Four Hundred and Sixty Five Close

"Retreat is not allowed! The great Soviet Red Army soldiers will not take a step back just because the enemy is strong! The battle must be carried on to the last moment, those capitalist softies will not fight at all! Only the Soviet Red Army with firm beliefs can win the final victory !” Just after Khrushchev sent the telegram asking for instructions to Moscow, Stalin’s reply telegram came back quickly.

With this telegram, Khrushchev knew that the leader Stalin, who was far away in the sky, was suffering from another struggle disease. He knew nothing about war, and firmly believed that faith could solve all problems. However, Khrushchev had seen the Soviet-Polish war, and seen the tragic appearance of those Soviet Red Army soldiers with firm beliefs when they were shot through their chests.

Since Stalin did not allow the retreat, no one dared to suggest the retreat easily. The great purge movement around Moscow was still going on, and those young officers shot the older martyrs to sit in this seat today. Who dares to rebel against Stalin at this time?

What's more, Stalin made such a statement, at least the blame must not be his own. There are also commanders of various military regions, as well as Khrushchev and Voroshilov, who are defeated. In any case, you can’t blame yourself, right?

Of course, it is indeed a bit sad to let the troops die so unconscionably, but those troops... are all Belarusians and Ukrainians. Isn't this kind of war of attrition prepared to consume the strength of these regions? If you think about it this way, you don't need to think about it, as long as you obey the order, it's right.

After some weighing, everyone chose to keep their mouths shut. So when morning came, the retreat order that the commanders of the Soviet frontline troops had been waiting for did not come. What was waiting was an idiot's instruction to continue attacking.

However, the Soviet army that fought until the early hours of the morning had no energy to attack again. Their poor logistical supplies were no different from a sieve. Most of the ammunition carried by the army had run out, and the fuel in the tanks of the armored troops had also bottomed out.

To put it bluntly, what they were waiting for was not an order to retreat, but the supplies that came with the order to retreat. However, the evacuation order they were waiting for did not come, and the life-saving supplies they were waiting for did not come.

"Isn't this killing us? We fought desperately in front, and finally sold us to the Germans like this?" A Belarusian officer cried in front of his chief: "General, the German troops on our two wings are shelling , At this time, even if we want to run, we can't run away, what should we do?"

"Yes! General! Those Russian bastards are using us as cannon fodder!" Another officer echoed: "Now our artillery ammunition is insufficient, and the sky is full of German planes. We are not allowed to retreat now. They are giving orders for the purpose of consuming us!"

"Those bastards only care about the few troops with the title of Guards,

Who cares about our lives? "I saw someone echoing me. The officer who spoke first was even more excited: "Those parasites! Take our food! Let us Ukraine fight for them hungry! In the end, we will be sent to death! "

"Enough!" The leading general slapped the table and shouted loudly: "If those bastards hadn't threatened us with our wives and sons, we would have turned against each other long ago! What is this called? The logistical supplies are not given to us now. Send it here, and tell us to hold the position?"

"General! What do you say? We will listen to you!" Seeing that their general had spoken, the officers quickly tried to persuade them, "As long as we surrender, the lives of our family members will be lost! Those bastards. You can do anything!"

In recent years, the Soviet Union has devastated Ukraine completely. As an agriculturally dominant area, Ukraine almost provided food for the entire Soviet Union. As a result, the communist movement of the Soviet Union required a leap forward in industrial development, which seriously oppressed local agricultural production. This eventually aroused hostility among Ukrainians.

Stalin and Khrushchev, when they heard these names, they knew what methods they would come up with to suppress the dissatisfaction and hostility of the Ukrainians. As a result, countless Ukrainians were seized by the army and concentration camps, either sent to Siberia, or escorted to the western front for use as cannon fodder. As a result, the ethnic issues in Ukraine became more and more acute.

Therefore, the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army on the front line are not so much willing to fight a war for the Soviet Union as they are the refugees and rebels who were coerced. Although the combat effectiveness of these troops is still fierce, once they have a crooked mind, they will degenerate more quickly and thoroughly.

