There is no need to worry about the Bryansk region, more than 700,000 Soviet troops will not be able to escape the end of being surrounded and annihilated, and the central gate of Moscow will be opened by the German Army Group Center, which is of course very good news. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But there is also very bad news, that is, the United States actually began to send volunteers to the Soviet Union, mainly technical troops, and excellent pilots were urgently needed by the Soviet Union.

At this point, there was an unexpected deviation in history, and Rommel, a traveler, could no longer predict the future based on history.

Isn't it the means of the Celestial Empire that the United States suddenly sent volunteers to help the Soviet Union? How was it learned by the Yankees in advance.

Although Rommel could not predict what would happen in the future, he knew very well what it meant for the United States to send volunteers, and all obstacles to the march into Moscow must be removed as soon as possible, and the troops must be under the city of Moscow by the end of July, and Moscow must be taken before the middle of October, otherwise Germany will be dragged to death by the Soviet Union and the United States in the ice and snow of the Soviet Union.

Under Rommel's strict orders, the German Army Group South launched the Battle of Kharkov as scheduled, and as long as Kharkov was taken, the southern gate of the Soviet capital Moscow would be opened.

When Army Group South was preparing to attack Kharkov, Stalin ordered Vasilevsky to retreat to the industrial city of Belgorod behind Kharkov with more than 500,000 Soviet troops besieging Khorkov, and more than 200,000 German troops successfully occupied Kharkov.

After Vasilevsky returned to Belgorod with the Soviet troops, Stalin's order came, and Vasilevsky was appointed commander-in-chief of the Stalingrad Front.

Marshal Timoshenko, who escaped from Petrovsk, was stationed in Belgorod, and Stalin, seeing that the German troops in Kharkov were weak, asked Timoshenko to take more than 500,000 Soviet troops to encircle and annihilate the more than 200,000 German troops in Kharkov. (Stalin's regimental commander, bald battalion commander, identification completed.) ）

The Soviet troops took part in the campaign under the command of the Southwestern Front, concurrently served by Marshal of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the South-Western Direction, Sk. Timoshenko, and the commander of the Southern Front by Colonel-General R.Y. Malinovsky

The plan provided for the Southwestern Front to carry out a centripetal assault on Kharkov from the Barvenkovo salient and the Volchansk region from the north and south, crushing the German attempt to attack Kharkov.

At the same time, in order to create conditions for the development of an offensive towards Petrovsk, the Southern Front held the southern front of the Barvenkovo salient in order to protect the flank of the main assault group of the Southwestern Front.

The German Kharkov Group was Army Group South, and the 6th Army was commanded by General F. Paulus, at a time when the Army Group and the Kleist Group, the 17th Army and the 1st Panzer Army, were preparing an offensive campaign codenamed Frederick I in an attempt to capture the area west of the Severodonets River and southeast of Kharkov, and the forces of the two sides were roughly equal

And Guderian's main forces are still in the Baku region, and there is simply no time to move to the Kharkov front.

Guderian put the Sixth Army in Kharkov as a blocking and alerting force, so that the Soviet troops could not sneak up on the back of Army Group South.

If Stalin had given such an order earlier, it would have caused Guderian countless troubles, and it was already too late.

Guderian immediately asked Bock to prepare to transfer troops to the outskirts of Stalingrad to participate in the battle, and he himself immediately rushed by plane to Zaporozhye, an important town located at the bend of the Dnieper River, to command the upcoming big battle, and the Soviet army was already rushing towards Kharkov.

The purpose of the Soviet campaign was to crush the basic strength of the German Army Group B in the Kharkiv direction and liberate the Kharkiv industrial area, and the campaign was codenamed Star

Before the start of the campaign, the units of the Soviet army had been on the offensive for nearly half a month, and there was a serious shortage of combatants and military technical equipment, and all personnel were exhausted and muddy, and the season had come again

According to the campaign attempt, the 40th Commander was Lieutenant General Moskalenko, the 69th Army was Lieutenant General Kazakov and the 3rd Tank Army was Lieutenant General Rybalko, the main assault was carried out from the Novoskov Valui area to Kharkov, and the 60th Army in the city was commanded by Lieutenant General Chernyakhovsky from the northwest and south sides, and the auxiliary assault was carried out from the area west of Kastornoye to Kursk

The commander of the 38th Army is Lieutenant General Chibisov, who is to develop an offensive against Oboyan, and the commander of the Southwestern Front, which is conducting the Donbass campaign, is General Vatutin, and the commander of the 6th Army is Lieutenant General Kharytonov, and the assault on Balakreya Krasnograd is to ensure the implementation of the campaign from the south

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In late June 1941, the Soviet Southwestern Front launched an offensive against German-occupied Kharkiv, only to run into a powerful German armored group, and the Soviet army suffered heavy losses, and the Kharkov offensive of the Soviet army, which had been pinned with great hopes, became the prelude to the German offensive campaign in July 1941

Although the Soviet army received a lot of British and American aid at this time, and there were some American pilots who participated in the war, the strength of the Soviet army was far from being strong enough to completely defeat the German army

Soon after, the Germans will once again prove to the Soviets in Kharkov that they still have enough strength, showing the strength and tenacity of the Germanic armed forces, in which Guderian will play a leading role

At the same time that the Soviet Voronezh Front attacked Kharkov, the Soviet Southwestern Front was approaching Zaporozhye, the seat of Guderian's headquarters, located on the bend of the Dnieper River

But just as the city was about to fall, German Führer Rommel came to inspect the city in a large four-engine aircraft of the FW-200

The Führer's arrival made Guderian, who was about to roll up and leave from here, in a hurry, because at that time the Soviet tank group was very close to this dangerous city, the Soviet army could break into the city at any time, in order to ensure the safety of Rommel, Guderian transferred more than 200 anti-aircraft guns, and the order issued to them was to block the Soviet tanks to the last shell and the last man

At the same time that the German gunners were desperately fighting with Soviet tanks outside the city, Rommel in the city was fighting for the "lesson" of Guderian in Kharkov:

"General Guderian, Kharkov is the southern gate of Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, and if we want to attack Moscow in July, we must not retreat, we must immediately hold Kharkov."

Guderian, however, had the audacity to reject Rommel's plan and instead proposed another, more daring plan

"Ignore the Soviet troops attacking Kharkov for the time being, the Voronezh Front, let's fight and retreat in Kharkiv City, as long as we hold back the Soviet troops here.

As long as we concentrate our forces and eat the advancing Soviet Southwestern Front, and then turn back and crush the Soviet troops in the Kharkov direction and recapture the city"

This bold plan was indeed a bit abrupt for Rommel, but he eventually approved of Guderian's plan

Rommel announced the decision to counterattack to the troops of Army Group South, declaring that this place, more than 1,000 kilometers from the borders of the German Reich, would determine the present and future fate of Germany

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