What did the battle look like in the end? In a nutshell, both sides suffered heavy losses, the Americans failed to break through to the Dnieper, and the Germans were equally unable to complete the encirclement of the American troops! Under the cover of the Air Force, most of the US combat personnel withdrew from the encirclement, and of course, the loss of heavy equipment can be described as shocking! On the whole, the 35 American and British divisional units that served as the spearhead of the offensive lost more than 70 percent of their tanks and artillery, and 8 of them were eliminated as formations, disappearing forever from the battle sequence of the American and British forces. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And more than 30 division-level units in the back also suffered losses of varying degrees, and the combat effectiveness of the troops dropped by about 3 percent! And this is only the loss of the United States and Britain on the northern front!

As for the Russian troops on the central front, they advanced only 30 to 50 kilometers, but they paid the price of up to 500,000 permanent losses! As for the injured and missing, there are countless more! The Russians have exhausted their savings for several years in this war of attrition, and perhaps their personnel can be replenished by recruitment, but it may be difficult to replenish the lost equipment and consumed ammunition in one year. As for the British army, on the contrary, they suffered the least losses, although they were helpless in the face of the Donetsk defense system, but they did not launch a strong attack, the Germans retreated in turtle shells, and the British were suppressed with heavy artillery.

The Germans also lost a large number of tanks and other armored units, and half of the more than 6,000 tanks and armored vehicles of various types participated in the battle were permanently lost or abandoned after the battle. At least half of them are heavy vehicles of more than 40 tons, especially Leopard tanks. But the biggest loss is probably hundreds of thousands of various vehicles! Under the ferocious blows of the American and British Air Forces, the German logistics units paid even greater losses than the combat units! The Germans lost almost 60 percent of their cars and wagons, and the transport units responsible for supplying Guderian lost three-quarters of their vehicles! In addition, in addition to the loss of cars and horse-drawn carriages, the loss of transportation hubs in the Ukrainian region is also very huge, thousands of locomotives have been destroyed, and the number of wagons destroyed is even more in the tens of thousands! Infrastructure such as stations has also been hit hard.

In this battle, the air forces of both sides paid an even greater price! The air forces entered the war first, and when the army retreated, the air forces of both sides were still entangled. The Americans' strategic bomber forces tried to maintain their bombing of important German nodes even after the campaign ended. And the result is: The Americans eventually lost about 4 percent of their fighters and more than 7 percent of their attack aircraft, and the Germans also threw away more than 4,000 aircraft of all kinds in less than 1 month, including hundreds of precious ME262 jet fighters!

The United States and Britain succeeded in entering Ukraine, but did not occupy much. The final front remained on the Kharkov-Donetsk line. A small part of the balconies in Ukraine have been removed. Although the Allies had made some progress, it did not mean much to change the situation on the Eastern Front in front of them, and according to one commander who did not want to be named, if the fighting continued like this, even if all the Americans and British were brought over, it would not be enough to reach Berlin! The Entente had accumulated more than half a year's strength, which was consumed in this offensive. Fortunately, the Germans did not have the strength to launch a counteroffensive.

From a campaign point of view. The Germans suffered slightly smaller losses than the Americans. But on the whole, the Germans are worse off than the British, American, and Russian! The last mobile forces of the German Army were in ashes with the end of the campaign. After a series of defeats in the Middle East, the German Army's elite heavy troops have lost about 4 percent, and in this Middle East war, most of the remaining heavy troops were thrown into the Eastern Front, and almost all the new Leopard tanks were thrown in, and after the battle, only a group of crippled troops remained. It is still no problem for this force to be used to defend the eastern front, but if you enter Asia Minor, it is better to wash and sleep to defend against the attack of China on Turkey!

If the loss of armored forces was only a way for the German ground forces to recapture the lost land. Then the losses of the Air Force made the Germans even more painful! More than 4000 aircraft were thrown on the Eastern Front, and up to 6000 aircraft were lost in the same phase of the air defense war on the European mainland! (Among them are training aircraft and all sorts of non-combat losses!) At this stage, the Luftwaffe's losses finally significantly exceeded the replenishment! Although the Germans have almost stopped the production of 4-engine bombers and cut more than 7 percent of the production capacity of twin-engine aircraft, only the remaining 3 percent are mainly twin-engine interceptors. However, the annual aircraft production capacity of the Allies is still only about 60,000 aircraft, and the average is only 5,000 aircraft per month! That is, in just one month, the size of the Luftwaffe shrank by 4000 aircraft! If this continues, it won't take a few months for the Luftwaffe to reach the point where it will be useless!

