USSR 1941

  Chapter 111 Victory

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   "Kill!" Following Shurka's order, the soldiers rushed up with bayonets.

   At that moment, not only Shulka's platoon rushed up, but at least one battalion.

This is mainly because the entire front of the Soviet army was compressed and in an overly dense state... The counterattack of the German tanks caught the Soviet army a little off guard. The people and tanks in front retreated while the follow-up troops continued to advance. The tanks are all pressed together.

   From this, it can also be seen that the reaction speed of the Soviet army and the command ability of the officers are still far behind those of the German army. These cannot be resolved through short-term training.

Now, Shulka has opened a breakthrough, and the overly dense troops like squeezed balloons have found the exit... The nearby Soviet soldiers didn't even need orders, and naturally followed Shulka. Dash forward from the back of the row.

  For the German army, the explosive package of Shulka was like a hole in the embankment, and the enemy poured out of the gap like a flood.

  Screams, blood, and death soon filled the entire battlefield. The German offensive line and morale collapsed almost at that moment.

   The rampant tank seemed to want to rush out of the battlefield, but was quickly blown up by Soviet soldiers who caught up with grenades, incendiary bombs, etc.

The battle ended after more than ten minutes, and the German armored battalion was almost completely wiped out. Except for a few fish that slipped through the net and more than 200 people who raised their hands and surrendered, all others lay on the battlefield and turned into corpses. .

   "Comrade General! We have won!" Major General Toliczka, the commander of the 9th Army, reported in an excited tone: "We wiped out the German armored force, an armored regiment, at a very small price! We have won!"

  The Front Army Headquarters was filled with jubilation in an instant, and General Kirponos also breathed a sigh of relief.

  One army against one regiment of the enemy, more than 500 tanks against one hundred tanks of the German army... It seems that there is nothing to be happy about winning in such a comparison of forces.

However, this can be said to be the only decent victory achieved by the Soviet army since the outbreak of the war. In other directions, whether it was Leningrad in the north, Minsk in the middle, or Kyiv in the south, they were all defeated. Like a mountain falling, especially in tank warfare, the Soviet army is even more vulnerable.

   This caused many Soviet officers and soldiers to have such a mentality. They believed that the Soviet army could not stop the German advance, and that there was something wrong with the Soviet tanks and it was impossible to win on the battlefield against the German army even if the Soviet army had a numerical advantage...

   Until this time, the Ninth Army proved otherwise.

   "Very good!" Kirponos ordered: "Go ahead and proceed as planned!"

   "Yes, Comrade General!" Major General Toliczka couldn't help feeling deeply when he put down the microphone.

  At the beginning, he didn't agree with the so-called training of the "escape hero" and a series of plans he proposed.

   Of course, Major General Toliczka admits that there are subjective factors in this... As a major general and the commander of the 9th Mechanized Army, he certainly doesn't want to believe that he is inferior to a sergeant who doesn't even have a beard on his mouth.

   But that's only one reason.

  Major General Toliczka thought: If the Germans can be defeated so easily, are the millions of Soviet officers and soldiers who are retreating on the entire front all fools? Don't they know to try training or new tactics?

   But it turned out that Major General Toliczka was wrong, they did beat the Germans with this "running hero" tactic, and it was the German armored forces.

   "Go on!" Major General Tolicka was full of energy when he ordered, and this victory gave him confidence.

  On the other hand, Admiral Kleist, who was commanding the main force of the 1st Armored Group to penetrate at full speed, also received relevant information.

A three-wheeled motorcycle advanced from the rear at high speed and passed the "barrel car" that Kleist was riding on... The so-called "barrel car" refers to a military car used by the German army. In order to reduce costs and reduce processes, the design will The corners of the car are smoothed out to make it look like a square "barrel".

"Your Excellency General!" The adjutant jumped off the motorcycle passenger seat in the rain, ran to the "barrel cart", bent down and handed a folder wrapped in tarpaulin to Admiral Kleist who opened the window : "The information just received shows that the Russians have broken through the encirclement of Kyiv!"

  General Kleist looked up at the adjutant suspiciously, and asked, "Where's the 11th Armored Regiment?"

   "They're all wiped out!" replied the adjutant.

   "No, it's impossible!" Admiral Kleist looked at the adjutant in shock.

   After a pause, he suddenly realized something, and asked, "The Russian Ninth Army?"

   "Yes, the 9th Army!" The adjutant nodded: "They suddenly appeared in Kyiv and broke out. Colonel Eberhard launched a counterattack according to your order, and the result..."

   Needless to say the result, of course the whole army was wiped out.

   But this is not what Admiral Kleist is most worried about. Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs. Compared with the victory achieved by the 1st Armored Group, an armored regiment is nothing at all.

   Admiral Kleist took out the map from his pocket and unfolded it. He put on his glasses and looked at it for a while, then asked, "Where are they now?"

   "Bai Tserkovy!" The adjutant replied: "They are divided into two parts, one part is along the railway, and the other part is going south along the road!"

   Admiral Kleist looked down along the railway and highway, and then couldn't help but gasped.

   "They are going to encircle us!" Admiral Kleist ordered to his adjutant: "Transfer the information to General Fern immediately, and let him deploy troops to stop them!"

   "Yes, General!" The adjutant responded and turned and ran towards the motorcycle.

   "Barrel Cart" continued to follow the troops, but Admiral Kleist, who was still full of confidence just now, was worried at this time, and even completely lost the joy of victory and the siege of Kyiv.

  Because he suddenly realized that he was fooled, completely fooled.

   The Russians' Mechanized 9th Corps never left Kyiv, that's a lie.

  So, the Kyiv Bridge was blown up, and the 1st Armored Group successfully crossed the river in Kremenchug... These are actually what the Russians deliberately let themselves do, and their purpose was to let the 1st Armored Group cross the river.

   Transfer the 1st Armored Group back again?

  Crossing the river is easy and difficult to turn back. The Russians only need to set up a few cannons or bombard with shallow water heavy artillery ships to stop the 1st armored group.

  Therefore, the 1st Armored Group cannot go back.

  Thinking of this, Admiral Kleist felt a chill in his heart. He couldn't imagine that the enemy had guessed his thoughts.

   "The escaped hero?" Admiral Kleist spit out a name through his teeth.