"Air raids! Comrade commissar, five heavy bombers and a dozen fighters are flying towards us! ”

The roar of the sentry Petrov rang out, interrupting the regimental commissar Lieutenant Colonel Fedyuninsky, who was doing such ideological work for more than 600 officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 84th Regiment of the 290th Division of the 17th Army of the Soviet Red Army.

"What's there to worry about, isn't it just four bombers, and they are flying so high." Fedyuninsky looked up at the planes in the air that looked not much bigger than ants, and then half-jokingly said to the hundreds of Red officers and soldiers gathered in the trenches: "You see, the German pilots are cowards, and they only dare to drop bombs at an altitude of 10,000 meters, because it is difficult for our anti-aircraft guns to hit them at this altitude, but their bombs will also be out of sight, and they will not pose any threat to us at all." ”

Someone in the audience below immediately chimed in: "Yes, the Germans are just wasting bombs, we need not be afraid, nothing can destroy our position, because it is the strongest position in the world!" ”

"That's right, nothing can destroy our positions, not even that super bomb!"

"The Germans have been beating us for four years and have not been able to defeat us, so how can they break us with a few super bombs now? Such rumors are ridiculous! ”

"Not only ridiculous, but also vicious! What to say that the Krasnoyarsk fortress was destroyed by superbombs, and that Smolensk and Leningrad were flattened by superbombs...... This is a complete curse on our great Motherland! Be sure to find out the guy who passed away! ”

"That's right! We must find out these rumor-mongers and send them to the counter-espionage department of the group army! ”

"That's right! Send them to the counterintelligence department of the army group! ”

Seeing the angry look of the cadres and fighters below, a faint wry smile appeared on the corner of Fedyuninsky's mouth. Because he knew who those bad guys who spread rumors were—there were staff officers and cadres of the group army headquarters and the political department. There were officers of the headquarters of the 84th Division, as well as several chiefs and deputy chiefs of the counterintelligence department of the group army who were preparing to send the rumormongers to the following fighters, and it was from them that they learned about the "rumors" of super-bomb attacks on the Krasnoyarsk fortresses, Leningrad and Smolensk! The same. According to the 3% target, the order to catch rumormongers in the 290th regiment and send them to the "punishment battalion" was also obtained from the head of the counterintelligence department of the group army. This kind of thing is really ridiculous, the people who spread rumors and investigate rumors are a group of people, and if they didn't talk nonsense, the cadres and fighters below would have been kept in the dark at all. As a result, when "rumors" were flying all over the sky, these guys came out to arrest the rumor-mongers with a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, and it is estimated that they will be able to receive meritorious service awards in the end...... Could it be that the news of the imperialist bombing of the Krasnoyarsk fortresses, Leningrad and Smolensk was really a rumor aimed at luring snakes out of their holes and catching some unlucky ones to punish the camps?

Boom, boom, boom......

Just as Fedyuninsky was pondering about catching a few thorns who were usually not very obedient in order to fill up the number of rumormongers, the sound of anti-aircraft guns rang out. Then someone began to cheer: "The enemy plane has fled!" That's a really fast run......"

That's it? Fedyuninsky looked up again into the air. Sure enough, it ran away! A few small planes that were still hovering thousands of meters over their heads just now flew westward as if they were dead...... Are these Germans like this? Wasn't it just a few hits from a 76.2mm anti-aircraft gun? This anti-aircraft gun is actually not accurate, probably the people who came to carry out the bombing mission today are novices who have just graduated from flight school, right?

"Speed 590, direction due west. At a height of 9800 meters, it is being disengaged at full speed! ”

Just as Fedyuninsky on the ground and others were laughing at the German planes in the air that had fled with wolves. At an altitude of 9,500 meters, these German planes were really desperately trying to escape, and one of the H-7 heavy bombers imported from China even used dive acceleration to increase the speed to 590 km/h. Three other color films of the FM produced by the Germans faithfully recorded what was to happen—during the previous nuclear explosions in Smolensk and Leningrad, the Germans also sent FW-200 long-range reconnaissance planes to shoot on the spot, and copies of these films were to be given as gifts to the leaders of all the countries attending the Berlin Peace Conference.

