Within a quarter of an hour of the start of the battle, the commander of the fortress, Colonel Zavrilov, ordered the two permanent bridges in front of the fortress area to be blown up, cutting off the possibility of the German armored forces quickly and directly threatening the fortress area from the front, which was also a last resort: judging from the German artillery fire, the Germans were a large army pressing the territory, and only by blowing up the bridge could the pressure on the front of the fortress be reduced. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The frontal width of the Brest fortress was less than ten kilometers, and within this width the Germans had to pay a heavy price to cross the river, but further north, not far away, was the forest area, where the Red Army did not have many fortifications. It was not difficult for the Germans to build a crossing there, and when the Germans entered the territory of the USSR in the north, they would have to outflank the fortified area, and such a situation would appear by noon today at the latest!

The fortress played the role of a nail, the ring defense would delay the German offensive and create conditions for the counterattack of the rear army groups, and Zarillov did not need to carry out a frontal counter-assault - those bridges would only be a hidden danger.

Of course, the planned fortress is not a retreat defense, it also has its own super trump card: the special detachment with strong assault capability is intact and is preparing for the outskirts of the fortress's circular garrison area - Zavrilov expects the Germans to outflank from the north within 12 hours, and the special detachment will carry out a counter-assault there, so that the Germans can taste the power of the fortress's heavily armored mechanized troops!

If possible, a counter-assault of the special detachment could destroy the possible German bridgehead at the ferry in the north, and the fortress artillery would give reliable artillery cover.

Zavrilov's command post was built in an underground bunker on the side of the church in the central fortress, with reinforced passages with armored doors leading to the roof of the church and the observation post on the tower. For two years, the defenders of the fortress built a reliable communication system inside the fortress, and all communication cables were buried deep underneath to prevent German shelling and bombardment.

After the first heavy shelling of the fortress, the communication system withstood the test, all lines were clear, and Zarilov was able to communicate directly with any of the outpost command posts.

The ground trembled slightly in the command post, and a young staff officer said to the colonel as soon as he put down the phone: "Commander, all the troops have entered the combat position, and there is a fierce battle going on at the front, and we have not lost a single position so far!" Not a single stronghold asked for reinforcements! ”

Zavrilov nodded, "What about the losses?" "The shelling of the Germans just now was overwhelming, and even the strongest fortress would have suffered a lot of losses.

"The key defensive positions are basically intact, but the old buildings have suffered great losses, the garrison areas have not been structurally damaged, and the German shelling has been suppressed by us. Commander, we have lost the canteen of the central fortress, the comrades who were making breakfast are buried underneath, and the rescue of the second-line personnel and women comrades has been organized. ”

"Yes!"

It was an old warehouse converted into a canteen, and it was completely collapsed by a terrifying oversized cannonball, and the comrades of the cooks inside estimated that there was more luck than lucky. But this did not affect the combat effectiveness of the fortress - the food warehouses and weapons and ammunition were all in the fortifications underneath, but the comrades in the central fortress could not eat toast for the time being!

Lin Jun once demanded that the fortress could hold on for at least three months, so even the food was stored in a scattered manner during the reinforcement construction - what if there was no equipment to bake bread? Each unit bakes its own dough with water and flour to eat!

"Inform the long-range heavy artillery regiment to carry out a long-range artillery bombardment of the Terespol railway station, and I will reimburse the Germans for all their supplies and see what they use to besiege us!"

380-mm heavy mortars are shelling German fortifications west of the Bug River, Zavrilov looks at the time, the long-range cannon regiment is already in place, it's time to use those big guys!

Zavrilov's order was immediately given through his staff to the fortified long-range cannon regiment armed with 24 1939-style 210-mm cannons (BR-17s), a huge stockpile of supplies at the Polish railway station of the Bulg River, a small city that had been the most important diversion war between Germany and the Soviet Union and had a large cargo terminal.

After the early aerial reconnaissance learned that the Germans had basically cut off trade, the supplies at the railway station were more than possible, and it was easy to think that those were all military supplies brought from Germany mainland or further west. The Germans attached great importance to their important frontier material gathering place - it was far beyond the range of ordinary artillery, with a large number of anti-aircraft guns deployed around it, and a fighter airfield not far to the west, which could not be effectively destroyed from the air.

