Chapter 676 Thunderstorm Forty
June 30, 1942 was the day when the offensive and defensive war officially began. The 10 armies of the Western Front of the Soviet Red Army were divided into three routes, including the North, Central and South. Under the command of Lieutenant General Kuznetsov, Lieutenant General Cuikov and Lieutenant General Vlasov, they launched an attack on the city of Warsaw, which was defended by the German 6th Army.
At 3:45 am on that day, when nearly 10,000 cannons scattered on the 40-kilometer front began to roar, Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn, the leader of the artillery sound test platoon (just received a promotion), had already finished supporting the construction of local governments in Poland and returned to the battlefield where artillery fire was flying, but at the same time it was exciting.
The 4th Army of the Red Army where he was located is now part of the 9th Army and is placed at the forefront of the middle cluster attacking Warsaw!
After wandering around the land of the Poles for more than ten days, Comrade Solrensky's awareness has improved to a certain extent, and he has a deeper understanding of the necessity of world revolution. In Poland alone, there are many landlords and rich peasants in rural areas, and he also hates the Soviet Union so much and resists liberation. How can this life not be removed?
Moreover, Comrade Solzhenitsyn also knew how heavy the people of the Soviet motherland had paid in the past twenty years to liberate all mankind. When the reactionary Polish landlords and rich peasants enjoyed the rich food granted by Polish land and the German industrial products exchanged for Polish food, the revolutionary Soviet peasants tightened their belts to support the country's industrialization construction. Now they have finally turned the backward Russia into an advanced and powerful Soviet Union, laying the material foundation for the liberation of mankind.
As a glorious world revolutionary warrior, Solzhenitsyn is now more aware of the heavy responsibility he shoulders. He and millions of other world revolutionary warriors, who are now not only responsible for the liberation of all mankind, but also the happiness of the 180 million Soviet people of the Soviet Union.
It turns out that the Soviet people can only liberate themselves in the end if they liberate humanity first!
Solzhenitsyn was thinking about the big issues of human liberation and people's happiness in a very safe artillery whistle located on the eastern edge of the Warsaw forest. In the west of the Warsaw forest, Brandt, a German anti-war figure with his hands covered with blood from internationalist soldiers, was holding his head in an elaborate anti-aircraft tunnel, enduring endless bombardment.
Brandt, who had been in the Warsaw forest battlefield for more than ten days, is now numb and no longer reflects on why he is so keen on killing. Although he does not have a strong body and runs very slowly. He is often scolded when participating in recruit training, but he is really good at killing!
The damn mkb42 automatic carbine came to his hands. It was simply a reactionary killing machine. During more than ten days of combat (the battle in the Warsaw forest has never stopped since June 9), he killed 15-20 Soviet Red Army soldiers (in fact, there were not so many, less than 10 people were actually killed by him, and several seriously injured). He was the "number one killer" of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment of the 111th Division where he was located.
So much so that Captain Schmidt, the company commander of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment, reported that he had applied for the First Class Iron Cross for him. In addition, he now has an embarrassing nickname called Brandt.
The bunker for killer Brandt to seize the shells was built by the Poles before the World War. The reinforced concrete structure is very strong. Even if it is directly hit by a 152mm high-explosive bomb, it can be safe and sound, so Brandt still likes to stay in this hot and stuffy place.
But the Soviet bombardment was about to end soon. When the dull sound of cannons from outside became increasingly sparse, the sound of the company commander Captain Schmidt's death shout came from the bunker: "All personnel, check the equipment!"
"Damn war!" Brandt cursed the war in his heart, and quickly checked weapons and equipment such as guns, magazines, kettles, first aid kits and helmets. Then he shouted: "It's over!"
At this time, this round of artillery bombardment by the Soviet Red Army was finally over, and the end of the shelling naturally meant that the charge of infantry and tanks was about to begin!
"Crack!"
Someone pushed open the iron door of the bunker, and a choking smell of gunpowder rushed in, causing Brandt, who was sitting near the door, to cough a few times.
"Brothers, we're out and follow me!" Sergeant Adolf Miller's loud voice rang out, because the original platoon leader of the 2nd platoon of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment died five days ago, Sergeant Miller, as the squad leader of the 1st squad leader, was promoted to the first level to become the platoon leader.
"Killer! Stop coughing, come out with me and kill people, kill the Russians!" Sergeant Miller saw Brandt huddling at the door and coughing, and stretched out a big hand and patted him on the head.
"As for orders, platoon leader!" Although he was extremely unhappy, Brandt picked up his automatic carbine and hugged his waist and advanced to the forefront along the traffic trench.
