While the Tenth Army struggled to capture Crimea, Guderian's armored clusters were galloping across the steppes of eastern Ukraine.

The panzers, who had had enough of the river networks and the cities when they advanced along the Dnieper, now ran like they were struggling on the steppes - the fuel from Romania fueled their enthusiasm.

In accordance with the orders of Major General Erwin Rommel, the former enemy commander of the armored group, the Ultramarines Division, which served as the attack knife, bypassed all the Cossack fortified villages and towns, and moved forward with all their strength with only their own fuel, running 200 kilometers in just one day, directly breaking half of the chariot. But the effect of this is also very obvious, the Russian army does not even know that the division has arrived less than 20 kilometers from Donetsk, and they are constantly moving troops to cities such as Dimitrov and Malinka, preparing to rely on the towns to resist the German offensive.

No one in the whole of Donetsk knew that a Lin Youde "Guards" (as the Russian army called the German armored units with names and particularly obvious and exaggerated insignia of the troops) was not far from them.

**

Private Vasily was dozing off at his outpost, and every time he chased the sleepy bugs away, it wasn't long before the bad guys would make a comeback.

Just when Vasily was about to lose his support, he suddenly heard something strange.

Vasily shuddered and looked up to find the source of the sound.

He didn't see anything.

His sentry post is set on a water tower, with an excellent view - to be precise, it is an excellent view directly ahead, behind Vasily is the urban area of Donetsk, at this time the Donbas region is far from being as dense as the urban cluster of another time and space, after all, the Donetsk region of another time and space has become an important military industrial base of the Soviet Union after a long period of construction by the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union does not exist in this time and space, nor does it have the key development of the five-year plan, Therefore, the overall appearance of the land that originally belonged to the Donetsk region is quite different from another time and space.

But Donetsk still has quite a lot of industrial facilities, and the number of three- and four-story buildings is not small, after all, a lot of coal is produced around Donetsk, so it is natural that this place has become a famous coal city in Russia, and the general coal city will also be a steelmaking city, and then the chemical industry serving the coal and steelmaking industry will not be less.

Therefore, holding Donetsk is very important for Russia, and although Natalia, a close confidant of the Prime Minister, believes that Donetsk may not be held, the Russian high command continues to increase troops in Donetsk - what if it does?

Vasily is one of the Russian soldiers who has only recently been transferred to Donetsk, and he has little military training, but because his family is a hunter, his marksmanship and eyesight are quite good.

Vasily's eyes widened, observing the vast steppe in front of him.

The terrain around Donetsk is between hills and plains, the terrain is full of undulations, but there is nothing to be defended as a "point", which is still habitually called "plains" by ordinary people, and of course there are people who call the entire Donbas region "basin" considering the surrounding terrain.

The steppes of Donetsk, like those of other parts of Ukraine, have been cultivated on a large scale, and the Cossacks in the Don valley will also leave some pastures for horses to provide pasture, while in the Donbass, the herders have long been gone, and the steppes have been reclaimed into farmland in order to supply the workers in the cities and mines.

The Ukrainians had finished planting before the German offensive this year, and at this time Vasily looked full of green crops, and it looked like Ukraine would have another gratifying harvest this autumn.

Vasily couldn't help but think back to his hometown, where the summer was basically full of mountains and forests, and the summer time was very short, and the food produced by farming was completely insufficient, but fortunately, there was quite a lot of game in the forest, and the meat for hunting could fully meet the food needs of the local population.

However, life in his hometown was still poor, and Vasily couldn't help but think that if his hometown also had such a large area of fertile land, life would probably be much better.

So he doesn't quite understand why the Ukrainians want to be independent, obviously they already have such a rich life, don't they?

At this time, the distracted Vasily heard the strange sound just now.

He finally realized that the sound was coming from the sky.

Vasily had a pair of good eyes, and he immediately saw something coming from the sky, so he immediately hid his body, and at the same time pressed the button to notify the enemy aircraft of the approach, so the air defense sirens sounded throughout Donetsk.

Then Vasily began to pray that the Germans would not look at the water tower, and even if they did, they would only use machine guns to strafe and never fire rockets.

Vasily waited, but suddenly noticed that the sound of the German aircraft engines was fading away.

He hesitated, but poked his head out to see what was going on—

"I'll go, what's going on?"

Vasily muttered.

He saw the cross-painted plane fall into the fields of crops not far from him, belly on the ground, gliding on the ground like a sleigh - Vasily was familiar with sleds.

