readx; In all fairness, the number of Axis [***] teams in North Africa is not small, if the Italian Army is also counted, it is slightly more than the Allied [***] team in number, but the problem is that the main force of the Axis army is not much, and although the Allied forces in North Africa are also concentrated in the armies of many countries, the main force is still dominated by the British and American coalition forces, and a small number of troops from other countries are also playing soy sauce. Pen ~ fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info Before launching a large-scale counteroffensive, the Anglo-American coalition concentrated at least 20 British and American divisions in North Africa, with a total strength of more than 400,000, and these troops were either armored divisions or motorized infantry divisions, and there were no simple infantry divisions at all. Because Britain and the United States, like China, except for a few special units, the whole army has already turned its attention to motorization, unlike Germany, Soviet Russia, and Ben, which still have a large number of traditional infantry units.

In fact, the simple comparison of forces is not too outrageous, the real gap between the two sides of the heavy weapons gap is huge, before the British and American forces in the counteroffensive, in North Africa at least more than 4,000 tanks, self-propelled anti-tank guns and other armored vehicles, while the opposite Axis forces only have a pitiful more than 600 tanks. In desert areas like North Africa, where mechanized forces can play their greatest role, the Axis powers are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of mechanized forces, making it impossible for them to effectively resist the Allied offensive.

In addition to the gap in strength and equipment between the two sides, there is also a gap in logistics, the Allied troops have good logistical supplies, there is no shortage of fuel and artillery shells, and they can use it as they like to fight, but the Axis troops are seriously short of gasoline to keep tanks running, and ammunition is also extremely scarce.

After the complete annihilation of the Italian Navy by the Allies, Rommel's Army Group Africa was simply not supplied with any effective supplies.

In this case, even if Rommel was called the Desert Fox, he could not save the defeat, and two months after the Allies launched a large-scale counteroffensive, the Axis African Army Group was defeated in succession, and it was already a kick away from the final collapse.

On March 2nd, Nanjing, Chen Jingyun looked at the report in his hand, sighed and said: "It's a pity that Rommel is the desert fox!" ”

The report in his hand was about the war in North Africa, on February 26, the Axis African Army Group had already begun to completely collapse, and by March 2, the Allied forces had even taken down the headquarters of the African Army Group, and Rommel committed suicide on the eve of being captured.

The victory in the North African theater can be regarded as the first large-scale victory between the Allies and the Axis powers, although the defeat of the German army has been revealed, and there have been several successive defeats on the Eastern Front, but there has been no defeat like a mountain, at most it is a tactical defeat, but the defeat in the North African war is a real strategic defeat.

The loss of North Africa not only did the Axis powers not hope to conquer the Suez Canal and advance eastward into the Middle East to secure Turkish transportation routes, but also represented that Turkey's lifeline was already under the direct threat of Allied ground forces at any time, and Italy itself would face great danger of being landed by the Allies in the next step.

The end of Italy would mean the collapse of the entire southern front of the German army, even worse than the cutting off of the Turkish supply lines.

The whole situation seemed to be extremely bad for Germany, and the Allies seemed to see hope for complete victory in the war! But they have not forgotten that although the fall of North Africa also has a significant impact, it can only be regarded as secondary, and there is only one thing that can really affect the direction of the war, and that is China's attitude!

Judging from the series of military movements and nuclear bomb exercises in China between January and February 1945, no one would think that China would remain indifferent to its current state of affairs.

The main force of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Army has arrived in the northwest of Iran, at the same time the Third Armored Corps of the Chinese Army has been deployed to the border of Iraq, and at the same time, Turkey, which has signed a large-scale military assistance agreement with China in the early stage, has also entered a state of full combat readiness, and has deployed a large number of mountain troops in the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union in the northeast.

In this direction, as long as Chen Jingyun gives an order, then China's huge Fourth Army will be able to directly blitzkrieg the Caucasus region of Soviet Russia and capture Bak, the most important oil producing area of Soviet Russia. On the Iraqi side, China's Third Panzer Army was able to sweep through Iraq at the first time, and with the support of many Chinese and Iraqi troops in the rear, it quickly marched to the Mediterranean coast, and possibly even hit the Suez Canal in a short time.

In the Siberian direction, the three armies of the Chinese Army, with a combined strength of nearly 1.3 million, have already put on an offensive posture, while at the same time, the Chinese Army has also drawn more army units from the eastern coastal areas and inland provinces.

Judging from the current situation of the Chinese Army's mobilization, it is estimated that by April 1945, the Chinese Army will be able to concentrate more than 80 divisions on the front lines of the Middle East, Siberia, and Central Asia, and the number of front-line troops participating in the war will be as high as more than 2 million.

