"General Pavlov, the former commander of the Soviet Western Front Army, has been shot by Stalin! A group of generals were also implicated!" Looking at the different expressions of everyone, Lin Wei slowly said, "Commander of the Northwest Front Army, Kuz General Nezov is now in the same predicament as General Pavlov! I don’t doubt Marshal Loeb’s ability and the combat effectiveness of Army Group North, but if there is a better solution, shouldn’t we try it? How about a try?"
"Are you sure that General Kuznetsov will lead the Northwest Front to surrender to us?" General Yodel's words were full of distrust. As the head of the combat bureau, General Yodel can be said to have no one who is doing it. People understand the current situation better than he does. The current situation should be that General Kuznetsov takes the initiative to surrender, but he has not done so now, which shows that he has decided to resist to the end.
"It would be too naive to start just from General Pavlov!" Marshal Brauchich said coldly, "As the commander of a large front, General Pavlov's guilt is undisputed. Even if When we try him, he will end up with the same fate!"
"Of course General Pavlov alone is not enough, what about Marshal Tukhachevsky? How about Trotsky!" Lin Wei said with a smile, "Generals, even if your news is blocked, You should know how many senior generals of the Red Army were killed in the great purges launched by Stalin! If you were a Soviet general, during the war, would you worry about being taken away by the internal security forces at any time, and then your family members would be accused of treason? "
Lin Wei's words did not refute Admiral Yodel, who had objected just now. Although they were not particularly concerned about this kind of thing, they still knew some figures. Three of the five marshals and ten of the fifteen generals in the Red Army. Three, eight of the nine admirals, fifty of the fifty-seven corps commanders, one hundred and fifty-four of the one hundred and eighty-six division commanders, all sixteen army political commissars, two Twenty-five of the eighteen military political commissars were executed in the purges. It can be said that before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Stalin had already eliminated the command system of the Soviet Red Army once. Even Marshal Brauchitsch had to admit that if it were not for Stalin, the advancement of the German Wehrmacht might not have been so smooth.
"As long as I can meet with General Kuznetsov, the rest will not be a problem!" Lin Wei said confidently. During the questioning, Lin Wei expressed his thoughts. "I just need to give Stalin the news about the negotiations with General Kuznetsov. Compared with General Kuznetsov's own justification, Stalin's personality may still trust his KGB more. We I still have some connections in the KGB. As long as Stalin first believes that General Kuznetsov is ready to surrender, Stalin will definitely exile General Kuznetsov’s family. At that time, I will just send General Kuznetsov to Tell the general about the family being exiled, I believe he will have his own considerations."
Everyone looked at each other with surprise in their eyes, not because of how successful it was, but because Lin Wei's trick was so destructive. Killing with a borrowed knife, although these German generals did not know the meaning of this Eastern idiom, but now they did think so. Lin Wei wanted to use Stalin's suspicion to push General Kuznetsov into a desperate situation. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, Germany as a whole will not suffer any loss, but if it succeeds, Germany will not be able to benefit from it all. This means that there is no force in the Leningrad area that can resist Army Group North.
Marshal Blomberg stood up, walked around the table several times with a frown, and finally said, "Okay, I agree. I will order Marshal Loeb to step up the attack on the surrounding Northwest Front Army, but for this kind of I still have reservations about this whimsical plan!" In the end, Marshal Blomberg still insisted on his opinion.
Lin Wei also knew that it was too difficult for people to accept this idea all at once. In fact, Lin Wei was not sure about his own ideas, but now that he had thought of it, he had to give it a try. He might not succeed if he tried. But if you don’t try, you will definitely fail. Historically, Germany's ruling policy has always been high-pressure, but even if there are still nearly a million captured Soviet soldiers working for Germany, since Lin Wei can make changes, more Soviet soldiers will definitely switch sides.
On August 16, Marshal Loeb, commander of Army Group North, saw this order, which he considered absurd, and suppressed his dissatisfaction. Marshal Loeb issued an offensive order to the two armies of Army Group North. Order. Maintain pressure on the surrounded Soviet Northwest Front.
Compared with the current battles on the northern and southern fronts, the battle of Army Group Center attacking Moscow was much more intense. Guderian and Holt carried out a rapid assault on the entire Smolensk front. It seemed that as long as they added , the door to Moscow will be opened.
