On October 20, 1939, more than half a month after the start of the large-scale German ground offensive on the southern front, the Russian counterattack finally began, and almost on the same day, the German Army Group North launched an offensive campaign aimed at opening the land transport line to Königsberg. In order to cover the Shenji operation on the northern front, the Shenji of the Human Innovation Alliance stationed in Lodz went out and went out to the sky over the Russian-controlled area for the first time since the launch, forcing the Russian army to dispatch Shenji to meet the battle.

So on the whole day of October 20th, the entire Polish battlefield was full of war, not only the regular troops were opening, the war queens were fighting each other, and even the gods and queens were fighting in pain, which can be called the hottest day since the start of the war.

The front line was in full swing, but Lin Youde could only paced back and forth in the map room, and at this time he fully understood what it meant to be "anxious like an ant on a hot pot".

When the sun went down, a "heavy" news came: Sissi's magic armor was damaged by Yan zhòng when she fought against the Russian army Shenji, although Sissi herself was fine, and returned to Lodz safely with her armor on, but her armor was unusable for a long time.

Correspondingly, the Russian army also has a piece of armor that has been damaged, but the Eye of Odin estimates that the Russians have almost used up the replacement magic armor and parts on the Western Front, but the Russians still have some old models of Shenji magic armor in Kazan, the strategic reserve center in central Russia, which can be quickly transported to the Far East or the Western Front by rail.

And Lin Youde's side Shenji has almost used up the parts reserve of the magic guide armor, and it can only be produced and used in the magic guide workshop. Originally, in Lin Youde's plan, magic products could be transported from Sweden to meet consumption, but now that the Russian Baltic Fleet is active, Sweden's magic products can only be transported to Malmo by land, and then to Germany by sea. Sweden's land transportation situation is not the same as that of the industrial giant Germany, although the total number of magic parts is not large, and the capacity occupied should not be much, but first of all, the overall transportation efficiency is much lower than that of sea transportation.

If the Russians don't give Sissi new armor before the Russians transfer the old armor from Kazan, then Lin Youde's girls will suffer in the battle of Shenji on the front line.

Lin Youde thought about it for a long time, and felt that he could only hand over the magic armor used by Lydia to Sissi for the time being, and then strive to get a contract from Xia Li to export magic guide parts to Germany, and even directly ask France to sell the magic armor used by Shenji to Germany.

Fortunately, in the battle on the 20th, Lydia and Nia had already helped the Northern Army to open a breakthrough, and cleared the Russian army troops blocking their way, and by the way, they also suppressed the regular troops of the Russian army, causing huge confusion to the Russians, and now the Russian army's northern route army's will to fight has collapsed.

It looks like the purpose of dispatching Lydia has been fully achieved, and she may no longer be needed to continue playing.

So after thinking carefully, Lin Youde issued an order at eight o'clock in the evening of the 20th, asking Lydia to immediately take off and fly to Lodz in the magic guide armor, transfer the armor to Sissi, and then take the plane back to Potsdam, while Nia, who was also on the navy cruiser, directly used her battle queen to fly back to Potsdam with the magic guide armor - Nia, as a war queen with the ability to fly, has a way to do this. Of course, Lin Youde didn't let his wife and daughter do this immediately, and the telegram finally specifically reminded them that they could rest for the night first.

At 2212 o'clock on the evening of the 20th, Lin Youde received a report from Army Group B on the Southern Front: The Zhanji troops of the Russian counterattack had routed the first line of the German army and broke through into the German-controlled zhì area, and it seemed that it was intending to attack several strategic points of Army Group B. After the breakthrough of Zhanji, the army group has already put into armored units in accordance with the established plan to block the breakthrough left by the Russian army, and cut off the connection between Zhanji and its accompanying troops and the follow-up troops, and at the same time, the new weapons mastered by the army group have been deployed near various strategic points, and a large number of armored units and armored hunters have also entered the predetermined combat positions.

The command of Army Group B believes that tomorrow will be a crucial day for the entire offensive operation, and that once the Russian army is repulsed tomorrow, the situation on the southern front will become clear.

Lin Youde slept very unsteadily that night, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he would dream about tomorrow's events. It's strange that he's been through a lot of storms in the past, but he's never been so nervous as he is today.

Fortunately, Lydia completed the handover overnight and returned to Potsdam on a night flight from Lodz. When Lydia suddenly appeared beside the bed, Lin Youde was surprised and delighted, and immediately dragged her to the bed and had a good time.

Oh-chan happened to be in bed too, so I joined in as well.

After having fun, Lin Youde put his arms around Lydia in one hand and Oh-chan in the other, and finally fell asleep peacefully.

At noon the next day, Nia also flew back in the magic armor, and she didn't rest when she got off the armor, so she ran to the map room to find her father to share what she had seen on the battlefield - so Lin Youde was finally freed from the endless circle pacing.

As the sun goes west, more and more good news is coming from the front.

The Russian Senjo units suffered heavy losses in several major locations and began to retreat, but the German units responsible for sniping at the Russian Senji also suffered considerable casualties.

Army Group B estimated that it had lost more than 700 combat vehicles and more than twice as many other vehicles that day, and that the casualties were estimated at more than 70,000.

Although it has paid a heavy price, the main force of the Russian counterattack - "Zhan Ji" - has already suffered heavy losses. Manstein said excitedly in a phone call to Lin Youde: "The effect of the new weapon on Zhan Ji is quite obvious, it has changed Zhan Ji from an invincible god of war to a being that we can fight with steel and fire. ”

However, the reaction of the German high command was different from that of Army Group B, and Brauchitsch said to Lin Youde on the phone in a stern tone: "Today's casualties on the southern front and yesterday's casualties are estimated to exceed 150,000, and if we had deployed enough warriors to the southern front, the casualties of Yan zhòng could have been avoided." To be honest, the casualty reports on the Southern Front in the past two days remind me of the hell of the trench warfare of the last war. This is no different from having unarmored soldiers attack a strong line of machine guns and barbed wire, and should be spurned. ”

Probably because Lin Youde usually has a lot of respect for Brauchitsch, so he will criticize Lin Youde in such an elder tone, but Lin Youde's current bearing is enough to accommodate this kind of tone and criticism - not to mention that Lin Youde thinks Brauchitsch is quite right.

If the German High Command's plan of launching a pincer offensive in central Poland had been adopted, there would have been no situation in which the war queens had to rest and recuperate, and thus had to use conventional troops and improvised new weapons to resist the Russian war queens.

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After repelling the Russian army, Army Group B further consolidated the area that had already been occupied.

The state of the battlefield at this time is as follows:

Army Group North was attacking Shunlì, less than thirty kilometers from Königsberg, and the troops stationed in Königsberg were also on the offensive, trying to approach the advance of Army Group North from their own side.

The two sides also engaged in fierce street fighting in the area around Warsaw.

In the south, Army Group B controlled a large area south of Lublin and directly threatened the supply lines from Ukraine to the First Ukrainian Front - in fact, Army Group B had already cut some supply lines, and when the combat engineers had built field airfields on the newly occupied land, the Luftwaffe would be able to carry out non-stop air attacks on the Russian supply lines.

The Belarusian region is limited in the amount of troops it can supply, unlike Ukraine, which is both an important grain producer and an important industrial center for Russia, as well as an important conduit for transporting oil from the Baku oil fields to the front line.

It is for this reason that the Russians put units equipped with armored vehicles supplied by the Americans under the name of the Second Ukrainian Front. If these armored vehicles were to be deployed elsewhere, Russia might not be able to provide them with enough fuel.

All in all, Ukraine is able to provide much more logistical supplies to the front line than the three Baltic countries, which also determines that the Russian army from Ukraine has more troops than the Russian army advancing along the Baltic Sea. Although the supply capacity of central Belarus is not as good as that of Ukraine, it has a railway line directly from Moscow to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and can directly get a large amount of supplies from Moscow, an important industrial city. At the same time, Minsk has a railway line to the capital Petrograd, and Minsk's own industrial base is much better than that of the three vassal states of Tsarist Russia on the Baltic coast.

Large-scale modern warfare is actually fought economically, and no matter how beautiful the exchange ratio at the front line is, it cannot win a war if it fails to destroy the enemy's ability to continue fighting.

Lin Youde's offensive directly threatens Russia's supply line from Ukraine to the front line, and even directly threatens Ukraine itself.

However, even Tsarist Russia, which is powerful in the magic industry, cannot make up for such a huge loss of war queens in a short period of time, especially the death of those war queens with high blood purity, which can hardly be filled in a short time.

So at this moment, the Russian army is actually unable to drive Army Group B back to where their offensive began.

What the Russian army can do is to hold on to Lublin and consolidate the defense of the line of communication between Lublin and Ukraine.

On the German side, the attack of Army Group B has actually exhausted the German army's strength and combat material reserves, and the attack of Army Group North has further consumed the remaining reserves, so Lin Youde's original plan to complete the first phase of the attack and crush the Ukrainian Second Front Army before launching an attack to advance the front near the border between Ukraine and Poland has become unrealizable - there are not enough supplies.

And the German army had almost nothing to do on the central Warsaw front, so they could only continue to stabilize the Dìng defensive line and consume troops and materials in vain with the Russian army in street battles.

All in all, by the end of October and the beginning of November 1939, Lin Youde knew very well, his generals also understood, and it is estimated that the Russians also understood: it was impossible for either side to launch a large-scale campaign within this year.