Today, there will be three more, and tomorrow will break out again, and in addition, I will ask for a guaranteed monthly pass for one month "SS, honor is loyalty, forward" Major Schwarzenegger picked up the communicator on the wheeled armored command vehicle and gave his men the order to attack with a voice that seemed to burst from the bottom of his heart.
The motors of the 38 "Rhinoceros" tank destroyers, which had long been lined up, immediately drove to the maximum, emitted bursts of deafening roars, and marched east towards the morning light.
Of course, it was not only these "rhinoceros" of the 5th SS Tank Destroyer Battalion that were advancing, but more than 1,000 tanks, assault guns, tank destroyers and self-propelled guns covering a large plain.
More than a thousand chariots had already broken through to the banks of the Sori River, and then divided into several torrents of steel, rushing towards several shoals of the Sori River.
The other side of the shoal had long been under the control of the German Panzergrenadiers, who had launched a forced crossing operation the previous night, under the guidance of more than 100 No. 4 tanks and Grizzly assault guns, and with fire support from thousands of artillery pieces and rocket artillery.
It took less than 3 hours to force the crossing, forcing the Soviet tank units, which had long been exhausted, back several kilometers.
However, last night was only a prelude, and now it is a general offensive that will really bring a devastating blow to the enemy.
When Major Schwarzenegger's cougar wheeled armored command vehicle followed behind the "rhinoceros" and waded across the Sozh River, the hum of the plane's motor was heard in the sky.
He looked up at the sky and saw the looming warplanes whizzing over the German armoured clusters that were crossing the river, and pounced on the battlefield where the battle was being crossed, and the Panzergrenadiers and tanks who had crossed the river last night were engaged in the heaviest engagement with the Soviet counter-attacking forces between the city of Wetka and the Dobrush Forest "It's coming to an end," Major Schwarzenegger thought to himself, "the Soviets will soon lose the war, and maybe after the Battle of Gomel, peace negotiations will begin, and then Germany will have a glorious victory" "Countless tanks, how is this possible, how is this possible" Hearing the report of the Chief of Staff of the Front, Zakhakov, Comrade Stalin's most trusted king of small reports, was about to go mad.
Yesterday evening, Vatutin had just led a group of army tanks southward when the Germans came under overwhelming artillery fire At that time, there was a quarrel between Golikov and Zakakov, and Golikov judged that the Germans had discovered the actions of the Vatutin cluster, so they launched artillery bombardments and feints on the line of the Sozh River, trying to "pull" the Vatutin cluster back.
Zakhakov, on the other hand, saw Golikov as the beginning of a long-planned German counterattack.
He believed that the purpose of this counterattack was to keep the 1st and 2nd Tank Armies firmly on the Gomel line, so that they could not move towards the city of Bryansk in time before the two German outflanking clusters were in place.
The two have different views, so naturally they have different suggestions.
Golikov believed that it was necessary to retreat to the line of the Dobrush Forest in the city of Wetka, relying on the favorable terrain to defend itself, and at the same time allowing the Vatutin cluster to accelerate the detour and try to take the Germans by surprise.
And Zakhakov believes that the Vatutin cluster should be recalled, and then a decisive battle should be fought on the front line of the Dobrus Forest in the city of Vetka, and if the situation is unfavorable, then immediately retreat to the city of Bryansk.
Which of these two proposals was right, Mehris did not understand, he graduated from the Red Professors' Academy, which trains "social scientists", with the specialization of proving the correctness of scientific GC and critiquing Trotskyism.
He didn't know how to fight, but he knew that he should always be in line with Comrade Stalin.
And Golikov's opinion is clearly closer to Stalin's, moreover, the retreat to the city of Bryansk or something, now it is not something that the Bryansk Front command can decide, according to the Order of the Supreme High Command No. 1943 of the 197 year, the decision on the retreat of the Front can only be made by the Supreme High Command.
So Mekhlis supported Golikov without hesitation, but now it seems likely that he committed a serious "mistake in commanding against G.K.", which is not Meheris's fault, but Golikov's, and Mekhlis is ready to write a small report to expose him.
"The Vatujing cluster must now be recalled immediately" "No, it's daytime, and the Germans will blow up all the tanks in Vatutin."
"That would only be risky, because by evening we would have been routed by the Germans" "In that case, the Vatutin cluster should take advantage of the darkness to retreat to the city of Bryansk" Golikov and Zakhakov quarreled again, and this time Mehris didn't know who to support.
Just when the three members of the Bryansk Front were at a loss, suddenly a staff officer shouted and ran in.
