"General, you don't seem to be very confident in the upcoming offensive." After everyone had dispersed, Falkenhausen carefully closed the door and said to Kruger.

"It's not that I don't have confidence, but I realize that there is limited point in fighting this fight. Do you know? What the government needs is a decent ending. And this ending doesn't have to be bought with blood. All China needs is to keep their territory in northern Iran, and the core of all their actions is to explode around this, including this time against Kirkuk. Too much blood has been left on both sides of this war. Why do we have to use blood and fire to solve problems that can be solved through negotiations? This will be very detrimental to our future war, and the high-quality officers and men that have been trained over the years have been exhausted. I have a hunch that after the end of this war, it will take 2 to 3 years at most! The Great War will finally break out! Kruger said, rubbing his slightly tingling temples.

Germany is not afraid of war with any great power, and even if it fights the Germans with the United States, Britain and China, it will show a trace of cowardice. But there was a priority in everything, and it was clear that German arms production had not kept pace with the war, whether it was the Italian war or the Iranian war, which had been consumed more than Germany had initially anticipated. Especially in the Iranian civil war, the Germans never imagined that they would not be able to solve this weak country in the Middle East after investing more than 10 elite army divisions and more than 4,000 aircraft! I didn't expect that Huaxia would spare no effort to fight to the end for Iran and Germany! Even if the two sides have to fight each other in the future, the current German army is obviously weaker than the Chinese in terms of equipment and preparation, so the Germans would rather endure it and wait until they have reached the peak in all aspects before finding the field!

Although the Germans from the top to the front-line officers have already had the idea of retreating, it does not mean that the German troops of the two groups in the north and south will be soft in the upcoming offensive operation! On the contrary, this time, after carefully studying the lessons of the battlefield, after thorough preparation. The German Army launched the highest level of combined arms offensive since the end of World War I! The perfect coordination of all arms and the smoothness of the attack plan made Huaxia as the enemy have to give a thumbs up! In this final blow, the German troops could be described as doing their best!

Krueger was well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, and the hardware indicators of the Chinese armored forces were the first insurmountable obstacle for the German Army. In a meeting, he once bluntly said that as long as Huaxia could concentrate a battalion of Type 29 tank destroyers at the breakthrough point of the German army, then the German armored forces would break through the opponent's defense line in waist-deep blood! Since this tank first appeared on the battlefield, it has been the biggest nightmare for the German armored forces! Low hulls, thick armor, baptized artillery. The aesthetically devoid design adds up to a lethal weapon known as the Rhino within the German army! The armored spearhead of the Germans did not play much role in the enemy's impregnable defenses, and even the Germans themselves admitted that it was difficult to break through the opponent's defenses by relying solely on armored forces.

Although the Germans had a numerical advantage, it was reflected in the infantry and various artillery, if we talk about the number of armored units, the heavy armored units of 2 mechanized infantry divisions and 2 armored divisions are actually not much more than the 3 Huaxia divisions on the opposite side! The second obstacle is Huaxia's rocket artillery and various howitzers, according to reliable sources, Huaxia collected a large amount of supporting firepower from Iranian units and Russian ** regiments during the reorganization process during this period. Huaxia thought that the Iranian and Russian ** teams had been disabled, and it didn't make much sense to leave them with heavy equipment, so they put these troops in the rear to carry out logistics tasks and as reserves, and the heavy weapons that should have been supplemented to these troops were assigned to their own establishment, which means that Huaxia has a large number of artillery with a range of about 15KM, which is definitely bad news for the German infantry. Huaxia planned to use firepower to make up for the lack of troops.

The advantage of the Germans lies in three points, the first is that the number of infantry is relatively sufficient, at least on paper, there are only 3 divisions on the front in northern China. The Germans had six divisions, two of which were Austrian and Turkish, but on the principle that as long as they could be thickened, they could be used to use more elite for the offensive. Moreover, even if the quality of these infantry is poor, the various equipment and equipment are still in place, which greatly improves the firepower density of the German army on the front line.

