After that, Army Group North was replenished and a new round of assault began, and Loeb freed up more forces to attack Leningrad.

On the other hand, the Twelfth and Eighteenth Armies in Estonia cleared the Soviet troops in the Narva and Tallinn areas and immediately surrounded Leningrad, and the Sixteenth Army also strengthened its offensive southeast of Leningrad through the Novgrad area, and the Fourth Panzer Group, with the coordination of the Thirty-eighth Army, accelerated its advance southwest of Leningrad from the line from Narva to Luke, and the city was already surrounded by German regiments and was in danger.

After that, the island city was cut off first by the railroad to Moscow, then by the road from Leningrad to Luke, and a few days later by German and Finnish armies advancing less than 50 kilometers north and south of Leningrad, taking control of the city's access to the sea and cutting off the last line of communication in Leningrad, turning it into an isolated island.

Thus, the nine-hundred-day siege of Leningrad began.

For 900 days, the entire army and civilians of Leningrad will endure hunger, bombardment, death and the threat of fighting, one by one, and they will still have a long way to go, and a cloud of despair will hang over them as far as the eye can see.

Field Marshal Loeb also claimed to wipe the city off the map with bombing, and their bombing targets were not only military installations, but also factories, colleges, stations, hospitals, commercial centers, or any densely populated place, the most important of which was the city's food warehouse, which the Germans hoped would use to break the morale of the city's soldiers and civilians with hunger.

As for the Soviet army, the original commander, General Kuznetsov, was dismissed, and the current commander, Marshal Voroshilov, was unable to turn the tide, once Leningrad was lost, the Nazi German army would quickly free up its hands to attack Moscow with all its might, and someone must stand up when the situation is critical, and this person's name is Zhukov.

Ever since he became Supreme Commander, he has set the tone: "You can't take a step back!" Not an inch of land in the direction of Leningrad can be caught", otherwise there will be no killing.

Under Zhukov's iron hand, his army regrouped and launched one charge after another against Hopna's armored forces, leaving the latter with heavy losses.

Zhukov didn't care how many losses he had, even if he was bigger than the enemy, as long as he could change the tide of the battle, he would not hesitate to give the order to attack.

Although Zhukov went around fighting fires like a firefighter, and although he prevented the Germans from crossing the Neva River, he could not resist the actions of isolating the Eighth Army at Oranienbaum, and at this point, the central Krasnovag and Pushkin fell one after another.

Gradually, the German Eighteenth Army lined up around the inner defense line of Leningrad, repelled the defenders' breakthrough after breakthrough, and completely closed the gates.

Facing the huge pressure on the Soviet side, Zhou Yu finally made a move.

Previously, his idea was to let these two big guys continue to consume and reap the benefits of the fisherman, but now, with the apostasy of "Beer", the European intelligence network has fallen into chaos, many battle plans within the Chamber of Commerce have been leaked, and the war situation has reached a stage beyond his control, and Zhou Yu has to make arrangements in advance.

In terms of the general strategic policy, Zhou Yu adopted a more active and active attack and cooperation strategy, and ordered Wu Xiaolong's department to drive the Japanese army to the east of China, and then transferred Hu Rentian's mecha corps to the north and entered the territory of the Soviet side to help the latter assist in defense.

Wang Lianhao's troops went west through the direction of Yunnan and Burma to assist in the defense of Indochina, and also made arrangements for the subsequent counteroffensive in advance.

Wang Xian contacted various patriotic generals in China to take over the frontal battlefield against Japan, continued to exert pressure on it, and cooperated with the offensive in the Pacific theater.

Hong Agui's dragon fleet continued to travel between the two sides of the Pacific Ocean, using the Arctic route to continuously transport material resources to the Chinese mainland.

This kind of fighting continued into the winter, and the soldiers had to spend Christmas in trenches or tanks.

In the midst of the changing situation of the war, several Allied giants decided to meet in Casablanca to plan their future course of action.

Williams, on behalf of the British Empire, with his assistant Winston Churchill, wanted to regain absolute control of the Mediterranean in this meeting, as this would directly determine their interests in colonies such as Egypt, the Middle East, and India.

Although Roosevelt's chief think tank was Zhou Yu, the former quietly concealed the news due to jealousy and suspicion.

Roosevelt believed that the Mediterranean was a bottomless pit, and that expanding the front would only delay the landing of the Allies in France, and he did not want Britain to put the main battlefield in the Mediterranean.

So the key question arises, if the Allied combat resources can be allocated to the two theaters of the Pacific and the Atlantic? Where do you start next? Will the war against the Axis powers become a protracted war?

At 10:30 p.m. on Saturday night, Roosevelt's presidential seat drove out of the White House gates, headed south past Elips Park and the Washington Memorial, and after four blocks turned around onto a heavily guarded ramp on the east side of 14th Avenue and disappeared under the Engraving and Printing Office.

The new presidential train, Ferdinand Magellan, stopped at a secret branch line that had been built two months earlier to transport the newly printed banknotes of the Printing Office.

Roosevelt was holding a cane, and as long as he didn't walk very fast, he didn't look much different from a normal person.

He slipped into the train, looked at the snowflakes falling slowly outside the window, and shoved a cigarette into his mouth.

At this moment, there was a soft sound of "ding", and a lighter appeared in front of him.

Roosevelt looked up in a little surprise and saw Zhou Yu sitting opposite him with a smile on his face, and kindly helped him light a cigarette.

"Bruce? You...... How did you find here? This special train ......"

Roosevelt's expression was stunned, because he did not tell Zhou Yu about the mission of the presidential train, but the latter sat opposite him, and the bodyguards outside did not stop him, or even report it.

Zhou Yu first helped Roosevelt light the cigarette, then leaned back on the seat, glanced around and said: "Ferdinand Magellan, manufactured by the Pullman Company, is a luxurious mobile fortress, the window glass is three inches thick, and the armored rear door weighs a ton.

The main carriage has four private compartments, an observation deck, a dining room for 12 people, and a kitchen, while the luggage cart behind the nose has been converted into a communications center, equipped with a cipher machine and four transmitters, and two 10,000-watt generators that can light a small town. ”

"You're ......!"

The corners of Roosevelt's forehead twitched slightly, and he actually shed a drop of cold sweat in the cold winter.

"You sent someone to infiltrate the White House? Bruce, what exactly do you want to do? ”

Zhou Yu looked at the snow outside the window and sighed, "Hey...... What do I want to do? Of course, I want to help you win this war...... Franklin, I know you don't trust me right now, but it doesn't matter, you just need to know that we're on one side for the time being.

By the way, I forgot to tell you that my film and television company has recently made a new film, the name of the film is 'Casablanca', which tells the story of a New World expatriate who struggles between conscience and sympathy for Vichy North Africa, and I recommend you to check it out when you have time. ”

"Casablanca? Bruce...... How much more do you know? How many more people have you planted around me? ”

Roosevelt felt very bad in his heart at the moment, he thought that the secret travel time and means of transportation were told by Zhou Yu like a few treasures, which made him feel like he was being manipulated by the other party.