Look at the hundreds of tanks in front of you, and self-propelled guns are being blown up, and burning and catching fire; The smoke of gunpowder that seemed to linger on the special battlefield still wafted away, and Zhukov sighed heavily. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because he did not expect the battle to be so fierce, although the Voronezh and steppe fronts had already descended to the outside of the German lines in Belgorod, but after several days of fierce and bloody fighting, these troops were in great need of rest and replenishment at this moment.

Although the Central Front of the Soviet Army, the Bolian Front did not suffer much damage; However, because the Western Front underestimated the actual combat capabilities of Moder's 9th Army and the 2nd Army combined, as well as the German 3rd Panzer Group of German Army Group Center, to which Moder's troops belonged, and the German 4th Army suddenly joined the battle.

Their main attack Maotou was all concentrated on the Soviet army's Western Army Group, and in order to inflict heavy losses on this army group, Chen Yanlong also withdrew Army Group A from the Caucasus and transferred it to besiege the Soviet Army's Western Army Group.

In view of such a critical situation, Zhukov had to immediately send the Bullian Front, as well as part of the troops of the Central Front, to support the Western Front.

Because of this, the original plan to use the four front army groups to encircle Manstein's Army Group South was not allowed to fight, and the plan went bankrupt.

In fact, the Voronezh and steppe fronts were originally used, combined with large-scale artillery coverage, as well as air strikes; With the assistance of the reserves, there was still hope for a heavy blow to Manstein's Army Group South.

It's just that the battle hasn't been fought for many days, and there is another battle situation that he didn't expect.

1st Manstein's Army Group South not only did not fight hard-to-hard with his troops, but also engaged in front-shrinking operations and resilient defensive operations on the side.

In addition, when the battle was not in favor of the Germans, they would retreat very decisively.

At the same time, what surprised him even more was that the German aviation unit, which had been shrinking all along, suddenly appeared on a large scale out of nowhere, and also had a large number of aircraft from the client states to join the battle against the Soviet aviation unit. In the face of such a sudden turn in the war situation, the Soviet aviation unit was destroyed a lot of planes and pilots for a time.

Zhukov and Vasilevsky were deeply shocked and shocked by the situation of the war that suddenly exceeded their budget.

However, the Supreme Command of the Soviet Army was furious and gritted its teeth and issued an order to fight back desperately.

Stalin, in particular, was even more furious, giving a stern order to a commander on the battlefield to fight back; Those who were defeated were severely punished, especially the commanders of the units who suffered heavy casualties.

In response to Stalin's murderous order to counterattack, all commanders were ready for battle.

And Zhukov and Vasilevsky also did not dare to take it lightly, and personally sat in the front-line positions to direct the troops to carry out offensive battles.

"What do you think? How should we attack the German line in Belgorod? Marshal Vasilevsky! ”

In a respectful tone, Zhukov turned to Marshal Vasilevsky beside him and asked.

"Have the troops of the Voronezh and steppe fronts, as well as weapons and equipment, and ammunition been replenished? Comrade Zhukov! ”

Marshal Vasilevsky smiled with a calm gaze, staring at Zhukov.

"All the military supplies needed for the operation have been prepared!"

Zhukov nodded in response.

"In that case, then we can try to launch the main assault in the direction of Valuyki and Novovodoraga with the 5th and 6th Guards Armies, the 5th Guards Tank Army, and the 1st Tank Army."

"And the steppe front can also deploy the 7th Guards Army at the same time, and the 1st Mechanized Army and the 69th and 53rd Guards Armies will join forces together to launch a general attack on Belgorod; As for the fact that the main forces of the Voronezh Front can also launch a surprise attack on Kharkov at the same time, so that with such multiple attacks, the Germans have no way of knowing where our main attack is! ”

"Then as the battle is fought to a certain critical moment, we can also temporarily draw the 11th Guards Army, the 11th Army, the 4th Tank Army and the 2nd Guards Cavalry Army from the Western Front to assist our main attack point Kharkiv!"

Marshal Vasilevsky said about his own advice.

"Hmmm! Marshal, do you mean that our main place of attack is not to assist Belgorod in front of us? And Kharkov? ”

Zhukov was stunned for a moment and wondered.

"Yes! Because this is an order from our Supreme High Command! Also a strong demand from Comrade Stalin! ”

Marshal Vasilevsky smiled slightly.

"But now the Western Front is not beaten by the German troops in Moder and can't hold their heads up, and they urgently ask us for reinforcements? Now we have all transferred the troops of the Bolian Front and part of the Central Front! ”

"In other words, when we enter a critical moment in the war, can we still draw troops from the Western Front?"

Zhukov said with a deep frown.

"We can evacuate the Western Front and the Bolian Front, so that we can have troops to deploy!"

Marshal Vasilevsky continued.

"But if we do, won't the German armies of Moder and Klug have a chance to counterattack us?"

Zhukov retorted disagreeably.

"There is no need to worry about this, because Comrade Stalin has already transferred the 28th, 44th, and 51st armies, the 5th assault army, and the 2nd Guards Army of the Southern Front, and the 6th, 12th, 57th, and 62nd armies, the 1st and 3rd Guards armies of the Southwestern Front, as well as the 22nd, 34th, and 68th armies, the 1st assault army, and the Kalinin Front: the 39th and 43rd armies, and the 3rd and 4th assault armies, to deal with the German units in Moder!"

Marshal Vasilevsky said with a smile in a meaningful tone.

"What! If Comrade Stalin did this, what about our other lines of defense? ”

Zhukov's eyes widened in shock and exclaimed.

"Then we also have the Karelian Front, the Volkhov Front and the Leningrad Front, as well as the North Caucasus Front, and the Independence Army, the 2nd Baltic Front, the 1st Baltic Front, the Belarusian Front and the 1st Ukrainian Front, and dozens of other armies are temporarily defending!"

Marshal Vasilevsky responded with great optimism.

"Is that good?"

Zhukov said worriedly.

"It is understandable that we did this in order to inflict heavy losses on Manstein's Army Group South and Moder's German army at the same time! At least Comrade Stalin's anger is now very strong! Because of the results of our fronts, the performance has not been good in the past two days! ”

Marshal Vasilevsky shrugged his shoulders and said.

"I always feel that Comrade Stalin was too excited this time and gave a not very good order!"

Zhukov said worriedly.

Marshal Vasilevsky only smiled and did not answer him, and soon he shifted his thoughtful gaze to the battlefield.

For Zhukov's shock, and uneasiness, Marshal Vasilevsky chose to ignore it.