After Guderian said this, he tapped his hand on the map twice, restrained his smiling expression, and said solemnly: "Can I, the commander of the army group, see the problem that you can all see? There are so many Soviet recruits in this direction that it is impossible to believe that this is really the reason for our good luck." ”

He pointed to the cities on the map that had been marked as German-occupied, and said one by one: "It would be reasonable if we met the Soviet forward alert force in Pavlograd and not the main force of the enemy, but if we attacked Lozovaya and still did not hit the main Soviet force, it would be a very worthy matter." ”

"In order to confirm what the other side wants to do, I personally assume two speculations, one is to assume that the other side hits the main force on the northern front, and the other is to assume that the other side will concentrate the main force in a certain place and prepare to pit us once. Guderian stretched out two fingers and shook them in front of everyone: "As for what the Soviets want to do, we will know by experimenting." ”

"If the other side concentrates all the main forces on the northern front and uses them in the offensive, this is a very stupid decision. He pointed to the attacking Soviet arrows on the map, and then turned back and said, "That's what a second-rate commander does, and our opponent is obviously not such a fool, on the contrary, he is very cunning." ”

So he walked to the other side of the map, walked to the bottom of Sheberinka, stretched out his hand, and pointed to the city that had just been captured: "So I and the staff officers of the Supreme Command have studied an exam question, this test question is the city of Sheberinka, if we attack here, then the Soviets will have two basic reactions, and these two reactions can confirm what the Soviets are trying to do!"

"Sheberinka is the southern gate of Kharkiv, and if we attack here and still don't meet stubborn resistance from the Soviets, then unless the Soviets have abandoned Kharkov, there is no explanation why they abandoned it. Guderian said with a smile on his face: "That's why we've been going north." ”

The Germans attacked fiercely to the north, straight to the Soviet town of Kharkiv, this attack is something that Zhukov cannot ignore, then the Soviets must make a countermeasure here, no matter what this countermeasure is, they must make a response, and what the German commanders are waiting for is what this reaction will be.

If Zhukov wanted to hold Kharkov, and the main forces were no longer near Kharkov, then Zhukov had only one choice to do - to have his reserves immediately reinforce Kharkov and hold the city, which the Soviet Union could not lose.

However, as with the reaction of the German army, the Germans did not rush to reinforce Kyiv, and the Soviets did not intend to reinforce Kharkov. This was a bit strange to the German generals. After all, the German offensive was much faster than that of the Soviets, so could it be said that Zhukov was really not afraid that the Germans would go all the way north and cut off the rear route of the main forces of the entire Soviet Red Army?

"He's not afraid! He's too scared!" Guderian knocked on Kharkov on the map and said fiercely: "So it's a very simple exclusion topic, since the Soviets don't plan to reinforce Kharkov, and they don't want to give it to us, then there is only one possibility! That is, Kharkov hides the main force of the Soviet Union, and they plan to use the street fighting pit to defeat our offensive force!"

Seeing that all the generals seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and cast a curious gaze, he continued: "Zhukov is desperately attacking Kyiv on the northern front, one of the purposes is to make us think that all the elite troops of the Soviet Union are on the northern front, and cause some trouble for us to speculate on the Kharkov trap!"

Guderian's face was filled with a confident smile that had guessed the other party's intentions, and he made the best addition to his conclusion: "The intelligence sent by the northern defense line, the size of the armored forces of the Soviets exceeds the assessment, indicating that the Soviets have concentrated a large number of armored forces in the north, which is definitely very good news for us!"

"General, since you already know that Kharkov is a trap for the Soviets, why do you want us to attack Kharkiv?" asked Frick, frowning. His armored division rushed here for a long time, and he really didn't want to attack the city of Kharkov again, after all, the armored forces were not suitable for that kind of stalemate street fighting.

"Who said that I was going to attack Kharkov?" Guderian glanced at Frick, and then laughed out loud: "Rest for 2 hours, this is my reward for you, and then the main forces begin to move south, we cross the river, attack Izyum, and then kill Severodonetsk to the east!"

