Chapter 949 - Unfavorable German Army at Every Turn
"This is the elusive fate?" When Meng Xiang saw the news of the defeat of the German armored forces on the Eastern Front at Ryazan, he couldn't help but feel a sense of strangeness in his heart.
"Is there no Kursk, and another Ryazan Waterloo will appear?"
When he learned that the attack on the 814 Chinese camp was driven by the Germans, Meng Xiang decided to make the Germans pay a little price.
Ribbentrop personally came to Huaxia to negotiate another form of compensation conditions, and successively released several of the latest technologies being developed by Germany to Huaxia.
But this did not in any way impress Meng Xiang's determination to beat the Germans.
Whether it is a copycat company or a second-hand weapons trade in China, it is in a relatively sluggish state. Supplies of oil controlled by two sub-bases in Libya and Soviet Russia have also been curtailed.
Meng Xiang did not think that Germany was suddenly languishing and was beaten by the Allies.
As Germany strengthened its control over the occupied territories, the Germans, who were gradually integrating the industrial capacity of Europe, were able to make blood on their own, and even the Germans could get rid of the copycat companies if it were not for the lack of some resources. In addition, a large number of second-hand weapons from China have eased the production pressure of the Germans.
And for oil, the Germans are even more temporarily out of the most urgent period.
Although the Germans have not yet rushed through the Volga near Stalingrad and have not crossed the Caucasus Mountains, oil wells and refineries near Grozny have begun to resume production, and production wells in the Meikemp field have been erected. Although production was still limited, it was already possible to stop leaving German tanks lying on their stomachs from time to time.
This is already a very good situation in the case of Romanian oil fields constantly being attacked by Allied air raids and constantly reducing production.
But the Allies also saw such a situation.
Britain and the United States lost at least 3,000 bombers in 42 years before they dealt a heavy blow to the Romanian oil fields from the gap in the tight German air defense system, but when victory was in sight. The Soviet-Russian oil fields occupied by the Germans on the Eastern Front are producing oil again.
"Blow it up! This is the key to our victory! As long as there was fuel, German tanks would continue to drive out of factories everywhere, and Churchill immediately yelled at Stalin when he thought of the tens of thousands of Haw Par tanks roaming around the European continent and completely ruining the continental dream of the British Empire.
"Give me enough tanks, enough planes, enough supplies, and I'll blow it up, or don't talk about it!" Who knew that Stalin yelled even louder than he did. And rightly so.
Over the years, although the Germans have been dragged to the end, Soviet Russia itself has been wounded. After most of the factories were destroyed in the war, Soviet Russia's military manufacturing has not slowed down.
Even in these 2 years, the Chinese threat to the east has been reduced. And with the support of Britain and the United States, Soviet Russia built another large-scale military-industrial system between the Volga and the Urals, but Stalin understood that the enemies of the Russians were not only Germans. Don't look at the fact that Britain and the United States are now squatting in a trench with Soviet Russia, but as long as the Germans fall, I am afraid that the muzzle of the gun will immediately turn to Soviet Russia, which is greatly injured.
But in the face of the immediate crisis, Stalin could only parry the Germans while asking the British and American lions for supplies and weapons, and secretly accumulating family funds.
Soviet Russia, which paid a huge price in blood, was naturally justified.
After the first tightness. The Germans once offered an olive branch to Stalin, but the gap between the two sides in terms of negotiations was too great to end the matter.
However, Stalin has always played the role of cannon fodder for Britain and the United States as Soviet Russia. Once the Soviet Union loses its containment, at least 60% of the German attack force will turn to the Western Front, completely crushing the British and American resistance. Britain, the United States and Soviet Russia are grasshoppers tied to the same rope, and now they are losing all for the time being.
So every time you open your mouth. Stalin's emphasis always prevailed over Churchill.
This time, it's no exception. Churchill's face was suffocated as if he was constipated, and in the end he did not promise anything, but provoked Roosevelt in turn.
At this time, only the wealthy Americans could promise a large number of tanks and planes with a wave of their hands, and the British Empire could only send cocoa, bananas and cotton from the colonies while the British mainland was still in ruins.
Roosevelt did not bargain with the Russians at all, and directly sent a large number of tanks and the materials used to produce them to Soviet Russia. And thousands of warplanes.
Of course, the fighters are the P-39 Air Cobra, the P-63 Super Cobra and the like, the P-40 Warhawk, and other fighters that the Americans do not use. As for Hellcats, pirates, mustangs, etc., the Americans will not give them, and long-range bombers will not give them, only medium bombers such as B-25s. The British also only gave Hurricane fighters, and the Spitfire in general would not give. Especially the newest and at most gave a little super sea spitfire in Stalin's roar.
