The Third Reich: The Return of the King

While Mainz was holding a grand military parade in Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation, in the Kazan region, Starlin did not receive the reinforcements he had been waiting for.

“What? The Southwestern Front was completely wiped out by the German army at the mouth of the Volga River?”

Hearing this news, Starlin’s face changed drastically!

He had expected the Southwestern Front to withdraw smoothly and join him.

In this way, he would have enough troops in his hands to suppress these guys in the Kazan area. However

, before the soldiers of the Southwestern Front arrived, the bad news had already arrived.

When this unit was at the city of Stalingrad, it had already been caught up by Guderian.

Guderian didn’t want to force the siege of the city, so he deliberately gave the illusion that the German army had been fighting continuously and was exhausted and needed to rest, leaving a gap for the Soviet army and allowing them to retreat.

The Soviet commander saw that the German attack was weak and the soldiers were listless and demoralized, so he relaxed his mind and immediately judged that this was an excellent opportunity for them to retreat.

So, without thinking too much, the Soviet commander of the Southwestern Front He immediately abandoned the city of Stalingrad with his troops and began to retreat to the east.

For the Soviets, the strength of their Southwestern Front was once very strong.

Before Zhukov brought out the elite troops of the Soviet Army, the Southwestern Front had several Guards Tank Armies.

These armies are almost the essence of the entire Soviet Army. It is precisely because of the existence of these powerful armored armies that Zhukov dared to put forward an active offensive combat plan.

However, his plan ultimately failed, and all the troops he brought out became prisoners of the German army.

For the Soviets, Zhukov’s failure may have the greatest impact on the Southwestern Front. After losing its main force, the combat effectiveness of the Southwestern Front was greatly reduced.

They had almost no ability to resist the attack of the German Army Group South.

After seeing the huge gap in strength between the enemy and us, the Soviet commander very wisely chose to retreat!

If he could successfully lead the Soviet army to break through, he would still be an excellent commander.

At least, he could see the situation on the battlefield clearly, not make meaningless resistance, and know how to preserve strength, which is already quite commendable.

However, his plan was doomed to fail from the beginning, because this was a trap that Guderian deliberately dug for him! Following the Soviet army all the way, when the Soviet army joined several other retreating Soviet troops on the road and prepared to cross the Volga River and retreat to Astrakhan, Guderian suddenly took action. The German army suddenly attacked the crossing of the river from the east and west.

The Soviet army launched an attack, and only a small number of Soviet troops successfully crossed the river. They were ambushed by the German army, which was several times larger than themselves, on the east side of the Volga River. The Soviet army, which had not had time to gain a foothold and was not prepared for the German ambush, was annihilated by the German army without any surprise!

As for the Soviet army in the west, after realizing that they had been fooled, they tried to break out, but the German army had far more troops than them, and the encirclement was too thick. They were trapped in a small piece of flat land near the sea west of the Volga River.

Guderian did not send anyone to persuade them to surrender, nor did he give them a chance to surrender. A large number of German tank troops and assault guns rushed up and fired at them at close range.

For a time, the Soviet soldiers were like wheat blown down by the wind, and they all fell to the bottom under the fierce firepower of the German army.

The Soviet army, seeing that the situation was not good, quickly threw away their weapons and raised their hands to signal their surrender.

Their reaction speed was relatively fast, and the German infantry-tank coordinated tactics had reached a superb level.

As soon as the tanks rushed to them, a large number of German soldiers jumped down from armored personnel carriers and motorcycles, and they were already pointing their guns at their heads!

The battle was fought very quickly. In less than four hours, the Soviet Southwestern Front with their families was completely wiped out.

After the battle, Guderian even had the mood to go to the Caspian Sea to look at the sea, and then he returned to Moscow with his elite troops to participate in the military parade in Moscow.

However, his battle shattered Starling’s dream. This bad news made Starling feel like she was struck by lightning, and she couldn’t recover for a long time.

“Comrade Gangtie, what should we do now?”

“Yes, Comrade Steel, you have to make up your mind. Popolov and his men are obviously on guard against us and don’t listen to our commands. If we continue to stay here, I even suspect that they might capture us and hand us over to the German army!”

Several confidants around Starlin said to him worriedly.

Popolov and other local factions in the Kazan area didn’t like them at all because they didn’t have many troops in their hands, and their reputation had been severely weakened after the previous defeat.

Since they came, the other side not only made things difficult for them on the issue of supplies, but also treated them very rudely!

If it were just that, they might be able to tolerate it, but these guys have started to flirt with the Third Reich recently.

The German army had mobilized heavy troops to surround them some time ago, but suddenly withdrew a few days ago.

Although there are rumors that the German army withdrew troops from the front line for the military parade in Moscow.

But this explanation is not in their opinion. It seems that there is no persuasiveness at all.

After all, it is just a military parade, and only a small part of the army needs to be drawn. There is no need to draw so many troops.

Is the commander of the German army crazy to pull almost all the main forces on the front line back for the military parade?

Therefore, in the eyes of Starling and others, there is only one reason to explain the abnormal behavior of the German army!

That is, these powerful factions in the Kazan area have secretly contacted the Third Reich and are even ready to surrender to the Third Reich.

It is precisely because of this that the Third Reich has slowed down its military suppression of them.

To show their sincerity, and by the way, give them the opportunity to free up their hands to deal with Starling and others.

Therefore, the suspicion of these people around Starling at this time is very reasonable!

“What do you think we should do?”

Starlin’s expression looked very sinister. The recent series of bad news made him feel very depressed and angry.

At this time, the actions of the group of people headed by Popolov and others in the Kazan area just ignited the powder keg, which completely detonated his anger!

Therefore, he had actually made a decision in his heart. He wanted to take action against the other party and give them a severe beating!