Today, however, the Soviet Union, on the one hand, has not yet perfected its field tactics, but its logistical problems are more serious than in history, and on the other hand, its air force is far from re-emerging, and its current situation is even worse than at any stage of the Soviet-German war in history. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that this great counterattack, launched by Stalin's personal will, will end in failure.

In the end, the Soviets suffered more than 800,000 casualties (including more than 300,000 permanent attrition), and the bad weather and poor logistics greatly increased the proportion of casualties. Fortunately, the Germans were afraid of the cold climate and the logistics were also very difficult, so they did not dare to pursue the whole line, otherwise the losses of the Soviet army would not know how big it would be.

And since the main forces of the Soviet army were concentrated on the front line, the rear was inevitably somewhat empty, and as a result, Grozny, which had already rioted once before but was suppressed by the Soviet army, (referring to the entire region, not just the city of the same name. Residents, unwilling to be displaced from their homes by the Soviet government, rose up again to join the riots at the instigation of the Chechen rebels. The Caucasus Military District of the Soviet Union, which was on fire in the backyard, hurriedly withdrew troops from the front line to suppress it, because there was little need to care about international public opinion during the war years (the most important thing was that the Soviet Union was in the same camp as the United States and Britain, which manipulated public opinion), and the combat effectiveness of the regular army was far from being able to compete with the rebels who had only been trained by the Germans for a short period of time, or even had no military training at all, and the riot was finally suppressed by the Soviet army again.

But even so, the massive insurgency took a huge toll and economic loss. If you add up the previous ones, the total number of dead and missing Soviet troops and rebels (not including those who later died in concentration camps) is as high as more than 150,000, and the economic losses cannot be measured only by money, because the Soviet government did not expect that the newly suppressed Grozny rebellion would soon resurge, and the rigid system of the Soviet army is extremely ungood at dealing with such emergencies, plus this time the Germans gritted their teeth and sent a small number of elite airborne troops to cooperate with the rebels. As a result, the riots quickly spread to the oil fields northwest of Grozny, causing great damage to the third largest oil field in the Soviet Union.

This is undoubtedly worse for the Soviet Union, which is still rebuilding and rebuilding the Baku oil fields. Moreover, after learning that the Soviet oil supply was becoming increasingly scarce, the Luftwaffe later resumed air raids on Baku, on the one hand, interfering with the reconstruction of Baku. On the other hand, it consumes a large amount of aviation gasoline, which is the most scarce in the Soviet army. Meantime. Pokryshkin's air force was also forced to use more and more low-quality gasoline because of the growing scarcity of high-quality aviation gasoline, which inevitably increased casualties, but of course this is a story for another time

Just when Stalin's prestige was once again damaged by this failed counteroffensive, the Americans came to the rescue in time. In order to get supplies to the USSR as soon as possible. Roosevelt even directly requisitioned some of the weapons and supplies of the American army. It was also announced that the U.S. government would assume the aid obligations that should have been undertaken by the British government in the original agreement, and that the U.S. government even resorted to the extremely costly air freight before the Bering Strait was unfrozen. Just like when they aided China in the war of resistance in history.

The staggering amount of munitions and supplies, especially the fuel and food that the Soviet Union was now desperately short of, was sent to the Soviet Union, and although it was far from enough to fully compensate for the shortage, it nevertheless alleviated the present difficulties of the Soviet government and people, and helped Stalin to tide over them. Originally, Roosevelt even wanted to send some US Army Aviation troops to support the Soviet Union, but Stalin believed that one or two thousand planes would be of limited significance in the vast Soviet-German war and would damage the dignity of the country.

However, Roosevelt's goodwill was still reciprocated, and the Soviet government agreed to transfer the gyroscope sight jishu to the United States and agreed to exchange turbo jishu, although the United States also transferred a lot of technology and material technology to the Soviet Union for this purpose, but after getting these, the Axis Jishu advantage will undoubtedly be greatly weakened, at least at this time Roosevelt thought so

In addition to providing economic assistance to the Soviet Union, the United States also launched another major offensive militarily, and although it almost completely lost its naval supremacy in the Pacific Ocean due to two successive disastrous defeats, the United States and British navies still had an overwhelming superiority in the Atlantic, especially in the North Atlantic. By the end of 1942, the number of land-based combat aircraft in Britain had no less than 15,000, and the existence of this liliang, coupled with the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, had drained the main force of the Luftwaffe originally stationed on the Western Front, making the scene of German planes wreaking havoc over the British Isles in the past is gone.

Faced with this favorable situation, Roosevelt and Churchill unanimously decided to use this advantage to recover the Shetland Islands, which were vital to the strategic security of Great Britain, in order to isolate the enemy in the Faroe Islands and clear the way for the Allied counteroffensive in Western Europe

Although Montgomery's act of selling his teammates hurt the Americans very much, Roosevelt, who took the overall situation into account, did not fiercely accuse the British side for this, but only asked the generals of the US military to pay attention to it in the future. However, this inevitably had a considerable negative impact on the joint operations of the US and British armies

In the battle, which lasted for more than a month, more than 30,000 US troops were killed or missing, another 210,000 were injured to varying degrees, and 7 ships and 271 aircraft were also lost. The British army also suffered a permanent attrition of more than 20,000 and about 130,000 wounded, in addition to the loss of 5 ships and 362 aircraft; In addition, the Commonwealth Army, with the Canadian Army as the main body, also suffered huge losses of 7,455 killed, 1,294 missing, and 38,173 wounded. Although the Axis side also had 28,495 killed, 7,183 missing, 17,746 captured, and 762 planes shot down or blown up, all of which were relatively elite German troops, Eisenhower and Montgomery were still unhappy with their huge losses, even though they knew that it would not be easy to seize the island, but the price was too great, knowing that the Allies consumed more than 100,000 tons of ammunition in this battle, it stands to reason that smashing could smash the defenders to their stomachs (to be continued......