The elder Hemsstra is seventy-nine years old, and as an old man who is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday, his life is strange in the old man's world. The elder Mr. Hemstra had little interest in spending his old age in peace, and his greatest hobby in life was all kinds of thrilling things, such as last month, when he set a new record for circumnavigating the world in a single-engine plane.

Of course, the attraction of the Divine Horse around the world is not very much for him, and after breaking the record several times in a row, the round-the-world flight can no longer make him feel excited, and even he has felt a little bored.

The old man was desperate to find a new sport, for example, recently he was considering whether to build a submarine to set a world record for depth, and he had his eyes on the Mariana Trench, which is said to be the deepest. Of course, there are also people who build yì he goes mountaineering, and the roof of the world is enough for him to play for a few years.

And just when the old man was undecided, the occasional reading of the newspaper gave him a new inspiration - would the Soviet Union be Germany's next prey?

According to this report, it seems that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union is imminent, and both sides have unsheathed their swords and loaded their guns, and the only thing waiting is a signal.

This report made the old man's eyes light up, and he finally thought of what his greatest hobby was, since he was forced to "retire" after the end of the civil war in 1920, it was precisely because of the lack of war that he had to make a series of new attempts. And now, according to the newspaper, a new world war is about to break out, and I'm going to have a fart diving and mountaineering at this time, and fighting is exciting enough!

The old man had a wish, he always wanted to be a big hero, and he missed it because of his physical exhaustion in his youth. The First World War caught up with only a tail. If it's easy, World War II is in sight. No matter how you look at it, God is taking care of him and giving him one last chance.

Make a contribution in one fell swoop! The old Hemstra, who had made up his mind, rushed back to Leningrad in a hurry with his plane, and after rushing out of the airport, he rushed to the conscription office as soon as possible.

"Sir, you are not eligible for the application, please ......"

These words immediately caused the old man to blow his beard and stare at the recruiter. Pressing his hands on the table, he roared menacingly: "Why am I not within the scope of conscription, didn't it say in the conscription advertisement, everyone is responsible for protecting the family and defending the country, am I not a citizen of the Soviet Union?" ”

The recruiter was a little crying and laughing, and he tried to explain: "Sir, for the time being, we only need citizens over 18 years old and under 45 years old to join the army, and you ......"

Before the recruiter finished speaking, the old man roared again: "Lao Tzu is just 45 years old this year, why don't you want me!" ”

The recruiter was speechless and pointed to the old man's ID card and said, "Old man." Your ID says you're more than 45 years old! ”

"That thing was misprinted!" The old man replied without changing his face.

The recruiter was speechless for a while, and said secretly: "Even if it is printed on the ID card by mistake." But your vicissitudes of life old face, don't say 45 years old, say that you are 90 years old, some people believe you! ”

However, let the recruiter wear out his mouth, the old man just wanted to join the army, and forced this old man to stay at the conscription office directly, which made the conscription office anxious, and he couldn't drive the goods away, and he couldn't do it, and he couldn't even scold. In desperation, they could only report to their superiors.

So is it useful to give feedback to superiors? There is no use for fart, the superiors are here, and they continue to do the old man's ideological work, but the old man is going to join the army with one mind, and it is useless to let your political commissar come and talk about it, and in desperation, the superiors can only find their superiors to find a way.

After the reports were repeated, Mr. Hemstra's entry into the army turned out to be a sensational news, especially when the smarter reporter found out that the old man was not an old scoundrel, but a former nobleman, and had participated in the Red Army and won the Order of the Red Banner in the Civil War. When the reporters found out that this old man also had a grandson-in-law who was a member of the Politburo, this sentence was a proper positive energy.

"Grandpa, you're making too much trouble. How can you still act like a child at such an age? Angelina was speechless.

