In addition, Seidlitz, an older battle cruiser in the German Navy, was also transferred to the Pacific Fleet after major modification, adding three light aircraft carriers and four light cruisers, namely scharnhorst, August Wihelm Anton Neithardt von Gneisenau and Leipzig. Twelve destroyers and a large number of submarines have been stationed in Vladivostok. Once the war breaks out, the Russian Pacific Fleet will quickly block Vladivostok in the north. Although the Japanese government has been secretly giving Russia a lot of food and weapons support, it was built on the "Singapore Secret Treaty" between Germany and Japan. Germany’s attitude in the Japan-Australia war, even if the Japanese government does not cooperate with the troops, there is no reason to stop the German navy from blocking Vladivostok.
Among Spey’s fleet, the new scharnhorst is a heavy cruiser with a standard displacement of 210,000 tons, which is equipped with three triple-mounted guns with a diameter of 5o times that of 2omm. This is the second time that the German navy has tried to triple-mount turrets on a large ship. From the perspective of firepower, navigation and defense, at present, a heavy cruiser in various countries can fight against the German scharnhorst alone.
The new "August Wihelm Anton Neithardt von Gneisenau" and "Leipzig" are two cruisers of the same class with a weight of 1.55 million tons. Although the displacement is very ordinary, the unique appearance of the two ships attracted a lot of attention once they appeared, especially the Japanese navy across the sea gave great attention!
The first half of this warship is different from ordinary heavy cruisers, and two twin mounted 55 times diameter 2o3mm turrets are arranged in front of the main bridge but behind the chimney.
The rear bridge and the rear main gun were replaced by the deck of the aircraft carrier! The deck slightly above the warship’s freeboard is about 60 meters long and 25 meters wide. There is no hangar in sight, but there are always several monoplane planes parked on the deck with two catapults that take off.
After visual inspection and long-distance shooting "August Wihelm Anton Neithardt von Gneisenau", The two ships "Leipzig" were crowned as "mysterious battleships" by Japanese spies and returned to Tokyo. However, the Japanese navy’s high-level officials thought that it was the German navy that built the "battleship" and prepared to test the ship. If nothing unexpected happened, the two warships would try their hand on the Russians. In this case, the Japanese navy paid close attention to the two heavy cruisers, on the one hand, it accelerated the research progress of the "battleship" and laid the keel at the Yokosuga shipyard in mid-April. A large amount of manpower, material resources and funds were attracted to this project. Other aspects, especially the development and exhibition of anti-submarine weapons, have slowed down. At this time, the eyes of the Japanese have been completely attracted by the "Time-to-Earth Warships" without realizing that the greatest threat to them is actually the "German submarine hunters" with superior performance.
After a cold winter training in the Alps in early February, the German African colonial army 6 continued to return to the hinterland of Germany from the mountains. Although more than 20 thousand African soldiers were frostbitten and quit the colonial army, most officers and men insisted on coming to the Alps in severe winter, which may be comparable to the cold environment in the Russian hinterland, but these colonial army officers and men were less prepared to accept the cold test
In addition, all kinds of weapons of the German Sixth Army have also undergone strict cold tests, especially the tanks and armored vehicles of the German armored forces. All weapons that are used in severe cold conditions or whose performance is seriously affected are ordered to be modified or directly abandoned. Although Barbarossa requires that they be finished before the winter comes, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents.
Just as the "road-building operation" jointly carried out by the German three armies was in full swing, a very unfortunate news came from Oceania-in Japan, 10 elite six divisions and a large number of naval ships and fighter planes fiercely attacked Australia’s last independent city-Adelaide fell, and the Japanese army in New Zealand finally occupied Australia and New Zealand with rich products as it wished.
Before the fall of the port, three British submarines led dozens of military and political dignitaries from Australia and New Zealand on the road of exile in America. They held the last hope of the people of Oceania and wept bitterly. Australian President Hughes said that before expelling the last enemy from their homes, the Australian people would persevere in fighting and never give up even if they had to fight for a hundred years!
In this spirit of freedom, the Australian and New Zealand soldiers and civilians are encouraged to resist the activities of transferring to the countryside and guerrilla warfare.
While plundering a large number of mineral materials from Oceania, the Japanese government adopted a series of cruel and high-pressure rule policies in order to promote its own colonial rule. In line with this bloody rule, the Sixth Army had to station more than 10,000 troops in Australia and New Zealand to prevent foreign weapons from being transported into Japan’s navy, and nearly one-third of its light ships were laid the groundwork for future collapse before guarding and blocking the Australian coast.
Although Chen Tian and German Zhenfu were a little disappointed by the fall of Oceania, it was not easy for Australian, New Zealand and British volunteers to support the powerful Japanese army for so long. After Australia and the New Deal went into exile in the British Kingdom, Chen Tian instructed Robert I and the British government to allow them to recruit volunteers in Britain and continue to provide them with funds and weapons assistance.
By the end of April, 1992, the border friction between Germany and Russia had not escalated as expected and turned into a war. Although three German African colonialists were transferred to the German Polish-Russian border to strengthen the border forces, most German troops were still stationed in Prussia, Bavaria, Austria and other hinterland areas of Germany.
On April 5, Germany took the initiative to ask for the elimination of border friction and held talks in Warsaw. At first, German representatives were still tough and talked about disarmament, land division, It is difficult for Russians to accept harsh conditions such as compensation. However, when the peace talks were facing failure, the Germans suddenly changed their attitude and only asked Russia to severely punish the murderer of the previous border friction and reduce the number of border guards. After being affirmed by St. Petersburg, the Russian representative agreed to these two demands. The German-Russian Friendship Treaty was unexpectedly signed quickly. The two sides agreed to let bygones be bygones and maintain the number of border guards at a low level and set up a military arbitration committee in the common border area to solve the disputes between the two sides.
Just when the dispute between Germany and Russia was reduced to a minor event, the Russian Queen Di Anna I wiped out the revolutionary armed forces, ordered a large number of troops to be transferred to Belarus, Ukraine and the Caucasus, and announced that a military exercise would last for one month in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg. Fishing boats and merchant ships were not allowed to enter the exercise area in the second period, but according to the report of the German long-range reconnaissance plane, the Russians were laying mines in this sea area on a large scale!
Compared with Germany, Finland and Turkey, it is surprising that the three governments seem to regard the Russians as a series of military actions.
Destroy the day Chapter 11 Bear hunting
At the end of the spring of 1992, the situation in Europe was once again turbulent.
Riot and red revolutionary words frequently appear in prominent positions in major newspapers and periodicals. The tide of Russian revolution is surging again in the Ukrainian region, in the Caucasus region, in inaccessible Siberia and in distant kamchatka peninsula.
On April 3o, the German military announced that the paid reserve soldiers would cancel their weekend leave and enter the second alert state. The border guards stationed in the border areas of East Prussia and German Poland will increase from 24 divisions to 37 600,000 men, which will resist the spread of the "red flood" to the west.
"Invited" in Bohemia, Hungary and Romania in early February.
In just two weeks, the German army entered Bohemia to strengthen the border defense of allied countries. The German army increased to 7 infantry divisions and 1 armored division, with a total of 150,000 logistics troops. The Coalition forces consisted of German and Hungarian troops, with a total of 33 infantry divisions and 7 armored divisions with about 600,000 people, half of which were deployed in the border area. In Romania, 17 Romanian divisions and 24 German divisions jointly stationed at the border.
In the Caucasus, where the situation is most turbulent, the Turkish government has sent a large number of troops to the border provinces of Tivris, Kutaisi and Armenia. In mid-May, Turkish soldiers stationed in these border provinces exceeded 400,000, supplemented by a large number of aircraft and armored vehicles.
At the same time, the German-Turkish joint fleet has completed four Turkish battleships, one Turkish battle cruiser, two German battleships, two German battle cruiser, one German heavy aircraft carrier and one escort aircraft carrier in the Turkish military port on the south bank of the Black Sea, which has an overwhelming advantage for the Russian Black Sea fleet.
On February 15th, the German High Command held a joint meeting of the three armed forces.
"So far, the Russian Sixth Army has established 17 infantry divisions, 9 cavalry divisions and 1 paramilitary division in Belarus, with a total number of about 520,000; In Ukraine, there are 21 infantry divisions, 11 cavalry divisions and 1 paramilitary division, the number of which is about 6 million; The Russian Caucasian regiment has been strengthened, with 10 infantry divisions and some mountain troops totaling about 10 thousand people! That is to say, the Russian Sixth Army has deployed about 130,000 regular troops in the border areas, and its strength is quite strong! "
Ludendorff, chief of staff of the 6th Army, will prepare a large map in advance. Everyone briefly introduced the current Russian military preparations. After two disarmament, Russia announced that the total number of the 6th Army was 2oo million. Judging from the current situation, the actual number of Russian troops should have exceeded this number to prevent Germany from attacking St. Petersburg from the direction of Finland. In addition, there are a large number of permanent troops in the Far East.
"It seems that the Russians are ready for war!" Chen Tian took his time to evaluate that it is reasonable to say that people who wage war want the other side to be prepared, but after the Russians were ready, the commander-in-chief of the German three armed forces did not have any depressed expression on his face.
"It is estimated that once the war strikes, they will reduce the garrison in the Far East to a minimum. It is necessary to hint and guarantee that the Russians will definitely take such risks!" Speaking is the general commander of the ground offensive in the Barbarossa plan of the new "head" of the German Sixth Army after the retirement of the veteran Ollie Kahn, the minister of the Sixth Army. His rich experience will guide the German Sixth Army to advance towards a great goal.
"Damn it!" Several generals cursed low.
"It is expected that sooner or later we will make them pay the price!" Chen Tian’s calm words comforted his generals and then turned to Marshal Bohr, the chief of staff of the navy. "What is the situation of the Russian navy? "
Bohr immediately took his marshal’s battle away from the staff and spent a little time replacing the big map on the wall with another one marked East of Finland Bay.
"The Russians are going to prepare their Baltic Fleet Nikolai I, Nicholas II and Agreni I to stop our main fleet from advancing into the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland with 30,000 mines from the old battleships San Andrei, Paval, slava, Boronico, Schwiete, Leonid and CheSaljevic!" Bohr pointed to the dense black dots in the blue area of the map and said, "It will take at least 4 months if you want to simply make a passable channel from this 12 km long thunder array! This is still an estimate without considering the harassment of the Russian fleet and submarines! It seems that our 6 th Army can approach St. Petersburg from Estonia and Finland, which is very difficult but must be carried out! "
After that, Bohr nodded to his deputy, and he immediately pulled another map that had been rolled up sharply and marked the Black Sea.
"There is not much trouble. The opponents in the area are 2ooo mines and 230,000-ton battleships Queen Maria, Alexander III and Catherine the Great. The joint fleet of Germany and Turkey will easily control this sea area and then open the entrance to the Asian Sea. Maybe the 6 th Army will sweep the whole northern shore of the Black Sea before us!"
Then Bohr’s deputy changed the map of Barents.
"Once the battle starts, our North Sea Fleet will seal off the whole Barents Sea. Murmansk is our key target there. The Finns promised to attack the port from six places. Our fleet and 120,000 navy team 6 soldiers will attack from the sea. Before that, the military will give the Russians a heavy blow!"
The next pair is that the generals pay more attention to the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Strait, which will be the last way for Russia to obtain supplies from the sea, while the Japanese have a lot of food and ammunition, and the Americans have little supplies, but we cannot underestimate their military strength after the war.
"The Russian Pacific Fleet has a dozen old battleships, many of which were captured by the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War and then returned to the sea battle. It is a miracle that the fighting capacity is negligible, but the Russians are likely to float their batteries to defend the port. In recent 10 years, the Russian Pacific Fleet has added two self-built battleships, namely the Peter the Great and the Duke of Zalsky, with a displacement of 260,000 tons. The equipment door was purchased from the Japanese 356 mm naval gun! General Spee, the Pacific Fleet is a light carrier ship, battle cruiser, heavy cruisers and submarines to block this sea area. I believe our ships and submarines will kill those old Russian warships! The only variable comes from the change of attitude of the Japanese government in the German-Russian war. Our Pacific fleet will defend the main submarine in Jiaozhou Bay and threaten the Japanese-Japanese sea transportation line! It needs to be said that at present, the number of submarines deployed in Jiaozhou Bay has reached 17o, which is equal to the total number of Japanese and Russian naval submarines, and the quality is much higher! "
Bohr greeted Chen Tian and walked slowly back to his seat.
"The sea situation is clear to everyone. Now, regardless of the situation in the Far East, the 6 th Army and the military action are still decisive! Now, as the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the German Empire, I announce that Barbarossa plans to enter the countdown. 6. The naval and military forces secretly knot at the scheduled battle site! "
In the following three weeks, while the riots in Russia became more and more serious, the train transportation and night travel modes of all the troops of the Sixth Army of Germany reached a predetermined place near the German-Russian border, and the advantages of the dense railway network of Germany were fully displayed at this moment. The rigorous behavior of the Germans made the whole of Germany transport an infantry regiment from boarding, leaving and leaving according to a strict plan. There is an accurate timetable when they arrive at the destination, and their equipment and war materials will arrive at the end of May two days after they arrive at the destination. German barracks, vehicles, fighter planes and materials covered with emerald camouflage nets can be seen everywhere in the forests, grasslands and wilderness areas of East Prussia, Poland, Bohemia, Hungary and Romania. German high-altitude reconnaissance planes still fly over the border every day for photo reconnaissance, and German frontline headquarters are also fine-tuning their deployment according to the real-time state of Russian troops.
On February 23rd; guderian and his panzer group headquarters arrived of East Prussia; and the first panzer regiment under his personal command arrived of the scheduled nodes of East Prussia and northern Poland. General Frye’s 2nd Panzer Corps was tied in the eastern part of Bohemia; General Bayer’s 3rd Panzer Corps arrived in eastern Hungary; Armored troops belonging to the Royal Fighter Regiment arrived in Romania under the command of Rommel.
On Saturday, June 2nd, three mainstream German newspapers, Berlin Daily, Hamburg News and Pan-Deutschland, published a world-shaking report article "Who is the murderer" in the headlines. A large number of witness statements, government and top secret information revealed that the real murderer of the Washington bombing defected from Russia 13 years ago, and senior officials also personally experienced and described the whole bombing with great shock, and all the spearheads were directed at the current Russian ruler-Queen Di Anna I.
In the whole afternoon, tens of millions of people in Germany almost forgot everything around them. Although the three newspapers were printed twice as much as usual, it became hard to find a newspaper. No matter in Berlin, Hamburg or German towns and villages, everyone was reading the report carefully. It took just half an hour for people’s faces to be surprised, startled and angry. The indignant people immediately took to the streets to "punish the murderer" and "revenge for Queen Lisa". Thousands of Berlin people gathered in front of the palace to petition, and the number of petitioners quickly increased to nearly 100 thousand.
In the afternoon, the German government issued an official notice on behalf of Gustav Noske.
Declare that the articles published in Berlin Daily, Hamburg News and Pan-German newspaper are true, and that the German government has asked the Russian Queen to abdicate and come to Germany for a public trial by diplomatic ultimatum.
Only one hour after the ultimatum was delivered, the Russians gave a negative answer. They claimed that even war would not hand over the Queen to Germany. The so-called "Who is the murderer" by the Germans is a pure fabrication.
On June 3, the German government submitted a 24-hour ultimatum to the Russian government, demanding that the Queen abdicate and be tried in Germany, but the Russian government once again refused without hesitation.
On June 4th, at noon, tens of millions of Germans waited quietly beside the radio. The ruler of the German Empire, Gianluigi William III, will personally read out Germany’s declaration of war against Russia.
At the same time, three squadrons-seven X-henkel I fighters, four squadrons-10 Messerschmidt I fighters and five squadrons-122 X-vulture ii attack aircraft at two frontline airports in Collavo and Karhula, Finland, have made the final preparations before attacking. The pilots are sitting in the cockpit waiting for orders. Their place is only 2oo kilometers away from St. Petersburg, Russia.
There are 736 Dornier 1o1 medium bombers, 327 Dornier ii long-range bombers and 2 Dornier iii long-range bombers at four second-tier airports in Pukkila, Volsa, Riihimaki and Lovisa. When Germany officially declares war on Russia, they will fly to the Russian metropolitan area more than 300 kilometers away. At least hundreds of bombshell are prepared by the Russian Queen and her winter palace.
Xiala River, Belarus
"Forward and forward!" A general on horseback stood by the roadside and looked anxiously at the team marching westward. Although the soldiers were exhausted after a long journey, it was still surprising that they maintained a high marching degree. The general could also feel that his soldiers had two legs and were not cavalry troops. It was easy to March for two oo kilometers in three days!