On the map, east of Kiev, the red and blue lines representing the battle lines between the German and Soviet armies, as well as the red arrows marked with the number of the troops, clearly show that the Second Panzer Army commanded by Rommel has pulled the battle line with the First Panzer Army, and even protrudes a part to the south, obviously advancing faster than the First Panzer Army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After comparing the map with a ruler, Hitler asked dissatisfiedly: "What is going on with General Kleist?" Why is progress so slow? Today is the fourth day of the offensive, and the advance distance is less than a hundred kilometers. ”

Halder hurriedly explained: "The offensive of the 1st Panzer Army was blocked in Chernihiv, where it was less than two hundred kilometers from Kyiv. The Russians should have guessed our purpose. In order to protect the Ukrainian capital, the troops of the Bryansk Front put up very resolute resistance, and according to a telegram sent by General Kleist, the Russians behaved in a way that could only be described as crazy, completely different from the Russians encountered in previous battles. ”

Hitler said lightly: "When the war is unfavorable, the generals always find reasons for their performance." On his left flank, General Rommel, General Manstein on the western border, General Guderian, and General Fittinghof-Scher, in addition to facing the same crazy Russians, had to face the blockage of the Stalin line and the Pripyat marshes. As far as I know, near Chernihiv, there are neither large swamps nor areas covered by the Stalinist Line. ”

In the face of Hitler's ridicule, Halder was not able to make any excuses, as an armored army, compared to Guderian and Manstein and others, Kleist's advance was indeed too slow.

Chen Dao rubbed his nose and decided to excuse his old subordinate Mandolfer's father-in-law.

"It is possible that Stalin discovered that the main forces of the 1st Panzer Army were not in the swamps, but suddenly appeared and threatened the rear of Kiev, so he let the Bryansk Front, at any cost, block General Kleist, and let out a bad breath for being fooled by us before."

Hitler was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"If you don't say it, I almost forgot that the 1st Panzer Army always likes to change vests indiscriminately, which made Stalin suffer, well, this is also a reason."

"So far, with the exception of General Kleist's troops, everything is going well. I think I should go and meet Comrade Lenin. I am in a very unhappy mood to think that I will not be able to see you for a long time, and with dear Marshal Keitel, Marshal Brauchitsch and General Halder, and I will miss you at the front. ”

"You're leaving today?" Hitler asked in surprise.

"Yes, let's go today, if there are no accidents, I will arrive at the port of Riga early tomorrow morning, and then go to the headquarters of Army Group North and see Marshal Loeb." Chen Dao said.

"Well, you go early and come back early, you must erase Leningrad from the map, I hate the name, I hate the city." Hitler said.

"I wouldn't recommend it from a logistical point of view, but if you insist on doing it, I'll do it." Chen Dao said.

Two hours later, Goering personally took Chen Dao to the parking lot.

"You must go early and come back early, and if the Führer shows his leapfrog thinking again, and Brauchitsch and Halder are making trouble next to you, I can't handle it alone."

Seeing Goering's worried look, Chen Dao smiled and comforted: "Don't forget, you are the only imperial marshal in Germany, at the critical moment, show your prestige as an imperial marshal, don't be too accommodating to them." ”

Goering smiled, but he didn't have enough confidence to laugh.

"With me, don't worry, I'll hold out until you come back."

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On the morning of 27 August, when Chen Dao's ship Prince Eugen sailed into the port of Riga in Latvia, the northern shore of the distant Black Sea, on the eastern border of the Republic of Moldovation, on the west bank of the Dniester River.

Guderian instructed the driver to pull over on the right side of the road.

Guderian saw that on the bank of the river next to the road, two trailers were parked one after the other.

The two trailers were connected by a wire cable, and the second trailer also had an extra-long wire rope sticking out of the tail, the other end of which was tethered to the tail hook of an E-40 tank.

The tank was parked facing the Dniester River, the body was wet, countless water droplets dripped from the body, and above the rear power compartment, a snorkel more than three meters high stood tall.

Seven or eight soldiers gathered around the tank, and two soldiers in black tanker uniforms stood next to the tank's turret, pried open the hatch, and dragged a wet corpse out of the turret.

