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"Marshal, the Germans' troops have been spotted ahead!"
"How many are there?"
"I don't know, I can't see clearly, we didn't dare to get too close, what should we do?"
"Stop and wait, send someone to probe again, and probe left and right. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
After estimating the distance, now the broken through force has left Minsk at least ten kilometers, but these ten kilometers are too smooth! They never encountered a single German unit except the German armored regiment they first encountered!
The more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong, Marshal Temoshenko sat on the ground and took out a kettle to take a sip of water, and the uneasiness in his heart began to become more and more serious.
"Let the fighters hurry up and drink some water to replenish . Stamina, we may not have time to rest in the future. ”
Here, Timoshenko had just finished giving the order, and in the middle of the night, three red signal flares suddenly rose up, and the orientation of these three signal flares was exactly in front of them and on the left and right wings!
Immediately after that, countless lights were lit up, and flares were constantly hit into the sky, illuminating the night sky as if it were day, and countless German tanks surrounded the exhausted Red Army breakthrough force with only light weapons.
"It's over!"
With a lament, Timoshengo sat down on the ground as if his soul had been drained.
This is not an ambush, but he has already jumped into the trap laid by the Germans!
Continuous siege of Minsk, although countless enemies were killed, but the German troops also suffered a lot of losses, although the German army had twice attacked the city of Minsk, but in the end had to retreat, relying on the city defense of Minsk to fight street battles, which made the German advantage completely unable to develop.
Faced with such a situation, Field Marshal von Bock, commander-in-chief of the German Army Group Center, known as the 'Kusterling flame', personally flew to the front headquarters on the outskirts of Minsk by plane and formulated a plan to break the situation.
The Soviet forces in Bialystok had already begun to retreat, and if they did not seize the time to destroy the defenders of Minsk, Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group and Hort's 3rd Panzer Group would be in an extremely difficult situation.
Faced with such a situation, von Bock decided to set a huge trap for the Minsk defenders to get out of the city on their own!
After days of attacks and communications being completely cut off, Timoshenko, eager to find a breakthrough, responded to von Bock's idea and made his first breakthrough on the morning of June 6.
At this time, according to von Bock, the German defense line deliberately exposed some holes, but it happened to block the Soviet Red Army trying to break through.
To give them a chance to break out, von Bock expected that Timoshenko would break through at midnight in two ways, one as a decoy to attract the main German army, and the other as a decoy for the troops who were really about to flee.
Sure enough, at the very beginning of the day of June 7, Timoshenko made the decision to break out, allowing a large number of wounded, sick and baggage troops to break through from the east, while he quietly rushed out with his elite from the northeast corner of the 'weak point in the German line' that he had discovered.
The two long serpent formations of the armored regiment, which had been deliberately exposed to Timoshenko, drove directly swaggering past the bodies of the Soviet soldiers, seemingly unaware of them, when in fact, von Bock had already ordered three entire panzer divisions and five motorized infantry divisions to weave into a huge pocket, waiting for Timoshenko to enter.
"Give the order, let's fight to the death, whether we can rush out or not, we will bite them hard!"
"That's it, sir, give the order, we are willing to shed the last drop of blood for this land!"
"Let's fight, don't wait!"
"Thank you, Marshal, for bringing us here, no one expected this situation, the Germans are too insidious. Marshal, give the order, let's attack, let's kill these Germans! Even if I can only kill one, I'm willing! ”
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Listening to the shouts of the soldiers, why didn't Brother Timoshenge want to kill happily?
Even if he dies on the battlefield in the end, it can be regarded as the destiny and supreme glory that a soldier deserves!
But he is not a soldier after all, he is the commander of this army!
He knew that this exhausted and completely unarmed force could not pose any threat to the German armored forces waiting here, and once he gave the order to attack, it would be tantamount to sending more than 10,000 people to hell, and it would be a one-sided massacre!
He can't give such an order no matter what, but if he doesn't give such an order, then he can only order the troops to surrender, and he can't ask everyone to commit suicide!
Ordered the troops to surrender?
This is to nail yourself firmly to the pillar of shame of the Soviets, to command an army of hundreds of thousands of people, and in the end to a complete defeat, and at the same time to demand that the last bit of troops surrender to the Germans! According to Stalin's temperament, I am afraid that all his relatives will suffer because of his own order, and maybe all of them will be killed!
Give the order to attack, let yourself die in battle, at least your relatives will not be blamed, give the order to surrender, you will not escape death, you will be spurned forever, and at the same time, your relatives will also die!
It doesn't seem like a difficult choice, you just have to give an attack.
But Timoshenge really couldn't give this order, once he gave the order to attack, more than 10,000 people would be sent to death in vain, and behind this was the mutilation of more than 10,000 families!
"Don't make any noise, pass my orders and surrender!"
"What!"
"We'd rather die in battle than surrender!"
"Please let us fight, we'd rather die on the battlefield!"
"Do you hear me! My order is to surrender to the Germans! I demand that you all surrender! Execute the command! ”
It's a tough decision!
Turning himself into a sinner for the entire Soviet Union, sending his relatives to hell, and saving more than 10,000 lives, Timoshenko knew that no one in the future would say that he was good, but everything, it was worth it, and some people were destined to become a tragedy, even if they paid too much behind their backs, it could only be a tragedy.
The order has been given, and the tanks of the Germans are slowly advancing!
However, at this time, Timoshengo pulled out his matching gun and aimed it at his head!
Bang~!
He fell to the ground smiling!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Sporadic gunfire rang out from time to time in this army, and there were still too many people who were unwilling to accept the fate of surrender, they did not want to be prisoners, but they could not disobey military orders, and they chose to commit suicide like Timoshenko!
Minsk was taken, watching the captured Soviet soldiers line up with their hands above their heads and leave, von Bock and Guderian they found the body of Timoshenko, there was no joy of victory, but a faint sadness.
"Thick burial!"
With a word, von Bock turned away......