Chapter 1247: The Siege of Uman

If you use an idiom to describe the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II, the magnificent waves are the most appropriate.

The entire Soviet-German battlefield was almost always a large corps of troops, and a large corps of men fought, and when the German tank units advanced, it was like the waves on the seashore churning.

At this time, the Viking divisions were still at the forefront as usual, and as Waffen-SS, they had their own independent logistics support system, which allowed them to be resupplied first than other Wehrmacht armoured divisions, and they charged more quickly.

At this time, ahead of the Viking division, it was their reconnaissance unit, the Volenne Assault Brigade.

The wheeled infantry fighting vehicle galloped over the field, and here and there were endless fields everywhere, so that the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle galloped quite smoothly, faster than the tracked vehicle.

The brigade commander De Gale sat on the Panther 3 tank to which his brigade headquarters belonged, and in the gallop, he looked ahead with his binoculars, only to see that in the opposite field, there was also rising smoke, it was another army advancing, and the two sides were facing each other!

"Attention, speed up and observe the troops in front of us." Deguel shouted over the radio.

Closer, closer, De Gale saw clearly from the binoculars, the troops opposite, rushing to the front were several BMW motorcycles, the riders on the motorcycles, wearing a full set of motorcycle suits, wide windbreakers, motorcyclists were sassy and heroic.

"It's our people!" De Gale shouted loudly: "Opposite us is the 17th Army, we have already joined the division!" ”

A happy voice came over the radio.

"We are the vanguard of the 17th Army, and it's a pleasure to see you!"

"So are we, long live the Empire!"

The wheeled infantry fighting vehicle rushed forward, and the motorcycles finally met on the flat plains of Ukraine, standing out of the Panther 3 tank, and De Gale looked behind him with all the smoke and dust, it was a large army advancing.

From now on, they have completed the encirclement of the defenders in the Uman area, and the more than 200,000 Soviet troops in the encirclement are about to usher in their end!

Since the beginning of the war, the German army has created one glorious encirclement battle after another, and now, finally, it is the turn of the Southern Corps.

The encirclement was closed, and then the encirclement began to be gradually compressed, dividing the encirclement into small encirclements one by one, and eating the Soviet troops in one bite!

The German Southern Corps, at last, opened its mouth and was ready to eat meat.

At the same time, the Bo-2 reconnaissance plane also returned to the rear station and quickly reported this shocking and terrible news.

German troops, appeared in the rear of Uman, Uman is in danger!

When it came to Kiev, Budyonny, who was sitting at the table, immediately stood up, and he felt a whirlwind of the world.

A leak, it's definitely a huge oversight.

This has become a huge salient here, and I have long thought that the Germans want to eat our side, and after being defended in Kyiv for so long, I just didn't expect that the Germans would suddenly turn around and pounce in the direction of Uman!

"We sent more scouts in the direction of the target, and sure enough, we found a large number of German tanks, and they have now completed the encirclement of Uman." Admiral Kirponos was also worried, as we already had 20 divisions encircled by the Germans.

It was thought that the huge German army would fight fiercely on the Dnieper, seize the crossing, and then attack Kyiv, but instead the Germans pounced on Uman, where the rear was empty, and the Germans were really good at seizing the fighters.

Budyonny suddenly felt an inexplicable panic and uneasiness in his heart at this time, and he persevered, but he still ushered in this terrible end.

"We can't mobilize our current army to save the Uman defenders." Budyonny calmed himself down and began to analyze: "We are now busy with the defense of Kyiv, and if we mobilize troops to the rescue, it will leave Kyiv empty, and at the same time, it will also fall into the tactics of the Germans." ”

Leave the fortified Kyiv and head to Uman, where there is a good chance that the reinforcements will be wiped out on the way, because the German army is good at fighting in the field.

The mobilization of fewer reinforcements is not enough to stuff the teeth of the Germans, and the mobilization of more is not good for their own defense of Kyiv.

That is, there is only one result left.

"Order the Uman defenders, at all costs, to break through the German encirclement, retreat in the direction of Cherkasy, and repair after crossing the Dnieper." Budyonny said.

In the encirclement of Uman, mainly the 6th and 12th armies, now they can only break through on their own strength, it will be a difficult battle, Budyonny knows that this order of his is very unkind, but there is no way, his first task is to defend Kiev.

Moreover, he already had a faint premonition that the situation in Ukraine was about to deteriorate, and he was struggling to hold on, hindering the invasion of the German army, and now, the Germans were about to get a huge result.

Behind this, there is a bigger conspiracy!

Budyonny was pondering in front of the map, when a man walked in outside.

"Marshal Budyonny, I'm Captain Kartsev, and I've just come from Moscow." Kartsev's face was tired of the journey: "I came here to help our people adopt new tactics in the defense of the city, to fend off the terrible bombs of the Germans. ”

Learn war in war.

Until now, the strategic weapon in the hands of the Germans was the kind of terrible bomb, which was carried by bombers, and after hundreds of bombers flew by, the entire city could be blown up.

However, the Germans did not use it in every city, and it is conceivable that the use of such bombs was limited, such as the possibility of high cost of manufacture, such as the Germans were afraid that the secret of the bomb would be leaked and let the Soviets find a plan for confrontation, or let the Soviets find the secret of the bomb and then copy it and use it to bomb the German cities.

First of all, such high-altitude bombers could be intercepted, and the Soviet Union was ramping up the production of the MiG-3, while dispersing the deployment of airfields so that the tragedy in Petersburg would not be repeated.

Secondly, at a time when the German ground forces had not yet advanced to Petersburg, some Soviet military industry experts secretly entered Petersburg to study countermeasures.

There were no buildings left on the ground in St. Petersburg, even those hiding in the tunnels were suffocated, the ponds had been dried up, and those far from the center of the explosion were crushed or scorched by the shock wave.

However, they still found survivors.