readx; At that time, in May, China's European Expeditionary Force had already captured the whole of Greece in the joint offensive of the navy, land and air forces, and at this time it was only more than half a month before China declared war on Germany. Although it is said that Greece is only a small land, it can defeat hundreds of thousands www.biquge.info of German-Italian troops in about 20 days, and then bring the whole of Greece under control.

In this war, although China's air force and navy have participated in the war, but compared with the eye-catching performance in last year's Sino-Chinese war, it is still much more obscure, the air force is okay, relying on the F12 combat effectiveness of the strong air command surname Neng, a small limelight, let the world see the latest generation of China's latest generation of jet fighter strong surname Neng, and the navy is much more obscure.

The Seventh Mobile Fleet sent by the Chinese Navy to fight in the Mediterranean region is not too strong in terms of overall strength, and the two light aircraft carriers are only very average in the huge aircraft carrier groups of China and the United States, and there is not much power in the Axis [***] on the Mediterranean side, so there is no chance for the Seventh Mobile Fleet to play at all, so in the course of the entire Greek campaign, the biggest task of the Seventh Mobile Fleet is to roam the coast of Greece and use carrier-based aircraft to provide air support for the army units. The professional surname of air support is far less professional than that of the Air Force, and although the Navy's carrier-based aircraft have been changed from F8G to the newer F15 fighter, the surname of the propeller fighter can still not be compared with the Air Force's F12 jet fighter.

Therefore, after the 7th Mobile Fleet entered the Mediterranean, it never got any opportunity to perform.

In a small Greek campaign, although there were only a few divisions of the Chinese army units participating in the battle, the outstanding performance of these heavy mechanized units and their different combat modes from the vast majority of traditional troops not only attracted the extreme attention of the enemy's German army, but even the American and Soviet armies were also seriously concerned about the various performances of the Chinese army in Greece.

Before the Greek campaign was completely over, an analysis report on China's heavy mechanized troops in the United States was already on Admiral Marshall's desk.

"According to our various intelligence realities, the Chinese armored divisions and several infantry divisions participating in the Balkan war are very different from our army and the German and Soviet armies in terms of formation and combat mode. They used a new type of armored vehicle of an infantry fighting vehicle to work with the tank units to advance and fight, both in the field and in the streets. For example, in the Thessaloniki that we had predicted, we originally estimated that even if the Chinese were able to conquer the city, they would need to invest at least 100,000 troops and suffer no less than 20,000 casualties. Although China and Germany have not yet released the details of the battle, according to the information collected by our military intelligence officers from various sources, the Chinese only invested one armored division and two infantry divisions in the battle, and the number of troops involved in the battle was about 70,000. More critically, their casualty figure will not exceed five thousand. It is clear that their combat effectiveness far exceeds our previous estimate of them! ”

"In addition, we also learned through secret channels that some of the surname data of their latest T18 tank, although their main gun is still 105 mm caliber, but the barrel length is longer than the original T15, we estimate that it is a 105 mm fifty times the caliber of the main gun, the main gun can effectively penetrate the German Tiger tank when firing armor-piercing shells. In addition, the tank's protection is also quite good. And according to the information collected by our spy personnel in China, at present the Chinese have completely stopped the production of T15 tanks, and the tanks produced in their military factories are already T18, and according to the production estimates of several tank factories of the Chinese, the number of T18 tanks they are equipped with this year may reach more than five thousand! ”

Marshall frowned: "In this way, our current M4 tank is completely unable to effectively deal with the situation in the future!" ”

"Not bad!"

"It looks like we're going to have to speed up the development of new tanks!"

General Marshall is not worried about China's increased production, compared to tank production, Marshall is very conceited, even two Chinas are not comparable to one United States. But now the question is, although the United States produces more tanks than China, but it is much behind in tank surname, when the US Army is still working hard to develop a tank that can fight the T15 tank, the Chinese T18 has come out and entered service on a large scale, how can this allow Americans to keep up with the pace of the Chinese Army.

In addition, the outstanding combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army in Greece has also attracted the attention of many American generals, especially the fully mechanized infantry division, which makes the Americans seem to see the direction of future infantry development.

In World War II, the U.S. military has completed the full motorization, and the whole army is equipped with a large number of armored vehicles such as cars and tanks, but this is only to speed up the marching speed of the troops, and the infantry divisions still fight the same as the traditional infantry divisions in the combat mode. This kind of infantry unit is the same concept as the main infantry division in the Chinese Army.

However, in addition to a large number of motorized infantry divisions in the Chinese Army, in order to cooperate with armored divisions, the specially established mechanized infantry divisions are a kind of troops with a new combat mode.