The second is the superiority of the air force, although the original air group of the northern front in Operation Monsoon was beaten to the head and bloody, but Richthofen was very interesting, and quickly supplemented the lack of the northern front with the planes of the southern air group (Brauchitsch said that his brother was miserable). Although it is impossible to return to the state before the war, it is still possible to scrape together more than 400 usable aircraft and squeeze out 250 ground attack and bombers. This was the first time that the Germans and China had a large air superiority since they had fought each other. The ability of the bombers of the two wings to wash the floor is very powerful, and one attack is the firepower output of more than 300 tons of bombs. No matter how strong the bunker is, can it block 1500KG armor-piercing bullets?

THE THIRD IS THE HEAVY ARTILLERY ADVANTAGE THAT GERMAN HAS ALWAYS HAD, AND THE LONGEST-RANGE ARTILLERY IN THE CHINESE AND AMERICAN AND BRITISH ARMIES IS THE M1 155MM CANNON KNOWN AS THE LONG-LEGGED TOM. THE GERMANS WERE ARMED WITH 170MM CANNONS WITH LONGER RANGES AND GREATER POWER. This advantage was still retained by the Germans. Overall, the Germans still had a great advantage, although some of them would become less and less obvious over time, such as the Air Force, which Kessellin mentioned several times in his telegram that the Chinese Air Force was only temporarily silent because of the destruction of logistics facilities. With the retirement of time, their recovery will be very fast, and the long range of their fighters makes it possible for them to maneuver over long distances, and they will fight to the death if absolutely necessary.

According to the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, Kruger boldly reformed the original establishment system, relying solely on tanks to break through the opponent's position, then it doesn't matter, then change to tanks, infantry and artillery to break through together, he stripped each combat unit from the original system, and increased the number of front-line artillery and infantry. Make sure you have enough firepower at the breakthrough site to wipe out the surrounding infantry and artillery units before turning back to the tank destroyers. It is not fast, but it must be steady, and anti-aircraft guns are a must.

After the breakthrough, the attacking force cannot rush to develop in depth, but wait until the infantry on both flanks has consolidated the breakthrough, and the defensive force dominated by the No. 4 tank destroyer blocks a wave of counterattacks from the opponent before making the next breakthrough. The Chinese defense line was so deep and large that the Germans did not expect to break through the opponent's defense line with a long-distance rapid assault, but hoped that the entire German army would slowly crush the opponent like a crushing plate. The only thing that made Kruger unhappy was that his preparations on the northern front were in full swing, while the German preparations on the southern front were very slow, not only to replenish and move slowly, but also to spread a sense of war weariness among the army. If you think about it, you can't blame all the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, many of the three divisions on the southern front have been fighting on the front line since the beginning of the war, and the whole army has met one tragic battle after another. In particular, the war that had just ended had exhausted the strength of the troops on the southern front. And the week-long fighting of the air force took up a lot of supplies, which made the preparation of the army on the southern front even more sluggish. This ended up happening.

Just as the Germans were sharpening their knives, Huaxia was also making final preparations. The number of fighters sent per day that Qin Yue had originally guaranteed decreased with the continuous strikes of the Luftwaffe. Now, the number of fighter jets that can be used per day has been reduced to 150! The effect of the Germans' attacks on targets in depth in China was relatively limited, but the strikes on the front line were real! Under the indiscriminate bombardment of hundreds of bombers every day, the entire defense system of Huaxia was also dealt a serious blow, and the real test had not yet come, and the strength of the six divisions of the German army on the northern front was like a mountain pressing on Peng Yi's heart.

Relying on high-quality armored forces for defense did not seem to work this time, the other side had a large number of attack aircraft and had enough advantages in troops, and even Peng Yi doubted that the Germans would choose both directions as a breakthrough at the same time. Relying on static defense, the result of a dead knock can only be directly killed by the German land-air combination punch. The Germans actually had an advantage when it came to static fortifications, at least the artillery was more sufficient. The general pattern of China was 3 divisions in the north and 1 division and 1 brigade in the south. One more division was left as a general reserve. Originally, the Russians should have been able to make up a division, but in order to make up for the battle losses of each division, the equipment and supplies originally given to the Russians were transferred to other divisions, and the Russians were directly responsible for logistics.

