Leaning back on the compartment of the SDKFZ251-type armored car, Chen Dao looked up at the rows of treetops that flashed outside the carriage.

"One, two, three ・・・・・・" was idle and bored during the march, and Chen Dao had to rely on several uneven treetops on the side of the road to pass the time.

However, it didn't take long for Chen Dao to be in the mood to count any longer, and turned to Major Bach and said, "I think we have come to the wrong place, and it is one of the biggest mistakes of my military career to bring our powerful E-40 tanks to this disgusting terrain." ”

Major Bach nodded slightly: "I just tested it on the front of the car, leaving the road, my vision can only be seen at most twenty meters away, the woods and shrubs on the side of the road are too lush, the geographical environment here is even worse than Belarus, and it is completely unsuitable for the play of the E-40 tank." ”

Captain Nietzsche's face was full of pride, and he said with a high spirit:

"In this kind of terrain, it is still up to our infantry to decide the outcome of the battle, and our big guys should follow behind the infantry as self-propelled infantry guns."

"You still can't get rid of the thinking of the big brother infantry in your head." Major Bach said.

Chen Dao said: "Although I am a big fan of armored troops, I have to say that infantry is not only the oldest of all arms, but also a well-deserved big brother, and at the same time the queen of the battlefield. In the distant future, the armored corps may become obsolete and obsolete, but the infantry will never become obsolete, and as long as the war lasts for a day, the infantry will exist for a day. ”

Captain Nietzsche was about to speak again, but was preempted by Major Lorenz.

"Your Excellency, Admiral Sher called. We spent the night in the city of Pustoshka tonight. He would like to invite you to dinner. ”

Forty minutes later. Chen Dao's convoy entered the center of Pustoshka and stopped in front of a hotel called "Chocolate Sandwich", which had been requisitioned by General Scheer and used as a temporary residence for the headquarters of the 46th Panzer Corps.

Seeing the name of the hotel, Chen Dao said with a smile: "In this country controlled by the Bolsheviks, I really can't accept that this hotel has a petty bourgeois name. ”

Major Bach said: "Perhaps the Bolsheviks were not as old-fashioned and impersonal as the legend suggests. ”

"That's right, that's probably the romanticism of the revolution." Chen Dao said.

In the room number 201 on the second floor of the hotel. When Admiral Scheer saw Chen Dao, he greeted him and said, "The kitchen of the hotel is preparing dinner, and the meal will be served in half an hour, so we can just use this time to discuss the next battle plan." ”

Chen Dao's eyebrows in his right eye twitched, and he asked curiously, "Is there a combat mission?" ”

General Scheer walked to the map, pointed to a small town named Shebezh, about sixty kilometers west of Pustoshka on the map, and said: "The command of the army group has sent an order that the 56th Panzer Corps under the 4th Panzer Army has approached this town and plans to break through the Stalin line here. Our task was to attack Sebezh from behind and assist the 56th Panzer Corps in breaking through the Stalin lines as quickly as possible. ”

Chen Dao quickly grasped the gist of the task.

"It's not a difficult task. It is nothing more than to let us take advantage of the fact that the Russians in the Stalinist lines are concentrating on the 56th Panzer Army and put a black hand behind them. Hit them hard and make them lose their ability to resist. ”

Admiral Scheer pursed his lips.

Under the description of His Excellency the Governor, such a serious combat operation actually made me feel the strange smell of gangster fighting.

Chen continued: "I don't think this mission is difficult, let alone challenging. What are you going to do? Need help from my guards? ”

Admiral Scheer hurriedly shook his head and denied that, as Chen Dao said, this mission to cooperate with the 56th Panzer Army to break through the Stalinist line was an unchallenging task, and there was no need to dispatch Chen Dao's governor's guard at all.

Such an unchallenging task, if you ask the Governor's Guard to work together, will make the Governor think that the army is incompetent.

His Excellency the Governor-General, because of the negligence of the Army Command, already has a deep prejudice against the Army, and must not deepen his prejudice.

"You don't need to send out the Doge's Guard, the 10th Panzer Division is enough for this mission. In carrying out this mission, I ask you to lead your Governor's Guard, in cooperation with the Waffen-SS Reich Division, to closely monitor the movements of the Soviet troops in the east, at this time, the Russians must already know the existence of the 1st Panzer Army, and also know that the Stalin line is surrounded by a roundabout, they will definitely send troops to relieve the siege, I do not want to be outflanked by the enemy when outflanking the enemy. Admiral Schell voiced his concerns.

Chen Dao said with a smile: "I earnestly hope that the Russians can come to relieve the siege and give me some achievements." ”

After Chen Dao finished speaking, he summoned Major Lorenz and asked him to inform the governor's guard to move into the east of Pustoshka City and take up the task of guarding.

As soon as the order was given, the kitchen sent someone to inform that dinner was ready.

While Chen Dao and Admiral Scheer were having dinner and discussing the next battle plan, General Kuznetsov was waiting anxiously at the headquarters of the Soviet Northwestern Front until the telegram he had been waiting for arrived.

The telegram came from Leningrad and was sent from Marshal Voroshilov, the commander-in-chief of operations on the North-Western Front.

What was on the telegram was exactly what Admiral Kuznetsov was looking forward to.

The 22nd Army has been transferred to the command of the Northwest Front, and the 10th Mechanized Army has all arrived at the front line of Veliko Luki and placed under the command of the Northwest Front.

Finally, the addition of these two new forces was enough to fight a tough battle, counter-encircle the German First Panzer Army, or even completely annihilate this army.

Just seeing the red and blue battlefield situation on the map, as well as the red and blue troop numbers wrapped in layers, Kuznetsov felt apprehensive again.

The current battlefield situation is that the 11th Army is sandwiched between the German First Panzer Army and the 56th Panzer Army and the 16th Army.

The emergence of the 10th Mechanized Army and the 22nd Army, together with the 11th Army, sandwiched the German First Panzer Army in the middle.

This layered battlefield situation is really like a praline chocolate.

Kuznetsov silently lit a cigarette and stared at the map in thought.

Will its own 11th Army collapse first under the attack of the Germans, or will the German 1st Panzer Army be the first to perish under its own attack? This is a very challenging question. (To be continued.) )