In the central sector, the German flyboys were out in force, no need to encourage them with base bombing. On the ground, there were attacks across the whole sector, with the centerpiece a return to the land bridge region with the combined panzer armies. He stuck a big thumb up into my position, but without strong supporting infantry forces on the other side of the penetration, he was not able to pocket any of my guys. I tried a counter-attack to gain a small pocket on him, but once again the first unit attacked retreated into just the wrong spot and foiled my nefarious plan. Oh, well, pretty much all the guys who were in danger of being pocketed were able to retreat to a solid line to the north and east. I brought an army around from Western Front to back up the Reserve Front guys and bombed the dickens out of his tank spearheads. Hopefully, now they’ve been fighting for five turns steadily, they don’t have too many movement factors left.
Infantry assaults continued north and south of the main zone. A small armored group appeared along the road to Bryansk and another in the northern sector heading for the hills there. Unclear to me what they’re doing there, but I did my best to strengthen Bryansk Front to prevent a breakthrough there.
