The Japanese attack in Southeast Asia made the United States in the Pacific very passive. The German advance on the Soviet-German front made Stalin like a fish in the throat.

Now, the armored units of Army Group Center have surrounded Orsha on three sides, and it has become an island, an island that the Soviets did not dare to go to and did not dare to abandon.

After all, this is a city, and if it is rashly abandoned, then there will be no obstacles in the way of the German offensive.

But if they increased their forces to defend there, they would be throwing their army in a pocket that had been dug up, waiting to be eaten by the Germans.

Stalin looked at the map depressed, and felt that his men were simply a bunch of stupid pigs. They could neither counter the German attacks nor hold their own lines.

In desperation, he could only send untrained troops to the front line again and again, and use sacrifices to train those recruits who knew nothing.

This allowed the Soviet front to maintain a large base of troops, but it also kept the losses high.

For the Soviet leadership, this is definitely to quench their thirst, which is to overdraft their young and strong soldiers, and sooner or later they will have to pay the price for this overdraft.

In real history, although the Soviet Union won the Soviet-German war, this war caused a loss of human resources for the Soviet Union, and it did not recover until the end of the 20th century.

Of course, this time the war was fought more brutally, and although the losses of the Soviet Union were not as huge as in history, they were beyond the same period in real history.

You know, this time Germany has not yet gone south to Kiev, and Zhukov's corps has not swallowed it in his mouth.

Under these circumstances, Stalin also knew that his war had so far been a complete defeat.

He could only carefully shrink his forces, organize a complete defensive line as much as possible, and turn the movement war on the Soviet-German front into a positional war more favorable to the Soviet Union.

Only when such a goal was achieved could he have the confidence and capital to continue to deal with the German army. Another thing that can support him is aid from the United States.

Regrettably, the U.S. aid was actually much worse than what the Soviet Union needed. The only thing that comforted Stalin was that the precision machine tools from the United States increased the machining capabilities of the Soviet Union.

With such capabilities, the Soviet Union was able to produce suitable parts for the front line in Chelyabinsk and other industrial regions at the foot of the Ural Mountains.

It was also with these components that the USSR began mass production of more advanced T-34 tanks. And the rapid entry into service of the new tank did create considerable problems for the German armored forces.

Similarly, the Il-2 attack aircraft, a new weapon that the German ground forces hated, began to be built in large quantities.

Although it was no longer difficult for the Luftwaffe to shoot down such aircraft after the replacement of large-caliber cannons, the suppression of the ground by the fish that slipped through the net did make the German Army feel fearful.

"Telegraphed to Mr. Roosevelt, I need 40,000 trucks, 5,000 fighter jets, and with these weapons and equipment, the Soviet army will be able to hold its own line of defense and drag the enemy in Europe for the United States." Stalin looked at the map and commanded his men.

He has no good way now, so he can only sit on the ground and ask for more supplies to make up for the losses on the front line.

The actual losses of the Soviet Union were already very huge, and the submarines of the German Navy blocked most of the ports in the north, and the supplies in the rear of the Soviet Union could basically only rely on railways to transport them to the front line.

The farthest route was for American ships to pass through the Bering Strait and then along the back coastline of Russia, all the way to Sergisky.

But there is still a considerable distance from the front line and from the production and industrial base of the Soviet Union.

"In addition, the worst-case scenario, we will lose the whole of Ukraine, the Zhukov cluster on the southern front, which is the best formed force we have now." After instructing his men to write a telegram to Roosevelt, Stalin's chest was still dull and abnormal.

Budyonny's troops lost Orsha, and now Smolensk is going to become a front-line city.

The elite areas of the Soviet Union, with the exception of the southern front, have now become occupied areas, or are about to become fronts.

Either way, this is not good news. Stalin sighed, then glanced at the map again.

This may have been his habit lately, looking at the map every day and watching how much land the Germans had annexed to him.

From the border to Brest, from Brest to Minsk, and from Minsk all the way to Orsha by the Germans......

"Leningrad does not allow any mistakes...... It was named after Comrade Lenin, and the political significance was too great...... "Pulling his eyes away from Leningrad, Stalin looked again at Vitebsk below.

Vitebsk is the gateway to Smolensk, if it is lost...... It doesn't seem like a good thing either.

Looking at Mogilev, to whom he attached great importance to him, Stalin sighed and commanded: "Rokossovsky who defends Mogilev...... I hope you don't let me down. ”

Unconsciously, after the loss of a large number of commanders such as Marshal Timoshenko, the famous generals of the Soviet Union, who have risen to prominence in history, have also begun to control the situation this time.

Rokossovsky's military power in Mogilev seems to be more reliable than Budyonny, whose thinking is outdated and unable to adapt to modern warfare.

At least Rokossovsky has made a name for himself in history, claiming to be one of the Soviet troika.

It's just a pity that now the famous Gudry installed a cluster of armor, and the direction of the attack was not Mogilev, but Smolensk.

So the biggest pressure is still on Budyonny on the front, and Budyonny has the least troops in his hands.

The Soviet top brass still strategically misjudged Germany's war attempts, and they really couldn't believe it, and from the beginning to the end, the German top brass locked on Moscow as the target of the attack.

"As for Orsha, let's give up......" In the end, Stalin decided that since Budyonny was given one last chance, he would simply give him some more lenient command environment.

Abandoning Orsha, Budyonny will be able to shrink back some of his forces to a lesser extent, and it will be more certain to defend Smolensk.

By the time his orders reached the front, Orsha was effectively encircled. Budyonny did not waste any troops there at all, leaving an empty city to the German armoured forces.

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The second more was offered, and the dragon spirit continued to code words.