Chapter 1062

Rumbling in the early morning at the edge of the farmland in Kursk, Germany's camouflaged Tiger tank started its own engine in the bright sun. These terrible tanks have been silent for a long time in Kursk. Today, because the German army has got a lot of oil supplies, they can start on a large scale.

The German G group army, which had been resting in the southeast corner of Kursk, finally turned from a strategic defensive posture to a strategic offensive. Hundreds of tanks spread out in the vast Kursk plain. Like the first Kursk battle not long ago, the second Kursk battle started again with groups of tanks.

The tracks of a tiger king tank crushed a fence in front of the road, and groups of German grenadiers carried weapons across the village from the farmland. After several weeks of careful preparation, the German attack showed great momentum from the beginning.

The artillery fire of the general attack inundated several positions guarded by the Soviet garrison, and most of the Soviet resistance appeared to be vulnerable in the face of the crushing superior forces. However, the Soviet garrison still made the most tenacious resistance they could make. The German soldiers were beaten head-on by the Soviet soldiers in some node areas. After all, the Soviet soldiers were also the best among the elite. The two sides had a crazy fight in songtsevo area. However, due to the limited reserve team, the Soviet Union began to be weak one day later, and the Soviet army was finally surrounded and annihilated.

As soon as the two cities were lost, the defense line on the flank of Kursk was on the verge of collapse. If the German army could continue to go north, the Soviet troops left behind in Kursk and other cities would be completely surrounded.

Gorschechnoyer was then occupied by German armored forces, and all 4000 local defenders were annihilated by German armored grenadiers. Although the troops here chose to die rather than surrender, and really resisted to the end, when their town defense line was divided and surrounded by the German army, they did not fight well on their own, but tried to break through, As a result, they were chased by German armored forces and surrounded in the field.

Goodrian's attack plan was directed at Higley. It seemed that the first armored army could not stop. The collapse of the Soviet defense line was faster than Zhukov had expected. The flank of the Kursk defense line, which seemed to be extremely strong, was easily torn open a huge gap.

Voronezh, a city occupied by the German army and later recaptured by the Soviet army, once again had a large number of German infantry in the suburbs. These infantry who were responsible for covering the goodrian group army came from the N group army of general traxell. Under the cover of the 9th SS armored division, they began to try to attack this city which Stalin called great and unyielding.

During the attack on St. Rudolph (that is, Stalingrad), the German heavy artillery troops put into battle in this direction. Dozens of large caliber guns easily turned the streets of Voronezh into ruins. German tanks easily broke through the Soviet defense line from both sides of the city. The Soviet garrison fought back hard and kept the city until the seventh day after the second Kursk battle.

The loss of Voronezh completely collapsed the defense system in the area south of Moscow. The German army chased and killed the Soviet infantry everywhere in the wild, and there were groups of Soviet prisoners everywhere. By June 30, the whole Voronezh state was occupied by the German army. At the beginning of July, goodrian's armored forces moved northward along the border between Voronezh and Kursk, and successively captured oremsky castornoy. Finally, the third armored division, under the cover of some armored grenadiers, captured keshensky at one go.

The Soviet defenders did not expect that their defense system would collapse so quickly, let alone that the German troops were killed from behind them. So the bridges to the west of kashinski were not destroyed, so they were handed over to the German vanguard. So the German tanks quickly passed through these rivers, and in only three hours, they took the lead of the Soviet rout and occupied chereminov.

Zhukov had already transferred his main forces to the north of Kursk. He was trying to retreat to Moscow in a covert way, but the speed of the German attack was so fast that his attempt to retreat in a covert way was completely defeated. So he ordered the main forces of the first and third front forces of the guards to go north quickly, but he led the remaining troops to buy some time for the main forces of the Soviet army.

He is not ready to die with the guards, but hopes to encourage the remaining troops to fight until the last moment by leaving at last. So when the German forward troops had begun to attack chereminov, Zhukov stayed in Kursk to preside over the military meeting and asked his troops to defend all the existing defense areas as much as possible.

