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"Kill!" At Shulka's command, the warriors rushed forward with bayonets.

At that moment, it was not only Shulka platoon that rushed forward, but at least one battalion.

This was mainly due to the fact that the entire front of the Soviet army was compressed and in a state of overcrowding...... The German tank counteroffensive caught the Soviets somewhat off guard, and the men and tanks in front of them retreated while the follow-up troops continued to advance, with the result that the soldiers and tanks were pressed together along the entire defensive line.

It can also be seen from this that there is still a big gap between the reaction speed of the Soviet army and the command ability of the officers compared with the German army, which cannot be solved by training in a short time.

Now, a breakthrough has opened in Shulka, and the troops, which had been too dense like squeezed balloons, have found an exit...... The nearby Soviet soldiers did not even need an order, and naturally rushed forward with the rear of Shulka's platoon.

For the Germans, the explosive bag in Shulka was like a hole in the, and the enemy poured out of the gap like a flood.

Screams, blood, and death soon filled the battlefield, and the German offensive line and morale collapsed almost instantly, and the infantry abandoned their tanks and retreated, at first organized, and soon turned into a disorderly escape.

The tanks went on a rampage and seemed to want to rush out of this battlefield, but they were quickly blown up by Soviet soldiers who caught up with grenades, incendiary bombs, etc.

The battle ended after ten minutes, and the German armored battalion was almost completely annihilated, except for a few who slipped through the net and more than 200 people who raised their hands to surrender, all the others lay on the battlefield and turned into corpses.

"Comrade General! We've won! The commander of the 9th Army, Major General Tolicka, reported in an agitated tone: "We annihilated the armored forces of the Germans, an armored regiment, at a small cost!" We've won! ”

The front headquarters was in jubilation for a moment, and Admiral Kirponos was relieved.

One army fights one regiment of the enemy, more than 500 tanks against 100 tanks of the German army...... There seems to be nothing to be happy about in such a relative victory.

However, this can be said to be the only victory that the Soviet army has achieved since the outbreak of the war, and in other directions, whether it is Leningrad in the north, Minsk in the middle, or Kiev in the south, all the troops have been defeated, especially in tank battles, and the Soviet army is even more vulnerable.

This gave rise to the mentality of many Soviet officers and soldiers, who believed that the Soviets could not stop the advance of the German army, that something was wrong with the Soviet tanks, and that it was impossible to win on the battlefield against the Germans, even if the Soviets had numerical superiority......

Only then did the 9th Army prove that this was not the case.

"Good!" Kirponos ordered: "Go ahead, go as planned!" ”

"Yes, Comrade General!" When he put down the microphone, Major General Toliczka couldn't help but feel emotional.

At first, he did not agree with the so-called training of the "escape hero" and the series of plans he proposed.

Of course, Major General Toliczka admits that there is a subjective element to this...... As a major general, the commander of the 9th Mechanized Corps, he certainly didn't want to believe that he was inferior to a sergeant who didn't even have a beard on his mouth.

But that's just one of the reasons.

Major General Tolichka thought: if the Germans could be defeated so easily, then are the millions of Soviet officers and soldiers who are retreating on the entire front all fools? Don't they know if they're trying out a whole training session or a new tactic?

But it turned out that Major General Tolichka was wrong, and they did defeat the Germans with the tactics of this "escape hero", and it was the armored forces of the Germans.

"Keep going!" Major General Toliczka gave the order with great confidence, and this victory gave him confidence.

On the other hand, Admiral Kleist, who was commanding the main force of the 1st Panzer Group to penetrate at full speed, also received relevant information.

A three-wheeled motorcycle overtook the "barrel car" in which Kleist was riding from the rear at high speed...... The so-called "barrel car" refers to a military car used by the German army, in order to reduce the cost and reduce the process, the edges and corners of the car are smoothed out in the design, so that it looks like a square "barrel".

"Your Excellency, General!" The adjutant jumped out of the passenger seat of the motorcycle in the rain, ran to the "barrel car", bent down and handed a folder wrapped in a tarp to Admiral Kleist, who opened the window: "I just received information that the Russians broke through the encirclement of Kiev!" ”

Admiral Kleist raised his head and looked at the adjutant suspiciously, and asked, "What about the 11th Armored Regiment?" ”

"They're all gone!" The adjutant replied.

"No, it can't be!" Admiral Kleist looked at the adjutant in shock.

After a pause, he suddenly realized something and asked: "The 9th Army of the Russians?" ”

"Yes, the 9th Army!" The adjutant nodded: "They suddenly appeared in Kyiv and launched a breakthrough." Colonel Eberhard launched a counterattack on your orders, and the result was ......"

Needless to say, the result was, of course, annihilation.

But this is not what Admiral Kleist is most worried about, victory and defeat are a common thing, and compared to the victory of the 1st Panzer Group, an armored regiment is nothing at all.

Admiral Kleist took the map out of his pocket, spread it out, put on his glasses and looked at it for a moment, then asked, "Where are they now?" ”

"Bzeelkovy!" The adjutant replied: "They were divided into two parts, one along the railroad and the other south along the road!" ”

Admiral Kleist looked down the railroad and road, and then gasped.

"They're going to put a counter-encirclement on us!" Admiral Kleist ordered the adjutant: "Immediately transfer the information to General Fern and ask him to deploy troops to stop them!" ”

"Yes, General!" The adjutant answered and turned and ran to the motorcycle.

The "barrel cart" continued to follow the troops, but Admiral Kleist, who was still full of confidence just now, was already worried at this time, and even completely lost the joy of victory and the encirclement of Kiev.

Because he suddenly realized that he had been fooled, completely fooled.

The mechanized 9th Army of the Russians never left Kyiv, this is a fake.

So, the Kiev bridge was blown up, and the 1st Panzer Cluster successfully crossed the river in Kremenchuk...... The Russians had deliberately allowed themselves to do this, in order to allow the 1st Panzer Cluster to cross the river.

Bring the 1st Panzer Cluster back again?

Crossing the river was easy and turning back, and the Russians only needed to set up a few cannons or bombard them with shallow heavy gunboats to stop the 1st Panzer Group.

Therefore, the 1st Panzer Group is not going back.

At the thought of this, a chill felt in Admiral Kleist's heart, and he could not imagine that the enemy had guessed his mind.

"Runaway heroes?" Admiral Kleist spat out a name from between his teeth.