When the Army Intelligence Department came up with this conclusion, they were honestly unable to believe it. Are those Russians crazy? They want to provoke another war? But a bunch of factual evidence is in front of them, and other reasons cannot be explained at all.

The people responsible for the Soviet-German border patrol mission were previously mainly German border police and Nazi stormtroopers. Only at traffic passes or military fortresses were there some regular army troops stationed.

This dividing line is originally in the hinterland of Poland. The Poles have no reason to set up defense lines here. There is not even a barbed wire mesh on the river bank. Anyone who has prepared well can easily cross this border.

All Germany can do at this time is to strengthen border patrol efforts and search for cross-border personnel in the controlled area to find out their true identities, as well as the goals and intentions of these people.

Many Polish villages around the border have been preserved, and these farmers will eventually move all to western Poland and even further away. There is quite sufficient agricultural arable land in Poland, because the war caused population loss and many places lack sufficient manpower to farm.

The German army's plan was to evacuate all ordinary residents who were facing the border in the direction of the German occupied area by the end of 400.

The Soviet Red Army has never been a liberator. It depends on what they did when invading Finland. Don’t think they would not do it again in Germany. Burning villages and farmhouses and bombing towns without distinction to destroy the local residents’ will to resist is a conventional tactic that has been unanimously recognized by the Red Army.

Clausewiz's argument for war is also very thorough. War is to use violence to the greatest extent, and ultimately force the other party to obey his will. To put it bluntly, it is to do its best to beat you until you kneel down and call him dad.

International war regulations and other laws and regulations are only binding on the weak, and only referees will be needed if the genius pecks each other. However, when the lion and the tiger fight, others are only worried about whether it will affect the fish. Who cares whether they use claws or teeth?

After September 1940, the German Wehrmacht began to make significant internal adjustments. The field troops on the Western Front gradually moved to the Eastern Front. In order to avoid triggering an overreaction from the Soviet Union, the military assembly area was mainly located in the Eastern Province, that is, the original Czech Republic and Austria. The German troops stationed in central and eastern Poland also began to move towards the western region of Poland. These troops were about to return to Germany for reorganization, replace old weapons and equipment, and carry out training for new tactics.

The foundation of these garrison troops themselves is not bad. The main problem is that there are too many new recruits in the organization and the weapons they use are also relatively outdated.

The northern section of the German eastern defense line was built on the Vistula River. It started from Gdansk at the mouth of the sea and crossed the entire territory of Poland and finally arrived at the southern mountainous area where Poland and the Czech Republic were connected, with a straight line distance of more than 490 kilometers.

This means that the original border is no longer within the defense line, and even half of the Warsaw urban area has been abandoned.

The Curzon Line is just a dividing line created by the historical environment. From a military perspective, it is not suitable for defense at all. Even if it is as fierce and tenacious as the Brest Fortress, it is just a slightly larger stumbling block in the face of large-scale military operations.

Of course, it was impossible for the Germans to build a Great Wall on Polish territory in a year, and even if it was built, it would not necessarily block the red iron hooves. The lessons of the Maginot Line of Defense were right in front of us, but from a certain perspective, the French design did have many highlights.

Germany adopted a flexible defense tactic that cooperates with permanent basement and mobile defense, mainly building a group of semi-permanent fortresses at various important traffic nodes on the defense line.

Each fortress is built into a firepower stronghold with strong self-sustaining capabilities. At the same time, a series of ring-shaped anti-tank support points are set up around the core fortress, requiring each support point to not only provide cover for each other, but also obtain heavy firepower support from the core fortress.

The mobile and flexible German armored team can perform mobile defense between these firepower points, and even wait for an opportunity to launch a counterattack against loopholes in the enemy formation, disrupting the enemy's attack deployment.

This set of defensive tactics was formed by improving and strengthening the anti-tank support point defense tactics in World War II. Both the Soviet and German sides on the eastern front suffered a lot in this tactic. Xu Jun believes that no one knows the power of this tactic better than him in this time and space.

In order to achieve strategic goals, it is necessary to cover up the true appearance of the Eastern Defense Line, and the General Security Bureau and the Imperial Intelligence Agency assumed the responsibility of counter-espionage.

The German army was very active in central Poland, and the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Red Army could not be unaware of it. The purpose of these armed personnel who secretly crossed the border was probably to collect intelligence information on these defense projects.

The difficulty encountered by Germany is that the existing manpower of the General Security Bureau and the Imperial Intelligence Agency is insufficient. Because the eastern defense line has drawn a large number of troops from Poland, it is difficult for them to draw more manpower on the Soviet-German border, whether it is the German border police or the army troops.

When Himmler learned about this, he felt that this was a good opportunity for the SS to show his abilities to the head of state, so he sacrificed the hidden ace in his hand, the SS special forces trained at Brandenburg School.

Himmler claimed that the inspiration for the birth of this army came from a dinner party at a certain size. At the dining table, the head of state proposed the concept of special operations to him for the first time.

Himmler's interest in special forces has become increasingly eager with the establishment of the "Tommahawk Brigade". This national leader has long been addicted to the literary descriptions of ancient elite troops in history, and the proposal of the concept of special forces hit the itchy point of the SS leader. He felt that the combat model proposed by the head of state was simply tailor-made for the SS.

So just when the Tomahawk Brigade was still training, he ordered a training plan for the SS special forces based on the Tomahawk Brigade's course. He asked this army to not only destroy and infiltration tactics behind enemy lines, each soldier must master at least two professional skills, and also learn to operate all Soviet weapons and control common transportation methods in the Soviet Union, including carriages and dogs pulling sledges.

Himmler knew very well that this force was going to be put into the Eastern Front battlefield. If you want to succeed, you must be ahead of others in everything.

The recruitment of troops was very smooth, all of them were young players in their strong and about twenty years old. Each of them met or even exceeded the physical examination standards of the National Defense Forces. This is also the most important contradiction between the SS and the National Defense Forces. Both sides urgently need high-quality soldiers of the right age.

This special forces recruited all Nazi Youth League members, and there was no problem with loyalty. The members had adapted to collective life and were very obedient to the management of their superiors.

In contrast, the National Defense Forces lacked some political colors and highlighted the relationship between the country and the individual more. However, no matter what political viewpoint they hold, everyone must swear allegiance to the head of state when joining the army.

Brandenburg trained three battalions of SS special forces at one time, and the numbers were determined to be the third, sixth and ninth special operations battalions. Himmler also personally gave each battalion a loud code number.

The code name given to the Ninth Special Operations Battalion by the SS National Leader was "Werewolf". This unit was transferred to the small town of Biyava Podraska in eastern Poland. This was just an ordinary Polish town with no characteristics. It was almost razed to the ground by the German army in the war of 39 years. It took more than a year to rebuilt a small part.

But none of the above is the key point. The key point is that the strong Brest Fortress stands on the opposite bank of the Bouge River, thirty kilometers east of the town.
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