But the old man didn't feel ashamed at all, but replied eloquently: "Everyone is responsible for protecting the family and defending the country, I'm just a little older, why can't I contribute?" ”

said that he still did Angelina's work: "Tell you that mouth, let him do things for me quickly, isn't it just to be a soldier?" How difficult it can be, I didn't ask to be a division commander and army commander, I can't do such a big thing or a small thing, what kind of national leader is it! ”

When these words reached Li Xiaofeng's ears, he was also speechless for a while, your old man is half of his body into the loess, can't he live two days of peace?

Soon old Hemstra let Li Xiaofeng know that if he hoped that the old man would settle down, he would have to wait for the old man to stop panting, this old guy was getting more and more able to toss, and in the end there was really no way, Li Xiaofeng could only fulfill his wishes.

"I'm going to be a cavalryman!" The old man said happily, "I'm going to cut off the German crumbs on the front line!" ”

However, soon the old man found that the Red Army had changed too much in the past ten years, and the most beautiful cavalry was already in the twilight of the sunset, and the First Cavalry Army was directly transferred to the direction of Central Asia, only responsible for suppressing bandits. Suddenly, the old man stopped doing it again, shouting that he must change the military branch, and he must go to the front line to fight the German devils, otherwise he will die to a certain immortal. In desperation, Li Xiaofeng could only transfer the old man to the armored unit and become a tankman.

Don't look at the old man's eighty-year-old man, but he is full of spirit, and for a while he also learned young people to drag race, and his driving skills are quite excellent, and he became an excellent commander without much effort, and commanding a T-54 made the old man feel full of a sense of achievement.

The unit to which the old man belonged was the separate 100th heavy tank battalion of the 6th Army of the Kiev Special Military District of the Ukrainian Front stationed in Lviv, which was all equipped with T-54 tanks and belonged to the sharp knife attack unit of the army.

In fact, the Sixth Army was also quite powerful, and in addition to the 100th Independent Heavy Tank Battalion, it also had the Fourth Mechanized Army under its command. The 4th Mechanized Corps consisted of the 8th and 32nd Tank Divisions, the 81st Mechanized Division, and the 3rd Motor Regiment. The 184th Separate Communications Battalion and the 48th Separate Mechanized Chemical Battalion were formed. It was one of the first mechanized units in the Red Army. is the main assault force on the battlefield.

The 100th Heavy Tank Battalion, to which the old man belonged, was generally strengthened for the use of the 4th Mechanized Corps. And Livorno, where the army was stationed, was located in the immediate vicinity of eastern Poland. There was a stir and the army was the first to cross the border into East Poland.

On May 1, 1941, when a grand military parade was held on Red Square to celebrate International Labor Day, the 100th Independent Tank Battalion, where Hemsstra was located, not only did not have a holiday, but canceled a qiē vacation, and all officers and soldiers returned to the camp to welcome Labor Day in a state of first-class combat readiness.

The reason for this tension stems from the concerns of the Politburo. According to the KGB's intelligence, Germany has abandoned the Sea Lion plan, and its main forces have basically been assembled on the front line of East Prussia and East Poland, and are ready for war. War is on the verge of breaking out, and in this case, the more holidays the more vigilant it is, and who dares to say that the Germans will not come so suddenly?

However, what makes people speechless is that the Germans did not attack on May Day. The Germans seem to be waiting for something. And the elders of the Politburo, including Li Xiaofeng, couldn't figure out what the Germans were waiting for, and the Germans had made all the preparations they could. What else can you wait for?

"Why don't we do it first?" Radic built yì road.

This construction was met with the unanimous eyes of the other Politburo elders, including Trotsky, so what was the point of taking the lead at this time? The Germans are all ready, even if they are the first to do it, it is hard-hitting, what bargain can they get? Moreover, the previous battle plans of the Red Army were to use East Prussia and East Poland to weaken and delay the German offensive and suddenly change the battle plan.

"Otherwise, order the Red Army to enter East Prussia and East Poland ahead of schedule, which will also be a deterrent to the Germans!" Ulitz Infrastructure Yì Road.

