After the military meeting, Lin Youde returned to his office, only to find Viola not inside.

Then he remembered that Viola had gone back to the front today.

Lin Youde sat back in his place, unbuttoned the first button of his shirt, and then pulled the neckline to let air into the clothes. At this time, the air is already a little chilly, and winter is coming.

In China, another time and space, military enthusiasts basically have a consensus: do not attack Russia in winter. This consensus is so ingrained that in some military game mods made by enthusiasts, a series of triggering events will pop up during the winter attack on Russia, which will greatly increase the difficulty of the game.

This kind of "atmosphere" has caused some new military enthusiasts to have a wrong perception, the most influential of which is the statement that "Germany swept through Europe only lost to the weather", which has created countless German sticks, and the poison is far-reaching. In fact, Germany is also a country with a high latitude, and the winters are quite cold, especially in places like East Prussia, which is higher than Stalingrad and only a little lower than Moscow. Of course, East Prussia is close to the sea and is not so cold, but it would be wrong to overintensify the effect of the cold on the German army.

In fact, the Germans just couldn't stand Russia after the deep winter, and in the Battle of Moscow in another time and space, the Germans, who lacked winter clothes and winter lubricants, also began to be unable to bear it in mid-November, and they could barely fight before.

Before the Germans could not bear it, it was actually the "mud general" who stopped the Germans, and the light snow in winter turned the soft muddy soil of Russia into muddy ground, which greatly reduced the operational ability of the German armored forces, and the advance speed of the traditional infantry divisions that could only rely on mules and horses to transport supplies became like a turtle, and the mud dragged down the pace of the German army, completely canceling the greatest advantage of the German army over the Soviet Red Army at that time.

And in the northern Leningrad theater of operations, the mud had a greater impact on the German army, Otto? The memoirs of Karius and others all mention the situation when tanks and other things get stuck in the mud and cannot move, so Karius repeatedly emphasizes that the ground should be surveyed before the armored battle to see if the ground can withstand the weight of the tank, and he himself has developed the habit of riding a motorcycle to personally drag the car on the front to check the ground conditions, and the danger encountered in the reconnaissance process is even more than that he encountered in the chariot, and he was wounded on the Eastern Front because he was strafed by fire when he crossed the dividing line between the two armies on a motorcycle.

This is also the reason why Lin Youde likes Karius, he was only a teenager when he first watched "Tiger in the Mud", which is the age of rebellion, and he felt that the drag racing party Karius who rode a motorcycle on the battlefield was very handsome, and also formed the illusion that the German army was fighting very chic on the Eastern Front - later Lin Youde knew that he was pitted by the excerpted version (there was no full-text translation at that time), in fact, Karius fought very the Eastern Front, the environment was very bad, every battle was a bitter battle, and the German army had no initiative in the campaign at that time, In fact, it is in a state of constant retreat and resistance.

In short, mud is the most feared thing for the German army on the Eastern Front, in order to ensure mobility and supply ability, the German army has been working hard to build roads, but the speed of road construction cannot keep up with the changes in the battle situation on the front line, and almost all the high-standard roads repaired have made wedding clothes for the Russians. In the later period, a large part of the reason why the Russian army was able to advance in such a devastating way was that the Germans built a lot of roads in the occupied areas, and the quality of the roads was still very good, so they almost did not bury the Germans with oiled paper on the side of the road.

It was precisely because of his deep impression of the mud that Karius's autobiography was not called "Tiger in the Snow", but "Tiger in the Mud" - you must know that the old man fought in the Leningrad theater, the northernmost part of the battle line at that time.

Of course, General Mud and General Winter were fair, they also influenced the combat operations of the Soviet army, but the Soviet army, as the defending side, had less influence than the attacking German army. And the Soviet units fought in their homeland and were more familiar with the situation.

And the defeat of Germany was not only due to General Winter and General Mud, the gap in excessively long supply lines, industrial capacity and war potential were all very important reasons. The most dangerous time for the Soviet Union in another time and space was the Battle of Moscow in the first year, when the industrial relocation of the Soviet Union was not yet complete, the production capacity was frighteningly low, the troops were very poorly equipped, and the annihilation of the troops in formation also led to a gap in the number of troops, and the newly recruited troops lacked weapons and training.

By the end of the Battle of Moscow, the Soviet Union could already foresee a future victory, and even if the Battle of Stalingrad did not occur, there would have been some other battle that would have turned out to be a turning point.

And now in this time and space, Lin Youde is lucky, Russian industry is far inferior to Germany, which Lin Youde has developed for so many years, as long as Germany has oil, Russia must be the first to collapse - even if Russia has the support of the United States.

At the same time, the German army was also more abundant, the Polish army proved itself to be excellent cannon fodder, and the Nordic army also showed considerable combat power, although France in the west now only sent a group army to serve as the rear garrison, but they relieved Lin Youde of the pressure of garrisoning on the Western Front, so that Lin Youde only needed to defend the two low countries of the Netherlands and Belgium on the Western Front.

