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Chapter 1820: The Bloodstained Border

June 22, the first day after the summer solstice and the first weekend of the second half of the month. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the situation on the Eastern Front was tense at the moment, and Vasilevsky was commanding the troops and repeatedly fighting with the Far Eastern Army for key points along the Volga River, in order not to anger the German army, the troops stationed here still adopted a peacetime work and rest system, and only half a day's work was required on this day, and the afternoon was off.

The commander of the aviation forces of the Kiev Special Military District, Kopets, took a jeep to go home for the holidays after finishing his work in the morning. Along the way, he remembered the harsh criticism that Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Meretskov had made to him in public a few days ago, and he was still a little indignant in his heart.

A week ago, Meretskov came to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, with the task of inspecting the combat readiness of the troops, just in time for the military district to conduct an air force alert exercise.

The exercises were held at an airfield not too far from the command.

It was a large military airfield, well-equipped, on the tarmac, hundreds of fighters, bombers, reconnaissance planes and transport planes were neatly parked, very imposing, the surrounding vision was wide, the sky was clear, only a few light cumulus clouds hung on the distant skyline.

Meretskov's face was impassive, and he could not see anything wrong, and the commander of the military district, Pavlov, was full of ambition, and while pointing out something to Meretskov with great interest, he greeted the officers loudly. When he saw Kopets coming down from the tower, he immediately pulled him over and said loudly:

"Comrade Meretskov, get to know me, this is the commander of the aviation of our military district, Comrade Kopets, Hero of the Soviet Union, who made great contributions in the Spanish Civil War, and after returning home, trained a large number of excellent pilots for the Soviets, many of whom are currently fighting on the Eastern Front against the bandit armies of the Far East. I guess you're no stranger, right? ”

Meretskov, of course, knew about the deeds of this heroic pilot, but he did not expect that he would be younger than he imagined, and immediately stepped forward to give him a friendly hug and warm greetings to each other.

The group came to the makeshift observation platform and sat down, and soon the exercise began, only to see one fighter and bomber after another taking off into the air, flying in formation and making various tactical moves under the commander's command.

Just as the exercise was reaching the first level, a German plane suddenly appeared out of nowhere, hovering over the airfield, and the two huge "Iron Cross" insignia on the wings were clearly visible.

Sitting on the observation platform, Meretskov could not help but be stunned, and soon, the German plane swaggered towards the runway, dived, and then landed on the airport, and a group of flight attendants came out of the plane, pointing and looking left and right, as if everything that happened here was both a little unexpected and quite interested, Meretskov could not believe that everything in front of him was real.

"What's the matter, Comrade Pavlov? How could the planes of the Germans land here? Meretskov turned his head and asked Pavlov, who was accompanying him on the inspection.

Pavlov did not care, smiled and said: "No need to make a fuss, don't you all know in Moscow that according to the instructions of the USSR Civil Aviation Authority, this airport is allowed to receive German passenger planes?" ”

Meretskov was dumbfounded: "What do you say, instructions from the Civil Aviation Authority?" How did the People's Commissariat of Defense not know? ”

Pavlov spread his hands and shook his head helplessly.

Although Meretskov realized that the troops' concept of combat readiness was frighteningly lax and should be severely criticized, he had always had some respect for Pavlov, a tank specialist who had performed well in the Spanish war, and now that he said that it was approved by the Civil Aviation Authority, so he turned to Kopets, who was sitting on the other side, and asked: "Comrade Kopets, I have a question for you, these planes at the airport are temporarily transferred here for the purpose of exercises?" Or has it been parked here? ”

Without thinking about it, Kopets said truthfully and calmly: "Except for the fighters transferred to fight on the Eastern Front, the others have always been here." ”

Meretskov asked sharply: "So what are the field airfields of the military district used for?" ”

"The conditions at the field airfield are tough, and pilots and ground crews are reluctant to stay in the field......

"But what do you open your eyes to see what's going on here?"

