Brauchitsch also admitted that Accardo's statement that long pain is better than short pain is very reasonable. The Germans were looking for a quick victory, even if the losses were greater, but as long as the battle could be ended as soon as possible, the German army would pay a much smaller price.

And for Accardo, Stalingrad is not the only one who is troubled. Another thing that upset him was the question of the Covenant between Germany and Turkey. At that time, Germany was eager to draw Turkey into the gang and offered many favorable conditions, but now Turkey's influence has infiltrated the Balkans, which once made the Balkan law and order chaos a pot of porridge.

The German Foreign Office had to summon the Turkish ambassador again and again, hoping that Turkey would rein in its behavior in the Balkans and at least adopt a more moderate national policy to deal with the collapse of the Balkan social system.

The Balkan Peninsula has always been a complex and eventful region in international relations, and is known as the "powder keg of Europe". Here, due to various historical reasons, thorny issues such as ethnic* issues, religious conflicts, cultural differences, border disputes, and political differences are mutually influential, intertwined, and incompatible.

Turkey's infiltration of its own jurisdiction into the Balkans has also added to the confusion in the region. Originally, in the Balkan Peninsula, Yugoslavia was the region with the most concentrated contradictions and conflicts, but now because of Turkey's extreme immigration policy, Turkey's Balkan occupation zone has become the most chaotic place in the entire Balkans.

Because the Balkans are located on the main transportation routes, they have always been a battleground for soldiers, so the major European powers have always paid attention to the dynamics and changes here out of selfish interests, and actively intervened in various contradictions and conflicts. For these reasons, the national question in the Balkans has become a very sensitive regional issue, which both Germany and Italy have handled carefully, and only Turkey has made drastic efforts to cause trouble.

If anyone wants to know how chaotic the Balkans really are, one has to start with the number of ethnic groups in the Balkans - there are eight ethnic groups with a population of more than 500,000, and each of them seems to have a keen interest in ruling the region. The arrival of Turkey has given the place one more person to share the cake, but there is a lot less cake to share, so the consequences have become very bad.

The basic order of formation of the rebel forces in the Balkans is as follows: the general rebel army is born in the Balkans occupied by Turkey, then flows to the Italian occupation zone in the Balkans to grow, and then returns to the Turkish occupation zone to stir up trouble.

As for the German-occupied areas, those rebels did not dare to provoke easily, after all, the troops under General Holt were not idle, and those rebels who had earlier gone to the Balkan occupation zone of Germany and Bulgaria to fight the autumn wind were all annihilated without exception. General Holt was pleased with what the Turks had done, because by contrast, the Balkan natives in his area were much more honest, because their neighbors were much more miserable than they were.

"I've heard about Turkey's misdeeds in the Balkans. Since the subject was raised, Marshal Brauchitsch had no choice but to take up the subject. After he sighed, he reluctantly said to Accardo: "However, it is a Turkish occupation area, and we can only make a slight suggestion, and we cannot interfere with the actions of the Turkish army." ”

"Italy, Turkey...... If you don't pull them in, they will be pulled in by the British. But to bring them in will only cause us trouble. Accardo felt that his allies were irritating. When he mentions these allies, he always feels as if he is a kindergarten teacher playing with a group of children.

Italy is playing soy sauce in North Africa, Turkey is only working hard, Britain in the north can only live in the shadow of reconstruction, Vichy France can only stand hard behind Germany and wave the flag, and then count Franco's Spain...... It was uncomfortable to think about - so Accardo even privately and with his men regarded Romania as Germany's most useful ally, not one of them.

In addition to asking Germany for favors, these countries were more adept at requesting troops to help them fight for territory, blaming each other within the Axis bloc for their own interests, and pushing back when the Germans needed help......

"Marshal Brauchitsch, you say, why can't we have some decent allies? Accardo felt full of grumbling when he thought of these Axis allies.

"My Führer, there are times when allies are not something we can choose at will. At least, for Germany, that's the case. Brauchitsch also pouted helplessly, if it was Marshal Rommel of North Africa to complain, it is estimated that the Führer and the Marshal would be able to squat together and scold Italy all day.

