"Form a steel pocket and crush the enemy of the north, at all costs!"

The 1st Panzer Division of the 41st Motorized Army Group North, General Hans Reinhardt, commander of the Army Panzer Corps, approached the right bank of the Vilia River in the south of the Oshmian Heights with the cooperation of the 36th Motorized Division from the direction of Vilnius, Lithuania, and approached the tributary of the Neman River on the southern flank of the heights!

This is the key point on the north side of the encirclement, if it is broken through by the Germans, the Red Army on the right flank of the encirclement will lose its most important geographical advantage! The 24th Infantry Corps and the 217th Tank Brigade of the 52nd Army were responsible for shrinking the encirclement on this line, and the command of the Army Group, at the moment of the outbreak of the encounter, received a reception from the Military Council of the Front, the commissar of the 3rd rank of the State Security and Internal Guard Forces, Kruglov (this person seems to have been the number one person in the Soviet police department later in history, and the information on the blood bat is incomplete and cannot be determined. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info)!

The group army aviation group did not have combat missions in other directions, and now it was all engaged in air assault operations against the German 41st Motorized Chinese Army!

The fiercest battles broke out in the triangle of the crossing of the Miane-Minsk road and the Lida-Molodečno railway!

Do whatever it takes! The 52nd Mechanized Division of the 14th Infantry Corps was on the right flank of the 217th Tank Brigade, a mechanized division reorganized this summer, which turned out to be an infantry division and had participated in the Northern War.

The division commander, Major General Nikolai Nikolayevich Nikishin, spread the headquarters along the road, the infantry units built a fortified defense in the middle area, and the two tank regiments were like two big crows of crabs ready to go!

From the very beginning the battle was extremely brutal, the Red Army did not occupy any local superiority, it was a completely evenly matched frontal battle of life and death! For a whole day on the 17th, fierce fighting raged in this area, and the German 1st Panzer Division could not break through the Red Army defense line by a single step!

At five o'clock in the afternoon, an armored unit of the Red Army approached the area of engagement from due north at high speed - Hans-Reinhardt, having received reports from the air, had to order the Panzer Division and the 36th Motorized Division, which had suffered heavy losses but had not yet achieved their intended operational objectives, to withdraw so as not to be flanked from three sides.

After a day of fierce fighting, the encirclement in the northwest was stabilized, the 217th Tank Brigade and the 52nd Infantry Corps began to shrink to the southeast, and there was no longer a threat north of the highland side of the Neman River!

Where did the armored force that forced Admiral Reinhardt to decide to retreat come from? It was possible for the 24th Army to hold the encirclement on its own, but it was bound to suffer heavy losses, because they flanked only one infantry corps of the reserve front plus two tank brigades, which were still compressing to the south. The support unit was not the headquarters of the Reserve Front, but from Tukhachevsky's unit - the 1st Mechanized Division directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Guards!

The "Red God of War" sent the First Mechanized Division, which had just over half of its strength left, and the only unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Red Army with the title of "Guards" -- although the situation on the Baltic coast was grim, Tukhachevsky knew that the most important thing was the current operation in Belarus: Army Group North sent support troops, so he also sent his trump card, preferring to give up the opportunity to regain a few pieces of territory in the coastal areas.

Look at the fighter plane and take into account the overall situation! That's the charm of the "Red God of War"!

Fekochinov's troops did not participate in front-line operations some time ago, but were reorganized and replenished, which would "shrink" this powerful mechanized division to only 25,000 people (this is much more than a "full division"!). But it has maintained a strong combat effectiveness!

It was only a few dozen kilometers away from Lithuania, and the 1st Mechanized Division went all the way to the south, cutting a piece of the German occupation zone horizontally nearly 80 kilometers deep in two days, leaving the other Red Army units behind them a small encirclement of nearly 20,000 German troops, and its main force arrived in the north of Belarus - Tukhachevsky used all the value of the power in his hands, and even a reinforcement became a rapid intersperse!

Without stopping, they approached the northeast of Ivey, where the Germans were trying to break through the encirclement, and the two sides were in a big melee in the open field!

Tukhachevsky will not cheapen Budyonny or Zhukov with the trump card in his hands, and the 1st Guards Mechanized Division is only on the northern tributary of the Neman River (note, this tributary is very far from the main stream of the Neman on the side of Stolbuch. Fighting in the north, clinging to the border between Belarus and Lithuania - in case Major General Fedochinov leads his troops to penetrate the depth of the encirclement, then Tukhachevsky's trump card is estimated to be "meat buns and dogs", and there is no return! - Tukhachevsky was not worried about being eaten by the besieged Germans whole, but let Budyonny's old fox swallow it!

If an order from the High Command comes down - the 1st Mechanized Division of the troops directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Guards belongs to the Reserve Front Army system, then Tukhachevsky is really a dumb eater!

