Flanked by the 81_81266502 Battalion is the 1st Panzer Division led by the famous General Guderian, and when you think of the 1st Panzer Division, you can think of its amazing achievements from Poland all the way. If the German Panzer Forces were the elite, then the 1st Panzer Division was enough to be called the elite of the elite. This unit deployed a full 350 Leopard tanks in front of the Soviet defenders, and in just one morning, it tore through the lines of the Soviet defenders and advanced 50 kilometers in one go.

In the eastern part of Poland, the German armored forces once again found their own rhythm of attack, and proved the fact that they were not old with sharp attacks. The eastern part of Poland, even the western part of the Soviet Union, was a hilly and plain area that was very suitable for tank battles of large corps, so large-scale tank battles became the main theme.

Guderian was well prepared, and at the first moment when Marshal Brauchitsch ordered a counterattack, he led his armored troops to the Soviet-German border, and his flank, which was only responsible for covering, was only an armored battalion with 40 tanks.

The Soviet offensive operation, codenamed "Red Banner", did not need to be analyzed to know that it ended in failure, with about 1.1 million Soviet troops trapped in the German encirclement, and the cost of the attack was as high as 70,000. How many of these troops will return to the Soviet Union, even the most optimistic estimates will never exceed 100,000.

Nearly 1.2 million troops were wiped out in the first attack batch, and the follow-up troops were smashed to pieces by the oncoming German armored forces before they could get out of their own homes, and Khrushchev knew that he would not be able to get it this time and be surrounded and annihilated.

His troops were on the road, desperately approaching the Soviet-German border area, ready to engage in offensive operations - but now the Germans had counterattacked. Those Soviet units were in a state of rushing without deploying, and some units did not even have time to distribute rations, and if they were bumped into by the Germans at this time, they could not think of any other fate than a rout for Khrushchev.

Of course, the more than one million troops in the encirclement cannot be given up no matter what, at least at this stage, only these troops have the ability to counterattack the German ** team. So Khrushchev and Marshal Voroshilov gave orders to the Soviet commanders in the encirclement without thinking about it: to hold every inch of position, counterattack the Germans and attack Warsaw, without surrendering!

This brief order itself was contradictory and groundless -- if the Soviet Red Army had the ability to hold every inch of its position and attack Warsaw, how could it have surrendered? It had already reached the stage of surrendering or not surrendering, and it would fight back?

In one farmhouse, Soviet telegraph operators and officers were escorted out of the house by German soldiers with rifles, and half an hour before they had been ordered to lay down their weapons and stop resisting. With their heads in their hands, the soldiers walked out of the room to gather the crowd and eventually slowly march west along both sides of the road.

In keeping with the direction of their attack, the destination of these Soviet prisoners of war was indeed near Warsaw, where there were new concentration camps and ghettos, where they were to work and contribute to the German warplane.

A German battalion commander leaned against the door of a farmhouse, cigarette in his mouth. He watched the non-stop work of the Soviet radio station and typed out a series of codes. Two German soldiers were checking the messages with a captured Soviet codebook, and then smiled and handed the translated message to their commander.

"Counterattack, hold the position?" the battalion commander sneered, and then threw the telegram at his feet: "Are the Soviet commanders in the back stupid in their brains? They don't even have ammunition, and they still want to counterattack?"

On the table was a Soviet version of the operational map, which was a bit outrageously blurry. These Soviet commanders relied on such rudimentary maps, at best, they were able not to get lost, and it would be an absolute joke to say that they commanded the operation to complete the offensive. The German battalion commander looked at the maps, then compared them with the maps he had taken out of his map bag, which were full of markings and in German, and pursed his lips with some disdain.

This Soviet divisional combat unit had just surrendered, and it was a regimental commander of the German army who accepted their surrender, and the flags and number symbols of the Soviet troops were sent to the front headquarters in Warsaw as trophies, and I heard that Manstein, the chief of the general staff of the front, was preparing to collect 100 troop flags and send them back to Berlin for a victory parade in the Soviet-German war.

Field Marshal Brauchitsch was more concerned about the counterattack of Guderian's Army G, after all, Army Group G and Army Group D were going to carry out a coordinated operation to encircle the follow-up combat forces of the Soviet Central Theater, and according to air force reconnaissance and pre-war estimates, this encirclement operation could encircle at least 600,000 people of the main Soviet forces.

