The German attack was quite violent, and when it was dark, the German troops were already swarming in a swarm.

The three-way army, 20,000 tanks, soared across the vast expanse of the Soviets.

Take the Central Route Army, for example, after dawn, it was divided into two directions, with the 2nd Panzer Group and the 3rd Panzer Group as the lead, with the high-speed advancing tanks as the main offensive force, from the two directions of Suwałki Province in East Prussia and the Brest Fortress in the Warsaw region, to the direction of the Yavistok salient and Minsk in the east.

When their main forces meet in Minsk, more than 600,000 troops of the Soviet Union's Western Special Military District will be surrounded by the entire Belarusian region.

At present, the situation on the front line is undoubtedly not optimistic.

Due to the surprise attack, the German troops rarely encountered large-scale organized resistance and counterattacks during the initial offensive. The troops of the various garrisons must unite and twist into a rope in order to have combat effectiveness, but at present, the various units of the entire Western Special Military District have indeed not received any orders, and they can only exchange fire with the German troops sporadically in their own defense areas, while they are waiting for the Western Front Front Front Headquarters to issue combat orders.

The situation at the front was chaotic, and in the Kremlin, the senior commanders of the Soviets were judging the situation ahead.

Obviously, such a huge military invasion by the Germans could not have been stimulated only by their own heavy thunderstorm plan, and the military scale of the Germans needed to be mobilized at least half a year in advance.

Both sides were deceived by the Germans.

Now, it is useless to say that the Germans launched an attack at the same time on such a long front, did they have enough strength, or did they have a main attack and a feint? Where are their strategic goals?

"We have not yet contacted the Western Special Military District." An adjutant came in and reported to Zhukov.

Looking at the large-scale map, the blue arrows drawn on it are the current known sequence of the German army's attack, but this is not accurate based on the intelligence gathered by a few limited reconnaissance planes.

Even so, Zhukov sniffed out something from the middle.

"Right now, our Western Special Military District is dangerous." Zhukov said to Stalin: "Now the Germans are attacking in our central part, in the Belarusian region, in two lines of troops. ”

Pointing to the map above with a command stick, Zhukov analyzed: "In the middle of these two offensive forces, there is the main force of our Western Special Military District, these troops are currently in the garrison, or in the camp, their troop deployment depth is too shallow, moreover, they cannot attack or defend here. If the Germans quickly outflanked from both flanks, the three army groups inside would be easily eaten by the Germans. ”

Zhukov was distrustful of Pavlov, and this person still has no idea of the big picture. Moreover, the Germans attacked so fiercely that perhaps Pavlov had already been knocked unconscious.

Stalin also frowned: "Then immediately contact Pavlov and ask him to organize troops to stop the German attack and cut off the arms of the German attack." ”

"However, we could not contact Pavlov, he was not in the command of the special military district." Zhukov said helplessly.

At this most critical time, as the commander of the entire Western Special Military District, as the on-site commander who collided with the Germans in the first wave, Pavlov was not at his post!

No one knew where Pavlov was now, the German offensive had been premeditated for a long time, many telephone lines had been cut off, the signal corps had been assassinated, and there was chaos.

But at least, Pavlov should have been in his command, where did he go?

At this time, Pavlov, who was being talked about by Moscow, had already come to the station of the 13th Army and gathered the senior commanders of the army.

"This is our most crucial battle, we must summon up the courage to defeat the enemy with the conviction of victory, our Soviet army, the most powerful, our tanks, and the most advanced, now let us rally around the Party Central Committee with Stalin at the same time........."

Pavlov's speech lasted for more than two hours, and during these two hours, urgent war reports kept coming, but no one dared to hand them to Pavlov.

Later generations commented on Pavlov, and some people said that he was wronged, after all, few of the troops who entered the battlefield in the first wave survived, it just depends on who catches up and who is unlucky.

However, Pavlov is still to blame, at such a critical time, he is not in the command of his own front, but in the headquarters of an army group at the front, he is simply stupid.

In his eyes, the most important thing now is to cheer everyone up and strengthen his belief in victory; as the commander of the dignified Western Special Military Region, he is now actually doing the task of a propaganda section officer.

General Pavlov was promoted too quickly and took on too much responsibility before he had the corresponding abilities. At the time of the Spanish Civil War, he was just a tank soldier, and he had no idea of the big picture.

In the Western Special Military District, he was even more incompetent, and the two most elite army groups were too far forward to the Bialystok salient and did not have enough reserves. The air force was concentrated in a few airfields and became a good target for the enemy.

Moreover, now, after the start of the war, Pavlov actually ran into an army group, which is tantamount to abandoning the command of the front army as a whole. exacerbated the confusion. The losses of hundreds of thousands of troops, counted on his head, were not wronged.

While the 14th Mechanized Corps on the front line was being tortured by the German tank troops, in their south, the 9th Mechanized Corps of the Southwestern Front was still hurrying on the road.

In the Ukrainian direction, Germany also launched a large-scale offensive, and the 9th Mechanized Army was ordered to march to the area of Volynsky New City, Rivne, and Lutsk.

"Quick, quick, we must follow the orders of the headquarters and get to our position!"

The 9th Mechanized Corps was deployed in the rear, but now they were ordered to rush to the front urgently, and their troops were exhausted.

The 35th Tank Division, a mechanized unit, could advance in the field, leaving the road to their brother unit, the 131st Motorized Rifle Division.

At this time, carrying their own equipment, the infantry comrades were out of breath.

The trucks in the establishment are not visible at all, and their motorized unit is completely a pure infantry.