This is Rokossovsky's style, his attack was extremely sharp, and his retreat also revealed a capable style, and the Soviet Red Army quickly retreated from the position of cutting into the German position, as if it were being chased and killed, and there was not even the superfluous idea of stopping and killing a horse pistol.

Large areas of territory that had fallen into Soviet hands only a few days earlier returned to German control over time, and soon the larger and larger areas of the land on the periphery of the land had become occupied by the German army.

Along Korosjian and Ofluch, the German army regained lost ground all the way, and the Soviet soldiers did not hold on to any of the cities, as if they had taken them without any effort. In fact, the Soviet Union lost more than 30,000 soldiers in Korosten, and more than 40,000 Soviet soldiers in Ovluch, closer to Kalinkovich, who was originally on the line of control between the two sides, and the Soviet soldiers lost more than 60,000 in the suburbs, and the Soviet Union lost almost 200,000 soldiers along the way, while they achieved the brilliant result of killing 90,000 German soldiers and capturing 20,000 prisoners.

The German soldiers hurried past these places that once belonged to them in cars, and saw that there were still unfilled craters on both sides of the road, and looked at the fields on the side of the road with corpses half covered by light snow, and these Germans and Soviets were lying on the ground so quietly, like friends, one by one.

There were still tiny snowflakes in the sky, just like the day the Soviets attacked, and the sun was so dark that it was impossible to see the sun, and the tone was so oppressive that it was difficult to breathe. The German soldiers stood on the truck, passing by their former comrades, with no expression on their faces.

Liszt's defense cost the Soviets dearly, but this time Germany was not without a price, almost 100,000 people were wiped out by the Soviets, and Liszt's Army Group E suffered heavy losses, basically losing the ability to continue fighting, which can be regarded as the heaviest battle since the start of the German war.

Moreover, a series of problems were reflected in the battle, which made the German high command uneasy, the first of which was the improvement of the overall combat capability of the Soviet Union, which allowed the German generals to see the growth of the Soviet army. Unlike in the time of the Battle of Poland, the Red Army of the Soviet Union, supplemented by young commanders, showed unprecedented combat effectiveness without the intervention of political workers, which forced the General Staff to reassess the combat capabilities of the opponent.

The second is the decline in the fighting qualities of the German army itself. From 1925 onwards, the German army continued to expand until it reached a terrible peak recently, when some 6 million young Germans went to war to become soldiers of the Third Reich, but most of them received only five months of training, which was not comparable to the carefully selected Wehrmacht veterans who had been training for several years. What's more, some of these recruits, who claimed to have been trained for 5 months, were replenished to the front line after only 3 months of training.

In between, the battle resulted in a headache-inducing ratio of losses, with the Germans and the Soviet Red Army losing as much as 1 to 2, which really made Field Marshal Brauchitsch panic. He knew, however, that although his own General Staff had assessed the Soviet Union's mobilization force at 11 million soldiers, the Führer's Supreme Command had set the Soviet Union's maximum mobilization force at 18 million, and there was a considerable gap between the two sides.

Knowing that at this rate, the German army would have to suffer at least 5 million casualties in the Soviet Union before it could achieve a final victory - this was not good news for Germany itself, and it turned out that the price to pay in order to win the war seemed to be unbearable for the entire population.

If not, 5 million to 6 million young Germans will be buried abroad, and it is unclear whether the final outcome of the war will be in Germany's long-term interests. This was undoubtedly a cruel ordeal for a general like Brauchitsch who was "bent on Germany".

"My Führer. Brauchitsch, who rushed to the wolf's den to meet Accardo, stood in front of the Führer, bowing his head respectfully, he came this time, and the documents submitted were undoubtedly a kind of doubt to Accardo, so as the marshal of the Empire, he felt that what he was doing was a betrayal of the Führer of the Empire.

But he did it for the sake of the future of the Empire, and deep down, Brauchitsch felt that he had done nothing wrong. His personal loyalty to the Führer, and to the Reich as a whole, the loyalty of a German soldier, are not to be confused.

Accardo looked at the document in his hand, a report from the Imperial General Staff, which recommended that the Führer end the war as soon as possible, restore imperial production, and, if necessary, shake hands with the United States, Japan, and other countries. For Germany, this is in the long-term interest.

