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Despite this, the Germans had established Army Group North, but they were much weaker than the other two army groups, and their task was not to attack Leningrad, but to contain the main forces of the Soviet Karelian and Leningrad Fronts and to annihilate the Soviet forces as much as possible through field battles when the fighters appeared.

However, the most popular performance on the Northern Front was not the German Army Group North, but the Nordic Army represented by the Finnish Army and the Viking Division of the SS (a large part of the officers and soldiers were Nordic mustache admirers), and in many battles, they showed super adaptability to cold climates, even surpassing the elite of the German Wehrmacht Terrible combat effectiveness and tenacious willpower to fight to the death, causing huge casualties to the Soviet army

It is worth mentioning that both in history and in this time and space, the mustache has a strong influence on the Supreme Commander of the Finnish Army. Gustav. Mannerheim admired him very much, but the latter was historically disgusted with Nazi ideology and was not optimistic about the future of Germany, so although he declared war on the Soviet Union in order to regain the lost territory, he limited himself to defending its sovereignty and independence and recovering the Soviet-occupied lands, so as not to attract the deep hatred of the Soviet Union, leaving room for maneuver in the Soviet-Finnish peace negotiations that began in 1944.

But in this time and space, because the mustache did not launch an active offensive on the northern front, it was the Soviet army with obvious superiority in strength that frequently attacked, resulting in Mannerheim having to wave his troops to fight, and as a result, the losses of the two sides became bigger and bigger, and the hatred became deeper and deeper. Coupled with the fact that the current Axis war situation is far more favorable than in history, it seems that the final victory is not small, so Mannerheim finally made a different choice from history, and accepted the invitation of Mustache to be the supreme commander of the Axis forces on the Northern Front

Under the leadership of Field Marshal Mannerheim, the Axis armies on the Northern Front, although small in number, dealt a heavy blow to the two major Soviet fronts with the cooperation of the German Army Group North, and by the end of 1943, the total number of permanent Soviet troops on the Northern Front had exceeded 400,000, while the losses of the three Nordic countries were less than 10,000, even with the addition of the German army. The total number of permanent attritions is also less than 50,000.

The German SS, which had previously performed mediocre because of its lack of combat experience, also began to transform in one victory after another. Elite units such as the Viking Division have even shown strength beyond the Wehrmacht, especially in times of adversity, and their resilience is far beyond the reach of the Wehrmacht. But this is not surprising, all other things being equal. A force of faith is better than a force without faith. Even if the belief is false

The rapid growth of the SS encouraged the mustache. The Wehrmacht General's insistence on fighting the Battle of Moscow and his eventual defeat made him even more disappointed with the Wehrmacht, and the combination of these factors led to a major decision that affected the whole body. He transferred many of the main divisions of the SS and some of the elite of the Wehrmacht (most of them were also mustache diehards) who absolutely obeyed his orders to the southern front, which he cared more about, so that the German troops on the central and northern fronts inevitably had a shortage of troops, and the spring thaw on the northern front ended later, so it was difficult to launch a major offensive for a period of time, and finally the Wehrmacht generals had to agree to the new jihua of the mustache "attacking the south and defending the north".

The withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops on the northern and central fronts made the Soviet high command see an opportunity, and they decisively "seized the opportunity" to launch a large-scale offensive on the northern front despite the large loss of troops and supplies, but Mannerheim used a defensive counterattack to annihilate 200,000 people (not counting the wounded), if it were not for Mannerheim's usual caution, I am afraid that they would have taken advantage of the victory to attack Leningrad

In addition to the victory in the Battle of Moscow, the extensive guerrilla warfare waged by the Soviet Union in the occupied areas also caused considerable losses to the German army and its servants, especially the local puppet army, among which more than 10,000 German troops died alone, and the guerrillas posed an increasing threat to the German army's supply lines. However, guerrilla warfare in the Soviet Union was more about attacking the enemy than developing itself (although with the population of the Soviet Union, it could not develop much. In 1943 alone, the number of Soviet partisans killed and missing in the German-occupied areas exceeded 300,000, and because of their hatred of the guerrillas, the Germans tortured almost all the captured Soviet partisans to death

In addition, no less than 1 million Soviet civilians were killed or captured in concentration camps by the Germans for supporting the partisans or even for the purpose of outrage or racist extermination (most of them were difficult to get out alive), but the brutality of the German army did not frighten the people in the occupied areas, but inspired them to resist, so that some people who still held a grudge against the CPSU turned into anti-fascist fighters, Hu Weidong's evaluation of this was that "the Soviet government should appoint Xiaobeard as the 'honorary propaganda minister'"

The Soviet partisans also took revenge on those traitors mercilessly, and because of the mistakes of the "left" and the difficulty of supplying behind enemy lines, the Soviet partisans were not in good discipline (the same was true of the regular army, let alone the partisans). And the problem of being too big was often the case, and in 1943 more than 200,000 people died as a result. These figures are shocking, and the Soviet-German war is worthy of being the most brutal large-scale war since mankind entered modern society

When Germany fought on two fronts, its allies were unwilling to be lonely one by one, and Japan made the smallest moves. Because it was no longer possible to expand further, and because of the great threat of American submarines, the main energy was devoted to suppressing the resistance and anti-submarine warfare in the occupied areas, and obvious results were achieved, after all, the resistance forces in Australia and New Zealand were not comparable to the wild people's war of the Red Party, and the population could not withstand attrition at all. As for the natives of Southeast Asia, it is even more unpleasant, you must know that the Chinese in the islands of Southeast Asia in this time and space have either returned to China for refuge, or they have chosen to cooperate with Japan, without the organization of the Chinese, no matter how many local natives there are, they will not be able to pose any threat to Japanese rule, not to mention that in the face of the Japanese army who are not afraid to wield a butcher's knife, these people who bully the weak and fear the hard do not dare to resist at all.

After the Japanese army improved its antisubmarine tactics and built and imported no less than 20 escort aircraft carriers (from China) and several times more escort destroyers, the once very active US submarine force finally suffered too much damage to the Japanese supply lines because of the great losses and could hardly pose too much threat to the Japanese supply lines, leaving only the Hawaiian Islands, the closest to the US mainland, to be troubled by the lack of supply (to be continued......