"Shelling, pay attention to concealment!"

Captain Solzhenitsyn, the commander of the reconnaissance company of the 4th Artillery Regiment under the direct jurisdiction of the 4th Army of the Soviet Red Army (currently part of the 3rd Army), heard in his ears the shouts of unknown whom, and then the whistling of the shells that he hated broke through the air!

"Boom ......"

Then there were two roars like meteors hitting the ground, almost deafening the ears of the future great writer. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Damn it!" He sped along the trench as he muttered expletives in his mouth.

He had just attended a meeting of the Party Committee of the 4th Artillery Regiment to celebrate International Labor Day, because Morozov, the deputy commander of the political company, had been shot in the shoulder by a German sniper a week earlier, and was now lying comfortably in the hospital in Smolensk recuperating from his wounds, so he had to take care of the political and ideological work in the company.

Who knew that on the way back, they were actually shelled by the Germans!

Based on the movement of the falling German shells, Solzhenitsyn knew that it was not the Germans at the front who were firing indiscriminately with regimental guns, or even 150mm or 155mm guns at the division or corps level, but German 170mm or French 194mm heavy cannons firing shells.

"Boom ......"

Two loud bangs followed, and the shells seemed to be much closer to the two that had just exploded!

Solzhenitsyn did not choose to hide in a nearby bunker, but accelerated his advance. He knew that the Germans were now conducting a school shooting, and there would be no overwhelming shells falling down for the time being. So he still had time to rush back to his company's bunker on the forward position, which was a very strong bunker, and as long as he was not directly hit by 170mm or 194mm shells, the people hiding in it should theoretically not die.

And there is Solzhenitsyn's combat post! He and his company were now located about 100 kilometers northwest of Smolensk in a Soviet forward position near the small town of Velyzh, facing the Germans across the Velykaya River.

The Velikaya River is not a moat, just a medium river with a width of 100 meters. There are also many places where the rivers are shallow, which tanks and armored vehicles can wade.

Therefore, Solzhenitsyn and his comrades-in-arms had to act as the eyes of the artillery in the rear of the front when the German tanks and infantry began to attack, and pour Soviet shells on the invaders mercilessly and accurately.

"What kind of invader is that?" Solzhenitsyn thought as he ran through the trenches, "It's Russia on the other side of the Velykaya River!" Russia is there, and the USSR is on this side...... Is this a war between Russia and the USSR? ”

Captain Solzhenitsyn, who had drunk ink for several years at the physics department of the University of Rostov-on-Don, was puzzled by the war against "Russia". And in the 13th Guards Infantry Division (which is currently in the Kalinin region) served as a platoon commander Yakov. Fedotovich. Lieutenant Pavlov, however, would not have such a bizarre idea.

In fact, he was very happy with the situation he was in. He was not even more moved by the reactionary Empress Olga's "Land Reform Edict".

Because his ideal was to be a party cadre, not a land-owning kulak. What's so good about being a kulak? worked diligently like an ox, but in the end he became a heinous villain.

Therefore, Pavlov was determined to be a revolutionary cadre from an early age, and to be a working class no matter how poor he was.

And he is now a cadre...... Don't take the second lieutenant as a cadre! No matter how small the platoon commander is, he is also an official, and when he returns to the local area after the war, he can at least mix with the owner of the collective farm, and the owner of the farm will not agree to divide the land and work alone. Besides, the Great Patriotic War has just begun, and there will be many opportunities in the future.

On the morning of April 30, when the Germans began their large-scale offensive, Pavlov was leading a platoon of fighters patrolling an improvised road covered with leaves and green camouflage nets through the endless forest.

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

Hearing the urging of the captain Second Lieutenant Sprosky, he was marching with the partisans in the forest near the city of Velikiye Luki (belonging to the Pskov region). Kasmodemyanskaya was as excited as Ensign Pavlov.

She is no longer from a "bad element" family, and is destined to be in the Moscow hukou (there are also bad people in the Moscow hukou, otherwise who will be the target when Gao JJ struggles?). The lowest struggle of the tragic figures.

Because of this sacred war, Zoya has escaped her own destiny, or rather, she has become the master of her own destiny!

Now Zoya is already a glorious revolutionary soldier. This bad girl from Moscow, through her own efforts, became the squad leader of a partisan detachment behind enemy lines. She also submitted an application to join the glorious Bolshevik Party, and Zoya knew that as long as she made a little more contribution, her application to join the party would definitely be approved, and then she would be a member of the vanguard of the proletarian revolution, and it would certainly not be a problem for her to study at a university after the war.

