"What are we fighting for?" At this time, such a question suddenly arose in the heart of the commander of the Great German Division, Holren. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this critical juncture, Holren, the head of the German ace army, actually began to doubt what he was fighting for.

Since ancient times, conscripts have always made excuses for the wars they have waged, in order to "make their divisions famous" and lay a loud banner.

And the reason behind "the division is famous" is actually to let the soldiers know who they are fighting for, or what they are fighting for. Only in this way can the soldiers be willing to put their lives behind for the sake of this "ideal" and this "great righteousness," in order to achieve these "great goals" mentioned by the conscripts, and only then can their morale be maintained and even improved.

However, when the soldiers began to doubt who they were fighting for and what they were fighting for, they naturally did not fight for the "ideals" that these conscripts called them. Otherwise, they would rather keep their lives alive and be stigmatized as "deserters" than become cannon fodder for the rulers

At this time, an officer standing next to Hall Ryan also noticed that the division commander's expression was a little inappropriate. Those eyes, which had always been heroic and decisive, were now blind.

"Walter, what's wrong with you?" The officer walked up to Holren, tapped him on the shoulder, and said, "Do you miss your family?" ”

How dare the thought in Holren's heart be raised in front of other German troops? What's more, the person standing next to him was his superior, the commander of the 46th Panzer Corps, Heinrich von Vikinghoff.

"I'm sorry, sir, I shouldn't have thought about this at this time." Holren's words neither denied that he was thinking about his family, nor did he deceive his superiors, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"There's nothing wrong with that. We are all soldiers, but we also have parents at home, wives and children. In the dying moments, it is inevitable to think of them.

However, since we are standing here, standing on the battlefield, then our identity is a soldier! As soldiers of the Wehrmacht, we should do our part to fight for our country. ”

At this moment, an armored car suddenly appeared in front of the two. This armored car is not ordinary, there are unusual people sitting in it, and there are also unusual equipment and appearance.

A man dressed in a general's uniform hurriedly walked out of the armored car. Seeing that the Vikinghof and Holren, whom he wanted to find the most, were standing here, he hurried over without even looking at the road.

"How's it going?" The man in the general's uniform patted the dust on his clothes. Although he was surrounded by the Soviet army, his demeanor was still calm and he had the style of a general.

However, in history, although this general has made many contributions, his record is not inferior to that of any marshal of the German army. In terms of military capabilities, this Guderian general is not inferior to marshals such as Lieb and Rundstedt, and is not far behind Manstein and Rommel.

But because of the problem of luck, no matter how many feats he made and how many enemies he destroyed, he finally stopped at the position of general, so he had the title of "Gu Bu Shuai". And this siege battle is destined to have to say goodbye to his career as a horse in the future.

"Report to the general, now our situation is very bad, after the 10th Panzer Division was surrounded and surrendered, the enemy concentrated his forces, and under the cover of a large number of tanks, rushed into the gap between the Große German and Reich divisions, completely dividing our two divisions.

They have closed on us, and our troops are fighting hard! ”

"What the hell!" Guderian remembered the terrifying experience just now, and couldn't help but sigh, "Just now, when I rushed over from the Imperial Division, I happened to encounter the enemy armored forces you mentioned.

They had a lot of tanks, mostly T-34s, and a couple of Kliment Voroshilov tanks. Luckily, my command vehicle wasn't big and fast enough. When driving, there was a forest cover, and only then did he escape.

Otherwise, I am afraid that I would have died under the guns of Soviet tanks. ”

In Guderian, something similar has happened more than once. According to his own memoirs, every time Guderian marched, he had to sit in command of armored vehicles, rush to the front, and take pleasure in watching the machine gunners of his armored vehicles fire at the enemy with machine guns on the roof of the vehicles.

As a result, his command vehicle became a target for the enemy again and again, and sometimes even got out of the car, stood on the battlefield, and even made people recognizable. However, none of the troops around him are vegetarians, and they have saved the day again and again. Of course, these things are just what he said, and whether they are true or not is impossible to investigate for the time being.

But this time, his troops have been completely surrounded by Soviet troops, and the "Greater Germany" division he is currently in has also lost nearly half of it, and sooner or later it will be encircled and annihilated.

In such a situation, will this battlefield "luck king" be favored by the god of fate?

"Report to the commander, the 4th Army has concentrated its forces and has begun to attack the enemy forces on our west flank, and is lifting the enemy's encirclement of us. Field Marshal Bock ordered us to hold on to the resistance, wait until the 4th Army had lifted the encirclement, and then break through and retreat to the west!

After Hort's 3rd Panzer Group had broken through the enemy lines, we launched a counteroffensive with the 4th Army to join the 3rd Tank Group east of Minsk. ”

This news, indeed, was very encouraging, and it gave Guderian, von Vikinghoff and Holren a shot in the arm.

According to the original plan, Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group and Hort's 3rd Panzer Group would attack from the gaps in the Manturov Line from the south and north, and after breaking through the defensive line, they would quickly advance to the area east of Minsk to meet their divisions, encircle the main forces of the Soviet Western Front in the Minsk area, and then encircle and annihilate them.

But now, the 3rd Panzer Group has not broken through the Soviet defenses, and Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group has also been encircled, and even the best unit of the Wehrmacht, the Großdeutsche Division, has been separated by the main Soviet forces and surrounded by the main Soviet forces.

Long before the start of the battle, the Greater German Division had been listed as a key object of "care" by the Soviet High Command. The generals of the Soviet army knew in their hearts the significance of this trump card unit, and the elimination of this trump card unit could not only strike at the enemy's combat effectiveness, but also reduce the morale of the enemy.

When the most elite "Greater Germany" division of the German army was wiped out by the Soviet army, there would inevitably be an uproar within the German army. The most elite and combat-ready units were lost, so what could the Germans use to resist the USSR?

At this moment, the fate of the invincible Guderian has been completely pinned on this trump card army, when surrounded by the enemy's superior forces and aimed at superior firepower, can this "Greater Germany" division, which the German army is proud of, be able to survive? Even the division commander Holren didn't know the bottom of his heart.

"Boom!" At this time, a Soviet artillery shell suddenly fell near the three people.

The three officers who had served in the army for many years fell down in time, and although they were not seriously injured, the dust and gunpowder residue from the shelling flew onto the clothes of the three officers at once, staining them all black.