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From the day the siege was closed, the German troops outside the encirclement have been making unremitting efforts to relieve the siege, but they have failed due to insufficient strength and bad weather. At 4:50 a.m. on March 11, the 39th Panzer Corps again dispatched a team led by Heinrich Brown. The 411th Grenadier Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Trom began as a rescue column to break through the Soviet encirclement around Kholm, but was repulsed by Soviet resistance.

At this time, they were supported by the No. 3 assault gun of the 122nd Assault Battalion of the 184th Infantry Division, and the next day they continued the assault. Although the vanguard of the infantry had reached a distance of only a kilometer from the town, the breakthrough was still unsuccessful. In the early morning of 12 March, German infantry and assault artillery again began their efforts to break through, accompanied by air support from Stuka bombers, who "screamed death" heavily bombarded Soviet units west of the town of Kholm.

Under the double blow of artillery and dive bombers, the Soviet positions were finally broken through after an hour, and the defenders scattered in all directions. The leading vehicles of the reinforcements slowly drove into the devastated town of Holm, and the officers and men of the withered "Sherel Battle Group" rose up from their trenches.

In the 105 days of bloody fighting that surrounded the projectile land, the garrison of less than 6,000 men broke up no less than 100 percent of the enemy's main offensive with a total of 6 infantry divisions, 6 separate brigades and 2 tank brigades, shot down two enemy planes and destroyed 42 enemy tanks, and launched 10 infantry assaults and 42 counterattacks. throughout the campaign. In total, the Germans lost 1,550 killed and another 2,200 wounded. Until the moment the friendly forces arrived, the last remaining 1,200 men remained in their positions.

Although Brigadier General Scherel and his battle group successfully held the important land bridge, the danger was not completely removed, and the Soviet 3rd Shock Army was still gathering forces to attack nearby, and the surviving defenders did not end the battle. They strengthened their front with the arrival of reinforcements, and the battle during this period cost more soldiers' lives, and Lieutenant Colonel Trome, who led the 411th Grenadier Regiment to the first to storm into the encirclement, was also killed in the battle two kilometers northwest on the 20th.

At the end of March, all the troops and personnel in the original encirclement were returned to the rear, for those who had survived the siege. Their suffering is not over. After returning to the rear, the deadly "typhus" infection contracted during the trap quickly crushed these strong fighters, who had to lie in the hospital for a long time to undergo lengthy treatment.

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If the Battle of Kursk was lost, for the Germans on the Eastern Front. It was undoubtedly a catastrophe that would destroy Germany. In a sense. If this campaign was lost, Germany would have completely lost the possibility of victory on the battlefield of the Soviet Union.

"The national affairs of the soldiers must not be overlooked." Li Mo did not continue to pay attention to the spy turmoil in Berlin. Rather, it was a series of visits to the troops on the Soviet front, to see on the ground the plight faced by Army Group North and Center Center, where the cold was the main enemy of these German troops.

Fortunately, in the early stage, Limmer organized Germany to produce countless cold-proof clothing, and although Hitler did not distribute cold-proof clothing to the millions of soldiers in the Northern and Central Army Groups, it did not mean that the German army did not. Li Mo took advantage of the period when the Soviet army's counteroffensive was frustrated to supply a large number of cold clothing, weapons, ammunition, and soldiers to the two army groups.

This is not an easy task, and it requires thousands of logistics staff officers to use Li Mo's primitive computer to be busy day and night, dispatching trains, distributing materials, and ensuring transportation. Of course, these specific tasks do not need to be busy with Li Mo, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy on the Eastern Front, but those logistics staff officers who work silently.

Germany's staff officers were undoubtedly the best professional soldiers in the world at this time, which made Li Mo spend countless amounts of energy. Everything went smoothly, and even the Soviet partisans rarely attacked German transport vehicles, and there was a reason for this, of course, because Li Mo had fully implemented a policy of democratic relaxation in the Soviet occupation zone for more than a month.

All Soviet peasants were given twenty acres of land free of charge, which to a great extent dispelled the hostile attitude of the Soviets towards Germany, and at the same time eliminated the "soil" for the survival of the Soviet partisans, who could only be exterminated if they did not surrender.

The work of encircling and suppressing those stubborn Soviet partisans was not the responsibility of the German army, but the Russian Liberation Army. Since the outbreak of the German war, the German army has captured about 3 million Soviet troops, and now all of them have been taken over by Limer, and the Soviet troops who are willing to join the Russian Liberation Army will be released immediately, and there will also be a free land certificate, which has increased the number of Russian troops under Blyukhel to more than 1.5 million.

The more than 1.5 million Russian People's Liberation Army (PLA) is already an armed force that cannot be ignored, and the security of the Soviet occupied areas has also been completely handed over to the Russian PLA.

Of course, the weapons used by these Russian Liberation Army are basically Soviet weapons captured by the German army. Another point is the size of the number of the Russian Liberation Army, Li Mo is also controlled within two million, the Russian Liberation Army can not have local jurisdiction, their supplies can only be allocated by Li Mo in a unified manner, this is the iron chain that Li Mo put on their necks and cannot break free, Stalin's policy of not recognizing prisoners makes this iron chain indestructible, these Russian Liberation Army have no chance of anyway, that is, they were slaughtered by Stalin anyway, they can only follow the German army all the way to the black.

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After a year of attrition, the Germans did not have enough divisions to defend this long line of defense from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Then the best option for the Germans at this time was to implement mobile defense and take a series of retreat actions in order to weaken the offensive assault force.

The German army in 1941 had accumulated a wealth of combat experience, and although the quality of training had generally declined, its morale was still strong, and the Germans still had a great advantage over the enemy at this time, so they were still fully capable of fulfilling the tasks set forth in the strategy of attrition of the enemy through campaign maneuvering. Since the Germans were defending in depth of enemy territory, there was plenty of space in the rear to engage in stubborn defensive engagements in advantageous locations, and in other areas where the Soviets might be breached, they were to weaken and exhaust the Soviets by calmly retreating and then suddenly launching a counter-assault.

From a strategic point of view, although the German army lost many elite troops in Moscow and the Volga, the difference between the Soviet and German armies in 1941 was still not too large, which made Germany still have enough strength to destroy the Soviet Union. Therefore, if the German high command can work out a clever strategic line in time, the outcome of this war is far from certain.

…… (To be continued......)

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