Chapter 676: Thunderstorm Forty

On June 30, 1942, the day when the Warsaw Offensive and Defensive War officially began, the 10 armies of the Western Front of the Soviet Red Army, which would be divided into three routes, northern, central and southern, under the command of Lieutenant General Kuznetsov, Lieutenant General Chuikov and Lieutenant General Vlasov, launched a simultaneous attack on the city of Warsaw, which was held by the German 6th Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

At 3:45 a.m. on this day, when the nearly 10,000 cannons scattered on the 40-kilometer front began to roar, Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn (who had just been promoted), the commander of the artillery acoustic platoon, had already finished his work to support the construction of local power in Poland and returned to the battlefield where the artillery was full of fire, but at the same time it was exciting.

The 4th Infantry Corps of the Red Army, where he was located, now part of the 9th Army, was placed at the forefront of the central cluster attacking Warsaw!

After wandering around the land of the Poles for more than ten days, Comrade Solzhensky's consciousness has been raised to a certain extent, and he has become more profoundly aware of the necessity of the world revolution -- how can he not get rid of the fact that in Poland alone, there are as many landlords and rich peasants in the countryside as there are so many and so much hatred of the Soviet Union and resistance to liberation?

Moreover, Comrade Solzhenitsyn also knew what a heavy price the people of the Soviet Fatherland have paid for the liberation of all mankind over the past twenty years. While the reactionary Polish landlords and kulaks enjoyed the abundant food offered by the Polish land and the German industrial goods exchanged for Polish food, the revolutionary Soviet peasants tightened their belts to support the country's industrialization. Now it has finally turned backward Russia into an advanced and powerful Soviet Union, laying the material foundation for the cause of human liberation.

As a glorious world revolutionary fighter, Solzhenitsyn is now more aware of the heavy responsibility he has on his shoulders -- he, along with millions, perhaps 10 million other world revolutionary fighters, is now shouldering not only the liberation of all mankind, but also the happiness of the 180 million Soviet people in the Soviet Union.

It turns out that the Soviet people can only liberate themselves finally by liberating mankind first!

Solzhenitsyn was contemplating the great question of human liberation and people's well-being in a very secure artillery outpost on the eastern edge of the Warsaw Forest. In the western part of the Warsaw Forest, near the city of Warsaw, Brandt, a German anti-war activist with his hands stained with the blood of internationalist fighters, was holding his head in a well-dug anti-artillery tunnel, enduring the endless shelling.

Brandt, who had spent more than ten days on the battlefield in the Warsaw Forest, was now numb and no longer reflected on why he was so keen on killing - although he did not have a strong physique, ran very slowly, and was often scolded when he participated in recruit training, he was really good at killing!

That damn MKB42 automatic carbine got into his hands, it was simply a reactionary killing machine, killing 15-20 Soviet Red Army fighters (in fact, there were not so many, less than 10 people were actually killed by him, and a few were seriously wounded) in ten days of combat (the fighting in the Warsaw forest did not stop since June 9), and he was the "number one killer" of the 111th company of the 406th regiment of the 3rd division.

So much so that the company commander of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment, Captain Schmidt, reported that he had applied for the Iron Cross of the first class on his behalf. In addition, he now has an embarrassing nickname - Killer Brandt.

The bunker where the killer Brandt captured the shells was built by the Poles before the world war, and it is a reinforced concrete structure that is very strong. Even if it is directly hit by a 152mm high-explosive shell, it can be unharmed, so Brandt still likes to stay in this hot and stuffy place.

But the shelling of the Soviets was soon over, and when the dull sound of artillery from outside became more and more sparse, the urgent shouts of the company commander, Captain Schmidt, sounded from inside the bunker: "All personnel, check the equipment!" ”

"Damn war!" Brandt cursed the war in his heart, and quickly checked the firearms, magazines, water bottles, first aid kits, helmets and other weapons and equipment. Then he shouted, "Done!" ”

At this time, this round of shelling of the Soviet Red Army finally ended, and the end of the shelling naturally meant that the charge of infantry and tanks was about to begin!

"Crunch!"

The iron door of the bunker was pushed open by someone for some reason, and a choking smell of gunpowder smoke poured in, causing Brandt, who was sitting near the door, to cough violently.

"Brothers, we are out, all follow me!" Adolph. Sergeant Miller's loud voice rang out, because the original platoon commander of the 2nd platoon of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment had died 5 days earlier, and Sergeant Miller, who was the leader of the 1st squad, was promoted to the rank of platoon leader.

"Killer! Don't cough, come out with me and kill people, kill the Russians! Sergeant Miller saw Brandt still cowering in the doorway coughing, so he reached out and slapped him on the head with a large hand.

