"What? What the? The armored forces of the Germans went to Kotlin Island? Comrade Tributz, are you sure you are not drunk? ”

When Voroshilov heard the report of the commander of the Baltic Fleet on the phone, his first reaction was that this guy must have drunk too much. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info How could the tank cluster of the Germans put on wings and go to Kotlin Island? How did they get on the island?

"No, I'm not drunk!" The commander of the Baltic Fleet on the other end of the telephone line was about to cry - he didn't have a few soldiers on hand! Now the main forces of the Baltic Fleet have long been taken by Kuznetsov to Molotovsk to join the Northern Fleet, so he, the commander, is empty. There is nothing but 1 Marine Brigade, 1 Fortress Brigade, dozens of aircraft and dozens of small or old ships.

Vice Admiral Tributz said anxiously and quickly: "Comrade Marshal, I have not drunk, not a drop!" Now there are really German tanks on the island...... I don't know how they came up, but they definitely came, there were hundreds of them, at least a tank brigade! Alright, send me some reinforcements, or the Kronstadt fortress will be untenable. ”

The situation was certainly not as serious as the vice-admiral had suggested, and although he had no soldiers at hand, there were still tens of thousands of inhabitants in Kronstadt, all of whom were politically reliable and had military qualities comparable to those of ordinary Red Army soldiers.

"What, what? Hundreds of tanks? A tank brigade? "Listening to the report of the vice admiral, Voroshilov was even more suspicious that the commander of the Baltic Fleet was drunk, and how big a tank brigade could be deployed, it could not be placed on the small island of Kotlin. If the Germans were really going to get a tank brigade on the island, it must have been magic.

As a loyal member of the Bolshevik Party, Comrade Voroshilov, of course, was a materialist, who did not believe in magic in the world. So he did not make the decision to reinforce Kotlin Island in a big way, but sent an infantry battalion to the island, and at the same time had two of his henchmen and staff officers go with him to find out the situation - this slow response, which can be called a slow response, should be the second major mistake made by Voroshilov in the defense of Leningrad.

That's right, it's the second!

Prior to this, this red military strategist, who was relied on by Comrade Stalin as the leaning of the Great Wall, had made another low-level mistake -- he hastily arranged a Luga line on the periphery of the southern line of Leningrad, with the city of Luga as the center, starting from Shimsk on the west bank of Lake Ilmen in the south, along the Luga River, and in the north to Kingisepp, the mouth of the Luga River, with a total length of about 300 kilometers.

Of course, it can't be said that it is wrong to arrange a defensive line, but this is a 300-kilometer-long defensive line! Even with 1 million soldiers, it is difficult to defend it thoroughly. How many people are in Voroshilov's hands? There were 5 army groups, 2 of which were still scattered in the vast northern region, and 1 had just been defeated by the Germans with heavy losses, so the only real use was 2 army groups, and they also had to deal with the Finnish offensive on Karelia.

Therefore, Voroshilov could not mobilize enough forces to defend the Luga defense line, and only barely managed to put together 10 infantry divisions (5 of which had just been severely damaged and were seriously understaffed), 3 militia divisions and 1 tank brigade, with a total of only 1440,000 people and more than 100 tanks. He wanted to rely on this strength to resist the German 18th Army, which was twice as numerous and tank/assault artillery as several times as many.

And the so-called "Luga Line" was simply a non-existent line of defense, because the German General Quchlerer would not have given the Soviets enough time to build fortifications.

When German Marine Corps transport submarines brought tanks, amphibious transports and hundreds of Marine commandos to Kotlin Island. Voroshilov's Luga defense has already been partially broken through.

by Ferdinand. The 8th Panzer Division of the 56th Panzer Corps and the 1st SS Panzergrenadier Division under the command of General Charles Panzer Corps had just defeated a tank brigade and an infantry division of Voroshilov in Luga.

In this engagement, the tanks of the Soviets were not only qualitatively inferior, but also significantly inferior to their opponents in quantity. There were as many as 5 German armored battalions participating in the battle, and more than 400 No. 4H tanks could be operated. On the Soviet side, the 27th Tank Brigade dispatched less than 100 tanks of all types.

So when it dawned on 13 August, the plain outside Luga was littered with T-34, KV-1 and KV-2 tanks destroyed or damaged by Type 4H tank - in the battle that had just ended, the Germans had won a landslide victory, and the Soviet 27th Tank Brigade had been almost completely wiped out.

