736 Raid on the Three Revolutionary Flames

"Boom! Rumble! Boom-"

Shells and bombs rained down inside the trenches of the Soviet Red Army. Most of the Soviet Red Army soldiers on the east bank of the Bouag River were veterans who had experienced many battles, so to speak, from 1932 to 1937, but such continuous and ferocious shelling and bombardment still made them feel as if the sky was falling, and everyone huddled in hastily built trenches, enduring violent "shaking" on the ground. Shells and bombs fell on their front and back, left and right, plus their own powerful counter-attack fire. There was no sound in heaven and earth except the roar of thunder and explosion. Even the sun that leaped into the sky seemed to be completely obscured by the smoke and dust that covered the sky at this moment. In the eyes of many Red Army soldiers, all the scenery on this day was fiery red.

The ferocity and brutality of this offensive and defensive battle were unforeseen by both sides of the "belligerent" war. Nearly 800,000 Polish troops simultaneously attacked Soviet positions on a 100-kilometer front, focusing on the Brest fortress on the right flank of the Polish army. Due to the exceptional strength of the fortress, built in 1830, and the fact that the Soviet armoured units in the rapid assault did not carry siege artillery, the fortress and a bridge over the Bouag River remained firmly in the hands of the Polish army until the Polish counterattack. So this area naturally became a weak link on the entire Red Army front.

In order to attack the 25th Infantry Corps of the Soviet Red Army, which was besieging the Brest fortress on three sides, the "Poland" and Lan side also took out its own old 3rd Armored Cavalry Brigade and the 3rd Army, which had just been transferred from Warsaw, and a large number of "elite" elite backbones, including two active divisions. In addition, 125 of the latest A-4A Thunderhawk dive bombers of a dive bomber regiment of the Eighth Air Division of the Chinese Air Force are also attached to this line. After a barrage of ground and air fire, the "Polish" Third Army, under the cover of more than 100 No. 1 tanks, rushed out of the fortress surrounded on three sides and launched a series of attacks on the 25th Army of the Soviet Red Army in front of it. After paying a terrible price in casualties, the Polish infantry finally drove their opponents back, tearing a 20-kilometer-wide gap in the left flank of the Soviet front...... Just like the Soviets did before.

If the commander of the "Polish" army, Shimigvi, also had a powerful armored force in his hands, maybe he could also perform a "miracle on the Bouag" and make himself famous in history, but unfortunately he did not have such a force! All he could do was to maximize the transport of reserves to this "Brest breakthrough", and at the same time, at the same time, he specially organized a powerful artillery group with more than 100 artillery companies and mobilized to the Brest line to provide fire support for the "Polish" army there. In addition, he also ordered the Ukrainian army group of the "Polish" army to immediately get rid of the enemy in front of it, quickly "draw" the "elite" main force to move closer to the Brest side, and prepare to start a decisive "sexual" battle with the Soviet Red Army under this fortress!

The commander-in-chief of the Soviet Red Army on this front, General Yakir, and his 1st Red Banner Army also felt that they had made a mistake in their busyness, and let the "Polish" people slap the slap hard. The large-scale counterattack of the "Polish" White Army, which began on October 5, had already been informed to them by the Soviet High Command. Therefore, the entire defense line has also been hastily established, and according to the previous estimate of the combat effectiveness of the "Wave" army, such a defense should be able to inflict heavy damage on the opponent and create conditions for the next total annihilation of the "Wave" army!

But no one expected that the "Polish" White Army, which had suddenly entered the counteroffensive, seemed to have become brave, and the entire Soviet front encountered a fierce and continuous offensive at the beginning, and the soldiers of the "Polish" and "Polish" Orchids were like the soldiers of the revolutionary workers, braving the powerful firepower of the Soviet army to charge forward one after another. Of course, if this were all the case, the mighty Soviet Red Army would still be able to inflict heavy casualties on the opponent! What really changed the tide of the war unexpectedly were those Chinese planes that suddenly appeared! In particular, a new dive bomber that the Soviet Red Army had not seen in the Far Eastern theater. This single-wing dive bomber is certainly a significant improvement from the A2 series of dive bombers that the Soviets were familiar with before. Its dive angle can reach almost vertical, so the "precision" of the bomb is also greatly improved, and the bomb load of this aircraft is very amazing, a single plane can blow a large area of Soviet positions into a scorched earth! What made the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army feel the most angry was that this kind of plane was particularly durable! Often hit repeatedly by anti-aircraft machine guns, there is no intention of crashing! Most of them can still stagger and fly back......

