East Prussia is the land of the Germanic dragons.
Even after the end of the last world war, the Germans lost a lot of land, including a large part of East Prussia. But even then, they kept a piece of land with Königsberg at its core.
After the outbreak of this war, the Germans deployed more than 400,000 troops of up to two armies of Army Group North in East Prussia.
However, the Germans did not choose to take the initiative to attack from here, but defended with all their might.
The Germans were well aware that East Prussia was surrounded by the sea on three sides and was almost completely surrounded by the Russians. Once the Russians were ready to attack here, it would be very difficult for them to hold it.
Therefore, during this time, the Germans built a large number of fortifications in East Prussia.
But even so, the possibility that they would want to hold East Prussia was still very small.
After Tsar Mikhail gave the order to seize East Prussia, the Reich General Staff immediately took action.
Originally, the troops defending East Prussia were the 12th Army and the 22nd Army of the Tsarist Imperial Army. However, in order to be able to take East Prussia in one fell swoop, the Tsarist Imperial Army would also dispatch the 31st Army and the 41st Army to ensure that the Russian Empire could win this battle with superior forces.797
In addition, the Imperial Russian Air Force would mobilize a fighter wing and a dive bomber wing to assist the Imperial Russian Army in its attack on East Prussia. The Baltic Fleet of the Russian Imperial Navy will also be engaged in the offensive, blocking the coastline of East Prussia, preventing the Third Reich from sending reinforcements to East Prussia, and preventing the Third Reich’s troops deployed in East Prussia from fleeing.
You know, the Baltic Fleet of the Tsarist Imperial Navy, although the weakest of the four major fleets, does not have aircraft carriers. However, the combat effectiveness is still not to be underestimated.
The entire Baltic Fleet had one Peter I-class battleship, one York-class battlecruiser, one Kaiser-class battleship, the battleship Seidlitz, two Moltke-class battlecruisers, as well as the battlecruiser Von der Tann and four Nassau-class battleships.
Originally, in accordance with the provisions of the Five-Power Naval Treaty, the four Nassau-class battleships of the Tsarist Russian Navy and the battlecruiser Von der Tann were decommissioned and mothballed.
But now, the Five Navies Treaty has long ceased to be followed (ADBI). The Russian Empire naturally unsealed these five warships.
However, after all, these five warships are old ships that were commissioned more than thirty years ago, and before they were commissioned, they were also modernized and modified, replaced with new power systems, and equipped with anti-aircraft weapons and electronic equipment, which greatly improved the performance of these warships.
But even then, the Baltic Fleet has only 11 capital warships, and there are no aircraft carriers yet. In the face of the Third Reich Navy, it will undoubtedly be at a disadvantage.
After all, the current Third Reich Navy is not weak. In terms of capital ships alone, there are quite a few. From the Gallic side, however, they acquired eighteen capital ships. Among them, several of the latest Richelieu-class battleships have been completed and entered into service with the Third Reich Navy.
Plus two Scharnhorst-class battle cruisers of the Third Reich Navy itself, three Germanic-class pocket battleships. This makes the strength of the Third Reich Navy absolutely rank in the forefront of the world.
Besides, in the shipyards of the Third Reich, a large number of battleships were still under construction. Two Bismarck-class battleships have been launched, 6 H-class battleships, 3 O-class battlecruisers, 12 P-class pocket battleships, and two Qi Bolin-class aircraft carriers are under construction.
In addition, the Third Reich Navy had quite a few cruisers and destroyers. The most famous is the submarine force of the Third Reich.
Submarines have always been a key weapon of the Third Reich and a secret weapon that Mustache regarded as capable of challenging the navies of great powers.
This allowed the Third Reich to build a lot of submarines of various types. Even now the Third Reich Navy already has a fairly powerful surface fleet. However, they still did not give up the development of the submarine force.
Once the Russian Empire launched an attack on East Prussia, then a fierce war would inevitably break out between the two sides in the Baltic direction. And the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy will undoubtedly be at a huge disadvantage.
Fortunately, the time of capital ships has passed. The combination of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft is the real main force.
The Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy, although it is not equipped with aircraft carriers now. However, three wings of shore-based aviation were created.
In addition, the Baltic Sea is not far from the Northern Fleet of the Russian Imperial Navy, which has three shore-based air wings stationed in the area north of Petersburg.
As soon as there is a need in the Baltic direction, all three shore-based aviation wings of the Northern Fleet can go south.
In this way, the coastal aviation of the Navy alone would allow the Russian Empire to assemble a huge force of up to 6 wings in the Baltic direction.
Not to mention, the Russian Imperial Air Force was also able to send a large number of fighters to join the battle, seize air supremacy, and suppress the Germanic air force fighters or carrier-based aircraft.
Of course, in order to deal with the submarines of the Germans, the Russian Empire was also prepared for the same long time. Each fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy was equipped with a large number of anti-submarine frigates.
These anti-submarine frigates are equipped with state-of-the-art sonar systems, as well as depth charges and anti-submarine rockets. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
Once the Germanic submarines were discovered, they simply could not escape.
After all, submarines of this era dive to a depth of only a few tens of meters. Coupled with the relatively loud noise, it is difficult to escape the sonar search.
It can be said that in order to be able to take East Prussia, the army, navy and air force of the Tsarist Empire all took action.
On July 2, 1840, the 12th, 22nd, 31st and 41st armies of the Imperial Russian Army began an attack on East Prussia.
Four army groups, which gathered more than 4,000 heavy guns of caliber of more than 100 millimeters, opened heavy fire on the Germanic defense line.
Swarms of MiG-36 fighters, covering Tu-34 bombers, bombed the Germanic lines.
On the sea, the warships of the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy blocked the coastline of East Prussia and carried out heavy shelling of important cities such as Königsberg.
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