"What happened inside the German army? Why did their tactics and strategies begin to change? Is it related to Hitler's internal purge?"

After a long time, Zhukov muttered to himself.

"Forget it! I don't think about it anymore! No matter how the German army deploys and fights, I must win! Because this is our territory, I must drive all the German invaders out! It's even better to fight to Berlin and let these damn German troops try out what it feels like to be attacked in the country!"

Then, Zhukov muttered suddenly angrily.

After scolding, he became silent and continued to think about his next combat operation.

At this moment, under the extremely fierce artillery fire of the Soviet army, the 27th Su-Terminal Army Group quickly broke through the second line of defense of the German army with the assistance of the 163rd and 166th Infantry Divisions, as well as the 206th Infantry Division, with the assistance of the 4th Guard Tank Group.

And they quickly overcome their combat terrain and the German army's tenacious resistance, and drove straight forward like a broken bamboo.

In just a few hours, the German defensive front broke into as many as 13 kilometers.

In this tragic offensive and defensive battle, although the German 11th Panzer Division, 48th Panzer Army, 167th Infantry Division, and 225th and 322nd Infantry Divisions fought desperately.

But in the end, the Soviet army threw the 40th Army Group and the 5th Guards Tank Army into combat and gradually became defeated.

Just as the Soviet Fronitz Front achieved certain results in the crazy attack, the 53rd and 69th Army groups of the Soviet Grassland Front also launched a large-scale attack from the right wing of the German army.

And the most terrifying thing was that the Soviet Army's 3rd Guard Tank Army, with the cooperation of the 208th Infantry Division, also launched a tactical harassment attack on the German left wing.

Faced with the sudden dangerous battle situation like a singular singularity, Manstein's brow was also frowning deeply.

Because what he unexpectedly expected was that when Model's 9th Army Group successfully damaged the 13th Army Group of the Soviet Army Group, and even killed the other party's commander Bukarov, he thought that the Soviet army could temporarily stop the launch of a large-scale battle.

Who knew that Zhukov's style of play was surprisingly unexpected. When a major battle had just stopped for a few days, he began to launch a larger counterattack.

Moreover, what Manstein even more unexpected was that the German army's total force on the Eastern Front was only more than 3 million troops at most, as well as less than thousands of tanks and assault tanks.

Even if the less than 200,000 troops of the German vassal country were added to carry out defensive wars, they would not have as much force as the Soviet army.

At least according to the report of Chen Yanlong's reorganized intelligence network, the current total national force of the Soviet army is at least 59 million, and the tanks and artillery are calculated in excess of 10,000 yuan, so the support of the US military is not included.

Although the Soviet army has only dispatched about 5 million troops to Kursk to fight against the German army and fight against a large-scale counterattack.

But such troops were enough to suffer the Kursk German army.

Especially after Chen Yanlong evacuated all the elite SSs to Sicily, the combat effectiveness of Manstein's troops was significantly weakened a lot.

Even if Chen Yanlong had dispatched 300,000 reserve troops for him, it would be useless to go over to supplement them.

I thought that the combat effectiveness of these reserves was simply incomparable to the combat effectiveness of the SS.

Their strength comparison is simply like a strong adult, and the competition between a child is not on the same level.

With the Soviet army's large-scale counterattack, waves became stronger and stronger.

In just one week, the German army was able to stubbornly resist the fierce attack of the Soviet army while quickly evacuating back to the initial starting point in southern Kursk.

But even so, the Soviet reinforcements came violently like a storm and rain.

Although the number of casualties in this counterattack was huge.

However, as the defending German army, it is not that there are not many casualties; although the German army has stepped up its speed to establish many defensive fronts, preventing many Soviet attacks, and killing and injuring many Soviet soldiers and tank groups.

However, because the time for building the defensive front was too short, there were still many places where the minefields and other fortifications of the German defensive front were not established.

So the Soviet army quickly broke through these areas and launched waves of strong offensive wars against all the weaknesses of the German army, as well as artillery fire coverage, and large-scale air raids.

At the same time, Zhukov also launched his carefully brewed Kutuzov counterattack in advance.

After several days of tragic and fierce battles, with the consent of the Supreme Soviet Command, Zhukov dispatched the Western Front Army, who had not yet been put into the battle, and the Bryansk Front Army Group to the southern end of the Orleans landing ground to launch a sudden attack.

At the same time, the Central Army Group of the Soviet Army also joined the war and was also preparing to join the 11th Guard Army Group, which was conducting attack wars in the north, in order to separate the German troops in the entire Orel protrusion and divide and encircle them.

The Voronezh Front and the Grassland Front cooperated with each other and launched a violent counterattack against the German areas stationed in Belgorth Kharkov.

Supporting their attack was large-scale Soviet aviation troops, which were bombarded by the German army.

At the same time, the Supreme Soviet Command also ordered Zhukov to assemble and deploy the reserved troops, the 11th Army Group and the 4th Tank Army Group, and use fleeting big fighter jets to expand their results at any time.

In the face of the Soviet army's massive counterattack, Manstein also sent Orel to the battlefield for more than 30 divisions, the 5th and 8th armored divisions of the reserves, as well as the 305th and 707th Guard Divisions, responsible for rear guard tasks, a total of about 200,000 troops, and was also hurriedly dispatched to various battlefields for defense operations.

Although facing the increasingly fierce Soviet army and large-scale reinforcements, Manstein didn't have much worry when he first started.

Because they had already built very solid field fortifications at the Orel landing ground as Chen Yanlong ordered at the time, as well as a large number of minefields, anti-tank trenches, and various defense obstacles.

But the only bad thing that Manstein did not count was that the German aviation troops did not dispatch to support their air defense war.

For this reason, all German troops were deeply attacked by large-scale air strikes by Soviet aviation forces, and many soldiers were killed and injured; and many fortifications and minefields were also destroyed.
Chapter completed!