"Yes, platoon commander!" Although he was very unhappy, Brandt still picked up his automatic carbine and advanced along the traffic trench to the forefront of the position.

The position of the forward position is already on the edge of the "Warsaw Forest", the forest is not so dense, the position leans on a stream more than three meters wide, there were many trees and bushes on the opposite bank, but under the continuous destruction of Soviet artillery fire, only a few tree stumps remain, and the potholes and mud ground are a bit like the surface of the moon.

There was a railway station about three or four kilometers south of Brandt's trench, which was built with the expectation that it would one day be shelled, so it was unusually strong, and it is now a key support point on the entire defensive line, and it has withstood the almost perverted fire of the Soviet army in the last two days, but it is still standing. The German 111th Infantry Division placed half an anti-tank battery there, and the 9th Anti-aircraft Artillery Division also placed an anti-aircraft battery there, with a total of 6 75mm anti-tank guns and 6 88mm anti-aircraft guns, turning the railway station into an impenetrable fortress.

The Soviets attacked the railway station several times and even dispatched a B-4 howitzer assault group, but they were repulsed by the German Tiger tanks, and even a B-4 howitzer was captured.

After the frontal attack on the railway station was frustrated, the Soviets changed their strategy and began to attack the German positions on both flanks of the railway station, trying to make a detour to the flank and rear of the railway station.

"Bolshevik Party members, youth league members, and fighters of the world revolution, for the sake of a happy and beautiful tomorrow for all mankind, and for the sake of planting the red flag all over the world, rush!"

At the same time that the Red Army artillery group stopped firing, the political commissar of the 205th Division, Oktyabrysky, holding a horn rolled up in white iron, jumped out of the trench and shouted a clichΓ© of political mobilization.

"Ulla! Ulla! Ula ......"

The Red Army soldiers, who were already ready to attack in the trenches, let out a roar that seemed to be squeezed out of their chests.

Comrade Pavlov, who had just become an honorable probationary member of the Bolshevik Party of the USSR, held a DP-27 light machine gun and shouted "Ula!" Ulla! The slogan began to follow behind the butt of a T-34 tank and began to charge.

His cheers were heartfelt, and there was not a single machine gun behind him that forced him to storm down, which was completely unwanted. Because he and Comrade Solzhenitsyn, who graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Rostov University, easily became an officer, and could have become a cadre as long as he said a few words of conscience.

He was a young man from the countryside and did not have a good brain for college. If he did not want to work on the collective farm for the rest of his life, then the world revolution was the only chance in his life.

In fact, his fate changed just a dozen days after the start of the world revolution, and just a few hours earlier, he had taken the oath in front of the red flag and had become a glorious probationary member of the Bolshevik Party!

How precious a party ticket was before the outbreak of the world revolution, most of the Red Army soldiers toiled for several years and finally returned home empty-handed. Without the world revolution, Pavlov would most likely have been discharged from the Red Army for nothing.

And now that Pavlov has stepped into the door of the party, the next step should be to promote!

As long as the commandos led by him can be the first to plant the red flag in the enemy's position, then he will soon cross the threshold of Tigan.

Then his life will become wonderful from now on!

"Air raids! Hide! ”

No sooner had Brandt, a murderous anti-war activist, entered the position when he heard someone shouting "air strikes." He knew that it was the GC-doctrine Il-2 attack aircraft coming.

Because the Luftwaffe had no air superiority in Poland - now neither the Soviet Union nor Germany dared to claim absolute air superiority in Poland - so from time to time this kind of Soviet "flying tank" would come to the German Army and throw bombs on the head or strafe with damn 20mm cannons and 7.62mm machine guns!

And for the infantry stationed in the ground positions, because they are not valuable enough, Air Force General Jeshunek will not send enough Fokker Zeros to provide them with cover, which is the treatment that only armored troops and artillery positions can have.

German infantry commanders in Poland could only apply for air cover after spotting the Soviets' Il-2 or some other bomber. Before the famous Fokker Zero came to expel the Il-2, the German infantry usually had to rely on the FLAK30 20mm anti-aircraft gun and the anti-aircraft version of the MG42 machine gun to deal with the "Black Death" Il-2 in the air.

But for Brandt, he could only crouch in the trench with his head in his hands, silently praying to Christ in his heart that he would not let the Soviets' bombs kill him.

"Ulla! Ulla! Ula ......"

The Il-2 in the sky did not seem to have left, but the shouts of the Soviet Red Army infantry were getting closer and louder, and there was a "click" sound when the tracks rolled.

The tanks and infantry of the Soviet Red Army, already close at hand!

"Get ready to fight! Get ready for battle! "Platoon Commander Adolf. Miller's thick voice rang out. For "Brandt the Killer", the time has come to fight for the Third Reich, which he did not love at all. (To be continued.) )