Chapter 559: When Lucky Star Meets Fox

What kind of god is Rokossovsky?

When it comes to this name, Soviet generals such as Zhukov and Yeremenko, who were once classmates with him, will mention the following characteristics with a sour feeling. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tall, burly, and handsome, when Driver Luo was in a good mood, where a pair of electric eyes swept over, all the females would tremble all over their bodies.

However, under the outstanding appearance, Driver Luo also has two hidden attributes, invincible lucky aura + viciousness.

At the end of the purge in 1937, Rokossovsky rose to prosper, but unfortunately was targeted by the NKVD and invited to tea and chat.

Ignoring any arguments made by Rokossovsky, the NKVD sentenced Rokossovsky to death on charges of fornicating with Polish and Japanese intelligence agents.

Rokossovsky was escorted to the execution ground with three people, the first two of whom were shot in the head at close range from a pistol and died on the spot.

When the pistol was pointed at Rokossovsky's head, Rokossovsky heard a crisp gunshot, but was unharmed.

The executioner muttered "lucky guy" and turned away, and the driver was thrown into prison.

Two years later, the lucky Luo driver learned that under the covert intervention of his old superior, Marshal Timoshenko, the executioner used an empty cartridge.

In 1939, when Germany attacked Poland and the clouds of war loomed over Europe again, Marshal Timoshenko asked Stalin for a pardon on the grounds that he was in urgent need of talent for the expansion of the army.

If you don't die in a catastrophe, you will have a blessing, and after walking on the death line once, Rokossovsky has been possessed by a lucky halo since then.

After being imprisoned for no reason, and being shot once, Rokossovsky's world view, outlook on life, and values changed significantly, and he has since gained a vicious attribute.

The commander of the Western Front, General Pavlov, was shot after losing the battle, and the commander of the North-Western Front, Colonel-General Kuznetsov, was sent to a military court for defeat.

Rokossovsky lost the battle in Romania and instead was promoted from major general to lieutenant general.

The reason for the defeat was that the responsibility for the defeat was borne by the commander of the Southern Front, General Tyulenev, but Rokossovsky, because of the effective organization when he transferred in, did not let his troops be surrounded and annihilated alone, and successfully withdrew from Romania with a group of remnants of the defeated generals.

When the Supreme High Command realized that more than a million Ukrainian troops were in danger of being surrounded and gave the order for a large turn on the Dnieper, Rokossovsky moved further than the other troops, and did not stop until Kharkov, 300 kilometers east of the Dnieper, and became the commander of the reconstituted 40th Army.

As the Germans pursued the Dnieper and more than two million troops from both sides gathered on both sides of the Dnieper, the Soviet High Command began to seriously consider the formation of reserves in the southwest, and the Steppe Front was immediately formed, with its headquarters in Kharkov.

The reason is simple, there were Rokossovsky's 40 Army in Kharkov at this time, as well as the remnants of the 4th and 8th Mechanized Corps. These two troops retreated all the way from Romania to the Dnieper, and because of the heavy losses, they were ordered to go to Kharkov to repair and replenish.

Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, is also the birthplace of the T-34 tank, and the two mechanized armies began to squat at the factory gates, taking off the line of robbers who robbed one another.

With the two mechanized armies and the 40th Group Army as the backbone, after the establishment of the Grassland Front, Luo Driver's lucky aura and vicious attributes were both powerful.

As an outstanding professional soldier, Rokossovsky learned from the painful experience and created the vicious tactic of light and medium tanks charging in front and KV-2 following behind to shoot black cannons.

Rokossovsky's reasoning was that the KV-2 was equivalent to a battleship in the Navy, and medium tanks and light tanks were equivalent to cruisers and destroyers, and there was no reason to let the battleships charge in front and the cruisers and destroyers hide behind in naval battles.

What's more, the 152 howitzer on the KV-2 is currently the only tank in the army that can deter the German E-40 tank.

After the report was sent to the Supreme High Command, Comrade Stalin, the Iron Man, who favored the heavy guns of giant ships and heavy guns like Lao Xi, recognized Rokossovsky's image metaphor and called him a "very thoughtful young man."

Since then, Rokossovsky's name "Jane in the Emperor's Heart".

After the viciousness, it was lucky, after the formation of the steppe front, the Supreme Command was surprised to find that Rokossovsky turned out to be the highest-ranking officer in the city of Kharkov.

"That's him." As soon as Stalin made the final decision, this "very thoughtful young man" was promoted to the post of commander of the front.

Soon, the Supreme Command transferred the Second Mechanized Army to strengthen the Steppe Front, which was a relatively complete mechanized army.

