Attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the heart is the top -- Lin Jun remembers Sun Bin's words very clearly, and this is a hint of psychological warfare more than 2,000 years ago. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe main force of the Willish Army Group Center has been surrounded, but the encirclement of this will not be a "steel pocket", it is still very loose and has many loopholes. Shake the will and morale of the German army, which can cooperate with the encircled troops to carry out a powerful campaign contraction to the greatest extent!

There is at least one relatively intact Fourth Army in this encirclement, plus Guderian's second armored group, this is 6 infantry corps and 3 motorized corps, and at least 48 German divisions are swallowed in the encirclement!

Coupled with the first part of the Ninth Army and other troops, Lin Jun estimated that there were at least 60 German division-level units in the encirclement! Even if many of these troops suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, the absolute number of German troops in the encirclement would not be less than 600,000! Thinking of swallowing such a large piece of fat in one bite, Lin Jun didn't have such a big appetite.

"This is a pot of raw rice, no matter what, I have to eat it!"

Zhukov could understand Lin Jun's words, and Comrade General understood what the Chinese-style "sandwich rice" meant: to eat, the key is how much you can eat?!

The encirclement was extremely extensive, and the Red Army armies were not only encircled as a whole, but on both flanks of the almost oval-shaped encirclement, the armored units of the Red Army were rapidly interspersed and divided into German troops, and they had to use small encirclements to first eat up part of the German troops in the movement, and finally trap the main German forces in front of Minsk.

At least 600,000! Once such a unit has formed an overall assault capability, as long as it forms a few powerful assault arrows, it will be very easy for some units to break through the weak links in the encirclement circle that has just been formed.

Tell the Germans in Minsk to shake their hearts and create an uncertain mood about their fate - it is impossible for the German troops at the bottom of the bag here to break through immediately, and their fate is that the German command has decided to break through and it is already doomed: they will be ruthlessly abandoned: someone will always come to the palace.

If it were in the plains and fields, such a rear-facing troops would be terrible, they would fight like dying beasts, but they were in Minsk, they could not attack, they could only hold on. What Lin Jun wants is such an effect, slowly use time to destroy the nerves of the German army in Minsk, as for the other German troops, it is inevitable to run out, which can also reduce the difficulty of interspersing and dividing.

You can eat as much food as you have as much appetite as you want, and you can't become a fat man in one bite - Lin Jun has this self-knowledge.

This is a broadcast to the enemy, and there are still a lot of particulars, some of which can be said and some of which cannot be said, true and false, false and true. It was only half an hour after Lin Jun's order was issued that the broadcast began, because the propaganda draft had to be drawn up by the staff officer and signed by Zhukov before it could be used, and it had to be sent to the front line. For a time, the morale of the commanders and fighters of the Red Army, who received the news of the formation of the encirclement, was greatly boosted!

German-language propaganda could be heard from different front-line radio stations and large microphones in half of Minsk, but the German positions were silent, there was no movement, and the west side of the line of fire was still as dead as a dead city.

I don't know what the Germans are thinking, and Lin Jun is not interested in knowing: they will probably not believe and doubt at the same time, and soon, it will not take many days, and all that will be left for the German troops in the city should be despair.

This will be on the white plains of Belarus, as far north as the Oshmiyanny Highlands, and as far south as the plain of the Ptich River basin, with roaring armor and artillery fire! In the air, the Soviet and German air forces fought for valuable air supremacy, and fierce battles were everywhere on the ground!

Field Marshal von Bock, commanding Baranovich, demanded that the northern troops tear through the encirclement of the Soviet troops, where the fiercest battles broke out - Guderian was leading his panzer forces and the Red armoured forces in a fierce battle southeast of Ivey: the northern flank of the encirclement would be the largest gap as long as the opponents could be annihilated.

However, the 3rd Panzer Division and the 10th Motorized Division of the 24th Motorized Army, General Geel-von Schwebenburg, repelled the onslaught of two small T34 clusters of the Red Army in a narrow area, and encountered another assault of hundreds of T34s, and this time led by new Soviet heavy tanks that the Germans had never seen before!

The combat planes of the Soviet and German air forces in the air are completely fighting repeatedly and desperately, all in order to give their ground troops the most powerful support! Two squadrons of "Stuka" could block a tank regiment of the Red Army, and two squadrons of "Black Death" could tear apart a tank regiment of the German army! The air commanders on both sides sent their elites at any cost, because there were no large strongholds there, and the armored forces controlled the outcome of the ground battle!

Repeatedly interspersed with fights, a tank battle in which both sides are desperate!

Schwebenburg several times reported to Guderian that he was in a fierce battle with the armored forces of the Red Army, and the two sides were completely entangled! Regardless of the cost to each other, it is a complete beast-like fight!

The strongest assault force of Army Group Center was held back, and von Bock received an order to break through the Red Army encirclement at all costs, annihilate the opponent, and not allow a single step back!

The entire battlefield was in disarray on both flanks, and this result seemed to the "wolf's den" to be the best opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Soviet army -- it was much easier for the opponent to attack the Red Army in a large-scale attack to encircle itself than to attack the Red Army, which was fighting on a solid defensive line: it was the German army's specialty to intersperse it with rapid assaults in great depth.

In Hitler's view, the outcome of this battle was still "between five and five" -- he did not know that the troops invested by the Red Army were almost all the main forces of the three front armies!

If it were just a Western Front and rashly carry out such an attack, Army Group Center would most likely eat the opponent through its own several intersperses, but it was now facing the three main forces of the Red Army Front with superiority, strong strength and reasonable deployment!

Stolbucci, the junction of the enclosure. If the Germans had been given two more days, or even a day, they might have succeeded - by the time the advance of the Reserve Front arrived in the small city at all costs, the Stolbutch cluster had less than two thousand men still in combat!

In the east of the city, where the German offensive was strongest, there was not a single relatively intact building to be found, and the ground was all black and brown! The Germans used all the weapons and tactics at their disposal, shells and incendiary bombs repeatedly swept the positions of the Red Army more than a dozen times!

There is less than a company left in the Airborne Corps! But they held the last trench on the eastern perimeter of the city—and just behind them, nearly a regiment of infantry fighting on the perimeter had fought for three days, and less than a battalion was left alive!

The afternoon before yesterday, the Germans on the southwest side of the Neman River had built a crossing south of the big bend on the south side of the Neman River in order to conquer the city, and if Colonel Terteny had had had enough troops, he would have set up a defensive belt along the river there, but he had no extra men to defend himself.

Send people out to fight for consumption, and it will only take a few hours for the cluster to be consumed!

The German troops who crossed the river formed a three-sided encirclement of Stolbutch and launched an attack day and night! To the west of the Neman River, the Germans bombarded the town with all the heavy artillery they could muster!

In such difficult conditions, the only support for the Stolbutch cluster was the Soviet Air Force, which appeared from time to time, and on the ground they could only rely on themselves! Use your own flesh and blood and will to fight fiercely against the German army, which has absolute superiority and is frantically attacking!

Two days and three nights! Almost no one really closes their eyes! The comrades-in-arms have died, and the remains have not had time to be placed! In the west and south directions, sometimes the corpses of frozen hard comrades had to be piled up layer by layer as part of the bunker!

Mixed into a tank regiment until the early morning of the 17th, there were only 7 tanks left that could still be used! After a long period of attack, the Germans used a terrifying blanket cluster shelling on the 16th, which was completely carpet shelling at any cost!

After each round of shelling, an entire city was completely destroyed! Most of those "Stalin" and T34s were not lost in the exchange of fire with German tanks, but were blown into piles of scrap metal by German long-range artillery fire!

Terteney lost his car - it is estimated that a 105 mm grenade hit the rear half of its power compartment, and all four people in the car were seriously injured!

If the shell had hit a meter further, or if it had been replaced by a 150mm grenade, Terteney would not have even had a chance to cough up blood and be carried to first aid! Gun Commander Sergeant Ilasovsky's left hand was just attached to the inner wall of the turret and suffered a comminuted fracture; Loader Corporal Kokikov was the most seriously injured and vomited blood directly! Sergeant Kilevnik, a mechanic and driver, in addition to his internal organs, suffered a severe concussion and fell into a coma at that time!

Terteney and his crew needed at least 3 months of treatment to recover, and the chief of staff took over the command, but an hour later the headquarters was destroyed by heavy artillery and the infantry regiment commander took over. When the support troops arrived, except for Colonel Terteny, who was lying in the basement with a serious wound and dying and his life in danger at any time, the highest rank in the cluster was Sergei Stepanovich Mariachin, but there was no third colonel officer who could still move!

But that's it, they still held Stolbutch and did not let the Germans open the most important transport hub on the encirclement!

With nearly 7,000 casualties in three days, Stolbutch cost the Germans nearly 4,000 casualties - although the casualties were more than those of the Red Army, it was the Germans who lost, because this was the result of the defenders being completely passive and the Germans did not achieve their tactical goals: the surviving group commanders and fighters were proud of this battle for a lifetime!

(Monthly pass, calling for a guaranteed monthly pass at the beginning of the month, hehe.) (To be continued.) )