On the same day, the 2nd Waffen-SS Reich Panzer Division launched an attack on the western part of Orel, and when the attack advanced into the city, it was stopped by defenders armed with anti-tank guns in anti-tank trenches, and after a bloody battle, the Soviet Red Army's counteroffensive failed, and a detachment of the division attacked south and cut off the road to Meleval

At about 3 p.m., the commander of Hoth's 4th Panzer Corps ordered Hausser to immediately lead the Waffen-SS 2nd Reich Panzer Division to disengage from the enemy and deploy instead, cutting off the retreat of the defenders, but Hausser sent a detachment from the Waffen-SS 3rd Skull Panzer Division to complete the task, and informed Hort that the Waffen-SS 2nd Reich Panzer Division would carry out the task at great risk, and on the night of 11 to the early morning of the 7th, a German army suddenly drove through the anti-tank trench to open a gap for the attacking Panzer forces, which greatly shocked the defenders there, causing the Waffen-SS 2nd Reich Panzer Division to advance to the main railway station in Orel

This was the farthest advance the division had in the city, and Hoth repeated his order at 1:17 a.m. on 7 March, while Hausser replied to the reply he had replied to on 11 March, but Hausser respected Hoth's third attempt to lead the Waffen-SS 2nd Reich Panzer Division to disengage from the enemy and use the Waffen-SS 1st Adolf? The passage opened by the Panzer Division of Hitler's Guard Banner advanced north of Orel and deployed in the eastern part of the city

The Germans continued to advance towards the city center, and at sunset the division reached a position between two buildings north of Dzerzhinsky Square, where the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment fought with the Soviets~ Snipers and defenders in the evening of the same day, and after heavy casualties, the square was captured and re-named 'Guard Flag Square' after the capture of the square

The 2nd Battalion of the 1st Panzergrenadier Regiment was in Jochen that night? Under the command of Colonel Pieper, he joined up with the 2nd Battalion on Dzerzhinsky Square and advanced southward, crossing the Orel River and establishing a bridgehead to open the road to Moscow, while the left flank of the division reached the junction of the road to Volchansk and another road to Chuguev, where it was defended in order to stop the counteroffensive of the Soviet Red Army

The next day the 1st Waffen-SS Adolf? Hitler's Panzer Division of the Guards Banner went south to the Orel River and the bridgehead at Piper to clear the Soviet Red Army defenses in the building, and in order to clear the defenders in the city center, the 1st Panzergrenadier Brigade used the road to Volchansk to re-enter the city, while Paiper's troops broke south and engaged in sporadic fighting with the remnants of the defenders and joined the division on the left flank of the division at the junction of the road to Volchansk and Chuguev, although most of the 2nd Waffen-SS Reich Panzer Division had left the city a** The Panzergrenadier Brigade remained southwest of the city, eliminating the defenders, the brigade cleared resistance at sunset, two-thirds of the city had fallen into German hands, and by sunset the city was completely in German hands

Because of the victory of the German army in Orel, Hitler faced two choices: the first counterattack was that the Soviet Red Army would inevitably relaunch the offensive and carry out actions similar to those in Orel - allowing the Soviet Red Army to attack and retreat by itself, and then counterattack and encircle the enemy, and second, the way of preemptive strike, by the joint efforts of Army Group South and Army Group Center to carry out a large-scale attack on the Kursk salient, and finally Hitler chose the way of preemptive strike, which led to the imminent outbreak of the Battle of Kursk

Although the cost was heavy, the victory in the Battle of Orel still helped Limer stabilize the left flank position of the German army in Army Group South, temporarily avoided the predicament of the Eastern Front, and also earned Limer a reputation as a great commander personally, and soon after the end of the Battle of Orel, an unprecedented battle will be fought in the Kursk salient formed as a result of the Battle of Orel, which will truly determine the final outcome of the war, and the Battle of Kursk will be a turning point in the fate of both sides

Hitler was going to start the Battle of Kursk. But now it is the middle of September, and the temperature in the Soviet Union in October is plummeting, freezing and snowy at minus 20 degrees, how to go to war, the Soviets are already living in that environment, and the German soldiers can't stand it.

Fortunately, Li Mo began to research antifreeze oil, soldiers' winter clothing and other materials for winter operations a long time ago, and now Germany is basically fully prepared in this regard, and the southern army group is not lacking in these things, but the two central and northern army groups are miserable. They obeyed Hitler's order not to issue winter clothes. Now there are countless soldiers still wearing summer clothes, but fortunately, the war is not so urgent, and the two army groups still have time to replenish the millions of German troops. It's just that the replenishment speed of weapons and ammunition will be delayed a lot. These two army groups wanted to start the Battle of Kursk. It will take at least a month and a half to replenish it, but will Stalin give them time to calmly replenish it? The answer is absolutely no.

But to fight such a large-scale, fateful decisive battle. Both sides had to do a lot of preparatory work, and the USSR was no different.

Li Mo also tried to persuade Hitler not to launch a strategic Armageddon in winter, but Hitler told Li Mer:

"My Marshal Li Mo, according to reliable intelligence, the United States is not only vigorously developing new weapons, but also has begun to fully mobilize and send soldiers to Britain, their assembly time is about 3 months to complete, I think Britain and the United States want to land in France, and then attack us with the Soviet Union on both sides, if we are strangled with the Soviet Union in the ice and snow, and at the same time drag a large number of our troops in the Soviet Union, how can we protect the German mainland? How can our industrial production be protected? So I also had to launch a strategic decisive battle in the harsh winter, and when we finished packing up Stalin, we would be able to calmly deal with the landing operations of Britain and the United States. ”

At this time in Berlin, spies from various countries were active, and spy wars were staged all the time. The upcoming "Battle of Kursk" is a matter of great concern to all countries, and it can be said that the battle on the battlefield will have a direct bearing on the situation in the world for the next 100 years.

Of course, Britain and the United States will not sit idly by and begin to fully support the Soviet Union, and countless materials, weapons and ammunition are continuously delivered to the territory of the Soviet Union, which is only one hand of Britain and the United States, and the other hand is already holding a knife, ready to stab Hitler's chrysanthemum.

The other hand was that the United States began to fulfill the "Atlantic Charter", constantly transporting soldiers to Britain, preparing to suddenly land in France and attack Germany on both sides when the Soviets and Germans were exhausted from fighting at Kursk. The situation between Germany and the EU is indeed not very good, and it is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything.

Spies from various countries tried all kinds of ways to get German confidential documents in Germany, and the secret war in Berlin also quietly began.

As usual, the husband got up and washed, and last night the husband received an order from his superiors, urging the husband to get the information on Germany's latest weapons and the battle plan for Kursk as soon as possible, the British intelligence bureau already knew that Li Mo had secretly produced several secret weapons, and now they were secretly stored by Li Mo, and they were not equipped with troops, and Britain urgently needed to know what secret weapons Li Mo had made, even if there was no technical information, at least they knew what these weapons were for and how powerful they were. Otherwise, when the Anglo-American-German all-out war began, the Anglo-American coalition would only be beaten.

Britain and the United States actually knew that Li Mo was secretly developing and producing secret weapons, of course, V1 and V2, RPG rocket launchers and "helicopters", and the other was "Tornado rocket launchers", the problem is that Li Mo personally presided over these weapons, and the security guards were quite strict, how did this information leak, it seems that Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union still had spies hidden in the highest echelons of Germany, and the degree of secrecy that this person could access was very high.

Fortunately, in order to keep it secret, Li Mo did not hand over the technical information to the Ministry of Science and Technology, and he did not even send backups, in this case, he still let Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union spy on Li Mo's secret production of weapons, this hidden spy in Germany's high-level is not small, and his position must be not small, of course, Li Mo does not know that his secret development and production of weapons has been leaked.

The husband is still very confident in himself, because the husband feels that he has opened the heart of Li Mo's secretary Marina, and the girl's eyes have already told him that Marina has been emotionally attracted to him, and the husband is confident that he can capture Marina's heart in a short time.

…… (To be continued......) R1292