Imperial Overlord

The Japanese attack in Southeast Asia made the United States in the Pacific extremely passive. Germany's advance on the Soviet-German front made Stalin's throat too.

Now, the armored troops of the Central Army Group have surrounded Orsha on three sides, and it has become an isolated island, an island that the Soviets dare not go to or give up.

After all, this is a city. If you give up rashly, then there will be nothing in the way of the German offensive.

But if they increase their forces to defend there, it is like leaving the army in a pocket already dug, waiting to be eaten by the Germans.

Stalin looked at the map depressedly, feeling that his subordinates were simply a bunch of stupid pigs. They could neither fight back against the German attack nor defend their own lines.

In desperation, he can only send untrained troops to the front line again and again, and use sacrifices to train those recruits who know nothing.

Doing so would allow the Soviet Union to have a large base of troops on the front line, but it would also keep losses high.

For the top Soviet leaders, this is definitely drinking poison to quench their thirst. This is overdrafting their young soldiers, and sooner or later, they will pay the price for this overdraft.

In the real history, although the Soviet Union won the Soviet-German war, this conflict caused a break in human resources for the Soviet Union, and it did not recover until the end of the twentieth century.

Of course, this time the war was even more brutal. Although the losses of the Soviet Union were not as huge as in history, they were already beyond the same period in real history.

You must know that this time Germany has not yet moved south to Kyiv, and Zhukov's regiment is still in his mouth and not swallowed.

Under such circumstances, Stalin also knew that his struggle so far was a complete defeat.

He could only shrink his troops cautiously, organize a complete line of defense with the old ability, and turn the mobile warfare on the Soviet-German front into a positional warfare more favorable to the Soviet Union.

Only when such a goal is achieved can he have confidence and the capital to continue to deal with the German team. Another thing that can support him is the aid from the United States.

Regrettably, American aid was actually far worse than what the Soviet Union needed. The only thing that made Stalin feel gratified was that the precision machine tools from the United States improved the mechanical processing capabilities of the Soviet Union.

With such capabilities, the Soviet Union can process suitable parts in industrial areas such as Chelyabinsk at the foot of the Ural Mountains and supply them to the front line.

It is with these parts that the Soviet Union has begun mass production of more advanced T-34 tanks. The rapid service of the new tanks has indeed caused considerable trouble to the German armored forces.

Similarly, the new weapon Il-2 attack aircraft, which the German ground forces hated, also began to be built in large numbers.

Although it was no longer difficult for the Luftwaffe to shoot down this kind of aircraft after the large-caliber cannon was replaced, the suppression of the ground by the slipping fish really made the German Army feel the fear.

"Telegram to President Roosevelt, I need 40,000 trucks and 5,000 fighter jets. To provide these weapons and equipment, the Soviet army will be able to defend its own defense lines and tow the enemy in pursuit of the continent for the United States." Stalin looked at the map and told his subordinates commanded.

He doesn't have any good solution now, he can only raise the price from the United States and ask for more materials to make up for the losses on the front line.

The losses of the Soviet Union were actually huge. The submarines of the German Fox blocked most of the ports in the north. The materials behind the Soviet Union could only be transported to the front line by rail.

The farthest route was for American ships to pass through the Bering Strait and then along Russia's back coastline all the way to Sergiysky.

But there is still a long distance from the front line and the production and industrial base of the Soviet Union.

"In addition, the worst possibility is that we will lose the entire Ukraine. The Zhukov cluster on the southern front is our best formed unit now." Instructing his subordinates to write a telegram to Roosevelt, Stalin's chest was still very dull. .

Budyonny's troops lost Orsha, and now Smolensk might become a front-line city.

The elite areas of the Soviet Union, except for the southern front, have become occupied areas, or are about to become front lines.

This is not good news by any measure. Stalin sighed, then glanced at the map again.

This may be his habit of late, looking at the map every day and watching how much land the Germans have annexed to him.

From the border to Brest, from Brest to Minsk, and from Minsk all the way to Orsha by the Germans...

"Leningrad, no mistakes are allowed... It is named after Comrade Lenin, and the political significance is too great..." Averting his eyes from Leningrad, Stalin looked down again The Vitebsk~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Vitebsk is the gateway to Smolensk. If it is lost here...it doesn't seem to be a good thing.

Looking at Mogilev, who he attached great importance to below, Stalin sighed and said, "Rokossovsky, who is defending Mogilev... I hope you don't let me down."

Unconsciously, after the loss of a large number of commanders such as Marshal Timoshenko, the famous Soviet generals who have emerged in the history of the Soviet Union also began to take control of the situation this time.

Rokossovsky's military power in Mogilev seems to be more reliable than Budyonny, whose ideas are outdated and unable to adapt to modern warfare.

At least Rokossovsky has made a name for himself in history, claiming to be one of the Soviet troikas.

It's just a pity that now the famous Gudry has installed a group of armored units, and the direction of the attack is not Mogilev, but Smolensk.

So the biggest pressure is still on the frontal Budyonny, but Budyonny has the least troops.

The Soviet high-level still misjudged Germany's combat intentions strategically. They couldn't believe it. From the beginning to the end, the German high-level officials locked the target of the attack on Moscow.

"As for Orsha, let's give up..." In the end, Stalin decided that since he gave Budyonny one last chance, he would simply give him a more relaxed command environment.

Abandoning Orsha, Budyonny will be able to shrink back some troops to defend Smolensk, and he will be more confident.

By the time his order reached the front line, Orsha had actually been encircled [Jonny didn't waste any troops there at all, leaving an empty city to the German armor.

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