stonecrandall Chapter 491
Chapter 491
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“What do you think of the Soviet army’s combat effectiveness?”
In Brest, Guderian talked with Reinhardt, the commander of the 1st Armored Division.
The two rode in an armored vehicle and wandered around the Soviet camp.
After Guderian proposed to visit the Soviet military camp, Budyonny did not stop him and acquiesced to his request.
So Guderian was unceremoniously, taking a large number of his staff and Reinhardt, the commander of the 1st Armored Division, and others, and ran to the Soviet military camp to visit!
It was called a visit, but in fact it was to scout the enemy.
Sooner or later, the Russian bear and Hans will have a battle, and all the soldiers present know this in their hearts!
Everyone tacitly did not expose this point, and maintained superficial peace, hoping to buy more time for themselves before the war!
Hans needs to defeat the enemies in Western Europe before the decisive battle with the Russian bear, so that Only then can we launch an attack on the Soviet Union without any worries.
The Soviet Union needs to improve its domestic industrial system as soon as possible, strengthen the development of heavy industry, especially the military industry, so as to create its own military industry chain and get rid of its dependence on foreign countries.
It is precisely because of this tacit understanding that although the two countries are on the verge of a war, neither of them has the intention to take a step forward to provoke a war.
However, before the war breaks out, both sides want to understand the combat effectiveness of the other.
After hearing what Guderian said, Reinhardt looked around. The Soviet army in this barracks felt pretty good. Although their equipment was not as good as Hans, they had all the basic equipment. They were even equipped with a large number of tanks. Although it was the Type 1 tank that had been eliminated by the German army, this tank was still a very advanced and outstanding armored weapon in the world at this time.
“The Soviet army’s spirit and energy seem to be good, but they should not have much experience in armored warfare. Judging from their troop deployment and organization, they seem to be imitating us, but they are not imitating us properly. They seem to be superficial but not real.”
Reinhardt’s comments were to the point, directly pointing out the main problem of this Soviet army.
In this era, countries have little experience in armored warfare. If the German army had not first used this tactic in the German-Polish War five years ago, I am afraid that countries would not have realized the power of armored warfare.
Although since then, all countries have begun to pay attention to armored warfare, a new tactic, but because the understanding and knowledge of armored warfare in various countries is not deep, they are all superficial and have not grasped the essence of armored warfare, so their armored tactics are mixed and unsystematic.
As the Russians have a weak foundation and do not have enough financial and material resources to toss around, they almost copied Hans’s The armored combat system formed its own armored divisions and armored corps according to Hans’ standards.
However, this kind of imitation can only imitate what they can see and touch, but they cannot see some internal and core things!
For example, in addition to 400 main battle tanks, the German armored division also has a large number of communication command vehicles, logistics support vehicles and some accompanying support firepower, assault guns, etc. The
German armored divisions are rarely used alone, and their standard rapid reaction divisions and motorized infantry divisions act together.
These two types of forces are equipped with a large number of trucks and motorcycles, which can catch up with the armored forces in speed, and can widen the width of the armored forces’ front line, thereby protecting Hold their flanks and prevent their weak wings from being suddenly attacked by the enemy!
In a rapid assault, the armored forces act as the vanguard of the assault, piercing the enemy’s direction like a dagger, while the mechanized rapid reaction division and the motorized infantry division act as their guards, accompanying them in battle on both wings, protecting their flanks while further tearing the holes in the enemy’s defense line, making it impossible for the enemy to pose a threat to the armored forces in the assault!
In positional warfare, the infantry on both wings quickly aligned with the armored forces to protect them in positional warfare, advancing layer by layer in a seamless manner, preventing the enemy from approaching their own security and not giving the enemy’s infantry any opportunity to take advantage.
Moreover, the equipment of the assault gun, This makes the mechanized rapid response divisions and motorized infantry divisions have strong offensive capabilities.
They have the ability to attack the enemy’s solid defense line head-on, and also have the ability to hold a position and take on the task of blocking.
This kind of force configuration and division of labor and cooperation in the team is an armored combat system that the German army has developed after several years of exploration, combined with the experience brought by Mainz from later generations.
The Russian side has only purchased a batch of Type 1 tanks, and other weapons and equipment and arms have not been established. Their armored forces are really isolated armored forces, and they only have speed and are seriously lacking in offensive capabilities.
This armored force is even worse than the German army in 1923!
“The Russians may not have seen the way and have gone astray, or they may not have such a systematic military industry, so they can’t produce the equipment we have and establish such a combat system. However, if they are given some time, I think they will sooner or later improve their current shortcomings and catch up with us soon!”
Guderian nodded and said a few words.
He felt that the Russian army in front of him was just a poor imitator, but this did not mean that they would always be like this.
The Russians have a strong ability to imitate and learn. As long as they find a few opponents to practice and fight a few battles, they can establish an armored combat system suitable for themselves!
This is Guderian’s keen sense of smell as an excellent armored commander. In history, the Russians did learn the basic way of armored combat through the Soviet-Finnish War and the Battle of Nomonhan, and then quickly learned Hans’ tactics in the collision with the German army.
When the war just broke out in 194, Guderian and others used the pincer attack to the extreme on the battlefield, and easily surrounded hundreds of thousands or even millions of Soviet troops. From Minsk to Jifu, and then to Vyazma, the German army fought countless such textbook-level battles along the way.
At that time, the Soviet army could only passively take a beating on the battlefield. For a full six months, they were beaten black and blue by the German army, dizzy and disoriented, and defeated for thousands of kilometers. They were almost at the end of their rope!
However, after 1943, with the large-scale entry of the T-34K into service, and the Soviet generals constantly accumulating experience in battle, learning and digesting Hans’ armored combat tactics, they began to take the initiative and began Frequently use armored forces to threaten Hans.
The typical representative is the Battle of Kursk. This war is a typical pincer offensive, using the salient to attract the German troops, and then launching attacks from both wings to threaten the German flanks.
Although Manstein achieved good results on the front battlefield, he was constrained by the enemy’s strong deterrence and had to give up all the previous results and was forced to retreat, causing the German army to lose the victory in the Battle of Kursk.
If you compare the Soviet army in 1943 with the Soviet army that was beaten to a pulp by Finland and Blue in the Soviet-Finnish War in 1939, you will find that the Soviet army has achieved an all-round improvement in just four years. The combat effectiveness seems to have been sublimated and has completely changed!
“How long do you think it will take them to learn and change?”
Reinhardt looked at his boss curiously and asked him.
Guderian thought for a moment:”If they can produce 500 tanks per month, they can learn half of our skills this year!”
“If they can produce 1,000 tanks per month, they will catch up with or even us next year!”
“The only purpose of our armored forces is to attack, attack, attack, and attack again. If we want to ensure a strong enough attack power, we must ensure the number of tanks in our troops. Once our number cannot keep up, the armored forces will become useless, unable to attack or defend, and will decline rapidly!”