"Let the 24th Panzer Corps move on! Don't wait for my orders...... Kill Kharkov and you'll be fine! "Guderian stood on the armored car and gave his own order.

Now he was the commander of the army group, but the burden on his shoulders was no heavier than before.

After all, the original G-cluster, as the sharpest spear against Moscow, was already a large-scale combat cluster.

At its peak, the G-cluster controlled more than 400,000 troops, which shows the Führer's trust in Guderian.

At this moment, although the size of the troops commanded by Guderian is a little more, there is no qualitative change.

The main combat units under his command are still the 24th Panzer Corps, the 46th and 47th Panzer Corps.

The original 12th Army was still under Guderian's command, and a newly formed Panzer Corps was moving to the front in Poland.

If you count this armored corps, Guderian's armored forces have 4 corps, 8 divisions, and more than 2,400 tanks.

This number is more than the total number of German armored forces on the Eastern Front combined.

But this is not the case now, the German army has put in at least 7,000 tanks on the Eastern Front, and this number is simply a nightmare for the Soviet army.

After all, the T-34 tank could not use its qualitative and quantitative superiority to crush the German tank crew on the opposite side.

Without a qualitative advantage, the rate of loss of T-34 tanks at the front line will remain high, and the rate of accumulation of the number of T-34 tanks will be correspondingly reduced.

And if it is not possible to accumulate enough T-34 tanks, then this tank will not be able to form an absolute numerical superiority, and it will not be able to compensate for the disadvantage of the Soviet tankmen with little combat experience.

What made the Soviet side even more painful was that the German tanks began to show numerical superiority - thousands of tanks were used intensively, so that the loss of German tanks plummeted.

"The tank units of the 47th Panzer Corps are advancing, they have captured Higre, and they see that Tim can take it too!" The chief of staff said with a smile on his face.

At the time of their first tentative attack, they broke through the lines of the Soviet army. This obviously shows that the Soviet army on the opposite side is already at the end of its strong crossbow.

Moreover, the situation that the various units reacted to was basically in line with the judgment of the top brass of Army Group B - the Soviet army really had no intention of resisting.

First of all, the Soviet Guards 55th Infantry Division, which had been entangled with the 10th Motorized Rifle Division, is now out of formation.

The division is still holding its ground, but it is almost out of the battle sequence.

And the flank of the 55th Guards Infantry Division, the 56th Guards Infantry Division, had already begun to rout by this time. Two German armored battalions and mechanized infantry were chasing the unit like wolves chasing a pack of sheep.

If nothing else, Suja is not needed, and this Soviet infantry unit may be wiped out.

But what Guderian wanted was a faster speed of annihilation. The German armored forces, with at least 400 tanks, were advancing at full speed towards Sumy.

As long as it is captured, the door to Kharkov will be completely open. The German armored forces could drive straight into the city of Kharkov.

Guderian nodded, it was his forte. Rushing quickly, outflanking from both flanks, and annihilating an enemy fleeing in the wilderness is one of his best tactics.

So he nodded and commanded: "Let the air force delay the retreat of the Soviets as fast as possible!" ”

"I've informed the Air Force and heard that we have 150 Stuka and all the pilots have already scheduled bombing missions." The tone of the chief of staff was obviously very satisfied with the cooperation of the Air Force.

This southward operation was a combat order issued by the Führer himself, and Goering's air force, as a diehard Führer, of course, fully cooperated.

Aircraft took off and landed every minute at the field airfields of the front, and almost all the bombers were sent out to greet the retreating Soviet troops with bombs.

It was precisely because of the indiscriminate bombardment of the Luftwaffe that Zhukov realized that it was simply an impossible task for him to get out of the way.

As soon as the retreat began, the 6th Guards Tank Division was targeted by the Luftwaffe, and the three air raids were more accurate and larger than the other.

Before they could go 20 kilometers, the division had destroyed at least 30 more tanks and lost almost a third of their own remaining equipment.

These are not obsolete tanks like the T-26 or KV-1, but elite T-34 tanks, so the losses are not insignificant.

"Excellent! We're moving faster! Guderian still likes to be close to the front line as he did when he was in command of his 24th Panzer Corps.

It's a pity that now his status no longer allows him to do this, because he is already a general in command of an army group and should not leave his command to act alone.

"Your Excellency, Commander! I have to remind you that your identity is the commander of the army group, so you must pay attention to your own safety! The chief of staff deliberately reminded Guderian without honorifics.

Guderian shrugged his shoulders and showed that he understood the words of the chief of staff: "Okay! I know what you mean! I'm just sitting in the command car and moving with the guard division, isn't it okay? ”

His current guard force can really be described as vast, including archives and other documents, which need more than 1,000 people to manage.

The command of the entire army group, no matter how fast it marched, could not keep up with the advance of the large forces.

Under normal circumstances, Guderian's more suitable command method was to sit in the rear, establish his own command headquarters, and coordinate and command the operations of the entire army group.

It's a pity that Guderian couldn't adapt to this change for a while, and liked to ride in armored vehicles and advance with the front-line troops.

As a result, on the map of the Führer's Supreme Command, the headquarters of Army Group B should be located in Bolshay Zhirovo, but Guderian is not far west of Kursk.

However, at least now Guderian has regained the initiative to attack and has begun to press Zhukov's troops.

And the army of Army Group B, after being silent for half a month, once again moved with full horsepower, heading in the direction of Sumy, killing the past.

After the Battle of Kursk lasted for more than half a month, it came to an end. And immediately after, the even larger Battle of Kharkov began.

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It's dawn, and Long Ling has only coded one chapter, and one chapter is missing to be made up today...... The dragon spirit went to sleep for a while......