May 5, 1936, 8:30 a.m.

Fierce artillery fire swept over the fields and plains near Borisov in Belarus like a hurricane, and in an instant, countless columns of blue-black smoke rose above the positions of the Soviet 16th Army at the same time. The intensity of the shelling was probably the largest of all ground battles since the beginning of World War II. Just to bombard the front of the defensive line less than 40 kilometers wide held by the Soviet 16th Army, a total of more than 50 artillery regiments secretly assembled in the artillery group directly under the German Army Group B east of Minsk, ten of which were long-range artillery regiments armed with 170mm cannons, began a chorus of death at the same time. In addition, there were hundreds of artillery and self-propelled artillery belonging to two armored armies and three motorized rifle armies. Suddenly turned the Soviet position into a hell of fire!

However, the Soviet officers and men who were bombed were greatly relieved, and although the momentum of the German artillery bombardment seemed very bluffing, compared with the scene of the explosion of the nuclear fission bomb six days ago, the current cannon roar was not much different from the cry of mosquitoes. And since the Germans have begun shelling, it means that their armored assault will soon begin, which probably means that the nuclear fission bombing that has been linked for six days has finally come to an end......

The response of the Soviet artillery was also timely, and less than three minutes after the German shelling began, the Soviet artillery group began to rumble back fire. However, the six nuclear fission bombs dropped by the Germans had already inflicted heavy losses on several Soviet army groups deployed on the Borisov front, including army artillery and divisional artillery. All suffered heavy losses, with as many as five infantry divisions wiped out by nuclear fission bombs, and four other infantry divisions suffering casualties. In addition, the positions of the artillery regiments of three group armies were destroyed by nuclear fission bombs, and even the headquarters of two group armies were wiped out by nuclear fission bomb attacks. Moreover, because of the fear that the newly replenished troops would collapse in the continuous nuclear attack of the German army, the command of the Western Front of the Soviet Army did not mobilize reinforcements in time to reinforce the front line, so the counterattack firepower of the Soviet artillery group at the first time was very weak. And since their communication lines were damaged in the previous nuclear explosion, the artillery behind the front and the observers in front could not communicate at all, so the artillery was not accurate, and the shells fell sparsely on the starting positions of the German troops. There were not many casualties at all. However, the counterattack of the Soviet artillery exposed the target, and the black and oppressive German aircraft group that appeared in the air overwhelmed the flash above the Soviet artillery position!

The front of the Soviet army is constantly trembling! Thousands of German artillery pieces of various calibers were firing intensively. There are railway guns of 300mm or more that are installed on the rails and are converted from naval guns, there are 53 times the caliber SFK18 170mm heavy cannon, there are 150mm and 105mm caliber field howitzers, and there are self-propelled guns of various calibers attached to the Panzer Division and Panzergrenadier Division. There were even 150mm infantry guns and 75mm recoilless guns of motorized rifle divisions. There were also mortars of various calibers, destroying the already dilapidated obstacles in front of the Soviet positions at the highest rate of fire. All kinds of shells dragged ballistics down on the Soviet positions, and the smoke columns and flames suddenly became a piece.

"GCD members, Komsomol members, fighters of the Soviet Fatherland, take up your weapons and prepare for battle! Get ready for battle! ”

As soon as the German artillery fire was extended, the Soviet company commander Zadov came out of the hidden anti-artillery bunker. As if crazy, he ran wild in the trenches and shouted. I don't know if his shouting aroused everyone's fighting spirit, and the trenches, which had been empty just a moment ago, suddenly poured into countless Red Army soldiers holding or dragging rifles. However, the expression on most people's faces is just numbness. Bilyuzov, who had already recovered a little of his vision, also crawled out of a single anti-aircraft artillery bunker dug in the trench wall with difficulty, and with a rifle stained with mud in his hand, he walked to his combat position with a blank face, set up the rifle without bullets, and waited for the half-crazy company commander Zadov to wave his fist and shout "open fire", and then shoot the enemy forward with the weapon in his hand with the man next to him.

It seems that everything is relatively normal, because Tukhachevsky and Egorov have taken very resolute measures to stabilize the morale of the army - all officers and political cadres are not allowed to leave the front, and violators will be executed! No one is allowed to spread rumours about "nuclear fission bombs" and "super-bombs", and violators are either executed or sent to punishment camps. So the 16th Army did not now collapse without a fight, as the Red Army units in Krasnoyarsk that day. But only God knows how much combat effectiveness these Red officers and soldiers who either look a little crazy or are like walking dead.

