The United States, Britain and Russia have made quite thorough preparations for this operation, and have fully summed up the combat experience of the Eastern Front for more than a year. The top leaders of Britain and the United States found that although they did not adapt to various difficulties on the Eastern Front, the exchange ratio between the US and British armies and the German army in the past year was not bad, and it was even better than the situation of the US-British allied forces and the German army in the Western European theater at the beginning! You must know that a considerable part of the US and British troops on the Eastern Front are newly formed troops, and it is not too much to say that they are a group of rookies. The lack of veterans in the www.biquge.info troops, the recruits are full of illusions about the battle, they are not accustomed to the water and soil, and the logistics coffee table cannot even guarantee the canned Spam food, and the Americans actually played a fair exchange ratio in their opinion! This is really a gratifying, even a little scary!

Pleasantly surprised, Patton immediately ordered the staff officers to analyze the reasons for this! This incident was so strange that the tactical victories of the Americans on individual battlefields made Barton almost not believe his eyes! And after some research, the officer in charge of battlefield analysis finally came up with a complete set of documents to prove that many of the records of the American and British armies are still very real, and use God and his own rank as a guarantee! Subsequently, they listed enough evidence to prove that the US-British coalition fought well not because they became stronger, but because the opponent seemed to be weaker! The German army on the Eastern Front can only be regarded as a second-rate or even a security force within the German Army, and it is not surprising that such a result is played!

Let's look global! When the war broke out on the Eastern Front, what was happening in the rest of the world? The Germans were planning to move westward into India, and in Iran, the Germans concentrated the best and latest equipment and fought a large-scale armored war with the Chinese, and the Americans were surprised to find that although on the battlefield in Iran. There are not many troops on both sides participating in the war, and it is only a fraction of the troops on the Eastern Front, and there is not a lot of heavy equipment at all! Both the quality and the quantity are amazing. Especially when the Tiger Hunting and Leopard tanks of the Germans appeared, the Americans were even more frightened!

But the result? Up to now. That is, it was just a surprise, because these new equipment did not appear in large quantities on the Eastern Front! Although the Germans launched a preemptive attack, the original purpose of the attack was only to disrupt the enemy's disposition, and the German resources on the Eastern Front could not support them for too long. Where is the elite of the Germans? In the Transcaucasian direction, after several months of fighting between the Luftwaffe and the Huaxia Air Force, the Luftwaffe decided to admit it after throwing away tens of thousands of various aircraft! The elite of the German Army either fought to the death with the Chinese troops in the ensuing series of battles, or they were thrown in India. The German Navy also engaged in the highest level of engagement in the Bay of Bengal and the Chinese Fleet since the beginning of the war! And then decisively defeated!

Someone may ask, and the Navy loses. What does it have to do with the Eastern Front? Do not forget that the Navy prioritized the replenishment of pilots and aircraft before advancing eastward, which directly delayed the recovery and replenishment of the Luftwaffe's Eastern Front Corps. And after a series of defeats, the elite troops of the German front line were either disabled by the Chinese or were being reorganized in Europe, with a large number of losses in personnel and equipment, the Germans naturally did not have the ability to strengthen the Eastern Front, just like that, the American and British troops and Russian troops who came across the sea fought on the Eastern Front and the second-rate or even third-rate German troops, and even advanced the station line a little! Overall. There are still achievements this year, which are worthy of recognition! And this is also one of the proofs of the determination of the United States and Britain to retake Ukraine!

So now the question arises, will the Germans on the Eastern Front continue to be so weak? After some analysis. The top level of the United States and Britain believes that in the next 1 year, the general trend of the German army and air force is to become weaker and weaker! After all, the battle for the Gulf of Aden has ended, and the end of the hundreds of thousands of German army elites in the Middle East is already doomed, and they will definitely be killed or captured. In the eyes of the United States and Britain, the losses of these elite troops cannot be made up in a short period of time, and Huaxia will continue to expand in the Middle East, and in the face of the elite Huaxia Army, if the Germans do not want to lose the entire Middle East and Turkey, an ally, then they must maintain a certain number of elite troops. Then after a series of fiascos. The Germans simply could not replenish the Eastern Front with enough troops!

