Chapter 707: The Battle of October

In October, the Germans and the Japanese lit up more intense wars in Europe, Africa, and Asia, respectively, and the whole world was shaken by a series of wars.

In October, the continuous autumn rainy season continues, and the first winter snow arrives in Moscow on the 6th.

The first snow did not stop the typhoon that the Germans had been rolling around since the end of September.

The German soldiers' boots were 60 kilometers from Moscow, but the mud under the rain and snow made it more and more difficult for them to advance with each step. Even then, the power of the typhoon has already been seen by Muscovites.

Truckloads of corpses and wounded were being transported around the city, and shells from German heavy artillery could already fall on Moscow. The ministries of the Central Committee of Soviet Russia and foreign embassies began to evacuate backwards. They did not choose to retreat directly to Kuibyshev, as in the original history, but retreated four hundred kilometers, first to the city of Gorky.

The former city of Nizhny Novgorod is one of the few preserved military industrial centers in Soviet Russia, located at the confluence of the Volga River and its tributary, the Oka River, along which Kuibyshev can be reached quickly.

The reason why the Central Committee of Soviet Russia did not withdraw so far was that in addition to the fact that Kuibyshev also had to face the wandering of China in the East in the Urals and Central Asia, it was also necessary to stabilize the morale of the army and the people. The same Stalin stayed directly in Moscow and did not retreat a single step.

He didn't have to worry about his safety at all, but the continuous bad news made him feel terrible.

"Timid Americans! The group of selfish capitalists! "Stalin's anger has not been able to be contained. Finally, the Americans got involved in the war, but the Americans did not send any troops and still only provided some military supplies. The reason is simple: in addition to the opposition of the American insiders to getting involved in the war in Europe, there is also the excuse that the soldiers are not well trained.

The worsening weather in Moscow gave the Russians a breather, but it also made the Americans breathe a sigh of relief.

The Americans repeatedly claimed that it would take another half a year to prepare, so that Stalin could no longer hold back his anger and roared again:

"Half a year? In our Soviet Russia, just find a random farmer, as long as you give him a rifle, he can go to the battlefield, where can you use it for half a year? Now we Soviet Russians are at the front with their lives at the guns of the Germans. In half a year, I am afraid that Moscow has long been captured by the Germans. These damn liars! They destroy us first! First destroy the great Soviet Russoism. This is simply wishful thinking! When pigs fly! ”

Under so many deductions by Soviet Russia, according to the German offensive, Moscow will definitely not be able to hold out for half a year. There are still Chinese people in the East who are taking advantage of the fire to rob, making them lose the vast strategic depth of the East. In half a year, they have definitely lost more than Moscow.

But Stalin also knew that his roar could not change the decision of the Americans at all, and the crisis of the Russians was more urgent than that of the United States on the other side of the ocean.

"I want them to continue to increase their assistance!" He could only instruct that Soviet Russia still had a large number of people to consume, but it was just a lack of all kinds of weapons and military supplies.

In fact, there is no need for him to mention that the Americans also knew that the struggle with the Germans had reached a critical moment, so they opened the floodgates and directly filled the major ports and wharves of the United States with a large amount of overproduced American goods. Boxes bearing the USA symbol were shipped across the Atlantic and Arctic oceans to the British Isles, Soviet Russia, and even the African continent.

As soon as October began, the British, who had received large amounts of aid from the United States, launched a long-planned crusade in North Africa.

Although the British were driven out of Libya by Rommel, they crushed the traditionally fragile Italians near the Red Sea and took control of East Africa and the Red Sea.

Because Turkey and Spain were only at war against Soviet Russia, the British still had an advantage in the Mediterranean, but they could not carry a single shipment of goods. Vast amounts of wealth and supplies looted from the Asian and African colonies were piled up in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, increasing the power of the British army in the area.

With the help of the oil resources of the Suez Bay Basin, Meng Xiang has also built a branch base on the slightly desolate Sinai Peninsula on the east bank of the Suez Canal.

It can control Cairo, Alexandria and other Egyptian regions in the west, and is connected with the control area of Libya sub-bases; The East can cover Jerusalem, Damascus and other areas, and can control Jordan, Libya, Iraq and other places, and unite with Aladdin's power in the Crescent Kingdom in the Middle East. Take West Asia and North Africa directly into your hands.