A dream that has been dreaming for years looks like it's about to come true!

Just a week earlier, she had taken part in her first battle, with four boys and three girls (including Zoya, all from Moscow) to plant mines on a road leading to Velikiye Luki. And it seems that something has been blown up......

And today, the partisan leader, Second Lieutenant Sproski, told Zoya that she was going on a difficult reconnaissance mission, lurking near several important roads in Velikiye Luki to find out what was going on the German convoy that was passing.

Just as Zoya and the others were speeding through the woods, a dull sound like rolling thunder was heard in the distance.

"Listen, it looks like it's thundering somewhere?" I don't know who asked.

"No, it's not thunder!" Second Lieutenant Sproski, a veteran of the Polish campaign, said, "It's firing artillery!" The Germans are shelling our positions! ”

"Germans?" Zoya asked, "Do they want to attack?" ”

The lieutenant nodded and said in a deep voice, "It should be!" Comrades, we are now going to find out the truth and falsehood of the enemy's attacking forces, this is very important information! ”

"Got it, Comrade Second Lieutenant!" Zoya replied as she thought that she would complete this task no matter what, even if it was at the cost of her life!

Zoya and her partners were not the only ones who were secretly determined to find out what was going on in the Germans, and after the situation on the battlefield reversed last fall, the Soviet High Command gave orders to conduct guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. A large number of partisan detachments were organized and trained, which were sent to the occupied western Belarus, right-bank Ukraine and the Pskov region of Russia.

And because Pskov is a Russian-inhabited area, the mass base is far greater than that of Western Belarus and right-bank Ukraine, which are originally Polish territory and inhabited by Belarusians and Ukrainians, and even after the Empress promulgated the "Land Reform Decree", there are still many supporters of the Bolshevik Party - not to mention that there is such a thing as a town hukou in Pslav Oblast, but there are also vested interests in the collective farms, such as owners, secretaries, accountants, and so on, and even if these people are allocated land, they can be exempted from tax for three years. I will still support and love Comrade Stalin.

But there were always reactionaries who actively sold themselves to the reactionary empress, Sergei from the glorious 1st tank army of the Soviet Red Army. Buniachenko is one of them.

His 1st Tank Corps was devastated by the Germans outside Warsaw, but instead of dedicating his entire life to the cause of GC doctrine like most of the officers and men of the 1st Tank Corps, he chose to betray! Became a shameful prisoner of war! And soon after, he fell to his knees under the court dress of the Russian Empress Olga.

Now the former GCIST fighter turned into a colonel division commander of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Imperial Russian Army. At this moment, he was leading a cavalry division cobbled together by Soviet traitors and remnants of Tsarist Russia through the forest east of the city of Velikiye Luki (belonging to the Pskov Oblast) and into the western part of Kalinin Oblast to conduct fire reconnaissance and establish a search screen that could cover the flanks of the German army.

For reasons of national defense and security, the southern part of the Pskov region and the western part of the Kalinin region are undeveloped forest areas that are not suitable for the movement of mechanized troops. But the geographical location of this forest area is very important. It is less than 400 kilometers away from Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. From the city of Velikiye Luki to the east, through a forest area about 150 kilometers wide, you will enter the plain agricultural area with good road facilities. It is only about 220 kilometers from Moscow!

In other words, as long as the Germans and the Russian Imperial Army were able to control the forest and then cut down a road for cars and tanks to pass through, the German-Russian forces could reach Moscow in a very short time - provided that they defeated the Kalinin Front under the command of Marshal Zhukov.

The Soviet generals Zhukov and Pavlov, of course, also saw the importance of this forest area early on. If the Red Army could hold a firm grip on the area and build a few roads in the forest, the Red Army would be able to quickly cross the Baltic state from central Pskov into Germany. The distance from this forested area to Riga, the capital of the Baltic state, is just over 400 kilometers.

And the work of cutting down trees and building roads was already carried out secretly after Marshal Zhukov took over the Kalinin Front. At the same time that Bunyachenko commanded the cavalry into Kalinin, tens of thousands of Red Army infantry, with axes and saws, had already carved out an improvised road in the large forest that stretched for hundreds of kilometers. And in order to avoid detection by German reconnaissance aircraft, the roads that had been repaired (in fact, mainly dirt roads, with wooden sections of the mud paved) were also covered with a large number of branches and camouflage nets. (To be continued.) )