If you want to solve the problem once and for all, then Huaxia must be able to inflict heavy losses on the opponent in a counterattack, but from the current point of view, even if the reserve division is also transferred, it does not seem easy for 4 divisions to counterattack 6 divisions with air superiority and artillery superiority. If the two sides are disabled, Xu Huaide on the southern front can no longer hold on, then there is a danger of complete collapse, Xu Huaide only has 1 division and 1 brigade, and he is facing 3 German divisions! No matter how you move, you will feel overstretched!

"Actually, if we can, we can take the initiative and cripple one way and then turn around to deal with the other." At this time, Peng Yi remembered a very bold suggestion made by Xu Huaide before leaving. "The Germans on the Northern Front had a large number of infantry, which was his disadvantage even if it was his advantage! Although the Germans got some cannon fodder from their allies, but how much combat strength the Austro-Hungarian Legion, which had been heavily damaged many times, I think everyone should have a more reliable estimate, and the Germans must have understood, but they still did it at that time, what was the purpose? They want to slowly crush us through a war of attrition, like boiling frogs in warm water. Their offensive will be very aggressive, but they will not advance very quickly! The reserve division, which remained in the rear for some time at the beginning of the battle, did almost nothing, in that case, why can't it be transferred to the southern front and give me 3 days! I can inflict heavy losses on the hastily reorganized German army on the Southern Front! ”

It has to be said that Xu Huaide's plan was very tempting, and his analysis was very correct, and the Germans added two infantry divisions to expose their weakness and timidity, and they gave up the overly aggressive and fast-interspersed style of play. Rather, it was a step-by-step tactic, which could not be said to be a wrong choice from the point of view of the northern front, because the German Army's attack did lack penetration in the eyes of China. Instead of hitting your head and breaking the blood, it is better to grind your opponent with water and kill your opponent little by little.

But if you look at the big picture, Kruger's doing so is tantamount to putting the German army on the southern front in a more dangerous situation. Especially when part of the Luftwaffe brigade on the southern front was transferred to the northern front, the German army on the southern front was unprecedentedly weak in both land and air terms, and it was just a shelf! If the Germans were caught off guard and suddenly concentrated the forces of two divisions and one brigade to take the initiative to fight a wave, then there was a great possibility that the crisis in the south would be completely resolved, and then the forces would be concentrated on the northern front. As soon as the pressure on the southern route is gone, the northern line will not be a problem!

Although the prospect is very good, but at the same time, the risk is also very high, not to mention what if Xu Huaide fails to hit the opponent hard within the specified time? Once this last mobile force of oneself is fought, then the three divisions deployed in echelons on the northern front will have to face the attack of the opponent's six divisions! Don't wait until the end when the southern front fails to break the deadlock, and the northern front is blown up first, then it will be completely finished. Once Huaxia's 5 divisions and 1 brigade are defeated, I am afraid that the entire northern part of Iran will become unstable, and it will be difficult for Huaxia to hastily concentrate such a powerful force and send it to Iran again. This time it is different from the sky garden, even if Tian Yong can't complete the scheduled counterattack, the strategic bomber force from the mainland can also blow up the opponent, but this time Peng Yi has no extra reserve force! Not at all!

The probability of winning a dumb battle seems to be similar to that of taking a risk. It's not that Peng Yi is timid and doesn't dare to make a decision, but Peng Yi thinks that he still lacks enough information, for example, what is the combat effectiveness of the two divisions that the Germans put together like a strong man? The question of how exactly the Germans would have used the infantry of these two divisions is an important question. Peng Yi needs to judge the feasibility of his other plan according to the battlefield situation.

"The direct distance between the third outpost line and the main position is about 9 kilometers. This distance is not far or close, it can give us a chance to test the other party's quality, the general reserve team is ready to go south to support Xu Huaide, and everything else is waiting to be adapted! In the end, before the battle began, Peng Yi did not make a final plan.

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