"Ula!Ula!"

On a road not far from Lieutenant Graf's first shot down enemy planes (and finally shot down enemy planes), the soldiers of the 205th Division of the Soviet Red Army who were resting for lunch were cheering loudly. They all saw the battle of air combat from afar, so in cheering for the victory of the Soviet Red Air Force, the ones shot down were of course Nazi German aircraft. The Soviet Red Air Force was invincible, how could it be defeated by the enemy?

"Damn it, stop calling Ula, it's our plane that was shot down!"

A middle-aged officer who looked very much like a reactionary suddenly started shouting loudly. Everyone looked at him, and then looked at several comrades from the anti-espionage department of the army not far away. However, the "Chika warriors" were very calm and did not have any actions to catch people. It seemed that they wanted to take a long line to catch big fish.

Everyone knew in their hearts that they said nothing, but just glared at Comrade Yakov Jugashvili, the artillery director of the 9th Mechanized Army, who was passing by with contempt.

"Comrade Okjabrisky!" The next words of the "enemy specialist" with the rank of captain surprised every Red Army soldier nearby. A captain officer actually spoke to a regiment-level political commissar in an orderly tone, "If our pilots are parachuting, send someone to rescue them!"

This is about to rebel!

Everyone was stunned and stopped eating black bread, just waiting to watch the show.

"Okay, Comrade Jugashvili." Okjabrisky and Yakov Jugashvili were in the same army, so of course he knew that the great god's father was Stalin! Not to mention that he was a regiment-level political commissar, even the military commissioner of the Front Army, Bonomarenko, always smiled and pretended to be cute when he saw him.

He immediately assigned a lieutenant who was eating black bread nearby to take half of the company's soldiers to rescue people, because there were guerrillas from Polish reactionaries and German SS cavalry near the highway.

By the way, these SS cavalry belong to the SS Polish Voluntary Cavalry Division and the SS Israeli Cavalry Division. The former was Polish Nazi, while the latter was mainly composed of Polish Jews. Because of its support for the Zion to replace concentration camps, it became the core of the Third Reich's "anti-Semitism" policy, many Polish Jews were deceived and regarded Hitler as a good person. Therefore, there was the SS Israeli Division...

The Nazis in Poland and Jews who had not yet moved to the State of Israel have become the most opposed to the liberation of the Soviet Union. Marshal Lundstead, the commander of the Central Army Group, did not ask them to defend the ring fortress to the death, but instead dispersed mobile operations to delay the attack of the Soviet Red Army.

The rescue troops had just set off, and the air battle had already decided to win. Six of the 8 Jacques-1 fighters were shot down and two escaped. 12 Il-2 attack aircraft were shot down by Folk Zero, and the remaining 10 lost bombs and fled the battlefield.

Yakov Jugashvili, who witnessed the battle with a telescope, got on his Gas-61 light off-road vehicle in a depressed mood, and staggered along the severely blocked and high and low road, staggering all the way back to the location of the 9th Mechanized Army.

"Yakov, what's going on?" Rokosovsky saw the depressed Yakov Jugashvili and asked with a smile, "Has the Army Command agreed to our request?"

"Agree, the independent mortar battalion is coming." Yakov Jugashvili replied.

The purpose of his visit to the Army Command was to ask the Army Artillery Director for an independent mortar battalion. The mortar battalion that could work with Captain Jugashvili would certainly not really use mortars. In fact, this battalion was equipped with Бm-13 rocket launchers, which are the so-called Katyusha rocket launchers.

Although the German Wehrmacht had known that the Soviets had rocket launchers (the Germans themselves also had them, and they gave the rocket launcher troops a strange name for the smoke launcher regiment), the Soviet Red Army still regarded the Katyusha rocket launcher as a secret weapon that was highly confidential. The troops using rocket launchers were all named "Independent Mortar Battalion", and there were currently no rocket launchers at the division, brigade, and regiment-level rocket launchers at present. Even the number of rocket launchers was not large. Only several main armies of the Western Front had a treasure rocket launcher battalion, which was personally controlled by the artillery director of the group army and could only be used at critical moments. However, Yakov Jugashvili had a great face, and of course the 18 rocket launchers were coming as soon as they opened their mouths.

However, Jugashvili's request is not unreasonable, because a Бm-13 rocket launcher can only fire 16 132mm rockets at a time. A battalion usually has 18 rocket launchers, and a volley can fire 288 132mm rockets at a time. However, loading again is troublesome, and the movement of launching rockets is very loud, so it is easy to be discovered by the opponent to be attacked by the gun, and basically run away after the shooting. Therefore, the power of a rocket launcher is not much greater than that of a howitzer battalion. However, the rocket launcher is mounted on a truck and has a relatively strong mobility, so it can replace self-propelled artillery.

