A lot of things have happened recently, busy with the birth permit for the baby in pregnancy, busy with the driver's license of the new traffic regulations, busy with the cure of the lively severe cold, these processes are very difficult, but fortunately, the results are still smooth. As for what everyone is most concerned about right now, I don't want to comment on it here, and time will give you the answers to all your questions.

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The vast territory and cold winters were once the magic weapon for the Russians to defeat a strong enemy, but with the progress and development of science and technology, the natural divide can no longer stop the pace of human warfare. Using technologically upgraded B-29s and Lancaster long-range bombers, the Luftwaffe completed a significant expedition that cast a lingering shadow over the prospect of war seen through the Kremlin windows from the moment the bombs fell on the heads of Muscovites. Even so, the rulers of the Red Empire were still like gamblers who did not admit defeat, and the cold orders to attack reached the front line one after another, and the depressed Soviet officers and soldiers had to climb out of the trenches and brave the enemy's bullets and bullets to advance in a hopeless victory. At this moment, the enemy they are facing is no longer the German ** team that always avoided reality a year ago, and the aid from Western countries is like gasoline and lubricant, so that the German tank is full of power again. A large amount of American-style equipment strengthened the German officers and men who were proficient in tactical coordination, and their indomitable fighting spirit was sublimated under the inspiration of national honor. In Hamburg, in Hanover, in Kassel, in Frankfurt, in Mannheim, in Stuttgart, along this axis of central Germany, three million German soldiers formed an unshakable defensive line, which was blocked by soldiers and covered by water, and the Soviet army's powerful attacks again and again were invisible.

With the roar of "rice buckets," "waste firewood," and "soft eggs," Khrushchev flew to the front line with a cadre of defense committee members and members of the General Staff to inspect the front, and under their majestic gaze, the Soviet officers and men swore to defend the honor of the Soviet Union to the death. After hasty replenishment and adjustment, the three major Soviet assault armies immediately launched the "storm plan" with Hanover as the main attack point. On the front of less than 100 kilometers from Walsrod to Hildesheim, the Soviet army concentrated 3,000 tanks, 9,000 artillery pieces and 34 divisions, and the density of firepower and offensive personnel was staggering. The investment, regardless of casualties, also paid off for what seemed to be a good return for the Soviets – after 19 hours of fierce fighting, the Soviets broke through and occupied the German positions on the north and south flanks of Hanover, forming a pincer entrapment for the German 6th Army holding Hanover. To the surprise of the Soviets, the German corps did not withdraw quickly under the cover of night, as usual, but held Hanover with a rock-like attitude. The day after the battle was launched, the Soviets completed the encirclement of the defenders of Hanover, and Khrushchev and his entourage came to the front headquarters only a few kilometers from the battlefield to inspect it, and the secretaries had even drafted a manuscript announcing the victory of the Hanover annihilation war. However, the battle, which seemed to be ready to end, dragged on and on. In order to take Hanover, the Soviets drew a large number of heavy artillery from the 2nd and 3rd Shock Armies, and pressed the formation with ace troops with rich siege experience. Fierce artillery fire plowed over and over again the ruins beneath the feet of the Germans, and the former garden city became lifeless. Although there was not a single fluttering battle flag in sight, whenever Soviet officers and soldiers entered the city with trepidation, the stubborn German soldiers would attack them like ghosts crawling out of the ground. In the rubble, the T-34, which could not run at speed, could only become a target for German anti-tank rockets, and the tanks carrying heavy artillery seemed to be always punching the air, and the Soviet infantry were still brave, but unfortunately their courage could not be exchanged for the glory of the past. After four days and three nights of fierce fighting, the Soviet siege troops changed batch after batch, and the casualty figure quickly approached six figures. The main town of Hanover was still firmly controlled by the defenders. Faced with such a result, not only Khrushchev was furious, but even the senior generals who accompanied him felt that there was no face, and Marshal Vasilevsky even asked to personally lead the assault team into battle. If such a powerful field marshal had died in Germany, the blow to the morale of the Soviet army could be imagined, and Khrushchev decisively rejected Vasilevsky's invitation, and he quickly presided over an on-site meeting of the Ministry of Defense. The commander of the 2nd Shock Army, Petrov, was dismissed on the spot, and his deputy, Golikov, was appointed to take command and ordered to capture Hanover within 24 hours.

Unable to afford to slack off on his shoulders, Golikov hurriedly organized his reserve forces for a frontal attack, drawing back the tank units from the forces already moving towards Bremen's southern flank, and at the same time demanding that the air force carry out more intense ground bombardment. Given that Khrushchev was supervising the battle at the front, the commanders of the Soviet Air Force did not care about the casualty of their troops. In 12 hours, more than 3,000 warplanes flew sorties and dropped nearly 5,000 tons of bombs in the Hanover area, many of which were aviation armor-piercing bombs developed for concealed bunkers.

