Throughout August 1940, the entire Eastern Front was fought inside and out, and in Poland, the German army completed the counter-encirclement of the Russian army that had entered the city of Warsaw, and the Russian troops of the three armies in the encirclement were struggling to resist the German attack and try to buy time for the Russian army to retreat.

Outside of Warsaw, the Polish-German coalition began to engage in a counteroffensive, but almost all of Army Group A's armored forces and motorized infantry divisions were transferred by Lin Youde to Army Group B, leaving only a small amount for Army Group A to use as a countershock force after being broken through, so Army Group A could only rely on traditional infantry divisions to move forward. The level of motorization of the Polish army is worse than that of the German army, and the traditional infantry divisions of the German army actually still have trucks and other vehicles for logistics, while the infantry divisions of the Polish army really only have horse-drawn carts, and all members are fighting on foot.

However, the light weapons of the Polish army are actually no worse than those of the German army, and Lin Youde authorized Poland to produce assault rifles and light machine guns, and Poland's own industry cannot make many large items such as automobiles, but it is still enough for assault rifles and machine guns to be mass-produced in mass production -- of course, they do not have enough stamping machines to mass-produce stamping parts like Germany, but it is still possible for workers to produce them by hand.

Moreover, the stamping machine approved by Lin Youde to aid Poland was in place in June and is being debugged, and after the commissioning is completed, it is expected to increase the output of Polish assault rifles to 1,500 per day, although it is far less than the 6,000 per day of Germany, but it can finally allow the Polish army to bid farewell to the old bolt-action rifles.

In addition to helping the Polish army update its equipment, Lin Youde also semi-forcibly let Poland carry out the overall reform, although the Polish king was retained, but the nobles were all swept away, and the Polish Democratic Party, which believed in pan-humanism, came to power and began to carry out economic reforms in Poland's unconquered lands.

Originally, Lin Youde's plan was to gain the support of the people through economic reform, and then to obtain strong-willed soldiers, but later he found that the Poles did not have a good impression of the Russian rule, and at this time they were invaded by Russia, and they all wanted to fight the Russians back, and the spread of nationalism made the Poles very enthusiastic to join the army.

Therefore, the strength of the Polish army gradually returned to the pre-war level, and at the same time, the equipment was also improved, although the training level decreased, but what the German army needed was to fill the secondary troops (commonly known as cannon fodder) on the battlefield, so it was not a big problem.

Although the Polish-German offensive in Poland was huge, it was advancing much slower than the mechanized units of Army Group B, and they did not have the momentum of devastation, but they were indeed regaining lost ground little by little.

And in the Lublin direction, the assault group that the Germans had used to make a show had already moved and advanced towards Bialystok. However, the Russian army has set up a defensive line with a depth of fifty or sixty kilometers on the positions between Bialystok and Lublin, and the Russian army in this area is supported by abundant artillery fire, so the breakthrough speed of the Lublin cluster is not fast, which allows the Russian troops to retreat from Bialystok in the face of bombardment.

On the territory of Ukraine, the rear units of the German army are organizing "bandits" operations, and the defeated Russian troops are still scattered in the wooded areas of Ukraine, attacking the German logistics teams from time to time, and the German rear patrol brigades are driving these rogues everywhere.

On the border between Ukraine and Belarus, the Russian army has been launching tentative attacks to try to find weaknesses in the German defenses, and the German troops are constantly returning to color, and there are daily skirmishes on both sides, with hundreds of casualties and thousands of casualties a day.

In the northeast of Ukraine, the Russian Bryansk Front seems to be gathering troops, and the German army has no intention of attacking here, so it is the calmest area on the entire front, and only reconnaissance teams on both sides are constantly "learning skills".

Then in the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine, as well as on the Crimean peninsula in the south, the main armies of both sides fought in full swing. After the German Tenth Army swept across the plains of the Crimean Peninsula, the troops entered the Kerch Peninsula in the eastern part of the Crimea, and the Russian army relied on the terrain of the Kerch Peninsula to organize defenses and temporarily blocked the Tenth Army, which needed to be reorganized after continuous operations.

Sevastopol, an important naval base of the Russian army in the western part of the Crimea, was defended by seven Russian divisions, and the troops of the Tenth Army encircling Sevastopol were only four divisions, and there was no advantage in strength, so they waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops of the group army.

In eastern Ukraine, which is separated from the Crimea, Guderian's armored cluster is sweeping the northern shore of the Sea of Azov, the city of Donetsk was broken the day after Rommel's surprise attack, the defending troops had to withdraw from the city and retreat in the direction of Rostov, and the other Russian troops were in a chaotic battle because of the disorder of the command system, unable to effectively snipe the attacks of the German troops.

However, these troops were after all Cossack veterans, and they fought very tenaciously and caused considerable problems to the Germans, so much so that Manstein was not able to complete the Haikou that he boasted of Lin Youde: the complete defeat of the Don Front in three days.