Armored Meyer (Kurt. The 1st SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Meyer, did not take part in the decisive tank battle that began yesterday evening, but now they were about to set out again, and together with 1 regiment of Russian Guards cavalry, they searched and advanced in the direction of Chudovo.

As Meyer's half-track armored command vehicle passed by the battlefield that had just cooled down, he saw a large number of Red Army prisoners of war, either dejected or numb, walking in the opposite direction under the escort of the old white men of the Russian Guards with rifles.

"Major, the Bolsheviks have failed again, and it seems that we will soon be able to enter Petrograd." Makarov, who walked beside Meyer on horseback, spoke fluent German, laughed heartily and looked confident.

"It did go more smoothly than expected." Meyer nodded as well, and then commented: "They [referring to the Red Army] are a bit reckless, last night's battle was completely in vain, and with this way of playing, in another week, maybe we will be able to enter Petrograd." ”

"That's right! In another week, we will definitely be able to enter Petrograd! The old bearded Colonel nodded heavily, then pulled out a metal wine bottle, poured himself a sip of vodka, and laughed.

His and Panzer Meyer's optimism was not unreasonable, in fact, the Germans had now entered Leningrad - Kotlin Island was under the jurisdiction of the city of Leningrad, so the inhabitants of the island were Soviets with Leningrad hukou!

But it is one thing to enter the city of Leningrad, it is another thing to occupy the city of Leningrad.

"Bolshevik Party members, members of the Youth League, the working class of the glorious city of Kronstadt, family comrades of the Red Navy, now the Bolshevik Party of Kronstadt is calling on you: immediately take up all arms and launch an offensive against imperialism and its lackeys who dare to invade the sacred land of the Soviets......"

Reinforcements from Voroshilov did not arrive for the time being, but the city of Kronstadt, after consulting the secretary of the Leningrad city of Zhdanov, immediately issued a call to battle for the entire population.

In the small city of Kronstadt, all the loudspeakers began to play over and over again from 8 a.m. on August 13.

At the same time, there have been a number of temporary recruitment points on the streets of Kronstadt. In front of each recruiting point, there was a long queue.

This is not the Pskov countryside, but the hero Kronstadt! The people who were able to live here were all Soviets who were extremely loyal to the cause of the Bolshevik Party and GC - those who were not loyal enough were shot or sent to re-education through labor!

Therefore, not only the men came forward to join the militia battalion, but even the women of Kronstadt stepped forward to defend the Bolshevik regime with their blood and lives - they were not collective farm mothers who burst into tears when they heard the chant of the "forbidden spell mage", but the families of "red n" officers who had long bathed in the glory and kindness of the party. And it is not the "Red N Generation" who does not know what war is decades later, but the "Red Generation" and the "Red Second Generation" who are full of fierceness and are ready to liberate all mankind, which is almost the same breed as the German Superman like Captain Ribbentrop.

So the German supermen, having seized the Kronstadt airfield and the barracks of the 2nd Marine Brigade of the Red Navy, were blocked outside a naval cadet school, 2 km west of the city of Kronstadt. The teachers and students of the school were originally Red Navy soldiers, and they armed themselves when the Germans attacked the airfield and the barracks of the 2nd Marine Brigade, and also relied on the strong western wall of the school to arrange defenses. In order to deal with the German tanks, they even dragged several 85mm and 76.2mm anti-aircraft guns outside the west gate of the school, and destroyed 2 No. 3 tanks and LWS amphibious transport vehicles one after another.

Although the inaccessible anti-aircraft guns were quickly destroyed by the 75mm short-barreled guns of Tank No. 3, the German Marine commandos were repulsed by the Soviets. By the time Skortz arrived with two or three hundred airborne commandos, another attack by the battle group commanded by Captain Ribbentrop had just been repulsed.

"How's it going, Captain?" Otto. Skortz saw Captain Ribbentrop naked with gauze wrapped around his right shoulder in a large crater (blasted by the fortress's 305mm cannon). The hapless little Ribbentrop was targeted by Soviet snipers because he leaned out of the tank to direct the battle, and shot through the right shoulder blade. But he refused to step back from the line of fire and return to Tallinn on a BV-222 to recuperate, but remained on the battlefield to continue commanding.

"It's not good!" Ribbentrop Jr. endured the pain in his shoulder and replied, "The main force in the naval school is their naval cadets, all of whom are Bolsheviks, very tenacious!" There was also a constant stream of militia coming from Kronstadt...... There were men and women in those militias, and there were some old people, but they could fight, and probably everyone was a member of the Bolshevik Party, right? (To be continued.) )