Meretskov couldn't hold back any longer, stood up all at once, pointed at the German planes with his fingers, interrupted Kopets, and said sternly: "In the event of a war, won't these planes become ready-made targets for the enemy?" What are you going to do then?! ”

Kopets looked at the angry Meretskov and then at the silent Pavlov, and still replied calmly: "Then I will shoot myself!" ”

Some time has passed, but Kopets still remembers it with anger: "What qualifications does he Meretskov have to dictate to our Air Force?" How many flight hours did he have? How much is known about the struggles of our pilots? Now it's not the Eastern Front theater, after intense flight training, who doesn't want to live comfortably, but he still wants to drive us to the field airfield, I can't explain it to my comrades-in-arms! ”

Although there was still a little unhappiness in his heart, in order to welcome his wife, Kopets still wanted to use Saturday afternoon to prepare with the orderlys, and tomorrow morning, his wife would arrive, after all, this was the first reunion after the newlywed, and Kopets had been waiting for it for a long time.

In the evening, Kopets took out a pale yellow cowhide photo clip from the upper pocket of his military jacket, looked at it close to the light for a long time, and then put the photo clip close to his chest and fell asleep.

When Kopets was taking his wife's hand for a walk in the moonlight in his dream, he was awakened by a violent explosion. At first, he thought that something had happened, but when he threw himself in front of the window to take a look, he was immediately stunned, like five thunderbolts, and suddenly knelt in front of the window.

I saw that the direction of the airport was blazing, and the explosions were "rumbling" continuously, and the alarms that usually sounded very harsh became pale and powerless in the roar of aircraft motors and explosions on the ground. Occasionally, a beam or two of searchlights swept across the sky, and a large number of planes marked with the "swastika" symbol could be seen, dropping dense bombs like pouring beans, and for a moment the windows were shaking, the sky was trembling, and the air was shaking.

Kopets knelt there for nearly half a minute. Then, abruptly stood up and, in the rusest language imaginable, scolded the German fascists, scolded Hitler. While scolding, he put on his military uniform, fastened his armed belt, picked up his military hat, habitually pressed the pistol on his waist with his hand, and rushed out the door.

Kopets ran to the command post in one go, and there was panic inside. Several staff officers held on to several telephones and shouted desperately, some asked all divisions and airfields to report on the situation, some gave orders to prepare to take off to meet the enemy, and some went to the airfield in the oil tanker to refuel the planes.

The deputy commander, seeing Kopets rushing over, glared at frightened eyes, and shouted into Kopets' ears amid a deafening explosion: "This is a massive air raid!" The density of enemy aircraft is extremely high, specializing in bombing our airfields and air defense facilities! The losses are not known at the moment. I don't think it's light! What are we going to do? Yes? ”

Kopets was already in both eyes at this time, and yelled at the deputy commander: "Counterattack!" Counterattack! Lift me into the air to meet the enemy! ”

However, at this time, Kopets did not know that it was too late to fight back. Luftwaffe Albert. Field Marshal Kesselring's Second Air Force, on the first day of the war, wiped out almost all the military aircraft of the Soviet Western Front, most of which were blown up on unguarded airfields.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Kopets understood that he no longer had the slightest strength to fight back. In less than a day, the military region has lost 528 aircraft, many of which are new aircraft that have just been equipped with troops and have just been developed on the basis of the fighters of the Far Eastern Army on the Eastern Front.

At this time, the command of the military region ordered one after another, urging them again and again, ordering them to immediately dispatch planes to strike at the enemy's ground troops and cover their own troops. The emotions that flowed out of it were almost absolute allowed Kopets to imagine the deplorable situation in which the other troops were now found.

Meretskov's words have now come true, those comrades-in-arms who shared life and death, those young pilots, were shot and crashed soon before they could fly off the runway, or barely took off. By the way, and his wife, why hasn't she arrived yet? It should have been morning, but now it's evening, and she ...... Kopets didn't dare to think any further, leaned back in the corner chair, and closed his eyes tightly.

A burst of "knock-dong" footsteps and loud shouts opened Kopets' eyes, and it was the chief of staff of the Ukrainian Military District, Klimovsky, who came to question him why he didn't send air support: "Kopets, you explain to me clearly, why don't you carry out the orders of the command of the military district?!" Why not send air support?! You ......"

Just as Klimovsky was in the middle of his furious and barrageous questions, he suddenly stopped. He found that there was not a trace of blood on Kopets's pale face, and as if no one else had taken his military cap from the table, flicked the dust, put it on properly, looked in one direction with his eyes unsettled, walked slowly past him, opened the door of a room, entered, and closed the door again.

Klimovsky stood there stunned, looking at the people around him in astonishment, and everyone around him looked at him with the same eyes, and before they could understand, a dull gunshot rang out in the room that Kopets had entered, and everyone shuddered.

