Don Bend Scen. in S42

[Boston33]

This is the first PzC title that I've played, I played SpWaw for a long time so the operational scale is a little daunting for me at first. In a tactical level game, you are basically using every unit to advance or defend with very specific goals. In PzC I'm assuming you don't usually advance all along the line, as this would be suicide, but rather in certain sectors with the hard hitting mobile units better suited to offense. Can I ignore the Russian center and focus on a pincer movement to link the north and south divisions or do I need to advance all of my divisions in a relatively straight line, engaging Russian units as I go? I know historically an encirclement would be very effective and the pocketed units could easily be mopped up or would surrender by themselves. Whether that's plausible within the game system I don't know, however. It would seem that even if I joined both the north and south pincers somewhere along the Don, there would still be lots of Russian forces trapped behind that I would need to be destroyed for me to receive victory points. Can the thinly spread screening units in the middle acheieve this?