The fortress was under onslaught by the Germans, but the defenders of the fortress had large-caliber long-range cannons; The most fatal point is that all the German commanders only think that the Brest Fortress is just a moment of nails, no matter how powerful it is, it is a porcupine with thorns - the fortress is nothing more than a symbol of defense!

Guderian made a fatal mistake, he was the same as Lin Jun two years ago, when Lin Jun only used the Brest Fortress as a "nail" to build! Fortunately, Lin Jun has Zavrilov: Brest is not just a "porcupine", and the number of troops is not eight or nine thousand, as estimated by the Germans, but a full twenty-five thousand! Zavrilov also has a fierce "Wolverine" in his hand - "There is a Russian unit approaching us from the south, a mechanized force led by about 70 tanks, and the attack is very fast!" Our troops on the flanks could not hold back the Russians! ”

The special detachment of the Brest Fortress, more than 8,000 commanders and fighters, under the cover of the heavy artillery and tanks of the fortress, are rushing straight to Guderian's crossing!

Guderian didn't need to look at the map to understand his awkward situation - to the north was a forest where the tank troops could not move, and the Russians in front were storming him desperately! Overhead, there was a roaring group of artillery bombardment, and now a fully brigade-sized mechanized force was rushing straight from the south, and he couldn't muster enough troops to effectively block the attack from the south side! The only option can only be to retreat!

If he didn't withdraw, Guderian didn't think he and his men would live much longer than Paul Hauser!

"Inform the troops at the front that they must withstand the attack of the Russians! Buy time! Before Guderian's order was finished, the staff officer reported: "The 2nd SS Division has called again: the chief of staff has been killed, and now under the command of the flag captain and the commander of the "German" regiment, Wilhelm Bitrich, the troops have been surrounded by the Russians on three sides and are holding their positions! ”

"I can't control them!" Guderian was painfully deciding: not only the 2nd SS Panzer Division, but also the Panzer Division, which was in a melee 5 kilometers to the east, could be considered hopeless!

Failure, this is a defeat and a shame that Guderian has never had! I have only arrived in the USSR for just over an hour before I am driven back to the west! But if you don't leave, you will have to reimburse yourself here, and you can only plan to do it after the West Bank regroups its forces. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The cluster command immediately retreats to the west bank of the Bug River! Order the troops at the front, and in an hour retreat to the northern forests! ”

"Please repeat the command." The staff officers could not believe their ears during the shelling!

"Retreat! The cluster command immediately withdrew to the West Bank, understand no!? Guderian gave the order to retreat in anguish - the troops in front of them could only be used as a flag to hold back the Russians.

"Yes!"

Guderian's "retreat" did not mean that he would withdraw immediately, but also to bring as many troops to the west as possible, and the shelling of his head would have made the entire ferry area a mess, with burning tanks and cars everywhere, and human fragments everywhere! Suddenly, a shell whistled and landed at a distance of about twenty meters from Guderian, who had already drilled out of the bottom of the armored car, and a violent explosion and air wave threw Guderian out!

Guderian was not destined to die, but he was hit by a few small gravels, and the flesh and blood blurred on a stretcher let the guards carry across the Bug River, while most of the equipment and personnel of the two armored divisions remained on the east bank of the Bug River!

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Five kilometers to the northeast, the 2nd SS Panzer Division is in an unprecedented predicament! There were only a dozen tanks left in the division, all of which were used as mobile batteries, and the assembled more than 4,000 soldiers were trapped in a small area, resisting the Red Army's attack in three directions: east, south and north. The only thing that gave the SS "a sigh of relief" was that the Russians did not seem to intend to immediately force a surprise attack with a cluster of tanks, but to let the mechanized infantry drag themselves!

SS flag captain Wilhelm Bitrich, whose right arm was hastily bandaged with a bandage, had been hit with armor-piercing shells in his armored vehicle half an hour earlier, and his own life was largely not dead - the divisional personnel were not so lucky, and all of them were killed after the sudden shelling of the Russian tank cluster! Now that the troops are basically from their own "German" regiment, "why don't the Russians go all at once?" ”

Bitrich's brain is not stupid: the opponent temporarily spares himself not because of a lack of troops, but because he has a more priority goal - the ferry!

The sound of cluster shelling in the southwest can be heard by yourself, and it depends on the situation that the ferry cannot be saved!

"Flag Captain, the command has called, Guderian has been injured and has been sent to the west bank of the Bug River, asking us to hold on for another hour and then retreat to the northern forest!"

"Damn Russian pigs!" Beatrich knows he's become a pawn - 1 hour? A few dozen tanks can level their "position" with a single charge, if this plain can be considered a "position"!