Subsequently, in front of the tank chassis, the door of the compartment where the driver and the communicator were located were pried open, and two swollen bodies were dragged out of the tank・・・・・・

After waiting patiently for a few minutes, Guderian saw five bodies lying side by side next to the tank.

"If we are abandoned by the goddess of fate, if we cannot return to our homeland from now on, if a bullet ends our lives, at least our faithful tanks will give us a grave of steel."

Guderian silently finished reading the last lyrics of "The Song of the Panzers", reached out and patted the driver's shoulder, and the wheels of the barrel car turned again, kicking the dust away.

As a battle-hardened veteran, Guderian quickly returned to reality from his lament about the loss of his life.

Russians are really hard to use common sense!

Such a strong Stalinist line had no reserves behind it.

Where did the tanks that the Russians had so many that they could not finish fighting go? Why was there no counter-assault on the breach? It's unreasonable, it's a very low-level mistake.

With questions in his head, Guderian's convoy crossed the bridge over the Dniester River, passed through the town of Dubsaari, and headed for the heart of Ukraine.

More than an hour later, in the theater of the 11th Army in the north, the commander of the Imperial Marshal's Division, Mandolfer, led the division headquarters through the breakthrough with the same question.

Sitting in the car, Mandolfer looked at the chaotic battlefield on both sides of the highway and pondered the same questions as Guderian.

Where are the reserves of the Russians? Where is the main force? He even allowed himself to break through the Stalinist lines.

With questions in his head, Mandolfir's convoy crossed the breach and followed the large army eastward.

On both sides of the breakthrough about 10 kilometers wide, the infantry of the 11th Army were still fighting bloodily.

The armored forces could confidently march into the depths of the Soviet army, and they would have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of clearing the remaining Soviet troops of the Stalin line.

While Guderian and Mandolfel's forces were rolling eastward, in the southern part of the Pripyat Marshes, in the already German-occupied city of Rivni, the commander of the 46th Panzer Corps, General Fitinhoff-Scher, was about to move west.

Admiral Scheer frowned, jumped into the barrel car with a full stomach, and the convoy set off for the west of the city.

Before leaving, he received a report from the 10th Panzer Division that it had captured Lutsk, 50 kilometers west of the city of Rivni.

Lutsk, like Rivni, is also a transportation hub.

About 50 kilometers west of Lutsk is Vladimir Volynsky, the border town between the Soviet Union and the former Poland.

It was the intended meeting place of the 46th Panzer Army and the vanguard of the Sixth Army under Army Group South, provided of course, that the Stalinist line between the two armies was first broken through.

Lutsk was only about fifty kilometers from the Stalinist Line, and it was a major transportation town, so it was unusual for the 10th Panzer Division to capture it easily.

It was no secret to the Russians that their own troops appeared south of the Pripyat marshes, and the Russians let their troops go unchecked.

The transport hubs of Rivni and Lutsk were captured, and the Russians were slow to react to the point of madness.

Defeating this kind of enemy is really unfulfilling!

Admiral Scheer instantly felt an inexplicable sense of loss in his heart.

・・・・・・

The Dnieper River is the second largest river in eastern Europe and the third largest river in Europe, originating in the southern foothills of the Valdai Hills in Russia.

The Dnieper River flows south through Belarus, Ukraine, and empties into the Black Sea south of the town of Ochakov in southern Ukraine.

Ninety kilometers upstream from the mouth of the sea, in the city of Tavriysk, on the left bank of the Dnieper, everything is in chaos.

On the streets, buses, cars, trucks, and agricultural carts pulled by horses, oxen, and mules are crowded together, and the city's otherwise orderly traffic order becomes extremely chaotic.

The streets are crowded, and the alleys of the city are filled with crowds of people.

These groups are predominantly male, and most of them wear peaked caps, have a sleek, and have obscene and debauched eyes.

They searched the alleys one by one, and when they saw the locked doors and the houses with no one inside, they rushed up, grabbed the sledgehammer or axe in their hands, smashed open the doors and windows with impunity, and rushed into the house to loot the property.

If no one stops evil, it means indulgence.

