The first day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union passed like this.

The German army that came out of the Brest Fortress broke the 14th Mechanized Army of the Soviets in front and surrounded them.

During the day, the tank troops of the 14th Mechanized Army also fought fiercely with the German tank troops, and killed several German tanks in the battle, but it was useless.

At noon, under the attack of German attack aircraft overhead and under the encirclement and annihilation of German tanks around, the 14th Mechanized Army ushered in the moment of their demise.

Tanks were catching fire and burning, and the Soviet soldiers were fighting bravely. Unfortunately, they had no chance of winning. They could not compare with Germany in quantity and quality, and even more so than Germany in comparison.

By the evening, they had only a dozen tanks left, and at the same time, their infantry were surrounded by German troops.

At this time, the Soviet army had realized something was wrong. Commander Major General Oberlin said to his deputy: "Hurry, call our reinforcements!"

When he received the order, his troops were close to the front line and caught up. At the same time, he also knew that in his rear, there must be other troops moving towards the Brest Fortress. Now, if he wants to get rid of the danger of being surrounded now, he must notify the military region and the troops in the rear to rescue the siege.

"General, our radio was strongly disturbed and could not communicate effectively with the rear." said the deputy.

Radios in this era only use on-off to represent signals. Even in this way, Germany did not let it go. It implemented strong radio interference, which completely failed their radio communications.

"It seems that we can only send people out, find a few cavalrymen, take advantage of the night to break out of the encirclement and report to the rear." Major General Oberlin was full of worries.

Using communication soldiers to contact is still the main way of this era. If reinforcements are not available, I am afraid that our own troops will be at risk of being eliminated.

At this moment, lights appeared again in the distance, which were the flames of the other party's muzzle, and a new round of shelling began. It seems that the Germans are going to besiege overnight!

The 14th Mechanized Army, with a total of more than 30,000 people, was actually 18,000. On the first day of the war, this Mechanized Army disappeared in the second half of the night.

At this time, the 9th Mechanized Army on another front was moving forward with great effort.

"Quick, hurry, accelerate, we must block the German attack!" At this time, the 9th Mechanized Army was rushing on its way wildly.

As a mechanized army of the Soviet Union, the 9th Army consisted of the 20th and 35th Tank Divisions, the 131st Mechanized Division, and the 32nd Mechanized Regiment, with a full capacity of more than 30,000 people.

During the day, in order to speed up, General Rokosovsky, commander, asked the tank division to advance first and left the mechanized division behind.

The mechanized master spent this day running, carrying his own weapons all the way. Not to mention those who carry heavy machine guns, even those soldiers carrying ordinary rifles, the grenades on their butts made their butts hurt.

However, there was no intention of stopping. They advanced 100 kilometers on this day.

Such speed seems nothing to be true in later generations. If there were cars, it would be within an hour. But now, a complete hiking marching, this 100 kilometers is definitely a deadly distance.

If you are a normal hiking marching, thirty kilometers a day is the absolute limit.

At night, the 131st Mechanized Division was completely unable to move. Even if a military order was issued, the soldiers were lying in the mud and gasping for breath.

There were also a large number of infantry in the tank division. They were pretty good and could move forward on the tanks. Unfortunately, after they advanced more than 200 kilometers, they had to stop and their fuel was about to run out.

The 20th Tank Division, the division commander of Colonel Katukov, was sick and did not lead the troops. It was led by the deputy division commander Chernyayev.

At this time, he was sitting next to a T-34 tank and was discussing with his commanders.

"We must now figure out where the Germans' main force is." Alexander, the leader of the subordinate tank regiment, said: "Now, the situation on the front line is too chaotic."

Everything was extremely chaotic. Although they were moving forward, they didn't know where the main force of the Germans was. If they were rushing through the road with dark eyes, they would easily bump into the main force of the Germans.

Although they were ordered to block the main German troops, at this time, they must know the situation on the other side.

The German tank troops have very strong combat effectiveness.

"Anyway, we can't move now, so we can just send our scouts to conduct reconnaissance twenty kilometers ahead of us." Chernyayev said.

Their fuel truck is still far behind now, and before the fuel truck arrives, they have almost no chance of continuing to move, so it is time for them to investigate.

Two years ago, Chernyayev was just a company commander, and he was also the company commander of the infantry company, and he was also inexperienced.

When the tank troops advance, they must arrange a large number of scouts in front. Only then did they remember to use scouts to detect the opposite side.

At this time, just outside their temporary station, German scouts were looking at the place.

In the first few wars, the German armored scouts used motorcycles, which were small and light, and had good off-road performance.

Afterwards, with the continuous update of equipment, the scouts finally replaced the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle. The advantage of this infantry fighting vehicle is that it runs more steadily and carries more weapons, such as recoilless cannons, which can also counterattack after encountering the opponent's tank.

After several wars, the wheeled infantry fighting vehicles also showed signs of fatigue. The new general tracked chassis infantry fighting vehicles began to equip the troops in large quantities.

However, after all, the original wheeled infantry fighting vehicles are still in service and cannot be eliminated just like this, so this kind of chassis is still the main one.

The scouts are now driving this 8*8 all-wheel drive SDKFZ232 heavy armored vehicles, and are moving to the outside of the Soviet armored forces' base, using night vision devices to look at their queues.

"I found that a large number of Soviet tank troops were resting and recuperating. Report to our troops quickly!" the scout shouted excitedly.
Chapter completed!