Chapter 365: The Brest Division

Onward, onward!

In the eastern part of Poland, Soviet Red Army units were advancing towards Poland. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The territory here was originally theirs, and the Poles, thinking that they were strong, forcibly split this territory from the territory of the Soviets, and now it is time for the Poles to pay the price!

Bands of cavalry, riding tall horses, galloped across the field.

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, strangled his horse's hooves and looked at his troops, his heart was surging.

Timoshenko, a veteran of the Soviets, served as a private in the Western Front as early as the First World War. After the formation of the Red Army in 1918, he joined the Red Army.

In October 1919, Timoshenko served as the commander of the 6th Division of the 1st Cavalry Army of the Red Army, and from that time on, he made an inseparable mark with the cavalry, and every time he fought was inseparable from the cavalry.

And now, he has become the commander of the Ukrainian Front, and he leads hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army into Poland and occupies Western Ukraine.

At the same time, to the north of him, there was the Belorussian Front of the Red Army led by Colonel-General Mikhail Kovalev, two armies of them, ready to take advantage of this opportunity to recover the territories that originally belonged to the Soviets!

Behind the cavalry, tanks, billowing black smoke, marched towards Polish territory.

These tanks are all old models, and until now, the Soviet T-34, which has a cross-era significance, has not yet been finalized.

However, it is clear that Timoshenko was also a general who was good at learning, and he saw the power of the German blitzkrieg, so he simply gathered his cavalry and tank troops together, and before the sporadic battles in the border area were completely over, his main force had already run to the east of Poland.

According to the secret treaty at that time, these territories belonged to the Soviet Union, but what if they were occupied by the Germans and the Germans did not recognize them?

Timoshenko was in a hurry.

The war horse under his crotch was neighing, and Timoshenko held his war horse and listened to the herald come and report to him.

"General, ahead is Brest!"

Brest, the name, is familiar to everyone.

Located on the east bank of the Bug River, Brest is an important link between Warsaw-Moscow and Lithuania-Western Belarus and Western Ukraine.

The special geographical location makes Brest an important place for soldiers to compete for.

Historically, it was occupied by Kievan Rus', Lithuania, and the Polish-Lithuanian kingdoms until it was incorporated into Russia in 1795.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Tsarist Russia built the first Russian fortress on the site of the Old Town of Brest.

In December 1917, in order to end the war, Russia negotiated with Germany here, and later signed the Peace of Brest, which withdrew Russia from the First World War, and Brest became famous all over the world.

Here, for the USSR, for Germany, it was a place of significance.

However, just two years later, Poland occupied Brest. Then the war broke out between the Soviet Union and Poland, and the Soviet Union was defeated again, so for twenty years, the Soviet Union could only look at Brest from afar.

Until now, the Soviet troops are about to occupy this place again!

In front, the soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Cavalry Division were still riding their horses, and just opposite them, not far away, smoke and dust were billowing up.

An army is marching on them at the same time!

"Prepare for battle!" The commander of the cavalry division, shouting loudly, drew his shiny saber.

"No, they are not Polish cavalry, they are German tank troops!" Andrey, the cavalryman who rushed to the front, shouted loudly.

It's Germans!

In the course of the Soviet movement to the west, Germany was also attacking to the east! In this way, outside the Brest Fortress, they met victoriously!

For Wittman, his fight has been very unpleasant these days, and there is no better opponent to fight him for.

After encircling and destroying the Polish cavalry in the triangle, Wittmann's tank company crossed the Bug River and came to the perimeter of the Brest fortress.

Before the attack began, in the distance, a huge cavalry arrived, and Wittmann used his binoculars to see clearly the opposite, and the cavalrymen in Soviet uniforms had actually rushed here!

Thus, Wittmann ushered in another great moment of mentorship.

Standing on his tank, Wittmann looked at the cavalry on the opposite side and rushed to his side, the horses were neighing, and the Soviets in front jumped off their horses.

So, Wittman also jumped out of his tank, the two sides took a few steps closer, and then, Andrei first stretched out his hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Andrei said in Russian.

"It's a great moment." Weitmann replied in German.

In fact, no one knows what the other party is talking about, but the smile on his face knows no borders.

The hands of the two were tightly clasped together, and at this time, neither party knew that after a year, this friendship had completely disappeared, and the two sides would not die.

Wittmann watched as the opposing cavalry became more and more massive, and when the cavalry passed, it was a tank unit.

As in the Spanish Civil War, the Soviet tank was mainly the T-26, which was almost the main equipment of the Soviet Red Army.

In addition to this, there were a small number of BT-7 fast tanks, both of which were light tanks, but, having absorbed the lessons of the last time in the Spanish Civil War, both of these Soviet tanks, were replaced with new tank guns.

The 45-mm 46-caliber tank gun is already a cannon that this light tank can withstand, and if it is compared with the German 50-mm tank gun at that time, it may not be backward, but now, compared with the German long-barreled 75-mm tank gun, it has become a weak chicken again.

The commander of the 6th Ukrainian Tank Brigade, Glevich, jumped down from his BT-7, stood next to Wittman, looked at the tank with envy, and then, cautiously, gestured to Wittman: "Can I go up and have a look?" ”

Although Wittmann didn't understand what the other party said, Wittmann still understood what the other party meant, so Wittmann waved his hand: "You can come up and visit." ”

Wittmann was very generous, and these were all ordered by his superiors.

Grevich climbed up in a few steps, just glanced at the turret, and was envious, obediently, no wonder the German tank soldiers don't need to wear thick tank caps, people just wear military caps, it turns out that the turret is lined with a layer of leather! It's a luxury car inside!