The fortress was originally housed by troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the 17th Frontier Corps had officers who had undergone interrogation training and were familiar with the German language, and were secretly called "comrades without smiles" by the defenders of other fortresses. Basically everyone has a vivid memory of the "Great Purge www.biquge.info but those comrades with the rank of officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not very scary in Brest, and they are usually friendly when they meet, because everyone is the defender of the fortress.

In normal times, the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were directly responsible for Minsk, did not cause trouble to Commander Peter Mikhailovich Zarilov, and only informed him if he needed help with political work, and he was much easier to get along with than the "special comrades" in other places, and never challenged Zarilov's authority.

The commander knew why those officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were friendly to him, and this was the reason for Marshal Plunyakov: the marshal gave himself absolute command of the fortress, and at his own level, he also heard about the relationship between some comrades marshal and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it can be said that the entire system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was behind Comrade Marshal, under the indirect command of Comrade Andrei.

The choice of Brest as the place for the interrogation of the prisoners must have seemed to Zarylov to be anxious to understand the intentions of the Germans, and the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs informed themselves that there would be people from Minsk, who were the real interrogators.

Today, when the fortress received an order for combat readiness in Minsk, all units entered positions, all pillboxes and fortifications along the Bug River were on standby, tanks and armored vehicles of the special detachment were ready for action, artillery personnel and ammunition were in place in the rear, and a squadron of reconnaissance and observation aircraft belonging to the garrison area of the fortress was ready to take off at any time at the rear airfield - all this took less than half an hour! Not to mention that there are always people stationed in all front-line fortifications.

Zarylov was satisfied with the efficiency of his subordinates, more than a year of training was not in vain, the fortress waited!

There were no attacking Germans, the observation posts reported that everything was normal in the area of the German garrison across the Bug River, and the few artillery positions that could be seen were as usual, and the Germans seemed to be having a normal day.

The order needed to be carried out, but noon was clearly not a good time to attack, and Zarilov was not nervous at all, knowing that the Germans were just testing - and sure enough, he soon received an order to lower the combat readiness level by one notch.

Since last year, the fortress has been on "quasi-three-level alert", and except that there is no formal order, everything is stricter than "three-level alert": the front-line positions are fully manned, the machine-gun cartridge chain is hung on the guns, and all observation posts are staring at the west side 24 hours a day. Now the alert level has been lowered by one level, and it has long been accustomed to the defenders of the fortress - eating on time, just not going out on vacation.

In Brest, Zalilov implemented the system of "tightening inside and loosening outside", and in peacetime everything was carried out in accordance with the various rules and regulations of the Red Army.

The main concern of the troops is that there is no effective command and no commander in the event of an emergency. The fortress does not need to worry about such a passive situation -- a detailed emergency system has long been drawn up, and in the event of the absence of the commanders of the various units, there will be no disorder, even if the troop establishment is disorderly: comrades with high military ranks will serve as supreme commanders, and if there are equals, they will be elected and appointed by themselves. The topography of the fortress determines that once a large-scale battle occurs, there may be a situation where the battle will be fought in several garrison areas after a period of time, and the fortress headquarters will not be able to effectively command the fortresses at that time, which requires each fortress to have an effective command and operation plan.

The Brest Fortress was ready, and some of the soldiers, after receiving the order to enter the bunker at the first level, were eager to fight, but apparently the Germans on the opposite side did not cooperate at all, and the young soldiers even felt a little pity.

Older comrades have an understanding of war and know its cruelty, hunger and blood, so there is no sense of "pity". But everyone knows it clearly: the only chance for the Germans to enter the fortress is to pass over their own corpses!

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Shortly after the defenders of Brest rescinded the order of the first level of alert, seven German high-altitude reconnaissance planes invaded Soviet airspace within half an hour on the border of the Baltic Special Military District, the Western Special Military District, the Ukrainian Special Military District, and the Odessa Military District.

The Soviet Air Force was not at all polite to these uninvited guests, and all six of them were shot down, except for a reconnaissance plane that invaded the airspace of central Ukraine, which returned relatively quickly.

"Germans when we are persimmons?!" Lin Jun, who was still in the Kremlin, scolded in Chinese after receiving reports from the front one after another.

Molotov and Alexander were right next to him, and although they didn't know the specific meaning of Lin Jun's words, they also knew that they were definitely not good words.

"Give the Germans an official diplomatic note in strong protest against their invasion." Molotov said.

