In the original Soviet-German war, the Soviet army fought the Battle of the Dnieper River in Ukraine and Belarus on the left bank of the Dnieper River in August ~ December 1943. The purpose was to liberate Ukraine, Donbass, and Kiev on the left bank, seize the landing grounds on the right bank of the Dnieper, and drive the German army out of its own territory.

After the failure of the Kursk offensive, the Germans tried to use the river barriers in the middle area for a lasting defense, and at the same time intensified the construction of a strategic defense line called the "Eastern Barrier" along the Narva River, Vitebsk, Orsha, Sozh River, Dnieper River, and Molochinnaya River, to resist the pursuit of the Soviet army and launch a large-scale offensive.

However, in the end, the Soviet army annihilated the German army that invaded Ukraine, Donbass, and the Kiev region on the left bank of the Dnieper River, and captured the strategic landing sites on the right bank, and achieved brilliant results that shocked the world.

However, with the series of deployments after Chen Yanlong's crossing, and a large number of new weapons and equipment were put into battle; However, in this famous battle of the Dnieper River, the Soviet army was annihilated by the German army and many living forces, especially the Southwestern Front was almost completely annihilated by the German army.

In addition, the Soviet army was also heavily damaged by the Germans, including the 4th Tank Army, the 9th and 19th Tank Army, and the 1st Tank Army, and even the remaining 2nd Guards Tank Army, 2nd Tank Army, 4th Guards Tank Army, 3rd Guards Tank Army, and 25th Tank Army, as well as the 20th Tank Army, these tank units also suffered a lot of tank casualties and tank personnel.

As for the aviation units, there were no less than 400 casualties, and more than 2,000 aircraft.

In addition, the amount of weapons and equipment and military supplies they lost in battle was also an astonishing amount, and after seeing it, Comrade Stalin would definitely be able to remove many officers from their posts and kill them without mercy.

General Rokossovsky, Commander of the Voronezh Front, General H.X. Vadutin, . General Konev, the commanders of the Southwestern Front, General Я U. Malinovsky, General Tolbukhin, Zhukov and others also gathered together to discuss the situation.

They discussed not only the situation of the Soviet troops, who had been driven out of the Dnieper by the Germans, but also the wrath of Comrade Stalin.

Because they didn't think that after only two weeks of fighting, they would get off to a good start by killing the Germans under the pressure of the menacing army and the preemptive attack.

Who knew that these were all big pitfalls, and they were all traps that Chen Yanlong had calculated early on, allowing them to jump into the trap of Moder and Manstein because of their battles, so that their large-scale counterattack would suffer heavy casualties.

And the worst thing is that they were driven out of the Dnieper River by the Germans and forced to retreat back to the Kursk area for a defensive strategy in depth.

"Damn the Germans, especially the two bastards Moder and Manstein! It is really surprising that they will be able to withstand the counterattack of such a large army of ours, and still be able to occupy and control the defense of the Dnieper River again. ”

While all the generals began to change their minds, General Konev scolded in anger.

"Humph! Isn't it because the Germans are still using their advanced weaponry to defeat us like they did in previous wars? If these damned German troops did not have these advanced weapons and equipment, they would not be the opponents of our great Soviet Republic at all, and with the strength of our Voronezh Front, combined with the strength of your steppe Front, we would defeat them! ”

Hearing this, the commander of the Voronezh Front, General H.X. Vadutin, was also unwilling and angrily scolded.

for the invective and anger of both of them; Zhukov and the other silent generals were silent, and no one came out to meet them or say anything against them.

"That's it! Don't talk about the advanced weapons and equipment of the German army, the most important thing for me to discuss now is how to resist, or prevent those German troops from taking advantage of the great victory on the Dnieper River, to pursue us and kill us here in Kursk in one fell swoop! ”

"Of course, we also have to discuss the follow-up disposition of our defeat this time, especially how to report and explain to Comrade Stalin!"

After a long time, Zhukov sighed deeply and said worriedly.