Imperial Overlord

"The fighter jets haven't arrived yet? The Americans said they gave us 200 P-40 fighter jets, but I only saw 40! 40!" Stalin roared back in his chair, his angry voice reaching the corridor.

Vatutin, who rushed back to Stalingrad from the front line, said with an unpleasant expression: "For the loss of the front line, 40 P-40 fighter jets may only be enough for two days!"

The two of them were talking about the supplementation of fighter jets, but in fact both of them knew that it was not the resources of those dozens of fighter jets that really mattered, but the situation in Ukraine as a whole.

As time passed, Stalin in Moscow lost his grip on the entire Soviet Union.

Sitting in Chelyabinsk, Beria's sentence did not receive the punishment it deserved. This living example also gave other thoughtful people a lot of courage, and it also seriously challenged Stalin's authority.

At present, about 20 to 30 fighter jets will be detained in the Far East from the United States. The remaining planes were exploited all the way to Chelyabinsk, and only 40 aircraft could be allocated to the front line.

It is a pity that 40 P-40 fighters are simply not enough for intense air combat consumption. Although there are few Soviet fighter jets over Ukraine now, the sky over Stalingrad must be protected as much as possible.

In order to hold on to Stalingrad, Stalin assembled more than 1,000 combat aircraft nearby. Among them, there are more than 400 old I-16 fighters, and the rest are mostly new fighters such as Lager 3 and MiG 3.

He also concentrated the P-40 fighters as much as possible and deployed them in Stalingrad in order to form air superiority locally.

In fact, this is not a good thing for the front-line combat troops - the material supply of Kastalin in the rear, Stalin will intensify the supply of materials for the front-line troops.

In the past month, with the collapse of the front-line troops, they have not received the proper distribution of weapons and ammunition, nor have they received even a single timely support.

Aircraft and tanks have been throttled to Stalingrad, and the front-line troops cannot even guarantee basic ammunition, and they cannot do it if they want to counterattack...

Of course, no one actually wanted to fight back. Now that everyone is retreating in a swarm, who has the leisure to stop and fight the Germans?

However, when the front line stabilized and the Soviet army planned to defend Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk and other areas, they realized that they had not received any supplements.

No reinforcements, no follow-up supplementary troops, no supplies - how many people were there when they were retreating, there are only how many people there are now.

At this time, the German army they faced was much stronger than the one they faced before. Because the German army has received a lot of supplements, including hundreds of tanks, hundreds of aircraft, and the entire Axis fleet!

Therefore, only with dozens of fighter jets and dozens of radio equipment sent by the Americans, it is impossible to resist the German attack.

Therefore, in mid-September, the German army had advanced to the periphery of Donetsk and hit the Pologi area.

The overwhelmingly powerful Army Group D achieved a propulsion speed of thousands of kilometers in a month in Ukraine, and cooperated with Army Group B to successfully hold four-fifths of Ukraine in its own hands.

Now, the German battle group to the south formed a huge iron pincer, pinching the Soviet troops in the Dnipropetrovsk salient in the middle.

As long as the German troops on both flanks squeezed to the middle, the encirclement of the Soviet troops near Dnipropetrovsk could be completed.

Although in this encirclement, there are no big figures, and there are not too many troops, but the 300,000 Soviet troops are also Soviet troops, and annihilating them is a simple task.

If we talk about the destruction of the 300,000 Soviet troops here, there will be only about 1 million Soviet troops left near the Ukrainian defense line.

Compared with the strength before the war, it was already more than half of the loss. In this case, there is no suspense for the Soviet army to lose the entire Ukraine.

"There is no time to investigate how much weapons and equipment the **** in the rear have deducted. The most important thing now is to stabilize the front line and stop the decline of retreat." I rushed back from Kharkov from the front line without even thinking about food. After a bite, Vatutin came to see Stalin.

"The great leader, Comrade Stalin! What we need to consider now is the issue of Dnipropetrovsk. The German army may encircle there at any time. The 300,000 elites can't give up if they say they give up..." Exhausted, he advised Stalin.

Vatutin was a soldier, and he always thought about things from the point of view of a soldier. In his opinion, if Dnipropetrovsk is lost, then Kharkiv will not have to defend.

Dnipropetrovsk has been surrounded on three sides. If the city is not abandoned, the soldiers stationed in the city are likely to be completely surrounded~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The situation is a bit complicated now. The Soviet army in the Kyiv encirclement has some The precedent for surrender is that there is no guarantee that Dnipropetrovsk will not surrender after being surrounded by German forces.

Today's Soviet army can be said to be full of grass and trees, and Vatutin dare not let hundreds of thousands of troops fall into the encirclement again, and then be "annihilated" by the German army overnight.

Since he did not dare to let his troops be surrounded again, in Vatutin's view, giving up Dnipropetrovsk was an imperative choice.

Once the city was abandoned, Kharkov became another lonely city hanging out... The chain reaction of this column made Vatutin very entangled.

It's like a set of dominoes, if one is knocked down, it will affect the rest. In the end, the Soviet Union may not even be able to hold Donetsk, and must directly give up the entire Ukraine...

"Or risk the troops to stick to Dnipropetrovsk, as long as they can stick there for 10 days, we can get a chance to breathe..." When Vatutin said this suggestion, he could feel the corners of his mouth twitching. bitter.

"Either let the troops withdraw, abandon the Dnieper line of defense, and leave the rest of the problems to Kharkov to solve..." Bite the bullet, Vatutin finally said both options.

Stalin was silent. He sat in the chair and seemed to be lost in thought—to give up or to insist, he had been wandering in his heart for a long time, unable to make a choice for a long time.

In the end, he still said: "Order the defenders of Dnipropetrovsk to stay where they are... As long as they can hold on for 10 days... 10 days..."

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