"General Heydrich, I'm Pavlyuchenko and I want to join the 14th Ukrainian Volunteer Division of the SS. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Late on the night of 31 May, at the same time as the Soviet Red Army was marching on the lands of Poland, the Baltic and Western Ukraine, the Chief Minister of Western Ukraine (nominally appointed by the German Emperor, but in fact appointed by the Wehrmacht) and Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Defense Council Reinhard . Rear Admiral Heydrich was in his office to meet with Lyudmila, a student of the history department of Kyiv National University (which had moved to Lviv in 1939). Mikhaillovna. Pavlyuchenko.

The Kingdom of Western Ukraine, like the Kingdom of Poland, entered a state of emergency half a month ago. However, instead of evacuating the population of Lviv, the First Minister of Western Ukraine, Heydrich, and the Prime Minister of Western Ukraine, Marquis Petrius, jointly issued a general decree calling on the citizens of Lviv to take up arms and participate in the fighting.

The citizens of Lviv reacted very positively to the call of Heydrich and Petliura, and even overdid it. Not only did the men line up in front of the city's recruiting points, but even some women were actively asking to join the army, some of whom wanted to be combat soldiers rather than nurses or logisticians.

This seemed to the conservative German Junkers officers to be nothing short of nonsense, so the German officers in the Ukrainian defense forces did not hesitate to refuse such a request. But I didn't expect a group of female students from Kyiv National University to march on the streets, demanding to participate in the battle and fight the Russians.

The march alarmed Reinhardt, who was beloved in Western Ukraine. Heydrich, who was not the brainless Juncker, but an intelligence officer with a very keen political sense (he was also the head of the Reich's Central Security Service in Western Ukraine), naturally found some special value in it.

So he took the time to meet the female college students who were marching and petitioning this evening, and this Ukrainian beauty with big eyes, a high nose, and charming long brown hair, as soon as she saw Heydrich, made a desperate request to join the battle.

"You want to join the SS Volunteer Division? Are you a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party? ”

Rear Admiral Heydrich was not a member of the Nazi Party because he was a member of the Wehrmacht. However, he was very pro-Nazi and had excellent relations with many of the Nazi Party's leading figures.

With his support, the Nazi party organization in western Ukraine grew rapidly, especially among young people - this is actually related to the fact that the Soviet Union occupied most of Ukraine's land, and now most of the young people in Lviv are refugees who have lost their homes, and it is natural that they are easily attracted to the Nazi party that promotes ultra-nationalism.

"Yes, I am an honorable member of the National Socialist Workers' Party!" Pavlyuchenko said in very fluent German, "The Bolsheviks took my homeland and now want to take Lviv, and I think I must stand up and fight them, even if it costs with my life!" ”

Pavlyuchenko's resentment is justified, tens of thousands of square kilometers around Lviv are the last homeland of the Ukrainian nation, and the Russians still want to take it away, this is not a human life!

"Do you know how to hold a gun?" Heydrich nodded, he had already decided to enlist Pavlyuchenko in the army - this is an excellent propaganda material that will boost the morale of the entire Ukrainian nation!

"Yes." Pavlyuchenko immediately skillfully set up his aiming, "General, I'm a sharpshooter, I'm a member of the shooting club of the National Kyiv University. ”

"But the battlefield is very cruel!" Heydrich said, "You might as well think about becoming a nurse." ”

"No, I'm going to be an SS sniper!" Pavlyuchenko once again made his request, "General, you must grant my request. ”

Heydrich smiled, "Well, I'll go and say hello to General Freitak of the 14th Ukrainian Volunteer Division of the SS, and you will definitely get your wish." Good luck, Miss Pavlyuchenko. ”

……

"Poland is not perishing, as long as we breathe away, Poland will not perish, raise the sword and regain the lost territory. Forward, forward, Donbrovsky ......"

Carol in the Ring Fortress of Trespol. Major General Rommel's ears suddenly rang with lyrics and tunes that haunted him, and although the sound was soft when it reached his ears, he could still hear the lyrics and tune of "Poland Will Not Perish" - someone was playing the Polish national anthem on the loudspeaker!

Of course, this "Poland Will Not Perish" is not the anthem of the current Kingdom of Poland, which is controlled by the Germans, but the Carol . Major General Rommel fought for most of his life for the national anthem of the Republic of Poland!

"General, the Soviets in Brest are playing on loudspeakers...... Play our national anthem! ”

The chief of staff of the Trespol brigade, Colonel Altsky, hurriedly walked into Carol from the outside. The command of Major General Rommel looked very ugly.

