"That is, it was not some stragglers who rushed to our city, nor the airborne troops of the Germans, but the main armored divisions?" Twenty minutes later, Timoshenko got the exact news, which made him excited: "The Germans actually dare to go deep alone, just right, we can counter-surround them!" ”

Timoshenko looked at the map in front of him, with joy in his eyes: "Prepare a plane for me, I will go back to Moscow immediately, I will go to ask for soldiers!" ”

Timoshenko insisted that he was not doing this to slip away before the Germans arrived, but that he wanted to go to Stalin and give him more reserves in the rear, so that he could have enough troops to carry out the counter-encirclement.

It's just that he didn't know that when he left Smolensk, he never returned, and the fall of Smolensk also heralded the stormy situation in Moscow.

Timoshenko knew that the forces he had at hand were just enough to defend the current defensive line, and that they would be broken through by the enemy from time to time, and that he was simply not capable of carrying out counter-encirclement, so if he had sufficient troops, why should he let Lukin organize a militia to defend the city.

Now, there must be new reserves in the rear, and I can just bring those reserves.

With this in mind, Timoshenko left Smolensk, and before leaving, he urged Lukin again.

"General Lukin, Smolensk will be handed over to you, you don't just think about holding the northern city, you have to think of a counterattack." Timoshenko's order, in Lukin's eyes, was absolutely.

Counterattack? What do you have in your hands to counterattack? Just rely on two or three people with a gun, an infantry squad and a grenade to counterattack? Are you kidding!

Lukin frowned, took his own guards, and personally came to the outskirts of the northern part of Smolensk, he had no other way, now, as long as it was a passing army, he had to stop and defend the city.

For him, attacking to the south was nonsense, and how to prevent the Germans from crossing the river to attack the northern city was his main task.

Lukin didn't know that his luck was so good.

When he came to the northern suburbs, a pie in the sky happened.

"What part are you from?" Lukin shouted as he looked at the black man in front of him.

These people are dressed in fairly neat military uniforms, with weapons in their hands, and it seems that they were not repulsed, but transferred to the present, and if the other party has a military order, then Lukin will also grab it.

Especially when Lukin looked behind these people, there were still cannons there!

"We are the 19th Division of the 38th Army, and now, our division does not have any orders, I am Yezhov, the commander of the infantry regiment." Yezhov said.

There was panic on his face, and his heart was full of fire.

Their division, now there are no orders, no tasks, this is the most speechless.

In the past few days, they had to receive several orders a day, one to the east and the other to the west, and they were exhausted, and as a result, in the north-west direction of Smolensk, they were surrounded by the Germans.

In fact, they were not surrounded, the Germans did not find them, the Germans were on their way, the Germans ran in front of them, and as a result, they were passively fallen behind enemy lines.

Having found out about this situation, at first they did not dare to retreat, after all, even Pavlov was shot, and the commanders were afraid.

However, seeing that the detachments of German servicemen overtook them, and they could not contact their superiors, finally, the regiments made their own choice and retreated.

They managed to run out and ran to Smolensk, but at this time they were still a little scared, would they be considered deserters?

Hearing Yezhov's answer, Lukin felt like a little star in front of his eyes, what a good news, he actually picked up such a big bargain!

Formed troops, 3 infantry regiments and 2 artillery regiments, a whole fully loaded division!

With these people, he will be able to defend the north of the city.

Lukin immediately said: "I am General Lukin, and now I am in charge of the defense of Smolensk, and I order you to immediately accept my command, and all the troops will march into the city and defend along the banks of the Dnieper, preventing the German army from crossing the river." ”

"Yes!" Yezhov immediately agreed, and now that someone came to direct them, and they continued to fight, they did not have to worry about being held accountable for evacuating their positions, and one by one, the fighters, sat up from the ground, trotted all the way, and marched towards the city.

Lukin rushed to the area of the exchange of fire with his strongest reinforcements, and when he arrived, it was at the height of the fighting.

The Germans did not waste time at all, and immediately after discovering that the bridge had been bombed, they opened up an offensive field, and infantry fighting vehicles were ready to float over, and at the same time, behind them, the main tanks were also preparing.

They couldn't wait, they had been running since the last time they crossed the river, leaving the bridge-building equipment behind, and it would take at least a day for those equipment to come.

However, their main tanks still have a unique job, they can install a snorkel and go to the bottom of the river.

The river here is relatively gentle, and at the same time, the depth is just right, which fully meets the conditions for crossing the river by snorkel.

It's just that when the tanks cross the river like this, they don't have any combat capability and are very vulnerable, and they must rely on wheeled infantry fighting vehicles to establish a solid landing ground on the opposite side, so that the tanks can cross the river with confidence.

And now, the crossing of the river by wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, has begun.

The set of propellers had been dropped since the last crossing of the river, and they were still using propellers for water navigation, infantry fighting vehicles, sailing in the opposite direction.

"Molotov cocktails!" Here, Shore guarding the river bank was very anxious, the best weapon in his hand was the Molotov cocktail, and he couldn't even get the grenades, so he could only try his best to buy time.

"Tom, tom!" Seeing that Molotov cocktails were thrown down, the German infantry fighting vehicles did not hesitate, and directly used Bofors's 40mm tank guns to fire, one after another, shells, towards the place where the fighters were hiding, and smashed them into ruins.

This is nothing short of a suicide attack!

A wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, drenched from the river, came up from the river, and when it came into contact with the riverbank, it took a lot of effort, the tires in front fluttered on the stones on the riverbank for a long time, and the propellers behind worked hard together to climb up.

It's no better than a beachhead, both sides of the bank are made of stones vertically, and it's very difficult, and it's finally coming up, which also means that Germany is about to open a landing position on the opposite side!

"Boom!" Just then, a voice rang out.