When Zhukov and Stalin decided to let the main forces of the Soviet army move south to start the Battle of Kursk, Stalin drew up another battle plan without telling Zhukov. The senior officials and generals of the Soviet Union thought the same as Stalin, that is, Stalingrad was the top priority, but Moscow was the foundation and could not be easily abandoned.

This idea was understandable, so the battle to the south began, and Stalin poured all his possessions into a battle of fate for Zhukov. But the empty defense of Moscow was undoubtedly a haze in everyone's mind, so Stalin began to think of ways to strengthen the defense of the central region.

The mobilization of women of all ages on the spot is naturally a necessary part, but everyone knows that relying on these shrimp soldiers and crabs will not be able to stop the grandson monkey of Rundstedt. After thinking about it, since Stalingrad in the south cannot be easily abandoned, and Moscow in the center must do its best to keep it, it can only abandon the other direction.

So Stalin decided to abandon Leningrad, to abandon the "city named after the former leader." In the spirit of being a friend of the dead and not a poor man, the 570,000 infantry of the three armies of the northern cluster of the Soviet Union rolled up their covers and began their retreat to the south to aid Moscow.

Stalin's idea was very simple: I don't want those places in the north, and Moscow will be able to support it for a while with these hundreds of thousands of troops! And the sudden southward cluster of the Soviet Union in the north really made the two German commanders of Rundstedt and Klug feel the pressure, after all, the extra infantry out of thin air did increase the variables of the battle of Moscow.

Once the more than 500,000 troops of the northern cluster are gathered around Moscow, it is likely that Moscow will become the next Stalingrad - Germany does not have so many ally resources to fight another large-scale urban street battle, and now the aftermath of Stalingrad is still boiling in the German occupation zone and on the side of the allies.

Hundreds of thousands of young lives were deliberately filled in by the Germans in the street fighting, and the impact of the disturbance will not be easily quelled, and if it were to happen again, it is estimated that Ukraine, Belarus, and even Italy and Romania will become a hotbed of partisans. The plan of any so-called smart person is not flawless, at least the strategy of killing two birds with one stone only looks good on the surface, but in fact there are not many sequelae.

Germany had prepared a plan with the fundamental aim of weakening the occupied zone and capturing Stalingrad with reduced losses. The plan to mobilize the youth of Ukraine and other regions to consciously consume the strength of these regions sounds good and is fully in line with the interests of Germany. However, on closer examination, it is not difficult to find that this seemingly multi-win plan is nothing more than an overdraft of Russophobia in regions such as Ukraine and Belarus, as well as a favorable impression of the Third Reich. Personnel and strength are bought by shaking regional sentiments, so it makes sense why Germany is desperately helping to build Ukraine.

The German army on the entire Eastern Front was replenishing its forces and training its troops. Receive a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, as well as equipment such as trucks, and accumulate your own strength for the next summer offensive. On the 10th day after the Battle of Kursk, Army Group G received a replenishment of 71 King Tiger tanks.

The tanks of almost two armored battalions finally relieved the 1st Panzer Corps, and the 1st Panzer Regiment of the 1st Panzer Division, which had been almost completely wiped out, finally recovered some of its formation slightly after receiving 17 tanks. It is a pity that the loss of armored vehicles and anti-tank guns is difficult to make up for a while, after all, the losses caused in an instant cannot be immediately filled with production capacity.

At the same time, about 40,000 IDF soldiers who had just finished their training jumped off the train and joined Army Group G, which had suffered heavy losses. Guderian did not expect that he could get so much equipment and personnel at once, and he thought that it would take at least half a year for Army Group G to return to a state of being able to fight.

Comparing the Soviet army at this moment, you can see how quickly Germany is replenishing the consumption of its front-line troops: at the same time, the Soviet Union replenished a total of 170,000 young soldiers to the front, but only a pitiful 144 tanks. Of the hundreds of aircraft lost, only 400 were replenished even with US aid, and only a paltry 4 bombers.

But these additions were all new additions to the Soviet Union. Assigned to the head of Zhukov's southbound cluster, he received only 9000 soldiers and 40 tanks, as well as 40 fighters of various models that were simply not enough. Compared with Guderian's Army Group G, the difference in treatment seems heaven and earth.

After losing more than 200 aircraft of various types, the Luftwaffe replenished 100 of the latest Ta-152 fighters, 35 Stuka 2 aircraft, 15 DO-217 medium multirole bombers, and 23 butcher bombers -- almost all of its own losses were replenished.

