The Germans who actually met the camouflage must now interrogate them immediately, but it is already 3:47 minutes, and the Luftwaffe will launch an air attack in 13 minutes, but the German armored forces will not act immediately, but thinking of the bombs dropped by the plane, Andrei is now like a fish in the throat, and now he must immediately find a place to interrogate the prisoners first, so the truck moved at full speed to a nearby checkpoint. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Andrei ordered the prisoners to be handed over to the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs here, and then returned to the 16th Army, and the time was approaching step by step, at 4:00 in the morning, the Luftwaffe began to drop bombs on important targets in the Soviet Union, and at 4:15 the German armored forces began to set off, and the Great Patriotic War broke out as scheduled.

"Bang bang bang" German shelling

In Smolensk, Andrei came here with the 16th Army to stop the Germans. The German tanks and infantry coordinated to attack the positions of the Soviet army, and Andrei was originally here to deal with an officer who had escaped from the battle, but the Germans attacked at this time, Andrei had to take his own soldiers into battle, and Andrei took out the Mosin Nagant sniper rifle he found in the defense warehouse that time, Andrei had no other distractions at the moment, he just wanted to kill these German devils, Originally, because of the relationship in his previous life, he still had a good impression of the German army, but watching these Germans run rampant on the land of the Soviet Union, thinking of the devastation he witnessed, Andrei was really angry, and during this time, he took the soldiers of the special service department to shoot several officers who escaped from the battle, and he used to condemn the killing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs supervision team, but now he finds that he is indeed a person in peacetime and does not know the cruelty of the laws of the battlefield!

And these second-rate Soviet troops are indeed tactically dull and there are a lot of bastards, but there are also a lot of real soldiers, he remembered the commanders and fighters who launched the charge without hesitation, remembered the soldiers who shouted: "Long live the Soviets" detonated explosives and died with the German army, and remembered the later generations of an old Maozi made that time-traveling movie, when he witnessed how his ancestors sacrificed their lives for the country, such as how to fight to the death with the Nazis, when he also fought with the Nazis, after returning to the future, they understood what patriotism was, what was the Great Patriotic War, The first thing Cherp, the bald head who worshiped Nazis, did when he returned to the future was to scrape off his Nazi tattoos, thinking of the Russia of later generations, these Soviet soldiers may not have imagined that the Nazis they swore to expel would actually bloom all over the streets of Russia! Later, many Russians began to reflect on the fact that what the Soviet had left to Russia was not all negative things, and that there was nothing wrong with patriotism and no matter how defending the country......

And Andrei quickly abandoned distracting thoughts and began to fight, since he is already a Soviet soldier in this life, then fight, maybe he can travel back when he dies!

It's getting closer, 300 meters, 250 meters, 200 meters......

Andrei's scope caught a German officer wearing a big-brimmed hat, and at 150 meters, Andrei silently said: "Bastard German devil, die!" ”

"Bang" 7.62mm bullets whizzed out of the chamber and flew towards the eyebrows of the German officer, and half of the head of the German officer exploded like a watermelon!

And other fighters also opened fire, the attacking German army was constantly knocked down, but the German army deserved to be the elite division of the war, the German army quickly launched a counterattack, some of the German troops quickly lay down and raised their guns to shoot and the German tanks also fired from time to time to clear the Soviet fire point, and the German army also used their efficient infantry to coordinate, step by step, and Andrei was not idle He kept changing the firing point, kept sniping German officers, communicators and machine gunners, and when Andrei arrived at a new firing point, As soon as he raised his head, the crackling bullets hit, and Andrei secretly sighed that the quality of this German army was really high, and he actually stared at himself at once!

And the Germans also killed in front of the Soviet position under the cover of the tank, the Soviet anti-tank guns in this position have been exhausted, and the anti-tank guns are also low on ammunition, and Andrei found that two brave fighters were lurking in the trenches, and when the German tanks approached, they put their bundled cluster grenades under the chassis of the German tanks, and the German tanks emitted smoke with a "boom", and the tank was killed.

But the Germans' bullets immediately hit them, and both brave fighters died.

And Andrei was also angry, he immediately raised his gun to aim at a German machine gunner and immediately shot him in the head, and then the Germans quickly rushed to the first line of defense After a hard white-knuckle battle, the Germans had to retreat, listening to the cheers of the soldiers next to him "Ula", Andrei understood that this was just the beginning, and the Germans would launch a new attack next!

Andrei knew the situation at the moment: "The successful border battles made the German commanders consider themselves victors, while thousands of prisoners, captured Soviet tanks and guns seemed to cry over the German victory. The Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, Fryanz Halder, wrote: "It is no exaggeration to say that the war against the Soviet Union was successful in 14 days. ”

Smolensk became the next target, but it was not so simple, and some factors that had previously been underestimated by the Germans gradually became apparent. First, the German forces, which had concentrated their forces across the border, were now scattered along the Baltic Sea to Ukraine. Secondly, the armies of the interior of the USSR had grown in battle, and although they did not have time to get close to the border, they were ready for war on the Dnieper and Dvina.

