From late 1938 to early 1939, this was precisely the most torturous period for the German Army.
The severing of external supplies and the near-collapse of transportation networks in the Russian regions—two debuffs—directly caused the German Army's combat strength to plummet.
It had to be understood that most of Germany's elite troops had already died on the battlefield.
At present, the German Army's main forces were not actually as terrifying as one might think. Their combat strength was not vastly superior to that of the main armies of other countries.
This was especially true when they faced the tenacious Russian Army and the heavily armed Australasian Army. The German Army instead found itself fighting a difficult battle.
Although the Russian Army often suffered several times as many casualties as the Germans, it was currently the force the Germans least wanted to face apart from the Australasian Army.
When an ordinary army suffered nearly fifty percent casualties, its will to fight would gradually be worn away, and its morale would collapse.
But the Russian Army seemed to possess some kind of magic. Even when its actual casualties had exceeded half its establishment, Russian soldiers remained unaffected. If anything, they charged faster and more resolutely than one another.
The Russian Army on the Battle of Stalingrad front had already suffered at least three or four million casualties, while German casualties were less than two million.
By all rights, the German Army should have held the advantage.
Yet apart from the early stages of the war, when the German Army held the upper hand, the two armies had fought back and forth through most of the battle.
Especially after winter arrived, the Russian Army fought more fiercely with every passing day, as though shortages in logistics had no effect on them whatsoever.
As