The Third Reich in Desperation

Looking around the world, the Axis group formed by the alliance of Britain and France has knelt down in front of Germany's active allies.

Yugoslavia can't count on the rest, the Soviet Union, which they fear is too late, to help them fight against Germany, right?

Moreover, Germany's joining conditions are also very easy, as long as nothing goes wrong, Yugoslavia will provide the Allies with two divisions of infantry to assist in the management of the Allies' occupied areas in the Soviet Union.

After the end of the war, the land that Yugoslavia assisted in occupying these areas will also be appropriately divided among the Yugoslav government as war dividends.

The Yugoslav military can barely accept this level of request.Those who fear the Soviet Union can actually bear the pressure as long as they don't have to fight the Soviet army face to face.

Of course, what Reinhardt counted on was not how effective the four infantry divisions provided by Greece and Yugoslavia would be.

In the final analysis, this is just an auxiliary garrison in the rear that he won by the way, and its function is only to liberate the troops for the main force of the Allies.

The real purpose of Reinhard's wooing Greece and Yugoslavia is that he doesn't want to be enemies with these two countries as he did in history. In the end, after spending a lot of time and troops in vain, he divides his troops to occupy these areas. guerrillas.

Now, instead of dividing troops into the Balkan Peninsula to deal with the troublesome Balkan guerrillas, the German army also used these original enemies to help them deal with the future Soviet guerrillas in the future.

Text 713 eats 50 Soviet troops

Bork set the date of the great counteroffensive on June 6, which was quite a brainstorm.First of all, on this day, his Central Army Group just received the last Spanish German armorer, and the total strength reached the best saturation state.Secondly, this day happens to be the first day after the summer solstice, and it is the time of the year with the longest day and the shortest night. In this way, in the first critical days of the counter-offensive, the German army and its allies could fight for almost 22 hours a day, which greatly Make full use of the vigor in the early stage of the counterattack.

At 6 o'clock in the morning on June 22, the armies, divisions, regiments, and battalions of the Central Army Group had already launched a grand mobilization speech.

"Warriors of the Third Reich, now the greatest frontier of all time has been moved from defense to the beginning of an advance. Not only to provide the means of ending this great war for ever, and not only to defend those The countries that are currently at war, but to save our entire European civilization!

Soldiers of Germany! You have thus entered into a serious and demanding battle - for the present fate of Europe, the future of the German Reich, the survival of our nation, and the justice of the Allies rests with you shoulders.

At this moment, on the eastern front, a large-scale force that has never been seen in the world has been deployed!

To the north, the Finnish freedom heroes, led by their Marshal Mannerheim, are fighting Leningrad with our soldiers!

To the south, on the banks of the Prut and along the Danube to the beaches of the Black Sea, were Romanian and German troops united around the Romanian head of state Antonescu.

In the middle, the two main armies sent by Italy and Spain are fighting with our most powerful central army group, the German Army Group.

In our rear, Bulgaria, Greece, and Yugoslavia, the countries of the Balkan Peninsula that have been oppressed for a long time, have also organized an Eastern Expeditionary Force.

This is a great Eastern Expedition!

May God bless us all in this struggle!

This time, the Third Reich will bring justice to the whole world! "

Although the counterattack mobilization of the Central Army Group came later than the Northern Army Group and the Southern Army Group, it has more weight and momentum.

Because at this time, the Finnish army in the north, together with the German and Norwegian armies, had regained the strategic town of Viborg, and captured Hanko in a coordinated operation.

In the south, Romania also completed the initial stage of the counterattack, using troops with sufficient combat effectiveness to effectively support Rundstede's southern offensive, and restrained all non-German Soviet troops in the direction of combat.

The operations on other fronts have achieved the expected results, and on the entire Soviet-German battlefield, they have half surrounded the main Soviet army on the center line in a pincer situation.

At this time, Bork's counterattack is extremely beneficial, whether it is from the state of the Central Army Group itself or from the external strategic situation.

More importantly, at this time, the Soviet army in the central region was still working hard to maintain a local offensive and respond to the call of their superiors.

Invisibly, the Soviet army on the front line is still accelerating its demise.

"Order Guderian's 2nd Armored Group to be the vanguard, cross the Desna River west of Tubyzivsk and advance southward, and go straight to Romney behind Kiev. The 2nd Army moves south from Gomel, Cover Guderian's right wing." In his large headquarters in Warsaw, Bock clenched his fists and impatiently gave orders.

Bock, who had been waiting for this day for too long, no longer needed to think about it, and he could throw out a series of tactical instructions that he had already conceived: "The Italian and Spanish armored forces, in cooperation with Kleist's 1st Armored Corps, will start Klementchog on the bend of the Dnieper attacked north and joined Guderian near Romney."

"The Army Group South and the Army Group North have cleared the Soviet forces at the junction. That is to say, our armored forces will soon be able to complete the outflanking of the two wings."

