Autumn in Belarus is so beautiful, with golden leaves scattered all over the streets, like a fairy tale beauty. Whenever the season of falling leaves comes www.biquge.info citizens of Minsk spontaneously organize themselves to sweep the fallen leaves on the streets on holidays or after work. In the park in the city, the golden leaves have become the most beautiful scenery in autumn, and the dead leaves hanging on the branches are in contrast to each other, without the slightest slaughter of autumn.

Autumn in Belarus is short, and the golden yellow is quickly replaced by the gloomy autumn rain and the snow that follows, and because of this, the people of Minsk cherish this short golden autumn even more.

September 28, 1941, Children's Palace in Lenin District, west of the city. At this time of year, schools organize events here, but this year that's all changed! The beautiful and beautiful main building of the Children's Palace has collapsed, and the park to the west is also a mess, with huge bomb craters everywhere on the ground, and the surrounding buildings are dilapidated and blackened, and there are ruins everywhere! There is no golden autumn of previous years, and there is no beauty to speak of, because this is war!

In addition to the distant music of "The SS is Marching" and the cold explosions, the western city of Minsk showed a silence that had not been seen for more than a month!

On August 11, the German troops deployed in the front of Minsk launched a general attack on the "Stalin Line", and the battle was extremely fierce! It's the same for both sides! With a strong defensive line and a second defensive section behind him, with the cooperation of mobile troops, Zhukov withstood the onslaught of nearly 700,000 German troops with a depth of 40 kilometers for a month!

Marinovsky's 11th Army and Lieutenant General Leonid Grigorievich Petrovsky's 1st Shock Army of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were the two mobile assault forces on the front and periphery of the city, and the remaining 50,000 troops retreated into the two flanks after a month of fierce fighting for every inch of land.

The gates of Minsk seemed to be open to the Germans, and instead of immediately advancing to the flanks in this case, the German Army Group Center launched a fierce attack on the city according to Hitler's strict orders, with the Ninth Army as the main attack - the German armored forces lost more than two-thirds of them in a month, the remaining tanks had lost the ability to assault the group, and the siege of the city was handed over to the Wehrmacht infantry.

By September 15, the German advance arrived in Minsk west of the train freight battle, and the railway station changed hands seven times in two days! Army Engineer General Helmut Furster, commander of the 6th Army Army, who was responsible for the frontal offensive of the army group, said bluntly in a telephone call to the commander of the army group Adolf Strauss on September 21: "If this continues, my two divisions will be exhausted by tomorrow!" ”

The entire battalion and regiment were thrown into the attack, and it would be exhausted in less than an hour, and the west side of the city became a huge meat grinder, and the soldiers on both sides survived for less than 24 hours on average after being put into battle! A building, a barricade, and even a small broken wall have become the object of contention between the two sides!

On 27 September, the fiercest battle broke out in the area around the Children's Palace on the west side of the city, and within a day the entire area was completely in ruins, and the two sides invested tens of thousands of people in an area less than one kilometer long and 500 meters wide, and the shelling alone consumed thousands of large-caliber shells, and the entire area of the Children's Palace was almost razed to the ground!

It was the commanding height of the entire western part of the city, but after a day of fighting, the "commanding height" no longer existed - after the Germans were driven out of the 8-story building of the Children's Palace for the third time, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, who was furious, ordered the use of the only "Karl" 600-mm mortar surviving in the army group, and only two shells turned the 8-story building into ruins!

In the repeated battles between the two sides in the early stage, the reinforced concrete building withstood hundreds of shells from both sides, but the powerful shells of the "Karl" exploded half of the building in the first round, and only one company remained of the holding troops who decisively withdrew from the building!

But the dissatisfied infantry company of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not retreat, but held on to the ruins of the collapsed building and continued to fight until it was exhausted!

On the night of the 27th, the 6th Infantry Division under the German 26th Army launched its last night attack on the area of the Children's Palace, but only a night attack of less than 2,000 people was repelled by two "Minsk militia battalions" composed of veterans who came to support, and there was even a white-knuckle battle between the two sides! But after the brutal night firefight, less than 200 of the more than 1,000 commanders and fighters of the two militia battalions were alive!

The general combat effectiveness of the militia battalions in Minsk cannot be compared with that of the regular army, but several militia battalions composed of veterans have completely competed with the regular army in combat effectiveness after two weeks of joint training, and the comrades of the militia battalion are even more desperate in fighting - this is not to say that the Red Army commanders and fighters of other units are not brave enough to fight, because for the militia comrades, this is not only fighting for the Soviet Motherland, but also holding their own cities! Behind you is your home!

In addition to the logistics personnel and command headquarters in the rear and the wounded, the 26th Infantry Division of the German Wehrmacht has become dead bodies and minced meat in front of Minsk!

After two weeks of fierce fighting in the western area of the city, the Ninth Army of the German Wehrmacht suffered a great loss of vitality, more than half of all units above the division level suffered casualties, the 6th and 26th Infantry Divisions that served as the vanguard completely lost their combat effectiveness, and the Sixth Army was left with only an empty shelf!

