The Chief of Staff of the 68th Border Garrison Regiment of the Belarusian Military District of the USSR, Lieutenant Colonel Kiryakov, as is customary, carried out routine patrols of border posts, and everything was normal, and both sides of the Soviet-Polish border line were as calm as ever.

Standing in front of the lookout hole of the outpost closest to the border line, the telescope of Chief of Staff Kiryakov, through the dark mist before dawn, on the Polish side, the barracks of the Germans, were still silent in silence, there was nothing unusual, such a situation, for several years, he was almost numb to it, observed for a few minutes, absentmindedly put down the binoculars, and signed his name in the record book of the officer's inspection of the outpost.

This means that today's inspection work has ended, and the next thing is the beginning of the headache and tedious work, and the chief of staff Kiryakov was just about to leave, but the sentry next to him shouted: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you see, the Germans on the opposite side seem to be behaving abnormally?" ”

"Huh?" Chief of Staff Kiryakov glanced at the sentry suspiciously, picked up the telescope again, and in the faint glimmer of dawn, the German camp opposite began to become active, and one by one, large-caliber artillery, faded from camouflage, revealing a thick cannon mouth, and the black hole pointed at himself here, Chief of Staff Kiryakov, who has been stationed on the border for several years, has never found that the inconspicuous camp of the German army close at hand still hides so many large-caliber artillery.

With the appearance of German artillery, and then groups of heavily armed German soldiers, appearing in the lens of the telescope, the chief of staff of Kiryakov exploded with hair all over his body, and he suddenly fought a cold war, and a palpitation that almost suffocated him suddenly hit his heart, "The Germans are going to war!" It was his instinctive judgment.

Chief of Staff Kiryakov, trembling hands. grabbed the phone on the table and shouted hoarsely: "Exchange desk, I am Lieutenant Colonel Kiryakov, chief of staff of the 68th Border Garrison Regiment, and I will immediately connect to the combat duty room of the military district, and I have an important military intelligence report!" ”

"Hiss——!" The terrible scream, coming from far and near, piercing the dawn sky, sounded like a hair standing on end, it was the sound of cannonballs flying, for a moment. Chief of Staff Kiryakov sensed that death was approaching!

"Boom ——!" There was a loud bang, a burst of fire, and a large-caliber shell landed accurately on this outpost. A loud roar echoed through the pre-dawn air. The outpost was reduced to a pile of broken bricks and rubble in an instant. The dozen or so Soviet soldiers inside were all reduced to pieces of minced meat in the sound of the explosion, and the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, except for a pale severed hand, still holding the telephone receiver that had been blown in two. Dangling next to a huge crater.

The first shell fell, kicking off the German attack on the Soviet Union, and countless German artillery shells poured shells on Soviet positions and posts on the border line. After the shelling began, the German tank clusters hidden in the underground fortifications rushed out of the ground one after another, covering more than 6 million German soldiers, and poured into the territory of the Soviet Union like a tide.

This is just one of the scenes that happened on the Soviet-Polish border line thousands of kilometers long, and the same thing was repeated in the defense areas of the Leningrad Military District, the Baltic Special Military District, the Western Special Military District, the Kiev Special Military District, the Odessa Military District and other military districts on the western border of the Soviet Union, and more than 6 million German troops crossed the Soviet-Polish border line like a tide and launched an attack on the Soviet Union on all fronts.

Dawn on April 10, 1942 - the Soviet-German war officially broke out, and the most brutal and bloody war in World War II was opened by Hitler!

In order to quickly destroy the Soviet Union's resistance capability as quickly as possible, Hitler deployed a huge force of more than 6 million troops on the Soviet-Polish border, close to more than two-thirds of the total strength of the German army at that time, 190 divisions (including 19 armored divisions and 14 motorized divisions), more than 4,500 tanks, nearly 480 artillery pieces and mortars, and more than 5,000 combat aircraft of the Air Force. The Navy has one hundred and ninety-two combat ships of various types.

According to the revised "Barbarossa Plan," the German assault group was mainly divided into four routes, of which Army Group North had 29 divisions, which were deployed in the area from Memel to Goudap to carry out an offensive in the direction of Leningrad, the 1st Air Force of the Luftwaffe, the 1st and 3rd fighter divisions of the Romanian Air Force, providing air support and fire cover for the attacking troops, and the commander of Army Group was Albert? Army General Kesselring.