When the encirclement is secured, Fekochinov will remain on the Oshmian line and become the southernmost pincer of the Baltic Front, without the danger of Budyonny being eaten!

However, even in support of the southern operation, Tukhachevsky's own logistical supply system was a bit beyond the reach of the whip - he sent a telegram to the deputy commander-in-chief.

Don't worry, Lin Jun won't let his former confidential secretary go hungry.

"This marshal only sent people without food, and a mechanized division of more than 20,000 people went on a rampage with only two base supplies, ruthless enough!"

17th, dinner time. Minsk was "quiet", only the sound of Red Army propaganda broadcasts and sporadic artillery sounds sounded from time to time.

"Let our comrade cavalry marshal cooperate, his logistical supply system near Volozhin can ensure the needs of the first division." After speaking, Lin Jun called the reserve front, and the reply he got was that the 1st Division had already sent a liaison officer to contact their logistics department, and there was no problem.

Looking at the telegram, Zhukov said: "Budyonny will gladly guarantee logistics for the 1st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it will be on top of the last tank army!" ”

"I haven't seen Fekochinov for a long time, and when this campaign is over, it's time to give him an army group."

"I think it's a good fit. Andrey, the Western Front is about to be reorganized, why don't you give him to me? ”

Lin Jun looked at Zhukov like an alien and did not answer: You dream, you!

As a commander with a slightly eccentric temper and a strong personality, Zhukov rarely laughed, but this will make him laugh: it is possible that Tukhachevsky will give him the trump card in his hand ?!

No way!

The Minsk-Osipovich-Šišić-Stolbuch-Iveye-Smolgon-Minsk encirclement has been formed, and the Red Army is compressing in the middle in all directions -- on the line of Latom, Mikhanovichi, and Mariina Gorka, the reserves of the three fronts have already begun to penetrate westward!

All places are on the offensive, only the city of Minsk is holding its ground! Why? Because even at the cost of 100,000 people, it is impossible for Chuikov to capture that half of the ruined city in a short time!

Minsk street fighting, maybe in the future it will become a textbook for the teaching of street fighting in the armies of all military powers of the world! Here the Soviets and Germans took the tactics of urban offensive and defensive warfare to the extreme! In addition to biological weapons, use all the weapons and tactics you have, and do your best!

The street battles in Minsk, perhaps no more urban offensive and defensive warfare can compare with its brutality; Perhaps in the future when the Red Army marches into Berlin, there will no longer be such a large-scale, tragic and integral street battle - because in Minsk the army of a million is evenly matched!

Any tactic that man comes up with is used, and everything from man to beast is used to the fullest! A clash of wills and faith, a clash of flesh and steel, where two huge war machines are doing their best!

As soon as the encirclement shrinks, the city of Minsk is the heart of the island, and the cold and the shortage of supplies slowly wear down the will of the German army - the temperature will drop to a minimum of minus 30 degrees Celsius in a month! Under such low temperatures, it is impossible for the besieged German army to hold out until the beginning of spring next year by will, and Lin Jun will not give them this opportunity!

Soon, they will be trapped to death! Starve! Freeze to death! The only option is to surrender unconditionally and embark on the long journey to Siberia!

Alexander was quick enough to tell Lin Jun after the military parade 10 days earlier that that Ravlendy Pavlovich Beria was doing a very good job in Siberia - that he would no longer be in charge of forestry production, but in charge of the construction of concentration camps.

The construction of this concentration camp was not only about building houses, but also about taking charge of the labor of the future fascists: stupid and not working? That's impossible! The Soviet Union already felt that there was a shortage of labor: manpower was needed for mining production, and manpower was needed for forestry production......

Lin Jun had no objection to Beria's new mission - according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Beria had made several reports that he wanted to go to the front line to command the troops, but they were all rejected. However, he did not lose heart, and threw himself into a new job - in the future he would be the first person to manage the German prisoners of war in Siberia!

Alexander thought in advance what the prisoners of war would do in the future, and made the best use of that Beria - he really found the right person, at least Lin Jun thought.

I was not in the mood to mourn the fate of the fascists in the future, Beria still had the ability to lead in work, and in the Great Patriotic War in history, he managed internal security and discipline like an iron bucket, and he also made great efforts in the production of weapons, which can be regarded as some credit.

Of course, his terror and ferocity are even more "world-famous"! Let him manage the concentration camp, and the efficiency of the concentration camp will reach an extremely high standard without thinking about it, but Lin Jun can't control the fate of the fascists.

Maybe years from now, Beria's murderous name will be known all over the world!

Alexander is probably right: Lin Jun really can't think of anyone more suitable to manage a concentration camp than Beria, the "butcher of butchers" of the Cheka's veteran mission! (To be continued.) )