In fact, just as Bock gave the order to attack, the vanguard of Guderian's 2nd Panzer Army broke through to the front line of the Dnieper.

Subsequently, Guderian also imitated Moder's original tactics and sent the "shadow troops" of the SS Fatherland Infantry Division, Qiao Zhuang disguised as Soviet soldiers withdrawn from the front line, and captured the Dnieper bridge east of Smolensk.

Immediately after the "shadow forces" captured the bridge, the 29th Motorized Rifle Division of the 2nd Panzer Group quickly crossed the bridge and rushed all the way to a point about 20 kilometers away from Smolensk.

Since the beginning of the siege of Minsk, Guderian felt that everything was going well, and in less than half a month since the beginning of the war, his armored troops quickly captured Minsk and went to Smokosk.

Army Group Center, without relying on the armies of the Spanish and Italian allies, swept through the whole of Belarus in half a month, almost exactly as Guderian envisioned the "Barbarossa" plan.

As a German expert in armored forces, Guderian also imagined a lot of troubles, but when he actually participated in this big battle, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the difficulties he expected were still much greater, and the actual battle situation was very smooth.

Guderian, who has repeatedly studied the Barbarossa plan, seems to have as long as his Second Panzer Army can take Smolensk, the next target will be Moscow, and if he can maintain this posture and go straight to the base camp of the Soviet Union, it seems that it will not even be necessary to take the Soviet Union for 3 months!

At this time, Guderian remembered a recent phrase that had been circulated among the top generals of the German Army Group Center: "We only need to kick it, and the entire Soviet Union, which is like a decaying building, will collapse with a bang." ”

Perhaps the new style of the battlefield was too one-sided, and even Guderian now felt that this made sense.

If it weren't for the internal decay of the Soviet Union, why would nearly 50 Soviet troops in Belarus easily choose to surrender, and why would 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers defect to the camp of the allies.

This probably confirms the previously mentioned domestic intelligence that the Moscow government of the Soviet Union is very unpopular in the Belarus and Ukraine regions.

For Guderian, it doesn't matter if the Moscow government is unpopular in Belarus, anyway, his troops are about to take Smolensk in Russia soon, and when Moscow is taken next, this unpopular government should disappear.

At this time, Guderian just wanted to leave the headquarters that was already very close to the front line immediately, and go further to the first line of troops, hoping to enter this historic city as soon as the troops captured Smolensk.

Coincidentally, the last person to do so was called "Dmitry Grigolievich Pavlov". Because he ran to the front-line troops, the command of the troops at all levels failed, and he was finally sentenced to death.

But now it is different from then, and the German army is also different from the Soviet army.

After the Great Purge, the commanders of the Soviet units at all levels basically did not dare to take matters into their own hands without orders from their superiors, and they were timid and had a rigid command mode.

Unlike the Soviet Army's lifeless command model, the German Army advocated the "task-based command method".

A high-ranking general like Guderian only needs to arrange a task to go down, carry it out concretely, and leave it to the junior officers to arrange it themselves.

The commanders who came out of the German military academy did not have any difficulty in fulfilling such a task-based order.

Therefore, after dropping an order to the commanders of each division, Guderian could confidently and boldly follow the command vehicle to the front line. Even if there was a real need, Guderian could contact the troops at all levels at any time through the command vehicle.

Guderian's convoy was the only one that drove on the crater-ridden road left by the front line, accompanied by the armored vehicles of the headquarters escort, and quickly approached the forefront of the battle.

Along the way, Guderian could also see groups of Soviet prisoners of war on both sides of the road. Guderian, who had already pretended to be forced enough in France, finally did not continue to shout his arrogant slogan "Get out, I don't have time to capture you" in the jeep.

In Gudeli's bottom line, his next place to pretend to be forced should be on Red Square in Moscow!

Suddenly, Guderian's jeep came to a slam halt, and Guderian, who was sitting in the front seat, almost hit the windshield.

Fortunately, he didn't get up and pretend to shout, otherwise he would have to throw him out of the car if he braked suddenly.

"What's going on?" Guderian shouted to the front of his jeep.

An officer quickly got out of the avant-garde car of the convoy and trotted over to Guderian and reported: "Commander, we have spotted Soviet planes ahead. It's dangerous! ”

"Oh?" Realizing that the convoy was indeed dangerous under the threat of Soviet aircraft, Guderian quickly swept his surroundings and ordered after a few seconds: "Give me the order, and the whole convoy will immediately drive into the woods in front of the right!"

"Yes!" Then the officer stood up and saluted.

Subsequently, under the coordination of officers, the convoy began to move rapidly towards the woods.

Just after Guderian's car followed the avant-garde car into the woods, the bombs dropped by the Soviet planes fell on the road they had just passed, and several cars of the rearguard had no time to dodge, so the German personnel in the cars had to abandon the car and run towards the woods on foot.

Immediately afterwards, the Soviet planes also turned around and fired indiscriminately into the dense woods, but after seeing that such indiscriminate strafing really had no effect, they flew away.

In the woods, Guderian, who had escaped the catastrophe, looked at the convoy and personnel who had all entered the woods, and felt that it was better to take advantage of the existing situation caused by this sudden incident, let everyone rest in the woods against the trees first, and count the number of people to deal with the wounded.

So, he got out of the car, found a luxuriant tree, sat down, spread out the military map, and marked the locations where several divisions of the Second Panzer Army had arrived after the communication had just been confirmed.

Just as Guderian was marking the positions of the divisions, his staff officer came running again to report the good news: "Report to the commander, there are no casualties among the personnel of our convoy. ”

Hearing the good news, Guderian smiled and was about to order the convoy to move forward in half an hour, when he suddenly saw another jeep that did not belong to their convoy burrowing into the woods.

A young staff officer ran out of the car, and as soon as he got out of the car, he asked loudly: "Is this the headquarters?" General Guderian is not there?"

Guderian heard the words and greeted him: "I am Guderian"

The officer quickly stood upright when he saw it: "Hey, Reinhardt!"

"Which unit are you from?

"Lieutenant Levschitz, communications staff officer of the 29th Motorized Rifle Division, reports to you | " Isn't the communications staff officer of your division Captain Gornig?"

"Captain Gornig has tragically died, General. I was his adjutant. The division headquarters was attacked by the Russians, many staff officers were sacrificed, and all the radio stations at the division headquarters were lost.