Germany's offensive was quite fierce. When the daylight came, the German troops were already rushing.

Three armies, 20,000 tanks, rushed wildly on the vast land of the Soviet Union.

Take the Central Army as an example. After dawn, it was divided into two directions, with the 2nd armored cluster and the 3rd armored cluster as the lead, and the high-speed advance tanks as the main force of the attack. It quickly advances from the Suvauki province of East Prussia and the Brest Fortress in Warsaw area toward the Yavestok protrusion and Minsk in the east. If you look at it from the map, it is like two extended arms surrounding the central part of Belarus in your arms.

When their main force met in Minsk, more than 600,000 troops from the Western Soviet Special Military Region in the entire Belarus region will be surrounded.

Now, the situation on the front line is undoubtedly not optimistic.

Due to the sudden attack, German troops rarely encountered large-scale organized resistance and counterattack during the initial attack. The troops at various garrisons must unite and become one in order to be able to fight. However, now, the troops in the entire Western Special Military Region have not received any orders. They can only exchange sporadic fire with the German troops in their defense zones, and are waiting for the Western Front Command to issue combat orders.

The situation on the front line was chaotic, and in the Kremlin, senior Soviet commanders were also judging the situation ahead.

It is obvious that such a huge military invasion by the Germans was impossible to be simply stimulated by their own thunderstorm plan. Such a military scale of the Germans needed to be mobilized at least half a year in advance.

All of us were deceived by the Germans.

Now, it is useless to say that these are the same. Do the Germans launch an attack on such a long front at the same time? Do they have enough strength, or do they have main attacks and feints? Where is their strategic goal?

"We have not contacted the Western Special Military Region yet." An adjutant came in and reported to Zhukov.

Looking at the large-scale map, the blue arrows drawn on it are the now known sequence of attacks by the German army. However, the information collected by several limited reconnaissance aircraft is not accurate.

Even so, Zhukov still smelled something from the middle.

"Now, our special military region in the west is very dangerous." Zhukov said to Stalin: "Now, the Germans are attacking in our central region, Belarus."

Pointing at the map above with the command pole, Zhukov analyzed: "In the middle of these two attacking troops, the main forces of our Western Special Military Region. These troops are currently in their garrisons or camping. Their deployment depth is too shallow, and they cannot attack or defend here. If the German army quickly encircled from both wings, the three armies inside would be easily eaten by the Germans."

Zhukov distrusts Pavlov, and he still has no idea of ​​the overall situation. Moreover, the German attack was so fierce that Pavlov might have been knocked out.

Stalin also frowned: "Then contact Pavlov immediately and ask him to organize troops to stop the Germans' attack and cut off the Germans' attack arm."

"However, we cannot contact Pavlov, he is not in the Special Military Region Command." Zhukov said helplessly.

At this critical moment, as the commander of the entire Western Special Military Region and the commander of the scene who collided with the Germans in the first wave, Pavlov was not in his position!

No one knows where Pavlov is now. Germany's attack has been planned for a long time, many telephone lines have been cut off, communication soldiers have been assassinated, and chaos has occurred.

But at least, Pavlov should be at his command, where did he go?

At this time, Pavlov, who was muttered by Moscow, had already arrived at the garrison of the Thirteenth Army and summoned the senior commanders of the Army.

"This is our most critical battle. We must muster up the courage to defeat the enemy with the belief of victory. Our Soviet army is the most powerful and our tanks are the most advanced. Now, let us unite around the Party Central Committee with Stalin as the core at the same time..."

Pavlov's speech lasted for more than two hours. During these more than two hours, emergency war reports continued to be heard, but no one dared to hand them to Pavlov.

Later generations evaluated Pavlov, some people said that he was wronged. After all, few of the first wave of troops entering the battlefield survived. It depends on who caught up and who was unlucky.

However, Pavlov was still unforgivable. At this critical moment, he was not in his front-line command, but in a group army command on the front line. He was simply stupid.

In his eyes, the most important thing now is to encourage everyone and strengthen their belief in victory. As the commander of the dignified Western Special Military Region, he is now doing the task of a propaganda department officer.

General Pavlov was promoted too fast and took on excessive responsibilities before he had the corresponding ability. During the Spanish Civil War, he was just a tank soldier, and he had no idea of ​​the overall situation at all.

He was even more incompetent when he served in the Western Special Military Region. The two most elite armies went forward to the Biavestok protrusion and did not have enough reserves. The air force was concentrated in a few airports and became a good target for the enemy.

Moreover, now, after the war began, Pavlov actually ran into a group of troops, which was equivalent to giving up the overall command of the front army, aggravating the chaos. The losses of hundreds of thousands of troops were not wronged on him.

Just when the 14th Mechanized Army on the front was tortured by German tank troops, in their south, the 9th Mechanized Army of the Southwest Front was still rushing to the road.

In the Ukrainian direction, Germany also launched a large-scale attack, and the 9th Mechanized Army was ordered to march towards the areas of Warrensky New City, Rovno and Lutsk.

"Quick, fast, we must reach our position according to the command of the headquarters!"

The 9th Mechanized Army was arranged in the rear, but now they are ordered to rush to the front line, and their troops are exhausted.

The 35th Tank Division is a mechanized unit that can advance on the field and leave the road to their brothers' 131st Motorized Infantry Division.

At this time, carrying their own equipment, the infantry comrades were panting.

The trucks under construction were completely gone, and their motorized unit was completely a pure infantry.
Chapter completed!