In addition, recruiting these rural children who are too old to miss compulsory education into the army is tantamount to giving them a platform for learning and a way to advance their careers, which will also be of great benefit to their future personal future. Even if you eventually return to your hometown to work as a farmer and have served in the army, you will definitely be taken care of by the local government to a greater or lesser extent, and your life will naturally be better. Therefore, the decision of the Red Party Central Committee to increase the proportion of conscripts in the rural areas was quickly widely supported, and the hard-working performance of those rural soldiers exerted pressure on those technical troops, most of whom came from the cities, and their arrogance was greatly reduced, which can be regarded as a virtuous circle

After the mustache transferred the main force of the invasion of the Soviet Union to the south, the Soviet high command urgently deployed supplies to Leningrad, where a large number of residents had died of starvation and disease under the enemy's long-term blockade, and sent troops to quickly regain lost territory on the northern front, but Stalin, who was carried away by victory, made a wrong decision - to send troops to attack the Karelian Isthmus recaptured by Finland in the war to ensure the security of northern Leningrad.

As a result, the Finnish government, which had already regretted fighting against the Soviet Union, had to fight to the death with the Soviet army, and at the same time, Sweden and Norway also sent all the troops that could be sent out to the unified command of Finnish Field Marshal Mannerheim because of the consideration of the death of the lips, and the three small countries showed amazing mobilization efficiency in this critical situation, and the total strength of the three countries expanded rapidly, with 400,000 troops in Finland alone (Finland mobilized 500,000 troops at the most in history). In this space, because of the greater losses in the Soviet-Finnish war and the deeper involvement of Finland after the Soviet-German war, the limit of mobilization has shrunk a little. With almost 1/6 of the country's population, including more than 200,000 field troops, plus some German and other Axis armies, Field Marshal Mannerheim soon had a formidable field army of more than 350,000 troops

The Soviet High Command, which underestimated the strength of the enemy, sent only two fronts to attack Finland, and as a result, of course, suffered an unprecedented defeat, with more than 200,000 Soviet troops killed, missing, and captured in less than a month. In addition, more than 300,000 remnants of the defeated army will be divided and surrounded. It became a bargaining chip for Mannerheim in secret negotiations with the Soviet Union.

However, now that the Soviet Union had begun a full-scale counteroffensive, Stalin categorically would not refuse the "absurd demand" of the Finns to abandon the strategically important Karelian Isthmus as Finnish territory in the peace treaty, even if it cost hundreds of thousands of more people. Mannerheim then had no choice but to order a general assault on the remnants of the encirclement. But because of the secret negotiations, the Soviet army was given time to transfer troops to the rescue. As the main forces of the Soviet Air Force were quickly transferred to the Northern Front. The attacking Triple Alliance suffered heavy losses due to indiscriminate bombardment by tens of thousands of Soviet planes, and many Soviet troops took the opportunity to successfully break through

In the end, the battle ended in a lose-lose situation, with the Axis side permanently losing no less than 130,000 men. Among them, the losses of the three Nordic countries were more than 50,000 in Finland, and more than 30,000 in Sweden and Norway, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the three small countries with sparse populations; Although the permanent attrition of the Soviet army is as high as 410,000 and a large number of people are injured, after all, the population is large, and in the past few months, a large area of land has been recovered and a lot of mobilization has been restored, and it can withstand it for the time being, but the main force of the air force is transferred to deal with the three Nordic countries, which inevitably affects other strategic directions, which is the most fatal.

Due to the strong fortifications and the guarantee of air and sea supremacy, coupled with the support of the local population, the German army easily repelled the attack of the Soviet Moscow Front in the three Baltic countries, and the Soviet army suffered more than 300,000 casualties, while the German casualties were less than 50,000, even with the servant army, it was only a little more than 100,000.

On the battlefield of the Southern Front, the German Army Group South, which had greatly increased in strength, unexpectedly launched a large-scale counteroffensive, and under the all-out attack of millions of German troops and hundreds of thousands of servant troops, although the Soviet Army deployed four major fronts on the southern front, it was still unable to resist. By July 1946, the Soviet army had lost all the important cities recovered on the southern front in the previous year, and the field troops of the Caucasian Front, which had performed best among the Soviet troops, were almost completely wiped out, and the field troops of the steppe front suffered more than eighty percent of the casualties, and even the Ural Front, which had entered the war late, and the Stalingrad Front, which had just been rebuilt, suffered more than half of the casualties

Many years later, the documents secretly released by the Soviet Union showed that the total number of Soviet troops killed, missing, and captured in this rout was as high as more than 400,000, and more than 600,000 were wounded. In addition, such a large area of the elite area of the Soviet Union was seized by both sides and recaptured back several times, causing great harm to the local people and accelerating the number of civilian casualties in the Soviet war.

Although the German army won this key battle, due to the continuous enhancement of the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army over the past year or so, as well as the decline in the quality of German soldiers, the casualties of the German army in the major counteroffensive on the southern front in 1946 also exceeded the expectations of the mustache, and the total number of people actually reached 400,000, of which no less than 100,000 were permanently reduced

But even so, it was thought that "we are difficult, but the Soviet army is even more difficult." Manstein decided to take advantage of the victory, but he did not rush to expand the occupied zone so as not to disperse his forces, but wanted to smash the Yellow Dragon in one fell swoop and take the most important Urals industrial region of the Soviet Union today, so as to completely destroy the Soviet Union's ability to continue to resist. As the Wehrmacht's offensive capability was greatly weakened after a long period of continuous fighting, Manstein pinned his hopes on the more hard-working SS, and these mustachioed fanatics did not disappoint him, taking advantage of the great situation of the empty Soviet army on the southern front, and continuously advanced eastward, once reaching the outskirts of the important town of Ufa, and only one more step could be taken into the heart of the Ural industrial region. But at this time, the sudden change in the situation on the Western Front made Manstein's long-term drive fall short (to be continued......