In fact, more than a dozen mechanized infantry divisions in the Chinese army can no longer be said to be infantry divisions, and you have seen whose infantry divisions are mechanized by the whole army, but also have two tank battalions, and even the infantry battalions are infantry divisions equipped with self-propelled assault guns. In fact, in the Chinese Army, the so-called armored division and mechanized infantry division are the same in terms of combat mode, and the equipment of both is the same, the only difference is that the number of tank battalions in the armored division is three, while the number of tank battalions in the mechanized infantry division is two. A 1945 version of the Chinese Army armored division with three tank battalions, six armored infantry battalions, four self-propelled artillery battalions, and an armored reconnaissance battalion. In the case of mechanized infantry divisions, there are two tank battalions, six armored infantry divisions, one special operations battalion (light infantry battalion), one armored reconnaissance battalion, and four self-propelled artillery battalions. That is, the mechanized infantry division replaces the armored division with a tank battalion with a light infantry battalion. The intention was to reduce the number of tanks and equipment, reduce costs, and at the same time strengthen the mountain combat capabilities of mechanized infantry divisions.

After all, a mechanized infantry division is also an infantry division, and you can't always stay in the plains and fight without going to the mountains and hills.

However, in essence, the establishment of these two divisions is actually very small, and in actual combat, the generals of the Chinese Army also regard the same branch of the two types of troops, that is, heavy mechanized troops.

At present, the US Army's armored division is composed of three tank battalions, three armored infantry battalions, three self-propelled artillery battalions, and one armored reconnaissance battalion. Although the number of tanks is similar to that of the Chinese armored divisions, it is less than the infantry and artillery and other forces that cooperate with the battle. This is also understandable, because there are only more than 11,000 people in an armored division in the United States, and 16,000 troops in a mechanized division in China.

When the specific establishment of the mechanized units of the Chinese Army became known to various countries through the Greek campaign, the Americans immediately made the first reaction. What are you kidding, we Americans have more money than you, more tanks than you, and more armored vehicles than you, so why can you play heavy mechanization in China, but we in the United States cannot.

As a result, several pilot units soon began to experiment with new formations, and urgently developed and equipped infantry fighting vehicles, and then formed heavy mechanized units.

Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

When the second batch of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force arrived in Turkey, the Chinese Army adjusted the establishment of its combat units in Europe and unified its subordinate units into four armored corps, namely the Fourth Armored Army, the Twelfth Armored Army, the Seventeenth Armored Army, and the Eighteenth Armored Army. Among them, the 4th Panzer Corps has the 2nd Panzer Division and the 67th Infantry Division, which are currently stationed in the southern part of Greece for recuperation. Its 12th Panzer Corps has entered Yugoslavia, the 17th Panzer Army is currently on its way to Yugoslavia, and the 18th Panzer Army is deployed in the Turkish direction as a strategic reserve.

In order to further strengthen the command system of the troops in the European region, the Chinese Army first formally reorganized the European Expeditionary Force into the Ninth Group Army, which has the above four armies and many auxiliary units under its jurisdiction, and is fully responsible for the operations of the Chinese Army in the European direction. The commander of the newly established Ninth Army continued to be General Du Yanpeng, the former commander of the expeditionary force.

As for the Air Force, troops were also formally transferred from the Fourth and Third Air Forces, and the Eighth Air Force was newly established to take overall responsibility for operations in the European theater.

As for the navy, it is still under the responsibility of the 7th Mobile Fleet.

In other words, by May, China's navy, army, and air force had completed the deployment of the command system in the European theater, with the Ninth Group Army for the Army, the Eighth Air Force for the Air Force, and the Seventh Mobile Fleet for the Navy.

China was fighting in the Balkans, and the Americans and Soviet Russia did not sit and watch the show, as if in order to compete with the Chinese army, the Soviet army launched a large-scale counteroffensive in April, called the summer offensive of 1945, and finally advanced to the three Baltic countries on the northern front after killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of people.

As for the US military, under the cover of a large number of naval and air forces, it launched a large-scale landing operation in southern Italy.

Although the Germans had anticipated this and deployed heavy troops in the direction of Italy, they were still unable to stop the large-scale landing of American troops, and soon the southern part of Italy was lost, and the two sides are currently fighting in the north-central part of Italy.

Generally speaking, the German army is now facing the final state of collapse, but in any case, the German army has not collapsed yet, and it is still stubbornly resisting in Italy and Yugoslavia.

Moreover, Germany now seems to know that it is about to be invaded into its homeland, and has begun to set up the so-called national garrison, that is, the militia force, whether it is an old man in his fifties or sixties or a child in his teens, he is called up, and throws them a rifle or a bazooka, that is, let them take on the garrison duty.

Now the Germans have reached the point of exhaustion, years of war not only make Germany a shortage of various materials, cities and factories were bombed, and their population resources are also depleted, the German army relies on strong mobilization ability, almost all young men are sent to the battlefield, and years of war continues, millions of young adults die so that Germany can no longer find young adults to join the army, so that the old man and children can only be armed.

Although it has reached the point of exhaustion, Hitler still did not give up, shouting that he would coexist with Germany and fight to the death, and this attitude made many German generals with reasonable surnames very disgusted, so when Germany and the whole world went to war, an assassination of Hitler was launched!