Steel Soviet Union

Time goes back to a month ago, when Major General Charleson was still fighting the Germans on the Western Front.

As a rare armored hard-liner in the British Army, Major General Charleson attaches great importance to the importance of armored forces now and in the future. He also advocated that the British Army should follow the trend of the times and make positive improvements, abandon the existing "infantry tank and cruise tank" doctrine, learn from the armored combat experience of the Soviet Union and Germany, and develop a new generation of main medium tanks and backbone heavy tanks.

This seems unreasonable in the eyes of his colleagues who regard him as an alien and a freak. Our majestic British Empire Army is the final winner who drove those Nazis out of North Africa. Why should the winner learn from the loser? That set of fallacies? After learning this, will you follow their old path and also lead to failure? Probably only a fool would do this, right?

Not only that, Major General Charleson even highly praised the armored combat doctrine of the Nazi general Guderian, believing that this is the development direction of armored combat now and in the future. The British Empire Army must actively learn from and adopt these Tactical doctrine, otherwise it will eventually be abandoned by the times, just like the conservative French were abandoned by the times.

"This guy is either crazy or stupid, or he is a spy planted among us. Only a fool will believe that the nonsense he talks is true.

Few people can understand and accept Major General Charleson's theories and propositions, except for one person. This person is the pride of the British Empire who is very popular in the current British Army and even the entire Allied Forces: Field Marshal Montgomery.

"I understand what you mean, Charlie. But some things can't be changed overnight, you have to understand that."

"You have accumulated a wealth of practical experience in North Africa. Even before I came to take over, your performance was quite outstanding. Even His Majesty and the Prime Minister greatly praised your heroic performance, although this is still not enough to make those who oppose you people are convinced.”

Montgomery's condition has not been very good in recent days. The heavy losses suffered by the British army in Caen and a series of subsequent operations have made this man, known as the God of War of the British army and recently promoted to marshal, look depressed and frowning all day long.

Although the front has continued to advance so far, the huge losses suffered at every step forward are really unbearable.

Those annoying German armored units really caused too much trouble, whether the 7th Armored Division, which followed them all the way through North Africa and achieved brilliant results, suffered a disastrous defeat in the village of Pokage, or the German armored units in Caen The regional battles dealt a heavy blow to the British army, and none of the reports in front of them had anything to do with "making people feel happy".

The victory gained at a heavy price is not worth celebrating, at least Montgomery himself thinks so. How to deal with those troublesome German armored forces more effectively is the biggest problem at the moment.

The air force units that had originally been given high hopes did not produce satisfactory results. Seven or eight fighter planes loaded with aerial bombs and rockets pounced on them, often only able to kill one or two German tanks, and even even more Not a single one of them could be killed. The aerial rockets with extremely poor accuracy were deflected and all the aerial bombs were thrown crookedly. It was true that the Germans were scared to death.

But this will not be of any important help, because the Germans who were scared away will soon come back with greater strength. Even if they go through a lot of hardships along the way, they will eventually fight in front of the British army and start a battle. At this time, the only one who will be blasted is the British army itself, and the German armored forces have a head-on chance of winning. Not really big.

The same problem is not only encountered by the British army. The Americans with their nostrils turned upward are also in a similar situation.

I remember that when he was in North Africa, the proud Patton shouted all day long, waved his command whip and gave various directions. He had a strong aura and posture of "I am not afraid of any German in the world", and his mobilization speech was also unusually heroic. Domineering, as if the frightened German guy will automatically come to the door and be slaughtered in the next second.

But upon arriving at the European battlefield, as the situation on the battlefield took a turn for the worse, Montgomery, who had not seen Patton for a while, was surprised to find that when he saw the American general again, he was in a state as if he was recovering from a serious illness and lacked strength.

"These bastards of Nazi armored soldiers are very difficult to deal with! Our tanks are no match for them. They use equipment that is one level more advanced than ours to massacre my boys."

"I have to find an opportunity to sue these bullshit capitalists. The industrial garbage they create is killing the best young men in the United States under the guns of the Germans. I even bet that if the wreckage of the destroyed vehicle is Even in a single line, the land area we have captured from landing to now may not even be able to be traced through to the end. Damn it, God will be so angry that he will curse the son of the beach."

Although he still cursed non-stop, he was still the same as before, "simple bad breath, ultimate enjoyment".

But Montgomery could see that Patton, an arrogant and arrogant guy in the past, was indeed feeling guilty now. He knew very well that the Allied armored forces were no match for the enemy, but he was just not willing to openly admit it on the surface. .

Although the emergency development project of new tanks based on the harsh situation on the front line has been accelerated, this is not only done by the British, but also by the Americans.

But raw water could not quench his thirst. Montgomery asked himself that he could not wait until the armored forces had enough equipment to compete with the Germans before continuing to launch large-scale operations. No matter how heavy the losses are, the war still has to be fought, but the way of fighting should be thought of and changed. At least it cannot continue to be fought as it is now. It is necessary to find more effective and restrained tactics to target the enemy.

"The Americans' Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed a plan, and Eisenhower personally decided on it. They wanted to form a corps of officers to go to the Soviet Union to learn from the Soviets' armored confrontation experience against the Germans in the form of alliance cooperation and experience exchange. And tactics, I heard that the Soviets are much more mature and proficient in this aspect than us.”

"Haven't you always advocated learning the armor tactics and doctrines of the Soviets? Now is your chance."

"I have talked with Eisenhower. Our British Army will also send a group of personnel to study together, but this requires a suitable leader."

"I recommended you to Mr. Prime Minister, and his answer was "Just go for it, I believe in you, just like I always did in North Africa." Now I say this sentence to you intact. I hope you can bring us some success. Come back with something valuable, Charlie, and I'd also like to learn more details about this guy."

"When you go to the Soviet Union, you will have the opportunity to meet him in person. We will communicate relevant matters with the Soviet high-level officials in advance. You only need to do what you should do."