In the afternoon of the same day, Conrad and Hannah set off for Berlin, and after they made some preparations in Berlin, they would take a research and development team to Algeria to further improve the ME163, and the improvement direction was of course as Qin Chuan said, first of all, the combination of proximity fuse and television guidance, and further radar guidance and infrared guidance.

It is conceivable that the former will be implemented soon, as it will be more or less a matter of fitting a proximity fuse to the V1, while the latter will take a long time.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't think about this, what lingered in his mind was a little melancholy, a little helplessness and a little excitement on Hannah's face when she said goodbye.

Melancholy and helplessness are easy to understand, this is the proper expression of parting.

The excitement is understandable for Qin Chuan...... In some ways, Hannah is a workaholic, or perhaps a typical patriot, as can be seen from the fact that she used pen and paper to draw the cause of the accident and worry about the crisis of the B17 at the last moment when she was injured in a test flight accident.

Therefore, when Qin Chuan gave the idea of solving the problem, or it can be said that Hannah got the answer she wanted, she was naturally excited and full of anticipation for future experiments in Algeria.

Sometimes, Qin Chuan couldn't help but think like this: Did Hannah rush to Baku thousands of miles this time to see him, or to solve the crisis of B17, or both?

Qin Chuan prefers the third answer, because Hannah drew a sketch and left a message for Qin Chuan when she thought she would never wake up again in a test flight accident.

Then Qin Chuan would think again...... Why don't you leave yourself a message and then sketch it? Do you think work is more important?

Then Qin Chuan felt that he was a little funny, but after two days of contact, he became a little childlike.

In fact, even if Hannah takes the work more seriously, Qin Chuan can understand it, because the nature of this work is different, and it is related to the survival of millions of people in Germany and even the fate of Germany...... Just like Qin Chuan also decided to stay in Baku instead of following Conrad to Algeria.

This can be said to be a kind of helplessness in a state of war: no matter what happens, the state must be the priority, and personal interests are so insignificant.

However, Qin Chuan had nothing to do here, because the situation in Transcaucasia had gradually stabilized.

This was mainly due to the fact that Hitler sent three security divisions from the rear to the Transcaucasus, one for the Taman Peninsula, one for the ports of the Black Sea coast, and one for Baku.

Although the reputation of security guards is not very good, they are professional after all...... Although the soldiers of the Wehrmacht could fight the enemy on the battlefield and defeat the Soviets again and again, they did not know what to do with the partisans hiding among the people, because they did not know whether to treat each other as civilians or soldiers.

However, the security division was a good hand, and their arrival allowed the soldiers of the 11th Army to detach themselves from tedious tasks and concentrate on building a defensive line, so they were quickly on the right track.

On the side of the Soviets, it was a different matter.

The loss of the Baku oil field greatly shook the morale and confidence of the Soviet troops to continue this war, because, as previously stated...... The Baku oil fields accounted for 71.5% of the Soviet Union, and the loss of the Baku oil fields meant that at least half of the Soviet war machine would be shut down, so the war energy, resources and other aspects would be weakened.

Therefore, Stalin rushed to Stalingrad as soon as possible to convene a meeting of Soviet officers who had retreated from all directions.

"Some stupid people argued......" Stalin coldly glanced at the silent Soviet generals sitting on both sides, and said, "We can continue to retreat eastward, because we still have a vast territory, a large land, a large population, and we always have plenty of food!" ”

Speaking of this, Stalin paused, and then continued in an emphatic tone: "This is self-consolation, and they are trying to justify their unseemly behavior and retreat on these grounds. They are outright deception, they are false, and there is only one thing this theory can do, and that is to help our enemies! The enemy, who is sending more and more troops to the front line in complete disregard of losses, has penetrated deep into the heart of the Soviet Union, occupies new areas, destroys and destroys our cities and villages, rapes, loots, kills our people!

So, we must eradicate all the rhetoric that says we can retreat endlessly, all the rhetoric that says we still have vast territories, all the rhetoric that says that our country is very rich, all the rhetoric that says that we have a large population, all that says that we have enough food! Because they are lies, they are dangerous, they weaken our fighting spirit and fuel the prestige of the enemy. All of us should understand that if we do not stop the retreat, we will have no food, no fuel, no metal, no raw materials, no factories, no railways!

It's time to stop the retreat!

I declare that we must stubbornly hold every position and every inch of the territory of the Soviet Union until the last drop of blood is shed, we must hold on to every piece of our land and fight for it to the fullest! ”

Stalin then proceeded to form the Stalingrad Front in Stalingrad.

At present, all armies and group armies have also been ordered to form their own "punishment battalions" and "interception teams."

Needless to say, what are the "punishment battalions" and "interception squads......

The former is to form a unit of soldiers who have committed crimes, or who have fled or even have cowardly expressions and thoughts (note: the front army will form 1 to 3 punishment battalions of 800 men each, and the group army will form 5 to 10 punishment companies of 150 to 200 men each), and then deploy them to the most dangerous areas... In fact, sometimes it's not just the most dangerous areas, but more of them are areas that are not strategic, where these soldiers are simply deployed to their deaths or to carry out a series of suicide missions.

In Stalin's words, it is "let them wash their blood of their crimes against the Motherland."

There is a saying on the modern Internet that Stalin did not shoot many deserters...... Indeed, these deserters were simply sent to the "punishment camps" and then driven into battle.

The latter, that is, the "interception squad", according to Stalin's orders, was to "execute panic makers and cowards on the spot in case of panic and unauthorized retreat!" ”

Some people simply think that the "interception team" is to set up a machine gun behind the unit to shoot deserters when the unit is charging, but in fact, the power of the "interception team" is much greater than that of this kind of unit, and the equipment used is much better; Zhukov once equipped the interception team of the group army with tanks, and at the same time, the "interception team" can even arrest certain generals of the Supreme Command.