Chapter 1063: Zhukov's persistence

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The rumbling sound rang on the farmland in the Kursk region in the early morning, and the German tiger camouflage tank in camouflage started its engine in the bright sunshine. These terrible tanks have been quiet in Kursk for a long time. Today, because the Germans have received a lot of fuel supplies, they can be started 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 were spread out in the vast Kursk Plain area. Like the first Kursk battle not long ago, the second Kursk battle was once again propelled by platoons of tanks. .
The track of a Tiger King tank crushed a fence in front of it, and droves of German grenadiers crossed the village from the farmland with their weapons on their backs. After several weeks of careful preparations, the German offensive showed strong momentum from the beginning.
The artillery fire of the general attack overwhelmed several positions guarded by Soviet defenders. Most of the Soviet rebellion was vulnerable to crushing superior forces. However, the Soviet defenders still fought the most tenacious resistance they could fight. German soldiers were hit by Soviet soldiers in some node areas. After all, Soviet soldiers are also elite among the elite. However, because the reserve team was limited and the Soviet Union began to be weak after a day, the Soviet army was eventually surrounded and annihilated.
Yastrebovka and Tim were soon captured by the Germans. As soon as these two cities were lost, the defense line on the Kursk flank was on the verge of collapse. If the Germans could continue to go north, they would stay in cities such as Kursk. The Soviet army will eventually be completely surrounded.
Gorsche Chinoye was subsequently occupied by the German armored forces, and the local 4000 defenders were all annihilated by the German armored grenadiers. Although the troops here chose not to die, and they really resisted to the end, but when their town After the defense line was divided and surrounded by the Germans, they did not fight each other well, but tried to break through, and were surrounded by the German armored forces in the wild.
Guderian ’s offensive plan pointed directly at Higre, the footsteps of the 1st Panzer Army seemed to be unstoppable, the collapse of the Soviet defense line was faster than Zhukov predicted, and the flanks of the seemingly strong Kursk defense line were easily taken. Opened a huge gap.
Voronezh, the city occupied by the Germans and later recaptured by the Soviets, once again saw a large number of German infantry in the suburbs. These infantry responsible for the cover of the Guderian G Group Army came from the N group army of General Kühller, in the SS Under the cover of the 9th Armored Division, they began to attack this city that Stalin called great and unyielding.
When attacking St. Rudolph (that is, Stalingrad), the heavy artillery units gathered by the Germans entered the battle in this direction, and dozens of large-caliber artillery easily turned the streets of Voronezh into ruins. The German tanks easily broke through the Soviet defense from both sides of the city. The Soviet troops defending the city retaliated and defended the city to the seventh day after the start of the second Kursk battle.
The loss of Voronezh completely destroyed the defense system in the south of Moscow. The Germans chased the Soviet infantry who had been in chaos in the wild, and there were groups of Soviet prisoners everywhere. By June 30, The entire Voronezh region was completely occupied by the Germans. In early July, Guderian ’s armored forces went north along the border of Voronezh region and Kursk region, and successively captured Oremsky Kastornoye. Finally, the third armored division ’s armored Under the cover, Kashinsky was captured in one breath.
The Soviet defenders did not expect their defense system to collapse so quickly, nor did they expect the German troops to be killed from behind them. Therefore, none of the bridges west of Korsynskiy were blown up, so they handed over to the German vanguard. So the German tank quickly passed these rivers, and it took only three hours to rush ahead of the collapse of the Soviet army and occupied Cheremisinov.
Zhukov has transferred his main force to the area north of Kursk. He is trying to covertly retreat in the direction of Moscow, but the German attack speed is too fast, so that his attempt to covertly retreat was completely defeated. So he ordered the main forces of the 1st Guards and 3rd Guards of the Guards to go north quickly, but he led the remaining troops and tried to buy some time for the main forces of the Soviets going north.
He was not prepared to die with the guards, but hoped that the attitude of leaving the last to encourage the remaining troops to fight to the last moment. So when the German forward forces had begun to attack Cheremisinov, Zhukov stayed in Kursk to chair a military meeting and asked his troops to guard all existing defenses as much as possible.
