The Third Reich in Desperation

It didn't take long for the 135th regiment's camp to be in a state of panic and panic. Tents were dismantled, tanks were preparing for work, and soldiers were busy loading bullets.

After finishing their work, the soldiers waited for the departure order from the acting commander Felix, and rested in place.

Although Loya's opinion is often Felix's order, Felix is ​​still the actual acting head after all, and the 135th regiment still has to wait for his order.

Before the operation, the army not only faced huge physical and mental pressure, but also had to encourage themselves over and over again. Before the charge, they were smoking cigarettes, and few people touched the brandy.Despite the sulfa drugs being dispensed, the fear of injury and death haunted and tormented them.Today is bound to be a sleepless night.The night is so long, the whole team is full of tense atmosphere, and the relaxation when they are stationed has disappeared. Some people lie down and doze, some people sit in a daze. He seemed to stop for a while and look ahead. Although there was nothing worth seeing in front of him except for a thin soldier who seemed to be asleep at this time, he still looked forward from time to time. really looking at something.

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In the Soviet army, people like Pavlov can reach the general level.In contrast, the very few people in the German army like Felix who were promoted because of the war were only at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

From this point of view, even if the German army's officer selection mechanism is still insufficient, it is much better than the Soviet army.

So in the end, even Modly in the logistics department knew that the real person in charge of the 135th regiment was not their acting head, but the little company commander Loya.

It didn't take long for the 135th regiment's camp to be in a state of panic and panic. Tents were dismantled, tanks were preparing for work, and soldiers were busy loading bullets.

After finishing their work, the soldiers waited for the departure order from the acting commander Felix, and rested in place.

Although Loya's opinion is often Felix's order, Felix is ​​still the actual acting head after all, and the 135th regiment still has to wait for his order.

Before the operation, the army not only faced huge physical and mental pressure, but also had to encourage themselves over and over again. Before the charge, they were smoking cigarettes, and few people touched the brandy.Despite the sulfa drugs being dispensed, the fear of injury and death haunted and tormented them.Today is bound to be a sleepless night.The night is so long, the whole team is full of tense atmosphere, and the relaxation when they are stationed has disappeared. Some people lie down and doze, some people sit in a daze. He seemed to stop for a while and look ahead. Although there was nothing worth seeing in front of him except for a thin soldier who seemed to be asleep at this time, he still looked forward from time to time. really looking at something.

Text 747 Error on top of error

Pavlov's luck was indeed very bad, only four days after the German Army Group Center launched a counterattack.The German army penetrated 200 kilometers into Belarus from the two wings of the Western Front, making the main force of the Western Front in the Bialystok salient completely fall into the German pocket.

Echoing this, the encirclement initiated by Field Marshal Bock was also supported by Germany's largest air force.

The Second Air Force, commanded by Catherine, with nearly 1000 aircraft, would be responsible for clearing out all remaining Soviet air forces in the Belarus region and conducting a sustained and heavy bombardment of any Soviet ground activities in and out of the pocket.

Such a pincer encirclement tactic, coupled with the combined attack of double-layer pockets and air strikes, even if Pavlov was in his headquarters, it would be impossible to crack it.

General Pavlov, who was staying at the headquarters of the 13th Army, was indeed completely intimidated by the rapid German offensive. Since he was no longer in the headquarters of the Front Army, he could not get enough information on the whole front and did not know that his other two armies What is the situation, let alone what actions the German army is taking.

From the orders he gave, it was clear that this mediocre man had been completely overwhelmed by the huge wave of attacks by Marshal Bok, and his spirit had begun to collapse.

Kuznetsov's 2nd Army was better. Pavlov knew that the opponent was a man of his own mind, so on the evening of June 6, he only issued an order to the 23th Army from the headquarters of the 13th Army. One life today:

"Comrade Tenth Army Commander, why didn't your mechanized army attack? Whose fault is this? Act now, don't panic, but command. You should attack the enemy in an organized manner, not run around without command. You should know where each division is, when and what actions to take, and what the consequences will be...."

As a result, when the commander of the 10th Army received such an incoherent order, he didn't know what Pavlov wanted to express, nor did he understand what strategic goals the Taoist Army needed their 10th Army to accomplish.

The only thing is that Pavlov's order is issued, which means that it has not been issued, and it is meaningless.

In his Front Army Command, General Kuznetsov of the Second Army had to work part-time as the commander of the Front Army, leaving the original command of the Second Army to the Chief of Staff and coordinating the overall situation by himself.

But after all, Kuznetsov needs time to get used to it and get familiar with it. During this period of time, Bock's tank group has already divided up and bypassed the Bialystok salient.

If someone can immediately issue an order at this time to immediately withdraw the three armies of the Western Front Army from the dangerous area, they may still have time to escape from the encirclement.

But Pavlov was not in the headquarters at all, and Kuznetsov, who joined the battle temporarily, did not know the specific situation, so he could only reluctantly package what he learned and send it to Pavlov.

Pavlov, who received the news from Kuznetsov, even thought for a while that the German tank group was advancing alone, and the supply line was stretched. He misjudged that this was the time to fight back.

