While the factories in Germany were working overtime to produce weapons and equipment for the front, in Chelyabinsk, the hinterland of the Soviet Union, weary workers were also working overtime to contribute to their national army. However, their working environment is not comparable to that of the Germans, whose country is under attack and the German army is fighting outside its borders.

If the weapons and equipment produced by Germany could reach the front line without transportation, then perhaps the Soviet Union had already lost this vital war. Fortunately, their poor transportation environment and infrastructure saved the country, and the war has been fought so far, and the German army seems to have stopped attacking for more time because of resources and transportation than because of the Soviet army.

Sometimes, the vast land and abundant resources are also an advantage, which can never be envied by a regional power like Germany. Steel and oil, the Soviet Union has been self-sufficient until now, although the supply of Baku oil fields has been cut off, but the reserve of fuel can still allow the Soviets to build their own tanks with confidence.

The only thing that the Soviet commanders criticized was the production of Stalin's tanks and the gradual ordiness of the T-34 tank's performance. In order to speed up production in the early army, the T-34 tank used a relatively simple and large number of 76 mm caliber guns, but the power of this kind of artillery was very limited in actual combat, so the T-34 tank was also assigned to the Stalin tank in actual combat and used as cannon fodder for coordinated operations.

In fact, in the original history, the T-34 tank as a successful design was too mythical, most of the time this tank was to bully the German infantry, and the reason why they performed well in the war was actually because the German armored forces were too scarce.

These tanks had a strong endurance, so they could tear through the German lines and outflank them quickly - although they were often attacked head-on by the German elite armored units during the attack, it didn't matter if they failed in a thousand attempts, because they only needed one success to collapse the German defenses.

The typical Soviet style of play was to tear apart the German infantry line with the T-34 tank, and then break through the detour...... If you are pushed back by the German armored forces, then change places and continue to try. As long as the breakthrough is successful once, the next step is to use the endurance of the T-34 tank to encircle the German infantry and annihilate its living forces.

However, in the current situation of the war, the strength of the German armored forces is too large, so large that it is already dragging down Germany's precious crude oil reserves, then cheap T-34 tanks are not a problem.

Unlike the German infantry in another time and space, the German infantry cluster now has a large number of independent anti-tank and assault gun battalions, which are used to support the infantry offensive in peacetime, but are used as self-propelled anti-tank guns in defense - these weapons inflict a lot of damage on Soviet tanks and make the German infantry positions more impregnable.

After a few dozen minutes of delay, the nearby German armored forces will arrive, and a large number of elite Leopard Tiger King Tiger tanks will cut through the flanks and annihilate the Soviets trying to break through the German positions - so the exchange became unbearable for the Soviets: the Germans replaced a large number of new Soviet T-34 tanks with a small number of cheap Leopard-based assault guns.

According to a statistical unit in Accardo, for every one assault gun lost by the Germans, the Soviets lost two or three T-34 or KV-1 tanks. In terms of construction hours and capacity, one assault gun is only roughly equal to one T-34 tank.

So something that made all the Soviet top brass finally came to their table, and the German commanders in another time and space also faced it: the opponent's armored force is fighting more and more! And the higher the fight, the better the performance!

So naturally, the Soviets were also looking for ways to solve the problems encountered by the front-line troops, such as the large-scale rationing of large-caliber anti-tank guns for the infantry units, and the reinforcement of the armor of the Stalin tanks to become stronger but slower Stalin 2 tanks.

It turned out that the Germans were not the only ones with huge brains, and in the aftermath of the crisis, Soviet engineers and scientists also had their own whimsical inventions: they reinforced the Stalin tank, widened the tracks, and used a lower turret to create the Stalin 4 tank. It's just that this tank is still on the drawing board and cannot be produced immediately at all.

At the same time, the Soviet Union's rocket air defense fighter was born, a weapon that imitated the German Frederick rocket artillery, an improved individual firearm similar to the MP-44 assault rifle, and the Il-2 attack aircraft equipped with an updated engine, etc., but unfortunately because of the collapse of industrial capacity, these weapons that can be called classics by later generations have not really been put into production.