In addition, this new sub-base also has the task of consuming the plundering wealth of the British army, and the Umbrella Company has expanded rapidly here, relying on the sub-base here, while providing the British with weapons and ammunition replenishment, in exchange for a large amount of material wealth.

It was precisely because of the Umbrella Company deal that the British were able to defend Alexandria and other places without losing under the attack of the stronger German North African Corps, although they lost Tobruk and other places.

On the other hand, the copycat company in North Africa, which had grown up with the help of the Libyan sub-base, also lost no time in supplying a large amount of supplies to Rommel's corps, and always maintained its superiority over the British army. Under Meng Xiang's deliberate control, the two sides consumed a large amount of looted materials and wealth here, and maintained a confrontation with gentlemen until the Americans joined in.

A large amount of U.S. aid bypassed South Africa and was sent directly to the British camp from the Red Sea. One by one, the latest American M4 Sherman tanks, accompanied by the M3 Grant tanks, drove directly off the cargo ship, expanding the British armored forces at once.

Although Tobruk had already lost ground in Operation Tomahawk, which was bombarded by German heavy artillery, a new crusade plan was hatched. The British vowed to drive the German African Army out of Egypt.

But the British didn't know that Lao Xi, who was still in the famous wolf's den at this time, also looked at the huge world map and said: "Our troops are going to climb to the top of the pyramid!" ”

When the Sherman tanks equipped by the British 1st Army and the newly formed 8th Army rushed to the German line with rolling yellow sand, the Germans, who had also changed their guns, drove the Panther tanks and were accompanied by many No. 4 tanks.

The first collision between the two sides took place at a point just 90 kilometers from Alexandria and the Nile Delta, and the Battle of El Alamein was staged a year earlier.

This collision, later known as the First Battle of El Alamein, has distorted the appearance of the original plane and plane.

The well-supplied and well-armed North African Army has not tasted defeat, and because of the embarrassment of the British Isles, which has led to the dispersion of forces in various places, the British Middle East Army has been strengthened, and this attack gathered followers from Australia, India and other places, with more than 250,000 troops, far exceeding the scale of the 100,000 troops of the German-Italian army.

As soon as the war began, more than 1,000 artillery pieces from the U.S. Aid and Umbrella Company were concentrated.

However, the first meeting between the Sherman tank and the Panther tank ended in a crushing defeat for the Sherman.

The M4 medium tank is already the most advanced service tank of the Americans at this time, and the Sherman tank, which bears the name of the famous general of the American Northern Army who burned Atra, is indeed a classic tank in the history of World War II.

Regardless of the M3 75-mm tank gun that Sherman was equipped with at the beginning, it was difficult to penetrate the Panther's frontal armor up to 110 mm. The Panther tank, which is also 75 mm in diameter, can easily penetrate Sherman's thickest armor at a distance of 1,000 meters.

The 200 Sherman tanks were beaten to the ground by one hundred and fifty Panthers, losing most of them by a ratio of 1 to 7.

And the 200 M3 Grants and more than 200 of the British's own Crusader, Bee, Matilda, and Valentine tanks accompanying the British armored forces were obviously not inferior to the combined attack of the No. 4 tank and the Panther, and they could only rout.

The First Battle of El Alamein lasted only ten days before the British ended their crusade plans and retreated to Alexandria.

The prestige of the German army once again shocked the world, and the Americans began to secretly tilt in the direction of Europe.

However, in Asia, although the Japanese advanced very quickly, the British and Dutch colonies had not yet broken their bones, and the old forces had not yet been broken.

The Americans were in no hurry to regain this disadvantage until the British had come to their faces.

The most anxious in Asia should be the British, the weak Dutch have resigned themselves to their fate, but the British still count on the wealth of the Asian colonies to support the huge skeleton of the British Empire in the war.

But in mid-October, Yamashita Bongwen's troops had penetrated the jungles of Malaya and came to the Strait of Johor near Singapore, blocking this choke point.

On the other hand, the Japanese army also cleared the sea in early October and began landing operations on Borneo and other places.

A series of blows had to make the British act in advance.

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