"We have a stronger faith than our enemies, and this allows us to endure more heavy losses than our enemies. Rokossovsky stood in front of a blood-stained map of Germany with his hands behind his back and said this in a calm tone. His troops had captured the heavily defended German position more than half an hour earlier, but had paid a heavy price of 20,000 soldiers.

The two sides fought back and forth in nearby positions, and finally the Soviet Red Army won its biggest victory since the beginning of the war, capturing almost 3,000 German soldiers and capturing four 150 mm guns, four 105 mm cannons, and two 75 mm anti-tank guns.

The military band set up its equipment on the position where the smoke had not yet dissipated, and then played and sang to the exhausted soldiers below, but still hurrying forward. If Accardo comes here, he will hear a familiar melody, a very familiar song.

"Whenever the pear blossoms bloom all over the world, the river floats with a soft light veil, and Katyusha stands on the handsome bank, singing like a bright spring light. "A group of Soviet female college students stood on the top of the trenches, standing in a neat line, and sang this freshly written love song to the Soviet Red Army who were running farther away. On New Year's Day, January 1, 1939, the song was first sung among Soviet troops, and it immediately became one of the most popular songs of the Soviet Red Army.

Rokossovsky was very satisfied with the current speed of his Guards' attack, and the Soviet meteorological department expected bad weather to last for about 10 days, which was undoubtedly a very favorable condition for the Soviet Red Army, which was about to attack Kiev, after all, their air force was really no match for the Luftwaffe.

"We've lived on this land for thousands of years, and that's where our advantage lies! We know the cold, we know the snow, and when I stand here and feel the cold wind in my neck, I know that this terrible snowfall will last at least a few more days. He confidently said to his assistant: "And our opponents obviously underestimate the bad weather conditions here in the Soviet Union." ”

Even if they were a little more prepared, the Germans could only barely manage to make the onset of winter not affect their combat operations, while the Soviets could take advantage of this bad weather, and they knew how to use these strange climates, which was an extension of the geographical conditions, and this was the terrible thing about the domestic advantage.

Despite the advantage, Korosovsky's heart was still shocked by the tenacity and strength of the Germans, and he carefully prepared the attack that he thought would tear through the German defense, but now it only broke through the German defense, and the attack was far more difficult than his plan, and even he still couldn't figure out how many such difficult opponents the Germans had.

He knocked out a German infantry division at the cost of two divisions, and although he achieved the greatest victory since the beginning of the war, he knew that this exchange was not enough to preach with a big victory, and that the Soviet Red Army had to commit more troops and make greater sacrifices to completely tear apart the German lines on the opposite side.

Rokossovsky walked out of this underground bunker, which was originally the headquarters of the German front, and felt the feeling of a cold wind blowing on his face: "Liszt...... This German general is really a difficult opponent, and he has not abandoned his position until now, what are you waiting for? Waiting for that Guderian in the distance? or waiting for that Klug, who has no skills?"

The news from the other direction was not very reassuring, Guderian's forces had captured large swathes of Soviet territory like a race, and the most powerful German Panzer Army, Army G, had cut between Kharkov and Donetsk, and now Timoshenko, who was in charge there, could not yet tell whether the Germans were going north or south.

Kluger's army group had been doing little on Liszt's flank, and it was hard to recall that there was a general who did nothing there. This man, who became a front-line general of the empire by obeying Accardo, still looks like a gentle old man, and where he can even breathe a sigh of relief for the Soviet Red Army opposite, he is simply an ambassador of peace in wartime.

"Send a telegram to General Zhukov assuring him that my troops will attack Kalinkovich by noon tomorrow. As he walked through the trenches that had been cleared out but were still covered with blood, he ordered his lieutenant who was following behind him: "Order the whole army to speed up the attack! The regimental commander and above must personally go into battle when charging! If the division commander and the army commander fail to capture the target on time, there is no need to interrogate them, and the military law will be enforced immediately!"

