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Located on the west bank of the Vistula River, across the river from Legionovo, it was the farthest away from the smoke and gunfire of the entire Warsaw battlefield.

From the front line in Warsaw, where his life could be killed at any moment, to the peaceful and peaceful Vomianki, Gustav. Captain Schwarzenegger felt like a world away. Standing in the captain's seat of the No. 4H tank, he looked at the lush wheat fields and smoke-filled villages and towns along the road, as if he had returned to the countryside of his homeland of Austria in the midst of peace.

"When the war is over, I will go back to my hometown, buy another farm, and live an idyllic life for a few years, which is the best ......" Captain Schwarzenegger seemed to be a little tired of the non-stop battlefield life, and wanted to live a quiet rural life for a few years.

"Captain, are we going to give up Warsaw?"

Captain Schwarzenegger's thoughts were interrupted by the gunner's Norwegian accent of German, and he was drawn back to the harsh reality that it was not easy to return home to farm, because the war with the Soviet Red Army was more intense and cruel than ever.

In more than a month of fighting, 15 Type 4H tanks of Captain Schwarzenegger's company have been destroyed and damaged, and the loss of personnel (killed and seriously wounded) has reached 52 people, which is the heaviest casualty Captain Schwarzenegger has seen since the outbreak of the war!

And the losses of the infantry he saw were even more terrible. Every minute of fighting in the city of Warsaw seems to be accompanied by death. The city of Warsaw has been transformed into a mill of flesh and blood, and every street, every building, every piece of ruin, has to be fought over and over again to decide where it belongs temporarily. Every inch of the land occupied by the Soviet Red Army was soaked in blood, Soviet or German!

However, after such huge losses, the strength of the defenders of Warsaw did not weaken. Because Warsaw was not an isolated city, there were also a large number of German troops stationed along the Vistula and Buchula rivers behind it, who defended the back route of Warsaw and ensured that reinforcements could reach Warsaw in a steady stream.

So the losses of the front-line troops can be replenished very quickly, and the company led by Captain Schwarzenegger is now fully manned. And many years of battlefield experience taught him that it was impossible for such a tank company with quite sufficient personnel and equipment to leave the front.

"No, we will not give up Warsaw!" Captain Schwarzenegger said with great certainty, "We're going to fight in a different place, and this time maybe it's going to take the initiative, and it's going to be soon!" ”

His judgment was entirely justified, because after the transfer of the 5th SS Tank Battalion from Warsaw, the defenders in Warsaw had to rely on No. 3 assault guns to counterattack the Soviet B-4 assault group. Because the combat capability of the No. 3 assault gun is not as good as the No. 4H tank after all, and once the No. 3 assault gun is on the front line, it cannot be used as a self-propelled gun to support the front-line infantry at the same time.

Therefore, in the next few days, the defensive pressure of Warsaw City is very high, and if the armored cluster does not counterattack as soon as possible, Warsaw will not be able to resist it.

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Major General Rotmistrov, commander of the 7th Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army, walked quickly into his military headquarters, and when he saw the military commissar Oktyabrysky, he smiled and said to him: "Comrade commissar, the bridge over the Narev River has been built, and we are about to set off!" Let's pull it out tonight! ”

Now the mobilization of mechanized units of the Soviet Red Army is generally carried out at night, because after more than a month of competition, the Soviet Red Air Force finally realized that it could not defeat the Luftwaffe at all.

The Yak-1, which is known for its maneuverability and flexibility, is naturally as stupid as a pig when it encounters the Fokker Zero, and the MiG-3, which is known for its high-altitude performance, is also not able to show any prestige when it encounters the HE-219 and FW-190B/C. At the level of medium and high altitudes, the Soviet Union did not have any aircraft that could compete with the FW-190A-4.

From June 1 to the present, the exchange ratio of air combat has remained at the level of 1 German aircraft for 6-7 Soviet aircraft. Moreover, since the Poles were still relatively receptive to Germans between the Soviet Union and Germany, the proportion of German pilots who parachuted over Poland was much greater than that of Soviet pilots who parachuted -- in a small number of areas that were already firmly controlled by the Polish Bolshevik Party, it was difficult for German pilots to be rescued, but there was not a single committee of the Bolshevik Party leading the masses to arrest Nazi pilots under most of the belligerent airspace.

Therefore, the exchange ratio of pilots between Germany and the Soviet Union was as high as about 1 to 10, and the Germans lost 1 pilot, and the Soviet side lost 10 pilots! Although the Soviet Union had far more pilots than Germany (more pilots with more fuel), it could not afford such consumption. Moreover, civilian pilots cannot fly fighter planes into the air without a certain period of training.

