Just two days after the Battle of Baranovichi, German Army Group Center continued to act in accordance with the Barbarossa Plan, with the Panzer Divisions rapidly moving into the rear of Minsk from both flanks, and completing the encirclement of Minsk on 31 May. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the north, Manstein and his 56th Panzer Corps had also strengthened the Velykaya River the day before, and in the early hours of June 1 had captured the fortress Pskov, located on the east bank of the river.

Although Army Group North was still a full 300 kilometers away from Leningrad at this time, Pskov was the last line of defense in front of Leningrad, and the German army's breakthrough through Pskov meant that Leningrad would face the German attack next.

The situation in Belarus was already precarious, and now Leningrad was facing a serious threat, and Stalin looked at the marshals in front of him, eager to pull them out one by one and shoot them.

The Soviet Red Army, which had just been reorganized, suffered an unprecedented blow, and the commander-in-chief of the North-Western Front, Fyodor? Isidorovich? Colonel-General Kuznetsov has been demoted to commander of the 21st Army, and Major General Sobennikov has taken his place, but it is clear that a simple removal and replacement will not solve the immediate problem.

"How did Pskov lose it? Where are you going to retreat? Do you want to withdraw to the Arctic Ocean? As the commander-in-chief of the north-western direction, Marshal Voroshilov could not escape his responsibility, but at the moment Stalin had no one to replace him, so he could only scold angrily.

Voroshilov knew that holding Leningrad would be his last chance, and if he couldn't hold Leningrad, then he would have chosen to commit suicide without Stalin personally ordering.

"Comrade Stalin, I am well aware of my duties, and I will spare no effort to fulfill the entrustment of the party and the people, and I will definitely hold Leningrad!"

Having dealt with affairs in the direction of Leningrad here, Stalin turned his gaze to the front of Moscow, where he had nearly a million troops, but they were now besieged between Bialystok and Minsk, and the whole of Belarus was almost completely cut off from the Soviet mainland.

Marshal Timoshenko, who succeeded Pavlov as commander of the Western Front, held a 470-kilometer line of defense with more than 50 divisions, but Moscow's orders could no longer be conveyed.

Stalin looked at the combat map, knowing that at this time it had become a luxury to keep Belarus, and how he hoped that Timoshenko would be able to break out with his troops, but there was no way.

"By all means, the order must be sent to Comrade Timoshenko, I need him to come back alive, I need him to come back alive with my main forces! Let him break through, let him break through at all costs! After the troops have successfully broken through, immediately go to Smolensk and rebuild the defensive line! ”

The only thing that could make Stalin talk about it was only in the Ukrainian direction, in the Ukrainian direction, although the Southwestern Front, the Bryansk Front and the Southern Front suffered certain losses, but they firmly blocked the German Army Group South under the command of Rundstedt, which intended to infiltrate Ukraine.

But this does not mean that you can sit back and relax in the Ukrainian direction, due to the rout of the Belarusian region in the center, which directly led to the emergence of an extremely large salient in the Kyiv direction, if the Germans solve Belarus, it is very likely that the salient in the Kiev direction will be encircled, so that the entire Ukrainian region will fall into a crisis.

The crisis in Ukraine meant that the Caucasus in the rear was very likely to be touched by the Germans, and the Soviet Union would completely lose its bargaining chips against the Germans.

"Stick to Ukraine, no matter what kind of opportunity arises, don't go to war easily, you must firmly hold Ukraine!"

After giving a series of orders, Stalin walked back to his room alone and a little lonely, he needed to rest, his eyelids kept jumping, maybe he was too tired!

It's a pity, it's a pity that Stalin was not superstitious and not interested in Chinese culture, otherwise, with such a serious jump in his right eyelid, he would never have fallen asleep so easily!

The 20 divisions sent by Germany to Greece, which had not moved, had already arrived at the border between Turkey and the Soviet Union under the leadership of Rommel and wearing Turkish military uniforms, which were all first-class mountain divisions that had been redressed, and they had only one goal, that is, the Caucasus!

Heydrich had ordered the German command structure to move to the newly completed Wolf's Den, where he would watch his army sweep away the Soviet Union and, by extension, all of Europe!

In fact, the 20 mountain divisions under the command of Rommel could have launched an offensive a long time ago, but Heydrich kept pressing, in order to be able to let the horn of the destruction of the Soviet Union really sound from here after the command structure was all relocated to the wolf's den!

Come to think of it, the course of the war can never be firmly controlled by any one person, not Stalin, not Heydrich, not Roosevelt, and similarly, not Li Ling.

The war was progressing step by step according to Heydrich's previous deployment, but at the same time, it also produced a small hidden danger, that is, the rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Japan, and a large number of Soviet troops stationed in Siberia were constantly traveling to Europe by rail to the battlefield.

The battle situation is far from being as simple as it seems.

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What kind of environment people are in, they will naturally think about what kind of things. Li Ling once aspired to change the world pattern, but when the war began, especially after the Battle of Baranovic, his mind was full of his first Huaxia division, where did he have time to see what world pattern?

After the Battle of Baranovichi, the 1st Huaxia Division suffered extremely heavy losses, and the troops were left in Baranovichi for rest, and he himself returned to Germany immediately after staying in Baranovichi for two days, he needed to recruit soldiers, he needed to replenish his 1st Huaxia Division, and at the same time replenish weapons and equipment.

The loss of the Tiger tank was a bit painful, but fortunately, the German military factory production speed was quite fast, and soon the 6th Heavy Tank Brigade received another 50 Tiger tanks, making up for all the battle damage, and even a lot more.

The three main combat vehicles of the Lion, Tiger and Leopard were soon replenished to the Huaxia 1st Division, and at the same time, the Charizard self-propelled rocket launcher based on the improved Lion self-propelled artillery chassis also replaced the previous Smoker rocket artillery and became the standard configuration of the Huaxia 1st Division.

The equipment is advanced enough, and there are more of them than before, but there is a serious shortage of personnel.

Let Heydrich be requisitioned from other forces?

is a solution, but it is not what Li Ling wants, what he wants is an army dominated by Chinese as much as possible, obviously, he can only recruit slowly, and the return of the Huaxia First Division to the battlefield will definitely not be completed in the short term......