"The Germans have limited troops, and this is one of their major shortcomings!" In the Huaxia General Staff, Fan Chong explained with regret.

As the territory expanded, so did the number of German troops, but now the total number of people was close to their limit at around 6 million.

Even after annexing Austria, the Czech Republic, and other countries, and incorporating the Germanic peoples in these places, the total number of Germans hovered around 80 million.

Germany has not yet fully entered the state of national war readiness, Lao Xi is still trying to maintain the normal life of the Germans, and there are still a large number of factories that need young and strong laborers to start work. At this time, the Germans had not yet reached the point of being militaristic, and the current size of the army of more than six million was already putting the Germans under pressure.

Because of the small number of German soldiers, the Germans could only build an elite strategy to make up for this gap.

The weapons of the Germans were also based on this, relying on elite soldiers. This is also one reason why German weapons have always been known for their precision and excellent performance.

But you can't play without a little level, just one maintenance is enough to make people collapse, and it is far less resistant than Soviet and Russian weapons.

If it weren't for the anti-heaven control of the base repair shop, as well as the many elite clones, Meng Xiang would not have a painful attack on the German weapons, especially those Tiger and Par tanks.

But it is precisely this demand for excellence that makes the German industry more demanding, which also means more costs and less production. This also led to the fact that in the previous life, many classic weapons of the Germans were not replenished in time and were always in short supply.

If it weren't for the support of the base, which solved some of the equipment problems of the Germans, I am afraid that it would be absolutely difficult for the Germans to fill this big hole in the elite army strategy.

At this time, the Germans were already one of the best elite troops in the world.

But it still can't hide a fatal shortcoming of their small numbers.

After all, the Germans fought on two fronts, and there were still large territories to take care of. Once these armies are dispersed, it is difficult to pose much of a threat.

It's okay to maintain peace and Jing'an in peacetime, and one or two large-scale battles can be adapted, but this time they are facing a full-scale counteroffensive by the allies.

If you say the Western Front. The Germans, who had been in the winter war with their main forces on the western front, still had a slight advantage, but on the eastern front, the 2.5 million troops of the Russians were able to flood the Germans' frontline positions.

At the beginning of '43, the Germans had only about 2.5 million troops on the Eastern Front. Together with the 1.5 million attached troops, the total reached 4 million.

But this is the entire Eastern Front. Half of the German garrisons and dependencies were taken up in various places.

The army that killed the Caucasus and other places removed another 500,000. The front-line army that can face the attack of the Russians is less than 1.5 million, of which the core German army is less than a million.

And the 2.5 million of the Russians are the attacking troops that are smashing on the front line, those who defend the Caucasus, and the logistics troops in the rear, and even the harassing guerrilla forces in the occupied areas are not included.

If 100 Germans faced 250 Soviets. The Germans were confident of victory.

10,000 German troops against 25,000 Soviet troops, and the Germans dared to fight and annihilate them all.

But 1 million or 1.5 million vs. 2.5 million, such a gap is no longer easy to rely on the elite to obtain an overall advantage.

When the quantity reaches a certain level, it begins to cause qualitative changes.

Moreover, after the baptism of war, the remaining Soviet and Russian troops after the elimination of life and death are no longer the cannon fodder army that only shouted slogans and charged with a momentary brain fever. A large number of veterans of the Soviet and Russian wars have supported the strength of the Soviet army.

The Russians also learned the lessons of the last time at Stalingrad, the big battle, although the Russians also invested 1.9 million men. But in the narrow Stalingrad area, on the contrary, it was not as suitable as the elite German army. Batches of investment turned into fueling tactics, which eventually led to the defeat of the entire battle. And this time. The Russians simultaneously burst out with the might of 2.5 million troops on a long front of more than 3,000 kilometers, and the Germans did not care about the end.

With such a huge plan, it is unrealistic to say that the Germans were unaware of it. It's just that a series of actions by the Allies on the Western Front also involved a lot of their energy.

Smoke rose everywhere, which made the Germans really scramble.

However, the Germans were worthy of a team with a spirit of steel, and in such a situation, they still held the first wave of the Allied offensive.

But as time went on, not only did the problem of manpower in Germany begin to come to the fore, but an even more serious problem was revealed.

The logistics of the German army could not supply such a long supply line at the same time.

Previously, the Germans fought on both fronts at the same time. When conducting some large-scale battles, they try to stagger the time as much as possible to make the logistics troops tilted.

But this was the first joint large-scale operation of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, which was rare even in previous lives. Only after the Russians, who had been hit one after another, first compromised, did this collective action take place.

