"What do you see? There are no weak people under the Führer! He Klug usually pretends to be a good old man, but you really think he is a sick cat? That's a tiger! A tiger that can eat people anytime and anywhere!" Lundstedt sat on his rocking car and said to his henchmen beside him: "Look at it, this is the fate of underestimating the talents under the Führer's command!"

With that, he stuffed a message he had just gotten into the palm of his deputy's palm. The deputy opened the telegram and saw the short text on it, and he read it softly, with a look of shock: "Klug's Army Group F broke through one of the Soviets' lines and advanced 20 kilometers......"

He raised his head and looked at his commander: "Marshal, this time, Zhukov's determination to fight must be shaken." It's not good, if we kill all the way through like this, we won't pick it up at all. ”

"There is no way, in order to wait for the new 100 King Tiger tanks to equip my army group, we waited at the German border for 1 day, this is the order of the Führer, after all, the situation at that time has not deteriorated to this point. Rundstedt sighed and said: "Zhukov and Rokossovsky, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Soviet offensive forces, are still somewhat capable after all, and we still underestimate our opponents a little after all!"

"Didn't they underestimate Klug, too!" the deputy laughed, remembering that many of Germany's own generals also underestimated Klug, so he restrained his smile again.

"Yes, that general who usually looks harmless to humans and animals is indeed easy to be despised, but he has proven his worth!" Rundstedt narrowed his eyes and said: "Facts have also proved that there are no mediocre talents under the command of the Führer!"

He paused, and then raised the corners of his mouth: "Klug, Klug, you are a blockbuster, but in the end, I am better, after all, as the marshal of the empire, I am the strongest general under the Führer!"

The cars were shaking, and on both sides of the road, the infantry meandered for more than five kilometers. On the farther road, trucks and tanks converged into a torrent of steel, and the entire Army Group A could be said to be a new main army, and the scale of the armored forces was even close to the level of Army Group G, which could be called a huge modern cluster.

"The meteorological department called, saying that after a short period of 30 hours of sunny weather, there will be a period of continuous snowfall, and although it is possible to take off aircraft for reconnaissance, it is not recommended to use the air force on a large scale. The deputy tucked the telegram that had just been sent when he stopped for a break in his bag, and then said: "The telegram from the General Staff of the Army says that you can slow down a little, Marshal. ”

Rundstedt waved his hand and rejected the deputy's suggestion: "The speed of the march will remain the same as the original plan, and the speed of the armored troops will be slightly faster! Cover the flanks of the armored troops with panzergrenadiers! Even if we don't show up on the battlefield, we have to put enough pressure on the Soviets, and I want to see how Zhukov's courage is and how he chooses!"

"What else can I choose! We can only retreat!" On the other side of the battlefield, Zhukov in the temporary command headquarters on the outskirts of Minsk angrily tapped the map and roared at a group of operational staff officers: "Can anyone tell me why the German army has gone from a disadvantage to an advantage in just one day!"

In fact, Zhukov was not most worried about the 18,000 German paratroopers who were in front of Rokossovsky's offensive cluster. If calculated according to the speed of the attack of the original 2nd Guards Front, after eating these German paratroopers, the Soviets still have enough time to fight for Kiev, which is close at hand.

But when he gritted his teeth and let the troops attack Marin, the name of a city called Damanhur always lingered in his heart. According to the intelligence sent by the American allies, in that place of Damanhur, the fierce general Patton and most of the 8th Army were killed. And it was precisely the inconspicuous 20,000 German paratroopers who made the 100,000 Anglo-American troops suffer.

Of course, another piece of news had to make Zhukov jealous, and Klug, who was originally in the other direction of the north, suddenly turned into a ferocious descending tiger, forcing back the 1st Guards Front under the command of the famous Soviet general Konev in one go, and putting unprecedented pressure on the frontal defense line of the Soviet Union.

Zhukov had to reassess the danger of his attack on Kyiv, and eventually he felt that even if he captured Kyiv, it would not be possible to carry out the final plan of encircling the German army in the south. The offensive cluster had no way to stop the German counterattack, and the subsequent hundreds of thousands of Soviet infantry could simply not be an opponent for the two German armies.

