This shell pierced the air in an instant, crossed a not too far distance, and hit the front of the turret of the KV-1 tank.

Almost at the same angle, in the same direction, the shell also hit the shield of the KV-1 tank, and a huge impact penetrated the armor there at once.

At such a close distance, the penetration performance of the 88-mm gun was quite sufficient, and the front of the turret of the KV-1 tank was clearly not so tricky and sloping.

Here is a beautiful-looking arc, but this arc does not have much inclination in the lateral position closest to the barrel of the gun on the front.

It is not realistic to use the thickness of the armor completely to resist the power of the 88 mm gun. Even in 1945, the German 88 gun was still a mortal threat.

So, the shell penetrated the turret of the KV-1, causing indescribable damage to the Soviet crew members inside.

Fragments of fragmented armor rampaged through small spaces, slicing through the body and severing bones when hit.

If these fragments hit a shell stored inside the tank body, it will detonate and tear the entire tank apart in an instant.

The explosion occurred as a result of the explosion, and the turret of the KV-1 tank was lifted into the air and dropped not far away.

The base on which the turret was originally mounted was now a circular hollow, from which flames churned out, making it look alive.

No one saw the occupants inside the tank come out, because after seeing everything that was happening in front of them, no one doubted the fact that all the people inside the tank were already dead.

Once again, the Soviets were defeated, as more German planes arrived and the German infantry had already entered the village.

Timoshenko's desire to hold on to the outskirts of Brest came to naught after just over an hour.

The loss of the flanks made Brest, where he was located, precarious. The Germans did not seem to have any intention of storming the city into the streets, they simply bypassed the city and advanced farther away.

"If the Germans had taken Tobinka, we would have been almost completely surrounded." Timoshenko was a sergeant general, and he analyzed the situation only from the most professional military point of view.

If his troops lose the railway line, then a large-scale retreat becomes a luxury. Siege is inevitable, and the end of the army will then come.

He tried not to convince himself not to think about the so-called punishment of Stalin, because he was determined to hold on to Brest.

Now he is thinking about the way out for the hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers around him. If he and hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops were annihilated in Brest, the entire situation on the Western Front would collapse.

If such a tragedy really happens, then the German army can basically kill Minsk unimpeded.

If Minsk is lost, the whole of Belarus will have to be handed over. The Soviet Union, having lost these places, and whether there is any hope of victory, is worth considering.

"It's also okay to walk from the road, retreat from the direction of Kobrin." Khrushchev chose the direction of his retreat, and at the same time, he was accompanied by more than 200,000 elite Soviet troops.

These troops were taken away by Timoshenko at the begging of Khrushchev, and if these troops were lost on the Brest front, then there would be almost no troops left to defend in front of Moscow.

Obviously, this is also Timoshenko's overtures to Khrushchev. He could die in Brest for his honor and honor, but his family had to have a better ending.

Khrushchev reciprocated the favor by promising that Timoshenko would take care of his wife and children after returning to Moscow, which can be regarded as the reason for his peace of mind.

"The Germans are already attacking Tobinka, you have to leave now! If you take the road, you will be overtaken by the German troops, and you will not even get to Ivatsevich! Timoshenko pointed to the map and stressed to Khrushchev.

The speed of the German advance was even more terrifying than the Soviet top brass had calculated, and after crushing the Soviet troops, it took the Germans only two days to reach the perimeter of Brest.

At this rate, in a maximum of another week, the Germans will be able to reach Minsk, capture it and attack Smolensk.

"The mechanized units of the Germans are even more effective than we imagined, and when you go back, you must do everything possible to explain to Comrade Stalin what we encountered at the front." As a dying man, what Timoshenko is doing now can be said to be selfless.

In his opinion, as long as the German Army Group Center had the intention of moving north, then they would soon encircle the troops of the Soviet Army on the northern front and annihilate the Soviet Northern Corps near Vilnius.

Once the Northern Corps had made a mistake, Leningrad was almost lost. At that time, the only hope that could stop the Germans from continuing the offensive would fall on Khrushchev.

"I'm leaving! If Comrade Stalin does not let me go to Minsk, I will build a line of defense in Baranovichi. "This is the biggest compromise Khrushchev can make now, he only has so much authority, and he does not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

In Timoshenko's mind, there was an even more terrible possibility that was not mentioned, and that was that the German troops abandoned their desire to go north to Moscow and made a detour to the south.

