"We have roughly known how much troops the German army attacked Kharkov!"

When the battle in Kharkov was getting more and more intense, Zhukov also received the latest reconnaissance report on the Kharkov battlefield, and looked at Marshal Rokosovsky, who was still by his side, patrolling the rectification and training of the troops and mobilizing them.

"How many German troops dispatched? Is the main general still Manstein?"

Marshal Rokosovsky also asked hurriedly.

"Half of the entire Southern Army Group's forces, and hundreds of thousands of troops from minion countries, including Romania, Italy, Hungary, Spain; troops from Finland, France, Slovakia, and Croatia were also involved, and Ukrainian troops joined the battle sequence."

"And the troops that took the lead for the German army, besides Hitler's most elite armed SS, were the troops of these servants who were attacking fiercely against our troops stationed in Kharkov with the assistance of the German Wehrmacht!"

"And our reconnaissance team and the spies who have already entered the German army have also reconnaissed Manstein and went to the front line to command the battle. They are also airlifting a large number of Scud missiles to Kharkov to prepare for devastating missile bombing there!"

Zhukov continued to frown deeply, and said without any optimism.

"What was Hitler thinking? Why did he suddenly dispatch such a large number of troops to attack Kharkov? Is he going to fight back with us?"

"So should we draw some troops to rescue Kharkov from the more than 1.2 million troops dispatched by Comrade Stalin to us?"

After hearing this, Marshal Rokosovsky widened his eyes in shock and exclaimed in disbelief.

"I don't know! Our intelligence agencies have not yet found out where the ultimate goal of Hitler's sudden launch of Kharkov sneak attack was!"

"And our most important strategic goal now is to launch the Leningrad-Novgorod Battle, and now our seven armies, including the 60th, 38th, 13th and 1st, 5th, 3rd and 18th guards, as well as the 4th guards tank army, have also been completed and can enter the state of combat at any time!"

"Although I have just dispatched the 3rd Guards Army and the 1st Guards Tank Army to Kharkov to fight the German army's invasion, we still have a lot of tank troops gathering at hand!"

"And the most important thing is that after Comrade Stalin received the news of the German attack on Kharkov, he did not ask me or other marshals to dispatch troops to Kharkov to provide support!"

"And Comrade Stalin just sent me a telegram asking me to rectify the troops that were taking action as soon as possible and prepare to launch the Leningrad-Novgorod Battle in the past or two days!"

"Although I don't know why Hitler suddenly sent Manstein to attack Kharkov, I can see that Comrade Stalin asked me to lead the troops to attack Leningrad-Novgorod as soon as possible. I'm afraid it was just to take advantage of the current German army's concentration of half of its troops to attack Kharkov, so I caught the German army off guard!"

"First solve the German army in the Leningrad-Novgorod area, and then find a way to solve the German army in the Kharkiv and Kiev!"

Zhukov said without any concealment of his thoughts and the instructions given to him by Stalin.

"Then what are you planning to launch a large-scale sneak attack on Leningrad-Novgorod tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"

Marshal Rokosovsky said with a sharp look after his eyes were silent.

"Well! I plan to set out tomorrow morning, but Stalin has dispatched a group of elite paratroopers and will launch airborne attacks on Leningrad-Novgorod tonight and large-scale bombing of air forces!"

"In addition to these battles, we must also contact the US aircraft carrier fleet. They have arrived in the Baltic Sea and have already contacted our Baltic Sea fleet, so we must cooperate with them!"

"And after we launched the Leningrad-Novgorod Battle, Eisenhower also carried out sneak attacks on Italy and France at the same time to cooperate with our Leningrad-Novgorod Battle, put the German army on the east-west fronts and caught them off guard!"
Chapter completed!