Chapter 222: A New Journey

There is no fortress in the world that will never fall, but it can play a role in delaying the enemy's attack and buying time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ๏ฝ‚๏ฝ‰๏ฝ‘๏ฝ•๏ฝ‡๏ฝ…ใ€‚ info time, whoever wins the time has the potential to change the tide of the battle. Lin Jun spent a lot of money to build a Brest fortress second only to Sevastopol, in order to delay time in the possible outbreak of the Soviet-German war in the future - the fortress delayed some German troops for three months, and it was worth dragging everything in.

Brest Fortress is a place with abundant water but water shortage, every time I watched the fortress defenders in "The Battle of Moscow" in the past life insisted on resisting in the case of extreme water shortage, that is, Lin Jun often longed to pull a cart of water to the defenders of the fortress. In order not to repeat history, Lin Juncai gave the order to dig a large well, and also set up a water supply system with sufficient protection and reasonable configuration for all parts of the fortress.

Peter Mikhailovich Zavrilov's subordinates were not slow, and on the first day of his tenure as commander of the fortress, he carried out Lin Jun's orders very well, and brought in all the Belarusians in the city who could dig wells and suppress wells, and if they were organized into engineering troops, there would be a company.

Lin Jun has never seen a well dug, but Lin Jun will fight the pressurized water well himself in his previous life: a water pipe with a pointed end welded and dozens of holes drilled around the tip, find a piece of mud with an underground water layer under it, and then pour water and poke the water pipe down, and finally pick up a big hammer and smash it, and turn east and west for half a day in the middle. As long as the aquifer is poked, it is done, and the flattened water pipe head is removed and connected to the "old duck head (the same thing that presses the water)" is done.

Of course, the wells of the fortress had to be dug in the fortress defense circle, and they had to bloom everywhere, but the words of the soil experts gave Lin Jun a basin of cold water - many areas of the fortress were not suitable for drilling wells.

If it is suitable for drilling wells, there will be wells everywhere during the Tsarist period, and there will be no shortage of water after being surrounded, although it is surrounded by water, but most of the foundation is directly built on the rock formation. The rock formations are watery and cannot be dealt with by soil experts, but they still find a few suitable places to dig wells in some corners and corners.

Lin Jun was at a loss for the time being, so he could only call Minsk and ask him to send a drilling team with a drilling rig to drill a well as soon as possible to solve the problem in front of him with a "foreign play".

Zavrilov asked how many wells to be drilled, "as many as possible, and it is very important to set up reservoirs in areas where wells cannot be drilled, not only by electricity, but also by manpower!" Remember, the water supply system should be equipped according to the requirements of the enemy who have entered the fortress and the garrison is divided and surrounded by still drinking water. It's surrounded by water, but if it's surrounded, we'll die of thirst! โ€

Lin Jun's requirements are already very clear, that is, every building in the fortress must have its own water source, and become a "small fortress" that can be self-sufficient in a short time.

A commander of Lin Jun's level can analyze the construction situation here so thoughtfully, what else can the people below say? Serious implementation is. Zavrilov now understood why the chief attached so much importance to the fortress - a war between the Soviets and Germany was inevitable, and what he had to do was to prepare as much as possible for the day of war.

He didn't know why the chief thought so highly of himself, but one thing he was sure of was that if a big war broke out, he and his troops would have to be nailed here like nails, and the people were in the fortress!

Lin Jun was not in a hurry to leave Brest and inspected the neighborhood for two days. The area of the Brest fortress was not only the four ring fortresses, but also many fortified areas on both sides, and the fortifications built decades ago in these places were largely abandoned and needed to be rebuilt.

Lin Jun knew that there were some shortcomings in the management of troops in the fortified areas of the Soviet army in history, such as the long-term storage of equipment and the reluctance to use it, which led to the continuous problem of using it, and this situation will change with the orders one after another.

"The equipment is used reasonably, not the treasure hidden dust and rust, those precision equipment will also be damp, need good maintenance, and should often be taken out to practice."

Lin Jun's words will be a new article for the troops.

On August 27, a telegram was sent from Kiev that the commander of the defenders of Warsaw had officially signed the instrument of surrender to the commander of the German 8th Army, Colonel-General Blaskovic, and that Warsaw had fallen.

With the fall of Warsaw, there were only sporadic battles left on Polish soil, and the Germans were able to settle the Polish question satisfactorily.

The news in the telegram was that according to the plan set by Lin Jun when he was in Moscow, several border crossings had been set up in the border area between the Soviet Union and Germany to solve the problem of Polish refugees stranded on both sides of the border.

Refugees are not only running to the east, but also to the west, depending on their political views and ethnicity. Those who were afraid of the fascist regime would of course find a way to leave Poland, and a large part of them would run in the direction of the Soviets, not to mention the Ukrainian and Belarusian families whose homes were already here. Some people whose homeland was in Poland or who were hostile to the Soviets and Communism generally chose to leave the Soviets.