Rokosovsky used this "mortar battalion" as a self-propelled artillery. Although his mechanized army had many tanks, there was no self-propelled artillery used to kill soft targets.

All the cannons in the hands of Yakov Jugashvili, the artillery director, were pulled by trucks. Once an emergency occurs, it will not take a while to set up artillery positions.

So after crossing the Bug River, the 9th Mechanized Army was blocked by a SS Polish cavalry battalion with 50mm anti-tank guns and 75mm mountain guns, blocking it in front of a forest for several hours, and several tanks were destroyed.

In the same situation, the tank army/mechanized army that advanced in several other directions also encountered it. Although the German army and the Polish Defense Force did not build a long line of defense, they adopted the combination of stronghold defense and mobile defense. 38 brigade-level circular positions were deployed on the front battlefield of the Polish-Soviet border, which was nearly 400 kilometers long and 150 kilometers wide, and 16 SS Cavalry Regiments and the 3rd National Defense Force Cavalry Regiments (the National Defense Force Cavalry Regiment belongs to the 1st Cavalry Division of the National Defense Force).

"Comrade Commander, the 4th Infantry Army, reported that they had completed the encirclement of the Trespol ring fortress." Major General Rimoskik, chief of staff of the Western Front, brought good news to General Pavlov who was frowning. "Comrade Kosoftsky (Chief of the 4th Infantry Army) reported that the front troops will be ready for the attack tomorrow morning."

The Trespol Ring Fortress was the most uncomfortable thing among all the ring defense fortresses, because it was stuck on the throat road from Brest to Warsaw. Although Poland was just a large plain and could walk anywhere, the Soviet Red Army was a heavy force, with a large amount of heavy equipment and supplies that needed to be transported by railways and trucks. The Trespol Ring Fortress was stuck in the most important railway and a key highway, and the three important bridges across the Bug River were covered by the fortress artillery.

If the fortress is not captured, although the Soviet Red Army can also detour, the road conditions in Poland are relatively poor and other circular fortresses blocking the way, so it is always not smooth, as if someone is stuck on the battlefield.

Therefore, in the "Great Thunderstorm Plan", the Western Front still had to pull out several circular fortresses to make the traffic to Warsaw unimpeded. Only in this way can Pavlov be sure to launch a battle with the German army under the city of Warsaw that determines the future and destiny of Poland.

"Tell Comrade Kosoftsky," Pavlov said, "he limited him to take Trespol within 72 hours, and the time will be calculated from 8 a.m. tomorrow."

It should be possible to take a brigade-level position in 72 hours. So after Pavlov issued the order, he did not think about the Trespol Fortress, but asked about the situation of the Air Force again.

"Have the Air Force's report been sent?" Pavlov asked, "How many results did the air strikes have been achieved this morning? How are the losses?"

Although Pavlov has been unlucky in history, this does not mean that his military quality is low. It is normal for him to meet the German Superman who cheated. The military quality is quite good and General Pavlov, who has a good study on the situation on the European battlefield, is very clear that air superiority is the key to the success of the "Great Thunderstorm Plan"!

If the Nazis cannot be defeated in the sky, then the huge Soviet mechanized cluster on the ground will be the living target of German aircraft and it is impossible to win.

"Comrade Commander, the air strikes are very effective." Major General Rimoskik replied with a smile, "51 of the 65 military airports and field military airports that have been identified in Poland have suffered a devastating blow and have lost the ability to take off and land aircraft."

Due to the voluntary withdrawal of the Luftwaffe, the airports in Poland suffered major losses in the air strikes launched by the Soviet Red Air Force on the morning of June 1! At least 1,000 aircraft aircraft were blown up on the ground, and the runways and facilities of 51 less important airports were also blown up. Only 14 important airports were protected by the Luftwaffe Air Defense Anti-Airship Regiment (the German Army, Navy and Air Force now have their own ground anti-aircraft artillery troops, and the anti-aircraft artillery troops responsible for air defense and rear facilities were all air defenses of the Air Force). Therefore, the losses were not too great.

"But the Red Air Force under the Front Army has suffered a lot of losses," Major General Rimoskik's tone has been sank. "According to preliminary statistics, more than 260 of the aircraft dispatched this morning did not return, accounting for about 8% of the total dispatched aircraft."
Chapter completed!