Klimovsky rushed through the door in three steps and two steps, only to see Kopets lying to the ground, a pistol in his left hand still emitting a wisp of green smoke, and a bullet hole in his left temple, from which blood poured out of it, rushing down Kopets's pale cheek. On a small wooden box in front of him, there was a light yellow cowhide clip, on which a beautiful girl was watching everything that happened with two big eyes......

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June 23, 10 a.m. South China Time.

Due to the six-hour time difference with Eastern Europe, it was still late at night on the Soviet-German border, and the sun was already shining in South China. Just an hour after the German invasion of Poland, An Yi got the news that shocked the world through the German intelligence network.

In the war room of the General Staff, An Yi stood in front of the map, stopped and observed for a long time before returning to the conference table. When the dust settled, the participating generals were relieved one by one, and their faces were all relaxed.

The war had just broken out, and there was no further report of the war, and the direction of the German offensive could only be analysed from the clues before the war.

Deng Bin said with emotion: "I have to admit that the German deception strategy was very successful, and from beginning to end, Stalin set his sights on the Eastern Front, and even repeatedly reduced the troops on the Western Front in order to eliminate German hostility. I wonder if Stalin will regret it now? ”

"Regret is certain!"

An Yi took a sip of his teacup, and then said: "But even if he did it all over again, Stalin would give priority to solving the Eastern Front, and then find a way to remove the threat of the Germans on the Western Front." Of course, the serious ideological disunity brought to the troops below by this was unimaginable! ”

"Germany's million-strong army was stationed on the border, and the Soviet Union was unaware of it, which ...... That's too weird, isn't it? Zhao Dongquan shook his head again and again.

The generals talked a lot, and there were all kinds of problems. An Yi asked the Minister of Intelligence, Liu Qing, to give a general explanation. Now that the intelligence department has received a more detailed report, Liu Qing unhurriedly opened the report in front of him, took a look at it, and then explained:

"Germany has disguised its troop deployment in many ways...... The top-secret information that the Barbarossa plan belongs to the German top has not been released to the public. Germany never relaxed its vigilance against the Soviet Union, and immediately after the French victory, eight divisions were transferred from the Western Front to Gdansk-Katowy to strengthen the defense on the Eastern Front. That place was about one hundred and sixty-five kilometers from the border of the USSR. Whether to land on the British Isles or attack the Soviet Union was undecided, and in order not to provoke the Soviets, the German troop movement proceeded unhurriedly, using peacetime train schedules and at a distance from the Soviet border.

"After the victory in the Balkans, the Germans again made another redeployment, this time to transfer eighteen divisions deployed on the Western Front to the line of Königsberg, Warsaw and Tarnoov, about ninety kilometers from the Soviet border. The transfer of these eighteen divisions was a strategic deployment made by the German Army General Headquarters in the name of stabilizing the Balkans and coercing Turkey to join the Axis camp, and the Soviet side also openly expressed its understanding of this!

"After Turkey entered the war, Hitler already had plans to attack the Soviet Union, and quietly concentrated sixteen infantry divisions on the Eastern Front, and this movement was very successfully organized, almost simultaneously with the war in the Middle East and North Africa. These divisions were deployed on the line from Allenstein to Radom, about 70 kilometers from the Soviet border, and it was a day or two on foot. During the movement of troops, peacetime train schedules were used, radio silence was practiced, personnel and equipment were in order, and there was no confusion.

"Since at this stage even Hitler himself did not have a firm determination to attack the Soviet Union, let alone the officers below, most of the German officers and men thought that the transfer to the Eastern Front was ostensibly to prevent a Soviet attack, but in fact it was an action to attack Britain. German units also organized activities to learn English and geography, and at the same time, units on the Eastern Front received secret telegrams from the Army General Headquarters, requesting that all soldiers be reported on their mastery of English at regular intervals.

"The final troop movement was the transfer by train and car of forty-seven divisions from France and Germany to Poland and East Prussia, including twenty-eight armored divisions and motorized infantry divisions, after the Barbarossa Plan was formulated. In addition, the 86 divisions, which had already been in East Prussia, Poland, and Romania, had to move from the point where the train had been transferred to a point only a few kilometers from the Soviet border, a distance of as little as 70 kilometers and as much as 165 kilometers......

