The German head of state had a special insight into the future, which became almost a well-known secret in the German command. Of course, this is a topic that can only be discussed in private, otherwise it would not be called a "secret".

The commander is still relatively optimistic in overall strategy, because the National Wehrmacht has never been as powerful as it is today, and it is constantly increasing steadily at every moment. If Germany is given sufficient preparation time, the red giant bear in the East will soon no longer be a threat.

But will the Soviet Union give Germany this time? If Stalin's mind had not been damaged by vodka, he would definitely feel that the pressure on the Soviet Union was increasing. He is an egoist like Hitler and would never allow this situation to continue.

The Soviet Red Army has always advocated active attack. The founders of the Red Army firmly believed that offense is the best defense. What is interesting is that the root of this idea comes from the Prussian Army. After the destruction of Napoleon's French army, there was no more active attacking army in Europe than the German army. If so, it was trained from the German school.

The judgment of the head of state and the commander was consistent, that is, wars would inevitably break out between the Soviet Union and Germany, which could not be resolved by one or two agreements or memorandums of reconciliation. The two sides not only had fierce conflicts on the ideology of the people, but also in terms of geopolitics, the conflicts between the two sides were also difficult to reconcile. Stalin wanted to expand his sphere of influence in Europe, but Germany blocked his path of expansion, which was something that the proud Georgian could not tolerate.

In history, Stalin also had a little war on Germany, but it was not as serious as it is now. The information obtained currently shows that the Soviet Union is launching an intelligence war against Germany, and judging from the intensity of its operations, it is obvious that the Soviets have begun to regard Germany as the first threat.

At the end of 1940, Germany was still confronting Britain on the Western Front. The National Wehrmacht was busy building submarine caves and coastal artillery along the coast of France, while the Navy was fighting fiercely on the Atlantic Ocean. No matter how you look, they were ready to fight the British to the end. Therefore, the Soviet Union believed that before solving the Western Front, Germany would not completely break up with the Soviet Union, and with the German troops deployed on the eastern border, it would not be able to pose a threat to the powerful Soviets at all.

But the situation has changed drastically. Germany has conquered the entire Europe and is integrating the power of European countries at an astonishing speed, pulling them into their new political system, and establishing a solid military alliance. It is conceivable that once they complete this project, the Soviet Union will face not only Germany and his weak servants, but an extremely powerful European Union.

If the Soviet Union does not want to succumb to the pressure of the European Union in the future, it can only launch a rapid, devastating blitzkrieg with the goal of smashing the hostile alliance before its opponents accumulate enough power to destroy the Soviet Union. The most effective way to smash this alliance is to defeat or even completely destroy the foundation and core of the alliance, the powerful Third Reich of Germany.

The Soviet Red Army had a good understanding of the German blitzkrieg theory. Don’t forget that the Soviet Union and Germany had long-term military cooperation. A large part of the German armored soldiers and pilots were trained on the Soviet territory. During the honeymoon period of cooperation between the two countries, the senior commanders of both sides also conducted a lot of substantial exchanges in the use of armored forces and air force. The Soviet Red Army was really not unfamiliar with Germany’s joint air-ground strike methods.

The Soviet Union also had its own theory of deep combat, but in fact it had many similarities with Germany's blitzkrieg theory on the tactical level. From a certain perspective, it can be regarded as a Russian enhanced version of the German blitzkrieg.

The Soviet Union itself had excellent conditions that were completely unattainable to the Third Reich at that time. It had a vast territory, a huge population, and an innumerable amount of energy and minerals.

The Soviet Red Army never had to worry about lacking troops and equipment, let alone being depressed by fuel and raw materials. Soviet weapons would not give up mass production because a certain part needed rare metal, nor would they rack their brains to find replacement materials, which would lead to a decline in the quality of the weapons.

The huge population base brought almost endless reserve troops to the Soviet Union. Just like the German army encountered in history, if you eliminate an infantry division on the other side, two will emerge later. Faced with this endless tug-of-war, even the veteran German army who had been through many battles had to feel pessimistic.

At this time, the Soviet Union not only completed its industrial transformation, but also formed a considerable scale. It had enough labor and resources to build an army of steel in a very short time.

She is one of the few countries in the world that can be self-sufficiency, and her long border line makes it difficult to be completely blocked. Even if the direction of Europe is blocked by Germany, she can still find a breakthrough in the Far East.

These innate conditions that the Soviet Union had, coupled with the technical and economic support of Germany, the United States and other countries, enabled her to establish a huge Red Army with a large number of over any European country. At the same time, both technical and tactical levels have already reached a medium-level level in the same era.

Soviet weapons have approached or even surpassed some mainstream European countries in performance, which has been clearly shown in the Spanish Civil War, that is, the Soviet Union's intervention in the Spanish Civil War and the left-wing wave extending to the Balkans, led to the entire Europe becoming alert to the threat from the East.

The huge scale of the Soviet Red Army was the most important condition for realizing the theory of large-scale combat. To put it bluntly, relying on almost endless soldiers to launch a large-scale blitzkrieg that continues to advance to the enemy's army in depth.

However, because the number of infantry and equipment troops was limited, the German army could only concentrate armored troops to launch a raid that was about to reach the end, and then the infantry consolidated the occupied area, encircled and wiped out the surrounding remaining enemies. Although they could successfully break through the enemy's defense line, the armored troops were limited by the consumption of fuel and ammunition during combat, and soon lost the ability to continue to advance in depth.

Compared with the German army's exquisite and fierce blitzkrieg, the Soviet Union's tactics seemed quite simple and crude. What would happen if the Soviet Red Army was asked to attack the targets faced by the German army?

Soviet commanders could easily assemble armored forces of more than four or five times that of Germany, and then divide these armored forces into several clusters, each with combat power comparable to the German main cluster.

When the attack begins, the Red Army will use the first cluster to break through the enemy's defense line and open a gap in the enemy's positions. Then the cluster will no longer advance, but will cooperate with the infantry troops to consolidate the combat results on the spot and defend against the enemy's counterattack and block the breakthrough again.

Next, the Red Army will let the second armored cluster in the rear be carried through the breakthrough and assault the enemy's depth, until it reaches the second line of defense. Then the second cluster launches an attack to open the breakthrough, and then the third armored group with unscathed morale continues to assault in the depth through the breakthrough, followed by the fourth and fifth ones, until the strategic reserves are put into operation.

In theory, this continuous armored assault will completely disrupt or even destroy the enemy's command and logistics system, causing the enemy to lose unified command and supplies in the entire depth area, and will eventually be divided and surrounded and annihilated by the Red Army infantry units with absolute military strength.

Of course, real combat is not as simple as the author said. This is a very complex combat theoretical system, which requires the cooperation of all armies, including the joint forces, tanks, artillery and air, and cannot be explained in just a few words.

In fact, most Soviet commanders did not really understand the essence of this theory until the end of World War II. Because the battlefield situation on the Eastern Front was too complicated, they rarely had the opportunity to accumulate the power to use this tactic, and at the same time they lacked the material conditions to use this tactic, so most of the time they still used the most conventional Soviet tactics to fight.

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