There was no major thunderstorm plan in history, and the Soviet Union launched and executed it in advance.

In the Thunderstorm Plan, the focus of the Soviet Union's attack on the Axis bloc was Romania and other regions in the south.

Because the Soviet Union wanted to destroy an important oil-producing area of the Axis powers as soon as possible, and destroy the war potential of Germany and Italy.

It is a pity that this direction of attack has long been speculated by the German side. The best direction for the USSR to attack Germany was here.

Brauchitsch is not stupid, Keitel is not stupid, and Li Le, a traverser, is not stupid. The Germans deployed a large number of troops to the south and waited for an attack from the Soviet side.

Unlike Army Group Center, the German troops deployed in Romania and other areas were mostly traditional infantry.

Their aim was to build a defensive position in great depth and wait for the Soviets to come to their door. By March 23, the Soviets had been attacking for three days, and they were almost standing still.

The Germans gained the upper hand in the frontal center, the troops attacked Brest, the flank of the Soviet Southern Corps was threatened, and the offensive was halted on 24 March.

And if these elite Soviet troops are surrounded and annihilated in Ukraine, the blow to the Soviet Union will be fatal, and it is also the last thing the Soviet Union is willing to bear.

Seeing Khrushchev hurriedly go out and flee for his life, Timoshenko's heart was inevitably sad. It's one thing to be ready to die, but it's another to actually face it.

The Germans have captured Verkhovich, and Bialystok has already hoisted the red flag. The rout in the central region has already occurred, and there is nothing to stop it.

"Report!" An officer hurriedly walked in, saluted and reported, "Comrade Commander...... Tobinka just lost ......"

"Lost? I have 20,000 people there! "Hearing the news of Tobinka's loss, Timoshenko really couldn't calm down.

If Khrushchev's retreating troops were caught up by the Germans, then there would be no point in him holding on here.

At that time, everyone will be annihilated, and his retreat will leave the 200,000 elites without the support of the town, and will only fall faster.

In order to cover Khrushchev's retreat, he deployed two infantry divisions of 20,000 men on the main road of communication in Tobinka.

"White ...... Ethnic Belarusian soldiers mutinied...... When the Germans arrived, it changed places. The officer swallowed and replied.

It is also impossible for him not to be nervous, if Tobinka is lost, then Brest is almost surrounded on three sides.

Needless to say, the front has long been occupied by the Germans, and the southern region of Mallorita and Mokrane is already in the pockets of the German army.

Now Tobinka to the north is lost again, and there is only one road left in Brest to Kobrin in the rear.

If the road is cut off in the end, they will be completely surrounded.

If the surrender is known, the whole family will be implicated, and it will take courage to die here, and not everyone is willing......

Therefore, the officer's mind was now full of thoughts, and all he was thinking about was whether to find an opportunity to persuade Timoshenko, who was in front of him, to retreat to Kobrin.

"I knew it, I knew it!" Hearing what had happened, Timoshenko understood everything.

The Soviet Union appeared to be united, but in fact there were long-standing internal contradictions. The Great Purge brought Stalin undisputed power and weakened the morale of the Soviet Union at the grassroots level.

Coupled with the increasingly irreconcilable contradictions between ethnic Russians and ethnic minorities such as Belarus and Ukrainians, anti-Soviet voices in Ukraine and Belarus have long been noisy.

In this case, the invasion of the Germans was like a key that opened Pandora's box, which directly detonated various national contradictions within the Soviet Union.

It is precisely because of this that it is logical that the Belarusian ethnic group mutinied en masse at such a critical time and caused trouble for the Soviet Union.

"Immediately issue an order and pass it on to the commanders of the armies! Disrupt the second-line troops that have been called up according to the regions, and transfer the troops of Ukraine and the Belarusian regions from the most critical places! In desperation, Timoshengo could only make amends.

He was now completely devastated by the situation of the war, clutched his chest, found a chair to sit down, and then continued to order: "Hurry up and tell Comrade Khrushchev...... Let him go! Come on! Let's go now! Let's go! ”

"Yes!" The officer saluted and quickly turned to leave.