Yakov. Comrade Zhugashvili did not really want to risk his precious life, he just pretended to be forced because the commander of the 9th Mechanized Army, Grechko, could not speak. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info If Grevich pleaded and said a few more words, Yakov would have gone to Minsk.

But Grevich was confused at the critical moment and did not insist that Yakov go to Minsk. This is a very serious mistake that will cost many lives, including Grevich's own life!

However, Grevich did not have a chance to correct his mistake at this time, because shortly after the conversation with Yakov, countless flares rose into the air almost simultaneously from Zaslavl-Nora Boksen on a front of tens of kilometers. In all colors, the artillery headquarters of eleven Panzer Divisions and four Panzergrenadier Divisions of the German army on the front line gave orders to fire at the self-propelled guns, assault guns, infantry guns and mortars scattered along the front line. And behind these German Panzer and Panzergrenadier Divisions, the artillery groups belonging to the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, including all the artillery owned by ten German artillery regiments, six smoke launcher regiments and four powerful French reserve artillery divisions, also received orders to open fire at this moment.

The entire front began to bloom with large and small orange or dark red fires, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion. More than 4,000 cannons, mortars and rockets spewed fire. Shells and rockets were projected at the front of the Soviet army, and if you look down from the air, you can feel that a hell of fire with a width of more than ten kilometers and a length of dozens of kilometers suddenly appeared on the ground below!

Thanks to the accession of the French, coupled with the oil bottleneck that stuck the neck of the German armed forces, it almost disappeared. As a result, the German army today has a mechanized artillery that surpasses the Soviet Union in quantity and quality, and has also been initially mechanized - at least the towed artillery attached to the armored forces has been mechanized towed by half-tracks!

This is also the reason why the Germans were able to move so much artillery from the territory of Lithuania to the Minsk front in Belarus in such a short time.

The sudden shelling made a hurricane-like sound, and it became more and more violent and ferocious. The earth trembled violently, and countless explosions of all sizes appeared at the front of the Soviet position, the firelight mixed with smoke and dust went straight into the sky, and the violent smoke almost completely obscured the morning glow that appeared for the first time after days of rain, as if it wanted to turn the sun-drenched Soviet paradise into a dark capitalist hell!

And this scene of a sea of Franco-German artillery submerging the Soviet positions will appear again and again on Soviet soil for a long time to come! The era of European reunification will also begin with the sound of this fierce cannon. This cannon sound is also the cry of a baby born of a thousand-year-old empire.

The artillery fire roared, and the cannon fire was fierce.

Gustav. Major Schwarzenegger stood high on a low hill, looking through his binoculars at the tumbling fire.

His 37 "Rhino" guns were lined up behind the low hill, and 88-mm cannons bombarded a Soviet-controlled forest not far away. According to reconnaissance, the Soviets deployed some 57-mm anti-tank guns there, and also planted anti-tank mines in a large area of farmland outside the woods.

Therefore, before the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion launched an assault, it had to be bombarded repeatedly with artillery, and then the armored engineers opened the way to carve out a route that would allow the Tiger tanks to attack.

After a while, the sound of the cannon gradually thinned out, and finally stopped abruptly. Major Schwarzenegger put down his binoculars and shouted loudly to Major Rudel, commander of the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion, who was waiting in front of an armored command vehicle in front of the low hill: "Major Rudel, the artillery preparation is over, it's time for you to play." ”

In the second half of the artillery preparations, when the fire extended from the front to the enemy's rear, the armored engineers belonging to the German 1st Panzer Division, risking that they might be shelled at any time, jumped out of their positions to clear the remaining anti-tank mines at the front of the Soviet positions and clear the hastily erected obstacles.

In Major Rudel's headset, the order to start the attack also came. He straightened up inside the halftrack and waved his hand vigorously: "Start the vehicle!" Check the equipment, prepare for the attack, and use our tracks to crush the corpses of the Bolsheviks! Hooray, Germany! ”

The roar of the motors, which suddenly replaced the whistling of shells, resounded through the German front-line positions between Rakoff-Zaslavl. This was the loud sound of the motors of more than 2,000 various armored combat vehicles and auxiliary vehicles turning at high speed at the same time, and Manstein concentrated all five heavy and five armored divisions in the main assault direction of this area in just a dozen kilometers. The number of Tigers, Tanks IV, Assault Guns III, Rhino Destroyers, and Wasps totaled more than 3,000 (still less than 90% of the equipment was in good condition, and the countless types of armored vehicles were not counted). And the commander of the 4th Panzer Army, Admiral Hort, who was in charge of commanding these tanks and assault guns, invested a third of his armored forces in the first wave of the offensive!

