The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1011

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: 0.115s Scan: 1.297sThe security war is indeed a headache. Many methods used in regular warfare have lost their place in the security war. Even the most powerful army will feel a headache when facing small, scattered, and hidden armed elements among civilians.

In the original history of World War II, guerrilla warfare was widely present in both the Asian battlefield and the European battlefield.

Let’s not talk about the threat of guerrilla warfare faced by the Japanese army on the battlefield of the Celestial Empire, let’s just talk about the European battlefield.

After the German army quickly took over Europe with blitzkrieg, it encountered the threat of guerrilla warfare in many countries and regions.

Among them, the guerrilla warfare in Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula is particularly serious.

After the German army destroyed Poland, although the regular army of Poland was eliminated, many people still fled to the countryside, such as sparsely populated rural areas, mountainous areas and forests to fight guerrilla warfare.

These people could not compete with the regular German troops, but they would not confront the Germans head-on. They would only come out from time to time to harass the Germans and prevent the German sphere of influence from spreading to the vast rural areas.

The rural areas were vast and sparsely populated, and the Germans could not send heavy troops to garrison. At most, they would send some small troops to operate here, and these guerrillas would specifically focus on these small troops, looking for opportunities to launch sneak attacks when they were unprepared and their forces were dispersed.

Such attacks would not cause too much damage to the German army. There might be only a few soldiers killed or injured at a time, but a little would add up to a lot. Over time, such losses would still be amazing!

Moreover, after the German army in rural areas was attacked, the German army’s control over the grassroots would be greatly reduced.

When the Borland people in the countryside saw that the Germans could not control the situation, they would collude with the guerrillas and provide them with intelligence, supplies and even financial support, which would make it more difficult for the German army to strike the guerrillas and gradually lose control over the grassroots!

Moreover, if this situation continues, the guerrillas will become bolder after their strength is enhanced. At that time, it may not only be the grassroots German small units that are attacked, but even the German transport units on the roads and railways will be attacked.

And this kind of attack is very threatening to the German troops on the front line. Modern warfare requires too much for logistics. Large-scale battles are purely a competition of logistics capabilities. Whoever has a strong transportation capacity, who can transport more weapons and ammunition to the front line, and whoever can continuously kill the enemy with their artillery will have a greater chance of winning the battle.

Historically, in the Battle of Stalingrad, which was hailed as the turning point of World War II, the Soviet and German sides competed with each other in their logistics capabilities.

Because of the existence of the Volga River, the German ground forces could not gain a foothold on the east coast, and they could not completely cut off the Soviet logistics supply line.

However, the German army had air superiority, so they continuously sent dive bombers to attack the front of the Soviet train. As long as the Soviet train was destroyed, the Soviet train would not be able to move, and the supplies on the train could not be transported to Stalingrad.

Moreover, when the Soviet transport troops were crossing the Volga River, they would also be intercepted by the German air and ground artillery units, which made the Volga River the area with the most casualties for the Soviet army. A large number of supplies and troops were destroyed and killed by the German army when crossing this section of the river.

However, in the later period, the Soviet army strengthened the protection of its own military trains.

They deployed a large number of anti-aircraft artillery units and arranged many anti-aircraft positions along the railway line, effectively threatening the German air attack.

In addition, the Soviet army also installed two locomotives on the military trains, one in front and one in the back.

In this way, even if the front locomotive was destroyed, the train could still be driven by relying on the thrust of the rear locomotive, and would not break down on the road and cause traffic jams!

On the other hand, in order to relieve the pressure in the Stalingrad area, the Soviet army mobilized 12,000 heavy artillery from a wider battlefield to attack the German army, forcing the German army to disperse to other battlefields. In this way, the Soviet army seized the opportunity and desperately transported 600,000 tons of military supplies to the Stalingrad battlefield, which was almost out of food and ammunition!

It can be said that it was these 600,000 tons of supplies that changed the outcome of the normal battle. If these 600,000 tons of supplies had not been successfully transported, the Battle of Stalingrad would probably have ended with the victory of the German army!

Therefore, for the German army, the emergence of guerrillas in their rear that could threaten their transportation supply lines was absolutely unacceptable. Therefore, in World War II, the German army had a very strong attack on the guerrillas in the Borland region and later in the Sanmao and Ukrainian regions.

However, this was of no use. Even if the German army eliminated the guerrillas, the poor infrastructure in the bear country made the logistics supply of the German army very difficult. Every year in the spring rainy season, a large number of German troops trapped in the mud could be seen everywhere on the plains of East Europe.

The situation in North America is not quite the same as that in Eastern Europe in history. Historically, the German army faced great pressure on the front battlefield, so they could not withdraw too many troops to maintain law and order in the occupied areas.

In addition, the guerrillas in Eastern Europe were actually supported by many countries, including Eagle Sauce, the Sun Never Sets and the Bear, which made it impossible for these guerrillas to be completely wiped out!

At this time, in the North American battlefield, the German army was not under great pressure on the front battlefield, and Manstein had no intention of launching a large-scale attack for the time being, so they could completely draw a large number of troops to encircle and suppress these armed elements in the occupied areas.

However, in the security war, the role of the regular army would be greatly weakened. If they wanted to completely eliminate these rebels, they not only needed to send out regular troops for large-scale encirclement and suppression, but also needed to set up a special force to control the grassroots and eradicate the soil for the guerrillas to survive!

And this task was none other than Eisenhower!

“General, this is the detailed intelligence of the five states in the eastern region that we occupied, including the distribution of population, the garrison map of the army and the distribution map of the weapons and ammunition depots of the US military!”

After Eisenhower arrived at the Eastern Theater with his First Army, he immediately understood his mission, so he made full use of his advantage as a member of the Eagle Sauce, and used coercion and inducement to successfully instigate many high-ranking officials and generals of the Eagle Sauce. In order to survive, these people sold a lot of confidential information to Eisenhower.