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The United ** smashed the Atlantic barrier of Nazi Germany, liberated Paris and surrounded 200,000 German troops. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info╔╗The Allied forces in France were so strong that the people of the world cheered and cheered, mocking the end of Nazi Germany.

But before they could rejoice, the Alliance** surrounded 1.9 million Soviet troops on the territory of Ukraine. It once again cast a shadow over the European battlefield, which had just become somewhat clear, and diluted the joy of victory on the part of the United Nations.

The 1.9 million Soviet troops, which on the surface looked much stronger than the 200,000 German troops trapped in Rouen and Amiens, would certainly be able to hold out for a longer time and wait for the arrival of allied reinforcements.

In fact, it's quite the opposite. Although the German troops in Rouen and Amiens were only 200,000, the Germans were held by military strongholds, and ammunition and supplies were sufficient. For United**, it is a very difficult bone to gnaw. In Minsk, although the Soviet army had more than 1.9 million troops and countless heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery, the fatal thing was that the excessive arrogance of the Soviet army caused its logistical supply lines to fail to keep up in time, and it was useless to fight hungry without food.

One million Soviet troops were surrounded, and the eyes of the whole world were immediately drawn to the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

When Stalin heard the news that the Germans had besieged the Soviet troops of six army groups in Minsk, he was furious and wanted to go to the front line immediately and kill Zhukov.

For the Soviet army, after the victory in the Second Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet army was indeed several times stronger than before. This was reflected in the fact that the strength of the Soviet army had increased to as much as 6 million, tens of thousands of aircraft and tanks, and its combat effectiveness had also returned to the level before the Great Purge of the Soviet Union. ╔

But the most lethal thing for the Soviet army is the logistics support capability, the Soviet army has been attacked by the German army and the American army, has been in passive defensive operations, and the logistics system lacks mobile supply capabilities. At this time, the Soviet high command made a wrong judgment, and millions of Soviet troops counterattacked on all fronts, and the shortcomings of logistics and supply were immediately exposed, and they dealt a fatal blow to the Soviet army in the Battle of Minsk.

It was not that Stalin did not want to save Zhukov, but that it was simply too late in time. Zhukov's supply of 1.9 million Soviet troops could only support two years, and this was the result of the Soviet army sweeping the Soviet people on the spot and getting a batch of food replenishment. The Soviet logistical supplies would take at least a week to arrive, and even longer if the Germans were to ambush or block them halfway.

Within an hour of Stalin's anxious mouth was foaming at the corners of his mouth, but he did not care about the doctor's prescription and hurried to meet with Sir Rosen, the ambassador of the Chinese Empire to Moscow.

"The stakes are very high in this battle, and please ask your country to help!"

Stalin pleaded with pity, something that he had never dared to imagine.

Rosen immediately assured Stalin: "Your Excellency, your country is one of our greatest allies, and we are deeply concerned about the siege of Minsk by your army. Before I came to see you, His Majesty the Emperor had entrusted me, and through me, to His Excellency the President, his deep concern for the situation on the battlefield in the Soviet Union. At the same time, His Majesty the Emperor has specially instructed me to do my utmost to help your country and your army solve the current problems. ”

When Stalin heard this, he immediately burst into tears, thanked the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao for his care, and praised the friendship between China and the Soviet Union. ╔╗

However, when Stalin mentioned the issue of urgently sending reinforcements to Minsk and providing a large amount of aid to the Soviet Union, Luo Xian suddenly changed his expression and said that he was consulting with the relevant departments.

Stalin believed Luo Xian's words, and then talked about some other topics related to Sino-Soviet friendship, and then hastily ended the talks.

As a result, by the second post, Soviet intelligence reported that there was no movement of the Armenian army, and Stalin had to talk to Luo Xian again.

"The Chinese Empire has always advocated a joint effort to send troops to reinforce Minsk as soon as possible, but the Armenian military said that they have been fighting intensively for three months. Their white-spoon front is stretched too long, and supplies have become difficult. They have a bunch of patches on the tracks of their armored combat vehicles, and their white-spoon soldiers are exhausted and will not be able to reinforce Minsk in time at the moment. ”

Stalin immediately frowned and said eagerly: "The Soviet army in Minsk must be reinforced immediately, otherwise there will be a danger of annihilation." I also ask your country to mediate with the Armenian side, and the Soviet Union and the people will be grateful. ”

Luo Xian comforted: "Your Excellency, don't be impatient, our side is already coordinating." We urge the Armenian military to send troops to Kyiv as soon as possible to relieve the siege of Minsk. As long as your army can hold out for a week, reinforcements will arrive immediately. ”

Stalin suddenly grimaced and said: "A week is too long, and by that time I am afraid that 1.9 million Soviet troops will not die on the battlefield, but will be starved to death." ”

Stalin said earnestly: "I think that even if your country succeeds in landing on the Western Front, we will need our Soviet troops to contain the main German forces on the Eastern Front." ╔╗”

Luo Xian smiled and said, "Of course we understand this!" Your country is our closest ally, and we know that very well. ”

"Two deaths, reinforcements must arrive within two years."

