readx;?“ Damn, I'm starting to miss the days when I fought side by side with Charles de Gaulle in France, at least at that time, we wouldn't have been worried about the road conditions and the bad supply situation, and we could at least get enough ammunition and oil, enough bread and canned spam despite the German bombing, but here we have limited fuel! And that's not what we usually use gasoline! The quality of the fuel supplied by the Russians is completely inferior! The wax is scary! "When Montgomery came to visit Patton, the grumpy American general once again expressed his displeasure with the situation on the Eastern Front!

"When Lao Tzu was in France, there was a German Tiger tank in front of it, and a German tank on top of his head. With the German fleet next to us, none of our supplies have been so embarrassed as they are today! Our heroic engineering troops were not crushed by the heavy artillery and bombs of the Germans, but were defeated by the poor Russian traffic and muddy land! It's hard to understand! Barton continued to grumble. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"But you've not lost weight, which means that the supply is still within the tolerable range." Montgomery laughed and joked. "You know what? General Patton, I now suddenly find myself in a position where I don't seem to know how to fight! We are also fighting in an extremely unfamiliar environment, everything around us is very different from our previous understanding, we simply cannot formulate our battle plan according to the original standards, and most of the friendly forces around us can be described as unreliable! ”

What's the saying? The ideal is very beautiful, the reality is very cruel, and after setting foot on the land of Russia, the soldiers of the United States and Britain have a deep understanding of this so-called great country! According to the words of some veteran generals who participated in the war, Russia at this time was even weaker than it was before the war! It's even more unbearable!

Before the war, Russia was a great power. Although the economic strength and industrial technology level are relatively poor, the military strength of other people, especially the army force, is still very strong. Surpassing Austria-Hungary is certain, compared to Britain and France. It's hard to say how, but if it weren't for some reason, Russia might have been able to hold out much longer! It is not an exaggeration to say that Russia is an army power, but its opponents are too strong.

And even though the industry is relatively backward, the Russians can still produce most of the army's weapons, machine guns, artillery, early tanks and airplanes. But now, when the British set foot on Russian soil again, they were surprised to find out. The technological level of the Russians is already lagging behind this era! According to Montgomery, they must now learn how to work with an army that is 0 years behind the mainstream forces of the world! And there is such an ally, in a way, sometimes more terrible than the enemy!

Although the Americans have a rough estimate of the situation of Russia, which has been suppressed by the two great powers and whose territory has shrunk by three-quarters, although the Americans began to find ways to strengthen the strength of the Russians before World War II, and although the Americans provided Russia with a large amount of aid and equipment during the war, it has been proved that if you want to make a big country really strong. You can't just send it! Especially if a big country wants to buy a world-class army, it will not work!

The Americans can give the Russians tanks and accessories, but they can't give Russia a whole tank industrial system! Not to mention the suspension, artillery, engine, transmission, which are more technical. It's just armor and tracks, the Russians themselves can't do it! If some of the problems of Russian armor in history can be attributed to the decline in quality during the war, then the Russian armor in this plane can be described as a technical coffee table. And the poor road conditions and logistical supply situation on the Eastern Front made the intact rate of weapons and equipment sent by the United States and Britain very low! Even an American second lieutenant in charge of repairs said that if they wanted to fix a tank, they could only pray that some parts of the other broken tank would still work! Unless they use original American tank parts, this tank will be almost impossible to overhaul!

If fading out of your logistical supplies and allies coffee table can already make the US-British generals feel very tricky, but they can overcome it by trying to find a way, then the change in the battlefield situation has made the US-British generals find that the military strength they have learned and the strategic plans they have made now seem to be a pile of waste paper! In addition to various human factors, Barton and Montgomery found that the Eastern Front was just too vast! Millions of troops were thrown on the Eastern Front. Only a continuous line of defense can be formed! And this line of defense is not straight yet! The Germans have a huge salient in the Ukrainian direction again!