A few months ago, Lin Jun told everyone: "It's going to rain, my mother wants to get married, and I can't stop it!" They want to leave on their own, and staying is a destabilizing factor. If there are refugees who have fled German rule to us, we welcome them."

Lin Jun's statement is still very convincing, population is the basis of the war (except for the enemy, of course), and the Germans have the same considerations. Although the release of those who have passed away may be a threat to both sides in the future, it is not in anyone's interest if no one is allowed to let them go, so an agreement was reached on the refugee issue during the negotiations, and the latest deadline for refugee exchanges was tentatively set at one month after the cessation of the fighting, and the official deadline is now given for October 1.

Because the fortress was inconvenient for refugees, there was an official pass 20 kilometers south of Brest, and Lin Jun wanted to inspect it before leaving Belarus.

Losik had already led his troops back to Minsk, and Lin Jun's decision to inspect the pass made Zavrilov so busy that he sent additional guards to Lin Jun, and transferred a mechanized infantry company with the strongest combat effectiveness from the fortress troops that arrived later, and added a few BA-6 armored vehicles.

Lin Jun didn't want to make such a big show at first, his 36-man guard was enough to protect his own safety, and he said that there were still Soviet guards at the pass, but he agreed after the repeated insistence of the fortress commander. For the average commander of the Red Army, he was too important to allow any mistakes.

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"What's that?"

Halfway through, Lin Jun pointed to an area guarded by troops and asked his entourage.

"There was a temporary prisoner of war camp for Polish prisoners of war, Comrade Andrei. According to your order, all the Polish soldiers have been released, and the prisoners are all Polish officers, basically the Polish troops who were originally stationed in Western Belarus, and a small number of Polish prisoners of war who have retreated from the Vyskรณw cluster. "Gusev did his duty very well and got a clear picture of the situation in the vicinity of the chief's residence.

"Go there."

Lin Jun's appearance caused a commotion in the prisoner of war camp, not only against the prisoner of war camp garrison, but also like a bombshell for the prisoners of war.

The commander who manages this place is a captain of a unit directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Lin Jun's arrival made him excited for a long time, and he hurriedly organized troops to meet and strengthen the guards. For a moment, the atmosphere in the prisoner of war camp became tense, and the Polish officers, who were moving freely in the barbed wire, nervously watched a group of officers and soldiers who were apparently from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs approaching. The Polish officers were not novices, and they could see that these men were distinctly different from the guards, exuding an oppressive aura, heavily armed, and armed with weapons that they had not seen before.

With such a group of Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel here, many prisoners of war thought that the rumors that had been circulating for a long time were about to become reality, and that these people would bring death. The Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs was a devil in the eyes of most of them, and the Soviet Union did not join the Geneva Treaty, and the Poles feared that these people were there to "deal with" them.

When the Poles saw that this group was a strange defensive formation, and that it was a young senior Soviet officer who was protecting it, some Polish officers who knew the Soviet Union became desperate!

"Lieutenant, it looks like we're going to die here today." A middle-aged cavalry major said to the young infantry lieutenant next to him.

"Why? Because of them? โ€

The young lieutenant was not afraid of death.

"Look at the young officer in the middle, the one with the four diamond-shaped markings on the collar badge in the middle of the group." The major pointed out to the lieutenant, "I saw this man in the newspapers, he is as old as you, the highest honor of the USSR, the first and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, their Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, with the rank of one equivalent to our general." โ€

"It's him! I've heard, Butcher II, and it looks like we're really going to die here. โ€

Lin Jun didn't know that the two Polish officers were talking about him, and he was listening to the report of the prisoner of war camp director while watching these prisoners of war.

"There's a Polish general?"

"Yes, the commander-in-chief, a Polish major general, who ran from the German theater of operations, I have already interrogated."

The prisoner of war camp had made the background of all 356 Polish officers clear, and the detailed report made Lin Jun very satisfied.

"Gather the captives."

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."

As the Polish word "assembled" sounded, the prisoners of war were quickly grouped according to their ranks.

"The quality is good, and there is a sense of being a prisoner, but it is not good to fight." Lin Jun looked at these captives in front of him and thought to himself.

A Polish voice remembered that it was the 60-year-old Polish major general who spoke in the lead, and 356 Polish prisoners of war saluted Lin Jun in unison. Lin Jun did not lose his demeanor and returned a Soviet military salute.

"It seems that your commander knows who I am, and that you are carrying out international practices well. There may be some gentlemen who do not know my identity and will think that this salute is a little wronged, and now I will introduce myself, I am Andrei Nikolayevich Prenyakov, Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR. โ€

The translator loudly translated Lin Jun's words into Polish, in fact, many Polish officers knew Russian. After Lin Jun finished speaking, he glanced at the Poles in front of him, behind him, the members of the guards and the guards around him were always on alert, once the Poles did anything out of the ordinary, there would soon be 356 corpses in front of him.

