Like almost all armies in the world, the Soviet Red Army was divided into "factions", but it was not as clear as the factional barriers of Chiang's subordinates, but depending on what branch of the army was born or from which front. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The 1st Guards Cavalry Army, in the Red Army "factions" and even "Budyonny's troops", all cavalry corps remained firmly in the hands of the cavalry marshal. And Budyonny also took good care of "his own troops", plus Voroshinov (two of the famous three marshals of the cavalry set: from November 1919 to October 1923 Budyonny was the commander of the 1st Cavalry Army, and from November 19 to May 21, Voroshinov was a member of the Military Committee of the army. The other marshal was the commander of the main division of the group army back then, and this would be because of Lin Jun and Tie Mu Singhe, who held the rank of general. Even the horrific rebellion was not purged to the cavalry-born officers of the Red Army.

The cavalry units of the Red Army have glorious traditions and historical honors, and the blood of the cavalry galloping on horseback is deeply implanted in the hearts of the Red officers and soldiers! Although everyone will understand that the era of cavalry has passed, like Comrade Marshal of the Cavalry, almost all the officers and men of the cavalry unit still have in their hearts the dream of "iron horses and fast knives" sweeping the fascists!

Budyonny has woken up to the fact that the cavalry has become an annex to the heavily armored mixed mechanized troops, but the honor and glorious traditions of the cavalry must be passed on! The combat experience of the 53rd Guards Cavalry Division alone shows that on some special occasions, the cavalry also has advantages that are difficult for other arms to compare, and this will once again maintain the glorious tradition and glory of the Red Army cavalry, and the mission of maintaining the glorious tradition and glory of the Red Army cavalry once again falls to the First Guards Cavalry Army!

Originally, the number of the First Guards Cavalry Army was not the turn of the original Second Cavalry Army, but the First Cavalry Army suffered too much losses in the early Belarusian direction operations, and was undergoing large-scale reorganization in the rear, and was about to become a new mechanized army, and the remaining cavalry units would be divided into several independent units.

Standing on horseback, brandishing a saber, whistling and whistling, and singing military songs to unleash a whirlwind charge on the enemy - the arduous responsibility of carrying forward the romantic, fearless heroism of the cavalry soldiers rested on the 1st Guards Cavalry Army!

Budyonny had high hopes for the 1st Guards Cavalry Army, and even more so in the commander of the army, Lieutenant General Pavel Alekseevich Belov: Comrade General was a loyal and experienced old subordinate who had followed him for many years!

The day before yesterday, when the reserve front held its last pre-war meeting, Budyonny repeatedly told Belov to take advantage of this rare opportunity to let the whole army and the whole world know once again that the Soviet cavalry was brave and good at fighting, and let the whole world praise the great name of the Soviet cavalry!

"You're going to pile up a mountain of fascist heads! When the time comes, I will celebrate you! ”

Belov is definitely a great general under Budyonny, and he can't command anything else, but he is like he was born for the command of cavalry operations! He even served for a long time as "Acting Cavalry Director of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" after Budyonny's resignation from the post of Cavalry Directorate, who for many years was assistant to the Cavalry Directorate and assistant officer of Marshal Budyonny's special affairs.

When the war broke out, Budyonny pulled the old subordinate from his high position and shoved him into the position of commander of the Second Cavalry Corps, to which Belov had no complaints—it was obviously more attractive for him to raise his sword than to stay in his office in Moscow, and the marshal's arrangement was clearly a sign of trust in him.

Belov never disappointed Budyonny, on the Southern Front it was the 2nd Cavalry Army that fought very well, and this time the opportunity was even better!

During this time, Belov kept an eye on the weather, especially the snow, which was crucial for cavalry operations. Because of the strong winds, the snow on the plains was still within the limits of the speed of the tall Budyonny horses, and the movement of the infantry was already greatly hindered. In a short distance, this will keep up with the impact speed of the armored troops, and the only way to choose is cavalry, not even ski troops!

The number of new armored personnel carriers is insufficient, and the tanks carrying infantry are only an expedient measure in the current situation, and if you want to sweep away the remnants of the enemy like a strong wind sweeping the leaves after the armored troops break through the position, then there are only cavalry!

The temperature outside at night was already below minus 30 degrees, and the Germans were about to freeze to death, and Belov expected that once the German ring defense line was torn apart, his cavalry would sweep through the German troops who were already half-frozen to death and seriously undersupplied in the frontal combat area of 20 kilometers like a Siberian cold wind.