This is the conventional way, but Lin Jun clearly feels that there is something in Molotov's words - the "foreign minister" is obviously not satisfied with verbal protests: it would be a big mistake to regard Molotov as a diplomat!

Lin Jun smiled unknowingly: "Since the Germans are so unruly, when we don't exist, then we should also give them some color!" ”

Alexander was silent, but his eyes obviously agreed with Lin Jun's suggestion, and Molotov actually blinked his eyes rarely, acquiescing to Lin Jun's proposal to "give them some color".

At present, the air force units in the southern region are being assembled, and if the German reconnaissance planes are allowed to swagger into this area, it will certainly not work, and it is not possible to just intercept them -- even the tightest air defense system will have loopholes.

"If you want to play, then I'll accompany you!"

The three members of the Central Committee pulled the "belligerent" Marshal Voroshinov and collectively proposed to Stalin: since the Germans sent reconnaissance planes, then I will send them too!

Stalin and Kalinin thought more, and today the Germans suffered a secret loss, and it seemed that they did not want to negotiate with the Soviet Union, so they should also follow the rules of the game for a while -- as long as the Germans remain silent before dawn tomorrow, then send reconnaissance planes to the west early tomorrow morning.

To tell the truth, Stalin was also anxious to find out what the Germans were doing on the western side of the border, and he took the opportunity to get some information. That night, Lin Jun issued a secret order to several squadrons of reconnaissance planes near the western border -- In the early hours of tomorrow morning, the latest MiG-1 high-altitude reconnaissance planes will be dispatched to reconnoiter the military situation within 100 kilometers on the western side of the border, and each reconnaissance plane must be escorted by four fighters and fly at an altitude of no less than 11,500 meters.

The Germans thought that their Junkers 86 would not be shot down until yesterday, and since the high-altitude performance of the Soviet high-altitude fighters had been exposed, they simply "generously" went to the Germans, then they had seen enough.

The Germans can't come up with an aircraft that can reach the MiG-1 limit cruising altitude, and their Messersmit 109G has not yet been put into production, so Lin Jun does not have to worry about the safety of the MiG reconnaissance plane at all. Besides, the MiG-1 is not a slow Junkers 86, and even if any German pilot with excellent technology also uses a sharp jump to reach that height, it will not take any advantage.

In order to obtain better high-altitude performance for the MiG reconnaissance plane, the pilots themselves demanded that the only 23-mm cannon on board be removed, and that all unnecessary facilities on the plane be removed, not even the bulletproof armor plates on the seats remained. The pilots of the reconnaissance planes are confident in the high-altitude performance of their planes and even more confident in the comrades who will escort them -- the fighter unit will send the best high-altitude fighters and pilots.

Pokryshkin also received an order that night to escort reconnaissance planes to go to the west of the Brest Fortress - the regiment demanded the best pilots, and of course he counted himself.

In Minsk, Kobets had barely slept all night, knowing that the Kremlin's orders were a dangerous game, and that the Germans could be furious or silent about their actions tomorrow.

To be sure, the German ground forces were not ready to attack the Soviets, and the Kremlin's orders could lead to a British-style aerial contest.

At midnight Zhukov arrived at the Air Force Command of the Military District, where he also received a notification from Moscow. After a day's deployment, a large part of the ground forces has really entered the second level of combat readiness, and if the Germans hastily launch a ground offensive, it will be the Germans who will suffer, and Comrade General will not worry about things on the ground. But Moscow's orders had the possibility of provoking an air war, and Zhukov wanted to be reassured.

"Kobets, are your troops ready?" Ask as soon as you meet.

"Yes, Comrade Zhukov. If the Germans were to fight an air war with us, they would not be able to take advantage of anything. ”

For Kobets, Zhukov trusted, and if he said yes, he would do it. The two men had also been working together in Minsk for some time and had become very familiar, and as the core officers trusted by Comrade Andrei, Zhukov and Kobets basically talked about everything.

Zhukov took off his coat and sat down in a chair: "Kobets, what do you think of the decision of the Central Committee?" Such words can only be talked about between the two, "Comrade Marshal was like this when he was in Spain, he did not suffer a little." ”

"Comrade Andrei is going to disrupt the Germans, and if Hitler is out of order, our pressure will be reduced."

"A stimulated opponent is better than a well-toned opponent."

Both were able to understand the intentions of the center. (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.) )