"The progress of the 1st Panzer Army seems to have gone too well!"

At the General Staff of Tsosen, Marshal Guderian, the First Quartermaster, took a telegram from General Mackensen and said to Hersman: "General Mackensen's troops only encountered relatively resolute resistance from the Soviet army in breaking through the Pripyat River, and then basically had a smooth journey. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info The only thing that restricts the advance of the 1st Panzer Army now seems to be the supply of fuel. ”

Standing in front of the giant sand table with his arms crossed, Hersmann watched as the staff officers pushed the wooden sign symbolizing the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division with a long pole to Gomel, east of the Dnieper, which had been captured by the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division at noon on 4 May. Although Mackensen's 1st Panzer Army was to stay near Lechitsa for a few days to await the arrival of the fuel convoy, it was still possible to get gasoline by sending several Panzergrenadier divisions to clear the area around Lechitsa.

"Is there any movement of Soviet troops on the Dnieper line to the south?" Hersman asked.

The reason why he and Guderian assigned heavy troops to the 1st Panzer Army was that they were worried about the northward movement of Soviet troops on the Dnieper defense line. In fact, blocking the Soviet troops from the Dnieper line to the north was the main task of General Mackensen's Panzer Army. And this task now seemed unnecessary, because on the fifth day of the engagement, the Soviet Southwestern Front did not seem to have made any major moves.

"There is no major movement," Guderian said, "except that about 10 divisions of infantry have been transferred to Chernihiv...... We seem to have plunged into the soft underbelly of the Soviets. ”

"What about the direction of Cherikov?" Hersman asked again.

Cherikov was the meeting point for the three Panzer Armies appointed by Hessman and Guderian - they had expected that the 1st Panzer Army would engage in fierce battles with the troops of the Soviet Southwestern Front along the Dnieper River, and that it would be possible to reach Cherikov only after defeating the troops of the Southwestern Front moving north. Unexpectedly, now the Soviet Army's Southwestern Front is actually watching the 1st Panzer Army pierce the junction between them and the Western Front like a steel knife.

"Cavalry has been sent to the test." Guderian flipped through the report of the 1st Panzer Army, "The 1st Cavalry Division, the 14th SS Ukrainian Cavalry Division and the 20th SS Polish Cavalry Division were sent north for a reconnaissance attack. ”

The three cavalry divisions sent out by Mackensen were not cavalry or mounted infantry in the traditional sense, but mechanized cavalry, not the kind of troops that mixed tanks and cavalry, and let the cavalry and tanks charge together. Rather, it is a lightly armored unit that serves as reconnaissance, vigilance, occupation and security of the logistics line. There were no tanks, but there were a number of wheeled armored vehicles with greater mobility and low fuel consumption.

This kind of unit is not good for dealing with the Soviet tank army, but it is quite capable of scaring infantry divisions, cavalry divisions, and militia divisions that are not equipped with tanks.

And the 1st Cavalry Division and the 14th Ukrainian Cavalry Division (originally infantry, which fought Lviv and Kiev) of the 3 cavalry divisions sent by Mackensen are elite. Even if it encounters the Soviet tank troops, it can be resisted.

That's why General Mackensen sent three cavalry divisions to fight the vanguard when the fuel supply of the troops was tight - after all, the previous air force reconnaissance did not find any traces of Soviet tank clusters around Cherikov, and even a large force of infantry was not seen.

"It's about 150 kilometers from Lechtsa to Cherikov, and if it goes well, you can get there tomorrow." Hersman scratched his head, "If Cherikov is really captured, then the task of the 1st Panzer Army is too idle?" ”

"Why not be idle? It was simply a pleasant outing. Guderian shook his head, "Marshal, we should find some more work for the 1st Panzer Army." ”

Hersman thought for a moment and said, "Go north and attack Smolensk?" ”

"No," Guderian pondered, "how could the 4th Panzer Army, with its 8 Panzer Divisions, 8 Panzergrenadier Divisions, 8 Motorized Rifle Divisions and 12 Infantry Divisions, as well as 2 French Artillery Clusters and 1 Reserve Artillery Cluster (artillery corps-level units directly under the Artillery Directorate), not be able to take Smolensk?" I think the biggest headache for Admiral Hult now is how to deploy so many troops and tanks...... In my opinion, now the surroundings of Smolensk are too crowded to fit more armored divisions. ”

Because there is a railway to go south from Velikiye Luki, in the "Purple Plan", which is the first in "energy saving and fuel saving", there are a full 36 divisions plus 3 artillery corps-level clusters on this road.