"Heap the heads of the fascists" - this time Belov believed that he could do it, and it seemed to him that the marshal did not want any prisoners, and the cavalrymen were not in the habit of taking prisoners: they could not be captured! As for towns with a large number of buildings and suitable for defense, they did not need to be captured by cavalry, but for the assault infantry units. The boys of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps only need to sweep the Germans in the field and small farms today, sweep the fascists like rabbits in the snow, beat them into honeycombs with assault rifles, and chop off their heads with swords held high!

On January 6, that is, yesterday morning, the commander of the Belarusian Front, General Zhukov, issued an ultimatum to the commander of the German 9th Army, Army General Adolf Strauss, urging him to surrender with his troops and avoid further casualties.

Strauss knew that his troops were exhausted, that the Soviet forces surrounding him had absolute superiority, and that a desperate breakthrough was the only option, so that he might be able to break through part of his troops: he telegraphed to Hitler asking for permission to act on camera, but Hitler rejected his request.

Zhukov also issued an ultimatum to the German army in accordance with the will of the Supreme Command, and when he personally discussed this issue with Chuikov, he believed that this would not allow the Germans to surrender, because the Germans in the encirclement were "emaciated camels bigger than horses" according to Chuikov's words - but the Red Army was not a horse to be used as a reference, but could tear apart all strong polar bears!

Belov polished his sword, but his desire to drink fascist blood seemed unfulfillable - and he missed the days when he was a junior commander when he saw the young man fitting the horses in a large expanse of improvised stables.

Riding a horse at the forefront of the queue, that kind of bloody life is really gone.

However, there is still a little bit of hope: the tasks of the divisions and regiments are already very clear, according to Belov, they are going around in circles on the plates, and such a small-scale pursuit and sweeping mission is like a "low-level exercise". As soon as the offensive begins, there will be nothing to do with the army headquarters for at least a few hours, and it will be done step by step: when the time comes, the entire army headquarters will move closer to Ivenets, and in case there will be an opportunity, the 200-cavalry guard company will still be able to exert its combat effectiveness.

As for his headquarters, Belov felt a bit of a nondescript combination - all the personnel and equipment of the command had been mechanized, and even the guard units were no longer just pure cavalry: in addition to the cavalry company, there was also an infantry guard company with trucks and tracked carriers.

The cavalry guard company of the command headquarters was specially reserved by Budyonny for his cavalry corps, "How can the cavalry commander not have a cavalry guard unit on horseback?!" "Budyonny's reasoning is so justified that no one dares to refute it!

Stalin would not refute him, Voroshinov was supportive, and Lin Jun could not compete with him for the special establishment of multiple companies of an army: the cavalry marshal's one-acre and three-point land let him toss as much as he liked.

In order to solve the German army in the encirclement as soon as possible, this time it was not only a battle outside the city, but the Red Army would also launch a fierce assault on the city of Minsk and compress the German positions. In particular, the German strongholds outside Minsk were to be conquered within a week, forcing the main German forces to retreat to the city of Minsk.

At 5:40 a.m., Belov returned to the headquarters after inspecting the nearby troops: just next to the corps headquarters, a cavalry regiment was to join forces with the tank units in a surprise attack on the left flank of Ivenets, where there was the last German-controlled airfield in the encirclement.

6 o'clock, 3 hours before dawn.

Zhukov calmly gave an order in front of the microphone: "I'm General Zhukov, let's start!" ”

It seemed that in an instant, the entire night sky was lit up by artillery fire, and tens of thousands of large and medium-caliber artillery, rocket launchers, and mortars roared almost at the same time, and the earth trembled violently! Especially in the night sky northwest of Minsk, the whole sky is reflected red! That's more than 300 "Katyushas" in carpet shelling!

At the same time, the Red Army troops on all sides advanced on the predetermined target with numerous arrows of attack -- after a long period of siege and encroachment, all the Red Army had to do today was to storm onslaught! Storm! Onslaught again!

The headquarters of Army General Hans-Fairber, commander of the 13th Army of Army Group Center, was at the Ivenets airfield, and in one minute the airfield received more than 300 rounds of artillery shells of more than 122 mm caliber (it is not surprising that the use of airfields in Soviet-German theaters under the cover of enemy artillery fire was common for both sides). ）！

Fairbell was sleeping at the headquarters and was immediately awakened by the sound of shelling, and it felt like the end of the world had arrived! A 152-mm large-caliber shell hit the top cover of the headquarters the moment he put on his boots, and although the top cover, which had been reinforced with logs and dirt, did not collapse completely, it was also a catastrophe inside - more than a dozen staff officers were instantly crushed underneath, and their lives and deaths were unknown!