Well, the situation of the other party is estimated. The United States, Britain, and Russia naturally have a very clear understanding of their own situation. So the question now is, how to use the capital in your hands to win this battle! It is unrealistic to want to eat the whole of Ukraine in one bite, the area of a Ukraine is 600,000 square kilometers, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in history, Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe! 1. The area of Germany before the war was not as large as Ukraine! How is it possible to eat it in one bite? Aren't you afraid of indigestion?

In the campaign plan, codenamed Operation Ledge, the United States, Britain and Russia have only one goal, that is, to take the Kharkov-Luhansk-Donetsk triangle and land on the Dnieper River! Encirclement and annihilation of a part of the German Ukrainian Army Group deployed here. This was followed by a further development to the north, bringing all of the Polish territory east of the Dnieper under its control. In the following months, the Triple Alliance will face the Germans across the river, and after entering the autumn, they will continue to launch a second wave of offensives, striving to break through the Dnieper defense line in November and stabilize the station line on the Kiev-Odessa line.

To be honest, this time the Americans' plan is still very realistic, justified and restrained! How big is the pot and how many noodles! The strategic bomber units of the Air Force were to destroy as many bridges and piers as possible on the Dnieper after the start of the war. The 1.5 million Russian army will launch a centripetal assault in the direction of Luhansk, and the Russians said that if the number is not enough, it can continue to increase, when the Germans concentrate the forces of the entire eastern Ukraine to the nearby area, the United States and Britain equipped with a large number of Pershing tanks and armored transport vehicles will attack Kharkov and Luhansk from two directions, and complete the encirclement of the German army in this triangle! The Germans, even with reinforcements, would still have to cross the Dnieper, and the river and the US Air Force would prevent the Germans from reinforcing them.

"I can guarantee that this time, our army will have a double superiority in quality and quantity, our Pershing tank is overwhelmingly superior to the German IV series, and the German beasts have suffered heavy losses in the Middle East, and they simply cannot replenish enough elite troops. Even with a small number of heavy vehicles, we can still drown them with air superiority or numbers. ”

"Of course, our greatest strategic advantage is the advantage of mobility! The vast majority of the Germans on the Eastern Front were mule-horse troops. And the remaining mechanized troops were affected by the lack of fuel. You know, China has destroyed or taken away two of the four important oil producing areas of the Germans. In terms of production, the Germans have already lost more than 60% of their fuel! Their troops are now as slow as snails, and our attacking troops are guaranteed to have every soldier in a tank or car, even if the conditions are more difficult! Barton said at the meeting. Of course, Patton consciously or unconsciously ignored the Russians as allies!

"The Air Force can guarantee that the brothers of the Army can see the Air Force planes hovering in the sky as soon as they look up, and the B17 and B24 bombers of the Air Force can completely destroy all the bridges, pontoon bridges and docks on the Dnieper River of the Germans! If there is any inconvenience that the Air Force will cause you, it is that your captured German soldiers will probably have to be fed with your supplies, because their logistics have been completely cut off! Li Mei, who is in charge of the air force and is known as the arson general, said half-jokingly.

Overall. The United States and Britain have done enough, at least they think they have done enough, they have set the campaign according to their own ideas, and they have decided to launch it in April next year, using the end of spring to achieve the objectives of the first phase, and then the objectives of the second phase from June to September. The reserves of various materials and the mobilization of the army have been put in place one after another, and it can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!

"Is it necessary for us to transfer such heavy tanks as the T29 to the battlefield? Now that the Chinese have temporarily stopped the offensive, and the Tiger tank units of the Germans remain, these heavy tanks are always a serious threat to our armored units. "During an internal meeting of the US military, Bradley mentioned the idea of deploying heavy tanks. But the idea was quickly rejected by the top.

