In the eyes of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union was always the ultimate cake and never gave up its coveting of it. Therefore, since the signing of the "mutual non-aggression" agreement, "Barbarossa" has always been in a state of brewing, which Germany knows, the Soviet Union also understands, for Germany non-aggression is because the stalls are too large, and for the Soviet Union, he is not willing to fight on two fronts, each other is a snake, it is all a deep calculation. In June 1941, Germany, believing itself to be fully prepared, first launched a war on the 22nd, and Japan's virtue, both of which were undeclared, and only 2 hours after the war was submitted to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact was officially turned into a piece of waste paper.
The three armies had 200 divisions, 5.5 million men, 4,000 tanks, and 5,000 aircraft into battle, and the most powerful army group group was Moscow, and the target of the army group in the north and south was Kiev and Leningrad. Japan seems to be still a virtue, Japan boasts of occupying China in three months, and Germany's goal is to take the Soviet Union in three months, although the plan can not catch up with the changes, but Germany's biggest mistake is not the slow advance of the front, but it is not prepared for long-term combat, you can calculate the mistake, after all, no one is a god, but the lack of reliable transport supply lines, that is a great mistake. Moscow was in danger, but Hitler "suddenly came to the rescue", and the money fan turned to mobilize superior forces into the great war between Kiev and Leningrad, and the rest of the troops could only wait bleakly until the endless desolation, which was a fatal wait of minus tens of degrees.
Counting the time, from hitler's order to the fall of Kiev, it was two months and one day, and Hitler was still looking forward to the fall of Leningrad, believing that after the capture of Leningrad, under the assembly of the three armies, Moscow was nothing more than a chicken and a dog. On October 6, with sleet and slippery roads, the advance of both mechanized troops and ordinary soldiers was hindered to varying degrees, and the German soldiers trembled under the cold wind. Although the Soviet Union was passive at the beginning of the war, its "robust" intelligence network came into play quickly, and the "spy king" Sorge kept sending exciting news, first obtaining important information in August--- Japan would not launch an attack on the Far East this year. This was followed in October by the final spy report at the cost of life, and that Japan would go to war against the United States. The two spies overlapped, allowing the Soviet Union to finally confirm that there was no pressure in the Far East, when the Soviet Union was beaten miserably and miserably, basically looking like a piecemeal, and the 25 infantry divisions and 9 armored brigades transferred from the Far East were well-equipped full units, and the long-term stationing in the Far East made them accustomed to fighting in the cold.
On November 3, the temperature dropped sharply, the muddy roads were finally frozen, and before they could smile, they found that it was not only the roads that were frozen at the same time, but also themselves.
What did the German army face?
The battle lines were too long to effectively push supplies, a large number of tanks were frozen in the snow and could not be started, the fuel had frozen, the weapons failed, and the soldiers did not have cotton clothes to withstand the cold. Their supplies were never scarce, but they could not reach the officers and men on the front lines, all of which caused a serious demoralization. On the other hand, the Soviet Union, occupying the home field advantage, they have professional protective equipment, tanks can launch free galloping, professional thermal sheaths are the standard equipment of guns, the lubricating oil used in guns will not be frozen, and the warm equipment required by soldiers is also constantly sent to the battlefield. (In fact, the Soviets froze to death in larger numbers until they almost crossed the harsh winter.) ）
In terms of military morale, Stalin decided to hold a red square military parade to boost morale, in the red square full of the feverish shouts of "Ulla", the Soviet troops condensed the iron military spirit and combat effectiveness, and at this time, the German army, standing up is difficult, food halving is even more demoralizing to the limit, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery have become highly ornamental ice sculptures, in the last 50 kilometers near Moscow, they finally paid a heavy price. In the bitter cold, the Soviet army quickly grasped the initiative of ground attack, and air supremacy would be quickly recaptured. For the troops, the most important thing is to ensure the basic survival of the materials, and the German army at this time can be said to have no food and clothing, cold and cold and nowhere to warm, food is frozen and hungry.
It should be noted that germany did not lack all these materials, they had an absolutely sufficient reserve of war readiness, and they were constantly transporting them to the front line, but unfortunately they could not be fully transported in place. At that time, the German army was extremely uniformly dressed, some were single clothes, some were wrapped in quilts, some were put on several layers of single clothes, and some were normal winter clothes. Not all German soldiers can not be equipped with cotton clothes, but whether to wear cotton clothes and whether they will freeze to death are two different things, whether there is cotton clothes will freeze to death, the difference is only that the time is different. The German soldiers froze to death in Moscow, why not rob the Soviets of their clothes? The Germans froze to death 110,000 people, the Soviets froze to death 330,000 people, who robbed whom...
There is a word called "Jianbi Qingye", which has been used countless times in ancient Chinese wars, and Lao Jiang has also used this trick, but it has been used relatively unsuccessfully, burning Changsha and causing 30,000 deaths and 90% of the houses burned down. The scorched earth policy is similar to this, you have to have a house to live in with 10 layers of cotton clothes, right, all blown up and burned. You have to eat, not a single grain will be left for you, all the population has moved away, even the groves have been blown into a scorched earth, and the German soldiers can only rely on the fuel in the tanks for heating. Judging from historical photos, the biggest difficulty faced by the German army is not the problem of heating, but the suspension of all materials, such as the problem encountered in food, which is obviously greater than the heating problem.
Hitler wasted at least two months of time, and after this crucial two months, the muddy road brought great trouble to the advancing troops and supply units, and the ace mobile units suffered a fatal "blow" whether in the "mud period" or the "freezing period", and completely lost their advantage. It was not the incompetence of the officers and men at the front, but Hitler's incompetent and fragile supply lines that caused the ultimate defeat