"It's over! It's all over! Now I'm going to be a reactionary......"

The 16th Mechanized Corps and the 1st Tank Brigade suffered a crushing defeat, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and the tank cluster was almost completely wiped out! The whereabouts of the commander of the 16th Mechanized Corps Sokalov, the political commissar Fedulov are unknown, and the commander of the 1st Tank Brigade Chukhin died heroically......

When Lieutenant Colonel Kurbsky, chief of staff of the 16th Mechanized Army, made a phone call and told the commander of the 4th Army, Major General Korobkov, about the bad news at the front, he suddenly had a feeling that the sky was falling. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was the first real fiasco since the beginning of the world revolution! Although the Red Army had a record of defeat in the Soviet-Finnish war, the Soviet-Polish war of 1939, and Afghanistan, not a single mechanized corps was routed and the army commander and political commissar disappeared. Moreover, this time it was also a glorious 1st Tank Brigade......

Comrade Ponomarenko, political commissar of the Western Front, had just signed a commendation order, calling on the entire front army to learn from the glorious 1st Tank Brigade, and in the blink of an eye, the 1st Tank Brigade was almost annihilated by Germany.

Where does this leave Comrade Ponomarenko's face? If Comrade Ponomarenko endures this, how can he be the successor of the world revolution in the future? If Ponomarenko, the political commissar of the front, wants to find someone to make a knife, then Korobkov should be a reactionary.

Who made both Sokalov and Fegulov missing? Whether he died as a martyr or was captured as a traitor, it has nothing to do with Comrade Ponomarenko, and no matter how big the political commissar of the front army is, he will not be able to control the concentration camps of the dead and the enemy.

Just as he was thinking about it, Lieutenant Colonel Kurbsky's voice in the telephone receiver suddenly became even more trembling.

"Comrade commander, the Nazis, the Nazi tanks are coming up, they are about to rush up! The 16th Mechanized Army is about to collapse! ”

After saying that, the phone snapped and hung up, and it was obvious that the military headquarters of the 16th Mechanized Army was about to be transferred.

And on the other end of the telephone line, Major General Korobkov was even more dumbfounded. What's going on? The 16th Mechanized Army is about to collapse? How can it be? That's an army! Even if the 46th Tank Brigade and the 1st Tank Brigade were finished, and there were still three motorized rifle brigades left, how could it be possible for the Germans' armored forces to collapse in a few hours?

He was at a loss when someone suddenly shouted, "Rockets!" Take cover! ”

Korobkov was about to find a hole to get into (the sappers had built anti-artillery fortifications near his headquarters), but there was a rumbling cascade of explosions, but Korobkov himself was unharmed.

It turned out that the target of the German rocket artillery was not Korobkov's headquarters, but the 28th Army of the Red Army, which was deploying a defensive line at the front. This corps had been marching on the city of Legionovo two hours earlier, and only after the news of the defeat of the 16th Mechanized Corps was the news of the defeat was ordered to deploy on the front line of Vovo.

But how is it possible for an army with 3 motorized infantry divisions and 5 motorized artillery regiments (2 corps and 3 divisions) to be deployed and deployed in 2 hours? They are not an armored army, and they can fight the enemy's armored troops as long as they swing their vehicles out. Their infantry had to build fortifications, dig trenches, lay mines, and place various artillery positions before they could hold off enemy tank clusters.

But how could the German Nazis give the 28th Infantry Corps of the Soviet Red Army time to be deployed?

Thinking that the 28th Infantry Corps might also collapse in a short time, Korobkov no longer had the heart to stay in the headquarters to listen to the report, so he took a few staff officers and guards and headed for the front line northwest of the town of Vovomin.

Before the Gas-61 car he was riding in had reached the place, he heard a burst of "Ula! Ulla! Shouts.

The troops, which had just been attacked by rocket artillery, had now been reinvigorated by the instigation of officers and political cadres, and some of them were preparing to launch a desperate counterattack against the German armored clusters!

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"Captain! Look! The Bolsheviks are coming! ”

Gustav. Captain Schwarzenegger was sitting in the captain's seat, munching on black bread and hard sausages (it was his breakfast) when he heard gunner Auge shouting.

Captain Schwarzenegger hurriedly stuffed the food into his pocket, then leaned out of the open top hatch, and then saw something unbelievable to him.

Countless Red Army soldiers were shouting "Ula!" with Mosin-Nagant rifles, PPSH submachine guns and anti-tank grenades. Ulla! The slogan was like a tidal wave.

"Hurry, hurry! Get out of the car and stop the Bolsheviks! "Captain Schwarzenegger shouted to the grenadiers on the tank to get out of the car and fire at the Soviet infantry with the MKB-42 automatic carbine - under no circumstances let these Bolshevik madman infantry get close!

