April Summary

First, I’ll post the update screenshots. When I write this summary, there’s still half an hour left before April ends, so I don’t have time to code the next chapter.

My updates can’t actually be calculated based on natural days. I live a very free life. I basically sleep whenever I want, and I can fall asleep just like a pig, and I never suffer from insomnia.

You can calculate it this way. A long break of more than eight hours is called a long break, which is mainly for long sleep and eating. The short break of about three hours in the middle is for napping and eating.

I definitely have two normal updates between my two long breaks, plus various extra updates.

For example, now, you know that I finished a long break at around five this morning (referring to the 30th), and then started coding. After the afternoon update, I took a short break. I coded one more normal update in the evening.

There will be another normal update and one more make-up update before the next long break.

After explaining my update pattern, here’s the picture!

It’s not as good as last month, mainly because I didn’t open a monthly ticket reward, so there’s no pressure to update.

In addition, I took some time to recharge this month. I updated so much last month that I barely finished reading Granz’s “The First Part of the Pingangrad Trilogy” in a month. The update took up a lot of time, which led to a decline in my reading efficiency.

April was much better. I had time to finish reading "The Clay-footed Giant" also written by Glantz, and learned about the Soviet army's lameness before the war.

Let's talk about the first part of this trilogy I read last month.

This part talks about the battles from April to August 1942, that is, before Pingangrad in ****fu and the famous city of Rostock in Tongliao, as well as on the Don River Plain.

There are many highlights in this battle, such as the "outstanding performance" of one of the three hearses, and the triumphant progress of San Dezi on the grassland. At this time, it seems that San Dezi can indeed win.

This is also the main content of the next volume.

The protagonist will put the 100mm gun carrier he led in research and development into battle, and the elite division with strong support will also suffer here first.

As for whether it will be involved in the fierce competition for Pingangrad in the future, this is what I think.

In fact, most of the Battle of Pingangrad was not fought in the city. I have only read the first part of Grant's Pingangrad trilogy, but I have read a lot of other people's writings before.

Most of the battles in Pingangrad were not fought in the city. Only the film and television works and games related to this historical event were set in the city.

Come to think of it, the main defenders of the city were 62 episodes. This army group was much weaker than Paulus's six episodes. The entire six episodes were pressed, even if the battle loss ratio was ugly, the city was replaced.

And there were a lot of tanks in the six episodes, but tanks are not suitable for urban combat.

Where did the tanks go?

They fought against Soviet tanks on the plains outside the city.

In fact, only a small part of the urban combat in Pingangrad was fought. Most of the hundreds of thousands of people in the six episodes were lined up on the plains outside along the Valdai River.

Then I don't know what happened, it became that Chuikov commanded 62 episodes and ate up 6 episodes... It should be the marketing account.

Therefore, in the next volume, Wang Zhong should lead his 100,000 men to fight against Paulus' 300,000 men on the plains, and then let Kashukh defend the city and grind meat.

Ah, this is too far away, it should be the story of June.

Back to the present, everyone can see that this volume is mainly about the protagonist's establishment of prestige in the army. The protagonist will command the front in the future, and he must have division commanders and army commanders under him. There are not enough characters that have appeared now.

So I will try to expand the characters. This is what I originally thought, but as I wrote, I began to rely on the path. It was my battlefield experience and sensationalism. After a closer look, the new people who appeared were all Allied officers, and they could not be division commanders and army commanders.

After looking around, only Lieutenant Colonel Donald of the Volunteer Flying Corps can die - no, he can be used.

There should be more people appearing in this volume, mainly to make them familiar.

Now everyone is familiar with the faces of characters like Yegorov, especially Yegorov, and I feel that enough foreshadowing has been laid.

But I haven't decided yet, maybe I will live until after the war. I write based on inspiration.

The death of Alyosha in the volume of Loktov actually came to my mind when I listened to a song called "Alyosha". There is a line in the lyrics, "Now he can no longer pick flowers, it is the girl who gives him flowers", which touched me deeply.