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"Stand up!" With a loud slogan, two rows of German honor guards clenched their brand-new Mauser 98K rifles with both hands, and after a neat sound, these soldiers showed their standard gun salute that they had been practicing for a long time.

The military band played a loud military song, the majestic melody was constantly changing with the flashing lights of the journalists, and the commander of the German Army Group E, Liszt, was accepting the surrender of the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Soviet Red Army.

"General, on behalf of the 4 army groups, 11 corps, and 31 divisions under my command, a total of 501,700 people, surrender to you. The Soviet commander bowed his head and said helplessly, his words were very slow and lonely, everyone knew why he was so low, no one wanted to watch their relatives and friends being sent to the gallows, and no one wanted their wives and children to be sent to a distant concentration camp in Siberia.

However, Stalin ordered that all the relatives of generals who had surrendered or been defeated be sent to Siberia, and this order has been retained since the beginning of the Great Purge, and countless Soviet generals and hopeful generals have been hanged, and countless families have been sent to Siberia to be tortured to death - Khrushchev carried out this order at the front, and a day earlier someone had been hanged for the failure of the offensive, and the families of the dead were read out on the spot.

The Soviet officers present who were mourning Kaoyan were really mourning, they surrendered for their lives today, and tomorrow they will let their wives and children embark on the Yellow Spring Road. But they surrendered after all, and they surrendered without hesitation.

In the sound of military music, the Soviet commander who said these words handed the flag of his unit to the German general Liszt, who grabbed the battalion flag embroidered with the insignia of the troops and decorated with golden tassels on the corners, and left his image with a gentle smile in front of the reporter, while beside him, stood the Ukrainian commander with his head bowed and bent over.

"Your defense is stronger than your offense. While facing the reporter's photo, the Soviet commander said lonely: "We wanted to strike first, but now it seems that you have been prepared...... Why?"

Liszt was very satisfied with the battle of his troops, so he kept a warm smile on his face. He didn't hide it from the defeated general, and replied while smiling at the camera: "It's very simple, we know that you will definitely attack, so we decided to consume part of your troops first." ”

"Consume, consume some troops, and then?" the Soviet general was stunned for a moment, and then continued to ask.

Not everyone aspires to the rule of the Red Soviet Union, at least the Führer thinks that the Ukrainians and Belarusians do not yearn for the oppression and **** of the Russians. After taking pictures, Liszt handed the trophy flag to his subordinates, and said as he walked forward with his hands behind his back.

"You're going to fight back?" the general asked, startled and a little trembling.

"Hehe, the Germans do not have the tradition of being beaten and not beaten back. Liszt replied proudly: "So from the moment you tear up the treaty and attack Germany, you must be prepared to bear German retaliation." ”

Then Liszt looked to the far east, pointed to the gray horizon and said: "The counterattack has begun, an hour ago, our troops crossed the Soviet-German border, and we have defended against your attack...... Now, it's our turn to make a move!"

The "......" Ukrainian generals naturally know where their country's weaknesses lie, and it can be said that except for the front-line combat units, which are "in a combat state" in the true sense, more than half of the other rear troops are not ready for battle at all, and most of the rear troops are in an extremely chaotic state of "rushing".

At such times, the German counterattack was simply a tiger into the flock, and there was no essential difference from slaughter. If it had been Timoshenko or the new generation of general Zhukov who supervised the war later, he still felt that he could have avoided defeat to some extent, but now there is Khrushchev, who knows nothing about fighting, and Marshal Voroshilov, who never disobeys Khrushchev -- it can be said very responsibly that the Soviet troops on the Western Front are finished, completely finished.

However, after thinking of this, the Ukrainian general seemed to have a sense of relief, since the front-line troops are destined to collapse, then the war will quickly burn to the Ukrainian region, and at this time, his family should be able to take advantage of the chaos to protect themselves, right? After all, it is not so easy to find a few people in the war-torn area.

So the Ukrainian general took a deep breath, and then said to Liszt, who was walking in front: "I still have some value to use......

"I know, I know you're thinking about your family. Liszt nodded and preemptively said, "I promise you, if we arrive in time, your family will be protected by the Empire...... As for the values you mentioned, tell the Führer to go, and he will give you a satisfactory answer. ”。