Since the day the encirclement was closed, the German troops outside the encirclement have been persisting in rescuing, but they have failed due to insufficient strength and bad weather. At 4:50 am on March 11, the 39th Armored Army once again sent the 411th Grenadier Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Trom as a rescue column to start breaking through the Soviet army around Holm, but was repelled by the Soviet resistance.

At this time, they received support from the No. 3 assault gun of the 184th Assault Running Battalion of the 122nd Infantry Division, and continued to launch an assault the next day. Although the vanguard of the infantry had approached only one kilometer from the town, the breakthrough was still unsuccessful. In the early morning of March 12, the German infantry and assault guns began to make a breakthrough again. While they were advancing, they were accompanied by the air strikes of Stuka bombers. These "screaming deaths" bombed the Soviet troops west of Holm Town violently.

Under the double strike of artillery and dive bombers, the Soviet position was finally broken through an hour later, and the defense personnel fled in scattered. The leading vehicles of reinforcements slowly drove into the messy town of Holm, and the officers and soldiers of the "Sherer Battle Group" stood up from the trenches.

At this point, Holm's siege ended. In the 105-day bloody battle surrounding this small land, the guard troops with less than 6,000 men collapsed the enemy's total 6 infantry divisions, 6 independent brigades and 2 tank brigades launched no less than 100 main offensives, shot down two enemy planes and destroyed 42 enemy tanks, and also launched 10 infantry assaults and 42 counterattacks. During the entire battle, the German army suffered a total of 1,550 deaths and another 2,200 injured. Until the moment the friendly forces reached, the last remaining 1,200 remained on the position.

Although Brigadier General Sherel and his battle group successfully defended this important land bridge, the danger was not completely lifted. The Soviet 3rd Assault Army was still gathering offensive forces nearby, and the surviving defenders did not end the battle. Due to the arrival of reinforcements, they lost more soldiers' lives during the battle. Lieutenant Colonel Trom, the first to rush into the encirclement, was also killed in a battle of two kilometers northwest on the 20th.

At the end of March, all the troops and personnel in the original encirclement were sent back to the rear, and for many survivors who were trapped, their suffering was still not over. After returning to the rear, the fatal "typhus" disease infected during the trap quickly defeated these strong soldiers and had to lie in the hospital for a long time to receive long treatment.

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If the Battle of Kursk fails, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the German army on the Eastern Front. In a sense, if this battle fails, Germany will completely lose the possibility of winning on the Soviet battlefield.

"It is important for military affairs to be a major national event, and you must observe it." Li Mo did not continue to pay attention to the spy storm in Berlin. Instead, he visited the troops on the Soviet front and inspected the difficulties faced by the North and Central Army Groups on the spot. The cold was the main enemy of these German troops.

Fortunately, Li Mo organized Germany to produce countless cold-proof clothing in the early stage. Although Hitler did not distribute cold-proof clothing to millions of soldiers in the North and Central Army Groups, it does not mean that the German army did not. Li Mo took advantage of the period when the Soviet army was frustrated to supply cold-proof clothing, weapons, ammunition, and soldiers to these two army groups.

This is not an easy task. Thousands of logistics staff need to use Li Mo's original computer, busy day and night, train dispatch, material distribution, transportation guarantee, etc. Of course, these specific tasks do not require Li Mo, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, to be busy, but those logistics staff officers who work silently.

The German staff officer was undoubtedly the best professional soldier in the world at this time, which made Li Mo less energy. All supplies went very smoothly, and even the Soviet guerrillas rarely attacked German transport vehicles. Of course, there was a reason. In the past month, Li Mo implemented a democratic and relaxed policy in the Soviet occupied areas.

All Soviet peasants could obtain twenty acres of land for free, which to a great extent dispelled the Soviets' hostility towards Germany, and at the same time eliminated the survival "soil" of the Soviet guerrillas. If these numbers of guerrillas do not surrender, they will only end up being wiped out.

The German army was not responsible for the work of encircling and suppressing the stubborn Soviet guerrillas, but the Russian People's Liberation Army. Since the outbreak of the German War, the German army captured about three million Soviet troops, and now all of them were taken over by Li Mo. The Soviet army willing to participate in the Russian People's Liberation Army will be released immediately. There is also a free land certificate. The number of Russian People's Liberation Army under Buluheer soared to more than one.5 million.

More than 1.5 million Russian People's Liberation Army has become an armed force that cannot be ignored. Li Mo, the security guard in the Soviet-occupied area, was completely handed over to the Russian People's Liberation Army. Under such circumstances, the Russian People's Liberation Army can still use 800,000 troops to participate in the front-line battle.

Of course, these weapons used by the Russian PLA were basically Soviet weapons seized by the German army. Another point is that the number of Russian PLA personnel was controlled within two million. The Russian PLA could not have local jurisdiction. Their supplies could only be allocated by Li Mo. This is the iron chain that Li Mo put on their necks and could not get rid of. Stalin's policy of not admitting captives made the iron chain indestructible. These Russian PLAs had no chance at all. Even if they were slaughtered by Stalin anyway, they could only follow the German army to the black.

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After a year of war consumption, the German army did not have enough divisions to defend the long line of defense from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The best choice for the German army at this time was to implement mobile defense and take a series of retreat actions to weaken the offensive assault power.

The German army in 1941 had accumulated rich combat experience. Although the training quality had generally declined, its morale was still strong. Compared with the enemy at this time, the German army still had great advantages. Therefore, they were able to complete the task proposed by the strategy of consuming the enemy through combat maneuvers. Since the German army defended in the depth of the enemy territory, there was enough space in the rear to carry out tenacious defensive battles in favorable places. In other areas where the Soviet army might be broken through, they weakened the Soviets' offensive strength and exhausted them by retreating calmly and then suddenly carrying out counterattacks.

From a strategic perspective, although the German army lost many elite troops in Moscow and the Volga River, the gap in strength between the Soviet and German armies in 1941 was not too large, which made Germany still have enough strength to eliminate the Soviet Union. Therefore, if the German Command could formulate a clever strategic route in time, the outcome of the war was far from certain.

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