Iron Ji returned to the bedroom, and immediately a group of servants surrounded him.

At this time, Iron Ji suddenly showed an expression of thinking of something, turned his head to the guards and said, "Arrest these people!" ”

The guards immediately rushed forward and arrested a group of maids.

Iron Hime's maid asked with a strange expression, "What's wrong?" ”

"There's a traitor here, Sophia," Iron Ji said in a cold tone, "I don't bother to find out who the traitor is, so it's not wrong to kill them all." Well, the enemy knows about my drip, and should kill all the servants who might know about it. That's it, Sophia, and please find some more servants......"

Iron Hime noticed the chief maid's expression.

"Sofia, this is the war years, we must eliminate a possible traitor, the Germans have occupied a large part of our territory, and Western Ukraine, which our ancestors recaptured with blood, has fallen again, and I have a hunch that there will be a difficult period in the future, in which the traitor is deadly, and we must use the most severe means to get rid of it."

"Yes, sir."

"Sophia, don't call me an adult, you are a relative who took care of me growing up, I won't be happy if you are polite to me."

Sophia smiled at Iron Queen, "Yes." ”

**

At half-past nine, Iron Ji finally appeared in the conference room, and the generals gathered immediately stopped talking and stood up together.

Iron Ji just nodded, and then came to her exclusive seat and took a seat.

As soon as he sat down, Iron Ji asked aloud, "How are the combat preparations of the Don Front going?" ”

The generals looked at each other.

Finally, Yeremenko spoke: "I'm sorry, but we haven't gathered enough forces in the Don region to launch an offensive. ”

"You should already have enough troops, and light weapons have given you a lot!"

"But I don't have enough artillery and shells, and we can't attack without them and shells, and that will only send the soldiers to their deaths."

Iron Ji was silent for a long time before sighing: "Well, maybe you have a point, but what about the Bryansk Front?" ”

"Most of our troops were damaged in previous battles and we need time to remediate. I don't think it's possible to launch a new offensive before August......"

"Do you think the Germans will wait until August? Do you think Lin Youde will be satisfied with the current results? No, it won't! By August, the Germans would have already begun the second offensive! We must act before the Germans move, even if we cannot launch a decisive attack, in any case we must disrupt the German disposition and delay the German movement with a series of offensive operations. ”

The generals were silent, and all of a sudden the whole meeting fell silent.

At this time, Natalia spoke: "I think we should now concentrate on building fortifications and preparing for defensive operations. Of course, a small counterattack is still needed, but strategically, we should focus on holding off the next wave of the German offensive and not thinking about taking Kyiv back now. IMHO, I think that now our forces are no longer able to retake Kyiv, and to do this, we must retreat from Poland. ”

"Natalia! In Turkey you will build yì us retreat! Now you are building yì and I retreat! ”

"Yes, after the Turkish retreat, the situation we faced was changed and I think that was the right decision. In the same way, I think that retreating from Poland is the right choice now. We now have neither the forces to take Warsaw, nor the forces to flank the Germans from Belarus, and even not enough forces to defend in the Donetsk direction. Our front is too long, and our forces are scattered over a vast land, which is clearly contrary to military principles, and forces should be used in a concentrated manner. ”

Iron Ji was silent again.

Obviously, she didn't like to retreat.

Finally, Iron and Steel Ji said in a slightly trembling voice: "Those who did not attend the decision-making meeting in February, those who did not hold command positions at the front, and those who are lieutenant generals and lieutenant generals can go out now." ”

Everyone in the conference room looked at each other, and then a large number of people went out hulala, and only the marshals and generals were left in the room.

"What the hell is going on with you guys?"

Iron Ji slapped the table hard.

"What did you say at the time? Lin Youde will outflank the main forces of our army besieging Warsaw! That's why I will approve the continuation of the increase of troops to Belarus! I thought there was going to be a fierce battle near the border between Belarus and Poland, and I was ready for it! Now it's good, Lin Youde has inserted a knife into Ukraine! You say he doesn't have enough troops to do it, but that's what he did! And now you have asked me to withdraw my troops from Warsaw! I have been gathering a large army here since February, but I have not fought a decent battle, and I must withdraw them! You've all been tricked by Lin Youde! You scumbags! I'm angry! ”

Finally Iron Ji was so excited that she bit her tongue and her pronunciation became very strange - or cute, which was grossly inconsistent with her current rage.

