1008 Germany's Eastern Front

In the division headquarters of the 170th Division, a senior Soviet officer stood there with his hands behind his back and no expression on his cold face, as if everything in front of him had nothing to do with him. Around him, some Soviet officers also stood there, bowing their heads and turning a deaf ear to what happened in front of them.

Right in front of their eyes, several German soldiers carrying Mauser 98K rifles were carrying boxes of intelligence records, as well as the division’s list of soldiers and other documents. In short, there were so many documents, and there were still no useful ones to process and distinguish. The things used are also a huge project.

These things involve a lot of confidential information, such as the exhaustion of Soviet soldiers, the mobilization of soldiers, the gap between the newly formed division-level troops and the old army... as long as you analyze it carefully, you can get a lot of conclusions, and support the Soviet frontline troops from the side Under the same organizational system, the real situation of the decline in combat effectiveness.

"Colonel Polovsky, it is a very wise choice for you to stand decisively on the side of the winner under such circumstances." A German officer in charge of receiving here held his chin high, proudly To Colonel Porowski: "You will be a friend of the German people."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand to signal the soldiers who were carrying the boxes to load their cars quickly, and then looked at the map hanging in the headquarters: "I heard that you have seen our great head of state, you are really luckier than me Too much, at least I didn't have such good luck to know the Führer when he was so young."

Obviously, what the German military officers said was the truth, because the officers who walked along with the Führer in their prime have now become world-famous German military leaders, from Rommel Raeder to Marshal, Guderian, Catherine, Dick, Dönitz and others are all powerful generals commanding the army group.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, the generals of these Führer's factions are more or less lucky. They think that if they can also get to know Akado, the head of state, then they may be more prosperous now.

Thinking of this, the German military officer withdrew his arrogance and a little more envy and admiration: "You must have been moved by the greatness of the head of state, right? Or was it the nail that the head of state planted in the Soviet Union many years ago? The greatness The head of state really has no plans."

"This has nothing to do with the head of state I know you!" Polovsky felt the need to explain, lest the German military officer be so verbose: "I just don't want to work with those executioners anymore , and I don’t want to see my soldiers die here in vain.”

The troops of the two divisions surrendered one after another, weakening the entire Soviet defense line at once, and there was a gap in the defense line that was finally built, so the battle inevitably broke out again. The gunshots in the distance began to become dense, and the gunfire began to join in. The ground trembled again in the bombardment and explosion, and a new round of slaughter continued.

Soldiers in the rear of the Soviet army who haven't figured out what happened,

Suddenly, it was violently bombarded by German artillery. The range of these 105mm howitzers could not reach the core position, but now they have also joined the bombardment camp.

The shells fell one after another on the edge of the town near Govorov's headquarters, and the sound of the collapse of the building sounded like a death knell, disturbing all the Soviet officers in the headquarters. The German shelling lasted 20 minutes before stopping intermittently.

This is not to say that the Soviet army stopped the advance of the German army. On the contrary, the advance of the German armored forces has just begun: more than 70 tanks were deployed near the attacking road, and the roaring engines covered the infantry following behind, and they were easily torn apart. The fragile line of defense behind the core position of the Leningrad infantry group.

The tracks crushed the helmets of the Red Army and passed one after another 122mm howitzers that were abandoned on the ground. The nearby field hospital and several hidden positions for storing materials were all occupied by the German army. Most of the things that were finally raised were too late to be destroyed or taken away, so they had to be thrown intact to the rushing German armored troops.

For the current Soviet army, gauze tents and even door panels are precious materials, but some of these tatters were lost, which made everyone extremely frustrated. After all, repeated failures tore the souls of the living, and the corpses left by the dead also destroyed the fragile will to resist of the remaining people.

"The German army has advanced a distance of more than 7 kilometers here and here. The 170th and 77th divisions surrendered without a fight. We have reported it to Moscow. The answer given by General Vatutin over there is that the headquarters will never Remove the designations of these two units..." In the messy headquarters, General Govorov's adjutant softly explained the situation on the front line to his old comrades.

The small town they were in, the selected town as the headquarters room, was less than 5 kilometers away from the front line. Govorov did not choose to leave and moved to a relatively safe position. The entire town is now within the firing range of the German artillery, which is extremely detrimental to the security of the command department of the entire cluster. But Govorov has no plans to relocate, or he is praying, praying that he will be killed by the German army, so there will be less troublesome things.

"Send a telegram to the army commanders in the pocket on the other side and the commander of the front army, asking them to transfer troops to our side immediately." Govorov also wanted to hit the troops for the final resistance, although no one I know what is going on in his mind, but he is indeed giving the combat order to continue to resist.

"General, those armies have been dragged down by Army Group E. They can't move, and they can't even withdraw some troops to retreat." The adjutant explained helplessly: "The artillery of Army Group E of the German army is very powerful. Too many opportunities."

He really wanted to tell Govorov: We lost those 122mm howitzers! Those large-caliber artillery happened to be what we couldn't take away and discarded to the Germans! Now that the deadly weapons are in the hands of the Germans, what else can I do but surrender?

Govorov didn't seem to hear what his adjutant said, so he continued in a low voice: "Only by concentrating the forces over there can we have a chance to break out towards Moscow! Hurry up and give my order to let the elite over there Gather to us! I'm going to break out in the direction of Moscow! I'm going to make one last attempt!"

Under the enemy's persecution and attack, forcibly withdrawing troops from the front line to retreat? Doesn't this clearly mean that the encirclement will completely collapse? Without the containment and delay over there, even if a part of the elite is concentrated, where can they break through? If they could break through several armored divisions of the frontal German army, they would not be surrounded here.

"Comrade General! Please reconsider your judgment!" The adjutant stared at General Govorov and asked word by word: "If you do this, one hundred thousand people will die here! Not ten, not one hundred and one thousand, but one hundred thousand!"

"Ivan... How long has it been since I called you that? If I don't do this, will there be other better options?" Govorov smiled wryly, then stood up, walked around the desk, walked to He asked his adjutant: "I have already lost this battle, and I cannot surrender, so I have no choice but to continue fighting..."

After he said this, he suddenly laughed, as if he was laughing at others, and he seemed to be laughing at himself: "Do you know why I insist on not leaving here? I am waiting for the Germans to bombard here...the people who surrendered It was impossible not to tell the Germans the address of this command, and I was waiting for them to finish me off, so that everyone would be relieved."

Hearing this sentence, the adjutant also smiled wryly: "General, I have been by your side for many years, don't I know what you are thinking? The reason why I didn't leave is because I want to be with you , have you finished this last time? We cannot live to see the victory of our motherland, so let us sacrifice our lives for it!"

"Boom!" A shell landed in the yard outside the window, and a huge shock wave swept across the entire headquarters. The bright glass windows were shattered into pieces, and there were sounds of things collapsing everywhere, as well as violent shaking due to the explosion.

Someone in the distance shouted "Beware of shelling!", but the people here couldn't hear it anymore. The explosion made people's eardrums ring, and they couldn't hear any other sounds at all. Immediately after the second shell fell, it happened to land on the church building where Govorov was located. After a loud bang, the building completely collapsed.

When the nearby soldiers found Govorov from the ruins, the general had been dead for a long time. He, his adjutant and many senior commanders were killed in his headquarters at the same time, becoming the Soviet army so far. Fang was the top general who was killed by German artillery.

Two hours later, representatives of the Soviet army in the encirclement met Marshal Rundstedt, the highest-ranking German on the Eastern Front, and expressed their willingness to cease fighting and surrender. They demanded a decent surrender ceremony and the protection of the soldiers' personal safety. The German army agreed to part of the request and agreed to send these prisoners to concentration camps with better conditions for hard labor.

On the morning of June 2, these Soviet troops trapped in the wild positions put down their weapons and surrendered to the German army. The battle of Tver ended here, and the north of Moscow was fully occupied by the German army at this moment.

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