As the star Qi gradually fades, the long dark night is about to pass.

In the temporary camping site of the command center, Chu Sinan looked at the tall young man standing in front of him, and his mood was almost the same as the sky at this time.

At this time, the young man standing in front of Chu Sinan was a German officer in the military uniform, with the rank of lieutenant, but in fact, his identity was a member of the Soviet army. The young man's name was Victor Gergievich Kulickov, a company commander of the former Leningrad Front Motorized Reconnaissance Battalion. He and more than 20 scout soldiers led by him were performing reconnaissance missions this time.

Just four hours ago, Kulikov and his soldiers attacked a group of German search teams camped near Shangliubovsha Town. For future reconnaissance work, they changed into German uniforms, but unexpectedly they were shocked to leave Chu Sinan's troops who were boarding in Shangliubovsha Town at that time.

As a local from a small town, Kulikov was naturally familiar with everything in the town. Therefore, after learning that a major general of the Soviet army had just left the place, he didn't bother to stay for a long time and rushed up.

At that time, Chu Sinan and the team he led did not go far. The two sides almost had a conflict directly, just one mile away from the town. If Kulikov had not revealed his identity in time, it would have been a war between them.

The arrival of Kulikov brought great news to Chu Sinan, that is, Lieutenant General Popov, who had lost his news for a long time, was leading a force under his 52 episodes to live in this area. Kulikov himself was also affiliated with this force.

What does it mean to look for something without searching? Chu Sinan feels that his current situation is just right.

However, what Kulikov brought was not just good news. He also told Chu Sinan that Lieutenant General Popov and the team he led were in a bad situation. Due to the concentrated team, during this period, his troops intermittently exchanged fire with the German pursuit and suppression troops several times, with great casualties and a large amount of weapons and ammunition. However, in this area, they did not get good logistics supplies. In order to maintain the troops, Lieutenant General Popov had to organize transfers while looking for opportunities to attack the German logistics supply stronghold.

In this way, the situation of the entire army seemed to have entered a vicious cycle. When a battle arises, the troops, weapons and ammunition will be lost. If they do not fight or even attack the German strongest strongholds, the troops will not get enough supplies. This time, the purpose of Kulikov's investigation was to find the German logistics base set up in this area, and then do a good job.

The difficult situation faced by Popov sounded a wake-up call to Chu Sinan. He guessed that the problems faced by Popov and his fifty-two episodes should also be common in several other episodes. However, the main strategy for the other episodes in the previous period was to conceal and preserve their strength. Without large-scale battles, the time they could persist should be longer. However, no matter how long they could persist, it would probably not be delayed until the end of the month.

"It seems that my time is very tight." Chu Sinan tightened his coat, looked at the sky slightly white in Dongfang, and frowned and thought.

Judging from the connection with other dispersed groups of the Front in the past two days, the entire original Leningrad Front troops were still quite scattered in terms of region: the 4th episode is still far from the north of Mga to the south bank of Lake Ladoga. In the short term, it is obviously unrealistic to get them closer to the east; the main force of the 9th episode is still cruising to the east of Kirish, where they are located from the Wolf Front.

The Budogogi front was not far away, but there were several lines of defense of the German 16th Army. The location of the fifty-four episodes was far away. A few days ago, because the German army built a large-scale bunker offensive in the Krasnogvaljesk area, forcing the fifty-four episodes that were cruising in this area to move westward, their main force had been compressed from the Liuban area. It was obviously even more unrealistic to let them move eastward.

According to Chusnan's initial idea, he hoped to move his troops together in a certain manner and scale through a period of guerrilla warfare, and then complete the assembly from Volkhov to Shipinselburg, build a defense line, and cut off the German army's retreat to the north, so as to join the former Volkhov Front in the south and Cuikov's Northern Front in the entire northern line to achieve the encirclement of the German army, and eventually trap them in the water network area of ​​the Beloye Lake area.

However, the battle situation has reached this point, and the two main armies of the former Leningrad Front Army were shackled outside Chu Sinan's expected assembly site, which has caused the fragile force of the "Pocket Array" sealing troops. It is obvious that it is too dangerous and the tactical enforceability is too poor.

In the dark light, Chu Sinan summoned Lukoongi and took the war zone map from him.

It was still dark at this time, and there were many small place names on the large-scale map of the entire war zone, but there was one thing Chu Sinan could see very clearly, that is, the German offensive route and defensive front with blue tones, and opposite to that was the Soviet troops gathering area and defensive front with red tones.

Under the darkness, Chu Sinan saw a very interesting picture on this map. The interlaced and uneven red and blue tones seemed to have been deliberately processed and presented a very realistic pattern. What does this pattern look like? It looks like... it looks like a sickle? Yes, it looks like a sickle.

From Jihwen in the east and to Novgorod in the west, this slightly bent arc runs through two strategic areas of Budogoshi and Vishera. These four strategic strongholds on a regular arc are the defensive fronts of the former Volkhov Front. Opposite them is the offensive front of the German Northern Cluster, mainly including the main force of the 16th Army of the German Army, the main force of the 18th Army, the two armored armies and three motorized divisions under the Fourth Tank Cluster.

The stalemate positions of both sides formed a nearly perfect sickle pattern, and the German offensive troops were on the edge of the sickle. Of course, under the blade of the sickle, there were also various scattered troops of the Leningrad Front, which were scattered like sparse wheat and rice.

Chu Sinan considered, if he could wield the sickle, what would be the one that would be cut off?

Oh, my goodness.

When Chu Sinan looked back, he saw that the sickle had not only cut off the blade and wheat rice, but also the one who was surrounded by many - Leningrad.
Chapter completed!