But Iron Ji ignored this, she slammed the pencil in her hand on the table, and continued to roar: "You rice buckets, you haven't judged Lin Youde's military strength clearly, you haven't seen through Lin Youde's intentions, you haven't done anything!" You are actually spies sent by Lin Youde, right? Then now you can take down my top head and go to Lin Youde to receive the reward! ”

Iron Ji gasped for air, and there was no sound in the room except for her gasps, and it was terrifyingly quiet.

Finally, Iron Ji pursed her lips and said in a much soothing tone: "Do you know how I feel now, I fight hard in the sky every day, and I have to endure the verbal attacks of the fox on the other side, I wish I could hear even one good news after I landed, but these days every day is bad news, bad news and bad news!" We retreat here, we are routed there, how many people die here, how many people die there! Can't you give me even the slightest bit of good news to lift my spirits? ”

The Russian generals looked at each other.

Iron Ji sat there, staring blankly at the map on the table, and waited a full five minutes before speaking again: "How many troops are we sure to withdraw from the vicinity of Warsaw?" ”

"I don't know," said Natalia, "the Germans are much more powerful than we expected, and I don't think they will watch us retreat, and Lin Youde may not have intended to outflank our troops near Warsaw, but after seeing that our troops began to retreat, he may order the Germans to start attacking, so as to wipe out more of our army's living forces on the Polish plain." ”

"So you're trying to tell me that our original deployment in the Warsaw direction wasn't completely meaningless, right?" Iron Ji paused and continued, "Or do you want to remind me that we can pretend to retreat to attract Lin Youde to start attacking?" ”

"No, I didn't mean that."

"Natalia, you'd better tell your thoughts completely, why do you think Lin Youde didn't outflank the main force of our army that was close at hand, but came to Ukraine? Is it to deal with the traitors in Ukraine? ”

"No," Natalia shook her head, "Actually, now I personally think that Lin Youde will attack Ukraine, regardless of whether there is a rebel internal response or not." I've been thinking about this all these days, and I've come to the conclusion that Lin Youde is not a true military commander, he's more of an economist, and I think what he really wants is our oil fields in Baku. His army needs a lot of fuel to sustain itself, and now that the United States has stopped selling oil to Germany and Germany's largest overseas import channel has disappeared, he may not have enough fuel to last the war. So he needs Baku, even at the risk of being cut off by our troops, he will move towards our oil fields. ”

"Then should we blow up the oil fields in Baku and cut off his thoughts?" Iron and Steel asked.

"That can't be." Natalia shook her head, "From the current situation, we may not be able to hold our coal production areas in the Donbass, it is already July, there are still three months before the arrival of winter, once we lose the coal production area, the winter heating can only use oil and wood, but it is very difficult to use wood to maintain the heating of cities with millions of people, that requires cutting down a lot of wood, occupying huge capacity and labor." ”

"Hmm." Iron Ji nodded, she began to look at the map on the desktop, the expression on her face gradually changed, "Now Lin Youde is still quite far away from Baku, and his army will have to travel thousands of kilometers to reach Baku. ”

"Actually, it's close to two thousand kilometers." Someone among the generals who have not spoken.

Iron Ji smiled.

"If Baku is really his target, we still have a chance to thwart his plans." Iron Ji stood up, the whole person lay on the map, his hands moved along the map, and finally stopped at a point, "Here!" As long as Lin Youde is not a stupid person, he should know that if he wants to cross these two thousand kilometers safely, he must take here. Otherwise, his army is in danger of being cut off by our army. This will be the site of a decisive battle between the two armies. ”

All the Russian generals stretched their necks to see where Iron Ji was pointing, and the guys who could get mixed with the generals had the most basic understanding of each military point, so they didn't need to see the text on the map, just by the approximate location, they could know which city Iron Ji's fingertips were poking at.

It was an important hub city on the banks of the Volga River, the mother river of Russia, where the Volga made a 90-degree bend and then ran all the way to the Caspian Sea, from which the fertile land of the land had fed almost half of Russia a long, long time ago.

That city was called Tsaritsyn, and it had a household name on another plane: Stalingrad.