At this moment, Liszt on the opposite side was looking at the operational map in front of him with a sad face, which showed that he had already had two divisions of troops defeated by the Soviet Red Army, and another one division had been completely annihilated, and he had just sent a telegram to the General Staff an hour earlier about the complete destruction of this division.

Army Group E is gradually moving towards destruction, in Liszt's jurisdiction, he has even organized the garrison troops in the rear into combat units, these new recruits who only have rifles, have been integrated into the front line to replenish several divisions with heavy losses, but the entire Army Group E is still unable to make ends meet, and the serious attrition has reached an outrageous point.

Each division of this group army lost more than 5 percent, and some even as high as 20 percent, two divisions lost more than half, and one was completely wiped out. And that's not counting the ammunition and supplies consumed at the front, the losses were already so great that the Germans had never seen before.

"Ring, ring, ring!" The phone rang suddenly, Liszt grabbed the phone, and Accardo's voice came from inside: "Good afternoon, General Liszt, I'm Accardo? ”

"Whoa!" said Liszt, who quickly stood upright, and replied respectfully, "Long live Rudolf, the great Führer, Arcardo, my Führer, and what orders do you have that I need to serve?"

"It's easy! I've just heard the report of Army Group E's losses, and I feel compelled to call you personally, and I wonder if you can be sure of holding your positions for 10 days?" Accardo's voice came from the headset, and it was clear that he was also concerned about how far the situation in the north of Kyiv would deteriorate.

"My Führer! I can guarantee that my troops will hold out for another 10 days, and even 11 days if necessary, but if the nearby reinforcements do not move forward now, will they be able to arrive on time to reinforce the already defeated Army Group E in such bad weather. Liszt said worriedly: "When the time comes, I am afraid that you will lose the entire E Army, and even Kiev behind the E Army." ”

Accardo was silent for a while, and when Liszt thought that the phone was dropped, he slowly spoke: "I have a way to reinforce you with 20,000 men in 10 days, and they are well-trained elites, but this force will only appear in Kyiv, not anywhere else." You just have to continue to follow the plan and retreat back little by little. ”

"Try to preserve your strength as much as possible, and then wait for the moment when victory comes, my Excellency General! Victory will definitely belong to the Third Reich!" Accardo hung up the phone after saying this.

"I wonder if if I can't block my opponent's attack, then the next backhand we prepare is useless...... At such times, the Führer personally called me and told me to hold out in this direction for 10 days. Putting down the phone in his hand, Liszt once again took his eyes off the already chaotic maps, and then muttered to himself: "It's just that I'm here to hold on, and there is no follow-up support preparation, what's the use?"

Accardo called Liszt and told him to hold out for 10 days, which Liszt was somewhat sure, but he had not yet received a specific number of troops to reinforce him, and there was no news of the imminent movement of several army groups, which made him very worried in his heart, he was worried that his army group would suffer unbearable losses, and he was also worried that his rout would make the situation in the entire southern region out of control.

"Let the five divisions in rotation be on the front line! Don't reserve ammunition reserves! Give me a hard blow on the last line of defense! Then abandon Kalinkovich and retreat to Ofluch!" called his chief of staff and some nearby army commanders, and Liszt gave the order according to Accardo's request, and he was ready to move his line of defense between Korosjian, Marin, and Ivankov, so that Army Group E could have at least two more days of rest and recuperation, and Liszt could calmly arrange his line in these cities.

"Let the reinforcements watch the prisoners build new defenses!I'll give you a day, and we must build enough defenses in these places to hold out for more than three days!" Liszt said to his men, pointing to the cities.

A massive retreat began, and the Germans abandoned their 2-day line and retreated to Kalinkovich, where their rearguard fought a brutal encounter with 3 divisions of the Soviet Red Army, which had caught up with them, and at dawn ceded the important city of Kalinkovich.

The Soviet Red Army was singing all the way on the northern front, as if Kiev was already under their wing, and Rokossovsky gave the order to continue the attack, ignoring the entire 200 T-34 and KV-1 tanks of various models that broke down on the road and were abandoned. The Soviet Red Army, having captured Kalinkovich, continued southward and rushed towards their new target, Ofruch.