"Comrade Commander, Comrade Military Commissar, urgent telegram of the 48th Army, discovered a group of German armored troops of army group near Zhukakov" "What" Golikov jumped up when he heard the news, "Is this true a group army level" "Really, it's true that the alert unit of the 48th Army encountered them last night, and this morning's air force reconnaissance also confirmed" The three people who were arguing were stunned at this moment, and no one could say a word.
Doesn't an arm-level armored cluster just say that it is just an army-level cluster, doesn't it mean that the troops of the Central Front can delay them, how can they now reach Zhukakov, which is only 50 kilometers from the city of Bryansk, what can they do?
How could the 48th Army be able to block a German Panzer Army, even if the city of Bryansk could be held for the time being, this German Panzer Army would be able to move freely outside the city of Bryansk.
This means that 2 tank armies here in Gomel, as well as 2 armies in Tsrubchevsk, will be surrounded.
If you count the 13th tank army, which is currently besieging the 5th collective farm in Klimovich. 5 of the 6 armies of the Bryansk Front were put in the pockets of the Germans.
Just when the three of them were completely at a loss, a dense explosion of bombs suddenly came from outside.
Golikov and the other three hurriedly rushed out of the headquarters located in a forest farm warehouse, which was at the edge of the woods, and from here they could clearly observe the battlefield ahead.
They only saw at least 100 twin-engine attack planes hovering in the sky, dropping strings of bombs from time to time, stirring up clusters of smoke and exploding fireballs, almost drowning the Soviet positions.
The tanks, tank destroyers, assault guns and anti-tank guns deployed there must have suffered heavy losses Farther away, the earthy yellow smoke filled the air, as if a sandstorm had been blowing.
However, this is not a desert, and there is only one reason for such smoke and dust, and that is that a large number of tanks and armored vehicles are crushing the ground with tracks The German armored assault had already begun Moscow, Kremlin.
Stalin sat in a high-backed armchair in the war room of the Supreme Command, as if he had suddenly aged ten years, his eyes glazed, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and his hands drooped weakly.
Marshal Pavlov and Marshal Shaposhnikov stood tremblingly in front of the great leader like two errant schoolboys, with beads of sweat on their foreheads and faces, and they kept rolling downward.
The Battle of the Junction looked like it was going to be a fiasco Just now, an urgent telegram was sent from the command of the Bryansk Front, and an armored cluster of "army group size" broke through the Sozh River and launched a surprise attack from the front against the main forces of the 1st and 2nd tank armies, and at least 500 aircraft of various types provided air support.
The headquarters of the 1st and 2nd tank armies suffered heavy losses and were in a bitter battle At the same time, the 48th Army stationed in the city of Bryansk once again confirmed that the enemy situation was being quickly resolved, and the enemy forces in the city of Bryansk were an armored group of "army group size", and at present, their vanguard had made a surprise attack on the periphery of the city of Bryansk and was engaged in a fierce battle with the 9th Mechanized Army under the jurisdiction of the 48th Army.
On the northern battlefield of the Junction Campaign, the 5th Tank Army was also in a desperate situation, and the strength of this group army had been exhausted by fierce fighting for many days, and there were less than 100 tank attack guns that could be used at present, and the rest of the entire group army was compressed in the No. 13 collective farm, and it was only a matter of time before the whole army was wiped out.
Although in places like Leningrad, Smolensk and Left-Bank Ukraine, the situation looks okay.
But Stalin knew that what the Soviet Union invested in the Battle of the Junction was the real main force of the three tank armies, and if the Germans were wiped out, then the vast western plain of the Soviet Union would become a battlefield at the mercy of German armored clusters.
"What to do, what to do now" I don't know how long it took for Stalin to open his mouth with difficulty and asked the two marshals in a low voice.
Pavlov and Shaposhnikov looked at each other, and both saw a look of despair in each other's eyes.
"Tonight throw into the Vatutin cluster," Shaposhnikov said, "in the plains south of the Dobrush Forest and the battle of the German armored clusters." ” "Can you win?"
Stalin asked.
"This can only be known by fighting."
Pavlov took up the question and replied, "If it is not fought, the Vatutin cluster can only retreat in the direction of Chernihiv this evening and try to join the camp of the Southwestern Front."
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However, as soon as the main forces of the German Panzer Clusters attacking the 1st and 2nd Tank Armies win, they will pursue them to the south and attack Ukraine from the north, together with the German Army Group South" Stalin waved his hand, "Needless to say, throw yourself into the Vatutin cluster tonight, let's fight a decisive battle" t1706231537: