"I have personally sent telegrams, and phone calls to the Führer! The Führer's reinforcements will soon come to us! ”

"Let's evacuate now! The sooner the better! This time in the battle of the Dnieper, I have seen less of these Soviet offensives and the style of desperate fighting! ”

"It's really surprising that they have more than 100,000 people in a tank army group, and the number of tanks is still more than I expected! Fortunately, we have the 503rd Heavy Armored Division to help in the operation, otherwise our current tank group will be in trouble, and more than half of it will be wiped out! ”

Modell said with a frown.

In this regard, Chief Operational Staff Officer John and Chief of Staff Everfelt also glanced at each other and stopped talking.

Then, at about 5:45 a.m., Modell's men personally led their main forces and began to plan for retreat.

On the way to retreat, Moder first asked the infantry units to eliminate the enemy within 1,000 meters; If there were more lurking enemy forces farther away, then he would have overhavoc and demand the use of a large number of mortars, artillery, and heavy machine guns. Or even a tank swarm to clear it out so that his troops can pass smoothly.

In addition to this, he asked the aviation unit to come and cover the departure.

Their marching speed has increased from 7 kilometers per hour to 9 kilometers per hour.

Of course, there are also a number of elite troops, behind the large army, to resist the pursuing Soviet army; and the deployment of a large number of minefields and obstacle areas to stop the pursuit of Soviet troops.

"How did these Soviet troops suddenly fight as bravely as if they had been beaten with chicken blood?"

A German soldier named Fred, who was deploying a minefield, was full of doubts.

"I heard the Soviet prisoners who came back say that their famous writer, Ilya Ehrenburg, seemed to have made some radical speech; Let the soldiers of the entire Soviet army, as well as the people, hate us to the core, and want to crush us all to pieces, a thousand knives! ”

Another German soldier named Frank responded.

"Humph! These damned Soviet writers, if they weren't so talkative, wouldn't have let these Soviet troops desperately pursue us like madmen! ”

Fred said angrily.

"Actually, to tell you the truth, in fact, the writer's words are really right, at least we really killed many of them, including those prisoners! And it also spoiled a lot of women, I still remember the Soviet girl a few months ago, that body is really hot, I got it a few times in one night and I can't get enough! ”

Frank has no heart or lungs.

"Hey! Are you really okay when you say that? If someone else hears it, I'm afraid they'll beat you to death! And now more than two months ago, the Führer has already given a death order forbidding us to do this! If you want to die, don't pull me along! I have my wife and kids waiting for me to go back to Hamburg! ”

Fred hurriedly warned Frank after glancing at the German soldiers in the distance who were concentrating on deploying the minefield.

Frank shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, stopped talking, and went on to deploy the minefields.

"Huh! Those planes seem to be the "Black Death" of the Soviet Army, the Il-2 strike aircraft? And there are thousands of them! ”

At this moment, suddenly a German soldier who was looking up at the sky and resting his neck suddenly shouted in horror.

"Oops! It was the Soviet aviation that came to attack it! Run! ”

Hearing this, Fred couldn't help but look up, and then he instantly shouted in panic.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

"Tom! Tong! Tom ......"

"Da Da Da! Da-da-da-da! Dadada......"

At this time, the Il-2 fighters, which had two 7.62 mm machine guns and two 20 mm guns mounted on the wings, and eight of the most advanced rockets mounted on the wings, which could be launched into the air and the ground, and could also carry 500 kg bombs, were also diving down at a maximum speed of 470 km/h to attack.

For a time, the German troops who were deploying minefields and resisting the pursuit of the Soviets were killed and wounded heavily.

Bursts of screams and pained wails are also heard one after another, which is chilling.

But the Il-2 fighters that had just attacked the Germans were only the usual type, and the Il-2 fighters that flew up behind to carry out large-scale air strikes; It is an improved Il-2M-3 strike aircraft.

The camouflage Il-2M-3 of this type can reach speeds of up to 420 km/h and have a range of more than 750 km, and its armament includes: 2 23 mm guns, 2 7.62 mm machine guns, 4 82 mm and 132 mm rockets, and 400~600 kg bombs can be mounted in the bomb bay and under the wings. The self-defense armament was 1 12.7 mm machine gun in the back seat.

Moreover, the current Soviet army is already in mass production, and they plan to produce at least 40,000 aircraft by December 1943.

Therefore, in the face of the sudden arrival of such a large number of new Il-2M-3 attack planes by the Soviet army, the retreating troops of Moder were bombed and miserable.

At this time, in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, Manstein had already dispatched a large number of German troops from Königsberg by helicopter and transport plane three days ago according to Chen Yanlong's instructions, and carried out a large number of fortifications here, preparing to fight a sniper battle with the Soviet army here.

Because for Chen Yanlong, Ukraine is not only the world's third largest grain exporter, but also has the reputation of "Europe's granary"; Moreover, it is also a country with relatively developed industry and agriculture, especially the heavy industry here, which occupies a major position in industry.

So Ukraine can't just lose it to the Soviet army, and he's changing his policy toward the Ukrainian people.

Because Chen Yanlong, based on the historical materials of World War II on the Internet that he had read in later generations, and the content of the forum, he knew that during World War II, before the Soviet-German war began, Ukrainians did not like the Soviet army; Because Ukraine was inferior to Russia in the Soviet Union, and because their resources were more important to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union took more from Ukraine and gave less.

Because Ukraine, as a large grain producer, is constantly forced by the Soviet Union to purchase grain at a lower price; As a result, Ukraine starved to death due to insufficient grain reserves for many years (especially the Great Famine in Ukraine), so after accumulating over time, Ukraine wanted to rebel against the Soviet Union and become independent.

So when the German army and the Soviet Union went to war, many Ukrainians sent food, honey and other food to the German army; Moreover, many Ukrainian people also vacated their rooms for accommodation for the German army.

But when the Soviet-German war broke out for some time, the Ukrainians found that the Germans were not here to help them resist the rule of the Soviet Union, and to eliminate Jews and Russians to establish a pure-bred Ukrainian state, so that they could be liberated and self-governed.

So many Ukrainians were ready to rebel against German rule, even those who were drafted into the SS.

For example, according to the historical records on the Internet, in Russia on August 27, 1944, in the 30th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS, the Ukrainians not only created a large number of mutinies within the establishment, such as desertion, providing intelligence to the Soviet army, and even launched an insurrection in the formed units, killing 200 German officers, and then surrendering to the Soviet army.

and Soviet and Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, also in December 1944, carried out a large-scale desertion, departure, and surrender......

Therefore, Chen Yanlong also took these Soviet soldiers and Ukrainian soldiers very seriously; However, at this moment, he intends to make Ukraine an independent country like in later generations to contain the Soviet army.

Because this is better than those who defected to the Soviet army after the Ukrainian mutiny, in that case, it would be a great disadvantage to the German army, because the source of the general mobilization of Ukraine is at least 500,000, and even more than one million.

So this time, when Chen Yanlong asked Manstein to send troops to Kyiv, he also asked him to give the people of Ukraine a new policy propaganda offensive, which of course had Goebbels involved.