However, the Stalin 2 tank, which was reinforced with armor and completely used for defense, could really be put into production directly. The Soviet industry desperately began to produce fixed-turret tanks similar to German assault guns, which were used as anti-tank weapons on the front line. The Stalin tank without a turret was designated the SU-122 destroyer, while the T-34 tank without a turret was named the SU-76 destroyer.

It is obvious that these weapons are named after the caliber of the main gun, and although they have been simplified a lot, they are still popular with the front-line troops. Of course, they were also welcomed by the workers in the rear - the supervision only asked how many Stalin tanks or how many T-34s were produced, but they did not ask what kind of tanks they were.

The first batch of 300 SU-122 and SU-76 was sent to the front in an attempt to stabilize the Volga defense line, which was on the verge of collapse. The Soviet defenders there could break through at any moment, so most of the weapons produced were thrown there. It is a pity that the Moscow direction has been tight recently, so more than 100 tanks produced have been sent to the front line in the north.

It's desperate enough to think about it: the Germans produced the advanced and powerful King Tiger 2 tanks in the rear factories, but the Soviet workers worked overtime to produce simplified versions of the Stalin tank and the T-34 tank, and it was a real power disparity.

"Why have only 90 152-millimeter guns been produced this month? Comrades, can't we produce 10 more for the sake of the motherland?" said a Soviet officer, who was in charge of distributing the weapons produced, looking at the factory director with a vegetable on his face. The production of large-caliber artillery did not increase a little bit this month, which is a very strange phenomenon in wartime.

The main reason was actually that there was a problem in the distribution of raw materials, a large amount of steel was transferred to the tank production department, and the artillery side stopped work for two days - the workers really needed to rest, and since January, they have not missed a day off, and have been working day and night to produce more than 400 152 howitzers for the front line.

Unfortunately, the pace of their production still did not keep up with the rate of lost artillery on the front line: records show that 150 howitzers were captured by the Germans, more than 300 were destroyed by bombers or blown up when they retreated, and more than 50 were blown up or damaged by other malfunctions and needed to be repaired.

"Comrade general, the worker comrades need to rest, they haven't been home for 2 months at most......" The factory director looked at the general of the logistics department, opened his dry lips helplessly, and said in a mournful voice: "Everyone can only eat two meals a day, and if it goes on like this, something will happen sooner or later!"

In June, the Soviets had lost large areas of their former grain-producing areas: Ukraine and Belarus were now in German hands. Now that a large part of the grain reserves have been consumed, the food shortage that was originally impossible will now break out as the war progresses.

A rationing system began to be introduced in most of the rear, and in order to prevent unrest, all food was taken over by the army, and civilians were given only two meals a day.

"What kind of mess can go wrong? You are alarmist! Comrade! Pay attention to your words and deeds!" The general reminded the factory director in front of him in a cold voice, and then continued to reprimand in a loud voice: "The Germans have approached Moscow, and the great leader Comrade Stalin is setting an example for us to defend Moscow! At such a moment, we should do our best to produce weapons as soon as possible to support the soldiers on the front line!

What kind of mess can go wrong? Don't you look at how many people in the entire rear are still thinking about working overtime...... Our side is desperately producing weapons and equipment, and as a result, we have not heard of any decent victories in the front-line battles. Zhukov went south to recover several broken cities, and now the commendation is repeated every day on the radio, but the Germans hit Moscow, but no one said.

Ignoring the muffled silence of the factory director here, because the general of the logistics assignment was already anxious about other things. He had about 30 tanks and more than 100 heavy guns stacked here, but these weapons could not be delivered to the front line in a short time because they did not have suitable means of transportation.

Most of the train wagons carried people and food, and some of the ammunition was squeezed out, and the front line lacked everything, so the limited capacity of the railway could not meet the needs of the front line to replenish the losses. It was a joke to transport by car, and the Soviets themselves knew that the road conditions were bad, but the production of automobiles really could not keep up with the losses at the front......

The Soviet general waved his hand to the factory director in desperation, motioned him to go out, and then waited for the factory director to go out before he grabbed the phone in front of him: "Hasn't the car aid from the United States arrived yet? We're waiting to use it! Yes, let's urge, at least 300 vehicles...... Kindness...... 300 or 400, preferably 500. ”

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, looked at the delivery list of goods left by the factory director just now, smiled bitterly and signed his name on it.