Lin Youde sat on the chair, thinking about this, the expression on his face couldn't help but be a little proud, pulling the surrounding countries to establish this alliance was probably the most correct one among the many decisions he made after Lin Youde crossed over, and waiting for the Russian army to attack first and throw the pot of aggression to the Russians was the second correct decision, if it weren't for this, Lin Youde would not have so many warlike Polish servant troops in his hands.

At this time, the office door opened, and Sissi, dressed in military uniform, entered the room.

"Oh, you're the second to come back, just got off the plane?"

"No, I'll go to your staff first to find out what is going on." Sissi said and strode to the small cabinet in the room, and began to fiddle with the tea set placed there, she said to Lin Youde while making black tea, "I heard that you made a bet with Manstein?" ”

"Yes, Rostov for betting. I don't think he can take Rostov in October. ”

"Why? They are less than a hundred kilometers from Rostov-on-Don. ”

"But it's going to snow." Lin Youde shook his head, "After the snow, the Don Plain will be full of mud, and if they don't make up for it in September, it will be possible to take Rostov if they advance directly, but now, as long as the Russians hold on until it snows, it will be very difficult for our army to replenish, and heavy equipment will be stuck in the mud and it will be difficult to move an inch." ”

"Then it would be nice to take Rostov before it snows."

"Yes, that's why I made a bet with Manstein in the hope of provoking them to crush the regrouped Don Front and take Rostov before it snows. But the general of the Russian army is not a fuel-efficient lamp, in another time and space, he is called the 'troika' together with Konev and Zhukov, and he once relied on the troops collected along the way to block the German offensive in another time and space......"

"The German army in another time and space is different from the German army on our side." Sissi whispered in a reassuring tone, "Isn't it true that the German army in another time and space has not completed mechanization and automatic weaponization of the whole army. According to what you said, in another time and space, the battle loss ratio between the German army and the Russian army was only 1 to 5 at the best time, but our side has already reached 1 to 8. ”

In fact, Lin Youde's statement is not reliable, after all, the battle loss ratio is such a thing, and it is already the norm for everyone to have different opinions, even if it is a professional military history research scholar, there are many disagreements about the specific ratio, not to mention enthusiasts, which side of the ratio of basic fans will be tilted to which side. For example, there is the spirit of playing the game of the ship mother and becoming a fan of the Japanese Navy, the Japanese think that the Japanese Navy's combat skills are much higher than the US military, and they have a slight advantage in fighting back and forth with the garbage soldiers of the US imperialism at sea, but they are dragged down by the number of mass-produced warships like dumplings by the US imperialists.

But in fact, the U.S. Navy is flying in the Pacific Ocean. For example, after the two SBDs discovered the Japanese fleet, they decided to use their own small bombs to force the Japanese fleet, but as a result, these two really broke through the air defense circle of the Japanese fleet and sent the Ruifeng aircraft carrier back to the dock for a bath, and they also retreated with their whole bodies - you must know that these two are SBDs of the VS team, and S means reconnaissance, and these two were indeed on a reconnaissance mission at that time, and they hung a 500-pound bomb smaller for the voyage......

Another example is that there is an SBD.,After dropping the bomb, it was besieged by three Zero Combat 32 types.,As a result, this guy shouted "expel JEPS", and then he became a giant, oh don't explode, driving the SBD first circled the dog fight and forcibly stunned a Zero War and bit it until the tail hit it, and then resisted another Zero Battle's dive strafing, that is, it didn't break S, and when the Zero War strafed and climbed, he forcibly pulled the nose of the plane to knock the Zero War off, and finally used a "faith cross cut" to cut off the wings of the last Zero Battle- This last Zero Battle is also legendary, and it just floated back to the base.

Therefore, in the history of the Pacific War, except for the first battle in Iron Bottom Bay, the rest of the time is to force the US imperialists to show what it means to be a protagonist template. The opening of US imperialist surface ships is not as terrible as that of HNA , but it has also given birth to all kinds of miraculous achievements. For example, the heavy patrol battleship without torpedo equipment fought in dogfight, and even survived; The old treaty-type heavy cruiser challenged two newly-built treaty heavy cruisers, and the result was actually won; The aircraft carrier tilted 17 degrees, forcibly repaired it back, and also restored its speed, and the Japanese reconnaissance thought that a new aircraft carrier had entered the war zone......

All in all, the lethal ratio is unreliable, especially in the eyes of military enthusiasts.

However, there is still a certain basis for the lethality ratio of the German army and the Russian army in Sissi's mouth, and the statistical department of the German army has been paying attention to "filtering water" in this time and space, and the water in the battle record is filtered more thoroughly, so the casualty figures of the Russian army are relatively close to the facts, and in the past year or so of war, the number of people killed, wounded and captured by the Russian army is almost eight times that of the German army.

Of course, the numbers on the German side do not count the servant army, the servant army is not a human being, and the American imperialists in another time and space have done a lot of work, and Lin Youde has also learned it.

Counting the losses of the Poles, the exchange ratio between the two sides is also close to one to three.

The Russians shed much more blood than in another time and space, and it is estimated that it will not take four years to fight and Russia will fall into a state of shortage of men.