The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1166

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: 0.057s Scan: 4.778sBudyonny was very anxious. Timoshenko’s words made him feel that time was running out and he had to open a breakthrough as soon as possible.

As a result, he seemed to forget that the German army on the opposite side might launch a counterattack.

After all, the huge gap in the strength of the two sides gave him an unreal sense of security.

Who would have thought that a mere 300,000 people would dare to take the initiative to attack a million-strong army?

Budyonny didn’t expect it, so he suffered a great loss!

Guderian had completely given up the battle plan to hold on to Lida City and resist the retreat of the Soviet army.

But Budyonny’s blind pursuit gave him a glimmer of hope.

Guderian seized this opportunity very keenly. On the surface, he seemed to be panicked after discovering the Soviet pursuit troops, so he accelerated the speed and hoped to break away from the Soviet army.

In fact, he left his own infantry troops and asked them to disguise the trucks and assault guns as tanks and armored troops, deliberately creating a dusty illusion to confuse the Soviet army.

On the other side, two armored corps quietly broke away from Unit 460, detoured to the flank, and ambushed the Soviet army from behind.

The Soviet army did not suspect anything, and seeing the German army fleeing in panic, they relaxed their vigilance one by one. They chased the German army all the way through Lida City, and did not stop to rest and wait for the large army behind them, but continued to chase, preparing to catch up with the German army in one go and bite them tightly to prevent them from joining the German army in Mins City.

“Since the Germans are so afraid of us, let’s rush over in one go and catch them off guard. If we can take advantage of the Germans’ fear of us to disrupt or even destroy their defenses, then when we reach the city of Mins, it will be easier for us to succeed!”

Budny didn’t realize that the danger was approaching. Instead, he was complacent because the Germans were beaten to a pulp by him.

He hadn’t fought the Germans in the field before, and didn’t know how terrifying the German field army was in the field!

He just felt that with such a huge advantage in manpower, defeating an enemy army was not a problem at all.

If the enemy didn’t run away, he would surround them and eat them up before the German reinforcements arrived.

If the enemy ran away, he would… They chased after the Germans, treating them as siege cones, and smashed the German defenses in the Mins area, disrupting their deployment, and then took advantage of the chaos to win!

So, Budyonny passed Lida without any worries.

Then, he was in tragedy!

After the Soviets left Lida, a German armored division suddenly appeared behind them, recaptured Lida, and cut off the Soviets’ retreat. This incident shocked the army. They never thought that the Germans would run behind them!

“The city of Lida is the bridge hub between us and the main force. If the German army occupies this place, then our connection with the main force will be cut off, which will affect the main force’s subsequent support for us!”

Although Budyonny did not take this German army too seriously, after all, the other side only had one division.

However, no matter how lightly he took it, he could not pretend that this incident had not happened.

After all, even if he could turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it, Timoshenko behind him would not be blind!

Therefore, he had to allocate troops to deal with the German troops here.

“Send out an army to drive them out. If they run away, ignore them. If they don’t run away, then eat them up!”

One army’s strength against one division, Budyonny felt that this should be more than enough.

Moreover, an army is only one-tenth of the strength of an army of one million people, and it does not affect their combat effectiveness.

If this transfer is under normal circumstances, there is actually no big problem.

Because the other side has only one division, it is not cost-effective for the entire army to drive out and encircle and annihilate the other side.

Their main task at the moment is to open a breakthrough so that the troops can break through smoothly.

So they can’t waste time in such a place. Even if they eat up this German army and win this battle, as long as they fail to open a breakthrough within the specified time limit, then they are actually Still failed!

However, in this situation, Budyonny’s decision was ill-considered.

Because he had no idea how many German troops were hiding on his flank!

When Guderian discovered that the Soviet army did not send out its main force, but only sent out one army, he immediately realized that this was an opportunity.

So, the two German armored armies hidden in the rear of the Soviet army were quickly gathered.

Guderian concentrated more than 200,000 troops and set up an ambush on the only way to Lida City, quietly waiting for his prey to take the bait.

The Soviet army sent to Lida City was actually very careful. They sent a large number of scouts on the way to Lida City. Exploring the way.

However, their main purpose in doing so was not to prevent an ambush by the enemy, but to investigate whether the most important railway lines along the way had been destroyed by the German army.

The reason why Lida City is a transit station is because there is a train station here, and a major railway artery connecting the front and the rear passes through here.

Whether it is the Soviet army in Budyonny’s hands or the main force of Timoshenko’s Soviet army that fell behind, they had to retreat along this railway.

A large amount of weapons and equipment and baggage would be impossible to move without the convenient means of transportation such as railways!

Therefore, for the Soviet army, they were very worried that the German army would occupy the city of Lida and… Send out troops to destroy the railways along the line.

Once they do this, it will definitely not be good news for the Soviet army!

It takes a lot of time to repair a railway. The longer the section destroyed by the other side and the more damaged locations, the longer it will take to repair.

Right now they are running out of time. They only have seven days left. If the German army destroys a large number of railways, the Soviet army may have to lose a lot of baggage and equipment and can only escape lightly.

However, the German army did not seem to be aware of this problem. The Soviet scouts checked all the way and did not find that the German army was destroying the railway.

This made them feel relieved.

However, just when they had just relaxed their vigilance, they were covered by the sudden artillery fire! _To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download the Faloo Novel APP!