This is as idiotic as this building, what is the point of entering East Prussia and East Poland in advance? Thinks that the Red Army is too strong, and is ready to let the Red Army carry the three-plate axe of the Germans?

However, Li Xiaofeng believes that this construction is partially feasible, and he said: "According to the KGB's observations, the East Prussian and East Polish armies lacked mobility and anti-tank capabilities were not particularly ideal. Once the front-line positions were broken through by the German mechanized forces, there was little ability to re-close the breach. The Red Army could deploy part of the mechanized forces behind the East Prussian and Eastern Polish armies, standing by in the second line. Once you find that a friendly position has been breached, you can use the advantage of mechanization to go to the closed breach. ”

After some discussion, Li Xiaofeng's construction was cleared, and the Red Army attached a part of the heavy tank battalion in advance to East Prussia and East Poland to act as a mobile anti-tank shield. Among them was the 100th Independent Heavy Tank Battalion to which the elder Hemsstra belonged, which was redeployed to the city of Lublin in Eastern Poland.

A month later, on June 5, when the separate heavy tank battalions of the Red Army's mechanized units were all deployed, the war still hadn't begun. This made old Hemsstra, who was impatient and wanted to show off his skills, anxious like an ant on a hot pan.

Why is the old man in a hurry? Quite simply, there was some very bad gossip that made him restless, such as Ribbentrop's second visit to Moscow at the end of May, which seemed to have reached some kind of peace agreement. In any case, it is said that East Prussia and East Poland were "ceded" to Germany in exchange for a good-neighborly and friendly agreement between the two sides.

He didn't care at all about the dead and alive old men in East Prussia and East Poland, the old man only cared about whether he could fight a war, and if there was no war to fight, even if the Soviet Union in turn let the Germans cede West Poland, he would not be happy.

So what's going on? Ribbentrop did make an urgent visit to Moscow, but no agreement was reached, the Soviet Union could not form an alliance with Germany, and Hitler was already a little flustered at this time, after defeating Britain and France, he thought that taking the Soviet Union was not a big problem, and since the Russians did not know each other, it was good to take the opportunity to teach the Russians a lesson. The reason why he never made a move, Hitler was indeed waiting, waiting for the reaction of an important ally.

On June 6, in Tokyo, Japan, there was a person who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and this person was Sorge. As a secret spy of the Soviet Union lurking in Japan, Sorge has achieved quite amazing results in recent years, whether it was before the outbreak of the Haraha River conflict or the Zhanggufeng conflict. He gave early warnings to the Politburo in a timely manner. Especially after the formation of the German-Japanese axis. Sorge's intelligence work is extremely important.

May 1941. Lieutenant Colonel Schauer, the new military attache of the German embassy in Thailand, arrived in Tokyo. As a friend of Sorge, he revealed to Sorge information that Hitler might attack the Soviet Union on June 10 or two or three days later. Of course, this is not the most important piece of information, but the more important information is that the Lieutenant Colonel Shore also revealed that as an ally of Germany, Japan will cooperate with the German army to start a military operation against the Soviet Union and will raid the Soviet Far East!

Sorge was stunned by this information, and soon he understood why the Germans had been exercising restraint. The reason is that I am waiting for Japan. If Germany and Japan attacked the Soviet Union from both east and west, the situation in the Soviet Union would be very bad.

Having received this important information, Sorge knew that Moscow must be notified immediately, and the Far Eastern side must be quickly prepared for battle, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. But what made Sorge scratch his head was that his previous espionage activities had already attracted the attention of the Japanese special high school, and if he ventured to contact Moscow by radio, he was afraid that it would be immediately exposed.

Sorge was faced with a multiple-choice question, and the Soviet Union and his own life could only choose one or the other, after some painful thinking. Sorge resolutely turned on the power supply......

On June 6, when Sorge finished sending this vital telegram. The murderous Japanese military police broke into his residence and arrested him along with his lover.

