No Lötzen decision?

Suppose the Germans, instead of detracting forces from Army Group Center to help Army Group South encircle and destroy the Soviet Forces at Kiev, keep pushing their drive to Moscow. What are the effects?
 
The Battle of Moscow is the graveyard of German armor in 1941, but the Soviets are too depleted by their own victory to begin more than a sequence of local offensives for some time in 1942, the Germans defeated by a combination of massive attacks from the Soviet Western and Southwestern Fronts. The German offensive sees the usual Nazi blend of stupid valor, complete ignorance of logistics, slipshod management, appalling brutality, and coming just so near and yet so far to success at various points in a venture foredoomed to fail from the start. Hitler purges his generals when their big baby turns out to be a bust and starts running the war all by himself by 1942.
 
One problem of continuing the central advance is that the rail conversion process was slow. Once Typhoon started in October they were closer to the German front at Smolensk then (but not as close as they could/should have been) the conversion process was slow (destroyed bridges and what not). So your going to be on an even more logistical shoestring than Typhoon was in October.

But....
Instead of an all out push in August-September 1941. Maybe you do a little torward making Typhoon better in October.

1) What was the 3rd Panzer army doing of good in the Valdai Hills anyway. Maybe you keep that in the center holding the Yelna bridgehead and maybe advancing a bit.

2) Maybe Guderian when he swings south bites a little further east torward Orel, maybe instead of being in the Valdai Hills, 3rd Panzer army supports him.

Basically you are trying to do Typhoon in October a little further east from where it actually started. Of course you would have to do better at pushing the rails up further than OTL to start Typhoon on time.

Really though most 1941 Germans do better TLs should have the Germans take Leningrad, they were so close to completely cutting it off / starving it out in November 1941 that it wouldn't take much to make that happen.
 
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