"Don't let up! The great Soviet Red Army fighters did not stand still because of the stubbornness of the enemy! The battle must continue, and let the capitalist wastes know that our fighters of firm faith will win the final victory! ”

Just after Zhukov sent a request to Moscow to suspend the offensive, Stalin quickly sent a telegram of his instructions.

Holding this telegram, Zhukov's face was ugly and stunned for a long time.

He knew that Stalin's old habit of fighting had returned. Stalin, who firmly believed that willpower and faith could solve all problems, stubbornly rejected Zhukov's suggestion to reorganize the offensive after repairing the army, and gave the order for further onslaught.

Although he knew that Stalin was blindly commanding, Zhukov could not open his mouth to refute it.

To tell the truth, he has pointed out very clearly that the front-line troops are in a very unsatisfactory situation, the battle situation is stalemate, and the battle loss ratio is seriously unbalanced.

On the surface, the Soviet-German campaign was a bland offensive and defensive battle, with the Soviet army attacking on a large scale and the German army holding on to all fronts.

The Soviets have been on the offensive all the time, and the Germans have been on the defensive. Both sides are fighting, but the means are nothing to praise, nothing more than dumb battles, positional warfare, trench warfare.

The last two giants of Europe had been at war for nearly a month, and the Soviets had not made any substantial progress except for the initial partial advance in the southern provinces of Germany.

Instead of making no progress, there have been heavy losses. If he killed 1,000 enemies and lost 800 himself, then Zhukov would admit it. But in fact, the situation he faced was that he killed 1,000 enemies and lost 8,000 himself!

Even the German army, which had long been prepared for the attack, was mentally prepared to pay huge losses for attacking the enemy's well-equipped fortifications. Moreover, Zhukov admits that he is not a general who is distressed by losses.

Without sacrifice, there is no victory! This is the principle of warfare that Zhukov believes in the most.

But to fight to this point today, to continue the offensive is simply to sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice. The soldiers' battles are simply meaningless, and they are even hastening their own demise!

Yes, there is nothing commendable about this battle. If I have to describe it, it was the German army that used the pre-carefully set up defensive line to find the dead Soviet officers and soldiers in an efficient and continuous massacre.

Compared to the time when they fought against the Finns, the Soviets are now facing a powerful enemy with stronger combat effectiveness, advanced weapons, more training and combat experience, and a premeditated enemy.

Especially after Reinhardt announced a full-scale counterattack a few days ago, the Soviet-Finnish army and the German army in the north have joined forces to counterattack and assault the Vyborg area in one go.

In the south, the German Wehrmacht joined forces with the SS, not to mention the Romanian army, which had no less than 40 divisions, and almost ate the two most elite collective armies in Zhukov's hands. If Zhukov hadn't put the reserves into the southern front in time to stabilize the situation, maybe the southern front would have collapsed by now!

In order to stabilize the situation, Zhukov transferred almost most of the reserve divisions to the south. This also indirectly led to the fact that the Soviet army on the central front now has not much reinforcements to count on.

There has been a great crisis on both the northern and southern fronts, which in itself is a matter of great vigilance. However, Stalin still believed that the Soviet army still maintained a regular offensive on the middle line where the Soviet Union and Germany deployed the most troops, which means that the Soviet army had at least an advantage in the most critical middle line operations, and should continue to expand this advantage and step up the offensive.

But in fact, when it comes to the battle situation on the middle front, this is precisely what makes Zhukov the most painful!

Stalin only knew that the Soviet troops on the central front had been maintaining his orders, maintaining a steady frequency of attacks. But he didn't understand that these attacks were basically the same as giving away people's heads! Even if it continues, it will only increase unnecessary casualties.

"The general secretary asked us to further strengthen the offensive in the center, but if we really do this, it will be tantamount to reducing the pressure on the German army in the middle line in the future, so that they can use more defensive positions to kill and injure our soldiers." Inside the headquarters, Zhukov sighed with a headache.

Marshal Voroshilov, who was standing beside Zhukov, was also full of emotion after listening: "Yes, there is no problem with the Mars operation you proposed, and we also agree on the strategy of the thunderstorm plan." It's just that the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops is really unsatisfactory, and the military quality of many middle and high-ranking officers is not even comparable to that of a low-level officer in the German army. ”

Sighing, Voroshilov smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "Who would have thought that in this battle, our most commendable logistics were built by relying on the railway and road system built with the aid of the Germans. ”

Hearing this, Zhukov's face became even more ugly.

Regarding Germany's help in building roads and railways, Zhukov never believed that it was the Germans' kindness in helping the Soviet Union optimize its transportation and logistics capabilities. Although, on the surface, it seems that this is true.

However, if Germany really wanted to help, why did they cut corners and shoddy in industrial machine tools, weapons data, etc., in their years of dealings with the Soviet Union, only in the cooperation of the road system.

This is clearly problematic! It's just that Zhukov can't figure out what the inside story is for a while.

However, when it came to the railway system, Zhukov was also angry: "Speaking of which, Pavlov's guy is not the first time that he has seized supplies and equipment belonging to the troops in our command sequence, right?" ”

General Pavlov, as commander of the Western Front of the Soviet Army, held the command of the country's elite strategic reserve under Stalin's direct supervision. These days, Pavlov has led his troops to stay in the rear to watch the excitement, and has also held a military parade that embarrassed Zhukov, and has repeatedly seized and extracted materials and equipment that were sent to the front line to supply the front-line troops.

Pavlov, who commanded the country's elite strategic reserve in the rear, was obviously more convenient for controlling the army's transport system than Zhukov, who commanded operations on the front line. Although this guy did not blatantly withhold all the supplies Zhukov needed, he had intermittently withheld and siphoned off a lot of key materials and equipment in private, and used them to arm his Western Front.

Relying on the way of reducing the supply of front-line troops and strengthening the troops under his command, Pavlov's selfish means of ignoring the overall situation are really seriously disgusting to Zhukov.

There is a strong enemy in front of the danger, and gradually carry out an orderly counterattack, and there are pig teammates who are dragging their feet, intermittently adding blockage to themselves. Zhukov, the deputy commander-in-chief, is really very aggrieved.