"Comrade Sorge defended the national security of the Soviet Union with his life," Trotsky said with an unusually heavy weight after learning of Sorge's arrest: "I hope that the comrades of the KGB will go to the rescue of Comrade Sorge as much as possible......"

In fact, the Politburo knows very well that Sorge may not be able to save it, but Sorge's credit is too great, and the Politburo can't say anything about it, right? In any case, the USSR had to act, even if it was to make a show, it had to do it!

However, Li Xiaofeng did not plan to make a show, he had to rescue Sorge, and KGB did not have the habit of letting his own people shed blood and tears. He was going to let Morrigan take over this task, and he must rescue Sorge and Ramsey's team.

Of course, the issue to be discussed now is not how to rescue Sorge, but the question of Japan's entry into the war. The Far Eastern Military District had not been the focus of the Politburo's attention before, and even Trotsky was ready to draw part of its military forces from the Far East. And now that Germany and Japan are acting together, they can't do that.

"Consideration can be given to transferring a part of the troops from the Central Asian Military District to strengthen the Far Eastern Military District." Trotsky spoke his mind.

Li Xiaofeng has no objection to this, anyway, there is not much threat in the direction of Central Asia, and it is reasonable to transfer troops. However, he believes that the most important thing at this time is not to draw troops, but to find out the specific military deployment of Japan.

"It is necessary to inform Comrade Blyukhel that he should do his best to do a good job of pre-war reconnaissance, find out the key points of the Japanese army's offensive, and adjust the military deployment in a targeted manner!"

Even Li Xiaofeng also said: "If the Japanese army wants to attack us, it must draw troops from the Chinese battlefield." I think we should contact Chongqing, can we get an alliance between the two sides or reach an agreement to deal with Japan together? ”

Trotsky immediately agreed: "Telegraph to Comrade Chuikov and tell him to do this work immediately." ”

To be honest, Li Xiaofeng actually doesn't have much confidence in Lao Jiang, let alone much hope. After the U.S. imperialists entered the war, the national army failed to show the courage to recover the rivers and mountains, but retreated again and again. I'm afraid it's not much better now.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng is more self-reflective. He felt that he was too careless, and only focused on Germany, and forgot about the evil wolf of Japan. Unlike in history, the U.S. imperialists did not impose an oil embargo on Japan, and the U.S.-Japan conflict did not intensify. This directly led Japan to make a desperate move north to attack the Soviet Union. However, he ignored this situation and still took it for granted that Japan would stand still as it did in history, and that he would pay the price.

Fortunately, Sorge was powerful enough to get this crucial information, otherwise, the Soviet Union, which was kept in the dark, would have been caught off guard when faced with a two-front attack. And that's why he was willing to rescue Sorge. A certain immortal thinks that this is entirely his mistake, and that his mistake should not be paid for by Sorge.

In the middle of the night of June 6, the troops of the Far Eastern Military District immediately began to mobilize urgently, and all the officers and enlisted men immediately returned to the camp, and even the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army entered a state of high tension. And from the next day, trains left the direction of Central Asia and moved to the Far East with at least five divisions.

At the same time, the Red Army in the European direction was also in a state of imminent battle, and all aircraft, tanks, and artillery were dragged out of the warehouses, and the maintenance of the maintenance should be carried out as soon as the final inspection was carried out. After the completion of the rearmament work, all the troops moved to the assembly area.

On 9 June, as soon as preparations were almost ready, a small number of mechanized units of the Red Army had been drawn ahead of schedule and marched towards East Prussia and East Poland. As for the Air Force, it has even launched air alert operations in advance, and the Central Military Commission has required all pilots and fighters to be put on 24-hour standby.

Just as the Red Army was making its final preparations for battle, Hitler stopped in front of a map of Eastern Europe in the wolf's den, and just a few minutes earlier, he had officially given orders to the Wehrmacht, the SS, and all the puppet state armies - Operation Barbarossa had officially begun! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank hzwangdd, masked angel 555 and comrade Juventus!