It also shows the defensive heart of Britain and the United States against Soviet Russia.
Not to mention the controversy of doctrines, under the cover of the spirit of internationalism alone, the Soviet Russians played the doctrine of appropriation with great skill, and never paid any patent fees.
The Russians are also very aware that they can take advantage of the saliva splashed under their beards, and if they can't take advantage of it, they will ask for some aluminum, copper, rubber and other raw materials and some machine tools and equipment to produce them themselves.
Their new T-34/85 tanks and Stalin's tanks have already been produced, far outperforming those made in the United States, and their fighters La-7 and Yak-9 are not inferior in performance to the British-American Spitfire and Mustang, all they lack is sufficient production capacity.
The war consumed the youth of Soviet Russia, and even women worked overtime, and there was still a shortage of manpower. The destruction of factories, the relative lack of machine tools, and even after many resources in the east and west fell into the hands of China and Germany, many originally rich resources were also scarce, not to mention rubber, which has always been scarce.
Since the Japanese were gradually squeezed out of Southeast Asia by China, and Sakhalin Island was recovered by China, the oil-for-rubber exchange in the secret treaty between Soviet Russia and Japan stopped.
The Russians could only ask Britain and the United States openly.
Even though the Germans, under the impetus of Meng Xiang, released the Haw Par series early on, and the follow-up models of various fighters, the Soviet Russians at the moment of life and death also burst out of the potential of the Russians, and launched all kinds of weapons and equipment with similar performance in advance.
The goods supported by Britain and the United States, because of their good ballistic resistance and anti-crash performance, can only be suitable for becoming a tool for the Soviet Russians to select the elite from cannon fodder. However, the new weapons of the Soviet Russians are constantly being popularized, and the overall gap with German weapons is slowly narrowing.
With the support of raw materials and machine tools from Britain and the United States, Stalin had confidence. With his counteroffensive orders, all kinds of new Soviet and Russian equipment also emerged one after another to be tested on the battlefield.
The performance of the Yak-9, which has become the main force of Soviet and Russian fighters, has been adjusted with the performance of German fighters, which is enough to fight against the Bf-109G model that emerged early on the Germans, as well as early models such as FW-190A, and the Russians have a more excellent La-7, and more importantly, the number of fighters under the counterattack of the Russians far exceeds that of the German Warhawk.
In this counterattack, the main targets of the Soviets and Russians' air attacks were determined to be near the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, and they were to knock out the oil wells and refineries erected there.
German intelligence also got such information.
Although Germany was still in turmoil, Lao Xi, who was still lying in his hospital bed, realized the crisis and gave the order to dispatch air power and air defense forces to protect the oil fields.
It should be said that Lao Xi's decision was not wrong. However, the fact that the Germans had already deployed some of their air power to the Western Front to deal with it would undoubtedly make the air defense forces in other places worse. and then collided with the uncurtailed air counterattack of the other fronts of Soviet Russia, and in the case of no support on all sides, it could only be quickly routed.
When the Germans lost air cover on most fronts, they encountered a counterattack by Soviet Russian tank armies in Ryazan.
Zhukov, who commanded the operation, threw out more than 4,500 tanks in one go, and the number of tanks in the German army defending on the front line of Ryazan, including the nearby Moscow not far away, also exceeded 3,000, many of which were newly received from China. Although it is a refurbished second-hand product, its performance and quality are not at all inferior to the new German-made tank.
It's just that it's not just the performance of weapons that determines war.
The Russians, who had invested 2 million troops in this direction and vowed to retake Moscow, turned quantitative change into qualitative change, and their strategic deployment worked.
From the very beginning, Stalin, who was very high-spirited, developed a two-front strategy.
All the way with the support of Britain and the United States, the air raids on the oil fields occupied by the Germans, but all the way they set up an army position and attacked Moscow.
Although the air power along this road was not as good as the bombing of the oil fields, it still did not fight back against the Luftwaffe near Moscow.
Zhukov, who was keenly aware of the weakness of the German air force, also increased his bombing power along the way, and a group of PE-2 light bombers wreaked havoc over the German positions where the air defense force was greatly reduced, and luckily dropped bombs on two large oil depots of the Germans, and fortunately set fire to the well-protected oil depots and exploded.
This made it possible to starve of fuel for German tanks on the Ryazan front from the very beginning.