Guderian and Hort's panzer groups began to advance eastward, and they were ordered to continue deeper and meet at eastern Slensk, but they were unable to continue the success of the Minsk campaign. This time not because of Guderian's stubbornness, but because the mechanized units were attacked by the Soviets and had to go on the defensive. Soon, Hort's troops also returned to defense, abandoning Velikiye Luki, the first captured city recaptured by the Soviets.

The German panzer clusters, which had left the infantry behind, were now in danger of being defeated. The Germans tried to turn the tide before the infantry of the army group arrived. At the same time, Army Group North was also in crisis, and they stopped the assault on the city of Novgorod. In addition, the German 8th Panzer Division was surrounded near the city of Sodchi, not far from the city of Novgorod. A German officer wrote in his diary: "We do not feel like we are entering a defeated country, just as we felt when we invaded France. On the contrary, we were resisted, no matter how desperate, and they persevered. ”

In August, the Soviets achieved relative stability, which was undoubtedly good news for the Soviet soldiers who had previously been under siege. After breaking through near Minsk, the Kuznetsov regiment, which had been detouring in the forest for a month, gradually regained its strength. In the summer of 1941, many soldiers returned to good combat condition and returned to the front-line combat units to continue fighting.

Guderian was preparing to march towards Moscow. On 21 August, his troops set off again. But on the same day, Hitler issued a directive that shocked the commanders. General Halder believed that this was decisive for the entire Eastern Front, and Nazi Germany did not target Moscow.

Hort was ordered to turn north to Leningrad to aid Hoppner, and Guderian was delegated to turn south to encircle the Soviet troops in Ukraine. He immediately confronted Hitler, insisted on an immediate attack on Moscow, and tried to prove that his army was capable of doing so. In his memoirs, Guderian wrote: "I pointed out that if the front in the southern zone is stretched too long, it will inevitably lead to serious consequences, and if then it will be too late to attack Moscow." ”

Hitler still stood by his guns. At the end of August, Guderian's troops began to march eastward, deep behind the Soviet Southwestern Front. By this time, the Germans had occupied several bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper south of Kiev, but it would take time for Guderian to get there.

After the breakout, Kuznetsov was appointed commander of the 21st Army, which was to take the place of the 2nd Panzer Regiment for defense. The Soviet High Command had to make a choice, whether they would remain defensive along the Dnieper or retreat to the eastern rear and straighten out the front line at the right time. The defense along the Dnieper was very strong and could not be abandoned. And it was clearly more difficult to build fortifications in an open area than on the banks of a river, and retreat was only considered as a last resort.

Scouts monitored the movements of German tanks. By the end of August, the danger remained. The main enemy on the southwestern and southern fronts of the USSR was the German 1st Panzer Group, which was still far south of the lower Dnieper until the end of August, and Soviet scouts also noticed the turn of Guderian's troops.

The Soviet army was severely short of tanks, and the mechanized units were destroyed in the first battle, and the Soviet Union was almost helpless against the German panzer divisions. Only 21 tanks remained of the 21st Army, where Kuznetsov was captured. In early September, Guderian's troops broke through the defenses of the Soviet troops and began to march towards Lokhvitsa, 200 kilometers west of Kiev, and cut off the Soviet troops defending the Ukrainian capital from the rear. This seemed to be a good time to order the troops of the Southwestern Front to retreat westward. However, the Soviet scouts did not have information on the situation in recent days, so the Soviet High Command failed to issue directives.

At the same time, the Germans fundamentally consolidated the bridgehead they had previously occupied near the Ukrainian city of Kremenchu, making a rapid advance from the lower Dnieper to Kremenchuk in Leicester, and then crossing the Dnieper in the night rain to approach Lokhvica, already occupied by the Germans.

At this time, the Soviet forces had no time to retreat, and all the forces of the Southwestern Front, deployed near Kiev, were surrounded. The siege of Kyiv set a record and became the largest siege in the history of all wars. According to statistics, a total of 532 thousand Soviet soldiers were besieged there. In the end, only about 15,000 to 20,000 people managed to break through. The fighting in the encirclement of Kiev continued until the end of September 1941, and the number of Soviet tanks captured by the Germans was a symbolic representation of this catastrophe, only 50 units.

At the same time, Army Group Center, without tank support, repelled the attacks of Soviet troops near Smolensk, and the Soviet Guards were born in these battles. On September 6, the 100th Infantry Division was awarded the title "1st Guards Infantry Division" for the liberation of the city of Yernia.

Fighting raged on the front, and Hoult wrote: "We suffered heavy losses, especially at the lowest levels of command. No previous offensive has suffered such losses, and only partially recovered since then."

Nazi Germany had planned to defeat the Soviet Union in four months, but by this time it was already the third month, and the chances of completing Operation Barbarossa were becoming increasingly slim. The situation on the part of the Soviet Red Army was also critical, and the siege of the Southwestern Front forced the Soviet High Command to find ways to fill the vacancy. And the battle near Smolensk not only exhausted the enemy, but also exhausted the Soviet troops. ”

The German army, which will still fail in Smolensk, will fight all the way to Moscow, at this time, what can I do?