On another FW-200 reconnaissance plane, Luftwaffe General Kesselring, who was in charge of directing the nuclear bombing operation, had already put on sunglasses and a radiation protection suit, staring intently at the direction in which the nuclear bomb fell in the East. Inside the cabin, there was a solemn and deep voice announcing the number: "...... 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, detonate! ”

April 29, 1936. 10:25 a.m.

Belarus, about 35 kilometers northwest of the city of Borisov, a flash of light brighter than the light of 1,000 suns suddenly flew over the Soviet defensive positions of the Soviet army! Even if you wear sunglasses that protect you from radiation. Admiral Kesselring still felt that his eyes were suddenly dazzled, and at the same time, the whole plane suddenly began to tremble violently, as if it had been hit by an anti-aircraft gun, and then a loud sound like a landslide sounded in his ears! He knew that this loud bang meant that at least tens of thousands more Soviet lives went to hell! And for several Soviet armies around the city of Borisov, this nuclear explosion was just the beginning of a series of nuclear strikes!

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"Oh God! My God! The end of the world is coming! ”

Biluzov screamed and fell into the trench and fell beside his company commander, Captain Zadov, rolling on the ground and howling as if he had gone mad. Zadov was a little stunned, there seemed to be a flash of light or something, but he was smoking with his head down, and he didn't know what was going on. At that moment, the earth suddenly trembled violently, and at the same time there was a huge roar that could not be described in words. All the soldiers standing in the trench were knocked to the ground, and Zadov hurriedly held on to the wooden stakes on the inner wall of the trench to barely keep sitting, but he still felt the ground under his butt constantly beating. Dirt, dust, or anything else that was exposed to the surface was swept down into the trenches and sprinkled everywhere.

"What the hell is going on...... Zhadov asked with a loud yell, grabbing Biduzov with a hand, dragging the teenage and a half-year-old child to him.

"Oh God! My God! The end of the world is coming...... the child seemed to be completely frightened crazy, just shouting "God" and "the end of the world". Zadov frowned, a look of regret. These two things are quite reactionary, and no one can escape ten years of labor reform, and this child's life is ruined......

I felt the shaking of the ground have subsided. Zadov stood up against the inner wall of the trench, raised his head and looked around, and when his eyes turned to the north, he was immediately stunned by what he saw. A huge mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke tens of thousands of meters high has risen into the sky!

"Oh God! What is this? Zadov couldn't help but shout out the name of "God". But at this time, he didn't have to worry about someone making a small report. Because all the officers and soldiers of the Red Army who saw this scene were shouting God with wide eyes. A few others were drawing crosses on their chests.

"That...... Isn't that a super-bomb of imperialism? ”

I don't know who shouted a term even more terrible than God - super bomb! A month ago, I don't know two months ago, the above explained that the imperialists had invented a super bomb, which was relatively powerful, and asked everyone to strengthen the fortifications...... Not many people paid attention to this kind of thing, but even if they heard about it, the fortifications were already very strong, almost reaching the limit that civil engineering fortifications could reach, and reinforced concrete would be used for further reinforcement. Are you willing to give it? But it wasn't long before those terrible rumors began to spread. What a super bomb can destroy a city! What Krasnoyarsk fortress was destroyed by a super bomb! What half of Smolensk was razed to the ground by super bombs! There are even those who say that the Lenin district of Leningrad was completely flattened by a superbomb!

This kind of thing doesn't sound like it's true, and no one believed it in the first place, but the above has repeatedly ordered strict investigations, and none of them have been allocated five "counterrevolutionary rumor-mongers"! Zadov struggled to catch three, and two were missing, and someone actually threw himself into the net.

"Who! Who's spreading rumors about superbombs? Grab him for me! Zadov's eyes swept into the trenches with gloomy eyes......

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"Help! Help me! Who's going to save me......"

"Oh God! What the hell is going on? ”

"I'm blind, I'm blind! God, I can't see it! ”

"Is this hell? This must be hell here......"

A strange scream or groan sounded in Fedyuninsky's half-deaf ears, and he was now at the bottom of a ring defensive position, the temperature of the ground was very high, and the air around him was hot, as if it were seventy or eighty degrees! When it was inhaled into his lungs, there was a terrible pain (the air was not that hot, of course, but his lungs and airways were already burned)! He struggled to open his eyes and looked around. I was immediately stunned by the scene in front of me, it seemed to be a fiery hell! Everything was blood-red (his eyes were bleeding), and the stakes that supported the inner walls of the trenches were all burning! All the heavy weapons in the trenches fell to the ground in pieces, and some of them were turned into parts, and the most outrageous thing was that the barrels of several 25mm anti-aircraft guns were bent off.

