The jeep slowly parked on the side of the road. Then, Lukoonki jumped out of the car, then ran quickly to the back of the car, and opened the door for Chu Sinan.

He walked out of the car with a dizziness. Chu Sinan twisted his sore neck first, and muttered and cursed a few words in his mouth. He had been in these two broken cars for nearly two days, and the comfort he had at the beginning had long disappeared. After all, it was a car from World War II. Its shock absorption system cannot be compared with cars in the 21st century. After sitting for a long time, he can feel it.

Chu Sinan did not have a good rest from Budogoshi to Jihewen. According to Zaporozez's proposal, the Front Command wanted to arrange a plane for him, but Chu Sinan refused. Now that he wanted to come, he regretted it.

Now the entire front from Jihewen to Volkhov has fallen into the hands of the Soviet army. From this perspective, the Soviet army on this line is progressing quite fast, but Chu Sinan is not satisfied with this. For nothing else, because the troops' offensive has been curbed by the Germans in the past two days.

The Volkhov Bridge is now an important point of competition between the Soviet and German sides. Chu Sinan received news that the 56th Tank Army, which was retreating from the northeast, was rushing towards this direction day and night.

Chu Sinan's memory had a little impression of this 56th Panzer Army. He felt that if he remembered correctly, it was an elite tank army of the German army. His first commander was the famous German general Manstein. Manstein was a World War II general admired by Chu Sinan. In Chu Sinan's philosophy, he was a German general who was very offensive and good at turning the dilemma.

The situation is very obvious now. If the Soviet army could not capture and destroy the bridge before the German 56th Armored Army returned to the Volkhov Bridge, the entire German 4th tank cluster would come like a tide. At that time, not to mention whether the current battle situation would be reversed by the German army, at least, Chu Sinan's previous concept of encircling and annihilation of the German 4th tank cluster in the water network area of ​​the Beloye Lake District will be completely destroyed. This time, Chu Sinan came to Volkhov to the front line battlefield of Jihewen to supervise the battle. He needed his own troops to take the damn bridge within a limited time.

Except for the war situation near Volkhov that made Chu Sinan dissatisfied, the progress of other fronts was still good. Now, the purpose of the German strategic contraction was obvious. Their resistance on the front battlefield was becoming more and more negative, while the pace of retreat seemed to be more and more rapid. The current situation was like a real avalanche, like a snow-collapse Soviet troops, crazily attacking the German defense line on the entire front, suppressing the German troops to retreat continuously.

A few days ago, Chu Sinan and Zaporozhez studied carefully and reached a consensus that the current retreat of the German army was just a tactic adopted by its command. Their purpose should be to gradually reduce the impact of the Soviet army in this way, and at the same time, shrink the troops to reorganize a solid defense line in a relatively narrow area.

There is no doubt that from the current situation, Chu Sinan and Zaporozhez's views are correct. In Qusiral's combat thinking, he did decide to shrink his defense when he felt the crisis. For this defense line, he chose a narrow area from Luga to Liuban and then to Kirishi. Through the previous stage of the battle, the German army suffered great losses on this front. In Jihewen, a reorganized German military advisor was surrounded by the Soviet army, and in Budogoshi, although several German military advisors who were involved in the battle successfully highlighted the encirclement that the Soviet army was about to form, they each suffered huge losses. None of the five reorganized divisions fighting in this area are now fully organized. On the Little Vishera and Novgorod front line, the German army also lost nearly one and a half divisions of troops in this stage of the battle.

Since the start of the Northern Line's outbreak, the entire northern cluster has lost tens of thousands of troops on this line, and the results of the battle were only a crisis of collapse on the battlefield. Of course, in this stage of the battle, the Soviet army's soldiers suffered greater losses, but Qusirel did not think this was an advantage for him. The Russians were obviously investing in large quantities of new recruits on this line, especially in Budogoshi's urban offensive and defensive battle. With the new soldiers who had no combat effectiveness, they consumed their own vitality. From this point of view alone, Qusirel believed that the German army could not afford it.

In fact, at the beginning, Qusiral proposed the so-called "winter combat" plan for the base camp. In his opinion, the Russian army was the most suitable for launching an offensive under winter conditions. The German soldiers were extremely unsuitable to the cold winter climate conditions here. At the same time, the German armored troops, powered by gasoline engines and narrow tracks as the basis for traveling, would also be greatly restricted in the snow-covered combat environment.