The total amount of equipment and troops that seemed to be a lot swung towards the Eastern Front, and the density plummeted. And the depth on both sides is great. As a result, the role of the air forces on both sides has decreased. The Americans' are better, after all, whether it is P47 or F6F, the range of these aircraft is at least okay, and it is the British who are really sad! In order to maintain the number of aircraft stranded in the air on one battlefield, the British needed more planes than the Germans! Suppose that the Americans can control a battlefield with 00 aircraft, the Germans need about 40. Then the British need at least 200 of them! The range of the British's Spitfire is even more tragic than that of the BF09!

There is a saying that there is no worst, only worse. Although the range of the main combat aircraft of the British is very tragic, but if you want to say that the British do not have long-range fighters, it is the Black British, the dignified British Empire can even press the 24-cylinder engine on the fighter, and won the title of low-altitude king! What's so hard about people getting a long-range fighter! Isn't it going to fly far? Wouldn't it be okay to make the plane bigger? Is the typhoon just a third heavier than the F90? What's this! The 24-cylinder liquid-cooled engine can be carried! The British use technology that is tougher than that of the US imperialists to tell everyone a truth! The engine NB and refrigerator can be up at low altitude NB! A sense of academic tyrant is coming!

Who is the real worst? Naturally, it's still Russian! If the short range of the British Spitfire is a matter of demand and design guidelines, then the Russian aircraft of this plane is a matter of the double coffee table of technology and industry! Historically, the Russians' La series, Yake series, and MiG series were all known for their short legs. Of course, there is also a remote version of the historical Russians. But for the most part of what is said here, if you are to put it bluntly, the British Spitfire also has a range-enhanced version. The 650-kilometer internal fuel range of the 7th zone can almost be said to be the bottom line of the 2nd combat aircraft. And in this plane, the Russians because of engine problems, they in order to ensure the flight performance of the aircraft. Almost all the weight that can be reduced is reduced! Naturally, the weight of fuel can't avoid this knife! As a result, the range of the Russian fighter in this plane is only a tragic 500 kilometers!

Then the problem arises. Logistics is not good, the Air Force is not good, allies and allies are not good, themselves? It seems that the US-British coalition is not good compared to the Germans? Although the US and British armies are equipped with new Pershing tanks, but after all, they are new equipment, and there are some problems that need to be slowly run-in. Not to mention. The tiger in this plane is so strong, and the Pershing is about the same as in history... Of course, Huaxia also has this problem, but the problem is that the Dragon tank is really much stronger than the Tiger. The technical performance overwhelms the operation of the shots, the level of the result, it's like you play r, the same population of the wyvern will never be the same population of the gargoyle...

Even in the last moments of the European theater, the US-British coalition forces still managed to launch local counterattacks. Concentrate superior forces, break through at a certain point on the station line while the opponent is unprepared, and then launch a limited attack on the depth This is because the depth of both sides is relatively shallow. Once the defensive line is breached, and there are not enough reserves to defend it, then the logistics organs, transport lines, and support firepower units are exposed to the opponent. Even the most lame armored unit can pose a great threat to the opponent as long as it can tear a gap! If it is said that when the Germans and China were stumbling, the US-British-Russian coalition could still rely on the advantage of the inner line to finally stabilize the line in the face of the limited preventive offensive of the German Army, then now the question is, when the above requires the Eastern Front coalition forces to defeat Ukraine within a year, both Patton and Montgomery are in difficulty, how to fight this offensive war?

But on the Eastern Front, it was different, the defense line of a division actually stretched for about 20 to 25 kilometers! Such a line of defense is indeed easier to break through. After all, the decrease in the density of troops directly leads to a decrease in the intensity of defense. But the question is what happens after the breakthrough? You talk about facing each other hundreds of kilometers in depth! The opponent has plenty of time to mobilize reserves to close the gap. And the logistics or transportation hub you want to attack may be a hundred kilometers away! Even if you don't go deeper. If you want to encircle the opponent, it is just to encircle a little bit of troops, Patton and the others don't know how to spread the encirclement larger, but the strength is limited! And there are fewer troops that can be used, and the mobility of the Russians simply cannot keep up with the pace of the American and British troops, and in previous defensive battles, it has often been the case that the American and British tanks have bitten the opponent, while the Russian infantry is still halfway there!

