For the Battle of Kiev is the largest encirclement and annihilation war in the history of World War II and the history of human warfare, Germany eliminated one-third of the Soviet Union's front-line defense forces at that time, there is no mistake, its tactical conception is perfect and the number of annihilated enemies, can be compared with the first large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle in human history, Changping Battle, looking at the two battles, the only difference is that the German army used tanks, while the Qin used cavalry.
But the perfection of tactics does not mean strategic perfection, which is why the author wants to use the Battle of Changping in the Warring States period of China and the Battle of Kiev in Germany to make a juxtaposition comparison, the first large-scale encirclement and annihilation war in human history, the Battle of Changping was the fate of the Qin State and the Zhao State at that time to block the fate of the national fortunes is to the point where it is indispensable, Shangdang is the unowned enclave of South Korea, Kiev was the Soviet Union's terra nullius at that time, the phrase "as far as the party can win the world" can show the importance of this strategic enclave at that time.
During World War II, Germany faced the city of Kiev, its strategic position was obviously lower than that of Moscow, the established target of Germany at that time, and the strategic arrangement of the German army at that time was a quick decision, because Germany was a medium-sized country and not a superpower like the Soviet Union, with extremely deep strategic depth and a large number of personnel and combat readiness resources. But hitler, the german fuehrer at that time, when he learned that his kiev enclave surrounded 800,000 Soviet Red Army, Hitler was moved, he hesitated, and finally issued the most dramatic order in history, Hitler ordered the German Army Group Center, which was already a few feet away from the Soviet capital Moscow, to urgently change direction and join the Battle of Kiev, which encircled the Soviet Union's 800,000 troops, and although the Decision of the German high command was perfect in the tactical sense, it was strategically important. Germany can be said to have made a major change on the spot, a war of tactics dominated by strategic significance, and in the blink of an eye a war dominating the strategic pattern in the tactical sense, a word difference turned upside down, so that in the late summer of 1941 the Soviet Union could breathe a sigh of relief and regroup its forces on the front line of Moscow, the Caucasus, and Stalingrad, and make comprehensive defense preparations.
As the autumn of 1941 was coming to an end and the autumn leaves were about to wither away, after a soldier on the German front sneezed with a shiver, the calendar of history, the scale of victory had quietly fallen to the Soviet side, and the dominance of the eastern front of World War II was no longer entirely in the hands of the Germans. The Soviet Union was approaching a harsh winter, the German army was still wrapped in summer clothes, but when the German commander realized this, a Soviet army had swept in without a snowstorm for 40 years, accompanied by a burst of Soviet T34 tanks roaring, groups of German soldiers who were frozen and could not even hold their guns, crushed to pieces by Soviet tanks, the German army panicked, shouted, as if defending Kiev at that time 800,000 Soviet Red Army, and the loss of the Soviet army of 800,000 troops was meaningful, and the German army group army was under moscow. The fiasco was pointless, and every soldier's loss was draining German blood until it dried up.