When Guderian broke through the first line of defense of the Soviets in Oboyan, the Soviets 'frontline command did not realize the problem.
Because the German army had launched a full-scale counterattack, the Soviets were attacked everywhere, and the battle reports from all over the country were extremely urgent. Under such circumstances, the battle reports from the Oboyang region were naturally easily ignored.
Marshal Rokossovsky, who was in charge of planning and commanding the battle of Kursk, had a headache!
What was the German army trying to do?
They launched an all-out attack on the Soviets from almost all directions. This kind of attack was completely confusing!
There was no such thing as fighting in a war!
According to common sense, shouldn't there be a main attack direction and multiple feints?
Under normal circumstances, he should be worried about the direction of the main attack of the German army, which was the feint, and whether the feint could become the main attack...
He should be thinking about this!
But what was the situation now?
The German army was attacking fiercely everywhere, without any feint!
The Soviets had no idea how to defend against such an attack because they could not tell the direction of the enemy's main attack. Therefore, Marshal Rokossovsky did not dare to easily send his reserve troops!
If he easily sent his reserve troops to the front line, if the enemy changed their direction of attack, then he would have no usable soldiers in his hands!
Therefore, Marshal Rokossovsky still had three armies in his hands, and more than 400,000 mobile troops that could be mobilized.
However, with so many mobile troops, he did not know where he should put this army!
This was really difficult!
However, soon, Rokossovsky did not have to be troubled!
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The German army attacked fiercely all night. By dawn, the Sixth Army and the First Armored Army had successfully met at Kursk City. What about the First Army of the Soviets?
This troop had already been defeated by the German army in the second half of the night yesterday!
More than half of the soldiers of the First Guards Tank Army were killed or injured. Some of them surrendered and some were scattered. Only a few lucky ones escaped from the encirclement of the German army and escaped to the Kursk area where the Second Guards Tank Army was stationed.
However, they were not completely out of danger, because at dawn, the German army had already gathered four armies. Chen Bing was under the city of Kursk, posing as if he was going to attack Kursk!
At this time, Marshal Rokossovsky finally determined the direction of the German army's main attack. He believed that the German army must want to take Kursk, cut off the contact between the east and west sides of the Soviets, and defeat the Soviets on the south bank of the Pena River.
Therefore, he no longer hesitated and invested all his troops in the Kursk region, intending to strengthen the defense here and put on a stance to fight to the death with the German army!
It had to be said that Marshal Rokossovsky was indeed capable. He was indeed Starling's trusted general.
His judgment was almost right!
The German army's goal was indeed to defeat the Soviets on the south bank of the Pena River, but they did not intend to fight the Soviets in Kursk!!
The frontal assault of the German army was just to cover Guderian's Eighteenth Armored Corps!
Using an army of two million to cover a small army of 60,000 people, this was something that no one except Manstein would dare to think about. Marshal Rokossovsky was also deceived!
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After daybreak, while the army was seizing the time to rest and eat, the air forces of both sides could finally make their appearances!
Because the German attack was launched at night, the air forces of both sides could not send aircraft to support their troops at night.
Therefore, both sides were going all out to vent the anger that they had suppressed for the entire night!
At 6:15 in the morning, not long after the sun rose, the first aerial battle broke out in the sky above the Kursk battlefield.
It was a squadron of German BF109s fighting against a brigade of La-5 fighter jets from the Central Front.
These two fighter jets were evenly matched. During the entire Soviet-German war, the confrontation between these two aircraft had never stopped.
When the aerial battle broke out, the German army was clearly at a disadvantage because the German army had fewer aircraft and the Soviets had more aircraft.
Therefore, the German army fought and retreated, immediately returning the battlefield to the territory controlled by their own army.
The Soviets were eager to fight. Although they noticed the enemy's movements, they did not raise any alarm.
As a result, when they followed the German army into the area controlled by the German ground forces, they were immediately attacked by ground anti-aircraft fire and lost several fighter planes.
Shocked, the Soviets immediately increased their altitude in an attempt to escape the danger.
However, at this moment, the FF-110s that had been lying in ambush in the air were ready to fight. They took advantage of the moment when the Soviets were unprepared and rushed down from the sky, quickly defeating the Soviets.
This aerial battle lasted for a very short time. The entire process of the exchange of fire between the two sides was less than five minutes, but the Soviets lost 12 fighter planes while the German army only lost three!
The Soviets obviously couldn't take this lying down. Soon, they sent their main fighter jets La-7 and Jacques-9 to get back at them!
The sky above the battlefield was suddenly filled with a dense number of Soviets 'fighter planes. Moreover, the Soviets were not only sending out fighter planes, but also many bomber planes.
Obviously, they were planning to attack the German army on the ground!
Seeing that the Soviets were planning to bomb their own army, the German army naturally could not sit idly by.
As a result, the German army immediately took off and landed a large number of fighter planes, ready to compete with the Soviets for air superiority!
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In the later stages of World War II, especially after 1943, several excellent fighter planes appeared on the side of the allies.
Amongst them, the US side had the P-51 Mustang fighter jet and the P-38 Lightning fighter jet. Among them, the P-51 Mustang fighter jet had outstanding performance and completely suppressed the Type Zero fighter jet, turning the Type Zero fighter jet into a lighter. The aerial battles between the two sides often erupted into one-sided tragedies!
Because the propaganda of the United States was too strong, and the first generation of Mao Xiong had died long ago, many people ignored or did not know that during World War II, the Soviet Union also had two extremely advanced fighter planes.
The two fighter jets were La-7 and Jacques-9. The La-7 fighter jet could be said to be the most powerful fighter jet in the entire European battlefield!
The German army's BF109/BF110 had no advantage in front of the La-7. In fact, they were at a disadvantage!
This time, the Soviets had deployed more than 300 Lra-7 fighter jets at once. It was obvious that they wanted to completely overwhelm the German army and obtain air superiority on the battlefield!
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