Therefore, from mid-July, the skies of Poland were gradually controlled by the Luftwaffe, and the Soviet Red Air Force could only concentrate on ensuring the security of key areas, such as the Warsaw battlefield and the main logistics line. The movement of mechanized troops was put into the night as much as possible.

"Open tonight? Going to Legionovo? Okjabriski asked. Although he was a high-ranking military and political commissar, he had limited access to military secrets. For example, he did not know in advance the plan for a roundabout decisive battle drawn up by the Front Command.

In fact, even the commander of the army group, Zhimachenko, received the text of the battle plan from the chief of staff of the Front, Major General Limowsk, before attending an operational meeting in Minsk last evening. And the commander of the 7th Tank Army, Rotmistrov, only learned about the direction of the offensive of the 7th Tank Army at the operational meeting of the army group one hour earlier.

He told Oktyabrysky: "Not to Legionovo, but to Serotsk, from where the Renaf River was crossed and the Nazis were taken by surprise." ”

"What? Want to cross the Reynaf River? Oktyablisky was taken aback, "Is it a big detour behind enemy lines?" But the German planes will come and bomb us. ”

"This time there will be American planes to cover us," Rotmistrov said with a smile, "and it was American internationalist fighters flying the P-51s, who had already arrived in Minsk." It's just that they haven't been so dispatched for a while, but this time they're going to show their skills, and there will be an English-speaking Air Force liaison this afternoon. ”

At Stalin's request, more than 20 squadrons of American fighters have now been deployed to the USSR. These fighter wings are equipped with P-51 series fighters, most of which are high-altitude models, but some are low-altitude models. However, these American aircraft could not be used openly, otherwise they would soon be consumed by the huge number of German fighters, so they could only be used in the most critical places.

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"I am the commander of the 5th Company of the 2nd SS Tank Battalion. Captain Schwarzenegger, ordered to report to you with his troops. ”

While the 7th Tank Corps of the Soviet Red Army was on its way at night, Captain Schwarzenegger met his temporary commander, Major Baker, at a hidden camp in the armored part of Vormianki.

"Welcome to you and your comrades, I am Major Franz of the Wehrmacht Army Reserve. Baker, who was ordered to be the commander of the Baker Heavy Armored Regiment. ”

Unlike most of the Colonel-level officers in the Wehrmacht's armoured units, Franz. Major Baker was a "reserve major", which meant he was not a career officer. In fact, he was a dentist, and he was a doctor of dentistry, and he didn't go to military school seriously. In the last world war, he received the rank of technical sergeant (artilleryman) and also received the Iron Cross of the 2nd degree. Later, he re-enlisted in the army in 1937 and served in the 6th Panzer Division, successively serving as a battalion adjutant, anti-tank platoon commander, tank company commander, tank regiment chief of staff, and tank battalion commander. Therefore, he was brought to Warsaw by Admiral Reinhardt, and he was assigned to be the commander of a temporary heavily armored regiment.

The so-called heavy armored regiment is actually a temporary composite regimental battle group. It consisted of 1 heavy battalion (504th or 505th) equipped with Panthers, 2 tank companies equipped with tank No. 4H (drawn from the 5th SS tank battalion), 1 self-propelled armoured artillery battalion or 1 assault gun battalion (drawn from the 5th SS division), 1 panzergrenadier battalion (Finnish battalion or 1st Walloon brigade) and 1 panzer engineer battalion.

A total of two were formed, namely the "Baker Heavy Armored Regiment" and the "Rudell Heavy Armored Regiment", and Captain Schwarzenegger's tank company was incorporated into the Baker Heavy Armored Regiment.

According to the plan drawn up by Admiral Reinhardt and Major General Hube, in the "Legiononovo Short Assault Operation" starting on July 20, that is, tomorrow, three heavily armored battalions equipped with Tiger tanks will be responsible for taking the lead and attacking the front of the Soviet army with the cooperation of Panzergrenadiers, benefiting the powerful power of 132 Tiger tanks and delivering a crushing blow to the front of the Soviet army.

The "Baker Heavy Armored Regiment" and the "Rudel Heavy Armored Regiment" were responsible for breaking through the gap made by the Tiger tanks and attacking along the Razimin-Vovomin-Suleovik line. Striving to break behind the Soviet troops attacking Warsaw in the shortest possible time is not to encircle the dozen or so Soviet army groups under the city of Warsaw, and more than a dozen army groups have more than one million people.

His vision was only a short advance attack, a heavy blow to the Soviet army on the northern route, forcing them to abandon the attack on Legionovo. In this way, the main direction of the Soviet army will once again return to the flesh mill of Warsaw, and at the same time attract more Soviet reserves to the Warsaw line, creating favorable conditions for the assault on the northern front. (To be continued.) )