At this time, General Pavlov, the commander of the Western Military District of the Soviet Red Army, did not understand the entire situation of the war. In order to collect accurate information on the front line, he had to listen to German radio broadcasts. Shortly after the war began, he left the headquarters and ran below.
They joined a group army, which made the already chaotic troops of the Western Military District even more chaotic.
Faced with the fierce German attack, the Soviet Supreme Command was also giving blind orders at this time. When the situation was unclear, the Supreme Command ordered the frontline military districts to let their troops fight back. So General Pavlov began to arrange
The four field armies and six mechanized armies of the encircled Red Army launched counterattacks toward the German border.
In fact, it would not be a bad idea to conduct a counter-assault with unified command and coordination. However, at this time, the Soviet Red Army had lost contact with each other, and the time for counter-assault orders to reach the frontline troops was different.
Therefore, these Soviet Red Army actually launched wave after wave of counterattacks against the German lines. This suicidal behavior caused the Soviet army surrounded by the German army to suffer heavy losses in just a few days.
When General Pavlov realized that this attack was in vain, he could not immediately arrange a retreat. He had to apply to the Supreme Command. After receiving permission, Pavlov ordered the troops of the Western Military District to move forward across the board.
Retreat of the two lines of defense. In war, it is difficult to attack, but even more difficult to retreat. Even those excellent generals cannot guarantee that their troops will retreat in an orderly manner.
But at this time, there were no outstanding generals in the Soviet Red Army. There were only political commissars and people's commissars who waved pistols to prevent the soldiers from retreating. But these commanders who had never even been on the battlefield were now not even as good as a
The veteran was calm. Facing the flexible interspersed attacks of the German mechanized corps, what was supposed to be a strategic retreat with alternate cover quickly turned into a strategic rout.
The Soviet Red Army, which rushed back from the front line like a tide, had no time to gain a foothold on the second front in Minsk. Then it was overwhelmed by the German armored group and motorized infantry. They had no choice but to continue towards Smolensk.
Run away, but by this time the two armored groups of Guderian and Holt had already captured Minsk and closed the eastward passage.
At once, more than 600,000 Soviet troops were captured. The German Army Group Center formed two encirclement circles in the areas of Bialystok and Volkovsk, preparing to close the net. However, the armored group suddenly advanced.
There were more than 200 kilometers in the Soviet Union, but the infantry group behind them could not run so fast. As a result, there were still many big holes in this encirclement circle. The German army had no time to make up for it.
The Soviet Red Army in the encirclement lost most of their heavy equipment, but they still put up a tenacious resistance and caused a lot of trouble to the German army, which allowed some Soviet troops to break out of the encirclement through large and small loopholes. Relying on both sides
The foot continued to retreat eastward in the direction of Smolensk.
Two weeks after the war began, on June 15, the encirclement was completely closed. At this time, the Soviet troops in the encirclement had run out of ammunition and food and could not continue to break out. They could only surrender to the German army. More than 600,000 Soviet Red Army troops in the Western Military District
, in the end, only more than 200,000 people escaped, and the others died in battle or were captured by the German army. Most parts of Belarus were not occupied by the German army, including its capital, Minsk.
What worried Stalin even more was that the Soviet Union did not prepare a third line of defense. In this way, the German army broke through both Soviet defense lines in one fell swoop, directly facing Moscow's western gate, Smolensk.
In addition to the heavy blows suffered by the Soviet army in Belarus, the German army's progress on both the northern and southern fronts has been relatively smooth. The Northern Army Group has occupied Pskov, from here to Leningrad.
It is only more than 200 kilometers away, and the terrain has begun to become flat. Army Group South has captured Zhitomyr, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from Kiev.
In contrast, the offensive resistance of the German Army Group South is greater. They face the Ukrainian Military District of the Soviet Red Army. This is the largest and strongest of the 16 military districts of the Soviet Union. It is led by Semyon M.
Marshal Hailovich Budyonny commanded. Marshal Budyonny was one of the two marshals in the Soviet Red Army who successfully escaped the Great Purge, the other was Marshal Voroshilov.
Marshal Budyonny was a Cossack cavalryman. He had won the Order of St. George during the Tsarist era. During the Soviet Civil War, he led his Cossack cavalry to defeat the White Army and made great contributions to the Soviet Union. In
Information about him found by the author
Among them, some said that he was an old-school professional soldier who did not participate in politics, so he escaped the great purges. The other said that he had a good personal relationship with Stalin and was loyal to Stalin, so he was preserved. As for which one is true and which one is false,
Friends who are interested can check it out themselves.
In any case, Marshal Budyonny performed quite well in the face of the German raid. At least he caused more obstacles to the German army than other military districts. Moreover, this old marshal also had many students and subordinates of NB, such as Tie
Musingo, Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Yereomenko, Bagramyan, etc. Judging from this situation, he should not be a marshal who got into it just by relying on connections.
However, in the face of the German air superiority and armor superiority, the Soviet army in Kiev could only say to fight and retreat without a large-scale rout. In addition, the crisscrossing rivers and swamps in Ukraine also provided some defense for the Soviet army.
The convenience caused great trouble to the German offensive.
Germany suddenly attacked the Soviet Union, and its advantage was very obvious, which made the Allied camp feel more pressure. Churchill originally counted on Roosevelt to provide sufficient equipment and war supplies to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union could delay the German aggression on land.
With the formation of the fleet, Britain would be free to consolidate its main transportation routes in the Mediterranean and conduct a naval blockade against Germany, thereby weakening Germany's war potential.
However, the South China Sea Federation suddenly attacked the United States, and in a short time the west coast of the United States was thrown into chaos. This forced the U.S. government to reduce its war aid to the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom and use it for its own domestic armaments production.
, which means that most of the strength is used to fight against the invasion of the South China Sea Federation, and it is no longer able to intervene on a large scale in the European war situation.
Having lost most of the assistance from the United States, Britain could only rely on its naval superiority to firmly grasp the security of the Mediterranean routes, and then fight with the Italian and German forces on the North African battlefield. It could not help the Soviets at all. Now
The pattern of the war became a direct confrontation between Germany and the Soviet Union, Britain and Italy and the German army in the North African Mediterranean, and the South China Sea Federation and the United States in the North American continent. Basically no one was able to help allies on other battlefields.
In addition, the heterochromatic forces in the Middle East and Chile in South America are not willing to be lonely. They have launched attacks on countries with conflicts of interest around them. The heterochromatic forces are attacking France's area of influence in Syria. Chile has already
Bolivia is almost destroyed by the war, and the Brazilian government has issued an ultimatum to the Chilean government. If it does not stop its attack on Bolivia immediately, the Brazilian army will cross the border with Poland and start a war with the Chilean army.
At this time, the United Kingdom and the United States have no time to care about Syria and Brazil. They are still being beaten at home. As long as they do not touch the two canals of Suez and Panama, they can only watch the foreign countries and Chile destroy the original canals.
Areas of influence belonging to Britain and the United States were disrupted.
The only areas that have not yet been involved in the war are central and southeastern Asia, and central and southern Africa. However, in East Asia, the British have also deployed a large number of troops to the southeast of the Indian colony, but these troops are mainly to prevent the South China Sea Federation from attacking
India and Myanmar conducted raids. From the British point of view, India must not provoke any more wars. If the colony of India is lost, it will be a question whether the British people can still have afternoon tea.
