Karyus watched as the friendly planes flew overhead, leaning against the hatch of the tank and swaying with the bumps of the tank's advance.

Every member of the German tank crew has long been accustomed to such bumps. As long as they're on the offensive, most of the day is bumpy like this.

Without attacking the USSR, one does not know how vast the territory of the USSR really was. Only two days after the attack along the road began, the German forces near Brest had already been dispersed into small units by an almost unlimited territory.

It sounds like a huge number of German troops, a full 3 million Wehrmacht troops, are still like a drop of milk dripping into ink, almost disappearing.

Almost 1 million troops were still in Germany, but they had to wait in place because of logistical inadequacy and road loads.

The remaining almost 1 million troops were congested in the second-line area, receiving escorts and incorporating Soviet surrendered troops, as well as countless Soviet military supplies.

Only about a third of the troops are now on the offensive, and less than a third of these troops belong to Army Group Center.

In other words, the German attack, which looked very fierce at the beginning, and the groundbreaking central breakthrough, was probably only completed by 300,000 men under the command of Field Marshal Rundstedt.

Even so, the victory of the German army in the first stage was so great that it shocked the army top brass who learned the news.

On the third day of the war, Germany had already captured more than 10,000 Soviet baggage trucks. This figure does not include small cars, but also a negligible number of motorcycles.

At the same time, the T-26 tank became the most captured Soviet tank by the German army, and within three days, the Germans found the wreckage of the T-26 and more than 1,900 abandoned and intact tanks on various positions.

Shockingly, most of these tanks were in good condition, and the Soviet Union collapsed so quickly that there was not even time to seriously dispose of these weapons.

The number of captured tanks was very large, and the models were very large, and among these tanks, the Germans found a lot of terrible designs that made them smack.

For example, the Führer's intelligence department, a Soviet heavy tank KV-1 tank, for which data had long been provided, really appeared.

The tank was heavier than the German Leopard and was armed with a powerful 76.2 mm gun.

If it were not for the Führer's advance data on this tank, and the birth of a new German tank, that is, the entry into service of the No. 5 Leopard tank, the German army would not even have the means to effectively destroy the KV-1 tank.

Now it seems that the Führer's large-scale popularization of 75 mm caliber tank guns in armored units and the large-scale armament of Stalker tank destroyers were very far-sighted.

Because the Soviet Union not only attached importance to the equipment and application of armored forces, but also surpassed all of Germany's previous opponents in the theory and equipment performance of armored forces.

Of course, there are also bulky, 5-turret tanks like Land Cruisers, the famous T-35, which was also captured quite a bit at the front.

This type of tank is a "cult" of justice in terms of the number of turrets, and a magical equipment recommended by the multi-turret cult.

Although the overall performance is not very good, if there is no Leopard tank and a tank equipped with a new tank gun, the German army will have to work hard to deal with such a behemoth.

Historically, when facing Soviet tanks such as the KV-1 and T-35, the German army often had to work hard.

Either call in for air support, or rely on 88mm anti-aircraft guns to take out such targets. Obviously, this is not a convenient solution, and the losses are sometimes significant.

Nowadays, the Germans have many ways to take out these tanks, and the No. 4 and the 75mm caliber tank gun equipped with the Stalker tank tank can effectively destroy them.

At the same time, in terms of artillery, the traditional superiority of the Soviet Union, the gains of Germany were even more abundant. At least 3,000 guns of all kinds were destroyed or captured, and this number is increasing by the minute.

Because the land of the Soviet Union was too vast, the weapons and equipment that were discarded in the wilderness could not be collected for statistical planning for a while.

As for individual weapons, the number is so large that officers at all levels in charge of statistics cannot believe it. They got at least 300,000 rifles of various kinds, and the number of machine guns was so large that everyone doubted their lives.

The data on weapons is far from accurate, as countless weapons are still discarded in the wilderness or in unattended barracks.

A joke later became a classic, and hundreds of Soviet soldiers were discovered and escorted to a prisoner-of-war camp after a week in their camp near the border......

Many Soviet prisoners escaped from the custody of German soldiers, and even when they were discovered by the detainees, they were unable to pursue them.

Analyzing only the data on paper, the vanguard of Army Group Center under the command of Marshal Rundstedt, about 300,000 troops, is at this moment chasing the 1 million defeated Soviet troops.