Stalin put this sentence and ended the meeting.

Rosen could see that Stalin was burning his eyebrows, so he conveyed his opinion to the Imperial General Staff.

Soon, the Armenian army was dispatched, and the front was directed at the 11th German SS Mechanized Army in Kiev. However, the Armenian army was moving very slowly, and they should have marched at a speed of 300 kilometers in 100 kilometers, but now they traveled 120 kilometers like ox carts. The reason was that the muddy roads were not suitable for the march of mechanized troops, coupled with the fear of an ambush by the Germans.

When Stalin begged the Chinese Empire for help, the German high command knew very well that the Soviet army must be besieged for at least three days, waiting for the last ration of the Soviet army to run out of rations and launch a general attack. Before that, the Germans had to stop the Soviet breakout.

To this end, the German army mobilized six armored divisions of the German SS to block the Mogulev area, where the Soviet army had broken through.

However, Zhukov once again made the fatal mistake of believing that the Armenian army would come with reinforcements as soon as possible, and the Soviet troops in the rear would also come with reinforcements as soon as possible and bring supplies. Therefore, Zhukov did not transfer his seven Jingrui Panzer Corps to Mogulev to open up the rear route, but concentrated all Jingrui troops on the frontal battlefield in Minsk. ╔╗

According to Zhukov's idea, the Soviets and the Allies will soon come to reinforce them, and if Minsk can be captured, then the situation on the battlefield will suddenly open, and not only will the German plan to encircle the Soviet army fail, but in turn the three million German troops will fall into the counter-encirclement of millions of Soviet and Armenian troops. If Zhukov can win this battle, then there will be no main forces of the alliance on the entire Eastern Front, and the Soviet army will be unimpeded and will approach the city of Berlin.

At the same time, Zhukov valued the German supplies in Minsk the most. Once the Soviets captured Minsk, not only would 1.9 million Soviet troops be reinforced, but 3 million German troops would go hungry and fight from now on.

Therefore, Zhukov concentrated 700,000 Jingrui troops in Minsk to storm Minsk overnight, while the other more than 1 million Soviet troops focused on defense and covered the attack of the frontal troops.

However, Zhukov forgot about the situation at this time. The battlefield was no longer Stalingrad, and the Soviet army did not have the ruthlessness of breaking into the city. The Soviets and the Germans were in different positions, and the Germans held Minsk, and the Soviets launched an offensive on the plains outside the city.

As a result, the Germans only needed a small number of armored troops, a large number of infantry fortifications, and relied on urban buildings to resist, making the Soviet attack very slow and costly.

On the other hand, Manstein saw that the Soviet army was on the defensive, so he planned to let the German infantry carry out a feint attack to contain and confuse the Soviet army, and his Jingrui 4th Panzer Army had a total of 224,000 troops under the jurisdiction of the 52nd Infantry Corps, the 48th Panzer Corps and the 2nd SS Panzer Corps, 1,125 King Tiger, Leopard and other main battle tanks, 1,404 artillery pieces, 1,421 Focke-Wolf 190A, Hankel 129 and other combat aircraft. ╔╗ Concentrated superior forces and launched a fierce attack on the Ek area controlled by the Soviet 19th Army.

Most of the Soviet fighters and tanks were concentrated in Minsk for frontal combat, with less than 110,000 troops, 240 tanks, 405 artillery pieces, and less than 40 support aircraft in the Ek region on the flank.

When the German fighter groups and armored clusters poured in, although the Soviet troops resisted desperately, it was a pity that there was no danger to defend, and the flesh and blood of the infantry could not shake the impact of the German steel torrent. In less than half a year, more than half of the Soviet troops were killed and wounded, and the battlefield was full of Soviet corpses, and rivers of blood flowed.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening of the 29ri, the German tank cluster crushed the bones of the Soviet 19th Army, and the Germans stepped on the corpses of the Soviet troops to capture the town of Ek, tearing open the defense line of the Soviet flank.

At this time, Zhukov was commanding the Soviet army to storm Minsk, and after paying a huge price in casualties, he had already captured a quarter of the city.

