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Chapter 100 Song of the Final Battle

There have been many things recently. I am busy getting a birth certificate for pregnant babies, taking the driver's license for new traffic rules, and curing the severe cold that I joined in. These processes are very difficult, but fortunately, the results are still going smoothly. As for what everyone is most concerned about now, I don't want to make any comments here, and time will give answers to all questions.

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The vast territory and the cold winter were once the magic weapon for the Russians to defeat powerful enemies, but with the advancement and development of technology, the gap in nature can no longer stop the pace of human war. Using the technology-upgraded B-29 and "Lancaster" long-range bombers, the Luftwaffe completed a meaningful expedition. From the moment the bomb landed on the heads of the Moscow, the prospect of war seen through the Kremlin windows was covered with an indelible haze. Even so, the master of the Red Empire was still like a gambler who refused to admit defeat. The cold attack orders were transmitted to the front line layer by layer. The depressed Soviet officers and soldiers had to climb out of the trenches and brave the enemy's guns and bullets.

The people advanced hopelessly. At this moment, the enemy they faced was no longer the German team that always avoided the real and the virtual one year ago. The aid from Western countries was like gasoline and lubricant, which filled the German tanks with power again. The massive amount of American equipment made the German soldiers who were skilled in tactical cooperation more powerful, and their unyielding fighting spirit was sublimated under the inspiration of national honor. In Hamburg, Hannover, Kassel, Frankfurt, Mannheim, and Stuttgart, on this axis running through central Germany, three million German soldiers formed an unshakable line of defense. The soldiers came to block the generals and covered the water from earth, which dissolved the Soviet army's powerful attacks again and again.

With the roar of "farmers", "scrapies" and "soft eggs", Khrushchev flew to the front line with a group of members of the National Defense Ministry and members of the General Staff. Under their majestic eyes, the Soviet officers and soldiers vowed to defend the honor of the Soviets to the death. After hastily supplemented and adjusted, the three major Soviet assault armies launched the "storm plan" with Hanover as the main attack point. On the front line from Valsrod to Hildesheim, the Soviet army concentrated on investing 3,000 tanks, nine thousand artillery pieces and 34 divisions of troops. The firepower and attacking personnel were astonishing. The investment regardless of casualties also brought a seemingly good return to the Soviets - after 19

During the fierce battle, the Soviet army broke through and occupied the German positions on the north and south wings of Hannover, forming a clamp-shaped double-team against the German 6th Army, which was defending Hannover. To the Soviets' surprise, the German army did not retreat quickly as they did in the cover of night, but instead defended Hannover with a rock-like posture. The day after the battle was launched, the Soviet army completed the encirclement of the Hannover defenders. Khrushchev and his party visited the front line command center, which was only a few kilometers away from the battlefield. The secretary even had drafted a manuscript to announce the victory of the Hannover annihilation battle. However, the battle that seemed to be able to end at any time was delayed again and again. In order to take Hannover, the Soviet army assaulted from the 2nd and 3rd

The army drew a large number of heavy artillery and used ace troops with rich experience in siege. The fierce artillery fire plowed the ruins under the feet of the Germans over and over again, and the former garden city became lifeless. Although there was no sight of a flying battle flag, whenever the Soviet officers and soldiers entered the city with a nervous mood, the stubborn German soldiers would always attack them like vengeful spirits climbing out of the ground. Among the rubble, the T-34, which could not run at a speed, could only become the target of German anti-tank rockets. The tanks carrying heavy artillery seemed to always punch the air. The Soviet infantry were still brave, but unfortunately their courage could not be exchanged for the glory of the past. After four days and three nights of fierce fighting, the Soviet siege troops changed one after another.

The number of casualties quickly approached the six-digit number. The main urban areas of Hannover were still firmly controlled by the defenders. Faced with such a result, not only Khrushchev was furious, but even the senior generals who accompanied him felt faceless. Marshal Huasilevsky even asked to lead the commando to fight. If such a powerful field marshal was killed in Germany, the blow to the Soviet morale was conceivable. Khrushchev decisively rejected Huasilevsky's volunteer, and he quickly presided over an on-site meeting of the Ministry of Defense. He removed Petrov from the position of commander of the 2nd Assault Army on the spot, appointed his deputy Golikov to take over the command, and ordered him to capture Hannover within 24 hours.

With heavy pressure on his shoulders, Golikov dared not be negligent. He quickly organized the reserve troops to launch a frontal attack, withdrawing tank troops from the forces that had already moved to the southern wing of Bremen, and demanding that the air force carry out more violent ground bombing. Given that Khrushchev supervised the battle on the front line, the commanders of the Soviet Air Force did not care about the casualties of the troops. Within 12 hours, more than 3,000 fighter jets were dispatched and nearly 5,000 tons of bombs were dropped in the Hannover area, many of which were aviation armor-piercing bombs developed for hidden bunkers. As a result, several air teams participating in the war crashed more than 40 fighters for mechanical reasons alone, and more than 70 fighter jets were lost under the strong obstruction of the Luftwaffe.