According to Qusiral's consideration, if the German army could not conquer Leningrad before the beginning of winter, it should actively organize front defense to prevent the Russians from launching offensives at this relatively favorable opportunity. However, the base camp did not consider these real situations at all. The head of state seemed to prefer to use his out-of-the-scenes vision to determine the attack and defense of the entire battlefield. There was also Gorene, the idiot with butter in his belly, who only knew how to flatter but had no idea about war. Unfortunately, the head of state actually trusted him and let this fool point fingers at the front-line war. This was really the greatest misfortune of the empire.

What made Qusirel feel melancholy over the past period of time was not just the trouble of the Northern Front Battle under his command. For a large-scale war, the temporary defeat on the local battlefield did not represent anything. To be honest, so far, although the German army on the Northern Front retreated and suffered heavy losses, and overall, the overall strength of the entire northern cluster was not greatly affected. According to Qusirel's idea, if he could stabilize the formation on the front line of Kirishi and Luga, resist the Russians' subsequent attack, and maintain this narrow passage until the winter and spring come, then he and the troops he led would still have great potential.

Compared with the situation in this regard, what Qusirer is more worried about is the situation behind him.

Before the base camp was preparing to launch an offensive against the Russians, many senior German generals, including Qusirel himself, had suggested to the head of state that the war to be launched against the Russians would be a protracted and large-scale war of attrition. In this case, if the chance of winning this war was to increase, the empire would have to mobilize the war in full, and the most important of this was to transform a large amount of civilian industries into military industries, so as to completely serve the entire war. At the same time, it was necessary to limit the use of important war resources such as oil into other ways.

But the ambitious head of state rejected these suggestions. He optimistically believed that the Russians were vulnerable and that the war could end in just a few months, so there was no need to do such things that might attract national opposition.

Now, the war against the Russians has been fought for several months, and during this stage of the war, the Russians have proved to the empire with their practical actions that the cruelty and difficulty of this war. Until now, no matter how arrogant people are, they will not think that the war will end in a short period of time.

But even so, the head of state still opposed the national mobilization of the war, and without preparations in this regard, the huge war loss on the eastern front could not be supplemented in time. Looking at the Russian side, they obviously did not take this into consideration. To be honest, Qusiral envied the Russians' industrial strength. Indeed, the country established by the Russians after World War I had a short process of industrial growth. They were definitely not considered an industrial power, but to some extent, they were definitely a real industrial power. Although their industry did not have much advanced technology and relatively low technical level, what they had was a huge scale that the empire could not match. On the other hand, in terms of the possession of war resources, the empire was far from that of Russia. The Russians' reserves of steel, oil, etc. were definitely several times that of the empire.

In this case, if the Empire's war on this line cannot end as soon as possible, so that the two sides' wars enter a stalemate stage, then the Russians who recovered will give the Imperial soldiers a nightmare that will last forever.

Qusiral even felt that this nightmare had begun to happen now. The Russians' weapons and equipment production speed was too fast. There were reports that the daunting T-34 tank only required 7,000 to 8,000 man-hours to be produced. What does this mean? What does this mean?

If the base camp cannot make a decision as soon as possible, Qusiral is really worried that one day the armored legion that the Imperial Army has always been proud of will be completely submerged in the torrent of cheap steel from the Russians.

Qusiral's worries are precisely Chu Sinan's confidence. Now he has to admire the huge industrial strength of the Soviet Union. Their industrial technology is indeed not advanced enough, and the things they produce are quite simple and even simple. But no one can refuse to admit that their production speed is very fast, and those simple weapons and equipment are indeed very practical.

Just when Chu Sinan rushed to the Volkhov front line, behind him, a large armored force was gathering in this area. This armored force was equipped with 193 T-34 tanks. Among this batch of T-34 tanks, 147 were just taken off the line from the Konosa "Communist International" Arsenal. Unlike previous tanks of the same type, these T-34s that just left the factory were improved. Among its various improvement data, what satisfies Chu Sinan the most was the equipment of the radio liaison officer.

Chu Sinan felt that he had reason to believe that this group of armored troops rushing to rescue would be his trump card in dealing with the German tank offensive.
Chapter completed!