Battle of the Third Reich

When the Army Intelligence Department came to this conclusion, they honestly couldn't believe it themselves. Was the group of Russians going crazy? Did they want to provoke another war? But a bunch of factual evidence is before us, and other reasons simply cannot be explained.

Responsible for the Soviet-German border patrol mission, the German border police and the Nazi stormtroopers were the main ones. Only regular traffic forces or military fortresses were stationed with some regular army troops.

This dividing line was originally in the hinterland of Poland. There is no reason for the Polish to set up a defense line here. There is not even a barbed wire on the river bank. Anyone can easily cross this border as long as they are fully prepared.

The only thing Germany can do at this time is to strengthen the border patrol and search for the cross-border personnel in the control zone to find out their true identity, as well as their goals and intentions.

A lot of Polish villages around the border have remained. These farmers will eventually move all to the west of Poland or even further away. The agricultural land in Poland is quite sufficient. Because of the loss of population caused by the war, many places lack sufficient manpower to cultivate.

The German plan is to evacuate all ordinary residents on the border to the German occupation zone from the dangerous area by the end of 1981.

The Soviet Red Army was never a liberator. It depends on what they did when they invaded Finland. Don’t think that they will not do it again in Germany. Burning village farmhouses and indiscriminately bombing towns to destroy the will of the local residents is a conventional tactic that has been unanimously approved by the Red Army.

Clausewitz's theory of war is also very thorough. War is the use of violence to the fullest extent, and ultimately forces the other party to obey its own will. To put it bluntly, do your best to hit your knees and call your father.

Laws such as international warfare are only binding on the weak, and rookies need to referee each other, but the lions and the tigers are fighting each other. Others only worry about whether they will affect the pond fish, and who cares whether they use claws or teeth.

After September 1940, the German Wehrmacht began to make substantial internal adjustments. The field troops on the Western Front gradually moved to the Eastern Front. In order to avoid triggering the Soviet Union’s overreaction, the military assembly area was mainly located in the Eastern Province, which was originally Czech and Austrian territory. The German troops stationed in central and eastern Poland have also begun to move to the western part of Poland. These troops will return to Germany to undergo reorganization, replace old weapons and equipment, and start training in new tactics.

The base of these garrison troops is not bad. The main problem is that there are too many recruits in the establishment, and the weapons used are relatively old.

The northern section of the German Eastern Defence Line was built on the Vistula River. Starting from the seaport of Gdansk, it traverses the entire territory of Poland and finally reaches the southern mountainous region where Poland and Czech Republic meet. The straight line distance is more than 490 Kilometers.

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

The Kou Song line is only a dividing line artificially created by the historical environment. From a military perspective, it is not suitable for defense. Even if it is fierce and tenacious, such as the Brest Fortress, it is only a slightly larger piece in front of a large-scale military operation. It's just a stumbling block.

Of course, it is impossible for the Germans to build a great wall on the Polish land within a year, and even if it is built, it may not be able to resist the red iron hoof. The lesson of the Mackinaw line is at hand, but the French design does have some highlights from a certain angle.

Germany adopts an elastic defense tactic that combines permanent fortification and mobile defense. It mainly builds a batch of semi-permanent strongholds at each important traffic node on the defense line.

Each fortress is built as a stronghold with strong self-sustainability. At the same time, a series of circular anti-tank support points are set around the core fortress. It is required that each support point can not only provide cover to each other, but also obtain the heavy weight of the core fortress. Firepower support.

The flexible and flexible German armored unit can carry out mobile defense between these firepower points, and even wait for the opportunity to launch a counter-attack against the loopholes in the enemy's formation, disrupting the enemy's attack deployment.

This set of defensive tactics was formed by improving and strengthening the defensive tactics of the anti-tank support points of World War II. Both the Soviet and German sides of the Eastern Front suffered a lot from this tactic. Xu Jun believes that in this time and space, no one knows the power of this tactics better than he does.

In order to achieve strategic objectives, it is necessary to cover up the true appearance of the eastern defense line. The General Security Bureau and the Imperial Intelligence Agency have assumed the responsibility of counter-espionage.

The German movement in Central Poland is very large. The intelligence agencies of the Soviet Red Army cannot be unaware. The purpose of these armed personnel who secretly crossed the border is probably to collect intelligence information on these national defense projects.

The difficulty encountered by the German side is that the existing manpower of the General Security Agency and the Imperial Intelligence Agency itself is insufficient, and because the eastern defense line has deployed a large number of troops in Poland, as a result, whether it is the German border police or the army troops on the Soviet-German border, this Sometimes it is difficult to draw more manpower.

When Himmler learned about the incident, he thought it was a good opportunity for the SS to demonstrate its abilities to the head of state, so he sacrificed his hidden trump card, the SS special forces training at the Brandenburg school.

Himmler claimed that the inspiration for the birth of this unit all came from the dinner of a certain capital, and the head of state proposed to him the concept of special operations for the first time at the dinner table.

Himmler’s interest in special forces became more and more eager with the establishment of the "Tomahawks". This national leader has long been obsessed with the literary descriptions of ancient elite troops in history, and the concept of special forces just hit the itch of this SS national leader. He feels that the head of state proposed this kind of The combat mode is simply tailor-made for the SS.

So while the Tomahawks were still training, he ordered a training program for the SS special forces based on the Tomahawks curriculum. He demanded that in addition to the destruction and infiltration tactics behind the enemy, each soldier must master at least two professional skills, learn to operate all Soviet-style weapons, and control the common means of transportation in the Soviet Union, even including carriages and dogs. Sledge.

Himmler was well aware that this unit was about to be put on the battlefield on the Eastern Front. If he wanted to succeed, he had to be in front of everyone else.

The recruitment of troops was smooth, all of them were young and strong in their 20s, and each of them met or even exceeded the standards of the National Defense Forces. This is also the main contradiction between the SS and the National Defense Forces. manpower.

This special force recruited all members of the Nazi Youth League. There was no problem with loyalty. The members had also adapted to the collective life and were very obedient to superior management.

By contrast, the National Defense Force lacks some political features and highlights the relationship between the state and individuals. However, no matter what political point of view, everyone must swear allegiance to the head of state when joining the army.

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

The national leader of the SS gave the ninth special operations battalion the code name "Wolfman", and this unit was transferred to Biała Podraska, a small town in eastern Poland. This is just an ordinary Polish town. There are no special features. It was almost razed by the Germans in the war of three or nine years. It took more than a year to rebuild only a small part.

But none of the above is the point. The point is that on the opposite side of the Burg River, 30 kilometers east of the town, the fortified Brest Fortress stands.

ps: Thank you for your support, the author will continue to work hard.