81_81266 "What? Isn't it? How many people did you say they had taken prisoner? Workers? So many workers? You told me carefully...... Tell me carefully!" Guderian grabbed his phone, a little unconvinced by his ears, and the person on the other side of the phone who reported the results was obviously also very excited, and said that he only cared about his own happiness for a long time, which made Guderian even more inexplicable.

Finally, the excited division commander Flick on the phone was excited enough, and he explained the matter: "General, the troops led by Wren fought a very tragic blocking battle near the town of Y107, captured 400 soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, and also captured 5,000 skilled workers who were evacuated from Kyiv, as well as the production equipment of these workers. More than 100 trucks! Except for some that were blown up by the air raids, they are now all ours!"

This time, Guderian understood that it turned out that the team of the Soviet Union transfer factory was blocked by the troops led by Rennes - this Rennes is really **** luck against the sky, and any good thing can let him catch up. With such a huge victory this time, it is estimated that this guy will at least add a pair of swords to his Oak Leaf Knight's Iron Cross, and he feels envious when he thinks about it, he is not the commander of the group army.

In this way, he should have completely encircled the retreat route of the Soviet troops and dumpled hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops in Ukraine. Guderian raised his head and looked at the map, squinting his eyes and carefully analyzing what position the two forces should be in.

These Soviet units lacked tanks and other heavy equipment, because most of that heavy equipment was abandoned in Poland, and it had been almost a month since the war began, during which time the Germans destroyed and captured no less than 6,000 Soviet tanks, which was already more than the total number of German armored forces on the Eastern Front.

Of course, most of these tanks are outdated BT and T-26 tanks, and there are many faulty tanks that were voluntarily abandoned by the Soviets, and more than half of the captured ones are simply putting gold on their faces, which is really a bit of a suspicion of self-selling and boasting -- what do you have to show off when you capture the T-26 with the Tiger tank?

In this huge encirclement, including Russian troops, there were at least 400,000 regular troops, and if you count the temporarily mobilized troops, almost 600,000 Soviet Red Army troops had nowhere to escape. The counterattack plan prepared by the Soviet Union was broken by Guderian, who attacked at a rapid pace, and the supreme commander of the encircled Soviet army, Timoshenko, was still in the north and had not yet rushed to the front line of Kiev! And Kiev had been completely surrounded by the German army.

Guderian stood up, pressed his hand to the map hanging on the wall, and carefully looked at every village and town, which were now almost in the possession of the German army, which, according to the plan, would be close to accepting the German peace treaty if these armies were annihilated.

At that time, Britain, the only one who refused to accept the peace talks, had been beaten to pieces, and there was a naval contest, which would not cause resistance among the people at home, and Germany would enter a relatively stable period of development.

Who wants the real generals to die in a hundred battles? Who wants the real horse leather shroud to return home? Those generals who shouted such sad slogans are just in a dark environment with no end in sight, if they can really achieve fame and glory, and then be remembered and praised by the whole nation, who doesn't want to swallow mountains and rivers with a million breaths?

Guderian felt that he was worth it, and he felt that his life was worth it as he watched the Soviet towns conquer one after another. If it weren't for Accardo's appreciation and promotion, his theory of armored troops might still be a pitiful document on paper, and if it weren't for Accardo's promotion, he would be a poor colonel or major general at best. Maybe every day I think about how to resist the provocation and insult of the foreign ** team, where is the opportunity to command hundreds of thousands of troops and fight a decisive battle with the enemy army in the vast enemy territory?

Twenty years, twenty years to sharpen a sharp sword! Germany walked out of the shadow of defeat in 1919, and in 20 years, it swept Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, France, and the United Kingdom, stood on the Ukrainian plain and fought to the death against the Soviet Union. The Führer gave him such a general trend in the world, how could he not repay the Führer with a hundred victories?

"Long live the Führer!" an officer walked to the door and knocked on the door, interrupting Guderian's thoughts. He had come to deliver the latest information from the front.

