"His Royal Marshal, I am the sniper of the 14th SS Armored Grenadier Division Sniper Company of the squadron company of Lyudmira Mikhaillovna Pavlitchenko."

A very sweet-looking SS soldier, who was almost perfect in his twenties, walked up to Hessman with a very sweet look, stood at him, and then raised his hand to him, and reported himself to his house in fluent German.

"What? What?" Hessman's eyes that had already been wide open were almost falling out.

A female SS fighter was enough to surprise Hessman. Now he was shocked when he heard that this Ukrainian female soldier was actually named Lyudmila Pavlitschko.

Is this really the garrison of the 14th "Ukrainian" Armored Grenadier Division of the SS? How could there be a Soviet heroine here?

"The Imperial Marshal and Private Pavlitchko performed outstandingly in the Battle of Lviv, fought on the front line for 46 days, confirmed that 39 Soviet officers and soldiers had been killed, and they had received a first-class Iron Cross."

Reinhard Heidrich, Chief Minister of Western Ukraine and Vice Chairman of the Western Ukraine National Defense Commission, was with Hessman. The Imperial Marshal came to award meritorious deeds to the combat hero of the 14th Ukrainian Division of the SS today. The heroine Pavlitchko is a typical example of Heidrich holding it up in one hand.

The 14th Ukrainian Division of the SS where Pavlitchko was located was also as good as the 5th Viking Division of the SS in the Warsaw Battle, so it was upgraded from an infantry division to an armored grenadier division.

During the Battle of Lviv, a group of combat heroes emerged from the 14th Division of the SS, and Pavlitchko, who was "specially approved" by Heidrich, was one of them.

This woman actually killed 39 people... It was enough to get the first-class Iron Cross, but the Knight Iron Cross was almost the same, but in order to set a typical example, he always had to pay a discount. Hessman looked at Pavlitschenko again and found that the other party was looking at him with a little nervous look in admiration. So he smiled and said, "Private, are you a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party?"

"Yes, I am a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party and joined the party organization at the National Kiev University."

Pavlitchenko actually became a Nazi... This world really ruined himself. Hessman nodded, took a Knight's Iron Cross from his adjutant Stauffenberg, and hung it on the collar of the heroine Pavlitchenko.

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"How are Ukrainians?"

On his way back to the city of Lviv from the garrison of the SS 14th "Ukrainian" Armored Grenadier Division, Hessman asked Hedrich.

"They are all good soldiers, loyal and trustworthy." Heidrich said with a smile. "Although they are not as good as the Germans, perhaps not as volunteer soldiers in Western and Northern Europe, they are much stronger than the Poles. Imperial Marshal, I think we should not regard the Ukrainian soldiers who participated in the Lviv war as defense forces, but as national defense forces."

"Defense Force?" Hessman seemed to be interested, "Can they fight like the Defence Force?"

In the military sector of the German Empire today, the defense army is equivalent to a militia, and its weapons, equipment and training requirements are much worse than those of the National Defense Army. In addition, the mission of the defense army is to defend the local housing, and in principle, it will not go out to fight.

"Maybe it's a little bit short," Heidrich smiled, "but the Ukrainians are very enthusiastic. They all want to recover lost land and are willing to fight for us. Most of them have mobilized and organized an army of 600,000 people! And most of them belong to front-line combat troops, and many have experienced the baptism of the bloody battle of Lviv."

Although the intensity of the bloody battle in Lviv was not as fierce as the Battle of Warsaw, it was also a large battle with more than one million people participating, which could indeed train the new recruits.

"What do you think of General Busch and General Hauser?" Hessmann then asked.

Admiral Ernst Busch is now the commander of the 4th Army of the German Wehrmacht (not the 4th Armored Army), while Admiral Paul Hauser is the commander-in-chief of the Western Ukrainian Defense Forces. The Battle of Lviv was fought under the cooperation and command of the two of them.

"They have the same view," Heidrich told Hessman. "They think that if we can equip these defense forces with some French artillery, assault gun troops and trucks, they can adapt them into the National Defense Forces and let them fight on the right bank Ukrainian battle after they decide the final battle in Belarus."

"Drag the right bank Ukrainian battle in muddy season and winter?" Hessman raised his eyebrows.