Moreover, on the Asian front, in less than a month, Germany had drawn troops from Germany and the Middle East, amassing sixteen divisions near the Turkish-Soviet border, supplemented by forty Turkish brigades and a flying group. Germany declared to the outside world that this part of the army was mainly to retaliate against the successful retreat of the British troops in the encirclement by setting up a 'no-fly zone' over our South China region in the Middle East and North Africa, and that its targets were Persia and Iraq, and that the German army would expel our South China troops from the Middle East in half a year.

"In response to the reminders conveyed to the Soviet government by European and American intelligence officers that Germany might launch an attack on the Soviet Union in the near future, the Soviet Union rebuked 'the rumors of imminent war between the Soviet Union and Germany as conveyed by British and foreign intelligence agencies' as 'clumsy propaganda tricks of anti-Soviet and anti-German forces', and stated that Comrade Stalin believed that Germany's intention to attack the Soviet Union was pure nonsense and absurd......

"In addition to the troops deployed on the front line, the Germans mobilized another twenty-four divisions, which were to cross the Soviet border line within a few days of the start of the offensive and replenish them to the most needed points on the front line to guarantee the sharpness of the offensive. In addition to the above-mentioned operational divisions, large numbers of army groups, army groups and corps, as well as communications personnel, air and ground crews, air defense units, etc., are also being transferred to the Eastern Front and establishing operational bases there. As for how the Germans did all this perfectly......"

When Liu Qing said this, everyone in the war room pricked up their ears, and even An Yi was very curious, no matter how confused Stalin was, he should not believe the empty promises of Hitler, who repeatedly overturned the agreement, how did the Germans achieve such a large-scale troop transfer?

Liu Qing flipped through the pages of the report and continued: "During the troop movement, the German High Command required all combat divisions and other units to practice radio silence to make it impossible for the Soviet Union to obtain information through radio interception as much as possible. It was not until twelve days before the offensive that the Germans transferred the ninety-six infantry divisions that had participated in the first wave of the offensive to the border assembly areas.

"These divisions marched on foot at night and hid in the forests during the day. The thirty-one armored and motorized rifle divisions that participated in the first wave of the offensive were moved forward only four days before the offensive, the motorized march was carried out only at night, and their final assembly points were much farther from the Soviet borders than the infantry divisions.

"Night marches, strict management of troops, resting in the woods during the day, these measures reduced the contact of troops with the local population to a minimum. As a result, the Soviets received little useful information from their intelligence network in Poland, and the ground observation of the Soviet border guards and the aerial observation of the air force reconnaissance aircraft were also fruitless......"

"Ahh

Yang Jie sighed faintly, and couldn't help but say: "The Germans are indeed amazing, in such a short period of time, to transfer so many troops to the front line, and not be discovered, such an almost perfect organizational ability, I'm afraid it is still above our army!" ”

"Not necessarily!"

Yang Fei glanced at Yang Jie and said confidently: "After more than ten years of military construction, our army is no longer the Wuxia Amon of the past, especially after the foundation of Nanhua, the regularization of the army has been unremitting, and our officers and soldiers have been in the war, never slack, up to now, although the cultural quality of the officers and soldiers is not as high as the Germans, but the execution is definitely above the Germans!" If such a deception plan is to be carried out, I believe that our soldiers can do it, or even do better. ”

An Yi smiled slightly, he knew that Yang Jie joined halfway, and he didn't know much about An Jiajun's true quality, so his confidence was inevitably insufficient. Although this person is known for his strategy, like Jiang Baili, he basically only focuses on the general situation, rarely goes to the grassroots level, and knows very little about specific military affairs, so they are often confused when they lead troops to fight.

Employing people with their strengths, An Yi never had the intention of letting Yang Jie go down to lead the troops, but only asked him to help him participate in military and political affairs. Seeing Yang Fei and Yang Jie topping the bull, he waved his hand: "Don't fight...... Liu Qing, the movement of the German army is too abstract, give a simple example! ”

"Okay!"

Liu Qing nodded, lowered his head and took out another manuscript from his briefcase. South China's intelligence agencies, often in the name of commercial establishments, spread out in Germany and the areas under its control. For example, in Poland, there were two transport companies, and the German troops were able to conceal the movement of the German army, but they were somewhat powerless against the all-pervasive intelligence spying in South China.

"Take the Sixth Panzer Division as an example, this division is an elite mobile unit of the German army, and the German Army General Headquarters transferred the division from France to the Eastern Front as early as July and August last year, and is stationed in the southwest corner of East Prussia, in the area of Thorn and Ostertrude, about 120 kilometers from the Soviet border.