Minsk, the headquarters of the Soviet "Polish" Front, is also in a tense and busy atmosphere. Ubolevich of the Front is now a marshal! And he is now also the commander-in-chief of the Soviet army on the entire Western Front. This was given to him by Comrade Stalin, and at the same time the great leader's expectation that if he could not achieve a decisive victory in this decisive battle with the "Polish" army, the rank of marshal on his shoulders and his head might move together! Now Comrade Marshal felt that his head seemed to be moving...... Ever since the news of the defeat on the Brest front line came, the Grand Commissar of Kirov looked at him with a strange look! I don't know if I've already got the order to arrest myself? No way! For the sake of the Soviet Motherland, for the liberation of the Polish people, and for the sake of saving their heads, this battle must not be lost!

Ubolevich straightened up from the map table, his gray-blue eyes with gold-rimmed glasses glancing sternly at his officers, and said, "Comrades, cheer up!" It is impossible for the bandits of the White "Color" and "Bo" Lan to stop the iron hooves of the Red Army! If they dare to cross the Bouag, we can't let them go back alive! As he spoke, he pointed to the location of Brest on the map. We're there to have a battle with them! ”

At this moment, a piercing air raid siren sounded, followed by several dull explosions, and the sturdy "mixed" concrete building trembled slightly. This is the He-111 of the Chinese Air Force conducting an air raid on the city of Minsk. However, none of the Red Army officers in this command moved, and all eyes were focused on Brest on the military map.

"Our troops were temporarily repulsed, but they were still not defeated, and the 'Polish' people only made a salient around Brest, which was about 50 kilometers from north to south and 35 kilometers wide from east to west, and the core of this salient was the Brest fortress. Now that the Polishes have filled the last reserves in their hands into this salient, even the Polish-Ranch cluster on the Ukrainian side is moving closer there, and it is clear that they want to fight a fateful battle with us there! Marshal Ubolevich propped up the map table in his hand. The gray-blue eyes looked at everyone without blinking.

"Comrades, this battle will also decide the fate of the Soviet Fatherland! Everyone knows the situation that our motherland is facing now, and if we can't defeat the white and Polish land before the winter comes, wait until next year...... We are about to face the frenzied attack of the whole capitalist world! So, we must crush the white "color" and "po" in the Brest salient! Now I command! ”

With an uproar, all the officers stood and listened to the orders of the marshal comrade, who had made up his final mind.

"The Western Front adjusted its deployment, and only seven infantry corps of the Sixth Army were deployed in the Baranovichi encirclement, which was responsible for encircling the 'Polish' army cluster. On the right flank were the ten infantry corps of the Western Front under the command of Comrade Pavlov, which was tasked with defending the northern borders of Belarus against a possible German offensive. On the left flank were the ten armies of the Ukrainian Front and the three tank corps and five cavalry corps of the First Red Banner Army, under the unified command of General Yakir and tasked with smashing the Ukrainian cluster of "Poland" and seizing the whole of Western Ukraine. And the key to the whole decisive battle is the Brest salient in the center of the battle line, where we will concentrate the Second Red Banner Army, the Third Army, the Fourth Army, and the Fifth Army, a total of twenty-two infantry corps! Plus ten independent artillery divisions to fight to the death with the "Polish" Lan White Army! Finally, the 4th and 5th Tank Armies will remain stationed in Minsk as a general reserve for the entire Western Front. Comrades, this is the latest deployment, do you have any disagreements? ”