The roar of the motor passed through the no-man's land between the front lines of the two armies and reached the ears of the soldiers who had just been dazed by the unimaginable bombardment of German artillery. It also reached the ears of Major Dzhugashvili, who had just arrived at the assembly position of the Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (a unit for the Mechanized Corps/Tank Corps to deal with the German tank sea, equipped with 16 ZIS-2 57mm anti-tank guns and 16 KS-12 85mm anti-aircraft guns, all towed by trucks) that had just arrived at the 9th Mechanized Corps.

Zhu ...... Comrade Dzhugashvili, why are you here! "The commander of the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, Makarenko, was busy gathering troops to count the losses (his regiment had just been shelled, but the losses were not large), when he suddenly saw Dzhugashvili coming, and he was immediately startled.

The assembly area of the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment was so close to the front line that the roar of the motors of the German tanks ready to go out could be heard, and the area might soon be attacked by the German tank clusters!

Although Zhugashvili also went to the front in the Battle of Huashan, the Battle of Warsaw was generally dominated by the Soviet army. In particular, the southern front of the Soviet army, where Zhugashvili was located, was always on the offensive, so the risk of Dzhugashvili on the front line was not too great.

But now the situation is different, the advantage is obviously on the side of the Germans, just listen to the roar of German tank motors! I don't know how many No. 4 and Tiger tanks are going to rush at a while!

"Comrade Makarenko, what are you talking about?" Dzhugashvili glared at the artillery commander in front of him, "I must personally take charge of the motorized anti-tank artillery regiment under the army, this is my responsibility!" ”

He was right, this was the order of the chief of artillery of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army - all the chiefs of artillery of the tank/mechanized corps must personally master the motorized anti-tank artillery regiment in the event of an engagement.

"But ......," said Makarenko, "that order was given to the artillery chief of another army, you are different!" If you had died at the front, how sad the great leader Stalin would have been!

In the unlikely event that you become weak at a critical moment, betray the Soviet Motherland and become a prisoner, then the great leader will be, but you will become an anti-grumbling family! What can I do?

Because according to the regulations, anti-glossary family members are not allowed to have a Moscow and Leningrad hukou. Then how to solve the problem of Comrade Stalin's hukou?

Also, is an anti-glossary family member who does not have a Moscow hukou suitable to be the great leader of the world revolution?

"Woo woo woo ......"

As soon as Makarenko wanted to tell Dzhugashvili about the seriousness of the problem, the sound of air defense sirens sounded. The two of them raised their eyes and looked into the air, only to see countless black dots already covering the northern sky.

Air raids by German planes began! Until the end of this wave of air raids, Comrade Dzhugashvili will not be able to go anywhere.

Makarenko stamped his feet and hurriedly pulled Zhugashvili, who was concerned with Stalin's "hukou issue," to take refuge in the anti-aircraft bunkers that had been dug in advance.

……

"SS, loyalty is honor! Advance! ”

"Long live, our Germany, forward!"

When the overwhelming Breguet attack aircraft and HS-129 attack aircraft, as well as the Ju87 dive bombers, roared down to the Soviet positions under the cover of the Fokker Zero. Major Schwarzenegger, commander of the 5th SS Tank Destroyer Battalion, and Major Rudel, commander of the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion, also gave orders to all the vehicles under their command to move forward at the same time.

Leading the way today are 40 Tigers of the 501st Battalion (4 under repair) and 21 short-barreled Type 4F tanks (1 under repair, whose mission is to cover the Tigers). The 5th SS Tank Destroyer Battalion, along with another battalion attached to the 1st Panzergrenadier Regiment, followed the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion and rumbled towards the position of the Soviet 9th Mechanized Corps.

And to the left, right and rear of these three battalions, there is an endless supply of tanks, assault guns, self-propelled guns, and all kinds of armored vehicles! If you look down from the air, you can see steel vehicles like the tide of the sea, surging and surging, as if it were an unstoppable torrent of steel.

At the same time, countless GCIST fighters were desperately rushing to the designated blocking positions along the communication trenches that had been bombarded by artillery fire, or simply on the ground strewn with craters, braving the bombs or shells dropped by German and French planes in the air. Anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns, and T-34 and KV-1 tanks with improvised bunkers of dirt and sandbags, all of them are ready to go! Many Soviet sappers braved their lives to rush out of their positions and lay anti-tank mines under the rain of bullets, hoping to block the onslaught of German tanks for a while.

A decisive battle to the death will soon be fought between two powerful armoured armies. (To be continued.) )