"We can't wait any longer." At this time, a voice sounded: "It is up to me to give the order for our troops to retreat on all fronts, if the Germans completely surround us, we will never have another chance." ”

Khrushchev and Timoshenko turned their heads, and it was General Kirponos who spoke, the commander of the Southwestern Front, and the war in Ukraine was not fought as badly as in Belarus, and largely relied on him.

Admiral Kirponos, one of the first senior generals to recover from the shock of the outbreak of war, did not place his forces at the forefront. After the outbreak of the war, he effectively used the depth of the Ukrainian territory, deployed the echelon defense of the four army groups under his jurisdiction, coordinated with each other, and even boldly carried out a counter-assault on the flank of the German armored corps.

He was in charge of the military affairs of the southwestern front under Budyonny and later under Timoshenko.

(Hua Dongxiong is a little confused, he is the commander of the Southwest Front, so what should Timoshenge's position be called?) ）

Now, Stalin did not agree to retreat, and these front-line commanders knew very well that once the Germans were encircled, hundreds of thousands of troops would probably be lost.

They wanted to retreat, it was not a day or two, and now Stalin actually let them hold on, and finally, Admiral Kirponos stood up, and he ordered the troops to retreat on his own accord, despite the danger of being court-martialed.

Timoshenko nodded.

Khrushchev also nodded.

Of course, they had no opinion, but they did not dare to sign their names on the order book, and if they gave such an order, they were afraid that they would be shot. Now that Admiral Kirponos has stepped up, it would have been better.

Under the orders of General Kirponos, the Southwestern Front began to move, they packed up their camps, loaded their cars, and prepared for evacuation.

………

East of Kiev, Romny.

(It is inevitable that the Middle Route Army will go south, because there are too many defenders in the entire Kiev, if the encirclement is not large enough and the troops are not enough, it will not be tightly packed at all, just look at the map, Romne is in the east of Kiev, and it is almost far from Kiev and from the border, you can think of how huge the encirclement in the Battle of Kyiv is!) Just checked the information, East China Zhixiong was also shocked. ）

"Rush, rush, rush in!" The Tiger tanks were at full power, puffs of black smoke from the diesel engines in the tail, and the 88-millimeter barrels were high, and as the fist of the SS, they rushed to the front.

The 1st Heavy Armored Battalion, the Tiger tanks of Yishui, the additional armor draped on the outside, some of them have been cracked, and after the battles are over, they don't even have time to replace the rotten additional armor, for them, time is everything!

Karl Bowman sat in his tank gondola, looking at the silhouette of the city that gradually appeared in front of him, and his heart was infinitely anticipating, what about the tanks of the Soviets? Hurry up and get out!

From the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, to the present, Bowman's results have continued to soar, so far, he has destroyed 72 Soviet tanks, and now, the rear has begun to plan to award him the Iron Cross, as long as this war is over, Bowman will become a hero admired by everyone.

Now, Bowman hopes that the Soviets will have tanks in front of him, so that he can accumulate more successes.

Unfortunately, there was nothing, and his tanks, rushing into the city in the first place, did not have any enemy attacking him on the streets.

The army of Romny was empty, and there was no more than a company of troops stationed here, and when they rushed over, the order to retreat from the military district command was given.

As a result, the defenders here retreated with great speed, leaving the empty city to the German army!

The citizens of the city, hiding in their rooms, did not dare to come out, they waited for their fate in trembling.

"We've managed to take Romne!" The battalion commander Livat shouted over the radio that the news had reached the rear of Dietrich, the commander of the 2nd Panzer Group, fifty kilometers from them.

"By occupying Romne, we blocked the Soviets' retreat, and now we are going to join forces with the Southern Army, where are Manstein's troops?"

On the map spread out on the flat ground, Dietrich looked at the dense markings on it, listening to the reports of his subordinates.

"General Kleist's 1st Panzer Group, which has been on the run all this time, had already crossed the Dnieper the night before yesterday and captured a landing ground in the Kremenchug region, from which they launched an attack in the general direction of Lubne."

The Soviets thought that they could hold off the German corps by relying on the Dnieper as a moat, but unfortunately, with such a long river, it was easy to find a suitable landing ground, and there was only a weak 38th Army in the Kremenchug area, which was transferred from the base camp reserves, and the combat effectiveness was very poor.

When the Germans took control of the landing ground, they were simply unable to fight back, and as a result, a large number of German tanks came over.

Two days ago, they reached Kremenchuk, so according to the pace of their advance, it should also reach Romny, right?

"Send our scouts south to look for the armored units of the Southern Corps, expecting to meet them." Dietrich said.

When the armored troops were advancing, they had to send scouts in front, and now, just as the main force was capturing the city, the leading scouts had already begun to continue their reconnaissance to the south.

Lightweight three-wheeled motorcycles and wheeled infantry fighting vehicles are the main equipment of the scouts, and at this time, in a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, the scout's eyes looked at the black smoke rising from the ground in the distance, and his heart could not stop being surprised.

That kind of movement is all too familiar to them, it is a massive tank force advancing!

"It's definitely our troops, quick, get up!" The Scout said excitedly.

Just as they saw the silhouette of the troops in the distance, they had already made contact with the reconnaissance troops opposite, and the riders on three-wheeled BMW motorcycles, wearing trench coats, looked very cool.

"Hey, which part of you are? We are the 1st Panzer Corps of the Waffen-SS of the 2nd Panzer Group! ”

"We are the 1st Panzer Division of the 16th Panzer Group!" The soldier on the opposite side shouted loudly.

"We're going to learn!"

"Long live the Empire!"

On the vast plains of Ukraine, south of Romny, the two armies finally met in victory, and the reconnaissance units in the vanguard were the first to come into contact, and they hugged each other excitedly and celebrated.

From the border, they have been going through almost a month, and now, they will meet! Their division also sounded the death knell for the Soviet troops in the encirclement!