On June 22, 1941, Germany sent an army of 5.5 million troops to invade the Soviet Union in three ways. The Soviet Union was completely unprepared for the German offensive, and the Kiev Special Military District, the Western Special Military District and the Baltic Special Military District, which were at the forefront of the war, were caught off guard by the German army, and the front line lost cities and land one after another, and could not establish reliable contact with the troops below, and even the contact with Moscow was intermittent.
Under such circumstances, Stalin in Moscow could not have known what was happening on the front line, but could only send representatives of the base camp from Moscow to the front line to inspect and understand what the situation on the front line was.
Soviet Field Marshal Grigory Ivanovich Kulik was the representative of the Soviet base camp who was sent to the front, and he was going to the best military region of the former Soviet Union, the Western Special Military District, which has now been renamed the Western Front. And what is the situation with the Western Front?
The officers and men of the various units were very emotionally stable, because they were about to "walk very peacefully." Under the miraculous command of Pavlov, a major soviet army general and commander of the Western Front, almost all the troops of the Western Front rushed into the Białystok salient, intending to fight with the "powerful attacking forces of the German army".
So, is there a "powerful German attack force" here? Obviously, Mao didn't have it either. Marshal von Bock, the commander of the German Army Group Center, was not an idiot like Pavlov, so why would the troops and the Soviets be confronted? Guderian and Hot each took an armored group, detoured from the two wings of the Białystok salient, and then directly encircled the main force of the Western Front at the Białystok salient, and then went straight to Minsk, intending to form another encirclement and capture Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
However, none of this could be known to Kulik, after all, Pavlov left the Front Command and ran to a certain unit on the front line after giving the order to counterattack, and although he brought the radio, he did not tell the Front Command his radio frequency, so that not only Kulik could not contact him, but even the Front Command could not contact him.
And Kulik thought that the Western Front was originally the most elite unit of the Soviet Union, and should not be too badly beaten by the Germans, so he simply ordered the plane to fly into the Białystok salient, and he wanted to see what the front line was like before going to Minsk.
As a result, this move completely hurt him, because as soon as his plane entered the skies over the Bialystok salient, German fighters targeted the plane he was on. If the pilot had not been so skilled that he had forced a landing on the ground before he was about to be shot down, it is estimated that Kulik would have been killed.
When Kulik came out, he was also confused and completely confused about what was happening, but as a veteran he still knew that the situation was very critical at the moment, so he immediately sent his aide-de-camp Brodin to look for the nearby Soviet troops, and he himself led people to hide.
As luck would have it, Kulik's plane landed near the headquarters of the Soviet 10th Army, so Brodin soon found the headquarters of the 10th Army. The commander of the 10th Army, Major General Bolebev, originally thought that Brodin might be a German spy in disguise, but in Brodin reported his military status and took out the relevant documents, and said that Marshal Kulik was nearby at the moment, and if he could not go to the rescue immediately, it was estimated that Kulik would be dead. Rear Admiral Bolebev was stunned and immediately led a division of troops to rescue Kulik.
By the time the gang found Kulik, he was sitting on a T-34 tank, half-cocked out of the turret, brandishing his pistol to command a group of Soviet routs who had gathered up, and fighting a German unit as if he had gained the upper hand.
After repelling the Germans, Kulik learned the real situation of the battlefield from Bolebev - it turned out that the Western Front had been surrounded by the Germans, and Minsk was also precarious. Kulik is not well now, and he bluntly says that he seems not to be in Belarus, but in France.
But now is not the time to think about these things, Kulik has to try to break out of the siege with reinforcements, otherwise there is a risk of being completely wiped out. As a last resort, Kulik took command of the 10th Army and led the 10th Army to break out in the direction of Smolensk.
It must be said that This Kulik was good at it, but he walked along the forest with the 10th Army for a month, and then successfully broke through, and Stalin, who was far away in Moscow, thought that Kulik was killed. But the thrilling trip itself didn't bring Any good luck to Kulik, as he would be sent to the Kerch Peninsula, where he would suffer even greater failures.