Stalingrad became a thing of the past, and the name finally became a thing of the past in the face of the German tank torrent. People who wish to immortalize a city by naming it may never get there, and of course Washington is a beautiful exception.

Eventually, the city was renamed St. Rudolf by the Army, and the city would continue to exist as a German city, and on the third day after its occupation, it began to serve the Germans. After the confessions of some high-level prisoners, some of the food, oil and ammunition buried in the underground of the city were rummaged out, and batch after batch of materials feasted the eyes of the occupying forces, and also allowed the Ukrainian troops who came with them to reap a lot of benefits.

And at the same time, Zhukov was still desperately leading his troops to the south. At one point, Soviet troops recaptured part of the German-occupied area in the north of Voronezh Oblast and relieved the German threat to Voronezh.

The Soviet 1st Guards Panzer Front and the Soviet 3rd Guards Panzer Front flanked the German 1st Panzer Army, and the two sides fought the most tragic tank battle in human history in the salient. In the narrow area, the tank units of both sides at one time exceeded 1,000 vehicles, and the entire battlefield was littered with the wreckage of tanks and the corpses of soldiers.

If Stalingrad is a hell for the infantry, then this battle, which was born in the area south of Kursk, can be called the grave of tank units. Sadly, as the most combat-effective units on both sides, none of these participating units were spared the most valuable elite of the Soviet and German sides.

Zhukov didn't know how to deal with the situation now, the cities that had been sent south for reinforcements had been lost recently, and his hundreds of thousands of troops were left in the field to fight with the Germans - probably one of the favorite ways of fighting for the Germans, with both sides piling up tanks on the plains and then losing each other one by one.

You must know that the Soviet Union has accumulated for half a year to barely have so many thousands of tanks that can resist the German army, and now if all the brains are lost in the area south of Kursk, then he Zhukov will not have to go back to Stalin to plead guilty.

But now that he was to turn his head back, it didn't seem to be the case. He came up with the idea of going south, and he drew up the strategy of preserving Stalingrad first - even the generals who held Stalingrad were promoted by him. All this seemed to be too bad for him, and Zhukov also had a headache when he thought about these things.

You must know that at all times, there is a relationship of more or less distrust between generals and leaders. This relationship of distrust may be infinitely close to zero because of the proximity of their origins, but this relationship of distrust is real and affects the harmony between generals and leaders.

For example, in another time and space, Hitler and his army commanders had a deep distrust of each other. This distrust eventually erupted as the war progressed and the constant rout, and the Valkyrie Project was the end product of this distrustful relationship.

Accardo was born in the German military and had deep roots in the military, but it can still be seen in the intricate command and coordination between the General Staff and the Supreme High Command that the distrust of the new Führer by the group of veteran generals such as Field Marshal Brauchitsch is concerned.

But this mistrust can be masked or remedied by a string of victories. Hitler, who had won all the way, had a good relationship with his generals, but once they were defeated, they began to complain about each other. So Accardo still has a good relationship with Brauchitsch and others, because Accardo hasn't lost yet.

It is not difficult to understand why Stalin became less and less convinced of his generals. At least the Khrushchev, Voroshilov, and Rokossovsky whom he selected betrayed him, so he now began to trust Zhukov and Zhukov's generals less.

In the Kremlin in Moscow, Stalin was silent in front of a crowd with a document in his hand. Through the gap between his fingers, the contents of the document could be roughly seen. It was a document of commission, a promotion document that Stalin was going to send to Rokossovsky.

Originally, as long as Rokossovsky had finally died in Stalingrad, the document would have been signed by Stalin and sent to the whole army as an obituary. It was an attitude that showed Stalin's respect for the generals who fought to the death for him. But before he could grieve the fall of Stalingrad, he heard the news of Rokossovsky's surrender.

What about trust? Where is the most basic trust between people? Stalin was eager to ask his subordinates, whose faces were becoming more and more disrespectful. These people were all "reliable comrades" who had lived through the Great Purge, but in today's situation, Stalin could not guarantee how long these people would be reliable.

