Chapter 2 Encounter
And through a conversation with Lieutenant General Lukin, the 16th Army entered a state of combat readiness, and Andrei began his own preparations, first of all, of course, to train himself well, remembering the famous saying "A gun is the life of a soldier." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info You take care of it in your daily life, and it will be rewarded at the critical moment. Now Andrei has been maintaining his habit of wearing a pistol, and the Tokarev pistol in his hand has given Andrei a rare sense of intimacy, because it is the prototype of the May Fourth pistol, except for the slightly different five-star style on the grip, the others are exactly the same. In his previous life, Andre also knew a lot about the May Fourth style, because some of his relatives were policemen.
Then it was to prepare some dry food, or something, in the past few days, Andrei had prepared all kinds of things, and on June 21, Andrei found a chance to take a nap at noon, because he knew that it would not be long before the Great Patriotic War would break out, and Andrei recalled the information in his room: "In early June 1941, the German armored division and motorized division drove to the Soviet-German border, which did not correspond to the rhetoric of setting up a barrier before landing in England. The Soviet leadership decided to take a desperate gamble, and 8 days before the start of the war, a message from TASS was published in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. In response to the rumors published by the foreign media that "the Soviet-German war was on the verge of breaking out," Soviet officials held that the rumors of Germany's attempt to attack the Soviet Union were pure nonsense.
In this way, the USSR hinted at inviting the German side to return to negotiations, but the German military did not respond in any way. Stalin immediately made a decision, ordered the inland army to march westward, and the "red button" was pressed.
Three days after the TASS news came out, Sorge reported that the postponement of the war to the end of June undoubtedly raised hope, and the Soviet Union had gained time, but at this time it was less than a week before the start of the invasion.
By June 22, the Soviet Red Army was divided into three formations, scattered in the area from the western border to the Dnieper. The Soviets were mainly stationed in the interior and had only just begun to move westward, while the Germans were already massing in areas close to the Soviet border.
At the beginning of the war, in the Baltic region, 21 Soviet divisions fought against 34 German divisions. In the Belarusian region, 26 divisions of the Soviet Red Army met 36 divisions of the German army. In the Ukrainian region, 57 divisions of Nazi Germany concentrated against 45 divisions of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Red Army had more tanks and aircraft than the enemy, but the number of troops capable of fighting at the same time was very different.
On June 21, the German command issued an order confirming the start of Operation Barbarossa from the morning of June 22.
Tanks, armored personnel carriers, tractors and automobiles began to move towards the border. On the evening of 21 June, the German commander gathered his soldiers and read aloud Hitler's call to them in the document by the light of a flashlight: "The survival of the German nation is now in your hands." On the morning of June 22, the Brandenburg troops of the Raiding Army were the first to cross the Soviet border. This was a secret commando of the Nazi German army. German commandos, dressed in the uniforms of the Soviet Red Army as a camouflage, began to storm the bridge over the Bug River.
German planes also began to hover in the air, and their goal was to bomb major Soviet cities and, most importantly, destroy airfields found by German scouts. Below the planes, the ground battle had not yet begun, and the Germans understood that if the bombers crossed the border and the ground forces attacked at the same time, the Soviet Air Force would have time to enter operational status.
Luftwaffe Air Force planes greet the rising sun and fly eastward. It's early Sunday morning, Soviet schools have just held a leaving party the day before, bands are quiet, the 10th graders are about to start a new day, Muscovites are heading to Red Square as usual, Kiev people are on the banks of the Dnieper, and Leningrad is still in the middle of the night.
At 3:45 a.m., the sun rose over Moscow. By this time, the German planes were already on the way to the raid, and 15 minutes later, the hatch opened, and bombs rained down from the sky and landed on various cities.
The Great Patriotic War began.
At the beginning of the war, the Soviet Air Force was not defeated, most airfields survived, and the first round of German air raids was resisted. However, after all, the air force could not endure the rounds of bombing raids, and the mechanics did not have time to prepare for many aircraft sorties, and there was not enough ammunition and fuel supplies, and many flying detachments were almost completely paralyzed after five or six German attacks. A lot of airfields are being renovated, and the runways are full of pits and full of machines. Therefore, Soviet pilots could not be transferred to other alternate airfields.
Major General Kopets, commander of the Air Force of the Western Front of Belarus, inspected the airfield of his unit from the air, witnessed the terrible scene full of devastation, and committed suicide by drinking bullets after landing.
On June 22, 1941, the Soviet Air Force lost 700 aircraft in the Belarusian theater of operations, which was equivalent to half of the Air Force's strength on the front line. lost 300 aircraft in Ukraine; Lost 100 aircraft in the Baltic States. The first attack of the Germans was powerful, but not deadly. The continuous resistance of the Soviet Red Army Air Force greatly affected the speed of the German advance.
The German Army began its operation at 4:15 a.m. . . . . "Wait a minute, the German special forces, Ukraine is also close to the Bug River, and the German special forces may infiltrate! In fact, German infiltration and sabotage caused great damage to the Soviet troops! Thinking of this, Andrei hurriedly got up and reported to the top to go to the Bug River to rest, he called 12 of his soldiers and immediately went to the Bug River.
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And they were moving at full speed on a truck, and suddenly Andrei in the co-pilot seat of the truck found that there seemed to be someone next to the communication pole on the side of the road, and the sensitivity of the profession made Andrei decide to stop and check, he immediately gave an order to the driver, and then Andrei and 12 fighters immediately walked over, and the other party was a second lieutenant, two corporals, and when he saw someone coming, the second lieutenant asked: "What person?" Andrei took out his documents with one hand, held his holster in his right hand, and said: "We are from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, check, take out the documents!" As soon as the other party heard this, he immediately obediently took out his documents, and walked over, and when he checked the documents, a soldier who was inspected had loose shoelaces so he bent down to tie his shoes, and a soldier saw the soles of his shoes that the other party squatted down and immediately shouted: "They are Germans!" They are Germans!! ......" and the ensign in front of Andrei immediately reached out and pulled out his gun, Andrei, who had been in high nervous tension, moved much faster than him, he pulled out his pistol and fired two shots at the second lieutenant's head, he immediately blossomed in the head, and finally lay down, and the blood from the wound flowed to the ground, accumulating into a small red mess.
The other fighters quickly smashed the butts of their guns and knocked the two Germans to the ground, and then several fighters immediately restrained them and put them in handcuffs.
The second lieutenant lay on the ground with his back facing the sky, and Andrei crouched down and carefully examined the soles of his shoes, and then understood why the soldiers could recognize the lieutenant at once as an enemy fake. The spikes on the bottom of the boots of the Soviet army were generally round, while the boots of the Germans had the same appearance, but their soles were square.