And so many heavily armed troops and artillery, of course, were not used against Smolensk, but were prepared to fight the Battle of Moscow after the Battle of Smolensk!

Hersman nodded, and agreed with Guderian's opinion, Smolensk could not hold at all, as long as the troops of the 4th Panzer Army were in place, it would only take a little effort to defeat it.

And the troops in the Belarusian salient include Moder's 3rd Panzer Army, Eugene. Feng. The 11th Army under the command of General Shobat and Ernst. The 16th Army commanded by Bushi has a total of nearly 800,000 troops, and it can't be defeated?

As for the eastward invasion of the Bryansk region, it seems that there is little point, and if you want to get closer to Moscow, you can go to Smolensk. If you want to make a detour to Ukraine, it is not time now.

Hersman pondered for a moment and realized that it was useless to let the 1st Panzer Army go west or east, and south seemed to be the only option.

"How about going south to press Chernihiv?" Hersman asked.

"Imperial Marshal, I think so too." Guderian grinned, "You can scare the Soviets...... It may be able to attract the Red Army in the middle to the south. So that we would be able to take Smolensk and rush to the vicinity of Moscow. And we don't need to move the entire 1st Panzer Army, it's too scary and too fuel-intensive. I think it would be enough to dispatch an armored corps and a motorized rifle corps. The remaining troops could stand by in Lechtsa, and once the battle of Smolensk was over, they would be able to approach Moscow through the Bryansk region and the Kaluga region. ”

Use part of the 1st Panzer Army to scare the Soviet Southwestern Front, contain the strength of this Front, and at the same time attract the Red Army in the direction of Moscow to the south. In this way, it will be possible to create conditions for the Central Cluster and Army Group North to work together to take Moscow!

Although Guderian agreed with Hersmann's general policy of focusing on eastern Ukraine, Moscow and Leningrad were still deeply attracted to him...... In his opinion, what Hersman was striving for was only a relatively stable victory, and taking Moscow and Petrograd to restore the Romanov dynasty was a truly perfect victory.

So at the first opportunity, the First Quartermaster could not help but want to create conditions for the capture of Moscow.

"Well," Hersmann didn't guess Guderian's thoughts, he nodded and said, "Heinz, on the question of how many troops to send to Chernihiv, you and General Mackensen will discuss it by telegram and go to the deployment, and tell me the results tomorrow afternoon." ”

"Tomorrow afternoon?" Guderian was stunned, "Are you going to leave Tsosen?" ”

Hersmann nodded and said, "Go to Glücksburg, go with Chloe and Rudolph." ”

Hersmann's eldest son, Rudolph, returned to Germany from the Pacific Theater and was to attend the Naval Staff College in order to qualify for the rank of major and the staff of the fleet aviation.

However, the German Naval Staff College is not located in Glücksburg, the castle is located on the edge of the Flensburg fjord in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany, near Denmark, and belonged to the Schleswig-Holstein-Schoendburg-Glücksburg dynasty.

This was an influential dynasty in Europe, the old grandmother of the Romanov dynasty in exile in Europe. Queen Mother Feodorovna was born in this dynasty. Because of the relationship between the Queen Mother, Empress Olga was very close to the Danish royal family, and in 1942, the castle was loaned to Olga as her official residence in Germany.

Hersmann, along with his wife and son, went to Glücksburg, of course, at the invitation of Empress Olga, who was also going to hold a ball in Glücksburg for Elisabeth, the adopted daughter of Rudolph and the Empress and the only daughter of Prince Yusupov, who was going to marry this supposedly beautiful girl into the Heinsberg-Hersmann family.

However, Hersman knew that this marriage was actually a very large bribe!

Because the Yusupov family was a wealthy country in the Tsarist era, except for the Tsarist family, his family was rich, and owned countless properties, including 7 mansions that can be called palaces and 37 mansions that are a little worse, as well as countless works of art, as well as a large number of coal mines, iron mines, factories and oil fields in Baku!

Of course, now these properties of the Yusupov family have been taken over by the Soviet government and belong to all the Soviet people. But once the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russian Empire was restored, then the Yusupov family would immediately become a rich country. And Rudolph, the kid, married someone else's only daughter, isn't it both rich and rich?

The Russian empress had really broken her money this time for the restoration - if it weren't for the fact that Hersman had Chloe and had a good relationship, she would have been willing to take her out as a prize.

Although Hersman is unwilling to accept this "bribe", he can't refuse Empress Olga all at once, because Hersman doesn't know if Empress Olga has a "mandate" now, so it's best not to offend others. (To be continued.) )