Under the Soviet Union's special mobilization system, the stage of rapid violence has been survived by Germany, and the current Soviet Union is no different from Germany, and can only rely on slow replenishment to transfuse its front-line troops. Under the influence of the situation on the entire battlefield, the priority of the Soviet Union to strengthen must be Moscow, not the area around Kursk, which has lost its offensive capability.

So even if Zhukov cried for his father and mother, he only got a pitiful supply bottom line in the end. The 1st Guards Panzer Front, the main Soviet force under his command of Konev, lost a full 17,000 men, but could only be replenished by 1,700 men. It is conceivable how much the combat capability has decreased.

What is even more exaggerated is that several Soviet fronts lost more than 2,000 tanks of various models in the offensive, most of them were elite KV-1 and T-34 types, but they only received 40 new tanks, and how to distribute them is simply desperate.

A large number of Soviet tank units had to be abolished, and separate armored brigades and tank regiments disappeared almost overnight. The remaining tanks in disarray, regardless of type, were filled with the 1st and 3rd Guards Fronts, which gave them the ability to continue fighting.

In contrast, the Soviet forces in the Moscow direction were strengthened to a certain extent, supplemented by 100,000 recruits, in addition to the more than 500,000 northern clusters that were moving closer to them. Stalin personally ordered the mobilization of 84 tanks and the formation of the "1st Stalin's Panzer Division" in the Moscow direction.

Of course, the good news was not without it, that is, the Far Eastern Front under the command of Chuikov in the Far East held back the Japanese troops moving north. The Soviet Red Army, under the command of Chuikov, fought a beautiful tank detour near Vladivostok, using the scythe classics of the German armored forces in the battle of France, directly educating their "Far Eastern guests".

After the Japanese army used poison gas in the Far East, it did not achieve the results they imagined, because after all, the Soviet Union and poor China are not the same, at least the Soviet troops in the distribution of gas masks to the infantry, in fact, is still very common and in place.

It is precisely because the Soviet troops did a better job than the Chinese army in this regard, and the quality and education level of the soldiers were higher, so that Chuikov's troops did not appear to be in a chaotic collapse. As a result, although the Japanese used about 500 rounds of various types of poison gas shells, they did not work as they had hoped.

Chuikov's armored cluster finally killed Japan's so-called armored forces on the flank, and with a devastating momentum that the Japanese army had never seen before, it directly swept away the two divisions of the Japanese army, and beat the Japanese army to the point of losing its armor, and the Japanese army finally saw clearly the equipment gap between its armored forces and the mainstream army in Europe.

Ishihara's meticulously planned assault operation eventually turned into a positional war of attrition similar to the battle for the islands, with more than 20 divisions and hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese army trapped their positions in the area south of Vladivostok.

This time, not only Ishihara, but all the top Japanese officials, including Hideki Tojo, knew that relying on the raids in the Far East to feed back Japan's domestic war plan had completely failed. And the consequences of this war and the wasted materials and troops can only be paid for by the Japanese army itself.

In the northwest of Australia, the Japanese troops trapped in the harbor of Darwin were fighting to the death against the superior forces of the United States. These Japanese troops endured the incessant bombing of hundreds of planes of the U.S. Air Force, allowing the Americans to see the horrors of street fighting and the terrifying combat effectiveness of Japan's elite infantry.

These Japanese soldiers were very accurate in their marksmanship, and they had the consciousness and courage to fight to the death. Many Japanese soldiers even used explosives packs to fight against American tanks, and launched a frenzied counterattack and desperate charge at night regardless of sacrifice. This strongest World War I force left a deep impression on the United States, and also used its tenacity to make Americans realize the cruelty of war.

More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers fought with the American army in the port of Darwin for every room and every street, and used their bushido spirit to turn Darwin into the Stalingrad of the East. After losing 70 tanks and more than 10,000 soldiers, the United States still failed to fully capture the port city.

The sight of the American battleships shelling Darwin day and night was also made into a documentary. However, the Japanese Navy fished in troubled waters, and the I-19 submarine took the opportunity to sink three cruisers of the US Navy at night with a torpedo, opening the prelude to the Japanese Combined Fleet's lightning attack on Darwin.

In a short period of 30 days of engagement, the Japanese Navy sank 40 warships and transport ships of various types of the US Navy at the cost of 4 destroyers and 22 submarines, creating another great victory after the "Great Victory in the Battle of the Solomons." Unfortunately, at noon on May 22, the port of Darwin was occupied by the American army, and the Battle of Australia ended in a crushing defeat for the Japanese army.