"Romania's 1st Army has entered Ukraine, and they are temporarily placed under the command of the German General Staff, and intelligence shows that an Italian army group is also entering Romania, and their ultimate target is also the Ukrainian region. A Soviet staff officer was talking about the changes and developments in the war situation as if he were mourning, and that the German army had too many reserves, which was not what the Soviets wanted to see.

The point is that Zhukov was not afraid of the fragile Romanian troops, and the distant Italians, but more worried about Army Group A, which was gradually approaching the Soviet-German front, and once this army group was fully deployed on the front, the pressure on Konev's 1st Guards Front would be greater, and whether it could hold the line of defense was only known to Comrade Lenin in the sky.

If Zhukov insisted on attacking Kyiv, it was likely that Army Group A would break the Soviet defense line and then encircle the entire Rokossovsky offensive group, and the Soviet Union would lose all its main forces. This was not what Stalin wanted, as the Soviet Union would be quickly defeated and Stalin's personal rule in the Soviet Union would be in jeopardy.

"Order Rokossovsky, stop advancing at once! Retreat back!" for so many reasons that Zhukov gave this order to retreat, and God knows how many Soviet soldiers he betrayed at once with this order. In Donetsk, hundreds of thousands of people were being surrounded by Guderian, while on the frontal battlefield, the Soviet Red Army abandoned the offensive and moved back and defensively.

This is equivalent to the announcement of Hongguoguo, admitting defeat on the Southern Front, and completing a gamble that lost part of his family at the cost of the lives of hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers. Although it is not bankrupt, it is absolutely nerve-wracking. Apparently Zhukov felt humiliated by this decision, his face swelled red, and he looked ashamed.

In order to save the Soviet Red Army in the south, Zhukov had to ask Timoshenko, who was in charge of the southern front, to organize a counterattack to the south, in an attempt to recapture the southern town of Sheberingka and threaten Guderian's flank defenses. However, the infantry of the Soviet Red Army moving south happened to collide with Army Group D under the command of Moder, which was following Guderian's Army Group G, so the plan to take and recapture Sheberinka was lost, and the Soviet Red Army near Donetsk was left on their own.

Modell, the general of the Third Reich with his defensive level, immediately served as a cover for Guderian's flank. His troops were firmly on Shebelinka, so that Timoshenko had no desire to try.

At the same moment, on the Soviet-German front near Marin, a Soviet officer handed a telegram from Minsk to his commander.

"Retreat!" Rokossovsky deserves to be a world-famous general, after receiving Zhukov's telegram, he did not even hesitate, and directly issued the order to retreat, from the announcement of the cessation of the offensive, until the retreat of the camp, the Soviet Red Army did not even delay for 2 hours. Countless soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, staggering along the road they had just come from, without any expression on their faces. They defeated their opponents and won battle after battle, but unfortunately in the end they still had to retreat, retreating from their own territory.

A day of bombing had cost the Soviet soldiers a lot of their equipment, but now the sky continued to fall with tiny snowflakes. The Luftwaffe planes that had been with them had finally disappeared, making the retreat a little easier.

When the Soviets stopped advancing in front of the German paratroopers' defensive line, cheers erupted from the German paratrooper positions on the outskirts of Marin! A paratrooper division of 11,000 people frightened off the 200,000 elite troops commanded by the famous Soviet general Rokossovsky.

"Damanhur!" all the paratroopers raised their guns and let out an earth-shattering shout. This is the pride they deserve, and it is also the pride they deserve as the fastest and hardest fist of the Empire. They fought to the death in Damanhur, where they made a name for themselves as German paratroopers, and now they are a terrible army that all commanders have to think about!

The news that 20,000 German paratroopers scared off more than 400,000 Soviet soldiers outside Kiev has become a miracle in the military history of the world, although this miracle was not accomplished by paratroopers alone, but this honor still belongs to the paratroopers of the Third Reich, to every soldier who jumped out of the hatch and shouted the word Damanhur.

The entire battle on the Eastern Front was like a feast of generals, so that the whole world could not help but applaud the front-line commanders of the two countries.

Guderian's onslaught and sudden turn on the German southern front, Moder's defensive follow-up as steady as Mount Tai, Liszt's fierce tenacity in the north, and Kluger's blockbuster ......

Similarly, the performance of the Soviet generals was remarkable, Zhukov attacked with vigor and resoluteness, and did not hesitate to retreat......

Even Accardo has to admit that this is an era of bright stars, which is really correct and real, and the strong are like forests.