Attacking the Germans together means that the Germans have no way to avoid it, and both sides are the focus.

Even on the Eastern Front. The three fronts of Soviet Russia attacked together, and there was no feint, and there was no distinction between primary and secondary.

After a winter of attrition and logistical supply lines, the German material reserves on the Eastern Front were not running out.

In an emergency, the German logistics, which had not been very strong, could not be busy even if it had three heads and six arms.

With a lack of fuel and ammunition, even an army made of steel can only rest for food.

The German front on the front line of Gorky City was already somewhat weakened because of the lengthening of the supply line, and at this time, under the fierce counterattack of the Soviet army, it was first shaken.

"Another 500,000 troops!" Zhukov did not hesitate to throw the 300,000 reserves replenished from the rear into this line of defense.

The 2.5 million army is just the beginning, in addition to the 1.7 million troops in China and the 500,000 troops in the Caucasus, the size of the army has expanded to more than 8 million Soviet troops, and this time 1.5 million reserves have been prepared in the rear to support and replenish at any time.

The national conscription order still brings together new recruits, and as long as British and American assistance is in place, they will soon be able to gather a million troops to the front.

5 million, Stalin had already put most of the army in his hands desperately into it.

The prepared are always favored by the unprepared to seize the opportunity.

On May 15, Soviet troops quickly broke the semi-encirclement of Gorky.

On the 17th, the Soviet army also made a breakthrough in the Kuibyshev direction, regained Penza, a railway junction, and began to merge and encircle together with the Soviet troops in the Gorky direction, in an attempt to annihilate the 200,000 axis ** team that had advanced to the area of Ulyanovsk.

So far, the Soviet army has only annihilated about 300,000 people, and most of them are attached to the army to fill the number.

The Germans fought tenaciously. Zhukov, who served as the commander-in-chief this time, changed his strategy, swallowed one strand first, and boosted morale with victory.

The German high command had also sensed that the momentum was not good, and while it began to implement the strategy of shrinking the defensive line and relieving the logistical pressure, it also began to increase the intensity of logistical supply.

Coupled with the fact that the remaining half of France was being dealt with, the Germans began to use this to enforce military control in all the occupied territories.

However, far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and production could not supply the consumption of large-scale battles ahead, so the Germans began to actively seek assistance from copycat companies.

"There is not enough stock for the time being!" The copycat company replied directly.

The Germans couldn't help but be a little worried.

Since the second half of 42, the Germans have rarely massively purchased weapons from copycat companies.

The main thing is that the Germans have passed the most difficult period of expansion and have begun to pay more attention to domestic manufacturing. They also carried out some consolidation of the factories and other resources in the occupied areas, expanded the scale of production, and could already supply the normal needs of the German army. With the exception of some supplies in North Africa and Soviet Russia, the Germans threw fewer and fewer orders to copycat companies.

This also represents a weakening of the bond of interest, a kind of alienation.

The Germans did want to get rid of the influence of copycat companies completely, but now that the state of emergency has forced them to plead again, and send hard currency looted from all over Europe, leaving enough room for tempting profits.

"I'm really sorry, the Huaxia people have already taken all the orders, and they are also fighting!" Shanzhai explained.

This is not a lie, after all, the production of the base is limited.

Normally, a third-level sub-base can maintain the consumption of 200,000 troops. Even if it is diluted, it is only 400,000 troops.

Under the condition that Meng Xiang was actively preparing for war and doubling his training, the normal operation of the 10 million Chinese army consumed no less than a low-intensity war, and it first occupied most of the base's production capacity.

Whether it is a copycat company or an umbrella, their dealers are not limited to Germans, British, and Japanese.

Other countries in South America and Africa are also arms dumping grounds for Mengxiang, and the accumulation of a small amount is also a large amount of consumption.

Even if Meng Xiang wanted to launch a large-scale campaign, it would take time to accumulate some inventory. And as the consumption of the army increases, the amount of inventory that needs to be prepared in advance is also increasing, which engulfs the remaining production capacity.

And this time, China is attacking the Japanese in an all-round way, and it is sharply depleting its stocks.

In order to supplement the consumption of the next full-scale war, Meng Xiang had to continue to accumulate.

At this time, the stocks of those arms companies are naturally not much.

"We need to sink a little bit, maybe we can make a lot of money from the Germans!" Even if there is still some inventory, Meng Xiang is not in a hurry to trade, at least now that the Germans can still hold on, he doesn't need to be in a hurry at all.