"Announce to the outside world that Rokossovsky is the number one sinner in the Soviet Union! All his family, friends, relatives, and neighbors will be hanged at once!" Stalin's voice broke the silence: "He should die in battle! He should die there! He swore to live and die with Stalingrad! He swore an oath!"

No one took Stalin's words, and it was clearly not wise to stand up and express one's opinion at such a time. What Stalin needed was to vent, to shout at a bunch of idiots, who, after being sprayed, went back to their homes to prepare an excuse to run away from the city.

Do you really think that everyone is willing to sacrifice their lives for their motherland? Do you really think that all people will resolutely support Comrade Stalin forever? Do you really think that in the current situation, there are really people who are willing to go to Zhukov again and then take over this hot potato?

This point can be clearly observed from the process of several front-line changes: at the beginning, who went to the front line was contested, and those who could go to the front were all people whom Stalin trusted very much, such as Khrushchev and Voroshilov, who were all such people. After the two of them were finished, everyone knew that the Germans were "ruthless characters" who were not easy to deal with, so everyone began to take the recommended route, and collectively recommended the more capable Zhukov to block the gun for everyone; now it is Zhukov's turn to be unable to block it, and it is the turn of whoever is unlucky.

Just kidding! The purpose of seizing power is to reap more benefits, to promote and get ahead, and to build up one's political capital more comfortably in a good environment. In the present situation, if anyone still cares about Zhukov's ass and lowering the chair, it cannot be called madness, it can simply be called stupid! Even if Stalin wanted to remove Zhukov, it is estimated that this group of people will cry and shout for Stalin to take back his life.

Of course, after ordering the execution of all those related to Rokossovsky, Stalin slowly spoke up and raised the question of his distrust of the front-line combat generals: "Although Yezhov has undeserved ambitions, he is right in one sentence, these generals are unfamiliar wolves, and they can never be of the same mind as me!"

Hearing Stalin's assessment, these officials and generals who kept their heads down lowered their heads. This is often the time when a storm is about to start, so everyone tries to make themselves appear less inconspicuous, so that the thunder of the day can slash over the heads of others.

"I am thinking about removing Zhukov and having him return from the front to debrief. Do you have any good candidates to replace him?" Stalin saw that everyone did not speak, and the resentment in his tone became even more obvious. He played with his pipe with one hand and rubbed the other on Rokossovsky's marshal's commission, and finally swept his sharp eyes over everyone's heads, sighing and giving up his intention of forcing them to speak.

He himself knew that the current situation of the war was extremely unfavorable for the Soviet Union, and a fool could see that no matter who went to the front at this time, it would be impossible to do better than Zhukov. At this time, even if Zhukov is called back and cut with a thousand cuts, in the end, Stalin himself will not be able to escape this fate, and he will still follow Zhukov's old path. It's just one after the other, and there's no point in doing that.

The sound of sighing echoed in the empty conference room, and everyone's hanging hearts finally let go with this sigh. After all, Stalin compromised and gave up his plan to recall Zhukov, so the erosive situation on the front may be able to drag on for a while, so as to gain more opportunities for everyone to retreat to the farther hinterland.

The curtain has fallen on Stalingrad, which is now known as St. Rudolph. The city represents the Führer's exploits in the Quartet and the great Führer's mighty presence in Germany. And this time the name change is a naked "slap in the face" to the leader of another country.

In this highest meeting room of the Soviet Union, few people thought about the future of the Soviet state anymore, and all that was on their minds was to find a reason to go to Chelyabinsk or somewhere further afield as soon as possible - in short, waiting to die in Moscow was not a good option.

"Don't think about running away! Go back and think carefully about how you can hold on to Moscow!" As if to see what everyone was thinking, Stalin's words finally made every high-ranking Soviet official present shocked: "I know that you are all planning to leave Moscow, but ...... No one can leave without my orders! Violators will be punished for treason!"

"Yes......" Everyone answered weakly, and the conference was dissolved, and how to stop the German army from advancing was still an unsolved problem.

Fill in the chapter, it's a little late, forgive me......