But what shocked Fedyuninsky the most was the people in the trenches! They were all dead or about to die, some of them lay there with their limbs outstretched, as if they had fallen from a great height; Some seemed to be crawling, but the whole thing was charred; There are also huge holes in the clothes on their bodies, and the exposed skin is either scorched or burned red with blood, which looks extremely miserable! Except for all kinds of corpses, that is, people who were not about to die, each one was extremely badly wounded, either burned extensively, or weighed down by some heavy object or half-buried in the earth, all screaming in tears.

"Phew! Bang! Boom......" The gunshots rang out. Fedyuninsky turned his head with difficulty and saw an officer leaning against the wall of the trench with a bloody face killing people with a pistol! Killing those Red Army soldiers who were seriously wounded and dying was probably to help them relieve their suffering! Maybe this guy has gone completely crazy......

"Oh God! What the hell is going on? Is this the power of a superbomb? Fedyuninsky thought about God and superbombs. While crawling towards a collapsed bunker in the center of the ring fortifications, where is the battalion headquarters, the most important thing now should be to get in touch with the superiors, and be sure to tell them what happened here, and let them send reinforcements as soon as possible, and before the Germans' attacking troops come up!

However, Fedyuninsky's efforts were completely futile and unnecessary. On the one hand, due to the destruction of the electromagnetic pulse generated by the nuclear explosion, all the communication equipment of the 84th Division of the Soviet Army has been completely damaged and unusable; On the other hand, the flashes of nuclear explosions, loud noises, and mushroom clouds up to 10,000 meters high can be seen, felt, and heard even from 100 kilometers away! So there was no need for him to report it. The commands of the 16th, 17th and 18th armies of the Soviet army already knew what was happening.

In fact, the ring fortification where Fedyuninsky was located was not the center of the nuclear explosion, and the nuclear fission bomb dropped from a German H-7 heavy bomber at an altitude of 9,500 meters exploded about 400 meters above the headquarters of the 291st Soviet Regiment about 2,500 meters away from the ring fortification. The resulting explosive yield is equivalent to 18000 tons of TNT explosives! The ring fortifications where the regimental headquarters of the 291st Soviet Regiment and an infantry battalion under the 291st Regiment were located had been completely razed. The positions of several other battalions, two of which were also under the jurisdiction of the 291st Regiment, were also leveled within 2,000 meters of the explosion center. All were killed in the first place!

And in this area, where Fedyuninsky is located. That is, within 2,000 to 10,000 meters from the center of the nuclear explosion, all the trenches, anti-tank strongholds, and various other fortifications were all shattered by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, and the officers and men of the four Soviet infantry regiments stationed there and the headquarters of the Soviet 84th Division were all killed or wounded - either killed or wounded, especially the vast majority of the wounded who were close to the center of the nuclear explosion and exposed, were doomed to not live long because of the severe nuclear radiation.

On the Soviet positions within a radius of 10,000 meters to 25,000 meters from the center of the explosion, there were basically only wounds and no deaths, and the high temperature and shock wave of the nuclear explosion could no longer cause much damage to the Soviet targets within this range, but the strong nuclear radiation still caused invisible severe damage to the Soviet officers and soldiers here. However, it was not the radioactive contamination that would not reveal its power until much later. Rather, it was a huge blow to the spirit and morale of officers and men caused by the nuclear explosion! After witnessing it with my own eyes and really feeling the terrifying power of nuclear fission bombs. They have realized that the world revolution has failed, and that the rumors that have been spread before about the attacks of Krasnoyarsk, Smolensk and Leningrad with destructive weapons are true! Countless Soviet Red officers and soldiers sat blankly inside their trenches, their eyes glazed over, and their faces were filled with expressions of fear and despair......

As for the outskirts of Smolensk, several hundred kilometers from the center of the nuclear explosion, the command of the Western Front of the USSR received an urgent report from the Soviet 16th, 17th and 18th armies less than a quarter of an hour after the nuclear explosion.

