readx;?“ In three hours, it will be the moment that will decide the fate of Russia and the world, victory, great Russia will go to a new peak, and if it fails, we will fall into the bottomless abyss! And all of you here will be sinners in Russia! Whether you become a hero or a sinner depends on your performance! General Gallen let out a long sigh and said to everyone who was doing it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info_ Yawen_ w·w-w-.'y-a・Unlike the past, this time the attack started not at midnight, but during the day! The current Russian army no longer expects to complete a breakthrough in the campaign solely on its own, because it is almost impossible! All they have to do is act as bait! Lure the Germans to send more troops to the front line, lure the Germans to expose more hidden firing points! With the slightly blunt style of play of saturation attack, the opponent is grinded to death!

Tens of thousands of artillery pieces of all kinds are already ready, (most of them mortars.) Thousands of planes have also lined up at airports (about 90 percent of the total number of planes alone). 3ooo more tanks and 8o thousand front-line troops have been deployed on the tortuous line between Russia and Ukraine! And this is only a part of the third ** regiment, behind the first-line troops, there are a total of 7o thousand second-line troops, the Russians have been ready to run out of the first-line troops in order to win, and immediately replenish the second-line troops. To the north and south of the salient, millions of US and British troops are also ready to go, and the two armoured spearheads consisting of as many as 5ooo tanks, assault guns, and tank destroyers have been deployed, and in the sky above them, there will be as many as 1 US and British air forces. 10,000 aircraft provide air support and battlefield shelter! In this battle, the three countries took out almost all the money they had prepared for half a year! A battle of unprecedented scale kicked off with the roar of heavy artillery!

On a front stretching for hundreds of kilometers, the Russians chose to be in 5 locations at the same time, and the dense barrage lasted from 2 to 5 hours, and then the infantry rushed to the German defense line under the guidance of tanks, accompanied by the roar of heavy artillery on the ground, countless planes took off from the rear airfield, tens of thousands of high-power engines roared in the air, and bombs and shells with a death roar fell on the ground one after another,

The Germans seemed stunned at first. The Russians' attacks at all cost made it impossible for the Germans to find a breakthrough point for the opposing side. Under the baptism of blood and fire, the forward defense line of the Germans became crumbling, many units and firing points hidden in depth began to be exposed, and the Germans began to draw troops from the 2nd line. But these forces suffered heavy losses under the suppression and blows of the Entente air forces!

"Are the Entente insane? Their attacks were undisciplined, crushing them like crushing plates. Yavin Bar w'w·w·w·. 'Y-A' is unfocused, and I still haven't figured out what they're trying to do! Looking at the sand table in front of him, and the red arrows indicating the direction of the Russian attack, Manstein fell into deep thought, his favorite way to do this was to wear down his opponents with fortifications and defensive troops. Then find the breakthrough point of the opponent, and when the opponent has just broken through and the follow-up troops have not yet arrived, concentrate the most elite armored spearhead to completely smash the opponent's attacking force, and finally fundamentally disintegrate the opponent's offensive. But the current situation makes him unable to start!

"That's actually good news, because it turns out that such an aimless attack may put us on the back for a while, but as time goes on, their losses will skyrocket. An adversary with a weak follow-up cannot pose a threat to our positions in depth. "Guderian seems to be more relaxed, the opponent's attack seems ferocious, but more ferocious than this attack Guderian has also seen, if you only look at the density of troops and the level of equipment, the opponent in front of him is really more than a grade worse than the enemy in the Middle East!

"But the question is, what do we do now? Waiting for the surface line of defense to be breached? This kind of attack by the other side may not be able to cause a breakthrough in depth, but they can at least push our entire front back by more than ten to twenty kilometers. Maybe we can wear down our opponents in terms of exchange ratio or attrition, but don't forget that the Empire still has an opponent in the Middle East! Although there is some kind of tacit understanding between each other, who dares to say. Will Huaxia continue to move westward? Although we have a good deck of cards in our hands, no one can say whether they will be taken by our own people. Unless... Manstein's heart was full of anxiety, and China and the Entente were still allies at least on the surface. In order to achieve its own goals, there is no reason why Huaxia should not take advantage of this opportunity!

"It's still a little early to dispatch the main force, so you can take a look at the current information. Most of the troops participating in the offensive are Russian ** teams, and they have a certain gap with the US and British armies in terms of equipment and quality, and they do not have the ability to cut into our depth. We know, the Russians know better, so now the question is simple, what is the reason for the Russians to act so inefficiently at all costs? Modell asked rhetorically.

"There is only one answer, they consume us again, and they want to mobilize us! When our main forces are dispatched, the American and British forces will take advantage of the situation to break through our defensive line and complete the encirclement of part of our army! Our main opponents in Europe are still Britain and the United States! This is true on the Western Front, and it is also true on the Eastern Front! Therefore, our main forces cannot be dispatched, otherwise under the joint attack of the American and British Air Force and the 6th Army, the losses will be quite heavy! Modell thought for a moment and continued. _> Yawen_> bar w'w'w·. `y=a`w`e`n-8`．=>

"If this happens, will our front collapse and we will lose the troops at the front in vain. If the American and British legions do not suffer heavy losses, then they will always be the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, and we do not know when they will fall. It's a bad feeling, and I can't stress enough that we can't keep our forces on the Eastern Front forever! Manstein emphasized.

"Look at their air force. The American bombers have covered almost the entire Ukrainian region, almost all transportation hubs, fortresses, warehouses, troop assembly points have been carpet bombed, and the losses of our troops are bearable, but the logistics will certainly not be able to support us in the border areas to block the opponent's offensive, if we want to contain the opponent's offensive, we must first weaken their air superiority, and this will take time, and the air force can only fight for air supremacy west of the Dnieper River and several bridgeheads on the east bank at this stage. The area of our decisive battle with our opponents should not be the borders, but the areas east of the Dnieper! ”

Moder still focuses on stability, and the risk of brazenly mobilizing most of them at the risk of the opponent's air raids is too great, and if there are huge losses on the Eastern Front, the elite troops that Germany has prepared after more than ten years may be completely exhausted. If the land is gone, it can be taken back, but the people are gone. What to do?!

