"The 1st Armored Army seems to have gone too far!"

In the General Staff of Toxson, Marshal Guderian, the First Military Control Commissioner, took the telegram from General Markens, and said to Hessman: "General Markens's troops were only breaking through the Pripyat River and encountered the Soviet army's relatively resolute resistance, and then they were basically in a smooth journey. Now the only thing that restricts the advance of the 1st Armored Army is as if the supply of oil is the supply of oil."

Hessman stood in front of the giant sand table with his arms in his arms, watching the staff push the wooden sign symbolizing the 5th Armored Grenadier Division of the SS with a long pole to Gomel east of the Dnieper River. Gomel Gomel was occupied by the 5th Armored Grenadier Division at noon on May 4. Although Markensen's 1st Armored Army was about to stay near Lechicha for a few days to wait for the arrival of the oil convoy, he could still take out the gasoline around Lechicha.

"Is there any movement in the Soviet army on the Dnieper River defense line to the south?" Hessman asked.

The reason why he and Guderian assigned heavy troops to the 1st Armored Army was that they were worried that the Soviet army on the Dnieper River defense line would go north. In fact, blocking the Soviet army from the Dnieper River defense line was the main task of General Markensen's Armored Army. This task now seems unnecessary, because the war was on the fifth day, and the Soviet Southwest Front seemed to have no major moves.

"Nothing big," said Guderian. "Except for the number of infantry soldiers of about 10 divisions being transferred to Chernigov, there was no movement... We seemed to have penetrated the Soviets' weakness with one knife."

"Where is the direction of Cherikov?" Hessman asked again.

Cherikov is the meeting place for the three armored armies specified by Hesman and Guderian. They originally thought that the 1st Panzer Army would fight fiercely with the Soviet Southwest Front troops in the Dnieper River area, and only after defeating the troops heading north by the Southwest Front, they could arrive at Cherikov. But unexpectedly, the Soviet Southwest Front Army was confidently watching the 1st Panzer Army pierced into the junction between them and the Western Front like a steel knife.

"The cavalry has been sent to test it." Guderian looked through the report of the 1st Armored Army, "sent the 1st Cavalry Division, the 14th Ukrainian Cavalry Division of the SS and the 2o Polish Cavalry Division of the SS to conduct a reconnaissance attack northward."

The three cavalry divisions sent by Markenson were not cavalry or horse infantry in the traditional sense, but mechanized cavalry, not the kind of troops that mix tanks and cavalry to charge with cavalry. Instead, they were light armored units that served as reconnaissance, alert, occupy and maintain the safety of the logistics line. They were not equipped with tanks, but there were many wheeled armored vehicles with strong mobility and low fuel consumption.

This kind of troops is not good for dealing with the Soviet tank army, but it is competent to scare infantry divisions, cavalry divisions and militia divisions that are not equipped with tanks.

Moreover, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 14th Ukrainian Cavalry Division (original infantry, who fought Lviv and Kiev) among the three cavalry divisions sent by Markenson were all elite. Even if they encountered Soviet tank troops, they could resist it.

That's why General Markens sent three cavalry divisions to fight the vanguard when the troops were in a tight oil supply. After all, the previous air force reconnaissance did not have any trace of Soviet tank clusters around Cherikov, and even large groups of infantry were not seen. If it was really an empty gate, then let the energy-saving and environmentally friendly cavalry occupy it, and don't dispatch armored clusters with huge fuel consumption.

"It's about 150 kilometers from Lechz to Cherikov. If it goes well, it will arrive tomorrow." Hessman scratched his head. "If Cherikov is really successfully occupied, will the mission of the 1st Armored Army be too leisurely?"

"More than leisure? It's a pleasant outing." Guderian shook his head, "Marshal of the Empire, we should find some more work for the 1st Armored Army."

Hessman thought for a while and said, "Go north to attack Smolensk?"

"No need," Guderian said, "The 4th Armored Army has 8 armored divisions, 8 armored grenadier divisions, 8 motorized infantry divisions and 12 infantry divisions, as well as 2 French artillery clusters and 1 reserve artillery cluster (artillery corps of direct artillery directors). How could it be impossible to defeat Smolensk? I think the biggest headache for General Hot now is how to spread so many troops and tanks... In my opinion, Smolensk is too crowded around now, and there is no more armored divisions."

Because there is a railway to go south from Daluki, in the "Purple Plan", which is the first "energy-saving and fuel-saving", there were 36 divisions and 3 artillery army-level clusters along the way.

