On April 25, 1941, the advance force of the 1st Tank Group advanced 110 kilometers in two days and nights to the Irpian River, 15-20 kilometers west of Kiev. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Here, tanks and motorized infantry were blocked by the Soviets in the outer encirclement of the Kiev fortified area, and the German attempts to seize Kyiv from the march were broken.

At this time, the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, General Zhukov, advised Stalin to abandon Kiev and withdraw the Southwestern Front to the other side of the Dnieper River to avoid being surrounded by the Germans, and then defend Moscow with all his might.

But being categorically rejected by Stalin, Zhukov was relieved of the post of chief of the General Staff and appointed commander of the reserve front. Stalin's stubbornness completely buried hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops stationed in Kyiv.

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Andre? A Ukrainian nationalist organization headed by Mernik unreservedly sided with the Germans, but had little prestige among the Ukrainians and was defeated in the elections by Atley, who was elected president of Ukraine and Andrei as prime minister.

The election was a bit rushed, the turnout was not very high, and only a million people participated in the vote, but it is very good to be able to do so in a short period of time.

Ukraine is originally a granary, as long as the people have land, where will they starve, the production enthusiasm of land-owned Ukraine is also unprecedentedly high, there is no need to force them to produce, and the material will prosper.

With regard to the 1st Army of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, because countless prisoners and young people of Ukrainian nationality asked to join the army, after Atley's application, the establishment of the 1st Army of the Ukrainian Defense Forces was expanded to a group army with a total of 150,000 troops.

How much Ukrainian territory the Germans still occupy now, the establishment of one Ukrainian army group is enough, and it will definitely be expanded in the later stage.

As for the weapons of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, of course, they use Soviet weapons, and there are too many of these captured weapons, because the caliber of Soviet weapons and German weapons is different, and Guderian can only arm the Ukrainian Defense Forces with captured Soviet weapons and equipment.

In addition, there are a large number of arsenals in Ukraine, and the Soviet Union, which retreated in a hurry, simply did not have much time to destroy them, and even if Stalin ordered the blowing up of these factories now, the Ukrainian workers inside would not carry it out.

As long as it is occupied by the German army, where the factory production will resume production in the shortest possible time, Ukraine is no exception, and the weapons and ammunition used by the Soviet army are of course among them.

As long as all the factories in Ukraine are started at full speed, the enterprises and factories in Ukraine can at least meet the consumption of more than two million troops, which shows the industrial capacity of Ukraine, and the Ukraine of later generations is actually the same.

Of course, those Ukrainian factories are to be auctioned off German entrepreneurs, because Ukraine is a republic of the Soviet Union, and they also practice xxism, and those factories belong to the Stalin government, and it is natural for the German government to auction them after confiscation.

As long as the German capitalists took over these large numbers of factories and injected capital and technology, most of the weapons and supplies needed for the various PLA established by Guderian in the Soviet Union could be obtained from Ukraine.

If Polish production is added, Guderian does not have to worry that the various PLAs he has established will not have weapons and ammunition at all, but that his troops are too small.

Since the Battle of Odessa, Army Group South has not encountered any major wars in Ukraine, although Stalin ordered the shooting of a large number of Ukrainian Soviet generals, on the contrary, it was counterproductive, and Ukrainian soldiers began to flee in large numbers, including officers.

The remaining forces of the Ukrainian Front collapsed on their own, and Stalin, who had no choice, ordered the remaining units of the Soviet Southwestern Front to urgently retreat to Stalingrad, and Ukraine was completely abandoned.

Guderian arrived in Rostov-on-Don, the railway hub of Ukraine, on May 5, and began to divide 200,000 troops to attack and sweep along the railway lines that he had occupied, and the rest of the troops Guderry's security department rested in Rostov-on-Don.

It's not that Guderian doesn't want to attack, it's already 900 kilometers from the German-Soviet border, and it's unrealistic to rely entirely on trucks to transport supplies, Guderian is waiting for the railroad to be unblocked.

Of course, the new Ukrainian government will also allocate a lot of manpower to help repair the railway, and Stalin will lose the hearts of the Ukrainian people.

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Kiev directions:

Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine, and the Soviet troops guarding here are more Ukrainian soldiers, and some of the strategies implemented by Germany in Ukraine to benefit the people have been spread to the Soviet troops.

For example, the Germans dissolved collective farms, distributed land to Ukrainians, resumed industrial production, and gave workers jobs, etc., which was undoubtedly an incomparably great temptation for Ukrainian soldiers who could not eat.

