Li Mo planned to adopt a cautious and cautious strategy to combine strategic retreat with tactical offense. He delayed the time for more than half a month. It was April, and the Soviet Union had completely thawed, and the road conditions and weather were completely beneficial to the German army. At this time, when launching a major battle, the Soviet army could fall into great chaos, so that it could better preserve its own troops and weapons. At the same time, the principle of forcing the Soviet army to attack regardless of losses would eventually lead them to suffer the consequences.

The harsh weather and snow on the Soviet Union forced the German army to choose a strategic retreat. By February 1943, they had accelerated their retreat. So the Soviet army followed the German footsteps and the German army retreated about 300 kilometers. Then the Soviet army recovered Kharkov and approached the Dnieper River. But at the end of February, the German army on the southern front carried out a counter-assault under the leadership of Li Mo, reoccupied Kharkov, and lost balance to the Soviet army for a period of time. At this time, the Soviet army was just overstretched, stretched its traffic lines, and kept tracking and chasing, so that supplies could not be provided for a while. The German army retreated towards its base and supply direction like snowballs, thus restoring and strengthening its strength.

After Li Mo's troops recaptured Kharkov on March 14, the Soviet Southwest Front and Voronezh Front were retreating to the rear. The German army pursued relentlessly, followed along and began to threaten the rear of the Central Front. The Supreme Commander of the Soviet Army urgently dispatched the 21st Army, the 1st Tank Army, and the 64th Army to reinforce. Only then did they stabilize their position. At this time, the German army's attack came to an end due to limited use of troops. In late March

The two sides took a temporary rest and a temporary tranquility appeared on the battlefield. At this time, the situation on both sides of the front was as follows: the German army had retreated through Rostov, and the entire southern wing front had closed and straightened, but in the Kursk area, the Soviet army formed a huge protrusion that wedged westward into the German front. It maintained contact with the German army on the north, west and south sides. The front of the Kursk protrusion was 100 miles wide, the depth of the north was 150 miles, and the depth of the south was 50 miles.

Since then, the entire front has formed a prominent state centered on Kursk.

After the Kharkov counterattack, although the entire Eastern Front became stable, the German Supreme Command was in a dilemma, and the dangerous situation forced it to face the following two options:

1 Retract the front line and further retreat the troops. Transfer the defense in full on the Eastern Front.

2 Carry out some limited purpose offensives in order to weaken the offensive power of the Soviet army.

To this end, Li Mo proposed two draft battle plans for the Eastern Front to Hitler: one was to voluntarily abandon the defense lines of the Donniez River and Mius River. lure the Soviet army into the lower reaches of the Don River, and then use the German armored troops that were gathered there to attack the Soviet army and encircle and annihilate it; the other was to take the initiative. Before the Soviet army supplemented the winter losses, it launched an attack on the Soviet army in the prominent areas of Kursk, striving to encircle and annihilate it or severely damage it.

Strictly speaking, both plans have their own risks. It is feasible to lure the enemy into depth, but this does not mean that the initiative is handed over to the Soviet army and it is difficult to judge the enemy's main attack direction later. Taking the initiative can lead to the attack, but the problem is that the Soviet army's gathering power in the protruding unit still has to surpass the German army. If the German army cannot obtain enough assault power, it will be difficult to ensure the complete victory of the battle.

Li Mo preferred the first plan and pointed out that at this time the German army needed to adopt mobile combat methods to win, so he suggested that the right-wing troops be withdrawn to the Dnepr River line, and then the Kharkov region launched a counterattack to destroy the main force of the Soviet army in one fell swoop.

However, Hitler felt unacceptable to Li Mo's first plan, because he expressed doubts about the feasibility of the battle of this rear attack plan. In addition, the German head of state was more worried that the German army's retreat to the north Donets and the Azov line would affect the political attitudes of Romania and Turkey. In the end, it was necessary to give up large areas of industrial areas with great economic value, which was obviously difficult for Hitler to choose. So Hitler decided to adopt another attack plan. He tried to launch a decisive battle before the Soviet army launched the spring offensive to annihilate the main military forces of the Soviet army. Because Britain and the United States were already actively preparing to land in France, there was not much time left for Germany, but very urgent.

Of course, there is another important factor here that influenced Hitler and other generals who advocated attack. At this time, the production of the new German Leopard tank increased greatly, reaching a mass production of more than 5,000 vehicles. This is a medium-sized tank developed to deal with the Soviet T-34 tanks, equipped with extremely powerful KWK-42 88mm L/70 artillery. In addition, the development of the Tiger tank (pzkpfw-vi) and Ferdinand tank destroyers of the Boershes have also been completed one after another.

Obviously, they believed that if new tanks such as the Tiger and Leopard were put into Kursk, they would be enough to achieve a decisive victory and regain their initiative on the Eastern Front battlefield. Although the German General Staff Headquarters had a strong expectation for it.

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Princess Elizabeth is meeting with US President Roosevelt in Buckingham Palace, London, England:

"Dear President Roosevelt, on behalf of the United Kingdom, I warmly welcome you and thank you for taking the time to visit the United Kingdom."

Although Elizabeth gave birth to a child, she was more beautiful and charming. With Elizabeth's noble temperament, people dare not look up to it. Even Roosevelt, a disabled person, couldn't help but be moved.

Roosevelt couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart: "The damn German Li Mo, I've really been favored by God. Such a beautiful and charming queen was sleeping with him. It's really a waste of resources."

On the surface, Roosevelt still looked calm and responded enthusiastically to Elizabeth's greeting:

"Dear Her Majesty, I have no choice but to defeat the German fascism and to maintain world peace!"

After Elizabeth and Roosevelt politely conspired, Churchill and Roosevelt discussed specific military operations. Now Britain and the United States are completely divided into two factions. One faction takes the lead in the battle of Germany when Germany launched the Kursk Battle, so that the German guards cannot be held in the front and ends and cannot be taken care of each other.

Another faction believes that we should not take risks now, but continue to use weapons to support the Soviet Union, allowing the Soviet Union and Germany to fight to the death.

These two views cannot be right or wrong. No matter which strategy is used, the first point is that the Soviet Union can persist and will not be destroyed by Germany this year.

If it were in the past, Germany on the Eastern Front had three armies, which did not match each other. Now, Britain and the United States have obtained information that scared them very much, and Hitler appointed the invincible Li Mo as the commander-in-chief of the front-line enemy on the Eastern Front.

Li Mo's record is obvious to all the world. Germany, which has never been defeated since the war started. It is likely that under Li Mo's command, Stalin will be destroyed this year. Once Germany destroys Stalin, Germany, which has freed up millions of troops, will immediately attack Britain and the United States, which will be a disaster for Britain and the United States.
Chapter completed!