On the night of June 16, 1943, destined to be a sleepless night for Stalin and his men, the Germans attacked on the southern front of the battlefield, from Belgorod south to the city of Taganrog on the coast of Azov, a distance of 400 kilometers.

After only two days of fighting, between the Donets and Mius rivers, the defense line of the 12th Army of the Southern Front was completely broken, and the Germans opened a gap in the Soviet defense line more than 50 kilometers wide, and successfully occupied Voroshilovgrad, as well as the bridge over the Donets River to the north of the city.

Entering along this gap, the Germans could outflank the defenders of the Southern Front in the south along the Mius River, and move north across the Donets River, and they could outflank the troops of the Southwestern Front in the north along the banks of the Donets River.

Just when Stalin was indignant at the evil deeds of the villainous Lieutenant General Vlasov and worried about the situation of the two fronts on the north and south flanks of the breakthrough, he did not know that a great crisis was befalling the defenders of the southern line.

The crisis came from a man named Heinz von Rosen, who was in his attention and notorious in the minds of commanders of the Soviet army at all levels.

That night, after listening to the news broadcast urgently by the "Deutsche Welle" radio station on time, Chen Dao successfully fired a round of mouth cannons, and Chen Dao went to bed early to rest with satisfaction.

Tomorrow morning, he will part ways with the general Klerster, who is always expressionless, as if someone else owes him 10,000 imperial marks and has not repaid, and he is still in a very good mood.

After two days of waiting, the Luftwaffe's ground combat units were finally able to make their mark in the decisive battle on the Eastern Front.

The reason why the "Reichsmarshal" Panzer Division did not appear in the previous battles was all because of Goering's "selfishness in the jade pot".

The Panzer Division of the "Imperial Marshal" had just taken part in the campaign to conquer the Crimean Peninsula and had suffered certain losses, and if the losses in the outer battles of the Battle of Moscow were too great, how could it compete with the army units for the honor of being the first to enter Moscow.

In the peripheral battles of the Battle of Moscow, try to avoid the battles that can be avoided, and if you can't avoid them, then try to avoid those big battles that will cause heavy losses, so as to preserve your strength for the future direct attack on Moscow.

At the same time, in this decisive battle on the Eastern Front, it was necessary to strive for as many meritorious services as possible for the ground combat units of the Luftwaffe, such as paratroopers and air force field divisions.

Finally, my dearest Heinz, you are now in the ranks of Luftwaffe General.

If you can accomplish this, you will be the youngest field marshal of the Luftwaffe and the only one to suffer from airsickness after the Battle of Moscow.

The Marshal Scepter is beckoning to you, and you can do it yourself.

Thinking of Goering's selfishness, Chen Dao felt a headache.

It is clearly a paradox to strive for meritorious service and preserve strength.

Alas, he knew that Goering's request was very difficult to achieve, but he still agreed to it, speaking of which, he still couldn't resist the temptation of the rank of air marshal, and fell into Goering's trap, knowing that it was a pit, and he had to jump into it.

Lying on the bed, Chen Dao stared at the roof, carefully planning the next battle mode for a while, and then fell into a deep sleep.

At four o'clock in the morning the next day, the alarm clock next to the bed rang.

Chen Dao woke up suddenly, stretched out his hand to turn off the alarm, got up and washed up, put on the dark green Luftwaffe general's uniform, turned around and walked out of the door.

The adjutants were already waiting outside the door, and when they saw Chen Dao come out, Major Bach came forward.

"The convoy is on standby and ready to go."

"Well, let's go to the city of Voroshilovgrad for breakfast, I'm going to have breakfast with General Vlasov.

Chen Dao jumped into a SDKFZ251-type half-track, and the adjutants followed.

The half-track car was launched, sandwiched in the middle of the convoy and drove out of Artyomovsk.

To the east of Artyomovsk, a rolling torrent of German armored forces is pouring along a 50-kilometer-wide breach.

On the northern side of the breach, the road from the city of Gorskoye to Voroshilovgrad to the east was left to the Panzer Division of the "Reich Marshal".

Behind the "Imperial Marshal" armored division was the infantry corps of the "Honorary Jews" who entered the battlefield together.

On the south side of the breach, more roads, the vanguard of the 1st Panzer Army under the command of General Kleist: the 501st Heavy Panzer Brigade, the 1st "Imperial Eagle" Panzer Division, the 13th Panzer Division and the 16th Panzergrenadier Division, as well as the Iron and Steel Division, composed of the headquarters and direct units of the army group, passed through the breach unimpeded, and their task was to march south from the breakthrough and outflank the Soviet troops in the defense line of the Mius River in the south.

Behind them, the three corps under the Hungarian Second Army followed one after another, providing more infantry support to the First Panzer Army.

On the north side of the 1st Panzer Army, Chen Dao's troops took Voroshilovgrad to the north, crossed the Donets River, and outflanked the Soviet troops defending along the Donets River in a roundabout way. The First Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Vlasov, followed in the rear, providing more infantry support to Tran's troops.