The mobile US-British forces were able to barely break through, but they were unable to secure Russian support with sufficient infantry. This problem, the three sides have coordinated countless times, and the final result is only one, that is, if you want to play a successful offensive, then the United States and Britain must concentrate on the main attack task, while the Russian army will launch a large-scale offensive in the shallow and deep positions, constantly consuming and containing the opponent, when the Germans have consumed their forces to a certain extent, the American and British troops will choose the weak point to intersperse!

Of course, this is only a requirement for the Army, which, as the Air Force, has a heavier task! They want to suppress the Luftwaffe in the entire Ukrainian direction, to strike at Germany in depth to make up for the lack of the army, this will be a long-term process, and it will be a complex mission system that takes into account battlefield air supremacy and strategic bombing at the same time! The plan itself requires the US and British air forces to carry out two strategic missions at the same time when their forces are limited, and generally speaking, when there are too many planned tasks, the results are often worse!

But does the United States and Britain have a choice? No! At this time, Germany was unprecedentedly weak, and if the United States and Britain could not deal with their opponents at this time, what would they talk about integrating Europe? What else to talk about and Huaxia to dominate the world? If you can't even pack up a Germany, how can you face a more powerful China? Therefore, this time, the United States and Britain resolutely pressed a lot of capital! The Navy's aviation has been transferred to support the operation!

And as an important ally of the United States and Britain, the Russians also attach great importance to this! They have to pay even more than the United States and Britain! If the United States and Britain only paid a large amount of materials and a certain number of troops, then in this operation, Russia paid for the future of a nation, yes, you read that right! It is the future of the nation! Because in this world gamble, the only thing the Russians can come up with is not resources, not industry, not weapons, they can't even do food self-sufficiency in wartime, the only thing they can take out is people! That's right, living people! With the lives of countless young people, gamble on a country, a chance for national rejuvenation! If the Russians win the bet, then they can get part of Ukraine, Belarus, the three Baltic states, and even Poland, and the rich land can fully compensate for the losses of this war!

But what if it fails? After paying millions of young lives, after fighting out a generation of elites, what is left of Russia? They only have backward industry, underproduced land, not a lot of mineral resources, and the suppression of the superpowers of the two countries! They will slowly shrink, and the once powerful Russian nation will go back a few hundred years! Of course, they can also choose not to go to war, but the end result will only be to become an insignificant country, a third-rate country! This is something that is unacceptable to the Russian leadership! So they're going to give it a go! Go and gamble on the fortunes of the country!

The national strength of the Russians and the materials distributed to them by the United States and Britain doomed Russia to have the ability to independently tear apart the German defense line and develop in depth, and the only thing they could do was to fight a World War I-style trench attack with the German troops on the front line! Constantly wear down the opponent with human lives, and gradually draw the German reserves from the depths, and then create opportunities for the American and British troops! In order to achieve this goal, the entire Russian army has been specialized, they lack mobility, but they are equipped with a large number of artillery and defensive weapons, the tactics of high concentration of technical forces that the Russians have engaged in in history are resurrected at this moment, and the Germans are trying their best to concentrate heavy weapons on more advanced military units in order to gain a firepower advantage in a certain direction, but at this price, the equipment level of the grassroots troops is extremely low! According to the British, they were even inferior to the firepower of the British army in the late period of wartime! And how to make up for the shortcomings of the equipment? It can only be human life! This method is almost the last choice for Russia, because they have a relatively sufficient number of soldiers, and as long as the technical equipment is retained, a conscription order can make up for the loss of personnel! It's brutal, but it works!

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