Now, let me answer your question. Well, it's like, 194 1 June 22, 2008, Germany launched the Barbarossa operation to attack the Soviet Union. The initial stage of the operation was very smooth. Before the war, the Soviet Union predicted that the German attack targets were the southern front-Belarus and Ukraine, so the Soviet Union would deploy heavy troops here, including the elite of Timoshenko and General Aleksandr Vasilevsky. However, the German action is divided into three directions. The campaign goal of the northern army group is to capture Leningrad, the central army group needs to capture Moscow, and the southern army group needs to capture Kiev.
As mentioned earlier, the Soviet troops were concentrated in Kiev and Minsk, which made it difficult for the Southern Army Group to enter Ukraine. At the same time, the Germans in the north only surrounded Leningrad, but did not capture it, because of the small number of troops and the weak combat capability of Romanian and Finnish troops. This is August of 194 1. The German Central Army Group has the strongest strength (***5 1 division) and belongs to two armored army groups of General guderian. At this time, Smolensk, an important town in western Moscow, was captured, which created a prerequisite for attacking Moscow. At this time, if we move forward quickly, we should be able to get better results. Marshal Bok, commander-in-chief of the Central Army Group, was full of confidence and vowed to seize Moscow.
But the turning point happened here. German head of state Hitler focused his attention on Kiev in the south of the Soviet Union. Because this is the heavy industry base of the Soviet Union and an important gateway to the oil-rich Caucasus, Hitler felt that if he wanted to maintain the war, he must defeat Soviet industry. So he ignored the obstruction and transferred the armored forces of the Central Army Group from 300 kilometers west of Moscow to the south to cooperate with the German Fourth Armored Army Group near Kiev and surround Kiev. After two months of fierce fighting, the Germans finally surrounded Kiev.
On the surface, the Germans have achieved unprecedented results, but lost precious time and extremely important speed advantage in the blitzkrieg. In two months, although the Soviet Union lost Kiev and a large number of troops, a large number of elite troops from the Far East (near China) came to Moscow to strengthen their defense. At this time, the Moscow defense line is much stronger than it was two months ago.
Marshal Bok can only sigh that time waits for no man. In June 5438+10, Hitler began to order the capture of Moscow. In order to comfort Marshal Bork, Hitler assembled a huge corps on the central front, with more than 60 divisions of combat troops totaling 1.8 million people.
The offensive war in Moscow was first launched by General guderian's armored cluster. At the beginning, although the Soviet army bravely resisted, due to the huge German forces, the Soviet army's own combat literacy was low and it was losing ground. By the end of 1 1, the Germans had captured Kline, an important town more than 20 kilometers west of Moscow. At the same time, the German artillery observation battalion has arrived in the suburbs of Moscow and seen the Kremlin spire through a telescope. But I'm afraid this is the closest German army has ever been to Moscow, because the rare heavy snow and low temperature in the Soviet Union since 165438+ 10 have seriously consumed the spirit of the German offensive spearhead. The German attack finally came to a standstill in June+February 5438. At this time, the Soviets also launched a counterattack. As the Soviets prepared all the equipment for winter operations, they quickly beat the Germans back to nearly 200 kilometers. Under Hitler's tenacious orders, the Germans resisted the Soviet counterattack in February 1942 and stabilized the front. After that, the battlefield was calm until the summer of 1942 came.
It can be said that even if the Germans did not capture Kiev, but directly captured Moscow, or even captured Moscow, it would only destroy the political center of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would not surrender, because the Soviet Union under the leadership of the * * * production party would not easily bow to Germany. Unlike the invasions of France, Poland and the Czech Republic, the invasion of the Soviet capital has no other major role except political significance. You can imagine that during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, China surrendered after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, the capital of the National Government. Of course not. The Kuomintang has just moved its capital to Chongqing to continue the war of resistance. It is also the Soviet Union. Even if Moscow falls, they will move the capital to the east. Just look at the map of the Soviet Union at that time. It is much bigger than Russia now, and there is still a large area of land in the east, which Germany cannot occupy. So my point is that if the Germans capture Moscow, the impact on the war will only be that the Germans will be defeated in a few years, and it may be postponed to 1947 and 1948, but the defeat is inevitable because Hitler's military leadership policy is not feasible.