As January 1940 passed quickly, Xia Li probably sensed that Lin Youde did not want her to go back with her children, and terminated her leave early—in fact, sacrificing herself for the sake of national interests was also a good political bargaining chip, and it was better to go back early and use this bargaining chip than to continue wasting time in Germany.

Xia Li's abacus was as fine as ever.

When parting, Xia Li said to Lin Youde with a very serious attitude: "If I lose the election in 1942, I will come to you and not leave." I mean it, and I ask you to believe it, no matter what your fox-tailed counsellor says. ”

After finishing speaking, the French girl took the initiative to give Lin Youde an authentic French tongue kiss.

**

A few days after Lin Youde sent Xia Li away, his generals put the preliminary summer offensive plan on his desk.

Again, there were two copies of the plan: the German High Command's version of the plan, which had been duly transmitted to Viola for review; and the version submitted by the personal friendship between the Young Zhuang officers represented by Manstein and Guderian and Lin Youde.

The German High Command's battle plan is still decent, they plan to use 800,000 troops to attack the rear part of the Russian army from the southern part of Poland that has now been occupied, launch a war of annihilation against the Russian army in eastern Poland, eliminate the Russian threat to Warsaw in one fell swoop, and then launch a winter offensive against Ukraine after this operation is over.

And this planned winter offensive, in addition to the attack on Ukraine, requires an attack in the Belarusian direction to contain the Russian army in Belarus.

Manstein's plan only called for the capture of Lublin, after which Army Group B would go directly to Ukraine. Manstein believes that the Russian army does not have the ability to conduct long-distance mobile operations, and as long as Lublin is taken, the security of Army Group B's rear defense can be guaranteed. As for the Russian army in Belarus, Manstein believed that the front of the German breakthrough was so wide that it would be difficult for the Russian army to concentrate enough forces to cut off the German army from the flank.

Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of the Russian army in front of Warsaw, as long as the German army retains a considerable amount of assault force in the area between Lublin and the Ukrainian border, even if it does not do anything special, the Russians can only obediently guarantee that they have enough troops in Belarus to block the German offensive.

While Lin Youde was reading the two plans, Isabella stood behind him, stretching her neck to read with him.

So after reading it, Lin Youde turned around and asked Isabella: "Which plan do you prefer?" ”

"Which do I 'prefer'? Military action isn't something that can be decided by personal preference, is it? Isabella raised an eyebrow, "If you're asking my opinion, I think the High Command's plan is more solid." ”

"yes, that's a sound plan." Lin Youde paused, "But it doesn't meet my needs." I hope that German troops will appear on Ukrainian soil as soon as possible, because the longer we delay, the more likely it is that the Ukrainian direction will travel on business. ”

Isabella frowned, tilted her head and thought about it, as if she understood the meaning of Lin Youde's words just now.

"You've done something else in Ukraine, right?"

"Clever." Lin Youde gave Isabella a thumbs up.

Isabella pouted a little unhappily, "I thought I had gained the status of an equal to everyone else." As a result, you still have something to hide from me. ”

"I didn't mean to hide it from you, I didn't have a chance to tell you at all, you are on the front line."

"You didn't say anything last time I came back." Isabella was still pouting.

Lin Youde spread his hands: "How can I say, when I rolled the sheets with you, I said: 'Oh, ah, I'm going to sue you, oh, ah, someone in Ukraine wants to cooperate with us, oh, ah, ......'"

Isabella pushed Lin Youde, and then laughed to herself: "Come on, don't you never make a sound." ”

"Of course, I'm not a woman, and no one listens to my call." Lin Youde shrugged his shoulders and continued to point his finger at Manstein's plan, saying, "This plan will allow the German army to appear on Ukrainian soil as much as possible, thus giving our bald friend the help he needs." So while this plan is risky, imperfect, and full of holes like a sieve, I personally prefer this plan. I think we can refine this plan......"

"And when are you going to rescue Warsaw?"

"Warsaw is not yet surrounded, and we are still firmly in control of the positions in the center of Warsaw and in the west of Warsaw, so the situation is not too bad."

Isabella sighed: "So you plan to let the coalition soldiers in Warsaw continue to fight against the Russians, don't you think the sacrifice is too great?" ”

"War always has to be sacrificed, as long as it can be won." Lin Youde spread out the map as he spoke, pointing to the location where southern Poland meets the border with Ukraine, and said, "If I were to put Shenji - that is, you in a place where you could cover the military operations of Army Group B, which position do you think meets the requirements?" ”

Isabella leaned over and leaned over, staring at the map, and the smell of lavender wafted into Lin Youde's nostrils.

