"Spread out! Check if it's an enemy ambush! It's unlikely that such a big city would be ceded to us so easily......" The battalion commander frowned and looked at the buildings on both sides, a little unable to believe his eyes.

If there is really no enemy, then he is blind...... There was really no resistance in front of him, and there was no gunfire.

"Karjus! Karjus! We met no resistance here! Really didn't come across! The battalion commander grabbed the radio intercom and opened his mouth to call out to the armored troops behind him.

In fact, as a reconnaissance unit, they also sent several people to observe the vicinity of Vladimir, and indeed found no traces of a large force stationed.

If it weren't for the fact that they had inspected the terrain and landforms in advance, they would not dare to rashly enter a city of this level to find trouble.

"Go to the town hall! I'll let the tanks of the 1st company cover you! Watch the wings! Take control of a road and use it as a retreat! Watch out for all intersections......" Calyus shouted as he pinched the intercom.

"Translation! Find a translator! "The reconnaissance battalion has a Russian interpreter, after all, there are some street signs, and there are some prisoners, all of whom can get a lot of information.

Therefore, translators who know Russian are in demand at this time. After the commander of the reconnaissance battalion made two peaces, an armored reconnaissance vehicle accelerated and overtook his armored car.

"Parking! Stop the car! Stop the convoy! Inside the radio, a shout of an order to stop was repeated.

One of the armored vehicles at the head stopped, and the 20 mm caliber cannon on it looked very imposing.

The convoy leaned neatly on the side of the road, and several German soldiers sitting in armored vehicles jumped out of their vehicles with their weapons in their hands.

Seeing the lively Russian passers-by were a little flustered, many people nervously retreated, trying to stay away from these German ** people who got off the bus.

"Does anyone know how to get to City Hall?" A German soldier with a Mauser 98K rifle spoke fluently in Russian.

The familiar prophecy calmed the civilians, but none of them were willing to stand up and show the Germans the way.

The Soviet Union's repressive rule, as well as the deadly concentration camps, kept the oppressed civilian population from having any contact with the German army.

If this is traced down in the future, there are so many witnesses, and they may be directly sentenced to hanging, and whoever dares to point out this path will be impatient.

"Does anyone know where to go in the direction of City Hall?" The German, who knew Russian, asked again.

It's a pity that everyone hesitated, and no one was willing to stand up and show the Germans the way forward.

The non-cooperation of the Russian ethnic group has long been a surprise to the German army, and the more the other side looks coldly, the more it proves that there is no Soviet activity around.

If the Soviet troops had been nearby to embolden these Russian civilians, they would have been in a riot a long time ago, and they would not have waited so quietly for the German interpreter to interrogate.

"We found a factory! We build a bridgehead here! There is a flagpole at the entrance of the factory! Raise the flag! On the radio, the commander of Karjus's 2nd Company suggested.

"Good way! That's it! We put the national flag on the roof of the factory floor! Karyus accepted the suggestion and immediately gave his own orders to come out.

The commander of the reconnaissance battalion can only choose to go to the rendezvous, after all, his side is full of light armored combat vehicles, and he will suffer some losses when encountering enemy troops.

Soon, another mechanized infantry battalion rushed into Vladimir, and they also got the news that Vladimir had no Soviet troops and had been controlled by their own people, so they came closer.

There were more soldiers in their hands, and the Germans began to check the surrounding situation. Support planes from the sky flew by, saw the flag on the ground, canceled the bombing of Vladimir.

Things went quite smoothly, and within an hour the German soldiers were taking control of the town hall and other government buildings, and the German swastika flag was hung on them.

……

Wolf's den, in the absence of the Führer, the supreme commander here was clearly the commander-in-chief of the army, Field Marshal Brauchitsch.

He was sitting at his desk, packing up the materials he had collected over the past few days. It includes the replenishment and repair of weapons and equipment, as well as the scheduling and arrangement of personnel and materials.

At this time, hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor, and a German officer hurriedly walked to the door of the office of the commander-in-chief of the army, holding the message.

"Dangdangdang." He knocked on the door, and only after receiving permission did he push it open, and stood in the doorway and saluted: "Victory!" Monarch! ”

"Victory, Führer!" Brauchitsch did not get up, and after raising his hand a little distortedly, he said absentmindedly: "What message?" ”

"Marshal! Marshal! The latest news from the front is that Guderian's reconnaissance forces have captured Vladimir and established defensive positions there. ”

Vladimir? That's a long way east of Moscow. Have Guderian's troops advanced there? Aren't they short of oil?

Brauchitsch, whose mind was full of questions, grabbed the phone that connected to the headquarters of Field Marshal Rundstedt, and then opened his mouth to question Field Marshal Rundstedt: "Your Excellency Marshal...... Hasn't the g-cluster stopped moving forward? ”

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief...... Cluster G had already stopped advancing yesterday, and they had not received any orders to advance other than to release reconnaissance troops. Rundstedt replied with some surprise: "Why, they are attacking on their own initiative again?" ”

This word is really the essence...... Brauchitsch commented hatefully, and then continued to ask: "I just got the news that cluster G has captured Vladimir, what is going on......"

"Ah...... That's what you say...... They were only operating at a range of 30 km in front of the command of cluster G, and it happened that they turned to Vladimir to take a look. Since the boss asked, Rundstedt explained.

"There were no Soviet troops stationed there, so our troops took advantage of the situation to occupy there!" In the end, he was sure that he had given Guderian the order that he "could go forward to investigate": "I ordered that he could send reconnaissance troops, and that this was within his purview." ”

"Damn, a reconnaissance force of several hundred people dared to drive into the city of Vladimir...... You should have a good reminder of Guderian...... Stopping him is to save fuel for allies on the other lanes! What is he like this? Who is responsible for what happened? With a sullen sigh in his heart, Brauchitsch asked many questions in one breath.