"We are alive, and they will be more scruples in doing things. If we die now, our land will not be given to those bastards for nothing? Then we will still have nothing!" The general sighed and said: "You all go back! Follow my orders, if the Germans attack, don't resist! Surrender! Surrender is better than anything!"

He looked at his confidants, and then continued with a sullen face: "Those commissioners who are arranged in our army, as well as members of the Communist Party, must be eradicated as soon as possible! Do this matter immediately! Be more concealed and do it secretly!"

"Yes!" Several officers knew the pros and cons of it, and immediately answered at attention.

Similar to what the Ukrainian general thought, several Russian-dominated troops were actually retreating, because Khrushchev would not dare to make fun of the Soviet Union's hometown no matter what. To put it bluntly, these troops are the flesh and blood of the Soviet Union near Moscow. Even if Stalin would not be dissatisfied with doing this, there are always some accidents, such as the 1st Guards Tank Army and the 1st Guards Tank Army trapped in the German encirclement. 3 Tank Army.

Due to fuel problems, these two forces have not been able to retreat too much. Khrushchev is hurrying to transport the fuel of those secondary forces to these two forces to ensure that the main force of the two main forces can Return to a relatively safe area. However, his actions caused dissatisfaction among other troops, especially the Ukrainian and Belarusian troops, which can be described as full of complaints.

However, just as the various Soviet troops were struggling, the German counterattack arrived at 7:15 in the morning.

A Soviet Red Army soldier was lying in a hastily arranged trench. Before he had time to rest his body, which was more hungry because of digging, he felt the ground trembling slightly. He widened his eyes and stuck his head out of the foxhole he had dug, and saw German tanks next to each other, appearing at the end of the wheat field that had been destroyed by shells in the distance.

He was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of his foxhole, and ran backwards. There were only 5 bullets in his pocket, not to mention using them to deal with tanks, and he even stopped the opponent's infantry. no. After running for more than ten meters, he jumped into another foxhole. Looking at the young comrades in the army who were so frightened that they peed their pants, he realized that the hidden Soviet machine gun position on the flank of his position had not opened fire.

When the Soviet Red Army looked over curiously, he found a pair of white underwear hanging there, and several pairs of hands raised in the sky. So the Ukrainian soldier, who was just about to escape, dropped his gun without thinking about it, and raised his hands expressionlessly.

The Soviet troops on both sides of the encirclement collapsed, and countless encirclement circles gave up resistance without even waiting for the German army to completely close the encirclement. At this time, General Liszt realized that the so-called "liberation" by the head of state was not just a joke.

Looking at these hungry Ukrainians and Belarusians who were forced to go to the battlefield, Liszt felt that it was too insulting to describe them as soldiers. These people are farmers and poor beggars. Most of those crazy attacks were completed by a few main Russian troops. The task was not completed either.

It only took a whole morning for more than a dozen pockets to be tightly closed by the pincer attack from the German flanks. These Soviet troops, who had no supplies and no ammunition, all became old turtles that the Germans wanted to catch. The situation in these plans did not make General List feel that there was anything wrong at all. The only thing that puzzled him was that these besieged Soviet troops raised their hands and surrendered without thinking.

Can you imagine the spectacular scene of 400,000 troops surrendering? Marshal Brauchitsch, who is now on the front line personally directing the eastern campaign, feels such a brilliant victory. The Soviet army surrendered in an organized way, and the Ukrainian troops who left their weapons and waited for him to deal with had a full 200,000 troops.

After the German army started to fight back, in fact, the Soviet troops got into chaos first. They had revenge and complaints. These ethnic minorities, who were bullied to the extreme by the arrogant Russians on weekdays, began to attack the Russians in their army. bloody revenge. When the Germans really came to fight, these Soviet minorities were waiting for the German army to receive them with blood.

However, everyone knows that although the battles in most of the encirclement circles have ended quickly, the really difficult battle has just begun today, because Liszt received a report that in a huge encirclement circle in his theater, the Soviet troops are desperately fighting Break through, and this force is the Soviet elite in the true sense.

That's right, this force is the armored torrent composed of the 1st Tank Army of the Soviet Guards and the 3rd Tank Army. This is what the Soviet Union can do, the first main force on the front line. (To be continued.