"First of all, our pilots found that their skiers had crossed your wings to encircle you!" Kruger explained: "You can't beat their skiers!"

"It's good news, Marshal!" said Colonel Slain, "Do you mean to let us put down our weapons and surrender?"

"No, Colonel!" Kruger said: "I hope you can fight to the last minute, you know... buy us time, we will try our best to provide you with air support! The longer you persist, the more time we can get to retreat!"

"So what about our retreat?" asked Colonel Slain.

There was no answer on the other end of the phone, and then Colonel Slain answered weakly: "I understand!"

Then he hung up the phone.

The officers and soldiers around, including Qin Chuan, all stared at Colonel Slein in a daze. They all understood something from the conversation just now.

"Colin!" Adjutant Lucas asked Colonel Slein: "What army, the enemy army?"

Colonel Slain nodded, then stood up and said lightly: "Yes, guys, this is the difference from our African battlefield. Here we will encounter an army at any time. We should get used to this!"

"What is the order?" Lucas asked.

Colonel Slain spit out a word from his teeth: "Persevere!"

Everyone was silent, they knew what it meant.

Then suddenly someone stood up and said, "Damn it, let us go to block an army, they must be crazy!"

"We came to save them, but they treated them as victims!"

...

"Shut up!" Colonel Slain shouted: "We are surrounded, and we have no choice but to do so!"

Colonel Slain did what a regiment commander should do. Although he also had complaints in his heart, as a colonel, he could only consider the issues from the perspective of the interests of the entire army or from the perspective of national interests.

Otherwise what can he do?

retreat?

It was too late. As Kruger said, both wings were surrounded by ski soldiers, and the Soviets even needed these ski soldiers to pile the First Infantry Regiment to death.

surrender?

The Soviets were not kind-hearted men and women, and surrendering was also a dead end.

Therefore, from these aspects, Kruger's order is still correct, and the First Infantry Regiment should play a little more role before being annihilated by the enemy.

"The enemy is interspersed!" Qin Chuan said, looking at the map.

"Of course, Captain!" said Colonel Slain, "Everyone knows it!"

"Their target is not us!" Qin Chuan continued.

"What does it mean, Captain?" asked Colonel Slain.

"To the north of us is the Northern Army Group!" Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said: "To the south is the Central Army Group. The goal of the Soviets is to pass through the middle of the two Army Groups and cut off the connection between the two Army Groups!"

"So..." Colonel Slain didn't understand Qin Chuan's meaning.

"So we still have a chance!" Qin Chuan said: "They won't hold on to our group, as this will only delay their interweaving speed!"

Colonel Slain nodded: "What do you mean is we want to find a strategic place to stick to?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "And at least it is a town, because we don't have enough supplies. If we stay in the forest, we will either starve or freeze to death!"

So Colonel Slein turned his attention to a small town a few kilometers away...Holm.

"Holm!" said Colonel Slain: "Only the town of Holm can meet these requirements!"

Of course Qin Chuan knew this because he knew that Holm was the last place in history and was also the only way to survive for the First Infantry Regiment.

"Colin!" said Lucas, an adjutant: "Persistence in Holm is also a perseverance, and this is not considered disobeying the order! We just retreated a few kilometers and continued to persevere..."

Looking at the anticipated gazes around him, Colonel Slain nodded and ordered: "Get out of Holm!"

Just as the First Infantry Regiment retreated to Holm, the Central Army Group Command was busy with a regiment.

Kruger immediately sent a reconnaissance plane to reconnaissance in Lerot, and found that the Soviets were attacking far more than one army, but three army groups.

"The enemy is an army attacking the old Russa south of Lake Ilmen!" Treskov said while marking the attack direction on the map: "A army attacks the direction of Daluki with Lake Selig as the breakthrough point, and another army attacks the direction of Toropez!"

After pausing, Treskov continued: "Their purpose is obvious. After arriving at the Lovati River, we can cut off and destroy our troops on the east bank of the Lovati River to the north, and then set up defenses along the Lovati River, so that we can cut off the connection between the Central Army Group and the Northern Army Group. Or, they may arrive on the Baltic coast to cut off the retreat route of the Northern Army Group and cooperate with the Suvolkhov Front to surround our Northern Army Group. Or, they can penetrate hard into the rear of the Central Army Group."

Kruger's face was decayed. Each of the possibilities Treskov mentioned would cause a devastating blow to the German army, especially the German Northern Army Group.

Because the Northern Army Group is responsible for attacking Leningrad (also known as St. Petersburg) in the north, the Baltic Sea to the west, and the Soviet Union to the east and north. If the Soviet army successfully penetrated the south... Then the Northern Army Group either surrendered or jumped into the sea to walk.

So Kruger stopped hesitating and immediately ordered: "Retreat immediately, and the entire army retreated 100 kilometers!"

"But...Marson!" Treskov replied: "The head of the army is not allowed to take a step back!"

"Don't pay attention to the orders of the head of state!" Kruger said: "We must live first to have the strength to obey the orders of the head of state!"

"Yes, Your Excellency Marshal!" Treskov replied, the strange color in his eyes flashing.

What Kruger didn't know was that his chief of staff, General Treskov, was actually a member of the German resistance movement. To be precise... Treskov was actually one of the leaders of the organization planning and organizing the assassination of Hitler.

Treskov believes that to assassinate Hitler and take control of the German regime, one must have military power.

Therefore, Kruger, the new commander of the Central Army Group, was one of his favorites.
Chapter completed!