Field Marshal Fedor-von Bock had to regroup his forces from the forces that had been sent out to open the wings after entering the city, otherwise the Ninth Army would no longer be capable of launching an effective offensive. Von Bock didn't expect that the easy-to-attack and hard-to-defend Minsk city in front of him would be so difficult!

The Germans suffered heavy losses, and the commander of the Minsk city defense, Kondrusev, had no troops above the regimental level in his hands to immediately support the west of the city, otherwise a counter-assault would have been able to say that the Germans had driven out of the west city, and they had to send six militia battalions with the strongest combat effectiveness to support. When those militia comrades dressed in civilian clothes rushed to the position in the west of the city, many people lost their appetite for food -- the bodies of the sacrificed Red Army soldiers within their control had been transported away as much as possible, and the dead bodies of the German soldiers could be seen everywhere, perhaps one of them would trip over the corpses if they were not careful, and the Red Army soldiers who were sticking to the positions even used the corpses of the German soldiers to form a chest wall as a cover!

Corpses are carried away, stumps and coagulated black-brown blood are not carried away, fragments of human bodies and internal organs can be seen everywhere, and even flies, which are rare this season, will come out at noon to participate in their feast! The air was filled with the smell of corpses, blood, and gunsmoke, like hell on earth!

At two o'clock in the afternoon, in the ruins on the west side of the Children's Palace building, two pairs of eyes without the slightest emotion were closely watching the situation in the west. Formerly the office building of the Minsk Komsomol Committee, most of it has now collapsed, leaving only a large area of ruins left after the explosion and fire.

On the remaining second floor, a row of charred sofas is exposed, and the southwest façade is gone, and if you look here from west to east, no one can see anything, but in this "half" office, a black hole is pointed at the west!

Vasily lay quietly on the floor of the side of the sofa, draped in a dusty curtain, and his gun wrapped in sackcloth, completely blended into the environment. Since noon he had been evacuating the position of the Children's Palace, his group had been lurking here: the sun had set in the west, and there was no need to worry that the reflection of the sights would expose itself.

Observer Ludvik was lying on his stomach next to Vasily, observing with his special 15x monoculars. Since entering the battle two weeks ago, Vasily has personally raised his total kill record to 227! His group eliminated far more fascists than that, because this time he was no longer a two-person group, but a group of four!

Now 50 meters behind them on the left side, concealed the other two men of the same group, the hulking Alyosha and Sasha: Vasily was here to not only eliminate the human targets that appeared within 800 meters of them, but the team of four was also able to control the battered streets leading from the Children's Palace to the west.

This is a four-person sniper tactic that the deputy commander came up with, and Lin Jun sent most of his guards to the west of the city as a sniper team, with four people in each group. In addition to 5 snipers such as Vasily, two sniper-trained fighters in the guard were also used as snipers, making up 7 groups.

The Guards were trained in such a four-man group system, and only a few observers from Ludvik were somewhat unaccustomed to it, but after a day of fighting, everyone found such a deployment to be very suitable: a sniper, a demolitionist anti-tank operator with a rocket launcher of the РПГ-7 type (RPG-7), a machine gunner with a пд7.62 mm machine gun (RPD light machine gun) and an observer--ammunition man with an AK47 assault rifle.

But in Vasily's group, Ludvik only had to be his own observer, because the two big guys could carry enough ammunition on their own - Alyosha had four round cartridges of 100 rounds on her body and three rockets on her back, and that's it, with the пд machine gun in her hand.

Sasha was only a little smaller than Alyosha, the bazooka was like a toy in his hand, he carried three rockets on his body, not to mention, and hung two three-pack grenade bags on his chest and waist! Don't look at the two big ones who look like bears, and the dexterity is like civets, even Vasily has to admire - this is the super soldier trained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs!

If Vasily's gun doesn't go off, the two big guys below won't move, unless there are German armored vehicles - Alyosha and Sasha are used as cover for snipers, but if there are solid targets to destroy or piles of German troops, rockets and machine guns will give the opponent a few blows!

On September 19, Sasha reimbursed two German military vehicles and a tank No. 3 with bazookas, and Alyosha's machine gun took out a platoon of German infantry with the cooperation of Vasily and Ludvik!

Once the attacked German army counterattacks Alyosha and the two, Vasily can help the big man solve the most threatening target - the front machine gun suppression, and the sniper in the dark "roll call", cold and cold will fly rockets, and from time to time on the head is hit by a few fierce and accurate point shots: Vasily's group has already killed most of the German battalion by tacit cooperation!

Don't look at Sasha's big head, his brain is not stupid at all, every time he enters the position at night, he will find a way to place a few tricky mines in front of the position that the Germans may attack - yesterday it was with a dozen grenades used by mines that Vasily successfully retreated under the noses of the Germans who were attacking at night!