Army Group Center, which had fifty divisions and two brigades, launched in the swamps from Goudap to Pripyat, and carried out an offensive in the direction of Leningrad, which was the strongest attack capability among the German attack groups, the 2nd Luftwaffe Air Force, the 2nd and 4th Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force, which provided air support and fire cover for the attacking troops, and the commander of Army Group was Hermann? Field Marshal Hult.

Army Group South has 57 divisions and 13 brigades (including 13 Romanian divisions, 9 Romanian brigades and 4 Hungarian brigades), which are deployed in the Pripyat marshes to the Black Sea zone, and carry out an attack in the direction of Kiev. Feng? Army General Kruger.

The last attack group, a total of 21 divisions and three brigades of the German army group and the two Finnish armies in Norway, carried out surprise attacks in the direction of Murmansk and Leningrad respectively, and together with Army Group Center, formed a two-sided flank attack on Leningrad, the 4th Air Force of the Luftwaffe, the 1st, 3rd and 4th fighter divisions of the Finnish Air Force, with ground forces to attack, provide air cover and fire support, and destroy the ground airfields of the Soviet army.

In addition, there was an extremely concealed German army along the way, with the strength of two German armies and eighteen divisions, led by Army General Wilhelm? Under the command of General Lister Lister, he bypassed the battlefield of the German frontal attack, ignored the rapid march of the Soviet army, and pounced on the Soviet oil production base and the Transcaucasian oil fields.

According to what Tang Qiuli said to Hitler in Berlin at that time, seizing the main oil-producing areas of the Soviet Union could provide enough oil for the German army, which mainly engaged in mechanized warfare, and at the same time, it was also a matter of cutting off the Soviet army's oil supply base, killing two birds with one stone.

In fact, Tang Qiuli's super, absolutely ruthless, for the Soviet Union, it is a means of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, the Soviet Union's Transcaucasian oil fields, oil production, accounted for more than one-third of the Soviet Union's national output at that time, for the Germans, it belongs to filling fat and meat, occupying the Transcaucasian oil fields, which is equivalent to cutting off the main artery of the Soviet army and achieving the purpose of feeding the war with war.

Therefore, the German offensive is actually divided into five routes, not as recorded in history, divided into four offensive directions, and the last one way of the offensive group, will have an immeasurable impact on the future Soviet-German battlefield, Hitler in the outbreak of the war a year later, can be regarded as a real taste of the sweetness, Tang Qiuli's strategic vision and grasp of the key nodes of the battlefield, convinced of the incomprehensible Cheng dù.

The war broke out suddenly at the dawn of an ordinary day, and the German offensive, with its sudden and ferocious and unprecedented success in strategic concealment, this dawn that was enough to affect the world pattern, was destined to go down in history with its cruelty and bloodshed.

On the thousands of kilometers of border in the western part of the Soviet Union, fireworks and artillery shook the sky, and the German army suddenly struck out, punching head-on, and the Soviet border guards were dizzy, and many troops, even in their sleep, were bombshelled by the bombshells dropped by the Luftwaffe bombers, and the German special forces that had infiltrated the territory of the Soviet Union in advance shot everywhere to attack the Soviet army's transportation hubs, occupy bridges and railway lines, and important targets.

Messed up, under the sudden blow of the German army, all the military districts in the western part of the Soviet Union were in chaos, the telephone in the combat duty room of the military district rang like a violent machine, and the situation reported by the various border troops was disorganized, but one thing was the same, the troops were suddenly attacked by the German army, but every emergency call said that they were the main offensive direction of the German army, according to this statement, the main offensive direction of the German army, reached an astonishing number, where so many German troops came?

In the face of the chaotic situation in the border areas, where wolf smoke was everywhere and alarm horns were frequently spreading, the commanders and political commissioners of the various military districts in the western part of the Soviet Union immediately convened an emergency military meeting to discuss countermeasures.

They swore that the border guards must be lying about the military situation, and perhaps, there may be small-scale border frictions, but a large-scale attack by millions of German troops is absolutely impossible, because there is no warning in advance!

Those troop commanders who are idle and bored in the border line are accustomed to making a big fuss in order to attract enough attention from the military district command to show their importance, or in other words, in the face of small frictions on the border line, they are a little hurried and confused, and they belong to the table of immaturity in politics.

However, these Soviet officers, without thinking about it, one or several places, some small-scale border conflicts broke out, they can make a big fuss and exaggerate, but on the border line of thousands of kilometers, all the border guards are so exaggerated, that is not the coming of war, what is it?

(To be continued)(To be continued......