Even further north, Murmansk, where there was a port, the Germans and the Finnish forces did not have enough troops to occupy the city so north.

Moreover, once winter comes, it is not known whether the port here will be used, so the German high-level who got Leningrad, that is, St. Petersburg, has no interest in mobilizing troops to fight for Murmansk.

"Mobilize part of the troops of the northern army group, and go to the south and the two central army groups to carry out the mission, and then let more soldiers go home to visit their relatives!" Keitel, a staff officer at the High Command, was also in favor of the plan, and he knew that the troops really needed to recuperate.

In fact, Germany has been carrying out a system of rotational leave, but because the speed of the troops is so fast, many troops can only rest in place and cannot be transferred back home.

Resting in place saves time and capacity, but it does not have the effect of completely relaxing the soldiers.

Only by returning to one's hometown can one be completely relaxed, and only by seeing one's relatives can the soldiers calm down.

Unfortunately, 80 percent of the German army could not do this, after all, in this war, the German transport system was operating at full capacity, and there was no way to meet the full consumption of the front-line troops.

One-way forward transportation is a waste of transport, let alone transporting soldiers from the front.

"My Führer, every day the war is over, the soldiers cannot return home for a day." Goebbels was in charge of propaganda for these soldiers, and he also knew that the mood of these soldiers was now very low.

"Alright, don't talk about that! I also know that this is not a good way to cure war weariness, but after all, the war did not end according to our plan, should we surrender to the Soviet Union? Li Le waved his hand, interrupting Goebbels' complaints.

He prepared tens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles for the German army, and prepared hundreds of thousands or even millions of vehicles, but the German army was still insufficient.

The war was far from over, and Germany's war-weariness had already been brought to the Supreme Council for discussion.

There is a famous quote that says it? You can choose when the war will start, but you can't choose when the war will end - he wants to end it now, but will the Soviets?

The Americans now do not want Germany to stay out of the way, end the war with dignity and then embark on the fast track of early development.

Whoever is the first to shake off the haze of war will be able to seize the opportunity of the world war and become the next world leader! Everyone understands this, so it is very difficult for Germany to develop according to its own plan.

"The diplomatic department has been trying to negotiate with the Soviet side, but Stalin is still alive, he rejects all forms of negotiations, he wants the war to continue!" Ribbentrop added.

He had recently completed Turkey, and had fulfilled the task given to him by the Führer, who gave him a number of rewards, including a street named after him.

But even then, he could not get the Soviet side to deal with it. The other side is not willing to communicate at all, they insist on war until a country is destroyed in this war.

"Perhaps, after our troops move south, we have created enough pressure on the other side, and the war will end...... Maybe not...... In short, it is now impossible to predict any reaction from the Soviet side! Brauchitsch followed suit, making a worst-case assumption.

No one can now predict the next option for the Soviet Union, and Brauchitsch hopes that another attack will bring the Soviet Union to its knees, but he cannot guarantee that it will be realized.

"Humph! So we can only try to attack Stalingrad! Destroy there and drive Stalin to Chelyabinsk...... Maybe he spent a winter there and would have figured out that victory in this war already belongs to us! Li Le snorted coldly and said.

"The railroad tracks are well protected along the way, and as long as our armored forces go south, we can reach Stalingrad along the Volga before October!" Field Marshal Rundstedt, the commander-in-chief of Army Group Center, who had deliberately rushed back from the front to report, pointed to the map and introduced his plan.

As long as logistics can be guaranteed, the advance of the German armored forces in the field will certainly be very fast.

Since the Ukrainian Zhukov cluster no longer had any extra forces to draw out to defend the flanks, Rundstedt's troops could quickly advance to the vicinity of the target.

Once at Stalingrad, the Germans were almost along the Volga River, completely encircling Ukraine.

If the anti-Soviet sentiment of the Ukrainian locals is taken into account, it is not difficult for the German army to encircle and annihilate the Ukrainian Zhukov cluster.

But! Annihilating a million Soviet troops on the Ukrainian plain, a month may not be enough time - arriving at Stalingrad in October does not mean that Stalingrad can be taken in October!

The inability to capture Stalingrad meant that the German army of about 2 million was about to usher in the harsh winter of 1941 in the field.

Knowing the weather conditions in advance, Führer Li Le knew that the winter of 1941 would probably be the coldest in fifty years - which was obviously not conducive to the continuation of the German army's fighting.

This winter the two sides can only confront each other near Stalingrad, the German army's strategic intention to achieve a quick victory will be buried under the heavy snow, and the war will be naturally dragged on until 1942.

No matter how you calculate it, the German army will not be able to end the war before winter comes.

"What the hell! In October, we will have to advance to Stalingrad at best! What do you do when you get there? All we can do is give the soldiers padded jackets and let them spend a damn winter in the middle of nowhere! Thinking of this, Li Le couldn't help but complain.

"If only we could take Moscow last month, it would be great." Hearing the Führer's complaints, Goebbels sighed.

But his words made all the generals shake their heads - anyone with a little common sense knows that the war began in March and invaded Moscow in July, a speed that can already be described as legendary.

If it weren't for Guderian's G-cluster, and if it weren't for the mistakes made by the Soviet Union in the previous decisions, Moscow might not have been completely surrounded by now, let alone in its current state.

"There is no problem with the pace of the attack, and March is also the earliest time we can choose to attack," Li Le said to Goebbels...... "So, this is already the best situation we can play." ”

"It's useless to talk more, now we can only go south and see how the Soviets respond!" With his hands pressed on the table, the Führer made up his mind to kick off the battle for Ukraine.