The situation was the same for the entire German front, and Guderian's second panzer group in the south had already lost more than half, and this would have been taken care of! The overwhelming amount of rockets swept through like a strong wind - in fact, there was no need to shell them so violently, most of the vehicles and tanks were already out of fuel and ammunition, and even those with oil would become a pile of waste: they could not be started at all, the engines and parts were completely frozen by the bitter cold, and the tankmen did not have enough fuel to heat themselves, and it was impossible to keep the cars warm!

Seven kilometers northeast of Ivernets, hundreds of T34s started gearing, slowly advanced to the southwest at a modest speed, and soon passed through the first line of their own infantry positions. Behind them, a full 1,500 cavalry cavalry slowly followed in several arrows, and the young men in the black overhead cloaks were the soldiers of the 1st Guards Cavalry Army.

The horses sneezed, the heat condensed into white ice mist, and the black cloak rolled into a continuous rolling wave.

The night is not completely dark, and the snow can see far away, not to mention the firelight in the sky and the violent explosions in the distance.

Approaching 2 kilometers from the airfield, the Germans began to counterattack, but the artillery fire was scarce, and they had few shells. The tanks began to accelerate the assault, but not a single tank gun fired, and it was only when it was close to a kilometer that hundreds of T34s opened fire violently - the entire German anti-tank artillery position was surrounded by explosions!

The German infantry position was ahead, and in the bright light, the German soldiers saw the overwhelming tanks and despaired! It's not that they're not brave - it's more than 30 degrees below zero, there is not enough fuel, there is not enough food and barracks, medicine and fuel have run out; Everywhere people suffer from typhoid fever and dysentery, and even more people suffer from frostbite! Thousands of soldiers die every day from starvation, cold and malnutrition. Some officers had already tried to persuade Strauss to break out quickly in the early stage despite Hitler's orders, but Strauss was obviously afraid of being charged with disobeying military orders, so he insisted on standing still and kept passively defending.

However, Guderian would not have to be shelled in the snow and ice, he was wounded again, not serious, and was called back to meet Hitler and report the situation of the surrounded troops to the Führer in person. However, despite Guderian's words, Hitler still ordered the army group to hold on to Minsk until next spring!

There was not the slightest hope of breaking through, people were frozen into popsicles around them every day, the troops were on the verge of running out of ammunition and food, the distribution of rations had been reduced to a level far from being enough for physical needs, and the soldiers felt that they were slowly starving to death and freezing to death!

Even the strength to shoot with a gun is almost gone, and the temperature is so low that a layer of skin will be torn off as soon as the skin touches the steel, and it is cold to the bone! There was not enough ammunition, the bolts were often frozen, and the machine guns were often roasted with fire before they could be fired!

Despair! The miracle of the invincibility of the armies of the Third Reich, which had always been proud, no longer existed in Belarus, and only a group of poor people struggling in the ice and snow remained. They even wish they could be in Minsk, where the fighting is even more brutal and terrifying, because there are at least broken buildings to protect from the wind and snow, and there are not even enough tents here!

The tanks rumbled closer, and the German soldiers' hearts were nothing to shake, because they had just learned what a steel storm was - in the eyes of the officers, the Russians were like artillery shells running out, and the ammunition dropped in every range far exceeded the base required in German textbooks!

The "Red God of War" and Soviet artillery doctrine are fully manifested, and if there are Anglo-American observers who will see the masterpieces of Soviet artillery, they will be amazed! Especially if an American artillery officer sees this scene, they will feel that the heavy fire support of the artillery that the US military is proud of is like a contest between gentlemen and children playing games!

The Germans near the airfield lost more than a third of their losses after the first round of artillery preparation: the shelling was not long, but the high density of units was terrifying! In a moment, there were even German soldiers who were still alive who were insane, holding their heads and screaming hysterically, and even trying to dig a bomb hole with their bare hands in the cold and hard ground!

The tanks made them terrify and despair, and when they saw the Cossack black crushing cavalry behind the Russian tank cluster, they really collapsed! If it was in the summer, if there was enough ammunition and enough men and strength, they would have been happy to have such Russian cavalry rush over, because then the front of the position would soon be covered with Slavic corpses and dying horses, but now it is in Minsk in January!