The front-line position is already at the edge of the "Warsaw Forest". The forests are not so dense. The position is leaning against a stream more than three meters wide. There were originally many trees and bushes on the other side, but under the continuous destruction of Soviet artillery fire, only a few tree stumps were left, and the bumpy mud land looked a bit like the surface of the moon.
There is a railway station about three or four kilometers south of the trench where Brandt is located. It is estimated that when it was built, it was considered that one day it would be bombarded, so it was extremely strong. It is now a key support point on the entire defense line. In the past two days, it has endured almost abnormal artillery fire from the Soviet army, but it still stands tall. The 111th Division of the German Infantry set up half an anti-tank gun company there, and the 9th Anti-Aircraft Division also set up an anti-tank gun company there, firing a total of 6 75mm anti-tank guns and 6 88mm anti-tank guns, turning the railway station into an insurmountable fortress.
The Soviets attacked the railway station several times and even dispatched a B-4 howitzer assault group, but they were still repelled by the German tiger tanks, and a B-4 howitzer was even seized.
After the frontal attack on the railway station was frustrated, the Soviet army changed its strategy and began to attack the German positions on both wings of the railway station, hoping to detour to the rear of the railway station.
"Bolshevik Party members, Youth League members, and World Revolutionary Warriors, for the happy and beautiful tomorrow of all mankind, and for the red flag to penetrate the world, rush!"
Just as the Red Army artillery group stopped shooting, Okjabrisky, the political commissar of the 205th Division, took a trumpet made of iron, jumped out of the trench first, and spoke loudly about political mobilization.
"Ula!Ula!Ula..."
The Red Army soldiers who were ready to go in the trench all roared as if they were squeezed out of their chests.
Comrade Pavlov, who had just become a glorious probationary member of the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union, held a DP-27 light machine gun and shouted "Ula! Ula!" and began to charge behind the butt of a T-34 tank.
His cheers came from the heart, and there was no stormtrooper machine gun behind him, which was completely unnecessary. Because he and Comrade Solzhenitsyn, who graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Rostov University, easily became an officer, and as long as he said a few words of conscience, he would definitely become a cadre.
He is a young man from the countryside and does not have the good brain to go to college. If he doesn't want to do farm work in a collective farm all his life, then world revolution is his only opportunity in his life.
In fact, his fate changed a dozen days after the beginning of the world revolution. Just a few hours ago, he swore an oath in front of the red flag and became a glorious probationary member of the Bolshevik Party!
How precious was a party ticket before the outbreak of the world revolution? Most of the Red Army soldiers worked hard for a few years and finally returned to their hometown empty-handedly. Without the world revolution, Pavlov would have probably retired from the Red Army without gaining nothing.
Now that Pavlov has entered the party’s door, the next step should be to promote it!
As long as the commando he led was the first to put the red flag into the enemy's position, he would soon cross the threshold for lifting.
Then his life will become more exciting from now on!
"Air strike! Hidden!"
Brandt, the murderous anti-war element, just entered the position when he heard someone shouting "air raid". He knew that this was the GCister Il-2 attack aircraft coming.
Because the Luftwaffe has no air superiority in the Polish battlefield, now neither the Soviet Union nor Germany dares to say that they have absolute air superiority in Poland. Therefore, such Soviet "flying tanks" will come to the German army from time to time to throw bombs or fire with a damn 20mm cannon and 7.62mm machine gun!
For the infantry garrisoned on the ground positions, because their value is not high enough, Air Force General Yeshunnek will not send enough Folk Zero to provide cover for them, which is a treatment that only armored troops and artillery positions can have.
The German infantry commanders on the Polish battlefield could only apply for air cover after discovering the Soviet Il-2 or other bombers. Before the famous Fokker Zero came to expel the Il-2, the German infantry usually could only rely on the flak30 20mm anti-aircraft gun and the anti-aircraft version of the mg42 machine gun to deal with the "Black Death" Il-2 in the air.
But for Brandt, he could only squat in the trench with his head in his arms, praying silently to Christ in his heart, and not let the Soviet bombs blow him to death.
"Ula!Ula!Ula..."
The Il-2 in the sky seemed to have not left yet, but the shouts of the Soviet Red Army infantry were getting closer and louder, and there was also the "click" sound when the tracks rolled.
The tanks and infantry of the Soviet Red Army were already close!
"Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!" The platoon leader Adolf Miller's thick voice rang out at this time. For "Killer Brandt", the moment of fighting for the Third German Empire, which he did not love at all, has come again. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!