Lin Youde suddenly wanted to kiss Isabella, so he kissed her cheek with a little water.

Isabella curled the corners of her mouth and smiled, without saying more, but continued to look at the map and think about Lin Youde's question just now, and finally she pointed to Lublin and said, "It should be just right here, it can directly cover the operation in Ukraine, and more importantly, it can create the appearance that we are about to flank the Russian army in central Poland, you need this appearance to contain the Russian forces in Belarus, right?" ”

Lin Youde nodded, but immediately asked: "Our offensive will not stop until we reach the west bank of the Dnieper, can Lublin cover the western part of the Dnieper?" ”

"Of course, it can't be covered, but the Russians probably don't dare to move Shenji to a position where they can attack the regular army of the Dnieper generation. In that case, we would have gone and slaughtered the large armies they had deployed around Warsaw, and the front would have collapsed in an absolute day. Isabella said categorically, "Between the god and the god, the key is containment, and there have been cases in history where both sides have given up fighting against the enemy god and slaughtered each other's conventional forces, but the result of the war is completely contrary to the idea of the side that voluntarily gave up fighting against the god and chose to slaughter the conventional forces." In addition, the Germans were highly mechanized and were able to evacuate and retreat quickly when the enemy's intentions were discovered. The Russian army will not work, I don't think Iron Ji will take this risk. ”

"She may think that the German army is better equipped than the Russian army, and the speed of replenishing losses after being slaughtered is slower than that of the Russian army, after all, her Russian army only needs to recruit people, and one person is issued with a saber and a Mosin Nagant, and it is considered to be armed."

Isabella shook her head.

"Even if Russia does not know the current production capacity of Germany, Britain will transfer the information obtained by the spies to Russia. Iron Ji should be well aware that you can now produce far more tanks per month than she receives from the Americans. Speaking of which, your kind of production is really scary. ”

"That's the capacity you haven't seen when the U.S. went into a wartime state." Lin Youde pouted, "Fortunately, China is now helping us drag this demon, and our partners in the United States are also working hard to snipe Charlotte in Congress, but the midterm elections in the US Congress are this year, and many of the seats controlled by our friends will be re-elected this year, I don't know if after this winter, our American friends will have the same influence in Congress as they do now." ”

After Lin Youde finished speaking, his neck was hugged by Isabella.

"You, you look like you're picking up girls all day long, doing nothing, but you're actually doing a lot of bad things." Isabella kissed Lin Youde's ear, "No wonder I can't fight you at all." Chamberlain couldn't have been killed by you, right? ”

"No, Chihiro said, that's probably the work of the church." As he spoke, Lin Youde raised his right hand and pinched Isabella's chest, which was close at hand.

"Church, they've been surprisingly safe up to now."

"I've been worried that they assassinated Lydia while she was on tour, but they didn't do it, and it seems that they still don't feel sure about how to deal with the adult gods." Lin Youde pouted, "But now that Italy's internal integration is halfway through, our naval blockade of Italy is not going well because of the interference of the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, and I can't transfer the air force that blockades the British mainland to mine Italy......"

Lin Youde frowned as he spoke, and glanced back at Isabella: "Your Royal Navy is really powerful, obviously the mother country has been blockaded like that, and it can't give them any support, but it can still rely on the supplies transported from the colony to continue to hold out in the Mediterranean." My persuasion to surrender to Malta and Gibraltar has failed. ”

"Of course," Isabella looked proud, "that's the Royal Navy." ”

"And those Commonwealth countries, obviously the mother country has been beaten like that, and they are obediently looking for ships everywhere to deliver supplies to the mother country."

Lin Youde pursed his lips, to be honest, what he didn't understand the most was this, he looked at the history of World War II in another time and space and felt strange, Britain had been beaten to the point that it was almost impossible to control the colonies, and as a result, the Commonwealth countries, India and other colonies still honestly sent food, mineral resources and soldiers to Britain. According to Lin Youde's understanding, shouldn't these countries all take the opportunity to become independent?

When Lin Youde plays games such as European Continental Storm, if the country he chooses is a subordinate country of a certain country, he likes to stab the knife when the home country and people are inseparable.

For example, when Lin Youde played an early Swedish script, he liked to stab Denmark when Denmark and the German states were opening.

The expression on Isabella's face grew even more proud.

"That's a colony that we've governed for so many years, don't underestimate our colonial management ability!"

"But now it's not the same as being forced to create a Commonwealth."

Isabella pouted: "That's no way, after all, the strength of the mother country has become weaker." ”