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet infantry cannot be easily withdrawn from the Kursk theater, because if the retreat begins rashly, then at the speed of the German attack, the Soviets will stage the second Leningrad cluster and be wiped out in the wild Tragedy. So Zhukov ’s idea was that all the troops would fight back in place, and by virtue of the constructed fortifications, delay the German occupation of Kursk as much as possible.
To put it bluntly, since the retreat is also a collapse, and the dead guard is also a collapse, it is better to stick to the existing position to annihilate more German enemies. However, due to the loss of a large amount of armored troops for coordinated defense, the resistance of the Soviet infantry was not as solid as Zhukov thought.
"Comrade Marshal!" A staff member handed over the battle report to Zhukov, who had been talking less and less recently. He had just received the news. The frontal defense line was also shaken under the influence of the collapse of the flank. The frontline town of Oboyan has been surrounded by both sides of the German army. The defenders are supporting and asking for reinforcements: "Oboyan ’s defender called and asked us to support the tank forces and counter the enemy ’s armor."
"Where else do I have a tank unit ..." Zhukov opened his lips with some dryness, and said, "I have sent the last anti-tank unit to Sigre, you know. And that unit does not. What good equipment, most of them are 76mm anti-tank guns modified by t-26 tanks, which are more difficult to deal with leopard tanks, not to mention the German tigers and tiger kings. "
"If the German tanks captured Oboyan, then our frontal defense system would be hard to guarantee ..." The staff of course knew that the reserve team had been sent to the wing by Zhukov, but he still wanted to fight for some reinforcements for Oboyan's defenders. , Even some infantry. Because he knew that once Oboyan fell, the next thing that could stop the Germans was Medvinka, the southern portal of Kursk.
The number of Soviet tanks has been seriously insufficient. Most of the recently added tanks are self-propelled artillery. These scattered forces hidden in various parts of the battle line have not a large impact on the comparison of the strength of local theaters. Although German tanks have suffered certain Loss, but the speed at which strategic objectives are captured has not been delayed.
You must know that the west side of Guderian ’s force is Admiral Klug ’s f army. This force has pushed its forward force into Orel Oblast. Although the drag in the direction of Moscow has made these German forces advance and speed The momentum is not very good, but it really puts tremendous pressure on Zhukov's back.
Zhukov glanced at the arrows on the map representing the German offensive route, sighed helplessly, and temporarily forgot about the defender's request for reinforcement in the direction of Oboyan, and asked an unrelated question: "Konev What position has Comrade General ’s 1st Guard ’s Guard now? "
"Comrade Marshal! General Konev's 1st Front Guard has now entered southeast Orel and is continuing to move north." An officer quickly answered Zhukov's question.
"So, has Comrade Vasilevsky's 3rd Guards of the Guard now reach Yeletz?" Zhukov asked his second question, and no one knew what he was thinking now. The two forces were originally the core force of the Zhukov cluster going south, but now they are placed in the safest position.
"Very good! As long as the two fronts can continue to go north safely, then our perseverance here is meaningful." Zhukov nodded and seemed to be in a better mood. He stared at the map with his hands on his back, and finally said: "Telegraph the defenders near Oboyan and tell them that for the honor of the motherland, they will stick to the last soldier! No retreat! No surrender!"
Then he turned his attention to several officers in the command office, and then began to order: "You immediately set off, go to Medvinka! Strengthen the defense there, and supervise the defenders there! Be sure to keep them strong At the last moment! "
"Yes! Comrade Marshal!" Several officers stood in salute and quickly executed the Marshal's orders. They were the most elite and most loyal part of the Soviet army's sequence, so the execution of the orders was also more determined and reliable. Seeing them turn around and leave, Zhukov found a chair and sat down, then raised his head and looked at the portrait of Stalin hanging on the wall, murmured, "I have tried my best to help you get time, I hope you can persevere in Moscow To the moment of victory. "
The sunlight outside the window is still bright, and the last few days have been very fine and very good weather. Zhukov hated such good weather, because he could see far away, where German planes were hovering in the sky.
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