Half of the time limit was spent on mobilizing troops and preparing firepower, and Golikov's adventure quickly paid off. After the offensive is launched. After four hours of fierce fighting, more than 100,000 German troops had been compressed into the western suburbs and were in a precarious situation. At the critical moment, the German fast troops from the Hesse area approached Braunschweig, because the place was located southeast of Hanover, once occupied by the German army, the Soviet troops besieging Hanover would be in danger of being cut off, and the German troops attacking from Bremen also defeated the Soviet right flank troops in Felden, and quickly approached Walsrod, which was only more than 30 kilometers away from Hanover, from the north. Under these conditions, the German defenders of Hanover desperately defended their last positions, holding out from noon until nightfall. Under the cover of night, the Germans dispatched transport planes to deliver hundreds of paratroopers and a batch of ammunition and supplies to Hanover, and the powerful German 2nd Army also attacked the city of Braunschweig, Khrushchev and his party hurriedly withdrew to safety, and the Soviet troops besieging Hanover had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of failure.

If the battle of Hanover left the Soviets with endless regret, then in Stuttgart, the situation of the Soviet 4th Shock Army can only be described as "hopeless". In southern Germany, the complex terrain hindered the deployment of the Soviet army, so in this late spring offensive, the Soviet offensive focused on the north and central Germany, and the southern part was only pinned down by the slightly inferior 4th Shock Army. At the beginning of the offensive, the German army stubbornly resisted the Soviet 4th Shock Army in Wiltheim, Lohr and other places east of Frankfurt, so that the progress made can only be measured in meters, and when the other three Soviet shock armies were blocked for a long time, the 4th Shock Army unexpectedly broke through the German defense in the Fürth area southeast of Frankfurt, and outflanked the German troops in Wiltheim and Lohr with fast troops, won two successive defeating victories, annihilated and captured nearly 20,000 German troops, and quickly approached the city of Stuttgart. The one-man victory made the Soviet commander determined to take the important town of the German army in the south, but the German army once again staged a large corps mobile operation. In just two days, 39 divisions of German troops were transferred from the northern and western fronts to the south, and the assembly and deployment were completed in the movement, and the units engaged in a counterattack according to a strict schedule, and under the guidance of the air force and armored units, they broke the flanks of the Soviet army in the north and south of Stuttgart with lightning speed. When the two flanks of friendly lines showed signs of collapse, the Soviet 4th Assault Army tried to get out and retreat, but the road behind it had been broken by the Germans, even if the trapped units had the courage to abandon their equipment and baggage, they could not escape from the Germans who hated the enemy, and nearly 300,000 Soviet officers and soldiers soon fell into a heavy encirclement. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Battle of Munich, the Soviet high command forced all units to provide reinforcements from afar and close to each other, and to maintain the supply of the trapped troops by airdrop. Although the German army did not have the advantage of time this time, relying on its geographical and psychological advantages, it in turn firmly contained the Soviet troops in the key battlefield, especially making it impossible for the three most elite shock armies of the Soviet army to withdraw south. As time passed, the Soviet troops trapped outside Stuttgart deteriorated, and the Germans tightened the encirclement step by step, using modern means of communication to broadcast the battle situation, thus firmly grasping the initiative in the battle of public opinion, making the Soviet army's military operations in Germany fall into a bleak situation of mourning.

By the end of May, the Battle of Stuttgart was in fact coming to an end, the fate of the Soviet 4th Shock Army was basically settled, the unilateral blockade of public opinion could not stop the pervasive radio signals, and the morale of the Soviet people would soon suffer a heavy blow. Under these circumstances, although the Soviets supported the German Bolsheviks in the formation of the so-called "Federal Republic of Germany" in eastern Germany, and even won the support of the German people under the guise of a German-Austrian merger, the majority of the German people in the Soviet-occupied areas reacted coldly to the establishment of East Germany and the prospect of the so-called German-Austrian merger, and the appeal of the government of the "Federal Republic of Germany" was ridiculously low, let alone the formation of an army to "defend national sovereignty." In the face of the call for peace issued by Western countries in the name of the United Nations, the Soviet Union sent diplomatic representatives to attend the peace talks held in Portugal, that is, the third round of Soviet-German armistice negotiations. At the negotiating table, the Soviet delegates still wanted to maintain the status quo of Germany's division between the east and the west, insisting on the so-called "freedom of belief," which was strongly criticized by the German delegates. On the basis of the remarkable psychological effects of the air bombing, the German delegates even hinted at the possibility of bombing the Soviet Union with atomic weapons in the next phase, and the scorched earth territory of Germany was no longer afraid of any form of destruction. During the talks, the United Nations officials who brokered the peace talks played an unnamed video of the beleaguered Soviet officers and soldiers singing "Homeland" in a low voice, and the despair and grief embodied in them overshadowed the souls of everyone who had experienced the brutal war......