Chapter 67: The Storm Strikes
And just as AndrΓ© was lamenting, he didn't know that a huge storm was coming, and he was pushed to the cusp again, and the time came the next night. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Camp of GRU troops behind enemy lines
While the two GRU assault groups were discussing the plan of the raid, Captain Ivan of the first group took out a sketch drawn by his own group and introduced it to Captain Burda of the second group: "Look, man, according to our reconnaissance, there is a company in the traitor station of this eastern battalion. But because there were Germans nearby, their garrison was very lax, and only two sentries were on duty in the camp, and the rest slept in tents. You see, their tents were divided into two rows of nine in each row, and there were six people in each tent. β
Captain Burda of the second group looked at the sketch, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Well, as long as we kill the sentries silently, and then we can use bayonets and daggers to kill all these sleeping enemies, there should be no problem with zero casualties." β
Hearing Burda say this, Ivan nodded and said, "That's right, we must not let these traitors go, just do it, and act after dark." Bulda glanced at his watch and said, "It's nine o'clock, and the sun hasn't set yet," let the warriors rest well, and recuperate themselves to act. β
By eleven o'clock, it was getting dark, but with a telescope you could clearly see the camp two hundred meters away. In addition to the snipers who left them on guard, the remaining two teams, a total of 20 people, led by Ivan and Burda, quietly approached the camp from two directions.
Two sentries of the Eastern Battalion walked listlessly around the camp with their guns in their hands, unaware of the danger approaching them.
Ivan slowly moved behind a tree just a dozen meters away from the sentry, and he gestured from one of the nearby fighters to deal with the other sentry. The warrior nodded, and the two of them quietly approached the sentry under the cover of trees and bushes.
When the two sentinels were patrolling at a staggered pace, Ivan and the warrior quickly attacked and covered the sentry's mouth with a dagger, and the two sentinels didn't even struggle, and their bodies hung up.
The two dragged the body to the place where they had just been hiding and sent a signal to the nearby hidden warriors. Then the GRU warriors stood up, daggers or bayonets, and bent down to quietly approach the barracks.
The assault detachment was immediately divided into two more teams, one for a row of tents. The warriors divided into groups of four, and in one group found a tent, lifted the curtain and got in.
As neat as Andrei at the beginning, it is no different from killing pigs neatly when you go in, after successfully eliminating this group of traitors, Ivan and Bulda decided to search for it, but soon their flashlights found a briefcase in the tent of the commander of the Eastern Battalion, the sensitivity of the profession made the two decide to check it immediately, but the content of it surprised the two, so after cleaning the battlefield and evacuating, this briefcase was immediately sent to the Soviet-controlled area, to be precise, to Andrey, And when the correspondent brought the briefcase to Andrei, Andrei was still a little strange, last night, the GRU sent an emergency code, which means that there is an emergency! And when I opened the briefcase and saw the documents and a few photos inside, I saw that Andrei was also nervous, this is the document that Vlasov has surrendered to the German army, and Vlasov directly said: "Isn't it a crime to shed more blood?" Isn't the main enemy of the Russian nation Bolshevism and Stalin? Isn't it the primary sacred duty of every Russian to rise up against Stalin and his associates? In that place where there were jungles and swamps, I finally came to the conclusion that my duty was to mobilize the Russian nation in the struggle against the Bolshevik regime and for the construction of a new Russia. In Andrei's opinion, these words of his are undoubtedly making excuses for his shameful behavior and trying to deceive himself with them. But, regardless of his motives, there is no doubt that his actions are shameful treason. It was from that moment that Vlasov tied himself to the chariot of the fascists.
And the photo is a group photo of Vlasov and the German ** officer, which was obviously prepared for the needs of propaganda! This Vlasov is really a mutiny! Later history says that Vlasov soon committed treason and defected to the enemy, and now it seems that it is not false at all!
And Andrei immediately went to the headquarters of the Front, at this time Meretskov and the chief of the General Staff Vasilevsky had already gone to Moscow to report on the battle of the Bulge, and Andrei came to the high-frequency telephone of the headquarters, picked up the microphone, he directly asked the operator to receive the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after Beria's voice came from the other end of the phone, Andrei said in a slightly panicked voice: "Comrade Beria, I received information that the day before yesterday, on July 12, the original commander of the 2nd Shock Army, General Vlasov, had surrendered to the Germans, betrayed our Motherland and became a shameful traitor! β
"What?" On the other side of the phone, Beria, who has experienced countless ups and downs, is also directly a little unbelievable, because this Vlasov was once a hero of the Red Army and Stalin's favorite general, Vlasov graduated from the New City Theological Seminary, his parents were middle peasants, he joined the Soviet Red Army in 1919, participated in the Russian Civil War, performed well, from July 1924 to 1925, he studied in the training class of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School, and was classmates of Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Baghramyan and Yeremenko. In 1930, Vlasov became a member of the Communist Party of China, and in 1938 he was sent to China as a military adviser to help Chang Kaishen train the army, and after returning to China, he was transferred to the commander of the 99th Infantry Division, which was inspected by Marshal Timoshenko, People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union.
Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Vlasov served as the commander of the 4th Mechanized Army, in July 1941, he served as the commander of the newly formed 37th Army, participated in frontal defensive operations in the direction of Kiev in Ukraine, and made many meritorious achievements, on September 16, the defense of the Soviet army collapsed, Vlasov escaped from the encirclement and returned to his position on foot, Stalin ordered to take Solasov to Moscow by plane, awarded him the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner, and appointed him as the commander of the 20th Army defending Moscow. In June, the 3rd and 4th German Panzer Groups broke through the Soviet lines from the north, and Moscow was in a precarious position, but Vlasov personally led the 7th and 8th Guards Infantry Divisions to block the breakthrough with a forced march, and they were the first of all Soviet units to reach the northern outskirts. Then, with the support of Kuznetsov's 1st Shock Army, which had been transferred from Zagorsk, Vlasov launched a counteroffensive between Dmytrov and Lake Ikssha, finally blocking the Germans on the line of the Moscow Canal.
In the Battle of Moscow, Vlasov again served as the vanguard, leading the 20th Army to break through from Volokolamsk to the west, and after the battle, Stalin appointed Vlasov as deputy commander of the Volkhov Front, replacing the ill Krylov as commander of the 2nd Shock Army.
Such a meritorious Red Army general turned out to be a traitor!
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