On August 20, 1940, Yeremenko was dismissed from his post - although he was not in the headquarters of the Front when he blossomed in the center of the German army, but because Tupikov, who actually commanded the operation, had already hung up, Yeremenko was unlucky to go to the top tank, but also because he was not in the headquarters, Iron Ji did not do too much, but only transferred him to Moscow to command the reserve front, responsible for recruiting troops and supplying the front with new units that had been grouped up.

It was Konstantin who took office? Konstantinovich? Lieutenant General Rokossovsky

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"Tsk, a difficult man was sent." Lin Youde threw the change of commander report from the Eye of Odin on the table, stood up and looked at the map on the wall, which had long since been replaced by a map of the coast of the Sea of Azov in eastern Ukraine.

Lin Youde waited for a while, not waiting for Isera's inquiry, and then remembered that Isera went to have a physical examination at this time, and it was Nia who accompanied him in the room, and the second daughter was holding a military textbook, and she was happy while eating snacks.

Feeling her father's gaze, Nia looked up.

"What's wrong? Uh, ah! Yes, difficult people! yes, difficult people, who? ”

"Rokossovsky."

"Can you fight?" Nia's eyes sparkled.

"Very good at fighting, and very good at defensive operations. In another time and space, this guy was ordered to organize a defense in Vyazma, east of Smolensk, and he-" Lin Youde thought for a while, and said that Jù Nia was probably not interested, so he temporarily changed the focus of the explanation, "He was urgently transferred from the front line at that time, and he took up his post as soon as he received the task in Moscow, but none of the divisions scheduled to be given to him were in place, and he was a completely complete and complete commander of the light pole. Guess what's wrong with him? He got a car, and then took a few staff officers to the combat area that was scheduled to be handed over to him, and along the way he collected the scattered troops, and when he arrived at the destination, he used these collected miscellaneous armies to organize defenses and block the German offensive. ”

"Wow." Nia was really interested, "That's amazing, is this person handsome?" ”

"What?" Lin Youde was stunned for a moment, and couldn't keep up with his daughter's train of thought, "Does what he looks like have anything to do with the topic we are talking about?" ”

"No, it's just that I want to know if he's handsome......"

"No, not handsome." In fact, Lin Youde remembers that in the movie "Liberation" filmed in the Soviet Union, Rokossovsky was still quite handsome, but it was an actor, well, the actor is a little fresh meat, the real person must be very ugly, after strengthening his belief, Lin Youde began to talk nonsense, "It's frustrating, oily hair, big face, bearded and ......"

Lin Youde suddenly realized how weak he was in describing a man as ugly, and it seemed much simpler to praise a beautiful woman in comparison.

But Nia immediately lost interest in Rokossovsky's appearance, and turned her attention to his combat ability: "According to what you said, Dad, this person is really amazing, but I wonder why Iron Ji didn't use these powerful people at the beginning, but now he takes them out one by one?" ”

"That's because at first Iron Ji didn't know that his senior generals were so incompetent, and now she has lost confidence in those old senior generals, so she began to appoint some young lieutenant generals and major generals." Lin Youde paused, "Of course, Natalia's recommendation probably played a big role. ”

"Anyway, we're going to beat you up, so let's change it."

"Don't underestimate the enemy, we do have the advantage, but now the situation is different, now the German troops are too far from our homeland, a distance of 2048 km, and will become a natural ally of the Russians." Lin Youde touched his chin, "If you look at the situation with the thinking of fighting in a place like Poland, which is close to the mainland, it will definitely be a mistake." ”

"Oh, I see." Nia replied in a much more serious voice than before.

Lin Youde glanced back at his daughter, and then changed his tone and said: "However, the most dangerous time has passed, the Russians have not been able to penetrate our defenses, and they have also lost a large number of troops on our land, and we have won half of this war." ”

"But didn't you say that there is still a vital Charitsyn to fight?"

"Even if we can't defeat Cellitsyn, we can retreat back to the territory of Ukraine to organize a defensive operation, and with Romania providing oil, we still have enough oil to maintain the defense." Lin Youde smiled at Nia again, "Sometimes, being undefeated is also a victory. In fact, if Iron and Steel proposed peace now, I would definitely agree, as long as we were given time to open up the land passage to the Middle East, then the shortage of oil would no longer be a problem, and we would have a better chance of winning the war with Russia. ”

"But Iron Ji doesn't make peace, does he?"

"Of course, we have cut Ukraine off the map of Russia, whether Iron Ji takes the initiative to sue for peace or agrees to our peace terms, Russia's prestige in the Slavic world will plummet, Russia's influence in the Balkans will dive greatly, hundreds of years of business will be completely ruined, and she Iron Ji will also be nailed to Russia's pillar of shame and will always be laughed at. She will not sue for peace, nor will she agree to our sue for peace. ”

"Then Dad, why don't we take the initiative to make peace and show the world our 'desire for peace'?"

Lin Youde looked back at his daughter, who squeezed his eyes at him.

"Well, it makes sense, you can make a splash, and that's it." Lin Youde said with a smile.