"The Soviets are still attacking, and no one in their command can see that this attack is a side effect?"

Unlike the embarrassment of the Soviet front-line command, in the headquarters of the German Army Group Center, Field Marshal Bock was commanding and dispatching operations without pressure.

As the second marshal, Bock was promoted to field marshal only one step after Bockhitsch, both because Reinhardt wanted to suppress Bockhitsch and prevent him from becoming the only serving field marshal in the army, and on the other hand, to reward Bock for his outstanding performance in Poland and France.

"It's also good for us."

The answer was the commander of the 2nd Panzer Corps under Marshal Bock of the Central Army, the famous former academic general, Guderian!

These days, Guderian can be said to be suffocated, he has not been able to lead the armored forces to carry out a large-scale offensive, only when the vanguard of the Soviet army broke through, he mobilized the armored forces of the large army to quickly encircle and suppress.

This kind of battle is not thrilling at all, but it is very easy.

After nearly a month of fighting, Guderian had used the central defense line of the entire eastern barrier and cooperated with the German infantry division occupying the fortifications to strangle more than 300,000 Soviet offensive troops. The number of tanks directly lost by the 2nd Panzer Corps under Guderian was only 72.

Because it was fighting in its own defensive territory, and successfully defended every round of Soviet attacks. Therefore, many of these damaged tanks are not particularly serious, and they can be dragged back to the rear to repair and reshape, and they can be re-entered into the battle sequence soon after.

Such an easy battle with little loss, not to mention how comfortable it is to fight.

"Just let the Soviets keep fighting, we're going to fight back anyway. Now they want to expend some more of their own strength, which is a good thing for us. "Guderian, who was already a general, was not worried about anything wrong with the Soviet offensive at this time.

Coming from an academic background, he knows better than anyone that in the next battle, the more the strength of the Soviet army is worn out, the easier it will be to successfully achieve a "blitzkrieg".

Perhaps the commanders of the Soviet army are still proud of the fact that they have improved the logistics and transportation situation with the help of the German-aided road system.

But Guderian knew very well who these roads and railways built for the Soviet Union according to European standards were for!

Not for the Soviet Army, of course! These roads were prepared for the German tanks and combat vehicles, in order to smoothly and quickly break into the hinterland of the Soviet Union after the counterattack, disrupt the rear deployment of the Soviet army on a large scale, and advance rapidly.

Rail networks that meet European standards can easily become Germany's rail network for transporting supplies. Once the Germans launched a rapid counteroffensive, these railways that fell under German control could be directly used with domestic rails!

"It's really tormenting, obviously we can immediately wipe out the millions of Soviet troops in front of us, but in order to reduce attrition, we use the defense line to slowly wait for them to collide and die." Guderian, who had already predicted the direction of the next battle, said with some excitement.

"Wait a little longer." After hearing Guderian's emotion, Bock smiled and comforted: "The Finnish Allied Forces and the Norwegian Allied Forces of Army Group North, and the Romanian Allied Forces and Bulgarian Allied Forces of Army Group South, all of them can be assembled at the beginning and will be able to follow our German army to counterattack immediately." ”

"Our Army Group Center is different, and it will not be complete until the Italian and Spanish Allied forces are in place." Bock chatted with Guderian with great interest: "We are opposite the Soviets, and we can't let such a large Allied army enter the position in advance, otherwise the Soviets should be much more vigilant." ”

Of course Guderian knew what Bock said. He not only knew that the Allied forces of Italy and Spain were coming, but also knew the specific strength of the Allied troops that were coming.

There is no doubt that the two countries have the most elite armies that can come up with them.

Among them, just Guderian knew that he could quickly follow up the actions of his armored forces, so he used 2 semi-motorized divisions, 1 rapid division, 1 pro-armored division in the Italian Expeditionary Force, and 1 old German armored division in Spain.

In addition, the 10 German divisions of the Spanish Expeditionary Force, as well as the 3 main divisions and 3 Blackshirt regiments sent by Italy, which are also the elite troops of the first class of the two countries, are a very considerable and powerful force for Bock.

Army Group Center was created for the purpose of capturing Moscow, the political and economic capital of the Soviet Union!

For this reason, both Bock and Guderian knew that the pressure they would bear in person would be the largest of the three German army groups.

Therefore, with such a powerful alliance of 2 allies joining, they naturally gladly accepted it.

With such a powerful force, Bock was able to ensure that after the front of Army Group Center spread, he would not have to split the German troops that he concentrated on because of the dispersion of his forces, and he did not have to go to the reserves to continuously fill the bottomless pit of maintaining the front.

The Allied forces, which are 23 divisions in size and relatively reliable in combat, will disperse a large part of the pressure for Bock.

Such a powerful and powerful allied force is an advantage that Army Group Center has not possessed in history.

Moreover, this is not all the forces that the Allies have provided to Army Group Center.

After Army Group Center has achieved a comprehensive breakthrough, Italian Prime Minister Rossi will immediately provide 10 second-rate Italian divisions to help maintain law and order in the occupied areas. In the future, it will continue to provide Italian troops to the best of its ability to defend the rear of Army Group Center.

In this way, a very interesting phenomenon appeared on the Soviet-German battlefield, which seemed to be under the spell of the number "3".

First of all, the deployment of the German army was mainly divided into 3 major army groups.

In the area under the responsibility of Army Group North, the three-nation coalition formed by the troops of Germany, Norway, and Finland is rapidly crushing the Soviet forces in North Africa with the assistance of the resistance groups of the three Baltic countries.

In the area under the responsibility of Army Group South, the German army, the Romanian army, and the Bulgarian army (following behind the large army), also the 3-nation coalition army, were also fighting very smoothly against the elite units of the Soviet army.

And Army Group Center, after gathering the troops of Germany, Italy, and Spain, will immediately launch a comprehensive counterattack, turn defense into offense, and defeat the main force of the Soviet army in front of it in one fell swoop.

Coincidentally, the time for the completion of the assembly of the Italian and Spanish allies happened to be expected to be counted from today as the first day, and the third day after that.