army, such a poorly equipped, poorly trained, seemingly rabble, but in battle they looked at death as if they were at home, and marched forward bravely!

The strong spiritual will of this army has given everyone great psychological pressure!

This army is something they have never seen before, completely different from the German army!

"What a terrible army!"

Everyone held back for a long time, and finally someone couldn't help but speak.

Manstein glanced back and saw that it was Captain Rommel, the youngest and lowest-ranking man who spoke.

"If I could, I wouldn't want to fight such an army for the rest of my life!"

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Rommel scratched his head and said with some fear.

This sentence is a joke, but in the end, it really came true.

Later, when other generals fought the Eastern Front, Rommel was appointed commander of the North African Army and went to Africa to gallop, and throughout his life, Rommel never set foot in the land of hairy bears!

This sentence was originally a sentence to increase the morale of others and destroy his own prestige, but when he heard Rommel's words, everyone fell silent, and no one laughed at his timidity, but they all thought about it seriously!

After seeing the horror of this army, they all wondered: if they encountered this army, how would they deal with them?

Now, though, the biggest headache is not them, but the Entente troops in Kharkov!

The Entente never dreamed that the Soviet army would be able to take Belgorod within 2 days, which made their strategic deployment fall into passivity all of a sudden!

After the Soviets took Belgorod, needless to say, the next step will definitely be to attack Kharkov!

And Kharkov is the key to this battle, if this place is taken away, then the Entente's encirclement is a hole in the inflated balloon, and the entire encirclement network will collapse in an instant!_

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