Historically, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, there were less than 4,000 tanks in total, and the most powerful tanks No. 3 and No. 4 were seriously undernumbered.

And now? The German offensive team already has more than 20,000 tanks, and the Panther 3 tank is the main force, and the Tiger tank is the elite, and the attack power is greatly improved compared with before.

In the past, Guderian was reluctant because he had so many troops at his disposal, but now? The Central Route Army was the most powerful, with two tank clusters, the 2nd Panzer Group under the 3rd, 17th, and 18th Panzer Divisions, and the 1st SS Panzer Corps, totaling about 3,800 battle tanks.

The 3rd Panzer Group comprises the 7th, 14th, 20th, 12th, and 19th Panzer Divisions, and the 2nd SS Panzer Corps, totaling about 5,089 battle tanks.

Guderian wanted to go south because he had a keen eye for the plane, and Manstein might have had the idea, but he wouldn't mention it, because Manstein would have thought it was his shame.

Guderian only needs to send the second armored group in the south over, nearly 4,000 tanks, and hundreds of thousands of powerful troops, which is enough to complete the task of encircling Kyiv with Manstein's existing forces.

And the third armored group in Guderian's hands can still continue to advance, the Soviets are now hastily arranging several lines of defense on the first line from Smolensk to Moscow, almost all of them are second-line troops, and the combat effectiveness is very poor, Guderian can complete it with one of his armored clusters, 5,000 tanks.

In this way, having encircled the defenders of Kiev and eliminated the threat from his flank, the 2nd Panzer Group quickly returned to the reinforcements and could also catch up with the siege of Moscow.

At the same time, there was also the powerful Northern Route Army, which was also advancing towards Moscow, and what else did Guderian have to worry about?

This is also the reason for the deployment of troops.

The most powerful in Germany was the Central Army, while the most powerful in the Soviet Union was the Southwestern Army, so Guderian was in constant trouble.

Ciric, of course, knew that Guderian was not proposing this for the sake of so-called military exploits, but for the sake of the Empire, and since everything was not in danger, what was there to worry about?

"Give the order, after the center army group takes Smolensk, the second armored group quickly moves south, assists Manstein, and encircles and annihilates the defenders of Kyiv together!"

With this order, the fate of the defenders of Kiev was also sealed, they would never have expected that German troops would suddenly appear in their rear, their so-called Dnieper moat, that is an absolute joke.

"In the occupied territories of Ukraine, quickly restore traffic, rebuild the broad-gauge railway, let our engineering team work a new miracle, lay the railway as soon as possible, and send enough supplies to our front line." "Until then, we can use our transport aircraft to transport and increase supplies. ”

The middle route army fought very fiercely, and that was also because of the broad-gauge railway, the transportation of materials was very convenient, and the southern route was very difficult.

Unbeknownst to Ciric, with the transfer of his own army, he had succeeded in abolishing a general in the Soviet Union.

Despite the difficulties, on the whole, Germany was still on the offensive, and the Soviets on the other side were also using all their strength for their survival.

Roy Fock, who jumped from thousands of meters in the air without a parachute, which was almost certain to die, survived, and after a few days of rest in a hospital bed, Roy became better and began to train Soviet pilots with others, and the first task was to meet with Soviet air force experts.

"In the past few days, we have carried out test flights of this aircraft, and at medium and low altitudes, we found that the performance of the P-39 Flying Snake fighter is indeed good, but now, what we need most is not such an aircraft that can only dominate low altitudes, our biggest threat is the high-altitude bombers of the Germans, if they drop that terrible bomb on our city again, we need to be able to stop it."

Rabkin, chief engineer of the Air Force Research Institute, said to the Americans present: "We need a high-altitude fighter, can the engine of this aircraft be improved, and a supercharger will be installed, so that our plane can fly to an altitude of 12,000 meters." ”

In the past few days of test flights, they have strengthened this point of view, this aircraft is more than 6,000 meters, the flight performance has dropped quite seriously, continue to fly upward, can only slowly and patiently climb, there is no longer any actual combat value.

Hearing the other party's complaints, the American experts present shook their heads one after another: "No, the space in the back is too small, and there is no place to arrange the supercharger." ”

For the United States, since there is no full-fledged Merlin engine to study, the United States has not thoroughly eaten up high-altitude superchargers, and the existing aircraft with superchargers are not enough to equip the United States with its own aircraft, how can it be given to the Soviets.

What was given to the Soviets was not wanted by the United States, and although the surplus materials were given to the Soviets, although they could not be at high altitudes, it didn't mean that all the planes were at high altitudes, and those Stuka and those HS-129s were not all flying at ultra-low altitudes? You can fight those.

Seeing that this was going to be cold, Roy quipped on the side: "I thought you should complain about the door of the plane, it can't be opened in the air, and there is no way to escape." ”

Roy wanted to use his American humor to ease the embarrassment: "After all, not everyone is going to be as lucky as me." ”

However, his joke was useless, and Safonov, who was present, only replied briefly: "That hatch is indeed a bit different, but we don't care." ”

Not care? Roy asked curiously, "Why?" ”

"Because we can't skydive." Safonov said: "As long as we flew the plane into the sky, we never thought about getting alive, even if it was a collision, we would knock down the enemy's plane. ”

The scene was even more silent.

For the Americans, the war that took place on the other side of the ocean is just a topic of conversation after dinner, although the war between the United States and the island countries has already broken out, after all, it is at sea, and the impact is not widespread.

And in the Soviet Union, war was everywhere, and everyone was facing the test of life and death at any time.

Their will to fight is firm, such pilots, are worthy of respect, and they have won the appreciation of the American side.

"I think we can try, find Allison to get information on these engines, maybe we can add superchargers to them in the Soviet Union." Finally, an expert from the American side took a stand.