This is probably one of the most spectacular victories in human history, with an army chasing down an enemy three times its size, and more than 100 kilometers away.

The work of collecting Soviet prisoners was complicated and full of loopholes, because of the lack of manpower and the large gap between the troops, and tens of thousands of defeated soldiers escaped from the defeated Soviet forces.

Even the Soviet rout, which escaped hundreds of thousands of soldiers who should have been taken prisoner, was enough to overwhelm the German Army General Command.

According to incomplete statistics, the German army has captured 400,000 Soviet soldiers from the beginning of the offensive, which can definitely be said to be a very great victory.

But this victory did not make the Supreme High Command and the Army General Headquarters unhappy - the progress of the war was too fast, and completely exceeded their previous expectations.

The number of prisoner-of-war camps was too small, and the hoarded food did not seem to be sufficient. The most embarrassing thing is that the already unoptimistic state of road transport was ruined by prisoners of war.

The various emergency transport methods that Germany had anticipated became empty talk in front of the roads that were congested with Soviet prisoners of war.

The barely repelling prisoners of war to keep the roads open was also carried out only on a few major communication arteries.

Some of the trails were still overcrowded, and Soviet Red officers and soldiers in grass-green uniforms were crowded together, waiting to be sent to prisoner-of-war camps for centralized custody and management.

In such a chaotic and seriously unexpected situation, Rundstedt's attack speed was delayed.

On the third day, his forward troops. The 1st Panzer Division, which was part of Gudery's armored group, barely reached Brest, a full 4 hours later than expected.

On the second day of the offensive, Guderian's Panzer Corps, reinforced with the 505th Battalion and other armored units, was officially renamed the Guderian Armored Cluster.

This armored group is now the vanguard of Army Group Center, with almost a thousand tanks, which can be said to be an absolute sharp spearhead.

Except for the next day, when the Soviets launched a frontal counterattack against the German army, Karjus and his comrades-in-arms seemed to be participating in a huge military parade.

They sat on tanks, followed by trucks and motorcycles, and quickly crossed the road to villages or junctions to rest.

Then numerous Soviet prisoners of war were gathered and escorted to the rear, while the troops continued to move forward.

After repeating this several times, the 1st Panzer Division and the 505th Panzer Battalion stopped advancing because they ran out of fuel.

Although Guderian did not want to admit it, his troops did suffer from a shortage of fuel. The fuel they carry is not much left, and the arrival of the logistics troops responsible for the transportation is far away.

It was not until the logistics troops caught up that the tracks of the German tank units rolled again, with billowing dust, and killed the set target Brest.

In good conscience, the degree of mechanization of a unit is actually directly related to the country's logistical supply capacity and material and energy reserves.

It was not that Hitler and his generals were unaware of the benefits of mechanization, but that a single Romanian oil field alone was not enough for Germany to feed that many armored troops.

The act of forcibly mechanizing the troops and using new tanks with heavier tonnage and greater fuel consumption in advance like Li Le dared to make a choice because of the support of the new Libyan oil fields.

The performance indicators of the Leopard tank are very advanced, which has been unanimously recognized by the actual combat and the military.

But it is also an indisputable fact that the Leopard tank consumes more than twice as much fuel as the No. 3 tank.

Judging from the data alone, the Leopard tank weighs about 40 tons, which is almost twice as much as the No. 3 tank. So doubling fuel consumption isn't a particularly surprising thing.

Equipping such an "oil tiger" like tank No. 4 is unimaginable in real history.

The total number of Tiger tanks and Leopard tanks in service is less than half of the planned equipment weight of Li Le's new Leopard tank.

At this moment, Karjus was sitting on such a tank, and he was advancing towards his goal, which was to capture a village on the left flank of Brister and obtain a bridgehead for the attack on Brest.

"The news came from the reconnaissance forces that it seemed that the Soviets were not going to abandon their outer defensive positions...... They intend to fight back one more time. Inside the headphones, the battalion commander's reminder was accompanied by the noisy sound of electrical interference, which came to everyone's ears.

"That's it! Gentlemen! Here's your chance to make a difference! We're going to paint a new logo on the barrel! Calyus looked at the village in the distance and shouted loudly to his comrades over the intercom.

"Victory! Monarch! The crew replied loudly with his encouragement.