"Yes! Comrade Marshal, I think this deployment is too risky. A somewhat muffled voice rang out in the corner of the conference room. Everyone followed the voice, and it turned out that it was Major General Zhukov, commander of the Fourth Tank Army, who spoke. He walked to the map table, picked up the baton, and pointed to Latvia and Lithuania:

"Comrade Marshal, according to the original deployment, we have ten corps on the Soviet-German border, two tank corps in Minsk, fifteen more in the Baranovichi area not far from Minsk, in addition to three tank corps and five cavalry corps on the border between Belarus and Ukraine, a total of 32 corps of troops can be mobilized for the northern front at any time...... Even after deducting the 6 corps necessary for the siege of Baranovichi, 26 corps were available. And now, nine infantry corps have been transferred to the vicinity of Brest, and the 1st Red Banner Army has moved south to join the Ukrainian battlefield, so that once Germany on the northern front makes a move, we will only have 12 corps available. I propose that the 1st Red Banner Front give up the road to Brest and allow the Ukrainian and Brest clusters of the "Polish" Army to join forces...... In the same way, ten corps of our Ukrainian Front have joined the Brest battlefield, so that we will be able to maintain the situation with twenty-three corps against about 1.2 million men of "Poland" in terms of total strength...... At the same time, the siege of Baranovichi will be intensified, and by the time the more than 200,000 "Polish" troops in the encirclement are completed, we will have 15 corps liberated, and it will not be difficult to defeat the Brest cluster of the "Polish" army. ”

"No way!" Ubolevich raised his eyes and looked at Zhukov and said in a deep voice: "Comrade Stalin's instructions are to destroy the military forces of the White and Polish Rivers in the Battle of Brest (Battle of the Bouag River)!" If we had annihilated the Polish army in Baranovichi's encirclement, the enemy on the Brest line would have fled, and they would have retreated to Warsaw to hold on...... At that time, 1.2 million "Polish" troops will be concentrated in the city of Warsaw! Then we won't be able to defeat the white 'color' and 'Bo' Lan in this short period of time. ”

Zhukov frowned, and just as he wanted to refute, Kirov, the political commissar of the Polish Front, coughed lightly and said: "Comrade Zhukov, Comrade Ubolevich and I both know that this plan is risky, but how can we not take any risks if we want to fight?" Moreover, the current situation facing the Soviet Union can no longer allow us to fight steadily! If you can't defeat the Pora as soon as possible...... The risk of Germany betraying us is only growing! ”

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"The Battle of Brest has broken out." Luo Yaoguo gently put down the newspaper in his hand and looked up at Zhou Elai and Zhang Xueliang who came from afar. His expression was playful now, a little deep, and a little excited. But it's more about the confidence that you can win. It seems that now it is not the "Polish" White Army that is retreating, but the Soviet Red Army is losing its armor!

Zhou Elai and Zhang Xueliang glanced at each other. Zhou Elai smiled reservedly, and he said lightly: "Brother Fuwen, which side do you think will win in this battle that has decisive 'sexual' significance for World War II?" ”

"The USSR will win!" Luo Yaoguo tapped the telegram on the table with his fingers, and said with a smile: "But the victorious Soviet Union is not far from its end!" ”

Zhang Xueliang looked at Luo Yaoguo fixedly, and shook his head a little puzzled. "Why is that? The USSR won, but it is not far from the end? Could it be that it can survive if it is defeated? ”

"Neither can we." Luo Yaoguo said lightly: "The fate of the Soviet Union has been doomed since it decided to strike preemptively against 'Poland'...... The Soviet Union was hopeless, because as soon as Poland was defeated, it would soon be doomed. We Chinese now have to think about what to do after the fall of the USSR. Brother E, Brother Hanqing, it's not too late for your GCD to really stand on the side of the victor. ”

"Why is that?" Zhou Elai twisted his thick eyebrows and asked in a deep voice.