Bock walked quickly to the Soviet map of the Eastern Front on the wall of the headquarters, picked up the telescopic rod, pointed at the intertwined red and blue arrows on it and said: "According to the Barbarossa plan, the Army Group South in Rundstede will be responsible for Contain the Soviet army at the bend of the Dnieper River north of Cherkassey, while covering the left flank of Kleist's 1st Panzer Corps. Model's SS will take over the position facing Paulus, and the liberated 6th Army We will move east, cross the Dnieper River, and attack Kiev."

Turning around, Bock looked around at his commanders and staff officers, and raised his voice: "Not to mention that the Soviet army is still trying to reshape the offensive, even if they immediately stop the offensive and garrison on the spot, it is impossible to stop our general offensive."

In the headquarters, all the generals nodded one after another after hearing this.

Even inexperienced generals, even officers who have just graduated from military academies, can see that the suicide attack of the Soviet army is simply trampling their strength and providing the German Central Army Group with a chance to counterattack.

Bork's analysis is very reasonable. The Soviet commanders' brains were indeed flooded, allowing them to command blindly.

It seems that an easy annihilation battle has been brought to the mouth of the Central Army Group.

"Soldiers, our army has planned for a long time. The far-reaching frontal assault and subsequent flank assault of our allied forces will quickly split the Soviet front army in front of us into several isolated groups."

Bock put away the telescoping rod, stood up straight seriously, and gave instructions: "It's time to teach the Soviets who invaded us a lesson. And the lesson I prepared for them is to eat at least 50 Soviet troops in one go!"

At least 50 people!

All the generals gasped after hearing this.If they could eat up a troop of this size in one go, it would be the biggest battle of annihilation they had ever encountered since joining the army.

In addition to the great success of tactically encircling and annihilating a large number of Soviet troops, such a combat operation would also allow the Allies to gain the rich Ukraine and the Donets Basin.

From a strategic point of view, this will also prevent the southern flank from being threatened by Soviet attacks or counterattacks like it did at the beginning of the war. This will also have great auxiliary significance for the Allied forces to attack Moscow in the future.

Of course, there are more meanings other than the military, which the soldiers present cannot think of for a while.

Occupying Ukraine was essential to establishing a Ukrainian regime that was friendly to the Allies.In this way, the forces of the Allies on the Eastern Front will increase substantially.And such a successful encirclement and annihilation campaign can also greatly add points to the Allied camp in the international arena and increase the enthusiasm of the Allies.

For the scale of Vichy France and the three major German-friendly British governments in the future, such a victory has a lot of intangible encouragement...

text 714 Why don't you want to

"If we continue to attack like this, we will lose at least 50 people!" Kirponos said aggrievedly to himself, staring at the bad battle reports that were constantly being sent back from the front.

Beside him, General Puerkayev, the chief of staff who has been with Kirponos for a long time, who is well aware of his situation, took a step forward and persuaded him contemptuously: "Commander, our front army sent out 7 Ukrainian divisions to surrender This is already a very serious crime. If you don’t obey the general secretary’s offensive order and withdraw the troops without authorization at this time, I’m afraid we won’t be able to explain it..."

"Confession? If we wait for the German Army Group Center to counterattack across the board, we will all confess here. What else can we explain to the General Secretary?" After listening to Pu'erkayev's persuasion, Kirponos said again A sense of powerlessness.

To continue the offensive would be inconsistent with his sense of responsibility as a front commander, but to order a halt to the offensive would not be consistent with his standard of loyal action as a general under Stalin.

Kirponos, who was hesitant, paced repeatedly in the headquarters: "Where is Comrade Zhukov? He should know the seriousness of the problem. If the order is not issued to build a defense line, then everything will be too late."

Kirponos has already made preparations to issue various orders, stop the offensive, immediately garrison, and mobilize the militia... The drafts of various orders were also drawn up by Chief of Staff Puerkayev, and now Still in hand.

At this moment, Puerkayev held several order documents that he had drawn up by himself, clenched his palms, and said through gritted teeth: "Of course Comrade Zhukov is not a mother-in-law, and he would not be willing to delay the opportunity of the war like this. But ordering such an order I am afraid that the order must go through the Supreme Commander. I guess Zhukov is probably trying to persuade Comrade Stalin at this time."

After hearing this, Kirponos also felt that it made sense, and what he said was also in line with his inner guess.

With an irritable temperament, he quickly walked towards the phone: "Anyway, the order will definitely arrive, I think we should make some decisions first, let the troops retreat to the front line of defenses, and give up the meaningless attack. Otherwise, it will be too late Already!"

Seeing this, Pu'erkayev quickly grabbed Kirponos' hand that was reaching out to the phone, and reminded in fear, "Wait, we still have to wait for the order."

"Why?!" Kilponos said in surprise when he heard that the other party was still waiting for orders, "Don't you know that the front line may collapse at any time!"

"Of course I know!" Pu'erkayev, the chief of staff, shook his head, and sighed earnestly: "But I also know that there is a large number of Ukrainian traitors in our front army, and we have not had time to be dealt with by the rear. If we act at this time There are some disloyalty to Comrade Stalin's instructions, then..."