Stalingrad became a past, and the name finally became a history in the face of the torrent of German tanks. Those who hope to immortalize a city may never achieve their goal, of course, Washington may be a beautiful exception.

In the end, the city was renamed as St. Rudolf by the army. The city would become a German city to continue to exist. On the third day after its occupation, it began to provide services to Germany. After confessions from some high-level prisoners, some food, oil and ammunition buried underground were found. One batch after another made the occupying army feast and the Ukrainian troops who followed it benefited a lot.

At the same time, Zhukov was desperately leading his troops to attack south. Soviet troops once regained part of the German-occupied area in the northern Voronezh Prefecture and lifted the German threat to Voronezh.

The 1st Guard Armored Front of the Soviet Union and the 3rd Guard Armored Front of the Soviet Union attacked the 1st German Armored Front. The two sides launched the most tragic tank battle in human history in the protruding areas. In the narrow area, the tank troops on both sides once exceeded 1,000, and the entire battlefield was filled with wreckage of tanks and the bodies of soldiers.

If Stalingrad is the hell of infantry, then this battle, which was born in the area south of Kursk, can be called the tomb of the tank troops. Sadly, as the troops with the most powerful combat effectiveness of both sides, none of these participating troops were spared the most precious elites of the Soviet and German sides.

Zhukov's current situation doesn't even know how to deal with it. The cities that went south to reinforce were already lost not long ago. His hundreds of thousands of troops stayed in the field and fought with the Germans to consume this. This may be one of the Germans' favorite fighting methods. Both sides piled up tanks on the plains and then lost to each other at a speed of one by one.

You should know that the Soviet Union had accumulated six months to barely have thousands of tanks that could compete with the German army. If they were thrown into the area south of Kursk, then Zhukov would not have to go back to Stalin to apologize.

But now he wanted him to turn back, it seemed that it was not the case. He had the idea of ​​going south, and he had planned the strategy of prioritizing Stalingrad, and even the generals who insisted on Stalingrad were promoted by him. All this seemed to be too unfavorable to him, and Zhukov was full of headaches when he thought of these things.

You should know that no matter when, there is a relationship of distrust between the general and the leader. This relationship of distrust may be infinitely close to zero due to the closeness of origin between the two, but this relationship of distrust actually exists and affects the harmony between the general and the leader.

For example, Hitler and his army commanders in another time and space have an extremely distrust relationship between each other. This distrust eventually broke out with the war and the continuous defeat. The Valkyrie Plan is the ultimate product of this distrust relationship.

Akado was born in the German side and had a deep and unparalleled foundation in the military. However, it can still be seen from the complex command and coordination relationship between the General Staff and the Supreme Command that the group of veteran army generals such as Marshal Bolauchici distrust the new head of state.

However, this distrust can be covered or compensated by a series of victories. Hitler and his generals who won all the way have a good relationship, but once they are defeated, they start to complain to each other. So Akado still has a good relationship with Blauchic and others because Akado has not lost yet.

It is not difficult to understand why Stalin is increasingly distrusting his generals. At least he chose Khrushchev, Voroshilov, and Rokosovsky, whom he selected, betrayed him, so he has now begun to not trust Zhukov and the generals under Zhukov.

In the Kremlin in Moscow, Stalin held a document in his hand and was silent to a group of people. Through the gap between his fingers, the contents of the document could be roughly seen. This was a commissioned document, a promotion document that Stalin was preparing to give to Rokosovsky.

Originally, as long as Rokosovsky was eventually killed in Stalingrad, the document would be signed and agreed by Stalin and sent to the entire army as an obituary. This is an attitude, showing Stalin respecting the general who fought to the end for him. However, before he could even saddened the fall of Stalingrad, he heard the news of Rokosovsky's surrender.

Where is trust? Where is the most basic trust between people? Stalin really wants to ask these subordinates in front of him who are increasingly disrespectful. These people are all "reliable comrades" who have experienced the Great Purge period, but in the current situation, Stalin dares not guarantee how long these people will be reliable.

"It was announced to the public that Rokosovsky was the number one sinner in the Soviet Union! All his family, friends, relatives, and neighbors were hanged immediately!" Stalin's voice broke the silence: "He should die in battle! He should die in battle there! He vowed to live and die with Stalingrad! He vowed!"

No one answered Stalin's words, it was obviously not wise to stand up and express his opinions at this time. What Stalin needed was to vent, and to curse at a group of idiots. After everyone was criticized, they went back to their homes to prepare for the excuse of going out of the city.

Do you really think everyone is willing to contribute their lives for their motherland? Do you really think everyone firmly supports Comrade Stalin forever? Do you really think that under the current situation, someone is willing to cheat Zhukov and then take over this hot potato?

This can be clearly observed from the several changes in the front line: at the beginning, everyone who went to the front line was a fight, and everyone who could go to the front line was the people who were extremely trusted by Stalin, such as Khrushchev and Voroshilov. They were all such people. After they were finished, everyone knew that the Germans were not easy to deal with, so everyone started to take the recommendation route and collectively recommended Zhukov, who was more capable, and blocked the gun for everyone. Now it was Zhukov's turn to stop it, which was the stage of unluckyness. If you recommend yourself at this time, it was purely a pit behind your head.

Just kidding! Taking power is to gain more benefits, to promote and make a name for themselves, and to pile up their own political capital more comfortably in a good environment. In this situation, if anyone still cares about Zhukov's chair lowered his butt, it cannot be called crazy, it can be called extremely stupid! Even if Stalin wants to replace Zhukov, the group of people will probably cry and beg Stalin to take back his life.

Of course, after ordering the execution of all those related to Rokosovsky, Stalin slowly spoke up and raised his distrust of the front-line combat generals: "Although Ye Ruofu has an ambition that he should not have, he has a right thing to say: these generals are all unfamiliar wolves, and they will never be in the same mind as me!"

After hearing Stalin's comment, these officials and generals with their heads lowered their heads lowered. This time it was often when a storm was about to begin, so everyone tried to make themselves seem less eye-catching so that the thunder of the sky would strike the heads of others first.

"I am considering replacing Zhukov and letting him come back from the front line to report his duties. Do you have any good candidates to replace him?" Stalin saw that everyone was not speaking, and the resentment in his tone became even more obvious. He played with his pipe with one hand and rubbed Rokosovsky's marshal's appointment with the other. Finally, he swept over everyone's heads with a sharp look, sighed and gave up his plan to force these people to speak.

He himself knew that the current situation was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet Union, and the fool could see that no one on the front line could do better than Zhukov. Even if Zhukov was called back and cut into pieces, Stalin himself would not be able to escape this end and would still follow Zhukov's old path. It was just one after another, and it was meaningless to do so.

The sigh echoed in the empty conference room, and everyone's hearts were finally let go with this sigh. After all, Stalin compromised and gave up the plan to recall Zhukov. The decayed frontline situation may be delayed for a while and seek more opportunities for everyone to retreat to a more distant hinterland.

The curtain of Stalingrad has fallen, and it is now called St. Rudolph. This city represents the achievements of the German head of state to fight all directions and the great head of state's power in Germany. This time the name change is a naked "slap" on the leader of another country.

In this highest conference room of the Soviet Union, few people have considered the future of the Soviet country. Everyone is thinking about finding reasons to go to Chelyabinsk as soon as possible, or somewhere further apart, waiting for death in Moscow is not a good choice.

"Don't think about running away! When you go back, you think carefully about how to hold on to Moscow!" As if you saw the thoughts in everyone's heart, Stalin finally said something that shocked every senior Soviet official here: "I know you are all planning to leave Moscow, but... without my orders, no one can leave! Violators are punished for treason!"

"Yes!..." Everyone answered weakly. The meeting was disbanded. How to stop the German army from advancing was still an unsolved problem-
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