And so many heavy troops and cannons are of course not used to deal with Smolensk, but are prepared to fight the Battle of Moscow after the Battle of Smolensk!

Hessman nodded and agreed with Guderian's opinion. Smolensk could not defend at all. As long as the 4th Armored Army troops were in place, it would only take a little effort to fight.

The troops in the Belarusian outcrop include Model's 3rd Armored Army, the 11th Army commanded by General Eugene von Saubard and the 16th Army commanded by Ernst Busch, a total of nearly 80,000 troops. How can they not be defeated?

As for going eastward to invade Bryansk, it doesn't seem to make much sense. If you want to approach Moscow, just go to Smolensk. If you want to detour to Ukraine, it's not time for you now.

Hessman thought for a moment and now let the 1st Armored Army go west and eastward, and facing south seems to be the only option.

"How about going south to oppress Chernigov?" Hessman asked.

"Imperial Marshal, I think so too." Guderian laughed, "You can scare the Soviets... maybe you can attract the Red Army in the middle to the south. So we can break into Moscow after taking Smolensk. And we don't need to mobilize the entire 1st Armored Army, which is too scary and too fuel-intensive. I think it's enough to dispatch an armored army and a motorized infantry army. The remaining troops can be on standby in Lechza. Once the Battle of Smolensk is over, they can go to Bryansk Prefecture and Kaluga Prefecture is approaching Moscow."

Use some of the forces of the 1st Armored Army to scare the Soviet Southwest Front, restrain the forces of this Front, and at the same time attract the Red Army in the direction of Moscow to go south. This will create conditions for the Central Cluster and the Northern Cluster to jointly take over Moscow!

Although Guderian also agreed with Hessman's general policy of east Ukraine as the main attack direction, Moscow and Leningrad were still deeply attracted to him... In his opinion, what Hessman strives for was only a relatively stable victory, and winning Moscow and Petrograd to restore the Romanov dynasty was the real perfect victory.

So whenever there is a chance, the First Military Control Commissioner couldn't help but want to create conditions for seizing Moscow.

"Okay," Hessmann did not guess Guderian's thoughts. Heinz, the question of how many troops to send to Chernigov, you and General Markensson discussed it by telegram and then go to the deployment. Let me tell me the result tomorrow afternoon."

"Tomorrow afternoon?" Goodrian was stunned, "Are you leaving Tsoson?"

Hessman nodded and said, "Go to Glüxburg, go with Chloe and Rudolph."

Hessman's eldest son, Rudolph, returned to Germany from the Pacific battlefield. He was going to study at the Naval Staff Academy in order to be promoted to major and become a fleet aviation staff officer.

However, the German Naval Staff Academy is not in Glüxburg. This castle is located on the Flensburg fjord in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany, close to Denmark, and belongs to the Schleswig-Holstein-Thorenderburg-Glüxburg dynasty.

This is a dynasty with a strong influence in Europe. The grandmother of the Romanov dynasty in Europe, Queen Maria Feodorovna, was born in this dynasty. Because of the Empress Dowager, Queen Oliga was very close to the Danish royal family. In 1942, the castle was lent to Oliga as her official residence in Germany.

Hessman, his wife and son, went to Glüxburg with his wife and son, of course, at the invitation of Queen Oliga. The queen was also preparing to hold a dance in Glüxburg for Rudolph and the empress's adopted daughter, Elizabeth, the only daughter of Prince Yusupov. The Russian Empress was preparing to marry this said to be extremely beautiful girl into Heinsberg-Hersman's family.

But Hessman knew that this marriage was actually a bribe of a particularly huge amount!

Because the Yusupov family was a wealthy family in the Tsarist era, in addition to the Tsarist family, they had countless industries, including 7 houses that could be called palaces and 37 luxury houses, as well as countless works of art, as well as a large number of coal mines, iron ore, factories and oil fields in Baku!

Of course, the assets of the Yusupov family are now gem by the Soviet government and belong to all the Soviet people. But once the Soviet Union collapses and the Russian Empire is restored, the Yusupov family will be rich again. And if the boy Rudolf marrys someone's only daughter, isn't it just that he has both wealth and sex?

In order to restore the Russian queen, she really spent a lot of money this time. If it weren't for Hessmann's Chloe and his relationship was good, she would have been willing to take herself out as a prize.
Chapter completed!