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Just as Accardo was complaining that his allies were not very reliable, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was far away across the Atlantic, was also in his wheelchair, along with his staff Marshall and Eisenhower, complaining that America's allies were really not very good.

"The list of supplies that the British have put forward this month is simply unbearable! Who do they think they are? Are we still a colony of America? His Majesty the Emperor sneezes, and we have to send everything with both hands?" a production official complained to Roosevelt on his left-hand side.

The Germans sank 114 ships by the Germans this month, including destroyers, but many more supply ships. Almost two-thirds of the supplies sent to Iceland and the Middle East were sunk by the Germans, and the United States, no matter how rich it was, could not help but have a headache for its own losses.

Fortunately in the Middle East, because the United States has opened up a very long shipping route, even though the losses are relatively large, the US military in the Middle East is not short of food and ammunition, and it only needs to transport tanks and other heavy industrial products from the United States. Even so, the United States has already "sunk" a full 500 Sherman tanks by German submarines.

Iceland is the hardest hit area. The German Navy's submarine forces have put into Iceland a new type of submarine, which is a headache for the US Navy at its underwater speed, and there is no good way to deal with it. This also led to the unscrupulousness of the German army on most of the Icelandic routes, the heavy losses of British and American transport ships, and the Icelandic routes were basically paralyzed.

The Icelandic front-line base prepared by the British royal family for a counterattack on the mainland, let alone preparing for a counteroffensive now, even if it is barely maintained, it will consume a lot of supplies from the United States. From food all the way to heavy weapons, the list of needs that the British government has provided to the United States gives the feeling of being robbed.

"Look what they wanted? 5,000 tons of food! Did they have so many people to eat? 15 destroyers, 1,000 fighter planes, and 20,000 tons of aviation fuel...... Why don't they rob it?" the officer shouted as he spoke, slapping the papers in his hand.

"Faster than robbing!" Marshall sighed, "correcting" his colleague. Then he said to Roosevelt with a wry smile: "We must be careful with the supplies we provide to Britain, most of them have been sunk at the bottom of the Atlantic, is our plan to build a bridge from the bottom of the sea to Iceland?" ”

General Eisenhower, who had always been an American general who supported the British counteroffensive plan, had nothing to say at this time, so he had to reluctantly squeeze out a sentence to cope with the accusations of his colleagues: "The British need for supplies is based on the premise that our supplies have been sunk in large quantities, and in fact their needs are pitifully small, and most of the Icelandic bases have ceased to function." ”

Roosevelt sat in the first place, and he had to sigh that these allies of the United States were too rubbish -- if you look at the allies of Germany, why can each of them reflect their due value in key places?

Italy helped the Germans sweep through the Anglo-American forces in North Africa, and the Axis powers, now in control of North Africa and radiating to Central Africa, are already improving their own lack of rubber raw materials.

Turkey was in the middle of four wars, blocking the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and threatening the security of the northern Middle East, a Middle Eastern-stirring stick with almost 1 million troops in its hands, threatening the strategic points of the Central Powers whether it was going north or south.

Looking at Spain in Gibraltar, Romania in the oil-producing region, Vichy France that began to transfuse blood for Germany, and Britain in the north preparing to take over the British legacy, how come none of them are Americans?

The more Roosevelt thought about it, the more angry he became, and he almost threw the document in his hand, and let people push his wheelchair to retreat. Because he had in his hands a list of allies asking for help, of all sorts and types - it was simply a bunch of spells.

The Soviet Union demanded that the United States provide 1 million tons of fuel, 3,000 advanced Sherman tanks and 5,000 armored vehicles within six months......

Roosevelt was eager to grab Stalin by the collar and ask him a good question, but did his parents know that he was so open-mouthed! The United States provided a lot of aid to the Soviet Union, but what was the result? Now the Soviet army is fighting hard at Stalingrad, and there are at least 108,000 miles away from winning the battle against Germany.

"That...... Mr. President. In the corner, an official in charge of Asian affairs coughed twice, pointed to the forgotten stack of documents on the table in front of Roosevelt, and whispered: "Sorry, you forgot to read China's request for assistance." ”