Hundreds of thousands of Soviet infantry could not be easily withdrawn from the Kursk war zone, because if they started to withdraw rashly, the Soviet army would soon be wiped out in the field for the second time with the speed of German attack. Therefore, Zhukov's idea is that all the troops fight back in place and delay the German occupation of Kursk as much as possible by virtue of the fortifications.

To put it bluntly, since retreat is also collapse, and defending is also collapse, it is better to defend the existing positions to annihilate more German enemies. However, due to the loss of a large number of armored forces, the resistance of Soviet infantry was not as solid as Zhukov thought.

"Comrade Marshal!" A staff officer handed the battle report to Zhukov, who had been less and less talking recently. He just got the news that the front line of defense began to waver under the influence of the collapse of the flank. The front-line town of oboyan has been surrounded by both sides of the German army. The defenders are struggling to support and ask for reinforcements: "oboyan's defenders are calling, asking us to support the tanks and counter the enemy's armored forces."“ Where else do I have tank troops... "Zhukov opened his dry lips and said," I've sent the last anti tank troops to Higley, you know. What's more, the army has no good equipment. Most of them are 76 mm anti tank guns refitted from T-26 tanks. It's hard to deal with leopard tanks, not to mention the German Tiger and tiger king. "“ If the German tanks capture oboyan, then our frontal defense system will be difficult to protect... "Of course, the staff officer knows that the reserve team has been sent to the flank by Zhukov, but he still wants to get some reinforcements for oboyan's garrison, even some infantry. Because he knew that once oboyan was lost, the next thing that could stop the German army was medvinka, the southern gateway of Kursk. The number of Soviet tanks has been seriously insufficient. Most of the recently replenished tanks are self-propelled artillery. These scattered forces hidden in various parts of the front do not have a great impact on the balance of forces in local war zones. Although the German tanks have suffered some losses, the speed of seizing strategic targets has not been delayed. To the west of goodrian's troops is general Kluger's F group army, which has pushed its forward troops into the state of Oreal. Although the speed and momentum of these German troops are not very good due to the drag of Moscow, it really adds great pressure to Zhukov. Zhukov took a look at the arrows on the map representing the German attack route, sighed helplessly, and temporarily forgot the request for reinforcements from the garrison in the direction of oboyan. He asked an irrelevant question: "where is the position of general konev's close guard 1st army now?"“ Comrade Marshal! General konev's first front guards have now entered the southeastern state of Orel and are continuing to move northward. " An officer quickly answered Zhukov's question“ Then, has the third front army of general vasilevsky's close guard arrived at yeletz now? " Zhukov asked his second question. No one knows what he is thinking now. The two front forces were originally the core forces of Zhukov's cluster going south, but now they are in the safest position“ Good! As long as the two front armies can continue to march north safely, then our insistence here will be meaningful. " Zhukov nodded and seemed to be in a better mood. After staring at the map with his back hand, he finally said, "send a telegram to the garrison near oboyan and tell them to stick to the last soldier for the honor of the motherland! Don't step back! No surrender Then he turned his eyes to a few officers in the headquarters office, and said, "you go now, to medvinka! Strengthen the defense there, and supervise the garrison there! Make sure they hold on to the last minute! "“ Yes! Comrade Marshal Several officers stood at attention to salute and quickly carried out the Marshal's orders. They were the most elite and loyal parts of the Soviet army, so they were more resolute and reliable in carrying out the orders. Seeing them turn and leave, Zhukov finds a chair and sits down. Then he looks up at the picture of Stalin hanging on the wall and whispers, "I've tried my best to buy you time. I hope you can hold on to the moment of victory in Moscow." The sunshine outside the window is still bright, and the last few days have been very sunny. Zhukov hated such fine weather because he could see far away, where there were German planes circling in the sky-------------------- The next chapter will be even later, you can wait for tomorrow morning to read, do not affect the rest