The cavalry began to speed up the horses under their crotches, and when they rushed into the German lines, the horses were at their highest speed!

The brave and warlike Cossacks no longer sat in the saddle, but on the stirrups! The bright Chasik swords were waving, and the slogan of the Cossack cavalry charge was shouted, and Budyonny's cavalry galloped forward without fear!

Just before the tanks pressed on the first line of German positions, the German soldiers who were still alive collapsed - they were impossible people to hold their positions, and in front of the roar of the tank's armor and the black pressure on the Cossack cavalry rushing at high speed, how many Germans would be able to keep calm?!

From both flanks, the cavalry rushed into the airfield even earlier than the tanks, and in front of them were a handful of German soldiers who were fleeing indiscriminately to the west. The war horse approached quickly, and the Cossack snow sword was raised and slashed hard! I didn't even have time to scream!

The tank guns were aimed at the few buildings in the airfield at close range, and the cavalry were scattered in small groups to sweep up, and hundreds of them each formed several cavalry detachments to continue westward, and the Cossacks slowed down to withdraw their swords and drew their assault rifles that were inserted in their holsters, and the next battle was not suitable for the use of knives.

Sweeping away the remnants of the German army like chasing rabbits, for the German troops who relied on bunkers to resist stubbornly, the tank commanders who stayed within the airfield area to cooperate with the cavalry directly approached the bombardment with 85mm high-explosive shells!

The small number of infantry on board the tank had also been dismounted, and they were completely cleared from building to building under the direct cover of tank guns and machine guns. Soon tanks and cavalry remained here without tanks, because the ski infantry from behind came up.

All tanks and cavalry continued to attack westwards as planned, leaving the rear for infantry to sweep.

At 7 o'clock, Zhukov received a report from the front, and there was a scornful smile on his face, which rarely appeared.

Hung up the phone and said to the comrades of the Military Council of the Front: "The Ivernets airfield has been completely captured, and the troops have captured a half-dead German general, probably Hans Feulber, commander of the 13th Army of the Fourth Army, who is being sent to the rear. ”

"It seems that the judgment of having a high-level command at the airport in the early stage is correct."

The report on the phone was so simple that Zhukov didn't bother to ask if he had captured any other high-ranking officers of the German 13th Army - for Zhukov, it didn't matter who he killed or captured compared to the value of the captured airfield, unless Hitler was reimbursed!

In fact, there are really few prisoners, and there is almost no chance of surrender! Ferbel was crushed under the half-collapsed rubble, and his general's uniform and a pile of medals saved his life - he was immediately found and dragged out of the rubble.

A general, who had been identified by the commander of the Red Army as a general, basically determined the identity of the prisoner after reading the documents, which made the Red officers and men who captured the airport happy for a while.

Hurry up and send it back, you can't let him hang up in a daze!

At 9 o'clock, the east side dew the first fish belly white.

Moscow, Supreme High Command.

Lin Jun has been paying attention to the battle report, and the average offensive speed of the Red Army in the three hours before dawn reached nearly 7 kilometers per hour, which is the speed achieved in the operation!

According to the current situation, by nightfall today, with the exception of a few towns such as Dzerzhinsk, almost all the settlements in the encirclement west of Minsk will be liberated, and it will only be a matter of a week or two before the remnants of the German army remaining in the wilderness are cleared.

A large number of German troops were besieged in the wilderness, and along the Stolbucci-Minsk railway, the Soviet Air Force was carrying out fierce air strikes on the German army, often killing and wounding hundreds of people with a single bomb!

On the road, there are burning and abandoned cars everywhere, and abandoned German corpses can be seen in the snow at any time! This is similar to the situation in the Soviet Union in July 41 in history, except that the protagonist is reversed.

At noon, the besieged Germans began to shrink their defenses from the outskirts of Minsk to the city, and only in this way could it be possible to resist for a longer time. Now that the German army's airlift supply transportation and the evacuation of the wounded have been completely interrupted, the German army is extremely short of food and ammunition, and relying on airdrops is a real drop in the bucket.

However, the Germans in Minsk still stubbornly resisted, believing that the Soviets would execute all the soldiers who surrendered, and fierce street fighting broke out again in Minsk!

Chuikov has a little itchy teeth today! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )