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Fortunately, the High Seas Fleet was also unable to completely cut off the British lifeline due to the long distance and the waste of almost half of the time on the road after each voyage, and the main force of the Luftwaffe moved back to the Eastern Front and failed to take the opportunity to destroy the Allied air forces and the main force of the army in the British mainland, and was dragged by the Soviet battlefield and had no spare strength to land on the British mainland, otherwise even a hardliner like Churchill would not be able to hold out and negotiate peace with the Germans.

In addition, the fact that the British finally learned to be flexible in an almost desperate situation was also a big reason why they were able to persevere. Considering that the fighter relied mainly on fuel imported from the outside, and that it was difficult to function in today's extremely poor sea lines of communication, the British government resolutely decided to entrust the heavy responsibility of air defense to the anti-aircraft artillery units. Although the British mainland is generally very scarce in resources, the reserves of coal and iron ore are very rich, and the amount of rare metals required for alloy steel is much less than that of fuel oil, and the transportation capacity occupied is naturally much smaller.

As for artillery shells, the British route of synthetic ammonia is based on coal, so the production of explosives will not be affected by the blockade, and it will not be difficult to meet even if the demand increases several times. And the proximity fuse (after suffering the great loss of the German electronic jammer, the proximity fuse produced by the allies has now been improved in a targeted manner. And no special resources were needed, and the British radio jishu was quite advanced. Therefore, there is no need for US support.

In 1943, the output of British anti-aircraft guns surpassed that of Germany, and in 1944 it reached twice that of Germany, and Britain's territory was relatively small (Germany had to defend more than half of the European continent), so the density of anti-aircraft artillery deployment can be imagined, on average more than 20 times that of German air defense, Even compared to the German mainland, there are more than five times the advantage. Plus the wide application of gyroscopes and newer gunsight radars. The anti-aircraft firepower of the British mainland, especially the island of Great Britain, can be described as unconscionable. It was precisely by relying on such a terrifying anti-aircraft liliang and the same surge in the number of fortress heavy artillery that the British were able to always hold their home in the unfavorable situation of losing air supremacy

However, the light energy can not be called the upper hand in any case, and the predicament on the Western Front is an indisputable fact after all. And compare it to that. The situation on the Eastern Front was similarly not much better. Due to the fact that the US government opened an extremely dangerous route to the Arctic Ocean. The Soviet Union's once-bottomed stockpiles recovered, but the first large-scale offensive since 1943 was underway before the spring thaw in Moscow had fully passed. And the breakthrough point they chose was not Moscow or Leningrad, as the Soviets thought, but Stalingrad on the southern front.

In fact, the generals of the German Wehrmacht all want to take Moscow first and fill in the most colorful stroke for their military career, even if the mustache personally thinks that the battlefield on the southern front is more important, it is difficult to go against the will of the people, but the thawing period in the north of the Soviet Union has not yet passed and is not conducive to the advance of the German mechanized troops is an objective fact that cannot be ignored, and the mustache skillfully used this to persuade his marshals and generals to agree to fight on the southern front first, In order to further annihilate the living liliang of the Soviet army or destroy the remaining industrial liliang of the Soviet Union, and reduce the resistance that may be encountered in the subsequent attack on Moscow and Leningrad

Contrary to the historical attack on Stalingrad for a long time, the Soviet Union mobilized a large number of troops to make dumplings, and the German offensive in this time and space was incredibly smooth, and the German army had completely occupied this fortified city that the Soviets thought was impossible to defend before the gathering of troops in the Soviet high command was completed. When later historians analyzed this battle, they generally believed that the cloudburst shells used by the German army in large numbers on the Soviet-German battlefield for the first time and the erroneous pre-war deployment of the defenders of Stalingrad were the two key reasons for the defeat of the Soviet army.

Although there were more than 300,000 German troops involved in the attack, and more than 500,000 if you count the armies of the allies and client states, this number greatly exceeded the total number of Soviet troops in Stalingrad and its vicinity, but Stalingrad is a heroic city with a glorious tradition, and if the militia is fully mobilized, the Soviet army can even have the upper hand, but the Soviet commander did not fight with the German army in the field (if you fight like this, maybe the Soviet army will still lose, but the German casualties will definitely increase a lot.) Choosing to withdraw all the nearby troops into Stalingrad and strengthen the defenses in the city to fight a street battle, the Germans unexpectedly came up with an astonishing number of cloudburst bombs, although it was only a backward first-generation product, and it was absolutely devastating for the Soviet military and civilians who stuck to the buildings in the city, and the vast majority of them were burned to death or suffocated in the building without firing a single shot

In the end, Germany killed no less than 500,000 regular Soviet troops and militiamen at a small cost of less than 50,000 casualties, and more than 200,000 Soviet civilians who did not have time to be transferred died in the fire or massacre by the Germans (this is the Soviet version, the Germans said that they were killed by mistake or because of resistance). ), and captured Stalingrad, a city of great geographical and political significance, but to the mustache's surprise, the fall of "Stalin's city" not only did not destroy the will of the Soviet military and civilian resistance, but further inspired their determination to fight the enemy to the end, and the tenacity and tenacity of the Russian nation in the bones became stronger the more in this difficult situation

However, the loss of Stalingrad inevitably worsened the situation of the Soviet-German war in a direction that was not conducive to the Soviet Union, in addition to the loss of cities and casualties, the only large oil field in the Soviet Union that could still produce at full speed was also blown up by the Soviets before retreating, although this was much better than falling into the hands of the German army, but it also made the Soviet oil supply more and more strained.

Since the war, among the three major oil fields that the Soviet Union provided more than 90% of the total oil production before the war, the Baku oil field is still being restored and rebuilt, the second largest Maikop oil field has been completely destroyed, and the oil production in Grozny has also been hit hard, so that the Soviet Union's oil production capacity has dropped to less than 40% of the historical high, if it were not for the strong support of the United States, I am afraid that Stalin would really have to send officers to China to learn infantry tactics and change the way of fighting (to be continued......