The convoy soon drove past Gorskoye, through the middle of the battlefield.

Along the way, you can see groups of Soviet prisoners sitting on the grass by the road, and some German soldiers in camouflage uniforms are talking to them impassionedly.

Seeing that the German soldiers around him were holding Soviet-made weapons, Chen Dao knew that they were soldiers of Vlasov's First Army.

The First Army was a recruiting force mainly from captured prisoners, and in previous battles, the troops had suffered certain losses, and the recruiting department of the First Army was actively recruiting new recruits from the prisoners.

As the convoy continued to move forward, Chen Dao folded his arms and lay on the front of the car to the left of the MG-42 machine gun, and soon saw a village destroyed by war appeared in the wilderness on the left side of the road.

As soon as the half-track drove past the village, Chen Dao saw a herd of tanks parked in the wilderness to the east of the village.

Densely packed, there were hundreds of wreckage of tanks and armored vehicles of various types, and on the ground between the wreckage, there were countless corpses of infantry, many of which were mutilated.

Many soldiers in camouflage uniforms walked through the tank graveyards, crawling from tank to tank, sometimes burrowing into the tanks, next to soldiers with pen and paper recording something.

Trailers enter the tank graveyard and tow away some of the marked tank wreckage.

Chen Dao nodded, it seems that the efficiency of the weapons collection department of the Vlasov First Army is still very high.

As soon as the battle was over, they came to the battlefield in search of Soviet tanks that could be repaired. After all, the First Army used a full range of Soviet-made equipment, ranging from pistols and rifles to heavy artillery and tanks, and was only reinforced with a small amount of German-style weapons such as Iron Fist and tank-killer anti-tank rocket launchers.

In order to ensure the supply of weapons to the First Army, especially tanks and other heavy weapons, Chen Dao deliberately removed some engineers and senior technicians from China to join the First Army, and cooperated with the captured former Soviet Army technicians to form a powerful weapons collection department, which was specifically responsible for ensuring the supply of weapons to the First Army, and could truly reach the level of supporting the war with war.

It won't be long before the wreckage of these towed tanks will have their tanks restored and re-enter the battlefield with the Iron Cross insignia to beat up the Russians who made them.

The convoy marched all the way, passing through the town of Aleksandrovsk and then splitting into two teams.

The troops of the Panzer Division of the "Reich Marshal" headed north from the crossroads, across the bridges over the Donets River towards a wider battlefield.

Sitting in an armored car, Chen Dao entered the city of Voroshilovgrad, passed through the war-torn and ruined city center, and stopped in front of a luckily preserved hotel in the southeast corner of the city.

The headquarters of Vlasov's First Army was the first to requisition the hotel, called Woodpecker, and Mantofil then moved in with the headquarters, and with the arrival of Chen Dao, the leadership of the troops going north gathered.

After Chen Dao met with Vlasov and Mantufel, they naturally had a pleasantry of greetings, and after eating a breakfast consisting of hot milk, bread, and sausages, Chen Dao and the three returned to the combat command room and stood at the map table.

"After actual combat testing, this doctrine of large-depth battles is still very effective, although more aerial bombs and artillery shells are consumed, but it can indeed effectively shorten the time to open a breakthrough in the enemy's strong defensive line.

Once the breach is opened, subsequent rapid swarms can enter with little damage and deliver a deep assault on the enemy's rear to complete the campaign objective.

Now our troops, the 104th Heavy Armored Brigade of the SS, the Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutsch" have crossed the Donets River and entered the rear of the enemy's weak defenses. Their task remained unchanged, to launch an attack in the northwest, according to the original plan, to join up with the troops of General Manstein, who had crossed the Donets River from the Kupyansk region, and to encircle the Soviet troops in the bend of the Donets River.

There are about two army groups in this Soviet army, General Vlasov, and your troops are also following in this direction, responsible for intercepting the enemy, be sure to hold a strong line and don't let them escape. Behind you, the troops of the Honorable Jewish Infantry Corps are entering the battlefield, and if they are not enough, they will support you. ”

Vlasov stared at the map, his head with large black-rimmed glasses nodding repeatedly.

"I understand, I know my mission very well."

Chen Dao said to Mandolfer: "You are responsible for coordinating the actions of the Greater German Panzergrenadier Division and the SS 104th Heavy Armored Brigade, and I am responsible for coordinating the actions of the Imperial Marshal Panzer Division and the Honorary Jewish Infantry Corps, and we will try to cause as much trouble as possible for the Russians." ”

"What is their mission?" Mandolfil asked curiously.

"Field Marshal Goering gave me a very important and difficult task to find a way to suppress the air force of the Russians and provide protection from the sky for the actions of the ground forces. After thinking about it, I didn't have a good way to use our tank guns to hit the Russian planes, hoping that our tanks could catch up with the speed of the Russian planes. ”

Chen Dao paused and added.

"You heard me right, I'm going to chase planes with tanks."

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