In order to avoid the counterproductive effects of the bloody repression, the political commissar of the Soviet army began to keep an antique tongue in his tongue, innovating in various grassroots companies, giving them various political and ideological lessons, and at the same time making every effort to block news from the direction of Odessa.

These political commissars, in keeping with Stalin's will, described the Germans as the embodiment of the devil, and at the same time cited all kinds of detailed evidence, such as adultery and plunder! For example, the massacre of prisoners of war! And so on, all kinds of propaganda photos and all kinds of slogans filled the positions and barracks of the Soviet army.

Don't ignore the role of the political commissar, controlling a person's mind is more thorough than controlling a person, and it is not unreasonable why Germany shot the political commissar on the battlefield in history.

The Soviet troops in the Kiev direction, brainwashed by the political commissar and suppressed by Stalin's bloody means, Stalin's goal was achieved, and the Kievans threw themselves into the battle against the Wehrmacht army.

The German frontal assault and subsequent flank assault split the Soviet Central Front into isolated groups. The 5th Army on the right flank of the front northwest of Kiev fought for about half a month in the fortified area of Koros, pinning down about 10 German divisions with its actions.

The counter-assault carried out by the army group on the flank of the German army group, which was directly attacking Kiev, greatly improved the situation of the Soviet troops defending the city, because the German attack was extremely fierce, and the Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties, and the army group had to retreat to the new defensive area north of Kiev.

The 6th and 12th armies and the 18th Army, with a total of 20 divisions, fought the left flank of the front southwest of Kiev. On May 3, 1941, the Germans encircled the group in the Uman area with a two-flank assault.

On May 8, 1941, the "Uman Pocket" was eliminated, and the Germans captured 130,000 Soviet troops, including Lieutenant General Muzychenko, commander of the 6th Army, and Major General Ponederin, commander of the 12th Army, and the Germans captured 317 tanks and 858 artillery pieces.

Combat operations continued here until May 13, 1941. The failure of these operations greatly complicated the situation at the junction of the Southwestern Front and the Southern Front (the 6th and 12th armies had been reassigned to the Southern Front since 25 April 1941 and became their right flank).

In the center of the defense were the 37th and 26th armies (the former was formed on the basis of the fortified area of Kiev, and the latter was basically formed by the reserve corps operating south of Kiev).

From May 19 to 29, 1941, the 26th Army attempted a campaign to disrupt the encirclement maneuver of the 1st German tank group, but it was only held back for a few days, and then forced to retreat under the German assault.

German troops rushed to the suburbs of Kiev to Pirogov, Zhuliane, Meshelovka, Khoroyv Forest, as well as to the Forestry Engineering Institute and the Agricultural Academy. However, the counter-assault carried out by the Soviets allowed the front along the outer perimeter of the fortified area to be almost completely restored by May 15, 1941.

Among the main counterattacks were, the 5th Airborne Brigade stationed at the airport in Juliane (led by Alexander?). Rodimtsev) raided the Germans at night, pushing back the German front by 2-3 km; and the successful repulsion of the newly formed 37th Army from the southwest in the first half of May 1941 by a heavy German group to capture the Ukrainian capital.

Under the powerful propaganda of the Stalin regime and under the coercion of countless Soviet troops, the citizens of Kiev had to join the Kiev campaign with a few people with a gun in every possible way, and in a short period of time, 200,000 Kievans were forced to join the Soviet army.

The stubborn resistance of the Soviet army and the repeated counter-assaults delayed the offensive on the left flank of Army Group "South" for a long time, forcing the German high command to draw troops from the other two army groups to carry out a joint encirclement operation against Kiev.

The German plan was for the 2nd Tank Group to cross the Desna River west of Tubitivsk and advance southward into Romne, behind Kiev, and the 2nd Army to move south from Gomel to cover the right flank of the 2nd Tank Group.

The 1st Tank Group attacked north from Kremenchuk on the Dnieper bend and joined the 2nd Tank Group in the area of Romne and Lokhvica, cutting off the Soviet troops on the west bank of the Dnieper in the area of the Great Meander.

The 17th Army was responsible for pinning down the Soviets in the Dnieper bend north of Cherkasy, while covering the left flank of the 1st Tank Group. The 6th Army went east, crossed the Dnieper, entered Kiev, and began to encircle and annihilate this group of Soviet heavy troops.

On May 21, 1941, the German high command ordered to intensify the offensive on the northern and southern flanks of the Soviet-German battlefield, and to make a far-reaching detour of the front along the east bank of the Dnieper River from the north and south. (To be continued.) )