Naturally, it is impossible for all the logistical supplies of such a large number of troops to be transported from the main industrial areas in the east, and the food and other materials are collected locally, and part of the ammunition is also solved by the newly established arsenals in Siberia and Central Asia, and the insufficient part is transported from the eastern part of the country.

In order to solve the problem of logistical supply of the local garrison, in addition to collecting food and other materials locally, the military is also cooperating with several major defense contractors to attract those defense contractors to establish various factories in Central Asia and Siberia on the condition of a large number of orders and increasing the purchase unit price, and these factories are mainly based on a large number of consumable materials, such as bullets, These ammunition factories, such as the clothing factories that provide military uniforms, and the canneries that provide military cans, do not involve the production of technologically advanced heavy weapons, such as the production of tanks, aircraft, artillery, and other things has always been in China's native areas, mainly because the situation in the newly occupied areas is not too stable, and China has only controlled Siberia and Central China for three or four years, and it is far from making the locals shout with joy Long live China, and there are many guerrillas and reading forces. Over the past few years, China has spent a lot of money on military resources to suppress guerrillas in Central Asia and Siberia.

The deployment of the Chinese Army's troops on the front line is as high as more than 2 million, and these are all front-line field troops, and you must know that until 1944, the Chinese Army's front-line field strength was only more than 3 million. This transfer can be said to have transferred all the elite of the Chinese Army to the Western Front. In order to fill the troop needs of the Pacific region, the Indochina Peninsula, and the domestic coastal areas, the Chinese Army has already recruited a large number of local garrison troops in January; of course, because China has always strictly controlled the numbers of division-level troops, so far China has only 100 infantry divisions, 23 armored divisions, and three cavalry divisions. Therefore, strictly speaking, China only has 126 division-level troops. However, the Chinese Army also has a large number of reading force numbers, such as reading armored brigade, reading artillery brigade, reading tank regiment, battalion, reading air defense battalion, reading power transport regiment, reading engineering regiment, etc., these reading force troops are not directly belonging to the divisions, but are generally used as a subordinate unit of the army-level command organization, such as the Fifth Army under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army, which is a more typical combat corps-level command organization of the Chinese Army, with a lieutenant general or general as the commander, directly under the jurisdiction of the 20th Infantry Division, the 22nd Infantry Division, The three motorized infantry divisions of the 23rd Infantry Division, as well as the 19th Artillery Brigade, the 27th Armored Brigade, the 132nd Transport Regiment, the 133rd Transport Regiment, and the 20th Engineering Regiment, have a total strength of more than 100,000 troops, more than 500 self-propelled armored vehicles such as tanks, tracked infantry fighting vehicles, and self-propelled anti-tank guns, more than 300 large-caliber towed artillery, nearly 100 large-caliber self-propelled guns, and small and medium-caliber and mortars are ignored. In addition, it has more than 6,000 cars of various types.

An army in other countries may only have three divisions, but a corps of the Chinese Army is actually a mixed unit of three divisions, brigades, and regiments, and it has the ability to read and fight on one front.

At present, China's highest-level fixed command structure is a group army, and in China, a group army is often responsible for operations in an entire theater of operations. This kind of army group is roughly equivalent to the large military district front of Soviet Russia and the army group of Germany.

In 1945, a regular motorized infantry division in China reached more than 18,000 people, more than the 16,000 in the United States. Although there have been calls for the reduction of the number of division-level troops within the Chinese Army since before World War II, it has not been able to make the trip, and when World War II first broke out, an infantry division of the Chinese Army was as high as 18,000 people. As for reducing the number of troops to 15,000 or even less, that is not something that can be easily done, because China's army is a strategic unit, so the army is more inclined to increase the firepower of division-level units, and all tank battalions and air defense battalions that can be added are added, and with the addition of these, even if the number of infantry is reduced, it is difficult to greatly reduce the total number of infantry divisions.

This approach is somewhat similar to that of the United States, the American infantry division was not worthy of tanks in the early days, and later the number of tanks was one, and the infantry division was usually equipped with a reading tank battalion to fight, resulting in the fact that although there are still so many people in the establishment table of an American infantry division, but in actual combat, a division in the United States has a reading tank battalion, air defense battalion and other auxiliary troops, according to the different numbers of each unit, and generally speaking, an American infantry division combat unit, Its headquarters is supplemented by the read-strength units that cooperate with its operations, while China has directly incorporated these tank battalions, air defense battalions, and other units into the establishment of infantry divisions.