In the Barbarossa plan launched by the German army, the German army's troop deployment was unprecedentedly strong.

On June 23, 1941, the German army dispatched more than 3.5 million troops, more than 20 armored divisions, a total strength of almost 200 divisions, and thousands of aircraft.

At that time, Manstein was only the commander of the German 56th Army, and was also part of General Hopner's 4th Panzer Army, which in turn was part of Army Group North under the command of Field Marshal Loeb.

It can be said that Manstein, who has now become the commander-in-chief of Army Group Center and merged with Army Group South to form Army Group, has directly become a marshal and commander-in-chief of the army in more than two years from a middle-level commander to a commander of the army.

Manstein is also very satisfied and proud of his brilliant achievements.

At the very least, he came from a noble family, and his current achievements are worthy of his father Eduard von Lewinsky, an artillery admiral, and his mother, Helen von Shipling.

However, in the past, because Manstein had a close relationship with General Flitch, the commander-in-chief of the army, when this man and the Minister of War, Field Marshal Blomburg, were plotted by Goering and Himmler to get out of power, he became the exclusion of Hitler's faction, especially Wilhelm Keitel, who was known as the commander of Hitler's office who was known as the commander of the office of flattering and obedient to Hitler, the new chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Wehrmacht, was very unhappy to see Manstein's promotion and fortune, and he also liked to exclude Manstein.

In this regard, before Chen Yanlong's successful crossing, Manstein had always been satisfied with the opportunity to enter the highest center of power in the Wehrmacht, and was also assigned by Hitler with the title of an uncontrollable officer, so that he was excluded everywhere.

If it weren't for the lack of competent staff officers when Hitler invaded Austria, Manstein would not have been able to rise from the position of the 18th Infantry Division to the chief of staff of Army Group South under the command of General von Rundstedt in 1939, with the rank of lieutenant general.

Because he was considered by the top brass of the German army to be one of the rare talents who served as an operational staff officer in a time of tense military situation and fierce fighting.

Even the Hitler faction and some of the German top brass who did not like Manstein could only be reused for a while.

However, at this moment, because of the appearance of Chen Yanlong, Manstein not only obtained the position of marshal, but also made his troops have a sufficient supply of new recruits, as well as enough new weapons and equipment and military supplies to fight.

However, this is also when Chen Yanlong's smartphone is still there, but unfortunately, with the sleep of Chen Yanlong's smartphone, the new weapons and equipment that Manstein has obtained are gradually changing and lacking.

However, fortunately, Speer was still able to give Chen Yanlong the research and production, storage and storage of a large number of the latest weapons and equipment during the Second Bombing Period, and handed them over to Manstein and the troops of the Western Front for battle.

It's just that it doesn't have the combat effectiveness and lethality of those new weapons and equipment that are ahead of the times.

Of course, for Manstein, who still has relatively sufficient troops and weapons and equipment, he is not only worried about the increasing shortage of new weapons and equipment that is ahead of the times, but also that there are fewer and fewer veterans with rich combat experience in his troops.

Because a strong army cannot be trained in a short period of time, especially the ace troops with rich combat experience.

At the same time, outstanding commanders and staff officers will not appear in a vacuum, and these scarce commanders and staff officers with combat effectiveness will have a shortage and require longer training time than the infantry and the army.

"It seems that from today onwards, my troops will absolutely not be able to use only new weapons and equipment to fight, or once these officers and men rely on the new weapons and equipment that the Führer has improved, they will not be able to fight on the battlefield and win the battle without these new weapons and equipment!"

"I will never allow such a bad situation to happen!"

When Manstein and the combat staff officer Eudos parted, he casually inspected the German deployment on other fronts, and at the same time thought in his heart how to deal with the training of new weapons and equipment that was about to become more and more scarce, and muttered to himself.

Finally, Manstein stopped abruptly, then looked up at the sky and fell into deep thought.

At this moment, the sky is gradually changing from clear weather to cloudy and cloudy, and the cold winter wind is slowly blowing.

"Looks like it's snowing again!"

"The weather on the Eastern Front is really good, or the weather in our Germany is much better!"

"I really hope that this war will end soon, so that I can go home on vacation and live a few days of dull life!"

After a moment of silence, Manstein exhaled a hot breath and muttered quietly.

"I wonder how Jutta Sibery, Gisela and Rudiger are doing now?"

And not long after, Manstein suddenly remembered his wife and muttered to himself with his children.

"And Giraud, are you okay in heaven?"

"Your revenge, I have already avenged you!"

"And now I'm fighting the Soviet troops who killed you!"

Then Manstein closed his eyes again and muttered bitterly.

After speaking, he tightened his military coat, and then went to inspect the deployment of the troops on the battlefield again, and check their combat casualties.

Half an hour later, some small snowflakes fell from the sky quietly and silently, slowly falling to the ground, and gradually covered with layers of thin white snowflakes, which was very beautiful.