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! Click......

Gunfire rang out one after another, and when hundreds of German Panther tanks and Cheetah tank destroyers spewing white smoke roared on the horizon, the officers and men on the front-line positions of the Soviet army could not wait to open fire. Although at this distance, not to mention rifles, even 76.2mm anti-tank guns could not hurt the steel monsters of the Germans - but it was really not easy for these elite Soviet infantry to pick up rifles, machine guns, or other weapons to fire at the enemy after witnessing the bombardment of nuclear fission bombs for six consecutive days.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The 76.2mm anti-tank guns and 45mm anti-tank guns that could still be fired on the Soviet positions also opened fire. Before the sound of cannon fire had subsided, a cloud of fire erupted in the German tank cluster on the opposite side, and it seemed that not a single shell had hit the target. Without waiting for the Soviet artillery to re-aim and open fire again, the self-propelled guns that accompanied the attack of German tanks and tank destroyers opened fire. Balls of fireball immediately rose above the Soviet position, and the fragments of the shell explosion swept through like a storm, and the Soviet anti-tank guns and machine guns that exposed their targets because of premature fire were immediately dumbfounded, and the rest did not dare to open fire. The German armored group, on the other hand, took the opportunity to accelerate its forward assault, and tanks, assault artillery and panzergrenadiers jumping from armored personnel carriers poured into the Soviet defensive positions like a tide. Whether it was hand-to-hand combat with enemy infantry or attacking opponents' armored vehicles with anti-tank grenade launchers, anti-tank grenades and Molotov cocktails, the Soviet Red Army could always make the opponent pay a considerable price in close combat.

But today's Soviet Red Army is clearly out of shape - considering what they have experienced in the previous six days, this kind of behavior is completely normal now, and although those six nuclear fission bombs did not fall on their heads, they have also "blown up" their morale. And an army without morale has no way to fight, so the melee battle between the two sides only lasted a very short time before the victory was decided. The Soviet troops in the front line completely collapsed, and some people climbed out of the trenches and threw away their weapons, and fled backwards as if they were flying, but the bullets of the Germans and the bullets fired by the Soviet political workers who supervised the battle behind made them fall to the ground one after another after not being able to run a few steps. And many more Soviet soldiers dropped their weapons and shouted in Russian, as if relieved: "Surrender!" Surrender! ”

These smoke-drenched, tattered uniforms, and numb faces have finally survived. The German units that captured them did not have the ruthless "special arms" of the SS. Moreover, most of the German officers and soldiers also witnessed the explosion of nuclear fission bombs again and again, so they were quite sympathetic to these survivors of the "nuclear explosion", and there was not much abuse and killing of prisoners.

The six-day nuclear fission bomb attack guaranteed the success of this armored assault in one fell swoop! Blue flares announcing victory rose from the front, and cheers erupted from behind. The telegram was sent to the conference room of the official residence of the royal city of Berlin as soon as possible.

After informing the leaders of the countries attending the meeting of the good news of the Belarusian front, German Foreign Minister Rathenau waved a telegram and exclaimed: "The Greater German Reich bears the main responsibility for the war and is the main victim of the Soviet invasion, and East Prussia and Poland and Finland (which have also agreed to join the German Empire) have fallen to the Soviet army and suffered extremely heavy losses in life and property, 90% of which if the Soviets are liable for their atrocities The reparations should also be enjoyed by the German people......"

As soon as Rathenau's words came out, Roosevelt and Churchill knew that there was no hope that Germany and China would bear the Soviet Union's obligation to pay reparations, and that with the smooth sailing of China and Germany on the battlefield, they would not let Britain and the United States share a little of the fruits of victory in the war against the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Germans' refusal to bear the Soviet Union's reparations obligation may also make the Chinese refuse to bear the Japanese reparation obligation. During the meeting in the past few days, Chang Ruiqing did not mention any more issues of Japan's reparations......

Roosevelt frowned and did not squeak, Churchill refused to be the first bird who was embarrassed by Germany, and smoked his cigar with an indifferent expression, Chang Ruiqing casually sipped his coffee without a sip, and there was a suffocating silence in the conference room. (To be continued......)