"This morning, the Soviets counterattacked from the front, crushing two Belarusian divisions, and we lost about 1,100 people." Pointing to the map, at the battle meeting in the wolf's den, a general opened his mouth and introduced himself to the Führer.

"Manstein has closed the gap, and although we have some losses, they are still manageable." Another general explained.

One of the main reasons for the fact that Marshal Rundstedt's Army Group Center has not advanced fast in the last two days is that there are some difficulties in transporting supplies.

"General Manstein is in Moscow, and I am still very relieved." The Führer looked at the German advance line on the map and opened his mouth to the generals around him.

Now that the Führer had expressed his confidence in Manstein, it was customary to omit some comments about losses at the front.

After all, the prestige of the Führer in the army is now quite high, so high that people look up to it.

Any criticism of the Führer was seen as a provocation, and many mid-ranking officers, as well as a growing number of senior generals, began to see the Führer as the pillar of the German military.

"From the perspective of the overall strategic situation, the situation is still very favorable to us!" The general, who introduced the battle situation at the front, continued to point to the map.

He drew a stroke with his whip in the area north of Moscow, and then continued: "Marshal Loeb's troops have been rereplenished, and they are advancing faster than the center, and are already approaching the city of Moscow. ”

"Field Marshal Kluger's reserves are moving closer to the north and, once at the designated position, can be put into front-line operations." The officer pointed with his whip behind Army Group North.

Keitel, who stood behind the Führer, had a smile on his face, because Marshal Kluger's reserves had received enough supplies to enter the front line of combat.

The Germans were not crowded together and spread all the main forces to fight in the first line, of course they would have arranged reserves.

For example, Marshal Kluger, who was still in the middle, was leading his troops north to join the siege of Moscow.

Why move north? The reason is that the Germans have already completed the oversupply of the front-line troops by using the Baltic Sea and the port of St. Petersburg.

The basic solution to the problem of the supply of the northern troops is equivalent to providing the German army with an opportunity to invest more troops in the battle.

After all, the bottleneck restricting the use of German troops is the logistical problem of transportation and supply. In fact, due to the pressure of logistical supply, the German army has not been able to achieve global deployment in real historical time and space.

In other words, German attacks were often localized, with one side of the attack and the other side having to stop, waiting for the withdrawn supplies to be replenished by the subsequent supplies.

"In general, now that Marshal Loeb of Army Group North has attacked the north of Moscow, we can devote more forces in the north to attack Moscow." The general explained his conclusions to the Führer.

"This is really good news, the successful capture of St. Petersburg has really revitalized the whole situation." The Führer smiled and nodded in praise: "The army is worthy of the pride of the empire." ”

"That also depends on the Führer's wise leadership to win, doesn't it?" Keitel, who was standing behind the Führer, was a very foolish sycophant.

And this time, Army Commander-in-Chief Brauchitsch, who had just returned from a front-line inspection to attend the meeting, also opened his mouth and patted along: "Your wisdom guides us. ”

At the front, Brauchitsch saw how much the Führer had brought to the German Army, and he watched as the ugly equipment came alive on the battlefield.

The infantry units with the Chaser tank destroyers, no longer afraid of Soviet tank attacks, held the weak flanks of the German army and helped the main armored forces to complete the task of penetrating at long distances.

Those ugly trucks, which looked like they were all welded at right angles, became the "battlefield taxis" loved by the soldiers.

Trucks with wooden roofs and cars with canvas roofs have the advantages reflected in the production process and are directly reflected on the battlefield.

The German army now has a car penetration rate so much that Brauchitsch can't even think of it. If it weren't for Libyan fuel, he might not have seen the days when the German army would be equipped with so many cars in his life.

The Junker aristocracy did not bring changes to the army, but the Führer did. This has led many Army top brass to question their position.

Has the Junker aristocracy, which once represented the mighty, now synonymous with old-fashioned backwardness?

And the new aristocracy, which is already around the Führer, represent a bright future for Germany?

With this ideological loosening, Brauchitsch's attitude towards the Führer became more subtle. He himself was a representative of the aristocratic officers, and now if he chose the Führer, the meaning of the representation would not be at all.

He knew that if he changed his court, he would reduce the control of the Junker nobles within the army by at least an order of magnitude.

Coupled with Klug and Keitel, who had already fallen to the Führer, the Junker aristocratic officer corps was tantamount to losing half of the high-level groups in the Army Command.

The Air Force and Navy are the traditional self-cultivation of the Führer, and if the army loses half of the country, the army that the Junker aristocracy has painstakingly managed will become the Führer's army.

"It's okay to joke about it, what we're going to discuss next is an important topic." After accepting Brauchitsch's sycophancy, the Führer was clearly in high spirits, and smiled and commanded.

Hearing his order, the expressions of all the officers in the venue became solemn, the Yuan wanted to launch the "Star Plan" in advance, and they all got some news in advance.

The "Star Plan" is the Führer's plan of action to attack Ukraine, which was originally divided into two versions.

The first version is that immediately after the Germans took Moscow, Army Group Center moved south, as in Operation Scythe in France, flanking the Soviet forces in Ukraine.

There were not as many transport ships as the British on the Black Sea, and the Soviet army encircled in Ukraine had to be annihilated.

The second version is the version that the Führer is now going to launch in advance, and the general sequence of actions is to advance from the front and squeeze the living space of the Soviet army.

"My Führer, it won't do us much good to rush to launch the Star Project." Brauchitsch put away his blind worship of the Führer, and reminded him.

"It's easier to win with the first plan, and now it's ...... attacking It is bound to distract our offensive forces. Keitel was also not optimistic about this decision, and said dissuasion.