"Now listen to my orders, re-unite, and the home is in the middle of the officer stations of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, and the officers who are not ethnic Poles stand on the left, and the others stand on the right."

Hearing Lin Jun's order, the young lieutenant who had just talked about him walked to the right queue with his head held high, and this order seemed to the Polish officer to have only one meaning: the person on the right would be "disposed of".

There were only 3 on the left, and Lin Jun saw that the re-detachment was completed and walked in front of the three.

"Where are you from, and what ethnicity are you?"

"We are all Bresters, ethnic Belarusians." Said one of the captains in the lead.

"The family is still in Brest?"

"Yes."

Lin Jun saw the commander of the prisoner of war camp on the side nodded, it seemed that they were not lying, and the commander also motioned to the person next to him to bring three file bags, which contained the information of the three prisoners of war.

"Now that Brest is liberated, do you want to go home?" Lin Jun could see that these three people really wanted to go home.

"Yes, Your Excellency."

"Give them three the formalities for their release, let them go home, and hand over their materials to the Brest Provisional Management Committee."

"I will send you home, but you still need to be mentally reformed, and you must learn how to be a competent Soviet citizen."

Lin Jun looked through the information of the captain in front of him: "You are a middle school math teacher, you should serve the Soviets in the classroom, not be an enemy of the Soviets." There is only one chance, and when you go home, you can be educated by the local government and reformed. โ€

"Say hello to the local department, and when these three people are transformed, they will arrange for them to do their original business, and say that I said it."

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."

One teacher, two highway architects, there really is nothing in the Polish army.

Lin Jun's words released the three prisoners of war, and others did not dare to have any dissenting opinions, in their opinion, Lin Jun represented Stalin.

Walking in front of the group in the middle, Lin Jun looked at eighty or ninety people.

"You have also been released, the borders are open until October 1st, those who want to go west hurry up, and those who want to stay will go home. But you must remember that you have only one choice, and if you continue to do things hostile to the Soviets in the future, you will be left with only one way to die. โ€

Without much nonsense, he walked to the front of the last group of people: "You have also been released, hurry up if you want to go home, and we welcome those who stay." There are some things I won't say much, you know the consequences. โ€

The prisoners of war team lost their composure just now for a while, and they didn't expect to be released like this!

The Polish major general walked up to Lin Jun and gave a very standard Polish military salute: "You are a very personable officer, and I thank you on behalf of myself and my subordinates for your humanitarian decision!" โ€

"General, listen to my advice, the Germans will only occupy you and exploit and oppress Poland."

After Lin Jun finished speaking, he turned his head and left.

"Gusev, the issue of prisoners of war is a special case here, you know how to do the following things, and you can make a fuss about it."

"Yes, Chief. I want to stay here for a day, finish the follow-up, make a few statements, and it will be beneficial for us internationally. โ€

Lin Jun smiled, his confidential secretary could understand his meaning very well: "Don't forget to look back at how they treated our 200,000 martyrs in Warsaw 19 years ago!"

For the release of these prisoners of war, Lin Jun did not have a temporary idea, but he has always had this idea, and today he just happened to bump into it and plug the mouths of some countries.

"We do things very humanely! Hehe. โ€

Lin Jun remembered that "Germany wanted soldiers and the Soviet Union wanted officers", and it was about the same now, but Lin Jun would not lock up all Polish officers for more than half a year. Many of them were tired of the war, and if they had been together in the camps for a long time, they would have been influenced by the die-hard hostile Soviets, and it would be strange that they would not be hostile to the Soviets.

Lock them up in the White Sea? Lin Jun wasn't so stupid, he forced himself to give each of them a shot. After screening, they were released, and according to the original plan, some officers were sent back to the German-occupied areas, which did no harm to the Soviets at all.

Most of the officers whose homes were in the German-occupied zone would go back, and Lin Jun was not worried that they would become the main backbone hostile to the Soviets: the Germans were exploiting Poland, while the Soviets were recovering their own territory, and in the future they were building their own country rather than exploiting them. Polish officers returning to the German-occupied territories will be even more hostile to the German fascists, and it is not certain that they will survive if they return, and some may even become the backbone of the anti-German ruling forces. In the distant future, if these intellectuals were still hostile to communism when Poland also turned red, there would be no need for Lin Jun to deal with them.

Stalin feared that these Polish officers would become the cornerstone of the restoration of Polish bourgeois rule, but Lin Jun was not worried, and Stalin was not worried: what would the Germans do in Poland? The vast majority of the Polish officers released will be the souls of the fascist butcher's knife, and what will be left behind is unlikely to be a climate.

Lin Jundu has to admit that he has become more and more scheming, less cheerful than before, and even sinister, which can only say that he has become more and more mature on the road of politics.

At the border crossing, Lin Jun received a telegram from the herald, Stalin beckoned him back to Moscow, and the code in the telegram let Lin Jun know that his new battlefield would be the north. (To be continued.) )