It seems that just this little difference has become a gap that the Armored Group Army cannot cross. The Soviet soldiers suddenly seemed to have taken stimulants, shouting Russian words that they did not know what they meant, and launched a counterattack against the attacking troops of the Armored Group Army. , in this situation, the commander of the Soviet Western Front, Timoshinger, had to go to various units in person under Moscow's strict orders, and even threatened and scolded the commanders who were already highly nervous to regain what they had lost at all costs. position.
Although Timoshenko was a marshal, he knew that when Stalin was angry, he would not bypass him because of his high military rank. General Pavlov had already used his own life to prove the fate of losers, and Timoshenko did not want to become the first marshal to be shot.
"Soviet lives are really worthless!" Guderian, whose attack was blocked, muttered in a somewhat dilapidated hut. Next to him were the commander of the Third Armored Army, Hoth, and their boss, Kluge. The somewhat dilapidated hut in front of me is the only intact building here, and the rest has been turned into rubble.
"Well, compared to ordinary Soviet soldiers, I care more about the Soviet T34 tank. I dare say that if this kind of tank is in the hands of Germany, it can definitely exert greater power!" Holt was not in a very good mood. Well, obviously if you work harder you can complete the task, but at this moment you find yourself exhausted. Perhaps only Guderian and Holt know the depression in this.
"That kind of tank can be dealt with by the Panther tank of the Imperial Division. The key is, how to deal with the Soviet Union's new secret weapon rocket launcher?" Guderian said, "Fortunately, we have advanced here, otherwise we would have to wait for the Soviets All the changes are completed, we are the unlucky ones!" Guderian's tone seemed to have a hint of joy.
Ahem... The complaints of the two people finally stopped allowing Marshal Kluge to pretend to be confused. Marshal Kluge coughed lightly and said, "Let's talk about the progress of the battle. As for tanks and supplies, that is a matter for the rear. All we have to do is how to fight this battle!"
"Marshal Kluge, now the 16th, 19th, and 20th armies of the Red Army have begun to launch a fierce counterattack against the imperial forces near Smolensk and Orsha. The offensive is unprecedentedly fierce. We were already close to Smolensk. Troops, we have to retreat first! I have never seen an army so fearless of death. The soldiers of the Soviet Red Army are like moths flying into a flame!" Guderian said.
"Indeed, in many cases, my armored group army will encounter Soviet troops who take the initiative. Those officers, with their already exhausted troops, will fight against the attacking armored troops without any scruples. The Soviets They simply don’t take the lives of Soviet soldiers seriously!” General Hott also said with lingering fear. In addition, the Soviet 21st Army divided into three groups, braved German artillery fire to cross the Dnieper River and penetrated into the German rear. Its subordinate 63rd Infantry Army recovered Rogachev and the Japanese from the Germans. Robin.
Both Guderian and Holt thought that the Battle of Smolensk was about to end. Unexpectedly, in just a moment, the situation on the battlefield was reversed. Although Army Group Center still had the advantage, it was not as good as Minsk. The same problem as in the battle will appear sooner or later, that is, the encirclement here is not very tight. Last time, the armed SS came to block the hole, but this time.
The Imperial Division is now in the city of Smolensk. Since the end of the Battle of Minsk, the First SS Armored Corps composed of the Imperial Division and the Viking Division has been placed under the command of Marshal Bock's Army Group Center. This time due to The First Armored Corps was very motorized. So he was sent by Marshal Bock to capture Smolensk with Guderian. As the first German troops to enter Smolensk, the soldiers of the Imperial Division quickly seized control of the old city. But General Paul Hausser's advancement stopped here, because the bridge connecting the old city and the industrial area had been blown up under the order of an unknown Soviet officer.
General Paul Hausser can only stop and think about the current situation for the time being. The old city of Smolensk has been occupied by Germany, but the industrial area is still controlled by the Soviet Red Army. Outside the city, the situation cannot be explained clearly in a few words. The armored armies of Guderian and Hoth had originally surrounded a Soviet army group, but were forced back by an unexpected counterattack and fell into Germany earlier. The Soviet Red Army in the pocket is about to be rescued. Now, in general, the German Wehrmacht still has a slight upper hand on the huge battlefield around Smolensk.