Knowing that the German armored forces had broken through the Ike Line, Zhukov did not dare to stop any longer, and immediately mobilized the main forces of Jingrui to rush to reinforcements, and as a result, the German troops in Minsk soon regained their strength and drove the Soviet troops out again.

At dawn on the 30th of July, the Soviet and German troops fought fiercely in the town of Ek. Zhukov gave the order to die, to take back the town of Ek. The Soviets were forced to engage the Germans in a desperate battle, and after more than 20 rounds of fighting, the Germans were forced to abandon the town of Ek and retreat to their original defensive line.

The Soviets wanted to break through the German encirclement in one go, but unfortunately the Soviet armored forces ran out of fuel, and Zhukov was forced to abandon the attack and once again ordered the Soviets to switch to a defensive posture.

By July 1ri, the Soviet army ran out of food, there was an acute shortage of ammunition and fuel, and more than a third of the troops were incapacitated because they ran out of ammunition or had damaged weapons and did not repair them.

The situation was urgent, and Zhukov again pleaded with Stalin. However, the Armenian reinforcements that Stalin was expecting were still on the way, but the Armenian army was "stubbornly" blocked by the German army and could not arrive on time.

"Please send your air force to the Soviet army in Minsk for air replenishment!"

Stalin sent Luo Xian to kneel down and ask for help. But Luo Xian always has a smiling diplomat expression, and the candied fruit in his mouth is the first word, that is, to delay the rescue of the Soviet army.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, our White Spoon Air Force transport plane is flying to Minsk with a full load of supplies!"

Did you really go?

Stalin put a big question mark in his mind. Obviously, he seemed to have guessed some of the attitudes of the Chinese Empire at this time. The strength of the Soviet army was something that the Chinese Empire was not happy to see, but Stalin never imagined that before the war ended, the Chinese Empire began to calculate the Soviet Union.

But Stalin had no evidence to blame the Chinese Empire, and now he had to choose to believe it.

The transport team of the Chinese Imperial Air Force fulfilled its promise, sending more than 1,000 transport planes to airdrop more than 2,000 tons of food to Minsk. But most of this batch of food was not airdropped on Soviet positions, but on German positions.

When the Germans ate the canned beef and cakes airdropped by the Chinese Empire, the Soviet troops on the opposite side were already too hungry to walk.

Stalin completely collapsed. At this time, he finally understood that the Chinese Empire deliberately let more than 1.9 million Soviet troops be buried under the German butcher's knife, but the Chinese Empire did a good job, and there was no evidence to accuse them, and Stalin could only smash his teeth and swallow his stomach.

On July 3ri, an hour before the launch of the general attack by the Germans, General Zhukov, who was too hungry to stand up, was forced to order all Soviet troops to surrender to the Germans.

In this way, the Germans followed up with a huge mistake of the Soviet army, and wiped out 1.9 million Soviet troops without much effort. The situation on the Soviet-German battlefield was suddenly reversed, and the Soviet army's hard-fought counteroffensive was once again strangled by the German army, after which the Soviet army was no longer able to attack the German army.

Similarly, the German army did not take advantage of the situation to counterattack the Soviet army, because the battlefield on the Western Front deteriorated rapidly, and the joint ** led by the Chinese Empire landed in France, and in just half a month, most of France was liberated, approaching Germany itself.

The Germans were forced to also switch to a defensive posture on the Eastern Front, and the main forces were quickly transferred to the Western Front to block the joint ** offensive.

In this way, the Chinese Empire not only dealt a heavy blow to the vitality of the Soviet Union, a huge potential enemy, but also controlled the situation on the Eastern Front without firing a single shot, and it can be described as the biggest winner.

After that, the battlefield on the Eastern Front tended to be calm, and the Soviet army was greatly damaged and lost the ability to attack. The Armenian army, with the support of the Chinese Empire, continued its high-pressure offensive against the German army, and soon captured the important town of Kiev, forcing the German army to abandon Ukraine and withdraw its troops from Minsk, Belarus.

When the Armenian army entered Minsk, it was not warmly applauded, because the Soviet troops, in order to divert popular anger, deliberately claimed that the Armenian army did not arrive on time for the fiasco of the Minsk battle. Armenia has always been a pawn of the Chinese Empire in Eastern Europe, so the Soviet Union secretly accused the Chinese Empire of being the mastermind behind the scenes.

The Chinese Empire severely pitted the Soviet Union this time, so that the Soviet Union has a grudge against the Chinese Empire from then on. It was not until many years later that the Soviet Union was obsessed with this matter, and was even willing to be a slave of Germany and oppose the Chinese Empire.

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