Then the girl died too.

Like the death of Ivan and the old Duke Rokossov, they were also prepared to die from the beginning, so there was a lot of foreshadowing.

In short, if you see a person with a lot of "signs of death" in this book, he will die.

Except for the protagonist and those on the character list, you can give rewards to the main character list, so it is not good to let them die.

So those of you who create new characters, cheer, she will not die.

Why her? Because male characters should fight and face death calmly, so male characters will not be on the character card. (It is not because I tried several painters and the characters they drew made people want to call him "Military Young Master" that I decided to do so).

When I wrote the last volume, I was soft-hearted and didn't let Vasily's father die. As a result, I now find that I missed the opportunity to let the old father die.

Vasily also lost the opportunity to grow up. His role and arc did not change at all. He became a mascot-like character. I regret this very much.

Don’t think I’m saying this in a joking tone. In fact, the death of a character is a very serious matter that needs to be taken seriously. If his death cannot make his character arc more complete, and cannot make the arcs of others more full, then this death is meaningless.

I am very disgusted with this kind of meaningless death.

For example, what is the meaning of Yang Weili’s death? Whose arc is fuller because of this?

Yes, I know that the death of Reinhard and Yang Weili made the sentence "This year, Reinhard von Lohengramm was 21 years old, Yang Weili was 30 years old, and both of them were at an age with more future than past" become art.

But is that enough?

On the contrary, Siegfried’s death is great, making Reinhard’s arc fuller, and people can’t help but wonder if everything would be different if Siegfried didn’t die.

So letting a character die is a very serious matter. First of all, you need to establish the character, and then work hard to make the death meaningful.

This volume is mainly about establishing the characters and enriching the network of relationships between them, so that at some point in the future, his departure can become meaningful to my aesthetic taste.

Here I have to mention a book that I like very much recently, yes, it is "Xuanjian Xianzu". The passing of the first generation of the Li family really dances on my aesthetic taste.

It was only after reading Xuanjian Xianzu that I realized that readers are no longer children and can accept the departure of some characters.

Thank you Xuanjian Xianzu and thank you Yuejiren for writing such a wonderful work.

I have gone off topic. Back to this book, this volume has just started, and I was actually very worried that the data would drop seriously, but it seems that I was overly worried. The follow-up reading has even increased from 25,000 to 30,000, and the average subscription has also increased from 30,000 to 40,000.

This ratio of follow-up reading and average subscription shows that there is still room for improvement.

The key is that there is no battle in this volume. There is no battle in 40 chapters.

There should be about 20 chapters in this volume, mainly for the concentrated appearance of new characters, the arrival of new equipment, and the formation of new divisions. Then the next volume is the outpost battle of Heiangrad, and the protagonist has to grab a Tiger and hold it as a treasure.

Yes, he has to drive a Tiger, because I like Karius, and I even have a signed version of "Tiger in the Mud" brought by an old man brought by a friend who studied abroad.

Unexpectedly, the white Tiger is Ant's Tiger, haha.

By the way, I still owe one more update for the monthly ticket in March. I should make up for this update and the rest of the regular updates before the next long break.

I will take a break in May. Anyway, I have entered the battle volume, so I don’t have to worry about less updates and losing follow-up reading, right? I am super good at writing battles, and I have super many follow-up updates.

So there are only two updates a day in May, 6K.

The leader will continue to add more chapters, because May is very idle, so the silver alliance will add ten chapters. It is unlikely that there will be any gold Meng, so we will discuss it later.

It is unlikely to add 100 chapters, I will die, let me rest.

The leader's extra chapters just show my attitude, not to say that 1,000 yuan is worth one chapter, it is to show my determination to finish the book.

Well, I'll continue writing. Oh, by the way, I'll take a day off on the 1st of the next long break as usual. It's just right for me to finish reading Glantz's "The Rebirth of the Giants" and learn more about how the Soviet army reorganized after the initial collapse of Barbarossa.

Good night.