There is a plan to use the Ukrainians to liberate the right bank Ukraine, but in that plan, the Ukrainians were not the main force, but the attack. Now Busch and Hauser may have recognized the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainians in the Battle of Lviv, so they wanted them to play the main force, and they also wanted to march in the muddy season and winter.

"The winter and mud in Ukraine cannot stop the Ukrainians themselves, because they belong to this land, and everyone on this land will take out all their own to support their soldiers."

Of course, Ukrainians cannot die in winter. The real threat to mud and cold winter is logistical transportation difficulties. However, as long as the Ukrainian people on the right bank are willing to support the German Wehrmacht composed of the Ukrainians, the difficulty of logistics supply will be greatly reduced.

Heidrich finally said confidently: "As long as we can win in Belarus and make an attack on Moscow, we can mobilize the Ukrainian enemy to go north and then dispatch a national defense force composed of the Ukrainians, we will definitely win on the right bank Ukraine."

If Marshal Xie Miao, commander of the Southwest Front of the Soviet Red Army, Marshal Temxingo, heard Heidrich's words, would sneer. Because he was a Ukrainian on the right bank, he was born in Odessa, near Romania, but he supported the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Party by 10,000%.

He was very sad about his ungrateful fellow villagers' desperate resistance in Lviv, and he fully realized that there were many reactionaries among the Ukrainians on the right bank.

"Comrade Secretary, the enemy is likely to attack Ukraine on the right bank in the near future. We must be prepared. Ukraine on the right bank is likely to change the sky."

Timusingo, who returned to Kiev in shame, and the new political commissar of the Southwest Front, and Mikhail Alexeyevich Burmishkenko, who was also the second record of the Ukrainian Party Central Committee, spoke in a hoarse and low voice.

"It cannot change the sky! Ukraine on the right bank will always belong to the Soviet regime." Burmishkenko seemed very confident. The struggle to defend Ukraine on the right bank was also of great significance to him, because he was a very young senior cadre, only 40 years old this year, as young as the first S-Koro Bonomarenko in Belarus. At such an age, he became the second-person in Ukraine, and his future was naturally limitless. Moreover, he is lucky to replace Ukraine's first S-Koro Khrushchev and became a military member of the Southwest Front.

Khrushchev seemed very unlucky. After the Lviv Battle, the Western Front Military Commissioner had replaced the military committee members, and it was Khrushchev's turn. However, Stalin thought of establishing a general commander in the direction. Marshal Voroshilov was the commander-in-chief of the northwest direction, and his partner was the member of the Political Bureau, Zhidanov. Marshal Budonnie became the commander-in-chief of the southwest direction, so he had to be appointed as a qualified military committee member, so he transferred Khrushchev from Kiev to partner with Budonnie. So the military committee member of the Southwest Front military "lucky" fell to the young Burmishkenko.

"By the way, the Western Army and the Belarusian Front are now preparing to defend Warsaw, Brest, Minsk and Smolensk. Are our Southwest Front going to prepare to defend Kiev?"

Temusingo and Burmishkenko chatted for a few words, then suddenly changed the subject and raised the issue of preparing for the defense of Kiev.

"Defend Kiev?" Burmishkenko was stunned, "Comrade Commander, what are you talking about? Kiev is 500 kilometers away from Lviv, how can the enemy hit Kiev? And it is already late August, October is the muddy season, and winter will begin in November. How can Kiev be in danger?"

What Burmishkenko said makes sense, but Temuxine is always a little worried. His Southwest Front is in poor condition and his morale is depressed after he retreated from Lviv. He transferred three elite army with a large number of mechanized troops, and his strength is also weak.

Moreover, according to the orders of the Supreme Command, the main task of the Southwest Front was to monitor the enemy of Lviv, cover the direction of Belarus, and defend the border with Romania to prevent the enemy from invading Ukraine from Romania.

In other words, the Southwest Front Army must use less than 900,000 troops to complete three very difficult tasks at the same time.

At the same time, there are great hidden dangers behind them. Now Ukraine on the right bank is full of lurking anti-gliding elements. They are ready to cooperate when the German invades. These Ukrainian anti-gliding elements are also the reason why Burmishkenko is unwilling to prepare for war in Kiev with great fanfare.
Chapter completed!