"The next time you knock on the door and come in, shout the Führer's name, not so casually. For the first time, Guderian reminded his men: "We owe our victory to the wisdom and greatness of the Führer, and we have been able to win all battles not only by our own efforts, but also because we stand on the shoulders of the Führer, a giant." ”

When the officer heard this, he knew that his superiors were probably encouraged by this victory, so he immediately stood up and saluted: "Long live Führer Accardo, Rudolph!" He shouted in a loud voice, and Guderian was also extremely satisfied.

So the general, who had just finished feeling the greatness of the Führer, opened his mouth and asked his subordinates, who were standing upright: "Is there anything wrong?"

"General Keitel sent a telegram that his vanguard had triumphantly joined up with our 1st Panzer Division, and that Kyiv was now completely surrounded. The officer immediately replied: "The infantry coming from behind is strengthening the line on our flank, preventing the enemy from breaking through." ”

This is obviously another piece of good news, Guderian smiled and nodded: "Call the logistics department and ask them to see if they can send more supplies down, so that the soldiers can also be happy and happy for the victory!"

"Yes!" replied the officer.

"Oh! By the way, draw up a promotion plan to promote Lieutenant Wren Hart to captain, and continue to be the commander of tank No. 113 without any change in his position. Guderian continued: "Report Wren's merits this time, and apply for the Knight of the Iron Cross of the Sword and Oak Leaves for him!"

The officer was surprised for a moment, then nodded. This kind of thing is naturally something that everyone is more concerned about, and which unit comes out with this kind of superhero first is a great honor for this army.

What's more, the 502 heavy tank destroyer battalion is definitely an ace to the extreme, almost two-thirds of the tank commanders of this army have their own Iron Cross, these commanders pull out and stand in a row, young and handsome heroes, it is estimated that taking a group photo is definitely more than the group photo of the Italian football team to make the girls scream crazy.

Of course, screaming crazy is one thing, and going one step further is not. After all, you can't imagine how thick an Italian star's thighs really are, and you can't imagine how strong the smell of engine oil is on the German panzers. However, this did not affect their handsome time after they took black and white photos.

Guderian's staff officers were then instructed to call the railway transport department, hoping to prepare trains to transport 5,000 Ukrainian skilled workers and corresponding technical equipment to Warsaw, Poland. It is also necessary to find ways to free up space for the placement of these real "strategic resources".

Under the command of Guderian and Keitel, the German soldiers of Army G and Army E on the front line quickly completed the task of reinforcing the encirclement, and the hope of the Soviet troops breaking through became more and more slim.

What Timoshenko, who had wanted to fight Guderian and Keitel, has now been reduced to the work of logistics officers such as gathering the rout, improving the defensive line, and asking for men and guns from Khrushchev and Marshal Voroshilov. He could only watch as the 600,000 troops in the encirclement of Kyiv had no way to enter the sky.

What is even more tragic is that he also prays that the Germans will not take the opportunity to attack Moscow, because his troops are no longer enough to complete the task of stopping the Germans, his troops are too small, and his defense line is too long.

At the same time, in Moscow, the capital of the USSR, Stalin was annoyed by the fall of the Kiev industrial zone. The cooperation with Germany gave Soviet industry a chance to take off, but it also laid the groundwork for the problems of today.

A large number of industrial areas were built close to Europe, which were now either occupied or surrounded by rapidly advancing German troops, and the industrial equipment that the Soviets had spent a lot of money on was now returned to its original owners.

A large part of the railways and highways in the Soviet Union near Poland were built with German aid, and the German design standards were also implemented, using a unified European railway width and the number of sleepers, which allowed German trains to drive straight into and transport strategic materials urgently needed by the German army unimpeded.

These problems now need to be addressed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin – including how to restore the industrial system to its near collapse, to bring the victorious German army to a halt, to stabilize the border defenses, and to stabilize his own crumbling dominance in Moscow.

It seems that a hasty attack on Germany and a hasty rejection of peace talks is indeed an unwise decision. Stalin narrowed his eyes and sighed, then called his secretary: "Go and get the German envoy, I want to have lunch with him!

"Yes!" Stalin's secretary nodded hurriedly, and then respectfully withdrew. Now that the war at the front was unfavorable, he was afraid that Stalin would really take his anger out on himself