"The task of the 6th Panzer Division is mainly to carry out daily garrisons in peacetime, and from August last year to February this year, no signs of combat preparations have been observed. In March, the 6th Panzer Division was transferred to the Ares Training Center, about 35 kilometers from the Soviet border, for several weeks of combat training, and then returned west to its original position in early April, where it was ordered to assemble at Ostrud. At the same time, another infantry division was transferred to the south of the 6th Panzer Division, and several other divisions moved closer from the west.

"Until the evening of 21 June, when the commander of the 6th Panzer Division placed his combat units around a German 'labor barracks,' only 500 metres from the Lithuanian border east of Tauleggen, the officers and men of the unit and the local population thought that this build-up was 'one of Hitler's large-scale strategic deceptions to contain the Soviet forces.' The commander of the division suggested that the higher command use the pretext that the exercise was about to begin and move the girls of the 'labor barracks' to areas outside the assembly area, but they were flatly refused, on the grounds that they wanted to deceive the enemy......"

Speaking of this, Liu Qing shrugged his shoulders: "The information about the Sixth Armored Division is no longer here, it is estimated that now this unit has broken through into Lithuania and started their combat journey." ”

At this time, a major officer of the intelligence department walked into the war room, saw the bigwigs sitting together for a meeting, strode to the conference table, solemnly saluted the generals at the table, and then took out a telegram from the briefcase, handed it to Liu Qing, and turned to leave.

After reading the telegram, Liu Qing shook his head slightly, stood up and raised the note in his hand: "This is the message that Hitler issued to all the officers and soldiers of the German army at ten o'clock last night that the intelligence department has just obtained...... Hehe, I've played it so many times, and Hitler still hasn't given up the old trick of catching a thief by shouting about a thief, I'll miss it for everyone......

“...... For months, I was overwhelmed by worry...... Now I can finally explain to you, my soldiers, that there are about one hundred and sixty Russian divisions deployed on our border, which has been under constant aggression for weeks...... Many Russian patrols invaded the empire's borders and were repulsed after a long battle.

"Soldiers of the Eastern Front, the military build-up of the Reich is now under way, on a scale and in greater numbers than ever before in the history of the world, we have formed an alliance with the Finnish army, our comrades are standing shoulder to shoulder with the victors of Narvik on the Arctic Sea in the north, you are stationed at the southern foot of the Caucasus Mountains, on the Romanian Eastern Front, on the banks of the Prut River, on the line from the Danube to the Black Sea, Germany and Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, France, Spain, The Portuguese army stood shoulder to shoulder.

"If the greatest front in the history of the world were to act now, it would be not only to create the conditions necessary for a final end to this great war, or to defend the nations that are under threat at this moment, but also to save the civilization and culture of Europe as a whole.

"German soldiers, you are about to take part in a hard, life-and-death battle, and the fate of Europe, the future of the German Reich, the survival of our nation, is now entirely in your hands. May God bless us all in this struggle! ”

"Hitler's speech is still so agitatory!"

After listening to this, Deng Bin said with emotion: "Although I personally have a good impression of Germany, at this moment, I have to admit that Hitler is a master of opening his eyes and telling nonsense!" It's all nonsense, and I doubt that those German soldiers will be deceived, after all, most people understand that the USSR is now facing a crisis on the Eastern Front, and it is simply impossible to take the initiative to provoke, as Hitler said! ”

"A lie repeated 10,000 times is the truth!"

An Yi stood up and paced back and forth, and after a while said: "The press in Germany is very tightly controlled, and the soldiers may not know about the situation of the Soviet Civil War. Well, let's not talk about this, anyway, the German invasion of the Soviet Union is already a living fact, and we can finally let go of all our worries and complete the next stage of our war readiness.

"Brethren, since the Germans were able to devise such a perfect plan of deception, we must not lose to them, and we must also be as perfect as possible in the all-out war against Japan after the end of the rainy season, so as to ensure that until the moment before the attack is launched, the *** people still believe that we have no intention of breaking the current equilibrium, and develop with peace of mind! Do you have faith? ”

"Yes!"

There was a slightly messy but imposing answer from the war room.

Whether it was the big guy at the conference table, or the staff officers in front of the map, sand table and radio, they all put down their work, looked at An Yi with confidence, and almost shouted answers, which made An Yi feel happy for a while.

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