But apparently the black soil of Donetsk was not as slippery as snow, and the Germans stumbled along the way, knocking down patches of crop and sending out huge amounts of smoke.

At this time, a familiar voice entered Vasily's ears.

"Vasily! What are you doing! Where are the German planes? ”

"In the fields, Director!" Vasily looked back, and sure enough, he saw the fierce fat man, "They seem to have crashed, and there are many at once!" I don't know how...... Oh, my God! ”

Vasily's eyes widened as he looked at the German soldier who jumped out of the plane that landed in the field.

One by one, the German soldiers rushed out of the planes and rushed to the nearest building.

"Germans!" Vasily shouted, "The Germans are coming!" ”

"Fart!" The secretary scolded and ran towards the water tower, just at this time the alarm suddenly stopped, so the secretary showed an expression of "sure enough, you kid is talking nonsense", "Listen, the alarm has stopped!" Your boy is going to be plagued, and he will be confined for at least a month...... Oh my! ”

The German soldiers, who suddenly appeared in the director's field of vision, began to strafe, and the fat secretary fell backwards clutching the bullet hole in his stomach.

Vasily raised his rifle and pulled the trigger only to realize that he had not loaded the magazine! He just tried to crouch down before it pierced his skull.

**

Dozens of seconds ago, the Donetsk City Defense Command and the Donetsk-Don Front Command, instead of Yeremenko, the chief of staff of the Front, Lieutenant General Tupikov, frowned.

"Except for Observation Post 13, none of the other posts have seen a swarm? Are you sure? Ask someone to go to Observation Post 13 to see what is going on, and if the sentry falls asleep and presses the button, then lock him up for a month. And send someone to stop the damn alarm! ”

While the staff officer was holding the phone and shouting loudly, a herald ran out of the room and went to the control room to manually stop the alarm.

Tupikov muttered, looking very unhappy, he had worked all night the previous night, and at this time of official fatigue, people tend to be particularly irritable at such times.

"Damn the dog, the Germans and rebels alone are enough to bear, and now this shitty thing is coming."

At this time, the alarm stopped, and although Tupikov was still cursing, the expression on his face relaxed a little.

But at this moment, the sound of automatic weapons firing was heard outside the window.

Everyone, including Tupikov, turned their heads to look in the direction from which the sound came, but almost at the same time as everyone turned their heads, the gunfire stopped abruptly. Just as everyone looked at each other to confirm that they were not the only ones hallucinating, another short burst of ejaculation came.

"It's a German gun!" Someone exclaimed.

"Shut up!" Tupikov roared, "The Germans are still more than a hundred kilometers away!" It must be some fool with a nervous breakdown......"

Before the acting commander could finish speaking, a dense, stormy burst of gunfire rang out, instantly shattering all doubts and disbelief.

"Damn, the Germans are coming!" Tupikov seemed to forget that just a second earlier he was reprimanding his subordinates, "Immediately notify all troops to enter positions!" You, check how many Germans there are! You, take a battalion in the direction where the gunfire is coming from, and report the situation to me at any time! ”

At this time, a staff officer put down the phone and reported loudly: "The northwest is under attack by German troops!" No one knows where they came from! The troops guarding the outer positions are exchanging fire with them! ”

"It must be the enemy's paratroopers," Tupikov pouted, "don't be afraid, let the Zhanji troops attack, they don't have heavy weapons, rushing up like this is simply looking for death." ”

"The Battle Ji troops report that they feel the sudden appearance of the source of the magic channel! Just not far from us, there is a brigade so many! ”

"What? How is this possible! There's no way Warrior Queen can pass through so many of our defenses without a sound! Or a brigade! "As soon as Tupikov finished roaring, there was the sound of artillery outside.

As Tupikov struggled to identify what kind of artillery was coming from, a staff officer shouted: "The defense forces north of the city report that they have seen a large number of German tanks and a small magic armor that they have never seen before!" ”

"What? That's impossible! They can't be here! Do you want to accuse me that the Germans came out of the ground? ”

No one could answer Tupikov's question, but the increasingly dense gunfire outside the window seemed to suggest that the Germans had indeed mastered a technique that suddenly emerged from beneath the ground.

At this time, out of the corner of his eye, Tupikov saw the magic armor of the Russian warrior girl appear on the street outside the window.

Tupikov turned his head to look out the window, watching one after another of magic armor pass by his window.

When he looked back, he had calmed down.

"No matter how these Germans got here, we have enough to send them away! There are also two divisions of Cossacks and one elite guards division in this city! Heralds! Go, the commander of Chabaev's division shouted! ”