The battle to conquer Berlin is destined to be a tempting battle for all the Soviet generals. There is no doubt that no matter who it is, as long as he has excellent command performance in this battle, his name will be recorded in history together with this battle and will be remembered by the world forever.

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Zhukov is also a human being. He also hopes that his name will be remembered by future generations and that he can be recorded in the history of military history. Compared with others, his desire is stronger. After all, he is now the commander-in-chief of the entire Western Front battlefield of the Soviet army.

In order to win the battle without any mistakes, Zhukov made careful arrangements in advance, and at the same time, he also received full assistance from the intelligence system of the Soviet National Security Council. When he returned from Moscow to the General Command of the Western Front, a large number of intelligence organizations from Berlin had already submitted a large number of German defense deployments in the areas near Berlin to him.

After the brutal attacks of the Soviet army in the previous stage, the German army was on the verge of despair at this time, and the troops they could use had completely serious shortages. However, even in this case, the Nazi fascists led by Hitler still had no intention of resisting. They wanted to continue this war with no hope of victory.

After a large-scale defeat in the Silesian Industrial Zone Battle, the German base responded quickly. On the one hand, they recruited new recruits with no combat experience, even some old men who had not yet grown up or were old, and compiled them into the so-called "National Charge" and "Hitler Youth League". Thus, a unit that seemed large in scale but was actually limited in combat power. On the other hand, the German army recruited the remnants of the former A-group group defeated from Poland, and then added the remaining reserve troops, including all infantry units, armored units, artillery units, special reserve units and military academies, to the combat forces. Thus, two combat armies "Visva Army Group" and "Central Army Group".

After preparing for the troops, the German base camp began to devote its main energy to building a defensive offensive. What made the German commanding senior leaders embarrassed was that at this time, there was no special defense area to establish solid fortifications in the eastern Berlin line. The loss of the Odd River caused the German army to lose the last barrier to resist the Soviet attack. Now, the only thing they could do seemed to be to temporarily piece together some defensive areas to fragilely resist the Soviet advancement.

In this way, in early November, the German army began to gather troops in the area east of Berlin. Before the battle started, the German army had pieced together forty-eight infantry divisions, nine motorized divisions, six armored divisions, and a total of about one million troops in this area. At the same time, in the city of Berlin, the German army also reserved eight infantry divisions. Cooperating with a garrison with a force of 200,000 to strengthen defenses. They built three defense lines between the Ode River and the Nice River, each with a depth of 40 kilometers. As for the fortifications of Berlin City, they were mainly built on the ring railway. At the same time, a large number of barricade defense positions were set up in the city area, and even solid shooting holes were built on the windows of the houses facing the street, turning the entire Berlin City into a giant bunker and shooting position.

There is no doubt that the German army was quite well prepared, and this means that the difficulty of the attacking Soviet army would greatly increase. If an effective offensive plan cannot be formulated and sufficient troops are mobilized for this, it will not be easy to win this battle in a short time.

After careful consideration and instructions from the Supreme Command, the Western Front Command, headed by Zhukov, made a series of predictions and plans, and finally came up with a plan that takes into account the interests of all aspects and can be the most effective.

According to the resolution of the Supreme Command of the Western Front of the Soviet Army, the three generals Zhukov, Meretskov and Rokosovsky decided to launch the battle in the end in mid-November. The troops participating in the battle included the 1st Belarusian Front commanded by Marshal Zhukov, the 1st Ukrainian Front commanded by Marshal Meretskov, and the 2nd Belarusian Front commanded by Marshal Rokosovsky. These three major fronts will undertake all the tasks of attacking Berlin.

Don’t underestimate these three fronts at this time. In order to plan this battle, the commanders of the three fronts have made great adjustments in their fronts. They almost all gathered all the elite powerful legions of the fronts. In this case, the powerful forces of the three fronts include a total of 2 infantry divisions and cavalry divisions, 21 tank troops and mechanized armies, 4 air force armies, about 2.5 million men, 42,000 artillery and mortars, 6,250 tanks and self-propelled artillery, and 7,500 combat aircraft. Judging from the forces alone, the German defensive forces in the Berlin area are definitely not their opponents.

According to the arrangement of Zhukov and three other generals, once the battle was launched, the 1st Belarusian Front, commanded by Marshal Zhukov, will be the vanguard, breaking through the east, west and several nearby areas, and launching an attack on Berlin from the east. The 1st Ukrainian Front, commanded by Marshal Meletskov, will advance to the south of the east bank of the Nice River to the foothills of Sudeten, and launch an attack on Berlin from the south. As for the 2nd Belarusian Front, commanded by Marshal Rokosovsky, will advance to the lower reaches of the Odd River and attack Berlin from the north.

In this way, the three fronts formed three sharp swords and achieved a strategic siege against Berlin from three directions, in order to break through the German Berlin outer line in the shortest time and put formal pressure on the city of Berlin.

