I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

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"It's terrible. I don't know how many people will die this time."

Rundstedt was in a bad mood. The last time someone tried to poison the mustache, hundreds of people were implicated.

Rommel had been fighting in North Africa and Italy since the outbreak of the war and had no idea that the situation in Germany had become so tense.

"Whether we are right or wrong, we can no longer turn back."

Rundstedt's eyes were confused and he saw no hope at all.

As Russia's industry completely shifted to a wartime system, Russia produced more and more weapons and equipment. The German army was at a disadvantage on the front line and could only passively take the beating. Rundstedt had been on the northern front and felt this deeply.

When the war first broke out, relying on the accumulation of the past two years, the German army could still fight back and forth with the Russian army.

However, as the skilled pilots trained by Germany through the Battle of Britain were gradually lost, the German army had completely lost air superiority.

Now the Russian army dispatches hundreds of bombers every day to carry out carpet bombing on German positions.

The number of armored vehicles of the Russian army is also increasing. When the war broke out, the Russian army was still using infantry and tanks in coordination, but now it has fully evolved into armored vehicle group combat.

"Don't we have new armored fighting vehicles, too?"

Rommel had little idea of ​​Germany's production situation.

"Yes, but our factories are being bombed by the Russians. Our steel mills and mines are also being bombed. The daily output of the factories is only in the single digits. How can we fight the Russians?"

Rundstedt smiled bitterly. After the last world war, Russia showed the world a new form of war.

In the last world war, Russia proved the importance of weapons and equipment. In the face of advanced weapons and equipment, tactics can play a smaller and smaller role.

This time Russia proved the importance of industrial scale. The German army was not defeated by the Russian army, but by Russia's industrial strength.

"Have we already lost the battle?"

Rommel was bitter. Although he had a premonition of Germany's defeat, he was still very sad when the defeat came.

Rundstedt did not answer.

George didn't know that the German high command had been wiped out.

It doesn’t matter whether the entire army is wiped out. Whether the German army is commanded by Rundstedt or Rommel, it doesn’t make much difference to the Russian army.

The reason why Rommel performed so well in North Africa was that the French and British armies did not cooperate with each other and both wanted to use the other side as cannon fodder so that they could reap the benefits.

De Gaulle and Montgomery were short of troops, which gave Rommel the opportunity to show himself.

The total number of Russian and German troops on the northern front was over ten million. On a battle line of more than a thousand kilometers, there were an average of ten thousand people per kilometer. There was no room for maneuvering. Any tactics had lost their meaning. They could only fight attrition, using the lives of young soldiers and expensive equipment in exchange for a chance to break through the enemy's defenses.

George has done everything he can to reduce Russia's losses. Now it depends on when God wants the German army to collapse.

Before God took action, the little mustache took action first. The little mustache was lucky and was not killed by the bomb.

The Gestapo went into action frantically and soon found the mastermind behind the assassination - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of the Home Corps.

Before the meeting started, Stauffenberg entered the conference room with a time bomb and placed the briefcase containing the bomb under the desk in the conference room, only two meters away from the mustache.

Stauffenberg then left, not knowing what happened next.

The staff admitted that before the meeting started, someone noticed the briefcase under the table, but the staff thought it was carried by a general and did not check the bag. They just moved the bag to make it easier for the generals to sit down.

It was this small detail that saved the mustache.

After Colonel Stauffenberg was arrested, Marshal Erwin Witzleben, General Ludwig Beck, General Erich Hoepner, Karl Gödeler (Mayor of Leipzig), Colonel Merz von Kilheim and others were arrested one after another.
Rommel was also suspected of being involved in the assassination.

Rommel felt very aggrieved. He and Colonel Stauffenberg were just acquaintances and the two had no contact beforehand.

Rundstedt was also suspected of being involved in the assassination, but Rundstedt was not imprisoned. He soon returned to the battlefield and continued to command the German army.

They had to fight back, as the Russian army suddenly increased the intensity of their attack, and the entire German defense line was in danger.

Rommel wanted to return to Italy to command the war, but was rejected by the mustache man.

The situation in Italy is far more serious than that of the German army.

While Rommel was in Germany, Polis planned a new offensive. With the cooperation of the Russian Mediterranean Fleet, the Yugoslav army broke through the Italian defenses and made a big step towards Rome.

At this time, there were rumors among the German troops stationed in Italy that both Mustache and Rommel himself had been killed in the bombing, and Germany was negotiating in Russia to discuss ending the war peacefully.

The German army was skeptical about this rumor.

The French army believed it without a doubt.

Since France could surrender, why could Germany be an exception?

Gauss was worried that the rumors would affect the troops' fighting spirit and forbade anyone to discuss the issue.

This decision not only failed to stop the spread of rumors, but instead made more people believe that Germany was about to surrender.

"It's over, everything is over, Germany has surrendered, Russia has won the final victory, we are going back to France to greet our great General Charles de Gaulle."

On December 12, six days after the assassination of Le Moustache, the French army fighting in Italy received the exact news through the radio that the German army had been defeated.

When the news spread, the French army collapsed across the board.

(End of this chapter)