Because they were behind the Dnieper defense line, there was a fog of war, and the Germans did not know about the existence of the Luo driver and the steppe front.

Soon after taking office, Luo's lucky aura made two successive threats.

The first manifestation of the Halo of Fortune was when a general surnamed Rommel led his troops deep alone.

Not only Luo Driver, but also the eyes of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Army were all focused on Rommel, and if this army was not eliminated, the Central Front and even the entire defense line of the Neper River were in danger of collapsing.

The heavy responsibility of destroying Rommel's troops fell on the shoulders of the Ronald driver.

It happened that there was an airborne corps under the command of the 40th Group Army, so Luo Driver formulated a tactic of paratroopers first and light tank behind, to encircle Rommel's troops in one fell swoop.

It was at this time that Driver Luo's lucky aura flared up again.

As Army Group North Ukraine approached Kyiv, the pressure on the Central Front doubled, and Khrushchev kept sending telegrams to the Supreme High Command urging reinforcements.

The enormous pressure on the Central Front was felt by Stalin just by looking at the situation line on the map, and the newly formed 63rd Army immediately set out to help the Central Front.

When the vanguard of the 63rd Army arrived in Sumy and planned to enter the theater of operations of the Central Front along the route of Sumy, Romne, and Priluki, Rommel led the 24th Panzer Corps into Romne and crossed the transport line of the 63rd Army.

Upon learning of Rommel's movements, Stalin immediately issued a supreme directive that he could not tolerate it and immediately eliminate this wandering fascist gang.

With an order from the Supreme Command, Rokossovsky had an additional 63rd Army under his command.

With great power in his hands and heavy troops in his hands, Rokossovsky's vicious attributes immediately attacked.

First, the main forces of the Front were advanced to the line of Sumy and Aktika, and Rokossovsky then ordered the 2nd Mechanized Army, which was the main force, to march along the road from Sumy to Konoto.

The 15th Motorized Division, with the B (Variant) T (Status) -7 and BT-5 series tanks as the main force, took the lead and rushed to Konoto, and then made a beautiful left drift, along the country dirt road, turned into the road leading to Konoto in Romne, joined the paratroopers who were one step ahead, and launched a defensive posture towards Romny in the south to prevent Rommel from breaking through to the north.

The 11th Tank Division followed up and attacked Konoto directly, preventing the Germans from moving south to relieve the siege.

The 16th Tank Division marched into Romne along the highway from Sumy to Romne.

The infantry divisions of the 63rd Army and the 40th Army followed in the rear of the 2nd Mechanized Army, starting from Sumy, forming a huge fan and marching towards Romne and Konoto.

At the same time, in the western direction of Priluki, the Central Front sent the first part of the 21st Army from west to east.

In the southwest, the Southwestern Front sent the 37th Army from south to north to encircle Rommel and the 24th Panzer Army.

Driver Luo's plan was very vicious, and he was not in a hurry to kill Rommel, but to drive Rommel's troops away from Konoto, and then wait for the friendly forces of the Central Front and the Southwestern Front to arrive, and then surround and eat this lone army.

Under the ironclad tactics of Rommone, the troops of the three front armies, with Romne as the center, poured towards Rommel in a mighty manner.

The sky has long been bright, and Romney, as the focus of the battlefield, has long been the center of attention on both sides.

The march of the brigade could not avoid the detection of the air force.

In the inner city of Romney, Rommel looked at the newly added blue arrows on the map in the east, west, north and south directions, and his face was full of waves.

"It's a pity that it's only four or five hours away." Schwebenburg said.

Rommel nodded imperceptibly and did not speak.

Schwebenburg was right, it was only four or five hours, that is, a morning.

First, after receiving an order from Marshal Bock to hold on to the position, the troops immediately began to prepare for fortifications.

Nearly three hours later, he received a warning telegram from an old friend, regrouped his troops, and was about to set off, but found that it was too late.

Reconnaissance planes of the Air Force sent telegrams that large numbers of Soviet armored units appeared on the road from Sumy to Konoto and on the road from Romne to Konoto.

At the same time, according to the speed of movement of Soviet troops from the east and west flanks provided by the air force and scouts, they will inevitably come into contact with their own broken troops before they open the road to Konoto, and then surround their own troops, depriving themselves of room for maneuver, and then being wiped out by the enemy's superior forces.

In any case, the road to the north is not to be walked, and it is too late to come up.

The Soviet troops in the south are relatively far away, and contact is expected to occur tomorrow, but they cannot go south.

To the east is the place of departure of the enemy's main forces, which cannot be walked either.

Well, there is only one choice left for yourself.

Rommel looked to the west.