There is no doubt that this is a very large combat plan, and it is also the last battle against German fascism, the last battle aimed at ending the European war, and a battle that will cause a sensation all over the world.

For the sake of stability, probably to please Chu Sinan, the first country leader, after the three generals formulated a comprehensive combat plan, they first sent the plan back to Moscow and submitted it to Chu Sinan for review to obtain his consent. At the same time, the three generals also jointly proposed an invitation to Chu Sinan, inviting him to go to the Western Front before the war to guide the entire battle.

The three generals were very excited. They even decided to invite Chu Sinan to go to the Empire State Building, where the political center of Germany, after conquering Berlin, and leave a photo in front of the ruins. I here to commemorate.

This is a great thing. Logically speaking, no one will reject this very tempting suggestion. The victor, what is the victor? This is called the victor. The victor has the opportunity to leave a photo of himself in front of the enemy's power center symbolizing the building, which is enough to show off your lifelong action.

However, to everyone's surprise, Chu Sinan, the highest leader of the country, rejected Zhukov and others' proposal without hesitation. According to his words, it is a waste to go to Berlin. However, although Chu Sinan himself did not plan to go to Berlin, his wife, Gilnilova, the first secretary of the National Security Council, was quite interested in this matter. Therefore, in the call, Chu Sinan told Zhukov and others that after the Battle of Berlin was won, Gilnilova would go to Berlin as his representative.

Logically speaking, as a leader from the military, Chu Sinan himself should be quite concerned about this kind of thing that can bring infinite glory and glory to him. In fact, he has also commanded the battle against Germany. At the same time, the opportunity to reverse the defeat on the Soviet and German battlefield appeared under his command. Therefore, he was already qualified to go to Berlin and appear there as a winner. What exactly prompted him to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

Not for anything else, just because according to the war schedule, in mid-November, Chu Sinan had a more meaningful place for him, that is Japan.

Just as the war was rising on the Western Front battlefield and the war drums were rising, Japan, the last battle point on the Asian battlefield, was not calm. To be honest, just as the European war entered its final stage, the progress of the local Japanese war reached the last juncture. Since the Meiji Restoration, Japanese imperialism, which has been based on a military power, was about to reach the last juncture of the tranquil years.

In the first week of early October, the United States, Britain and Southeast Asian countries, which launched an offensive from Kyushu Island, successively conquered Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Kitakyushu and other places, and occupied the entire Kyushu Island. After that, the Allied forces divided into two groups, and with the support of the powerful US Pacific Fleet, they launched a new round of beach landing operations to Shikoku Island and the southern part of Honshu Island.

In mid-October, the American and British Allied Forces' Western Front Operations Forces, through paratroopers and landing ships, successfully landed in Shigaguan, an important city on the southern part of Honshu Island. In just two days, the troops arrived at Hiroshima Castle. At the same time, the Allied Forces attacking Shikoku Island successfully landed in Hachiman, conquered Kochi, Anyi and other places one after another, and wiped out six Japanese divisions on the island.

After this stage of battle, the US and British Allied forces successively defeated and wiped out nearly 16 divisions of the Japanese local defense forces, thus fundamentally weakening the last remaining limited power of the Japanese army. On October 22, in order to further accelerate the progress of the battle and open up the passage to the areas near Tokyo, the Allied Command issued a huge strategic bombing plan. Starting from 8:40 am on the 22nd to 5:20 pm on the 24th, a huge 18 bomber formation took off and landed several times from five air bases on Taiwan Island and several aircraft carriers.

Continuous and uninterrupted large-scale bombings were carried out on Fukuyama, Okayama, Kobe, Osaka and other cities on Honshu Island in Japan. During this period, Japan's major industrial centers, Omoto and Kobe, suffered unprecedented huge losses, and more than 70% of the construction facilities in the city were damaged. The most unlucky thing was that Naoki Hoshino, the Minister of State who was inspecting the military industry in Kobe, was also killed in this unprecedented bomb. The special car he was riding in was overturned on the road by a bomb falling from the sky, and a fire immediately ignited, while Hoshino was burned into dried meat in the fire.

While the Allies were advancing rapidly from the south to Tokyo, the Soviet Red Army, commanded by General Cui Kov, was also quickly advancing the front south and towards Tokyo. According to Chu Sinan's requirements, the Red Army's troops must occupy Tokyo before the Allies.

Unlike the Soviet army's encounters on the battlefield against Germany, here, the Japanese army seemed to pay more attention to the defense of the southern front area. They transferred the main elite corps to the south to resist the attacks of allied troops led by the United States and Britain. On the front battlefield of the Soviet army, they were basically low-end troops composed of elderly people and children. In fact, the reason why the Japanese side made such arrangements was their own considerations.

To this day, defeat is inevitable. Even Japanese militarists who are blinded by the so-called Bushido spirit can also see that although their dying struggles are still going on, they cannot help but make more detailed plans for their future.

