They did not care about the gain or loss of a single city or patch of land, instead setting their main operational objective on the Russian army's living strength. That was the core purpose of the German military's Operation Barbarossa.
Russia possessed vast territory and an enormous pool of manpower. This doomed the war against Russia to become a long, drawn-out conflict. Trying to launch a lightning attack as they had against other small European nations, defeating and destroying Russia in a short time, was virtually impossible. The Führer of another timeline had already proven this with the German military's defeat and Germany's destruction.
The German military under the Führer's rule had been formidable as well. But they had underestimated the Russians too greatly. At the same time, the operational plan they had devised contained enormous flaws. During the early stages of the war, the German military had set capturing Moscow as its goal, and every operational plan had revolved around that objective. Yet in truth, this had already exceeded the German military's capabilities. Their logistical supply capacity simply could not ensure the troops' supplies. Thus, although the German military had braved countless hardships and finally reached the gates of Moscow, it had already run out of strength to continue. Meanwhile, the Russian army had erupted with exceptionally fierce fighting spirit and combat power. After parading through Red Square, Russian troops had driven straight onto the battlefield and dealt the German military a head-on blow amid immense hardship.
In the middle stages of the war, in order to resolve its dire lack of oil, the German military shifted its operational objective to Yuzefgrad. Or rather, it had hoped to use Yuzefgrad as a springboard to seize the Caucasus in one stroke, thereby obtaining oil from the Baku oil fields and