"It seems that we have only two paths to go at the moment, one is to hold on to the Führer's orders. The other is to attack westwards and expand the depth of our defenses. ”

General Schwebenburg was the first to express his thoughts, which coincided with Rommel.

Rommel looked at Priluki, eighty kilometers to the west.

"Let's go to Priluki first, crush the enemy in this direction, and then ・・・・・・ can, huh? Priluki is so close to Kyiv, only more than 120 kilometers, and there are relatively good quality roads to use. ”

Rommel was like discovering a new continent.

"I heard that the Sixth Army is attacking Kyiv, can we go there and join them?" Schwebenburg asked.

"It's really a method, it's only a total of 200 kilometers, and if it's fast, you can get there in two or three days." Rommel said.

"So what are we waiting for?" Schwebenburg asked.

"But the Führer disagreed." Rommel said.

Schwebenburg was stunned.

Seeing Schwebenburg's stunned appearance, Rommel suddenly smiled and said: "You really lack a sense of humor, I will personally take someone to Priluki." Before leaving, I will prepare a telegram to you, and you will immediately inform the whole army, and send a copy to the army group headquarters, and ask them to forward it to Marshal Bock. ”

About half an hour later, when Rommel led his troops out, the contents of the telegram were conveyed in the order of the army headquarters, divisions, and regiments, down to each soldier.

"I am General Rommel, and I have the very heartening news that we are surrounded by nine times our enemy. If you, like me, don't want to be a dead body, or go to Siberia to mine alive and die, follow me, and I'll lead you to Kyiv, kick the Russians in the ass, and then join up with General Paulus and let the Russians eat our tank exhaust. ”

On the road to Priluki, the commander of the 3rd Panzer Division, Major General Moder, read the contents of the telegram, gently folded and stuffed it into the pocket of his military uniform, and the expression on his face did not change, as if nine times as many enemies as the telegram said were air.

On another road, about fifteen kilometers north of Moder, Major General Langelmann, commander of the 4th Panzer Division, read the telegram with a smile on his handsome face and a mustache.

"Kyiv is only 200 kilometers away from us, and we can get there with one foot on the accelerator."

In Romney, Schwebenburg was disgruntled.

In this briefing, although Rommel's tone was relaxed, it was still easy to demoralize the grassroots soldiers, especially since the enemy had nine times the strength of our troops, and I don't know where to get the data.

More importantly, once a soldier was captured in battle, under the severe torture of the Russians, it was very easy to expose the operational objectives of the 24th Panzer Army.

It was only Rommel who repeatedly told him that it must be conveyed to every soldier, and Schwebenburg had to do so.

Throwing away the distractions in his mind, Schwebenburg took command of the battle in spirit.

Rommel left behind the 10th Motorized Division, and the 3rd and 4th Panzer Divisions, each with a motorized infantry regiment and two companies of tank destroyers No. 4.

With these troops, he was to defend an area thirty kilometers long from east to west and fifteen to eighteen kilometers wide from north to south.

And he had to deal with at least one tank division, and an infantry division of its sheer number.

Half an hour after the battle in the Romne area began, Rommel received the first telegram from the headquarters of the Konoto City Army Group.

The enemy forces were attacking Konoto, and the army group headquarters was in great danger and could not send troops south to the rescue.

After another ten minutes or so, Rommel received a telegram from Schwebenburg.

"According to the prisoners' confessions, it was the Steppe Front that launched an attack on us in the east."

"The Russians actually hid a front here・・・・・ well, I'll scare you too."

Rommel wrote a telegram and threw it to the radio vehicle.

Twenty minutes later, East Prussia, Wolf's Lair.

When Hitler was woken up from his nap and hurried to the operational headquarters.

"There are two new circumstances," Halder said, "General Rommel refused to carry out the order of the center flowering and was going to outflank Kyiv. ”

"He's acting on his own・・・・・・ well, if he can outflank him, I can forgive him. What's new in the second situation? Hitler said with a calm face.

"The second new situation is that behind the Dnieper line, the Russians are still hiding a steppe front, which, judging by the current situation, will pursue General Rommel's troops to Kyiv."

Halder clearly saw that Hitler's eyes bulged and could burst at any moment, and Hitler was obviously frightened by this sudden news.

In a blink of an eye, seeing Goering walking through the door, Hitler split his head and asked: "Herman, Rommel is going to Kiev, was it instructed by Heinz?" ”

"I don't know."

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PS: Driver Luo, along with Zhukov and Konev, is called the troika of Soviet generals, which I will focus on today.

There is only this chapter today, and it will be updated tomorrow to talk about how Lao Long escaped and ascended to heaven. (To be continued.) )