Imperial Overlord

When the representatives sent from Chelyabinsk had had enough crying, Stalin let out a long breath and said, "You may not know that the situation has taken a turn for the worse recently, right?"

"Kyiv has fallen, the Germans occupied it, and annihilated the defenders there." With a sneer, he talked about the whole situation in Ukraine.

"How is this possible?" the representative of Chelyabinsk exclaimed with wide eyes when he heard the news.

Looking at the other party, Stalin told him what had happened recently: "Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and other regions have surrendered! Those soldiers who should have fought bravely have forgotten all about it. their oath."

He spoke of the collapse of the soldiers' will to fight, as well as the recent rout: "Our troops will no longer fight to the last man, and when there are thousands or even tens of thousands, they will retreat and surrender. !"

"Dnipropetrovsk is almost surrounded on three sides. It has only been a few days. It has become an isolated city, and the surrounding towns have surrendered to the German army." When he said this, Stalin paused for a few seconds. Zhong, took a sip of water.

"The German army took control of Kherson a few days ago, crossed the Dnieper River, and started to advance towards the Crimea." Stalin put down his water glass and continued with the dumbfounded eyes of the representative.

"Nikolaev, the main traffic road that has been holding on for a month, was surrounded by the German army, and finally ran out of ammunition and food and was completely wiped out. It has become a traffic node for the German army, and perhaps the Germans have begun to establish a material distribution camp there. ." When he said this, Stalin laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Our defense line collapsed almost overnight, a lot of weapons and equipment were abandoned, and a large area of ​​land was lost." The officer accompanying Stalin added gloomily.

Because Stalin didn't want to talk about such a shameful thing, he motioned to the officer beside him to continue speaking for him.

"We lost at least 1 million people, and now there are still several troops that have not been contacted, maybe they have also been wiped out." Finally, the officer gave a pessimistic figure.

The figure of 1 million is a conservative estimate. In fact, the German army did not annihilate so many Soviet troops. About 700,000 Soviet troops in the Kyiv encirclement were wiped out. About 90,000 people were wiped out, and the rest became prisoners.

In addition, outside the Kyiv encirclement, there were some battles. The Soviet army finally kept some areas, but lost more.

But one-third of the Soviet troops were still surrounded and wiped out about all the Soviet troops in Ukraine, including officers, and one out of every three people was captured or killed.

This news is really too exciting. After hearing this, the representative from Chelyabinsk felt that he really cried too early just now.

When he came, Chelyabinsk had not reported these news, and the information there was only that the Kursk battle Zhukov had not been won, and he led the army to retreat to the Sumy area.

But who would have thought that in just half a month, the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated to such a degree.

The German army not only defeated the 2 million Soviet Red Army, but also occupied more than half of Ukraine. Today's Ukraine is simply the grave of the Soviet Red Army. Not to mention the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on the battlefield, and hundreds of thousands of people have become prisoners of the German army.

According to the German war report, the current situation is that the defense system of the Soviet Union's more than two million troops collapsed in an instant!

"New Kakhovka was occupied by the Germans on September 17, and the vanguard of German Army Group d crossed the Dnieper River and completely encircled the Crimean Peninsula." As if he felt that what he just said was not exciting enough, the name The officer also talked about the situation in southern Ukraine.

"On the same day, the Soviet garrison stationed in Melitopol announced its surrender, and now Donetsk has become a front-line city." The officer said here, and he had finished talking about everything that happened.

"How is this possible? How is this possible? Comrade Stalin, the great leader! How can such a thing happen?"

"What's impossible... What I said is true, not only Kyiv, but almost the entire Ukraine will be occupied by the Germans!" After listening to the officer beside him finish speaking, Stalin took up the topic Come and say: "The Germans will not make peace, and if I were Hitler, I would not make peace at this time..."

The German Führer was stupid to make peace at this time, unless the Soviet Union agreed to a peace treaty that was more humiliating than defeat.

Maybe the Soviet Union needs to give up all the territory west of the Ural Mountains. So what is the difference between that and a death battle?

"Perhaps we should give it a try! Great leader, Comrade Stalin! Only by making peace with the Germans will it be possible for you to return to the center of power and take control... continue to lead the country..." the representative suggested.

"Even if the Germans don't agree with our peace proposal, we can buy ourselves some time by doing this." He talked eloquently, obviously preparing a lot of rhetoric along the way.

These rhetoric, originally intended to persuade Stalin to agree to start peace talks, have now become a real tactic to delay the fight.

Even if the Germans did not believe in the sincerity of the Soviets' surrender and continued to maintain their offensive posture, they would slightly relax their offensive due to negotiations.

In other words, ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ can make the German army think that the Soviet Union is weak and can no longer fight the follow-up war, which is also a strategic deception.

As long as the Germans are stopped and waited for half a month, the Soviet Union can still be saved, right? When winter comes, the Germans will definitely stop the offensive, giving the Soviet Union a few months of respite.

"No! Comrade! I will not agree to peace talks! The war between Germany and the Soviet Union cannot end as long as I am alive!" Stalin stubbornly rejected the proposal.

He stood up, walked over to the representative from Chelyabinsk, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Anyone can go and negotiate with the Germans, but only after I'm dead!"

Stalin can't afford to lose face. In his opinion, the Soviet-German war was his will to start, so he must insist on finishing the war.

Although it is impossible to verify who fired the first shot of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet border troops did receive orders from Stalin and performed a farce.

In this case, Stalin stubbornly did not want to admit defeat. In his view, only his death could bring the war to an end.