By daybreak, Garth couldn't run anymore and lay on the side of the road like a dead dog, and not long after he lay down, Garth heard the crowd exclaiming, the German tanks were coming again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The direction of the German tanks is the direction of Gals's escape, and when it is over, Garth secretly shouted in his heart, since the German tanks appeared from the direction of Gars's escape, it means that Gars and they have been surrounded by German troops.

At this time, the Soviet army completely lost its structure, completely lost its command, lost its weapons, and lost its fighting spirit, and as soon as the German tanks arrived at Gars, they raised their hands and surrendered, in this case, only surrender was the only way out.

More than 10,000 of these 200,000 Soviet troops died last night, and the rest were completely taken prisoner by the German army.

As for how many people Vlasov can recruit from these captives who are willing to follow him, it depends on his personal charm, Rommel will not force any Soviet prisoners to join the Russian Liberation Army, everything is voluntary.

Only those who voluntarily joined the Russian Liberation Army and hated Stalin's reign of white terror could bravely fight for the Germans.

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In addition, after Steiner crossed the Dnieper, he ran all the way, assaulting nearly 100 kilometers a day, and in order to ensure the speed of the troops' advance, Steiner took turns to drive, no matter what kind of vehicle it was, and people did not stop.

Twenty-four hours a day, everyone basically spends twenty hours in the car, and the remaining four hours are the time for maintenance and repair.

The average speed per hour is only 25 kilometers per hour, which is not very fast, mainly because there are no roads here, although it is a plain, but the speed of the car still cannot be increased.

Fortunately, the Soviet Union could not have imagined that the German army in Germany would dare to send a unit to the death to directly insert it into the depth of the Soviet army, and Timoshenko did not expect that even the so-called famous generals of the Soviet Union in later generations still did not think that they did not understand the strategic intentions of the commander-in-chief of the German army.

Based on the direction of the assault of this German army, they can roughly determine that this force is going to Kharkiv, which is a heavy industrial city of the Soviet Union, and most importantly where there is a production plant for T34 tanks, and it is also the last gate to Moscow.

It seems that the Germans wanted to dig into Stalin's nest, and Stalin also received the latest information on the same day, but Stalin had no mobile forces in his hands that could be mobilized.

You must know that this is 70,000 or 80,000 elite German troops, where did Stalin find more than 100,000 Soviet troops at this time to block this German armored assault group.

Stalin had some troops, but those forces were basically in the direction of Moscow, not in the Kharkov region, and in order to stop the German army, Stalin could only order to blow up all roads and bridges in the way of the German armored assault group.

It's a pity that this is a plain, there are no bridges at all, even the road is a dirt road, there is no value to blow up, not even a river.

Stalin, who had no choice, ordered the Red Army in the Far East in Stalingrad to rush to Kharkov immediately, but Germany had already dispatched as many as fifty Ju89 long-range bombers at this time, completely blowing up dozens of railway junctions and stations around Kharkov.

Even if the Soviet Union had a strong repair capability, it would take at least a week for the Soviet Union to restore the smooth flow of these railways, and the German army, which had air superiority, would bomb every day, and the Soviet army would not be able to repair it.

Stalin, who had no choice, ordered more than 200,000 Red Army troops in the Far East to quickly advance to Kharkov by various means, and Stalin, who had transferred more than 200,000 troops to support Kharkov's troops, was still not at ease.

At the same time, it was ordered to draw more than 100,000 troops from Moscow's defense forces and set out from Moscow, so that they could flank the arrogant German troops who dared to break into the depths of the Soviet Union.

It seems that Steiner's face is very big, and seventy or eighty thousand German troops have attracted so many Soviet regular troops, and these Soviet troops are the most elite troops of the Soviet Union at this time, not comparable to the peasant army of Timoshenko who only laid down their hoes.

Steiner's armored assault group was provided with eighty ju89s for eight hours of full cover per day, and a fighter regiment took off from the front line to protect the fifty ju89s.

Whether the Soviet army has planes or not, the Soviet army has planes, mainly aided by the United States, but the Soviet army does not have qualified pilots, and the rookie Soviet pilots are not opponents of the Luftwaffe at all.

Stalin could only watch as Steiner swaggered towards the Kharkiv region, and on the morning of the third day Steiner's armored assault group appeared on the outskirts of the city of Kovsk.

Steiner did not let the soldiers rest, and directly ordered all the German troops to attack immediately, without reconnaissance, without temptation, as soon as they came up, they went all out, this is a place of death, if they cannot capture the city of Kovsk as soon as possible, Steiner's troops will be extremely dangerous.

What made Stalin dumbfounded happened, and the German army, which was racing all the way, suddenly turned around, no longer advancing towards Kharkov, but turned ninety degrees and directly attacked Kovsk.

Koivsk is a small city and not a strategic priority, but it is the meeting point of the two railways, and supplies from Moscow and Stalingrad to Petrovsk must pass through Kovsk.

As long as the Germans occupied Kovsk, the back roads and supply lines in Petrovsk would be completely cut off, and the 680,000 Soviet troops in Petrovsk would become a turtle in an urn.

The city of Kovsk was guarded by a seriously understaffed local Soviet division, which could not stop Steiner's coordinated assault on infantry at all, and the Soviet local division, which lacked anti-tank means, was cleared in one day.

The first thing Steiner did when he took Kovsk was not to build fortifications and an airport, but to drive more than 300,000 citizens of Kovskk out of the city.

Steiner was deeply influenced by Rommel's combat ideas, and would never kill innocents indiscriminately, and Kovsk would soon be completely plunged into the flames of war, and Steiner did not want these Soviet civilians to die innocently in the flames of war.

Of course, these Soviet citizens could also be the biggest destabilizing factor, and the best way to drive them out of the city was to keep them away from the flames of war and death, and at the same time Steiner also eliminated the hidden dangers.

Another good thing is that Steiner's deportation order is interesting, all the citizens of Kovsk can leave with whatever they want, but the food must be left behind.

In this way, Steiner does not have to provide food to these citizens after the siege of Kovsk, which is 300,000 people, and one pound of grain per person per day is also 300,000 catties, and Steiner does not have this ability.

If you expel the citizens of Kovsk, you will not have to provide them with food, but you will get a lot of food, why not.

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