"Even with a small number of Tiger tanks, we can still use the numerical superiority of Pershing tanks to overwhelm our opponents, and it is very inappropriate to temporarily increase the deployment of heavy vehicles for the sake of individual heavy armored units that may arise. We have relatively few ships that can accommodate T29 tanks, and for these small number of tanks, we need to reconfigure the supply and logistics system, which is not cost-effective in terms of cost or time. General Marshall, as the chief steward of the US military, sent a telegram in response to the generals' request. There are too many things that the United States needs to transport, and the quality can only be guaranteed on the premise of ensuring quantity, and it is better to not be able to use a tall tank like the T29.

The Americans were preparing, the Germans were not idle, and even the last action of the German Navy was fundamentally to withdraw from the quagmire of the Middle East, and then concentrate on containing the offensive of the United States, Britain and Russia on the eastern front. And when the Germans finally accepted most of the demands of the Chinese people. The Chinese fleet evacuated to the Strait of Malacca, and subsequently. The German troops, located around the port of Basra, announced their surrender and surrendered their weapons. Some of the troops and equipment that had already been loaded followed the German High Seas Fleet back to the Mediterranean. This is a relief for Germany. They could finally concentrate on the fighting on the Eastern Front for the time being.

The United States and Britain have one thing that is not wrong, that is, the Germans Tiger tank troops have suffered heavy losses, and the performance of the Tiger tank in the battle in Western Europe can be described as perfect, but in the Middle East, when encountering the more powerful Dragon tank, the loss of the Tiger tank has risen sharply, and because the Germans cannot control the battlefield, there are also many tanks discarded because of failures and fuel exhaustion, plus the Tiger tank itself is an expensive equipment, and the German industry has been continuously attacked by China and the United States and BritainUnder many factors, the number of Tiger tanks continued to decline, and now, the Tiger tanks of the Germans are only about half of their peak!

But don't think that Germany's armored forces have weakened because of this, then it can only be said that the person who came to this conclusion is too young, too simple! Part of the reason for the decrease in the number of German Tiger tanks was the loss and the shift of the industrial center of gravity, but it did not mean that the quality of the armored forces of the Germans had decreased! On the contrary, 1 year after the start of the Eastern Front, the Germans also learned from the war and built an armored force that was especially suitable for the environment of the Eastern Front! While the Tiger tank was gradually decreasing, the German Leopard sprung up and had a tendency to replace the No. 4 tank as the main force of the German Army's armored forces on the Eastern Front!

The Germans considered the maintenance of the leopard and compatibility with the existing security system when designing the leopard, the leopard has fewer production hours than the tiger, and the weight is lighter, although the performance is worse than the tiger, but in general, the leopard is still more cost-effective than the tiger, at least with the leopard's 56 tank gun and the Cheetah's 71 gun or the Jaguar's L62 gun is enough to deal with all the American tanks that have appeared at present, and the mobility is good. With the entry into service of a large number of Leopard tanks, the Germans on the entire Eastern Front had replaced half of their tanks with Leopards, and more than 2,500 Leopard tanks in total became the backbone of German armored forces.

However, the Germans seemed to feel that it was not enough, and at the urging of the front-line commanders, an armored unit more powerful than the Tiger tank was platooned to the Eastern Front, and the Tiger Hunter tank destroyer, which had been so impressive in the Middle East and China, appeared again! They will serve as the backbone of the defense. "Most of the front and side areas of the Tiger Hunter are completely immune to all direct fire, and in the battle with the Dragon Tank, the Tiger Hunter is our most reliable friend, and against the British and Americans, the Tiger Hunting Tank will be their death!" Meyer, who had returned from the Middle East by luck, embarked on the journey again, and this time, he was confident in his equipment, not because he was strong, but because his opponent was too weak!

In terms of the air force, the Germans did not dare to be careless, and many of the aviation units withdrawn from the Middle East flew directly to the Eastern Front, although under the continuous bombing of the United States and Britain, Germany's industrial production capacity fell sharply, but after less combat consumption with China, the Luftwaffe had a surplus of troops on hand!

Of course, it is not enough to just have the material foundation in place, and the most important thing is that the Germans judged the direction of the main attack of the United States, Britain and Russia very well, the Ukrainian salient! The place where the density of German military units is the lowest, and at the same time it is a land of ointment! There's no reason why the Three Kingdoms shouldn't fight the idea of this place!

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