Lieutenant General **Fu, Chief of Staff of the Western Front, walked up to Yegorov and Tukhachevsky with a numb face, and sighed without speaking: "The nuclear explosion occurred at the junction of the 16th Army and the 17th Army, close to the position of the 84th Division of the 17th Army, and the positions of the 85th Division of the 17th Army and the 91st Division of the 16th Army were also affected, and the total number of casualties is estimated to be between 20,000 and 30,000, and at least 250,000 people witnessed the nuclear explosion at a relatively close distance, I'm afraid it will affect the morale of the 16th, 17th and 18th armies! In addition, the Germans in front of these three armies showed no signs of taking the opportunity to attack, and it seems that they will continue to launch a nuclear attack in the coming days! ”

The loss of 20,000 to 30,000 people in a nuclear explosion is actually nothing, compared to the losses of the nuclear explosions in Leningrad and Smolensk, it is not a fraction of the losses at all, and it is not a particularly severe loss for the Soviet Western Front, which has a total strength of several million. But how much will the morale of the troops suffer in this nuclear explosion? In addition, if the Germans repeatedly launched nuclear attacks near Borisov, will the troops be able to withstand it? Will it be like the troops in Krasnoyarsk, whose morale was blown up by two nuclear explosions, and the whole army collapsed?

Tukhachevsky listened calmly as he finished reporting the initial damage, and there was no expression on his face, but everyone around him could tell that he was pretending to be calm. Because the current shape is so bad, this is already the fifth nuclear strike on the Soviet Union! It seems that there are many weapons such as nuclear fission bombs in the arsenal of imperialism, and they can drop them non-stop, even if a nuclear fission bomb destroys 30,000 people, just one of three or four thousand can kill more than 100 million Soviets. In fact, it doesn't take that much, three or four hundred are thrown down, and the USSR must be finished, this number should be there, right?

Tukhachevsky pondered for a moment, and said in a calm tone: "It seems that the Borisov generation is the focus of the German breakthrough!" Their purpose in dropping nuclear fission bombs is to demoralize us, and their general offensive is likely to start within a week! He looked at Yegorov: "Comrade Yegorov, is the Western Front sure that this battle will be fought well?" ”

Yegorov nodded and said: "The Western Front will definitely fight as well as possible, but I am afraid that the enemy will continuously drop nuclear fission bombs, which will cause great damage to the morale of the front-line troops." Comrade Tukhachevsky, can we withdraw the main forces of the three armies in the Borisov area? ”

Tukhachevsky waved his hand heavily: "No! If the enemy takes the opportunity to break through, our millions of troops may be cut off or even divided and surrounded, and then the enemy will be able to kill all our men with nuclear fission bombs! He gritted his teeth: "Order the 16th Army, the 17th Army, and the 18th Army to hold their positions and not allow half a step back!" Also, the General Reserve was ordered to stop the retreat and concentrate on Tarachin and Orsha in the east of Borisov, preparing for a decisive battle with the Germans! ”

"Decisive battle?!" Egorov took a deep breath: "No longer build large defensive strongholds?" ”

"If it doesn't work, it's too late." Tukhachevsky sighed: "As long as the Germans continuously drop nuclear fission bombs around Borisov, the three armies stationed there will soon collapse completely, and then the Germans will throw in armored clusters for a surprise attack, possibly thousands of tanks and thousands of aircraft...... This is an overwhelming force, and as soon as a breakthrough is formed, the Western Front will be finished, and the Southwestern Front will only be able to retreat east of the Dnieper. The only hope now is to defeat the enemy with a decisive battle of mechanized troops, right on the plain east of Borisov! ”

"I can't beat it!" Egorov shook his head. "Our Su-76 is not at all a match for the enemy's Panther tanks and Cheetah tank destroyers, not to mention the overwhelming air superiority of the Germans. If you don't use the defensive zone to consume their attack momentum, but directly throw in the tank troops to fight them, you will definitely lose everything. ”

"There's no way but to fight!" Tukhachevsky shook his head: "If you don't fight, you can only retreat on all fronts, and under the pursuit of the German Air Force and the pursuit of armored units, the troops will definitely suffer heavy losses, even if they can withdraw a part of their troops, what can they do?" There is no longer a strong line of defense left, but to retreat to the big cities of Leningrad, Moscow and Trotskygrad, and then the Germans will be able to kill us all with nuclear fission bombs! (To be continued......)