Carol. Major General Rommel glared at his chief of staff, "That's not our national anthem, our national anthem is "God Save My King William." ”

"But ......"

"But what?" Carol. Major General Rommel interrupted Colonel Altsky, who looked a little tangled, "The Soviets have already submitted an ultimatum, and most of them will not wait for 24 hours, which means that an attack could happen at any time." We are only a few kilometers from Brest and must have been the first to be attacked. Now the Soviets are playing "Poland Will Not Die" in order to shake us, to win without taking possession, and maybe someone will speak in a while. Pass my order, except for the sentry, everyone should get out of the artillery bunker, close the door, and listen to nothing! ”

He guessed right, this is psychological warfare! The Soviets knew that brigade-level defensive positions such as the Trespol Ring Fortress were difficult to fight, and General Pavlov did not want these Ring Fortresses to contain too many of his troops. Therefore, he came up with this "heart-attacking" method, first playing the national anthem of the Republic of Poland on a loudspeaker, and then playing the leader of Free Poland, Władysław. Sikorsky's speech. The Prime Minister of the Free Polish Government and the Commander-in-Chief of the Free Polish Army, who had been under the wing of Britain for several years, naturally could not refuse to cooperate with the Soviet Union, and Stalin also gave a promise - to restore the sovereign independence of the Republic of Poland!

So Sikorski recorded a speech in England and wrote letters to the generals of the Polish Defence Army whom he knew (he had been Prime Minister of Poland before the war), asking them to defect to the Soviet Red Army and join the Polish army with the help of the Soviet Red Army...... If the noble officers of the Kingdom of Poland believed it, then they should be ready to go to Siberia to work hard!

Listening to the rambling nonsense of the Polish reactionary leader Sikovsky Roro from the loudspeakers, the commander of the 9th Mechanized Corps, who was leading his troops on the west bank of the Bug River to wait for the order to cross the river, Konstantin . Konstantinovich. Major General Rokossovsky was a little impatient - because he himself was a Pole, and there were many Poles like him in the Soviet party and army, even if many survived after the Great Purge, when would it be Sikovsky's turn to be the head of the Polish army?

"Yakov, what time is it? When did the shelling start? Major General Rokossovsky turned his head and asked Yakov, the head of the artillery of the mechanized corps who was riding with him on a GA61 light off-road vehicle. Captain Dzhugashvili.

Yakov. Dzhugashvili, Stalin's eldest son, 34 years old, graduated from the Faculty of Railway Transport Engineering and the Artillery Command Academy, joined the Red Army in 1937, and now holds the rank of captain as the head of artillery of the 9th Mechanized Corps (it is not uncommon to serve as a regimental and brigade commander with the rank of captain after the Great Purge, even if not Stalin's son has such an official fortune), will set foot on the land of white Poland on the first day after the start of the war.

"It's 0:15 a.m. on June 1, and according to the plan, the shelling will begin in 15 minutes."

In 15 minutes, 20,000 cannons will be fired simultaneously on a nearly 1,700-kilometer front stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Romanian border!

"The shelling will last an hour and a half, starting at 0:30 and ending at 2 a.m., and then our 9th Mechanized Corps will set foot on Polish soil."

Yakov. Dzhugashvili looked a little excited when he spoke, and he also understood the importance of this war - it was the liberation of all mankind! The ideals of Marx, Engels and Lenin were finally fulfilled in the hands of his son Stalin!

"There is still 1 hour and 45 minutes to ......go," Rokossovsky smiled, "the scouts have already crossed the river, and the sappers have already begun to build bridges." You can cross the river at 5 a.m. at the earliest, and Warsaw is more than 150 kilometers to the west! If there were no German armored forces to block it, it would have been a matter of tens of hours. ”

A unit like the 9th Mechanized Corps, of course, would not attack the Ring Fortress, and its task was to advance with the rest of the Mechanized Corps, the Tank Corps, and the Cavalry Division, and advance to the vicinity of Warsaw in the shortest possible time. A tank battle on an unprecedented scale with the German Panzer Cluster was expected near Warsaw, if won and Warsaw captured.

Then, the 9th Mechanized Army will have two directions next: one is to turn around and go north to the city of Danzig -- after capturing Danzig, the German army group in the Baltic Sea will be in the predicament of being attacked on three sides; The second is to go all the way west to Berlin! 500 kilometers west of Warsaw is the capital of the German Empire, and if Berlin can be taken, then the great climax of the world revolution is really coming! (To be continued.) )