"My marshal, although you think a lot about the Third Reich, you don't really think about the future of the Reich. Accardo placed the papers on his desk, then stood up and said to Brauchitsch, "In the long run, we must leave something for the future of the Empire. ”

"My Führer, with all due respect, it is the good young men of the Empire that we should leave for the Empire the most, and not the vast territories that are empty. Brauchitsch retorted before Accardo could speak at length.

Accardo glanced at Brauchitsch, who was eager to speak, and smiled with the corners of his mouth raised. The German soldiers are good at fighting, and they are better at solving problems with their fists, so it is a bit inadequate to let them deal with Hitler, who is very sharp-tongued, or against the more eloquent Accardo.

So, after Brauchitsch's words, Accardo spoke: "My marshal, the technical department of the Empire is working on a secret weapon, a weapon of terror sufficient to settle all disputes, a weapon capable of destroying one city at a time, and at that time, the Empire will live forever with time!

After throwing out the pie of the Reich's development of nuclear weapons, which stunned Brauchitsch, he began Hitler's theory of war economy: "For the future economic prosperity of the Reich, and in order not to hand over the future of the Reich to those hateful opponents, we must control the production areas of rubber, oil fields, grain, steel, and so on! These raw material producing areas must be controlled by the Reich and must not be given to other countries!"

"The oil fields in the Middle East are too far away from us, and our geographical location ultimately determines that intervening in the Middle East cannot be maintained for a long time!" Accardo pointed to the map and explained his oil economic theory to Brauchitsch: "And the faith in the Middle East is also a deep hole of dissatisfaction for the Empire, we can only use the Jews to get a piece of the pie there, but we cannot ensure the stable supply of oil resources to the Empire!"

"The total reserves of Romanian oil fields are not large, and our crazy exploitation in the past three years has made the Romanian locals vigilant. Accardo pointed to the Caucasus oil fields and said firmly: "The empire must capture the Caucasus oil fields and operate them as a stable oil supply base for the empire!"

To this end, Germany had to capture Moscow, even advance to the front line of the Ural Mountains, destroy Soviet tank production bases in Chelyabinsk and other regions, and completely destroy the Soviet industrial system. This series of wars is no different from the destruction of the Soviet Union.

"Moreover, the Soviets will not make peace with us, they are still dreaming of defeating us!" Accardo waved his arms and loudly frightened his Marshal Brauchitsch: "Stalin has just delivered a national mobilization speech, and he will fight us to the end! He said that the war will not be completely over until all the Germans go to hell." ”

Indeed, if Rommel's Afrika Korps stormed the Middle East, the war with the United States would escalate, and the war for the oil regions of the Caucasus would be enough to keep the Soviet Union and Germany at bay. This is not a situation where Germany can achieve peace if it wants to, and it will depend on the reaction of the adversaries.

Brauchitsch was a veteran who had been in a high position in the Wehrmacht, and because of that he had experienced the tragic days when all resources were controlled, and every gun and tank that the Wehrmacht had to spend a few days hiding. Therefore, Brauchitsch, like Accardo, believed that Germany must control most of the raw material production areas and achieve self-sufficiency, which was the minimum standard for the revitalization of the Third Reich.

Because of this, when Accardo threatened to occupy the Caucasus oil-producing regions, Brauchitsch did not refute it, nor did he want to refute it at all, in fact he also coveted the Caucasus oil-producing regions, with which he could at least double the mechanization of his troops.

"For the sake of the Empire, we must win every war! Let the enemy tremble under our iron hooves! All wars must be ended if we say they can be ended! This is the bottom line! This is the pride we can leave for future generations!" Accardo said as he banged on the table, ending the conversation with this passage.

Brauchitsch largely agreed with Accardo's words, and the conversation was based on the progress of the development of nuclear weapons, and after Accardo assured that the Empire was working hard to develop a weapon sufficient to end the war, Brauchitsch turned to support the continuation of the war.

After coming out of the wolf's den, the marshal of the Third Reich had changed his mind, and he was successfully brainwashed by Accardo into a champion of economic warfare. "The Führer's thoughts are in line with mine. This is not a reckless force, but a necessary effort and price for the future of the Empire!" he said to his adjutant about the conversation.