"General, there is a problem...... If we give up going north and encircling the Soviet forces near Donetsk in the south, then the pressure on General Liszt will be even greater, and the situation will be very unfavorable for us if our rear is lost. Captain Hulk opened his mouth to question, after all, Liszt's current combat environment is very bad, it can be said that it is not surprising when the entire defense line collapses, and it is indeed a very worrying problem to let it go at this time.

It can be said that Guderian's G Army to the north is the flank threat that Zhukov fears the most, and it can also be said that Zhukov is the only direction of German attack that can be regarded as a threat. If the southern forces of the German army in the north begin to turn around and move south, then Zhukov can safely and boldly attack Kyiv.

This was not what the German generals wanted to see, and if Army Group A, which pinned all its hopes on the hands of Field Marshal Rundstedt, rushed to its position ahead of time and launched an attack on Zhukov's cluster from the flank, it would obviously be a gamble and an extremely irresponsible decision.

"In fact, when we figured out that the Soviet Red Army had laid a trap for us in Kharkov, we decided to play a bigger game with Zhukov, a formidable opponent of the Soviet Union. Guderian walked to his desk, leaned on it and said: "The direction of our main attack has been determined, and it is our task to encircle Donetsk and annihilate the more than 500,000 Soviet Red Army troops in the encirclement!

When the Führer was mentioned, all the generals in the room stood up and stood upright. This is Accardo's prestige within the military, and this is a special courtesy of a head of state who is deeply rooted in the hearts of the military.

"The headquarters of the 3rd SS Panzer Division and the 1st Panzer Corps, plus the two Panzergrenadier Divisions in the army group, immediately turn around, cross the river, and attack Izyum at full speed!"

Everyone raised their arms, and the boots made a crunch as they stood upright. They replied loudly together, in unison: "Yes!"

The members of the Rennes crew, who were preparing to attack Kharkov, were replenishing ammunition to the inside of the Tiger tank at this moment, and a shell was picked up from the ground by Rennes and Alice in unison, and stuffed into Andrei's hand standing on the tank, and then Bowman and Andrei handed the shell to Bruce, who was in the tank, and the loader decided the specific placement of the shell.

"Hey, Commander, we're just going to rush in and wait for the Soviets to come out from all sides and throw Molotov cocktails and grenades at us?"

"I heard that the troops next door are already replenishing fuel, and if you count this batch of ammunition, it will definitely be a big fight. Bowman was also very concerned about the German attack on Kharkov, and as a driver, he naturally knew how pitiful the role of tanks in the city was, and he also knew what kind of fragile existence the indestructible tank he drove in the city.

"I'm betting on five Reich Golden Marks, and betting that our offensive direction is not Kharkov!" Wren smiled, and then said.

"Then I'll get five more with you! Add five! Bet that we're going to fight Kharkov by tomorrow!" Bruce said to Wren triumphantly, thinking he had won.

"I'm betting 5 gold marks, the same as Wren!" Alice laughed as she picked up a cannonball lying on the ground and helped Wren speak. Her words made Bowman laugh.

"How do you know we're not going to fight Kharkiv?" asked Bruce, looking at Alice in surprise, a little confused.

Alice shrugged her shoulders: "It's simple, Bruce, I trust Wren's judgment, that's all. ”

"Hahahaha!" Bowman and Andre laughed louder.

"How do you know that we don't attack Kharkiv, Captain Che?" asked Bruce in annoyance.

Wren pointed to Kharkiv in the distance, and said with a smile: "Don't you think it's weird that not a single shell has landed in the city yet? If we're going to attack there, at least the shelling has already begun, and it's been at least a few rounds! Also, Bruce, if we're fighting in the streets, we should have more grenades than armor-piercing shells, right? But now the two types of ammunition are basically the same, so I don't think we're going to attack Kharkiv." ”

"Oh my God! I lost 5 gold marks so easily, oh my God, I'm not going to bet on you again!" Bruce wailed, covering his face.

"You've said this no less than 100 times, Bruce!" Alice laughed, "Also, you owe me 175 gold marks!"