Alyosha still had some opinions when he was assigned to the sniper team, because his biggest duty was to be Lin Jun's meat shield, but Lin Jun must let him go to the front line: "I'm in the underground headquarters, is your hundred-kilogram body as thick as the cement on the top of your head?!" If you're not afraid of death, go and slaughter the fascists for me, don't nest here like me! If it hadn't been for the fact that the boss wouldn't let me go to the line of fire, Lao Tzu would have taken you outlaws a long time ago! A large passage of Russian plus Chinese scolding and whining made Alyosha completely lose his temper.

For more than a month, Lin Jun's face was haggard, and he stayed in the underground headquarters in the fierce battle, and he had already held back a breath of fire! This "underground life" also made me suffer from severe eczema, and both arms had to be tied with bandages!

But Lin Jun knew that he couldn't act recklessly, and he couldn't go to the firing line with his rifle in his hand - the guards had become ground rats, so he listened to the explosion overhead, and made up his mind to send most of those guards out.

There are not many people, but the elite of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not disgrace Lin Jun, during this period of time, the 7 squads of 28 people at the cost of losing 3 people, it is estimated that at least one battalion or more of the German army will be reimbursed in half a month - snipers do not look down on ordinary German soldiers: machine gunners, commanders, communication soldiers These high-value targets are their first choice.

Lin Jun honestly served as his supervisor, and asked the staff department to transfer two people to do the work of raising morale, and all the news and results that could improve morale were printed into small leaflets in the printing house in the east of the city as soon as possible and sent to the defenders.

"Give them hope and examples, so that the morale of the army can be raised!" At the peak of the battle, few of the troops who went up survived, and it was impossible for the commanders to estimate the nonsense of "too many casualties". There are not many people who are really not afraid of death, as long as the soldiers learn not to be afraid of death, morale can be guaranteed!

Lin Jun was already numb to death, and the front army command didn't even count how many troops had been lost, but cared about how much strength there was at hand and how much strength the Germans still had!

Stalin sent planes to Minsk with two large boxes of medals and certificates of honor - as long as they were reported from below, they were given to those who had made meritorious contributions! Lin Jun kept signing it, and he wrote until his hands were sour!

Yesterday, he went to three hospitals in eastern Minsk, where medical personnel were in danger of being shelled by German long-range artillery at any time to rescue and treat the wounded. The wounded were in pain, and the pain was terrible, but when they saw the deputy commander-in-chief, whose eyes were bloodshot and his hair was messed up with weeds, came to award the comrades with honors, no one cried out in pain, and no one complained!

In the hearts of the strong fighters, their military gods are at their side, fighting for the Soviet Motherland, and the fighters want nothing more!

At the General Hospital of the Air Force of the Front Army, Lin Jun wore the golden "Golden Star Medal" and "Order of Lenin" for Vukinskaya, who had undergone 36 consecutive surgeries. His wife became thin and haggard, and the overload of work made Lin Jun feel distressed! Stalin had long asked Lin Jun to send Vukinskaya back to Moscow, but the couple refused—as a military doctor, Vukinskaya's battlefield was in Minsk.

The hospital has sorted out several basements as operating rooms, which not only ensures the safety of the operating rooms, but also makes Lin Jun's worries about his wife a little less. In the hospital wards, the nurses tried every means to alleviate the suffering of the wounded, and they even brought in a gramophone to play soft music for the wounded, and the effect was very obvious.

When he heard the music playing on the gramophone, Lin Jun secretly scolded himself for being really busy and dizzy, or these nurses were thoughtful. On September 28, the German military song could no longer be heard on the German loudspeakers near the line of fire in Minsk, and the rhythms of "Katyusha" and "War of the Holy Spirit" echoed. When the soldiers heard "The War of the Holy Spirit", recorded by the Red Banner Song and Dance Troupe, and "Katyusha", recorded by the Normanov University Women's Choir, their confidence doubled, and the hatred of fascism seemed to go up another section in the apex!

The fighting in the west of the city was extremely fierce, but the special division deployed in the factory area in the eastern part of the city was never used, and Zhukov and Kondrusev ignored the special division's request to support the west city, because the factory area would be the last line of defense in Minsk, and the troops from the fortress could not be consumed in the bottomless pit of battle for the city.

The commanders and fighters of the special division did not fire a single shot, but they could use the artillery they left behind to support the operation in Xicheng -- the factory area also suffered considerable losses in the artillery battle, and many buildings were blown to pieces, but the main force of the special division was still there.

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"One o'clock direction, six hundred, red roof semi-collapsed cement house, left." Ludvik's soft voice rang in Vasily's ear.

Slowly adjusting the angle of his rifle, the scene after 8 times magnification is unusually clear.

There seemed to be no one in the middle ground, but Vasily had already spared three ordinary German soldiers in 20 minutes. "It's an observation post." Vasily had already seen that there was a very good concealed artillery mirror, and three Germans were showing their heads from time to time. (To be continued.) )