Japanese militarists did not have any illusions about the allied forces led by the United States and Britain. They were enemies, absolute enemies. They attacked Pearl Harbor and seized all British colonies in Asia. These actions have fundamentally offended allies. If the situation in Japan after the war was dominated by these countries, then there was no doubt that these people would definitely not have any good results. On the contrary, let’s take a look at the Soviet Union. In the eyes of the top Japanese leaders, there seemed to be no unresolved hatred between the Soviet Union and Japan except for the Russo-Japanese War. Moreover, the two countries had also had

Packages of agreements such as non-aggression treaties and friendship treaties have been signed. The reason why the Soviet Union declares war on Japan is, on the one hand, because of the urging of the US-British allies, and on the other hand, because they had great ambitions for East Asia. Therefore, from this perspective, even if they finally surrendered and surrendered to the Soviet Union, the treatment they could receive was far more abundant than surrendering to the US-British side. It is precisely for this reason that the arrangements made by the Japanese top leaders in the deployment of defense have been tilted towards the southern line, thus deploying the main combat forces on the southern line.

There is no doubt that the Japanese senior management's defense arrangements have created the most favorable conditions for the rapid and difficult advancement of the Soviet army's Cui Kefu Corps. Therefore, starting from mid-October, the Soviet troops landed in the northern part of Honshu Island significantly accelerated the speed of the battlefield advancement.

According to Cui Kov's combat plan, the Soviet troops landed on Honshu Island were divided into three groups. The Western Front Army set out from the Tsinghye Peninsula and attacked south along the Honshu railway line. Through Akita, Sada, and Niigata, they detoured from the west to encircle the Japanese defenders near Tokyo; the Middle Front Army advanced south along the North River to Sichuan, and attacked Sendai from the front; the Eastern Front Army headed south along the coastline and attacked Sendai from the left. According to the battle deployment, the Soviet Front Army headed the two eastern routes would meet in Sendai, and then headed south along the railway trunk that arrived at Sendai to Sendai, and headed south along the railway line to Sendai to take straight to Tokyo.

On October 22, two armored armies of the Central Front Army tore the Japanese defense line on the front of Sendai, and then broke into Sendai City, and fell into a melee with the three divisions stationed in the city. On the same day and night, the Eastern Front Army advanced south along the Sendai Taiwan coastline, bypassed Sendai, and cut off the passage of Sendai Japanese retreat south to Fukushima in one fell swoop, thus completing the comprehensive encirclement of Sendai Japanese troops.

On the night of the 22nd, Cui Kov moved the command center to the south and issued a new round of combat orders. The two converged Soviet troops adopted the tactic of encircling the enemy who was surrounded by Sendai. At the same time, they drew the main force and were unable to advance quickly. Before the Japanese follow-up troops had no time to complete the assembly, the Ouyu Mountains suddenly appeared behind the Japanese Fukushima defense line.

The rapid lightning attack of the Soviet troops disrupted the Japanese defensive combat plan in one fell swoop. When the Soviet attack edge broke into Fukushima city, the Japanese defense line had not even been officially built. The two divisions responsible for the city's urban defense mission were still dozens of kilometers away from Fukushima.

In the week after the Battle of Fukushima, the Japanese army suffered a lot from blitzkrieg. They were basically chased by the Soviet armored troops. They were all over the line of defense. Before they could organize the Soviet tanks had already been crushed and tore the line of defense to pieces.

Under the baptism of armored torrents and large-scale artillery fire, the Japanese troops, which lack supplies and were seriously insufficient in personnel, seemed fragile and vulnerable. The flesh and blood body armed by the spirit of Bushido is far from the opponent of artillery shells and armored tracks. The suicide counterattacks aimed at blocking the Soviet offensive will not have any effect except for the fact that they can fly across their flesh and blood.

On October 26, just when the US and British Allied forces crossed the Akashi Mountains and arrived in the far suburbs of Tokyo, the Soviet Red Army's attacking vanguard had already conquered the Utsunomiya, the gateway of Tokyo. They were less than 70 kilometers away from Tokyo.

Faced with the upcoming Tokyo offensive battle, Cui Koff was full of confidence. He knew that the time to completely defeat Japan had come. Now, the Soviet Red Army formed a siege in the east, north and west directions of the far suburbs of Tokyo. More than 1.5 million troops were waiting for the throne. With a command, they would pounce forward and crush the Japanese imperialist army that was still fighting stubbornly.

As a senior commander in the Soviet army, Cui Kov naturally knew one thing, that is, Chu Sinan attached great importance to the issue of defeating Japan. Therefore, after conquering Utsunomiya and completely annihilated the Japanese army in Sendai, he sent a telegram to Moscow, inviting Chu Sinan to come to Japan.

Unlike the situation encountered by Zhukov and others, Cui Kov's invitation was quickly responded by Chu Sinan. After affirming Cui Kov's military command in the previous stage, the owner of the Kremlin agreed and would fly to Japan in the shortest time to take the route from Sendai to the front line of the battle.  ,!
Chapter completed!