"That's too much of a step back. His Majesty the Emperor and the General Staff would not have agreed. And if we lose here, I'm afraid we will never have a chance to restore the old borders again. Even if we thwart our opponent's attack, we may still not be able to push the line back! Guderian said worriedly.

"There's no need to think about that, the explosion of the Second World War was a mistake in the first place. And we will have to pay some price for our mistakes after all, and the fall of Turkey, the loss of spheres of influence in the Middle East, and now part of the lands of Ukraine will all be part of these costs, and if one day, for the continuation of the empire, we may have to pay an even more terrible price! Until then. Don't be surprised! Field Marshal Bock, who had not spoken, stopped the dispute with a word, and Moder's idea was passable.

"Okay, let's discuss tactics in detail, according to our current intelligence, the United States and Britain may attack us from both flanks of the Russian army, to the point that we have very limited mobile forces at hand, and we can only gain an advantage in one direction, and if we only choose one direction, the other force will still kill us, what should we do?" Guderian finished. He pointed to the two units on the sand table that were located on both flanks of the Russian army.

"Let's fight the northern front first, the American troops on the northern front are interspersed with greater distances, and our defense is relatively weak, the other side can bypass the strongly fortified support points, in this kind of relatively wide area, it is always more cost-effective to attack than to defend. We will have more chances, the southern front is the closest to the Dnieper, the supply is relatively fast, and our fortifications and defenses there are relatively strong, we can delay the opponent by layering defenses. Modell suggested.

The approximate pulse of the Entente. The Germans had already felt it, and they could be sure that the deepest line of the Entente's attack would not cross the Dnieper, and the focus of the German defense would also have to be the Dnieper. If the east coast is lost, then the Germans will probably never return to the place where the fighting began! Therefore, the Germans also chose the most prudent method, the air force began to wear down the opponent from both sides of the Dnieper River, and the troops on the front line entered the fortified area for defense, when the American and British troops thought that the Germans could not stop it, and began to attack from both flanks. The Germans armored iron fist smashed the spearheads of the opponent's attack one by one!

"I hope that at that time, the air forces of the United States and Britain will not be as rampant as they are now!" Feeling the faint vibration caused by the explosion of the bomb overhead, the German ** officers who were meeting in the underground bunker prayed silently. And just when the generals of the 6th Army were formulating a counterattack plan, the Air Force under the command of Richthofen Jr. was already fighting with the American and British Air Forces! The elite units withdrawn by Germany from the Middle East were sent directly to the Eastern Front after a short period of repair, so the performance of the air force was much better than that of the forward units of the 6th Army!

"Damn it, it's a storm bird! How did the Germans deploy so many jet fighters on the Eastern Front? Did they conjure up out of thin air? "As far as the eye can see, a dark shadow is approaching with a degree that propeller planes cannot reach! The P47 fighters above the box formation went to meet the enemy, but soon, they now seemed to have no easy time stopping their opponents at such an altitude, because they were facing not only the Storm Birds, but also a large number of TA152s! The high-altitude fighters of both sides quickly became entangled, and the high-jets rushed through the melee and rushed towards the box formation!

"What are we going to do? They rushed up! Damn, don't the guys above know the setting and give the plan? "A gunner struggled to operate the remote-controlled turret to attack a ME262 fighter on the side, the dense 5O caliber machine gun bullets drew arcs in the air, several of which accurately hit the opponent, but the damage was limited, I saw this storm bird pull out an elegant arc in the air, when it was about 5oo meters away from the target, two rows of dazzling fires suddenly burst out under the wings of the storm bird, and the rockets flew out from the wooden pylons, flying towards the target like locusts, just a few seconds, A heavy bomber with a take-off weight of more than 3o tons turned into a huge fireball in the air! The combination of the R4M rockets and jets newly equipped by the Germans raised the threat of interceptors to a whole new level!

"What do we have planned? Those generals simply could not have imagined that the Germans would have these things on the Eastern Front! Prior to this, storm birds had only been seen in large numbers in the Middle East and Europe! Even TA152 is very few, and we have never seen a brigade-sized 9 before! Who knows where the Germans sent these reinforcements! The captain's voice was intermittent in the roar of machine guns, and the American bomber units tried their best to protect themselves, but under the interception of the Luftwaffe, one after another, expensive B17 bombers with their crews turned into ashes!

Although in general, the Americans succeeded in dropping bombs where they wanted to go, but under the fierce resistance of the Luftwaffe, every bomb dropped by the Americans was dripping blood, and before the Germans were killed, the Americans' bombs were stained red with their own blood! The Luftwaffe was unusually strong on the Eastern Front beyond the expectations of Li Mei and others, who originally thought that they would only encounter some second-rate air forces on the Eastern Front, but as a result, even the Luftwaffe's Storm Bird appeared in formation, and the Luftwaffe fighting at home made up for the short legs of the jet aircraft, which made the just beginning of the Ledge Battle full of unknowns!

"The Germans still used pontoons and docks exclusively to transport supplies to the east coast, even heavy vehicles of all kinds, they began to fortify the defenses of key transport nodes, and their air force was more than we could have imagined, and on the first day of fighting, we lost almost twice as many planes as we could have tolerated! With such high battle losses, our follow-up attacks are unsustainable, and tactical support and strategic bombing must be abandoned! "Shortly after the Battle of Ledges began, Li Mei received such a report!

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