Soon, the machine guns on the MKB-42, MG-42 and tank No. 4 in the hands of the Nazi infantry rained down the charging Red Army soldiers piece by piece.

However, the desperate charge of the Red infantry also temporarily blocked the advance of the German armored group, and taking advantage of this respite won with blood, the 1st division of the 28th Infantry Corps of the Soviet Army also quickly shrank into the town of Vovomin, and began to hastily build rudimentary fortifications. Due to the tight schedule, the Soviet infantry had to take materials from the courtyards of each house, and piled up barricades and anti-tank fire bunkers with miscellaneous items such as carts, wooden boxes, and furniture.

Some of the M1937/38 45mm anti-tank guns, ZIS-2 57mm anti-tank guns, and ZIS-3 76mm anti-tank guns that survived the German rocket artillery raid were also dragged into the town of Vovomin and arranged at various intersections.

Some Red Army snipers also entered the houses on the outskirts of the town, most of which were somewhat damaged due to the two rocket artillery attacks they had encountered, but they could still be used as fire bases, and rifles, machine guns, and anti-tank guns were set up and pointed straight to the open area ahead, and everyone held their breath and waited for the Germans to attack.

The 28th Army of the Red Army had received special training in street fighting before the start of the world revolution, and each of them knew by heart all the skills of street fighting, how to fight in the central cities of the bourgeoisie such as Warsaw, Berlin and Paris, and how to plant the red flag at Warsaw Castle, the Reichstag in Berlin and the Elysee Palace in Paris.

Of course, they also knew how to use the city's buildings to repel the counterattack of Nazi German tanks and infantry!

But today's attacking Nazi tanks and infantry did not intend to recapture Vovomin, they were only ordered to launch a short assault with the aim of killing as much as possible the living forces of the Soviet army and delaying their attack on Warsaw.

For Moder, now the commander of the 6th Army, the biggest difficulty in holding on to Warsaw was the lack of troops. He had only 270,000 officers and soldiers under his command, and his opponent was likely to have as many as 1 million.

Therefore, anything that could cause heavy losses, but could not completely repel the Soviet offensive, was worthless.

Therefore, after discovering that the Soviet infantry had retreated into Vovomin and tried to hold on, General Steiner, who was commanding the operation at the front, decisively abandoned the operation to recover Vovomin. On the one hand, he ordered artillery groups (excluding rocket artillery) to bombard Vovomin in order to kill and wound the Soviet infantry holding there; On the one hand, let the pursuing armored clusters bypass the towns and launch a surprise attack on the artillery positions and rear assembly areas of the Soviet 28th Army.

The Soviet 28th Army was already in disarray, and according to the plan, they were going to attack Legiononovo. Before the collapse of the 16th Mechanized Corps and the 1st Tank Brigade, it was still on the march. Before it was fully deployed, it was covered by German rocket artillery and assaulted by armored forces, and it was completely in chaos.

While the Germans' armored clusters repelled the 28th Army's infantry counterattack, three German smoke launcher regiments, guided by aircraft, launched another rocket artillery raid targeting the rear area of the 28th Army.

So when hundreds of No. 4H tanks and No. 3 assault guns and more than 10,000 panzergrenadiers rushed in, the artillery positions of the Soviet 28th Army were just halfway arranged, and they were covered by nearly 2,000 rockets.

The headquarters of the 4th Army of the Red Army was behind the 28th Infantry Army, and some fragmentary units directly under the 4th Army were also around the headquarters of the 4th Army.

When Korobkov returned from the front in despair, these fragments of troops were being deployed, and the command of the 4th Army was not ready to move. The political commissar of the group army, Teregin, was like an ant on a hot pot, circling around the headquarters while carrying a telephone receiver and roaring: "Don't retreat!" Wovomin must be kept! Whoever dares to retreat is anti-gimmick, reactionary! ”

Seeing Korobkov come in, Terekin finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was just a political officer, and he didn't know how to fight.

"Comrade Commander, how is the situation?" Terekin asked.

"They're coming!"

"They? Who? ”

"The armored forces of the Germans!" Korobkov replied, "They have bypassed Vovomin and are coming towards us. Up to ......"

Boom......

The sound of shells exploding was already ringing, and it was the Wasp self-propelled guns that followed the advance of the German armored units that were firing at it.

"Comrade Commander...... The Germans are coming? Terekin asked, his face grimaceous.

"It's coming!"

"So what do we do?"

"What should I do?" Korobkov sighed, "If you don't want to be a prisoner, then transfer immediately and go to join the 1st Tank Army...... There are also 2 tank brigades there, which should be able to stop the counterattack of the German armored forces. (To be continued.) )