Half of the limited time was spent on mobilizing troops and preparing firepower. Golikov's adventure quickly achieved results. After the attack was launched, the shameless and brave Soviet officers and soldiers broke through the German defense line in the middle of the city. After four hours of fierce fighting, tens of thousands of German troops were compressed in the western suburbs and were in danger. At the critical moment, the German rapid troops who emerged from Hesse approached Brunswick. Since the area was located in the southeast of Hannover, once occupied by the German army, the Soviet troops besieging Hannover would be at risk of their retreat being cut off, and they would leave from Bremen.

The German troops attacked also defeated the Soviet right-wing troops in Felden, and quickly approached Valsrod, which was only more than 30 kilometers away from Hannover from the north. Under this situation, the German defenders in Hannover fought desperately to defend their last positions, and held on from noon until night. With the cover of night, the German troops dispatched transport planes to send hundreds of paratroopers and a batch of ammunition and medicine to Hannover. The powerful German 2nd Army also invaded the Brunswick city. Khrushchev and his group hurriedly retreated to the safe area. The Soviet troops besieged Hannover could only swallow the bitter fruit of their success.

If the Battle of Hannover left endless regret to the Soviets, then in Stuttgart, the situation of the Soviet 4th Assault Army can only be described as "despair". In southern Germany, the complex terrain hindered the development of the Soviet army's large corps. Therefore, in this late spring offensive, the focus of the Soviet offensive was on the northern and central Germany, and the south was only the slightly inferior 4th Assault Army. At the beginning of the offensive, the German army stubbornly blocked the Soviet 4th Assault Army in Wiltheim, Lore and other places east of Frankfurt, so that the progress it made could only be measured by meters, and it was in its

When his three Soviet assault armies were blocked for a long time, the 4th Assault armies unexpectedly broke through the German defense in the Fert area southeast of Frankfurt, and used rapid troops to encircle the German troops of Wiltheim and Lore, winning two consecutive defeats, annihilated, captured nearly 20,000 German troops, and quickly approached the city of Stuttgart. The unique victory made the Soviet commander decide to take down the important German south, but the German army once again staged a large-scale mobile combat. In just two days, the German troops of 39 divisions were transferred from the northern and western fronts to the south, and completed the movement.

In order to assemble and deploy, the departments launched a counterattack according to a strict schedule. Under the leadership of the air force and armored forces, they defeated the Soviet flanking troops in the south and north directions of Stuttgart with lightning speed. When signs of collapse of friendly fronts on both wings, the Soviet 4th Assault Army tried to escape, but the road behind them had been attacked by the German army. Even if the trapped units had the courage to discard equipment and supplies, they could not escape from the German people who shared the same hatred for the enemy. Nearly 300,000 Soviet officers and soldiers were quickly caught in a heavy siege. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Battle of Munich, the Soviet Command forced the order.

All units controlled nearby aid from afar and used airdrops to maintain the supply of trapped troops. Although the German army had no advantage in the time, with its dual advantages of geographical and psychological, it in turn firmly restrained the Soviet troops on the key battlefield, especially the three most elite assault armies of the Soviet army could not withdraw from the south. As time passed, the Soviet army trapped outside Stuttgart was deteriorating, while the German army tightened the encirclement step by step. They used modern communication methods to broadcast the battle situation, thus firmly grasping the initiative of the battle of public opinion, and putting the Soviet army's military operations in Germany into a bleak situation of grief.

By late May, the Battle of Stuttgart was actually coming to an end, and the fate of the Soviet 4th Assault Army was basically settled. Unilateral public opinion blockade could not stop the pervasive radio signals, and the morale of the Soviet Union would soon be severely damaged. Under this circumstance, although the Soviets supported the German Bolsheviks to form the so-called "Federal Republic of Germany" in eastern Germany, and even fought for the support of the German people under the guise of the merger of Germany and the support of the German people, in the Soviet occupied areas, most German people responded in a cold response to the establishment of East Germany and the prospect of the so-called German-Australian merger. The appeal of the "Federal Republic of Germany" government was ridiculously low, let alone forming an army that "defends national sovereignty". Faced with the United Nations in the United Nations in the face of Western countries In the name of the United Nations, the Soviet Union sent diplomatic representatives to attend the peace talks held in Portugal, which is the third round of Soviet-German armistice negotiations. At the negotiation table, the Soviet representatives still hoped to maintain the status quo of the East-West division of Germany, insisting that the so-called "freedom of belief" was strongly criticized by the German representatives. Based on the significant psychological effect of the air force bombing, the German representative even hinted that the next stage might be bombed with atomic bomb weapons, and the German territory, which was as scorched earth, was no longer afraid of any kind of destruction. During the talks, the United Nations officials who mediated the peace talks played an unnamed image, and the Soviet officers and soldiers in distress were chanting "Hometown". The despair and sorrow reflected in them made everyone who had experienced the cruel war beset...

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