Luo Yaoguo shook his head with a smile, took out a military map of the Belarusian region of 1/100,000 from the "drawer" of his desk and spread it out. The map is densely marked with arrows, pins, and number codes representing the troops. Anyone who knows a little about military affairs can clearly see at a glance that this Soviet-Polishist war has reached the most critical moment. The battlefield in Belarus seemed to be a situation of encirclement and reinforcements, and at Baranovichi, near Minsk, the Soviet Red Army surrounded two or three hundred thousand "Polish" troops. On the Brest front, a large number of "Polish" troops were attacking eastward, trying to open up contact with Baranovichi, while the main Soviet forces were also massing around Brest...... In addition, south of Brest, there was a "Polish" cluster that was being attacked by two other main clusters of the Soviet Red Army. The situation on the entire battlefield, no matter how you look at it, is that the Soviet Union has the upper hand.

"See, no, the two main clusters of the USSR are concentrating in the southwest." Luo Yaoguo lightly tapped his finger on the map of the northern region of Belarus and the Greater Luki region of Russia, and sneered: "There are about ten to twelve armies here on the border with Germany. In addition, there were ten to twelve infantry corps and two cavalry corps on the Leningrad side. That's more than 1.2 million people...... And the Germany opposite them had two army groups with a total strength of more than 2.7 million men! More than twice as much as the Soviet Red Army. And also with eight thousand aircraft and a whole eleven armored divisions! In addition, there was a million-strong Army Group South deployed in East Prussia and Germany proper.

As soon as the Soviets defeated Poland, the Germans' Army Group Center would be led by eleven Panzer Divisions to break through the junction of Velikiye Luki and Belarus, which was also the junction of the Soviet Union's Northern Front and Western Front. After breaking through there, the Germans would go all the way south, seize Minsk or Smolensk, cut off the main forces of the Soviet Red Army in Belarus and Poland from Moscow, and then cooperate with Army Group South to encircle them in Belarus or Poland. In this way, the main forces of almost fifty armies of the Soviet Union are all over, do you think Stalin can still fight? ”

Zhou Elai took a deep breath, "Is this your analysis, or did you hear any information from the German side?" ”

"It was I who got the latest battle plan of the Germans, and it was the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, Wilhelm Brown. Admiral Keitel personally 'delivered' it to me. Luo Yaoguo took out a thick battle plan with a Nazi swastika on the cover from the "drawer" drawer and put it in front of Zhou Elai. smiled: "Brother e, take a look for yourself...... The Soviet Union is dead this time, and the gods are difficult to save. Uh, by the way, you GCD people don't believe in immortals, you are all materialists, so you don't think about saving the USSR, right? ”

"What!" Zhou E came and stood up. "You're right! No, no...... The USSR still had more than two million troops! Their Far Eastern Front and Central Asian Front can be transferred west, and five million reservists have already been drafted! Even if they lose three million men this winter, they still have seven million troops available! ”

Luo Yaoguo looked at Zhou Elai quietly, shook his head a little regretfully, and said, "Brother Elai, how can you forget our China?" Of course, the Soviet Far Eastern Front will not be able to return, and the Central Asian Front may be able to withdraw part of it...... But that's only part of it! With these troops, and millions of recruits, what kind of "tricks" could Stalin play in 1938? Brother e, the Soviet Union is finished, and you will mourn and change...... Otherwise, I'll ask Natalie to arrange for you to go to Lushan for a vacation, you have been working hard for the revolution for so many years, and it's time to take a good rest for a while. When your vacation is over, the Soviet Union will almost be destroyed, and then the banner of the international GC movement will have to be carried by your brother! ”

"What do you mean!" Zhou Elai blushed and glared at Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "An armored cluster composed of seven armored divisions, three cavalry corps, and two motorized infantry corps. On October 8, they were to start from Hailar and attack the Borja region by passing through the northeastern corner of the ancient province of Eastern Mongolia and going around to the south of Chita Oblast in the Soviet Union...... And you have deployed heavy troops on that territory, I don't want to cause unnecessary casualties, those comrades are also the spark of the revolution! ”

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