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However, Mustache's stubbornly racist stance made it difficult for him to use the industrial capacity and human resources of the occupied territories as effectively as the Japanese in history, and even ordered restrictions on the expansion of the puppet army in order to avoid the difficulty of eliminating them in the future. Although Hu Weidong had expressed to the German side the importance of making full use of the occupied areas, and the mustache had always attached great importance to his opinions, he had always been very stubborn in his fundamental position, otherwise he would not have been a mustache

Despite the fact that the puppet army did not become a climate after all, the guerrilla struggle in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union was still carried out with considerable difficulty. On the one hand, this is because their methods of struggle are not flexible enough, they are centered on cooperating with the regular army rather than mobilizing the masses, and their struggle tactics are mainly based on simple armed attacks, so they are easily encircled and suppressed by the enemy, so that their losses are too rapid to develop and grow behind enemy lines. On the other hand, because the German army was now heavily concentrated on the Eastern Front, and there were more allies, client states, and puppet troops, at the end of 1942, there were no less than 3 million enemy troops on the territory of the pre-war Soviet Union alone, which was N times more than the total number of guerrillas operating there

The occupation forces were extremely cruel to the Soviet partisans, and almost every captured partisan was brutally tortured to death. In the case of women, the fate was even more miserable, and the Soviet masses who covered the partisans were also brutalized. As for the Jews, they were arrested and thrown into concentration camps or put to death without any reason. According to incomplete statistics from the Soviet government, from the outbreak of the Soviet-German war in August to the end of the year, no less than 500,000 civilians died unnatural deaths, of which nearly half were Jews, and this was only the beginning

While brutally slaughtering the people of the occupied territories, the Nazi party, who had no scruples, also began to kill Jews and Soviet prisoners of war held in the concentration camps, but at this time, the mustache remembered one of Hu Weidong's original suggestions. The eldest son of Stalin, who had been captured earlier, was publicly released. It was hoped that this differential treatment would shake the morale of the Soviet military. But Stalin, who saw through the insidious intentions of the mustache, said: "We have no prisoners of war, only deserters and traitors to the Motherland." Without hesitation, he directly ordered the immediate execution of his son, who had just escaped from the tiger's mouth, for the crime of surrender, and this news shocked both inside and outside the Soviet Union

Hu Weidong couldn't help but sigh when he learned about it, "It's really worthy of 'steel'." It could have been a blow to the morale of the USSR. He did this. On the contrary, it greatly boosted morale (although Stalin's policy of treating prisoners of war on his own side was cruel, the proportion of Soviet prisoners did drop significantly after the release, and the Germans could no longer capture hundreds of thousands of prisoners at a time as they did in the early days of the war. This is true both historically and on this plane. But now that winter has arrived, the mud caused by the thawing of the frozen ground in the spring of the Soviet Union will also affect its counteroffensive, and this delay will be half a year, and when it is time to fight a big fight, most of this gas should be discharged, and the problem is not too big"

Just as Hu Weidong said, the winter in the Soviet Union was so cold that it was difficult for even the accustomed Soviets to launch a major offensive in the harsh winter, and they could only occasionally seize some fighters to achieve some local results. And the German army was even more unbearable in the face of the bitter cold of the Soviet Union, especially the German army on the northern front, unless the Soviets attacked, they were basically able to go without going to the field

However, this is not necessarily a bad thing, in history the mustache was keenly aware that the oil of the Caucasus was the lifeblood of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, and after the Battle of Kiev, he wanted to concentrate his forces to take down the Baku oil fields, but because the generals of the Wehrmacht generally wanted to capture Moscow to complete the battle, it was not implemented in the end. After the defeat of Moscow, the Soviet Union gradually turned to a counteroffensive, and the German army was even more unable to draw Liliang to attack the Caucasus, and finally throughout the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union had been able to obtain a steady supply of oil from Baku, so that their planes and tanks always had surging power, and finally defeated the Germans completely.

And now, since it is impossible to attack Moscow and Leningrad because of the onset of winter, it is only relatively warm (although the Caucasus is not at a low latitude, its western coast has a warm Mediterranean climate). Even if the mountains are desperate to take place due to the cold and terrain, it will be advantageous to use the German navy to gain a foothold in western Georgia for the coming year, and Turkey, which has only eaten meat and not gnawed bones since joining the Axis camp, should also help

Having not resisted the temptation to accept the Germans' defeat of Cyprus and Greece, the Turkish government now had no turning back, and since Turkey and Russia had always had a teneous feud, they soon ordered the 200,000 elites who had already been stationed in the mountains of the northeast to attack the three Soviet republics in the Caucasus, while at the same time, the Germans began to land on the western coast of Georgia in large numbers, taking advantage of their naval supremacy

The Soviet high command naturally knew how important the oil of the Caucasus was to the Soviet Union, but it was necessary to reorganize the army after the defeat of Eastern Ukraine, and the cold weather was not conducive to the rescue of the Soviet army in the north, so the Caucasian Front could only fight alone, but the arrival of the "fire captain" Zhukov was better than the 100,000 army.

Although the German-Turkish army was menacing, under the command of Zhukov, the Soviet army played a high level rarely seen since the beginning of the war, coupled with the rugged terrain of the mountains and the severe cold of the winter were not conducive to the offensive but conducive to the defense, Stalin's shooting of his son for surrender made the Soviet army determined to fight to the death, and the German army finally suffered the first defeat since the Soviet-German war, leaving behind more than 30,000 corpses (the total number of casualties was close to 200,000) and withdrawing from the Caucasus mountains in disarray, The Turkish army, which had increased to 400,000 troops at its peak, suffered more than half of the casualties, and was once again beaten by the Russians like their ancestors

What's more troublesome is that it is difficult to fully deploy troops in the rugged mountainous areas, and the strongest armored forces of the German army are not useful, and there is no way to fight a quick battle, and can only consume each other with the Soviet army that desperately resists, which is undoubtedly unbearable for Germany, which is relatively short of human resources, so no matter how unwilling the mustache is, he has to agree to the request of the front commander to retreat. (To be continued......)