Chapter 446: The Battle for Warsaw (2)

The Germans spotted that the Soviet cavalry had broken into the test position of the 240-mm cannon howitzer and immediately blocked it. Ignoring the rain of bullets, Vasily led the cavalry of the whole company to desperately charge and kill.

One by one, the horses fell, and the soldiers were shot, but Vasily still rushed to the front like a madman. When the Germans saw it, they couldn't help but be frightened, turned around and ran.

Vasily did not pursue, but turned his horse's head to inspect the behemoth of the 240-mm cannon howitzer. Every time the soldiers saw this kind of huge cannon, they also felt that it was very rare, and they gathered around together.

"Lieutenant, kill this behemoth"

Seeing that the Germans began to surround him from three sides again, Vasily hesitated slightly, thinking that he would definitely not be able to pull away, and that it would be a scourge to stay, and it would be better to destroy it.

"Okay! Blew it up! "Vasily asked the soldiers to tie several grenades together, pull the fuse, throw them into the huge muzzle, and then beat the horses away. In just six or seven seconds, a loud explosion was heard behind him, and when Vasily looked back in the dark, the cannon still seemed to be moving.

The German gunfire became more and more intense, and Vasily had no choice but to abandon the proven results of the sabotage and quickly return to Pruskov with a cavalry company.

At about three o'clock in the morning, the cavalry companies of all roads returned one after another, and most of them were either wounded or disabled. Although the Valenkyn cavalry company gained a lot, it lost more than half.

Seeing this, the main commanders such as Tukhachevsky, Ivanov and Dadenov sighed and asked them to go back to the camp to rest.

"The Battle of Warsaw is going to be a very unpleasant battle, and it is difficult to sustain it without the support of the state, and it seems that the esteemed General Ivanov, and the valiant General Dadenov, it seems that our old bones will be buried here sooner or later. It's getting late, so take a break. Tukhachevsky said with a little sadness.

"Oh, listen, the rumbling of the Germans is like an endless lullaby, and I think we'll have a good sleep, Your Excellency. What should you do, take a break, too? Ivanov said helplessly.

Under the faint electric light, Tukhachevsky smiled bleakly, turned on his flashlight and walked to the huge military map behind him, and kept poking and poking his hand in a small area of Bialystok, unable to say a word for a long time.

"The defeat of the Soviets will be attributed to stupid self-confidence, and this is where the whole tragedy begins. I am sure that after the Germans close this gate, we will fight the cunning Germans to the end with no food and grass at home and no reinforcements from outside. The results can be imagined. Tukhachevsky put down his flashlight and motioned for Ivanov and Dardnov to go and rest.

"Let's go, General Dardenov." Ivanov left the command with his head down.

At this moment, the fighting in the Caucasus was also raging. From the early hours of April 22, Turkey and the Soviet forces in the South Caucasus suffered a series of fierce battles, with casualties on both sides. The Turkish government sought to gain more say in the jurisdiction of the Caspian Sea and threatened the Soviet Union with the help of a war on the Eastern Front in Germany.

Coincidentally, Iraq and Iran did not miss the opportunity, starting at Tabriz at the southwestern tip of the Caspian Sea and attacking north from both flanks around the Caspian coast. To the west, Iraq is fighting Turkey, while Iran is fighting alongside Afghanistan to the east.

The embattled Soviet Union had no intention of caring about the survival of the defenders of Warsaw, and the area was not part of the Soviet Union in the first place, so the authorities could only encourage the defenders to hold on desperately when they could not send rescue troops. The situation was extremely unfavorable for the Soviet troops in Warsaw, and Tukhachevsky could only hope for the arrival of the early summer rains, which would delay the rapid completion of the German offensive.

The idea of the Soviet army was undoubtedly the most fearful of the German army, so the units increased their artillery bombardment, and even a few 240-mm cannon howitzers that were slightly damaged by the Soviet cavalry were quickly repaired and thrown into the battlefield, hoping to tear a hole in a certain direction.

The Soviet army understood that it was impossible for reinforcements to arrive for the time being, and everything could only be relied on itself, so the counterattack was also fought very hard, and launched several group charges, but they were all blocked by the German army's sudden resistance.

