Imperial Overlord

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"Let the 24th Panzer Army continue to move forward! Don't wait for my order... just kill Kharkov!" Guderian stood on the armored car and gave his order.

Now he is the commander of the army group, but the burden on his shoulders is no heavier than before.

After all, the original G group, as the sharpest spear to attack Moscow, was already a large-scale combat group.

When the number was the largest, the g-group controlled more than 400,000 troops, and the confidence of the head of state in Guderian was evident.

At this moment, although the size of the troops commanded by Guderian has increased, there has been no qualitative change.

The main combat troops under his command are still the 24th Panzer Corps, the 46th and 47th Panzer Corps.

The original 12th Army was still under the command of Guderian, and a newly formed Panzer Army was moving to the front in Poland.

If you count this armored army, Guderian's armored force has 4 corps, 8 divisions, and more than 2,400 tanks.

Compared with history, this number is almost the sum of all the German armored forces on the Eastern Front.

But this is not the case now. The German army has invested at least 7,000 tanks on the Eastern Front. This number is simply a nightmare for the Soviet army.

After all, the t-34 tank could not use its own quality and quantitative advantages to crush the opposing German tank crews.

Without the quality advantage, the rate of loss of t-34 tanks on the front line will remain high, and the rate of accumulation of t-34 tanks will be correspondingly reduced.

And if enough t-34 tanks cannot be accumulated, then this kind of tank will not be able to form an absolute advantage in quantity, and it will not be able to make up for the disadvantage of the Soviet tankers' less combat experience.

What made the Soviet Union even more painful was that the German tanks began to show a numerical advantage—thousands of tanks were used intensively, causing the loss of German tanks to plummet.

"The tanks of the 47th Panzer Army are advancing. They have captured Higray, and Tim can also take it!" The chief of staff said with a smile.

They penetrated the Soviet line of defense in their first tentative attack. This obviously shows that the Soviet army on the opposite side is already at the end of the fight.

Moreover, the situations encountered by the various units were basically in line with the judgment of the senior officers of the b army group - the Soviet army really had no intention of resisting.

First of all, the 55th Infantry Division of the Soviet Guards, which has been entangled with the 10th Motorized Infantry Division, is now unorganized.

This division is still holding on to its own position, but it is almost ready to withdraw from the battle sequence.

And the flank of the 55th Infantry Division of the Guards, the 56th Infantry Division of the Guards, had already begun to rout at this time. Two German armored battalions and mechanized infantry were chasing the unit like wolves chasing a herd of sheep.

If nothing happens, this Soviet infantry force may be wiped out without reaching Suja.

But what Guderian wants is a faster annihilation speed. German armored units, at least 400 tanks, were advancing at full speed towards Sumy.

As long as it is captured, the door to Kharkov will be completely opened. The German armored troops can drive straight in and kill all the way to the city of Kharkov.

Guderian nodded, this was his forte. Rapidly advancing, detouring from both flanks, and annihilating enemies fleeing in the wild is one of his best tactics.

So he nodded and said, "Let the Air Force delay the retreat of the Soviets as much as possible!"

"I have informed the Air Force. I heard that we have 150 Stukas, and all the pilots have already arranged bombing missions." The chief of staff's tone was obviously very satisfied with the cooperation of the Air Force.

This time, the southward combat operation was an operational order issued by the Fuehrer himself. As a die-hard loyalist of the Fuehrer, Goering's air force, of course, cooperated fully.

The field airfields on the front line had planes taking off and landing every minute, and almost all the bombers were dispatched to greet the retreating Soviet troops with bombs.

It was precisely because of the indiscriminate bombing of the Luftwaffe that Zhukov realized that it was an impossible task for him to retreat completely.

As soon as they began to retreat, the 6th Guards Tank Division was targeted by the Luftwaffe. The three air strikes were more accurate each time, and each time they were larger.

Before they had gone 20 kilometers, the division had destroyed at least 30 more tanks and lost almost a third of their remaining equipment.

These are not outdated tanks such as t-26 or kv-1, but elite t-34 tanks, so the loss is not insignificant.

"Very good! Our forward speed is faster!" Guderian still likes to play close to the front line as he did when he commanded his 24th Panzer Corps.

It is a pity that his status no longer allows him to do this, because he is already a general commanding an army group, and he should not leave his command to act alone.

"Your Excellency Commander! I have to remind you that you are the commander of the army group, and you must pay attention to your own safety!" The chief of staff deliberately reminded Guderian without honorifics.

Guderian shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he understood what the chief of staff said: "Okay! I know what you mean! I'll just sit in the command car and move with the guard division, isn't it okay?"

His current security force can really be described as mighty, including the archives and some other documents, which requires more than 1,000 people to manage.

The headquarters of the entire army group, no matter how fast it moves, cannot keep up with the advance of the large army.

Under normal circumstances ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Guderian's more suitable command method is to sit in the rear, establish his own headquarters, and coordinate and command the operations of the entire army group.

It's a pity that Guderian couldn't adapt to this change for a while, and liked to ride in armored vehicles and advance with the front-line troops.

As a result, on the map of the Führer's Supreme Command, the headquarters of Army Group B should be located in Dazhirowo, but Guderian is not far west of Kursk.

However, at least now Guderian has regained the initiative to attack and began to press Zhukov's troops to fight.

And the army of Army Group B, after being silent for half a month, started to move with full power again, heading towards Su Mei's direction, killing it mightily.

After more than half a month of fighting in Kursk, the anticlimactic end. And then, the larger-scale Kharkov battle kicked off.

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It's dawn, and Long Ling has only written a chapter, and there is one chapter to make up today... Long Ling goes to sleep for a while...