But the Germans did not yet know that there was a BR-17 in the fortress, and they did not know the terrifying range of the 210-mm cannon - the maximum range of almost 30 km completely covered the Terespol railway station!

Zavrilov was right, and at the very moment when the Germans began shelling, the bunkers where the BR-17 was deployed opened their armor covers, and the long and huge barrels were raised. The tall artillery boys took out a projectile weighing 133 kg from the underground ammunition depot with chains and fed the projectile and cartridge into the chamber through the track.

The "Comintern" tracked tractors and ammunition trucks used to tow the BR-17 cannon were in reinforced concrete bunkers, and the personnel were already in place, but they were not needed for the time being. The Germans had not yet shelled the heavy artillery positions, and the 210-mm guns at the permanent firing positions were able to reach the maximum rate of fire that the barrels could withstand.

Long-range artillery positions also have their own plans for shelling, and the Terespol train, more than twenty kilometers away, is in the range table - it is a luxury to use such a huge cannon against the infantry, and the rate of fire is not fast enough, but it is the best choice for those "dead" targets or fortifications.

With the commander's order to "fire a salvo of the whole regiment", the 24 210-mm cannons in the forest fortifications let out an earth-shattering roar, and the huge sound overwhelmed the sound of the fierce battle ahead, and the strong recoil made the ground tremble slightly!

With a muzzle velocity of 800 m/s and a weight of 133 kg, the destructive power of the BR-17 cannon is amazing! The huge sonic boom produced by the salvo made the nerves of the entire fortress tense, except for the soldiers who were firing fiercely at the front line, everyone knew that the fortress artillery was powerful again!

Twenty-seven kilometers away, the Terespol railway station is a busy scene, a large number of German soldiers and station workers are transporting ammunition and fuel here, and the sound of fierce firefighting in front can be faintly heard here, you can imagine how fierce the fighting is!

Thousands of tons of ammunition and hundreds of wagons of oil were piled up here - the 2nd Panzer Group was a big tiger that ate oil, and it was the first place for the Germans to divert supplies before the capture of the Brest railway station and the repair of the railway conversion.

A large number of trucks were parked in the yard waiting to be loaded, not only German-made, but also French, Belgian, and British-made goods -- the huge scale of mobilization of the "Barbarossa" plan caused the Germans to completely fail to meet the needs of their own transports, and a number of them were looted from the occupied areas, and even captured British expeditionary forces were used.

Suddenly, German soldiers and workers who were loading and unloading heard a screech in the air - "Shelling! "Veterans who have been on the battlefield feel that they are in big trouble when they hear it, such a scream is definitely a large-caliber cannonball of no small caliber, unlike those station workers who stand curiously, the veterans have exerted their physical strength to the extreme - just run away!

If you don't run, you can't do it, there are piles of ammunition boxes around you, and it's useless to lie down! In less than a second, violent explosions came one after another, and the whole freight yard became a fireworks display at Christmas - 24 powerful cannonballs hit the huge freight yard in a scattering shape, and the violent explosion itself ignited the ammunition on the freight yard, and the trains on the railroad began to explode, and the leaking diesel and gasoline spread everywhere like unbridled fire demons.

The Land of the World - A round of shelling turned the Terespol train station into a scene of hell depicted in the Bible! Forty seconds later, the second round of cluster shelling hit the Germans again, and at this time the freight yard was already in flames, and the surviving Germans were "dancing" in the fire, the bomb boxes that were blown up shot out like fairies scattering flowers, the detonated shells flew everywhere, and the ammunition train surrounded by the fire was like a huge firework, and the bullet warheads that were burned by the fire flew out thousands of rounds, making a cautious scream!

A few minutes later, the shelling extended to the railway station on the north side, and a single salvo sent several buildings of the railway station into the sky!

The Germans, who were temporarily blocked on the western side of the Bug River, also heard a violent explosion behind them, and the senior officers were incredulous: the Russians were able to shell Terespol!

Guderian was directing the troops to move north, and the bridge over the Bug River railway in front of him could not be counted on, so he had to choose to build a pontoon crossing to the north.

"Terespol!" Guderian had to scold his mother in his heart: what do you rely on to advance quickly, do you wait for fuel when you get to the other side?! Fuel and ammunition for a week are all in Terespol! (To be continued.) )