"Now the withdrawal has a chance, an hour? The name of the SS is about to end in their own hands! "Knowing their possible fate, but the SS is the SS, unless an hour later, the 2nd Panzer Division will hold its ground even if it fights to the last man!

The names "Reich" division, "Führer", "German" regiment....... decided the fate of these people! They are not allowed to be deserters!

The 3rd Mechanized Corps did not give Bitrich an hour, and just twenty minutes after he received the order from the command, a cluster of Red Army tanks appeared in the east, and a large number of Red Army soldiers rushed to the last positions of the 2nd Panzer Division under the guidance of more than 70 T34s spitting tongues of fire!

In front of the overwhelmingly superior armored forces of the Red Army, Bitrich's men, who had no strong positions, held out for only 20 minutes, and the defense line collapsed under explosions, machine-gun strafing and crawler crushing, and Bitrich and his temporary division headquarters let a high-explosive shell be fired!

Some of the SS troops tried to retreat to the northern forests, but were intercepted by the Red Army infantry - the Waffen-SS with absolute tactical literacy was crushed with only one charge, and they were faced with the Red Army infantry armed with AK47s and bazookas, and they could not break through the Red Army infantry lines!

The Red Army, which was closed on three sides, completely made the 2nd SS Panzer Division a thing of the past - before it was sent to the sky by high-explosive shells, the flag-holding staff officer of the Panzer Division headquarters had not yet received the order of the acting division commander to burn the flag!

Red Army Sergeant Gariev's squad first spotted a dozen German officers who had been put in a pot, and found two flags with swastika in the scattered tin boxes - the soldiers knew that this must be the flag of the Germans, and immediately sent the flag to the headquarters as soon as the captured documents arrived.

At the very moment when the German flag was captured by Kaliev, the special mechanized detachment of the Brest Fortress was storming the ferry area from the south - this new force under the command of Major Fedor Melnikov, the first "fierce general" under Zavrilov, attacked the German positions with two offensive arrows!

Fedor Melnikov was promoted to major only this year, and the commanders of two infantry regiments in the detachment had higher ranks than him, but he had a peculiar spirit that Zavrilov valued - resolute, extremely resolute! Coupled with the fact that having sufficient energy and highly qualified commanding capabilities, such a commander as an "offensive" special detachment was the best candidate, this was the unanimous opinion of Zavrilov and the political commissar of the fortress Fomin.

Melnikov and his commanders and men lived up to Zavrilov's high hopes - when the fortress withstood the German attack and learned that the 3rd Mechanized Army was attacking the Germans from the east, the fortress used its trump card! The mechanized special detachment broke through the German defense line and broke through to a depth of five kilometers in an hour!

Fedor Melnikov did not pay attention to the remnants of the German army that had been routed by himself, but led the tank group and the main force of the infantry to rush towards the ferry area at any cost - such a desperate assault of his own would definitely give the most powerful support to the frontal attack of the 3rd Mechanized Army, and drive the main German army across the Bug River in one fell swoop!

As long as the main force of the German army is driven across the Bug River, the remaining German troops on the east bank will cut as much as they want!

Hitler needed to hear good news, but he didn't expect that the biggest "surprise" after the start of the war turned out to be the heavy losses of the 2nd Panzer Group, which had high hopes, and the bombing of East Prussia at 6 o'clock was not bad news!

"Guderian was driven across the Bug River?!" Hitler went straight ahead - the offensive in the south was quite smooth, the German and Romanian troops had already entered the Soviet Union 30 kilometers deep; It is also considered to have a firm foothold on the border of Ukraine, but in Belarus it can be said that it was attacked head-on by the Soviets!

Even more news of Hitler's volcanic eruption came one after another - his 2nd Panzer Division was completely reimbursed!

By two o'clock in the afternoon, on the front of the 200-kilometer front near Brest, the formed German units no longer existed, and the two sides entered a short standoff across the Bug River!

For this half-day offensive, the 3rd Mechanized Corps also suffered heavy losses - nearly half of the tanks were lost! The casualties of soldiers and officers were close to 30,000, and more than 10,000 were killed in battle alone! It turned out that the elite Third Mechanized Army, which was full of more than 50,000 people, was crippled in half a day, but they reversed the unfavorable situation, drove Guderian across the Bug River, fought out two elite armored divisions of the German army, and removed the "Reich" division from then on!

"Awarded the title of "Guards" to the Third Mechanized Army of the Western Front! "Having learned the good news on the Western Front, Stalin gave an order to the Supreme High Command!

(The chapter number of the previous chapter was wrong, "three" became "two", I made a mistake in the busy, and this chapter was wrong, please understand!) (To be continued.) )