Actually, of course, with the end of the fighting on the Eastern Front. The rate of loss of Dekura on the Eastern Front will decrease. But Britain and the United States, which were unsuccessful on the Eastern Front, would certainly intensify their air offensive on the European front. If you calculate it inside and out, the amount of losses in Dekong will decrease somewhat, but overall it is still beyond its means. Compared to the material losses of airplanes and other materials, the quality of German pilots deteriorated even faster! Quite a few newcomers were assigned to combat missions after just over 100 hours of training. And the vast majority of these newcomers generally don't survive 3 battles! "By the time you choose to fight, you've already stepped into the grave with half a leg!" A pessimistic mood hung over the Luftwaffe.

And even so, after a series of air battles, especially the recent Battle of the Two Rivers in the Middle East and the Battle of the Balcony on the Eastern Front, the German air defense forces were still unable to prevent the American and British bombers from bombing cities into ruins after paying a huge price! Theoretically, the Germans' existing air force would still be able to withstand the enemy's offensive if concentrated in Western Europe. But unfortunately, the Germans had to separate about 3,000 planes to deploy in the Balkans, and about 3,000 planes remained on the Eastern Front. At a meeting, the Red Baron Richthofen bluntly said that the key to Germany's survival lies in reaching peace with China as soon as possible! And in the face of the enraged Kaiser, the German army and navy openly expressed their support for the Red Baron for the first time!

At the same time that the military power was extremely shrinking, the industrial system of the Germans had finally reached the point of running out of oil! The bombardment in the air and the lack of fuel caused the gradual decline of German industrial capacity, especially the lack of fuel supply, which led to a shortage of electricity. You must know that because Germany has 4 oil fields at the same time, the proportion of coal in the energy structure has been greatly reduced, and the proportion of fuel oil has increased, and when the two most important oil fields have been lost one after another, under the strategic bombardment of the United States and Britain, the Germans have no time and no ability to quickly adjust the energy structure, and this result ultimately led to the continuous decline of industrial production capacity.

"Even if we keep the current situation unchanged, we will not be able to restore our military strength to the level at the beginning of last year in 1 year! In order to resist the bombing of the US and British air forces on the Western Front and the fierce ground warfare on the Eastern Front, the consumption of the air force has actually risen, and the production capacity of the army needs to be at least the same as last year. Our technology has reached a bottleneck where we can't use the higher level of technology to tune up the quality. And if China continues to maintain its offensive against Germany, the empire will soon collapse! "Speer's report was rather unencouraging. His opinion is in line with that of the military. So far, the German industry is only about 8% of its peak, and the pressure they are facing is much greater, and in the foreseeable future, as China gradually approaches Europe, once the Chinese strategic air force joins the strategic bombing of Germany, then the further decline of industrial production capacity will be inevitable!

In addition to military and industrial defeats, the social contradictions of the Allies erupted with constant defeat! Germany was better, Germany's allies Austria-Hungary and the Turkish Empire had run out of oil in this war, and the Ottoman Empire finally came to the abyss of collapse after more than 20 years of existence in this plane, and after Germany withdrew a large number of combat troops, Turkey, which was left with only Asia Minor and part of the territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, was simply unable to face the Chinese army. And the opposition in Turkey is also actively contacting China through other channels, hoping to end the war "more decently"!

As for Austria-Hungary? The internally troubled giant with feet of clay had exhausted the last of its strength in the war, and even the commander of the navy, Jordy, said that it was pointless for Austria-Hungary to continue fighting, and that Austria-Hungary had lost millions of troops in the war, and that industry and accumulated wealth had been exhausted. And when China, the United States, Britain and other countries approached Germany and Austria from two directions, Austria-Hungary must also consider its own future way out. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, already known for its national complexity, was finally on the verge of secession.

The Hungarian government began to stop sending troops to the front under various pretexts and began to impose comprehensive control over the country. In response to this situation, Austrian Emperor Ferdinand said that Austria alone could not suppress Hungary, which was almost equal to his own strength, and the Germans were not clear about Austria's request, to be precise, the Kaiser asked to send troops to suppress it, and the military had reservations about this order!

If it is a simple Hungary, don't look at the unprecedented weakness of the German army, but it is still possible to teach the Hungarians to be a new man in minutes, the key lies in the attitude of China, and the German military top brass believes that Germany's chances of survival depend entirely on the situation of negotiations with China. It was only a matter of time before the Turkish government surrendered, and after crossing Turkey was the Balkans, relying on Austria-Hungary, if Germany took some drastic action, would it lead to a resumption of large-scale fighting between China and Germany?

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