Since then, the hooligans' targets are no longer limited to unoccupied houses.

Soon, the angry yells of men, the screams and cries of women, and the unbridled laughter of hooligans filled all corners of the city.

When the evil in broad daylight was intensifying, there were more than a dozen blue streams on the streets of the city.

If a Soviet soldier or officer sees these soldiers wearing khaki uniforms but wearing distinctive blue caps, he will immediately recognize them as the notorious NKVD (NKVD) troops.

In the northern part of the town, Captain Villeen Schunezel (played by reader Macsad-Internet Police) leads a squad of his subordinates through the residential area.

Stopping in front of a red-roofed two-story wooden house, Captain Schunezel pointed to the wooden house and shouted, "Go in and have a look." ”

Eight subordinates rushed into the wooden house, and the howls of the children in the wooden house instantly increased, and the screams of the women quickly disappeared, and the screams of the men were replaced by bursts of men's screams.

A little more than a minute later, two soldiers each walked out of the hut with a crying little boy in their arms.

Then came a disheveled young woman, followed by a girl who was also in tattered clothes.

After a brief glance at the weeping young woman and girl, Captain Schunezel raised his hand to carry the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle in his hand.

Six soldiers, working in pairs, dragged out three men with bruised noses and swollen faces like dogs, and threw them at the feet of Captain Schunezel.

As he was about to speak, he saw two of his men return to the hut and carry out the body of a young man from the house.

Captain Schunezel glanced at the corpse and saw that the corpse had been stabbed in the chest and abdomen, apparently a knife wound.

The young woman and maiden threw themselves on the corpse, their terrible cries piercing Captain Honezel's eardrums.

Picking up a semi-automatic rifle, Schunezel slammed the butt of a rifle into a young man's mouth.

"Ahh・・・・・・h

"Did I get you guys on your feet? Get down. ”

Under the intimidation of Captain Honezel, the three hooligans had to lie on the ground again.

Captain Schunezel pointed to the corpses on the side and the two women who were crying, and said indifferently: "Seeing them, I don't think it's necessary to send you to court. I will enforce wartime military law and shoot you. If you have any last words, say them as soon as possible. ”

The facial features on the faces of the three hooligans distorted instantly.

The scoundrel who was beaten all over the ground by Cinezel shouted: "You can't kill us, you have to go through the court, it's not in accordance with the procedure, we have to go to court, we have to see the judge." ”

"You're talking about procedures in peacetime, but unfortunately it's a war year."

With that, Captain Schunezel raised his foot and stepped on the rogue's chest, and the muzzle of the SVT-40 was pressed against the rascal's head.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me・・・・・・ I'm going to see the judge, I'm going to court・・・・・・" the rascal shouted.

There was a crisp gunshot "bang", and the screaming stopped abruptly.

The two women also stopped crying and stared at Captain Schunezel in horror.

Captain Schunezel was unimpressed, as if he had just trampled an ant to death.

Two gunshots rang out "bang", two other hooligans were executed, and three headshot bodies lay on the street.

Captain Schunezel waved his hand, and his men lifted the body and threw it into the back of a parked truck.

"The Germans are coming, so you'd better go out and hide and don't stay here."

After greeting the two women, Captain Schunezel asked his men to return the children to the two women, and turned to leave with his gun in his hand.

In the evening of the same day, the figure of Schunezel and his men appeared on the banks of the Dnieper.

After throwing the bodies of four trucks full of cars into the Dnieper, Schunezel and his men drove back to the station.

After reporting to his superior, Major Malenkov, on the results of the law and order purge, Captain Schunezel received a new assignment.

"The Dnieper is the last line of defense, and no one is allowed to retreat without the orders of Comrade Stalin. Our task is to assist the Southern Front Command in setting up a correctional battalion to punish the cowards and cowards in the army, and I now appoint you commander of the third correctional battalion. ”

Major Malenkov handed a blank piece of paper to Captain Schunezel.

"Except for a platoon of NKVD troops, this piece of paper is a list of other subordinates in your battalion, as well as the number and location of their unit, and you need to recruit them yourself." (To be continued.) )