Perhaps the defeat suffered by the Western Front in the first three days was too severe, and Pavlov firmly believed that it would be difficult for him to bear the blame for this failure.

Of course, he guessed right.Stalin would not let him go, especially after he had boasted and slandered Zhukov.Once he can't play well, the mistakes he made before will probably be liquidated.

In the upper echelons of the Soviet Union, many people already knew the details of Pavlov's incompetence.Once he fails miserably and his mediocre nature is exposed, basically no one will speak up for him.

He can only rely on himself. If the situation is saved, it will be fine. If it continues to deteriorate, Pavlov understands that his end will not be better than that of Zhukov.

If it was Zhukov, he would probably have forced the troops to retreat as he did in the Southwest Front Army.

Every military commander should understand how stupid it is to continue to let troops stay in the area that is about to be encircled.

But Pavlov is different. He thinks more about political influence and his own personal interests.

Cowardly, he lost his sober reason in this critical moment.He fantasizes that only by attacking boldly and desperately can he save the defeat and make up for the huge mistakes he has made.

At this time, his mind was full of how to redeem his mistakes, but he couldn't think of being responsible for the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Western Front Army under his command, and he couldn't think of the duty of guarding Belarus and the gate of Moscow.

This is the biggest difference between Pavlov and Zhukov. He only knows to be responsible for himself, while Zhukov is responsible for the country.

Pavlov immediately ordered that all the reserve forces of the group army and the front army be moved forward in an attempt to relieve the threat of the German frontal infantry division to the Biecheng Stoke salient.

However, in this way, a vacuum was left in the Minsk area, and more troops were pushed into the forefront, which made the German army's tactics of interspersed and encircled more complete.

Ba Yonglov's order is tantamount to sending more troops into the pockets of the German army, and at the same time handing over the tether of the pockets to Marshal Bock of the German Central Army Group.

At the same time, after Kuznetsov reported that there was no commander in the Western Front Command, Marshal Shaposhnikov, who was urgently sent by Stalin to the Western Front Command as a representative of the Western Front Command, had arrived at the headquarters and found the Western Front. The dangerous situation of the front army.

Next, Kuznetsov returned to his 6nd Army headquarters on June 25, while Shaposhnikov, who stayed at the Western Front General Command, hurriedly reported to the Soviet High Command that the Western Front might The situation of being surrounded.

After the report, Shaposhnikov sent a telegram to Pavlov of the 13th Army Headquarters, requesting that the other party quickly withdraw the troops from the Bialystok salient and transfer them to the old fortification site behind city ​​line.

How could Pavlov, who wanted to redeem his merits and drive the frontal German army back to the starting point, listened to Marshal Shaposhnikov's request, and did not reply to Shaposhnikov's telegram at all, biting the bullet Pretend not to see.

"What the hell is Pavlov doing!" Stalin was trembling with his pipe in his mouth anxiously at the Soviet High Command.

First, no one could be found in the headquarters of the front army, and the representatives of the high command dispatched in the past could not command the troops transferred to the front line by Pavlov.If things go on like this, even Stalin, an amateur military commander, can see that the Western Front is probably about to be encircled.

It is nothing new that the German army is good at encirclement tactics. What is strange is that there are always generals who will be encircled.

"Send an order to the Western Front in my name." After thinking about it, Stalin had no choice but to mobilize the troops of the Western Front personally: "Let the 3rd and 10th Army retreat eastward to Lida, Snownim, and Pinsk. Execute immediately!"

Text 748 Where is Zhukov?

It was not until the 4th day after the start of the battle on the Soviet-German Central Road that General Bashlov finally found some clues from the sporadic information he received after receiving the retreat order from Stalin himself.

His confused mind began to think clearly for the first time, and he probably figured it out. The German Rapid Corps will be able to approach Minsk from the northwest and southwest in about 2 or 3 days, encircling the main force of the Western Front.

In this way, the 3rd and 10th armies operating in the Bialystok salient were in a dangerous situation.

It was only at this moment that Pavlov really realized that the problem now is not how to counter the Germans, but how to avoid the imminent danger of annihilation.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and bursts of cold sweat permeated his clothes.Then, Pavlov looked at the military map again. There was almost a flat river behind Minsk, and the German army could drive straight into Smolensk and even Moscow.If hundreds of thousands of troops were encircled from the Bialystok salient to Minsk, Moscow would completely lose its geographical and military barriers.

If something like that happens, leader Stalin will kill himself!

"No! The troops must be withdrawn, at least the strength of these armies must be preserved, and they must stick to Minsk." Pavlov finally made the same decision to retreat as Zhukov had done a few days ago.

It's just that when Zhukov retreated his troops, he seemed relatively calm and he was able to arrange the rear guard troops to fight and retreat. It was not until the gap when Stalin replaced him with Timoshenko that the German army broke through.

As for Pavlov, he did not withdraw at the beginning, but now it is difficult to withdraw.

After carefully studying the information, Pavlov finally found that the encirclement of Marshal Bock of the German army left a corridor 50-60 kilometers wide in the direction of Minsk that was not completely closed.