Nikolai did not dare to hide it and began to tell Guderian what he knew:

"Commander-in-Chief Guderian, in the current Petrovsk region, the most elite troops are the more than 200,000 Soviet troops tonight, they are all troops who have just fought with Little Japan, but these more than 200,000 elites have collapsed tonight, and they are not the opponents of the German army at all. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to support this operation, Timoshenko concentrated two armored corps and 2,000 artillery pieces to support, which was the entire strategic force in Timoshenko's hands.

If you win a decisive victory tonight, Timoshenko will lose those strategic forces above, and he will have nothing to turn around.

In addition, Timoshenko recruited the vast majority of men from the Petrovsk region into the army, which had previously had more than 300,000 regular troops, but now it has expanded to 680,000.

Timoshenko's remaining army, consisting of 380,000 peasants who had just laid down their hoes, had only been trained for a few days, and some of the soldiers had no weapons at all, only one or two anti-tank grenades.

Such a militia unit does not have much combat effectiveness at all, and if it collapses, it will collapse completely, and Timoshenko also estimated this situation, they have already planted explosives in Petrovsk, and I estimate that Timoshenko intends to detonate those explosives after you enter the city, and then come and die together.

That's all I say I know. ”

"General Nikolai, thank you very much for your sincerity, and now I want to devise a new tactic based on the information you provided, so you can talk to your old commander."

After sending the two of them away, Guderian and Manstein began an intense tactical exercise, how to annihilate the Soviet troops participating in the counterattack tonight is related to the success or failure of the Battle of Petrovsk.

In the battle tonight, Griffin has sent a telegram that the more than 200,000 Soviet troops have been routed, and they are being pursued and surrounded.

After Guderian and Manstein's urgent deduction, both Guderian and Manstein believed that the opportunity for a strategic decisive battle had appeared.

After completely defeating the strategic forces in the hands of Timoshenko, the German army will approach the city of Petrovsk, so that the Soviet army in the whole of Petrovsk will be completely encircled, and the three armored divisions sent out to cut off the rear route have reached the designated position, and the Soviet troops in Petrovsk will not be able to escape.

Timoshenko's 680,000 troops in his hands looked like a lot, but once they lost supplies, these peasant armies that had just laid down their hoes would soon collapse, and the first gate to Moscow would soon be opened.

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Immediately after Rommel had arranged the affairs of Germany, he flew with a large group of staff officers to the Wolf's Den, where the general headquarters of the entire Eastern Front was located.

Anna, who was bent on restoring the glory of the Holy Roman Empire, could not stop at all, and most of the European nobles supported Anna's claims.

Anna's means are simple but effective, that is, carrots and sticks, support the restoration of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, and it is impossible to give high-ranking officials, after all, Germany now has a democratic government, and Anna can give these nobles a lot of orders, let them make war money, and at the same time give them the title of nobility without real power.

The aristocrats who disagreed, but miserable, the Gestapo would make them disappear without even noticing, and the two spy chiefs, Canaris and Himmler, when they found out that Rommel was conniving with Anna, took the initiative to join Anna's plan.

Anna, having leveled the European aristocracy, immediately extended her hand to the German Socialist Workers' Party, which is now chaired by Rommel and vice-chaired by Goebbels.

Rommel's desire to restore the Holy Roman Empire was indispensable to the support of the majority of the German Socialist Workers' Party, and the support of the propaganda genius, the deputy party chairman, was indispensable.

Goebbels was very loyal, both to Hitler and to Rommel, and when Anna personally told Goebbels about it, Goebbels did not assert himself, he sent a telegram to Rommel cryptically, and Rommel replied with two words:

"Identity"

Goebbels immediately understood the meaning of these two words, identity - that is, to obtain the approval of the people of the occupied territories, to make the occupied territories identify with Germany, that is impossible, Germany can only be the aggressor.

The only way to gain the approval of the people of the occupied territories was the Holy Roman Empire, which once ruled all of Europe, so that Germany would not be an aggressor, but a knight who would protect and restore the Holy Roman Empire.

The history of Europe is so fucked up, dozens of countries have fought each other for thousands of years, today you rule me, tomorrow I rule you, yesterday this land was mine, the day after tomorrow it is his.

In addition to the countless nationalities in Europe, this has created a chaotic national identity among the European people, of which the most recognized is undoubtedly the Roman Empire, and all the countries in Europe claim to be the successors of the Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire is a product of this identity, a union of states composed of countless European countries, a bit like the current European Union, but the power of the Holy Roman Emperor has the command of the armies of various countries.

These were the two fundamental reasons for Rommel's support for the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire - identity and military power.

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Griffin's three armored divisions assaulted very smoothly, how could a man's leg run past the tank, because the chaos of the Soviet army and the bombardment of the German army made the roads here impassable, and the trucks were also blown up a lot, and the Soviet army could only escape with two legs.

The 15th Panzer Corps was followed by several mechanized infantry divisions, and by the next morning, Griffin had led his troops to break through the Soviet 5th Defensive Line.

As soon as the armored divisions attacking in a pincer shape on both sides were encircled, the entire Soviet army was completely surrounded, and after most of the night the Soviet troops fled for their lives, at this time there were less than 30 percent of the weapons that were left with them, and there were only casual light weapons, and heavy weapons were lost.

Since last night, Gars, the commander of an infantry company of the Soviet army, has watched hundreds of his tanks completely wiped out by the fierce artillery fire of the Germans, and the intensity of the artillery fire has completely shocked all the Soviet soldiers.

Then came the fierce bombing, Garth looked at his comrades, who were torn to pieces by German aerial bombs in an instant, and had already begun to retreat, and this sudden bombing immediately turned the retreat into a collapse, at this time the Germans suddenly sent a large number of armored divisions to attack with pincers and surrounded the Soviet army, which made the already collapsed Soviet army even more panicked.

Garth, like the rest of the soldiers, mingled in the crumbling crowd, running desperately, and his soldiers were long gone, who cared about anyone in such a dangerous situation!! (To be continued.) )