The 1st Division of the German 10th Army and the 71st Division of the 11st Army were close brother units, because they had many successful cooperation on the battlefield, and they were even more comfortable with each other. As the Battle of Warsaw progressed, Hoffman once again coordinated with the two divisions, with the goal of overcoming the Soviet army's defensive positions in the eastern part of Warsaw.

On the morning of the 24th, under the cover of 150-mm cannon howitzers, the German 10th Army and the 11th Army simultaneously launched an attack on the Soviet defensive positions.

The Soviet defensive positions in Vyshkuv were suddenly covered with sudden artillery fire, and soldiers and weapons and equipment were turned over and over like dust by the intense artillery fire.

And on the flank of Vyshkov, the field howitzer group of the Soviet army 122 also launched a counterattack against the Germans at the same time. In an instant, the entire eastern part of Warsaw was shattered and artillery fired. Both sides are constantly sending troops and going forward one after another, and they are also constantly piling up corpses at the front of the battlering positions.

Under the earth-shattering artillery fire, the German tank units rolled forward, and more than 100 advanced Type 4 ironclad combat vehicles rushed to the main position of the Soviet army with the corpses and blood of soldiers on both sides.

With the Sibug River in the back of the Soviets, only an iron bridge leading to Warsaw, the vast plains and hills east of Warsaw would be unable to stop the German tanks if they broke through this defensive position.

Tukhachevsky, Ivanov, and Dardnov held an emergency meeting, and on the one hand, the Type 72 anti-tank guns were deployed forward, and on the other hand, cavalry death squads were again formed to slash and kill the infantry of the German 11th and 10th armies.

Vasily and Stepan took the initiative to serve as the chief and deputy captains of the left-wing death squad, while Sergei and Varentin took the initiative to serve as the chief and deputy captains of the right-wing death squads, each leading a battalion to insert the German attack troops from the left and right flanks, using the mobility and flexibility of the horses to evade the blows of tanks and artillery, and slash and kill the German infantry.

The thrilling scene finally appeared on the blazing eastern battlefield of Warsaw, and the cavalry battalion of the left flank fought bravely under the guidance of Vasily, facing the deafening sound of artillery, desperately fighting to the death, and everywhere it went, it was unstoppable......

On the right flank of the German attacking troops, Sergei took the lead, and a saber flickered and flew up and down on the battlefield, invincible. People shouted, horses neighed, and the earth shook. The frenzied, brutal battle scenes are terrifying and blood-pumping.

Regrettably, the two elite cavalry did not succeed in crushing the attack of the German infantry and inflicted heavy casualties on the German infantry, but not many of the young cavalry soldiers withdrew from the battlefield and fell to the wheel of the steel behemoth.

Vasily, Sergey, Stepan and Valentin broke out of the encirclement with a small number of soldiers, bypassing the Vyshkuv forward and returning to Pruskov. At this time, Tukhachevsky and others were anxiously waiting at the command of the Western Front. When they saw that the young cavalry who had been entangled and high-spirited before the departure had returned, only a dozen remnants of the defeated army remained, and their hearts were very sad.

The German offensive was also extremely difficult, the closer to the Soviet position, the more fierce the Soviet artillery fire became, and the infantry suffered heavy losses due to the interception of Vasily and Sergei's cavalry. Rommel witnessed this life-and-death contest and immediately informed Major Generals Pau Fischer and Bruno von Labadia, and immediately launched a second wave of group charges.

In order to stop the German offensive, the Soviet army was exhausted, but fortunately Warsaw had enough food and ammunition, otherwise it would have to surrender without a fight.

Captain August von Marven, the commander of Company A, Company A, 2nd Battalion, 743rd Tank Regiment, 1st Division, 1st Division of the German Army, was thin, blonde and blue-eyed, known as Elf Marven, who was good at sports warfare, and was only a small commander during the German-Italian War, and was later promoted to captain company commander because of his outstanding achievements.

In many domestic competitions, August von Marvin was a rival to Tyrol Speer and Mesut Siegfried. None of them obeyed anyone, and they once swore to see the high and low on the battlefield, but at this time, their opportunity to secretly compete began to wait.

While Speer and Siegfried led their companies of armored vehicles to rush to the Soviet positions, Company A under the command of Marven also slowly approached the main Soviet positions in the same wave of charge.

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