Himmler was cleaned up, and it seemed to be going very well, but the things involved behind it really scared Li Ling. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although he always thought that Himmler was completely hollowed out, and even Heydrich himself believed that the Gestapo had been firmly controlled by him from beginning to end, in fact, Himmler had been manipulating all along, and his roots were really deep.

Packing up his mood, after spending a few relaxing days, Li Ling's task of recruiting troops has basically been successfully completed.

In fact, the reason why it was able to be completed so smoothly is thanks to Himmler.

Due to the shock caused by Himmler's secret arrest of the Chinese, many people did not dare to come forward to talk about any news with the German authorities, so it once caused Li Ling's recruitment difficulties.

Now that Himmler has fallen, and at the same time all the Chinese who were secretly arrested have been released, and some of them have directly signed up for the First Chinese Division, which can be regarded as a shot in the arm for the Chinese circle, allowing them to see the hope of living in Germany again, and even, many of them want to take this opportunity to enter the First Chinese Division and let this Chinese with the status of an army armored corps general become their own umbrella.

However, although the recruitment work went smoothly, the quality of the soldiers was not very high, and it was impossible for these recruits to go to the battlefield immediately, and at the same time, it was impossible for him to draw a large number of veterans from his own troops from the front line to train them.

Li Ling was relieved, not only because Kirsch had returned, but also because he had found several very special talents among these seemingly temporarily useless recruits, including Lin Chenxi, whom Himmler had used to make trouble for him.

Lin Chenxi and Li Ling didn't pay attention to this at first, after all, although he had studied at Sun Yat-sen University, a Chinese laborer, for one year, then went to the Frunze Military Academy for three years, and then went to the Berlin Military Academy for more than a year, Li Lingke didn't think that he could learn any real knowledge.

As the highest military academy in the two countries, at the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union, it is very difficult for a foreigner to learn something really powerful, but at the Berlin Military Academy, well, it doesn't seem to be easy.

The most important thing is that China has been in the midst of war, he doesn't think that this Lin Chenxi has experienced a completed and systematic basic education, and it is really difficult to accept it to directly learn high-level things without systematic basic education, which is like a junior high school student or elementary school student going to college, even if he goes to 985, 211 or Ivy League, it is impossible to learn anything.

And, even if you learn it, what can you do?

This Lin Chenxi doesn't have any experience in leading soldiers at all, and what he has learned is just talk on paper, at most he is a theoretical talent, in case he is a person like Zhao Kuo, he doesn't want to become King Zhao Xiaocheng and have another battle of Changping.

However, when Li Ling really talked to this Lin Chenxi, Li Ling really had the idea of giving him a brigade to command, but in the end he restrained this impulse and asked him to train recruits with Kirsch, and at the same time learn some things summarized in actual combat.

Li Ling returned to Baranovichi here, and in the next second, he got enough news to make him excited, the Soviet defense line in Minsk was about to be destroyed!

Immediately after the troops completed the encirclement of Bialystok-Minsk in accordance with the original battle plan, the two sides immediately launched a decisive battle in the Minsk area, and the German Army Group Center, which had air superiority, concentrated 30 divisions to launch a fierce attack on Minsk.

On the Soviet side, Marshal Timoshenko concentrated all 21 divisions in his hands in Minsk to resist to the death, and at the same time ordered the 26 divisions in Bialystok to immediately retreat in the direction of Minsk at full speed and abandon Bialystok.

Since communication with the rear was completely cut off, Marshal Timoshenko knew that all 47 divisions in his hands could only fight alone, but he believed that Comrade Stalin must have mobilized a large number of troops to reinforce from the rear, so he had to resist desperately and must hold Minsk firmly.

I have to say that Marshal Timoshenko is indeed a master, in the case of the complete loss of air supremacy, and the strength is lower than that of the opponent, he insisted on holding out in Minsk for 5 days, only on the 6th day, the defense line was a little crisis, but there was really no way, he had no troops in his hands to replenish, and he lacked heavy firepower, and it was very difficult for people to fight one less and one less, and it was very difficult to hold out until the sixth day.

After six days of bloody fighting in Minsk, Timoshenko was faced with two choices, either to continue to hold on and hope that Bialystok's troops, who had not yet arrived, would replenish while waiting for the rear to break the German encirclement, or to choose to break through!

A full 21 divisions held out in such a place as Minsk for six days, and Timoshenko knew very well how many people he could actually fight in his hands, excluding those who died in battle, and those who were seriously wounded, even if you count all those who could walk and hold guns, there were only more than 40,000 people in his hands, that is, in six days, as many as 130,000 people were reimbursed in his hands!

With an average of more than 20,000 casualties a day, Timoshengo was already red-eyed, and he finally made his own decision, that is, to lead his troops to break through, he could no longer stay here!

Although he knew that the result of his breakthrough would be to abandon the 26 divisions that were still between Bialystok and Minsk, he could only do this, he could not afford to wait, he could not wait for reinforcements from the rear!

Of course, it seems that in his rear, Comrade Stalin had no intention of breaking the German encirclement of Minsk, Stalin had ordered the Soviet Red Army to concentrate all the troops that could be mobilized in Smolensk on the frontal line of defense in Moscow, where he wanted a decisive battle with the Germans!

Just as Timoshenko ordered his troops to break through to the east, Li Ling's 1st Huaxia Division also received the latest order, demanding an immediate movement to the north to cut off the enemy who Bialystok wanted to flee to Minsk.

After receiving the order, Li Ling did not wait for a moment, and after the troops were reorganized and adjusted, he immediately moved his division north, preparing to cross between Bialystok and Minsk.

And at the same time, in the other direction, Rommel, who had been waiting impatiently, finally received an order for him to immediately start an offensive on the Caucasus and control the entire Caucasus in the shortest possible time at all costs!

In addition, Army Group South received news at the same time that it ordered its troops to launch an offensive against Ukraine, and it was necessary to contain the Soviet forces and prevent them from going to the Caucasus for reinforcements.

At the same time, the German Navy's fleet with the Bismarck as its flagship, which had already entered the Mediterranean, rushed to Istanbul, Turkey, with the intention of destroying the Soviet fleet entrenched in the Black Sea, so that the Soviet Army in the direction of Ukraine and the Caucasus would lose the support of the Red Navy.

The climax of the Soviet-German war has finally arrived!