As for guns and ammunition, that's not a problem at all, Britain and the United States are constantly sending all kinds of arms to the Soviet Union, and the military-industrial complex of the USSR itself can also produce a lot of weapons and equipment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Of course, various enterprises in Moscow could not produce, because at this time they were moving to the Ural industrial zone.

The second piece of good news is that the United States has agreed to the Soviet Union's request for lend-lease, and this time the United States seems to have suddenly been very generous and directly granted the Soviet Union a $10 billion application for arms lend-lease.

These American munitions were to be shipped from the western region of the United States, directly through the Bering Strait to the Far East of the Soviet Union, and part of it by the Far Eastern Railroad.

The ice-free port of Murmansk of the Soviet Union could also take over a large amount of Lend-Lease arms, and as long as these arms were in hand, the Soviet Union's 15 million troops would soon be armed, and with such a huge military force, Timoshenko did not believe that the Germans could destroy the Soviet Union.

The third piece of good news is that the Anglo-French alliance donated weapons to the Soviet Union free of charge, and no matter what the purpose of Britain and France was, the Soviet Union did not refuse to come, and received as much as they sent, and even asked for it.

Do not think that the USSR did not understand the purpose of Britain and France, Stalin thief! Stalin, of course, knew that Britain and the United States were arming themselves to a limited extent, so that the Soviet Union and Germany would lose both.

As the only three marshals of the Soviet Union, Stalin would of course inform him of these confidential circumstances, and on the basis of this analysis, Timoshenko came to the conclusion that the world anti-German alliance was about to be formed.

Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, the three major countries, will abandon their differences in political systems and be brought together because of German pressure, whether they are in the same bed or in different dreams, and this is an extremely dangerous signal for Germany.

"Report to Comrade Marshal Timoshenko: According to reports from the front, the German SS suddenly concentrated more than a dozen Panzer Division troops, and a large number of trucks and planes, and attacked our backs."

"Oh, you quickly mark the route of the German attack on the map, and at the same time send a large number of scouts to figure out the specific strategy of the Germans."

The intelligence officer who reported the situation hurriedly marked the general direction of the German advance on the map with several staff officers, and then contacted the reconnaissance force.

"Comrade Vatutin, what do you think?"

"Comrade Marshal, we still don't understand what the strategic purpose of the Germans is, all their troops are basically armored divisions, even if I want to send troops to block it, I'm afraid there is no way, especially if we lose air supremacy.

I judge that this German offensive may have two aims, the first is that the Germans want to completely cut off our land lines of communication to Moscow.

It is simply impossible for the Germans to realize this strategy, and the Germans do not dare to go deep between Moscow and Stalingrad like this, not to mention the fact that we still have hundreds of thousands of troops in the Kharkov military subdivision behind us, and if the Germans really want to do this, they can only suffer heavy losses.

The second scenario is that the Germans want to attack along the Aureli River, and then take a detour to the back of Moscow, even if the Germans have a dozen armored divisions, their supplies will not be able to keep up, because we and Kharkov can cut off their supply lines at any time, so this should not be true. ”

Timoshenko's ability, in fact, is to fight a defensive war, offensive warfare is not a little brilliant, and now Vatutin's analysis makes Timoshenko decide that it is the king to preserve the living force and resolutely hold Petrovsk now.

In fact, Timoshenko's idea is not a big mistake, his own infantry and garbage tanks go to fight field battles with the advanced tanks of the German devils, then there is absolutely no hope of victory, how the German army is looking forward to the Soviet army out of the city for a decisive battle!

Steiner commanded the torrent of steel to roll away, there was no defense of the Soviet army along the way, the whole assault group took a day, rushed to the crossing of the Orili River, Steiner quickly arranged his armored troops into a huge semi-circular defensive position, established a solid crossing, and then the boat bridge troops began to build bridges.

Because Guderian had enough troops on the bridges, Steiner assumed a total of four pontoon bridges, and the first to cross the river were armored vehicles, which were towed anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns, and they were responsible for establishing defensive positions on the opposite bank, and in less than three hours, the proposed defensive positions on the other side of the Aureli River were formed.

At this time, the Soviet Union had lost the possibility of blocking the Steiner armored assault group, and besides, the Soviet Union went there to find so many armored troops in the encirclement and assault of Steiner, and the Soviet Union really did not have the military strength to encircle and annihilate eleven German armored divisions at one time.

Since Germany attacked the Soviet Union in early April, and in just two months now, the Soviet Union has lost 70 percent of its armored forces and 80 percent of its aircraft, and most of the remaining armored and air forces of the Soviet Union have been transferred to Stalingrad and Moscow, and there is basically no armor and air power on the front line.

Although there were four pontoon bridges at the crossing, it took Steiner a day and a night to get all the vehicles and men to the other side of the Aureli River, and after the crossing was completed, Steiner ordered the boat-bridge troops to remove the pontoon bridges and return the same way.

Guderian sent one armored division and two mechanized infantry divisions to cut off the supply lines in Petrovsk, and his total number of troops available for the offensive was still about 320,000.

In order to fight the Battle of Petrovsk well, Guderian first threw out a nail - Steiner's SS, let them go to the interior of the Soviet Union to turn the world upside down, attract most of the Soviet Union's firepower and attention, and the remaining 320,000 German troops were all transferred by Guderian to the Petrovsk front.

Guderian and Timoshenko both have about the same number of troops, both of them are more than 300,000, and of course the Soviet militia also has a certain amount of fighting, but he Guderian cannot calculate how many of these Soviet militias there are, and how much combat effectiveness they have.

The Soviet army in Petrovsk has geographical and defensive advantages, while Germany has the advantage of advanced weapons and good quality soldiers, and both sides have their own advantages and disadvantages!

In order to crush the Soviet Union's attempt to defend in depth, Führer Rommel had already ordered Guderian to sweep away the leaves in the autumn wind, so Guderian could only complete the preparations for the attack in an extreme time, and then launched an attack on Petrovsk.

Guderian would not risk his lives and precious armored forces to fill the Soviet Union's defenses in depth, he had already received the first 200,000 artillery shells, more than 50,000 rockets, and more than 30,000 aerial bombs from Rommel.

Führer Rommel promised to give Guderian 500,000 bombs, because of the problem of railway transportation, only more than half of them have been transported now, but this huge number of bombs of all kinds is enough for the Soviet troops in Petrovsk to go to God for a move. (To be continued.) )