Chapter 642 Heavy Thunderstorm 30

"It's over! It's all over! Now I'm going to be a reactionary..."

The 16th Mechanized Army and the 1st Tank Brigade suffered a disastrous defeat, with heavy casualties and almost complete destruction of the tank group! The whereabouts of the commander of the 16th Mechanized Army, Sokalov, and the political commissar, Fegulov, are unknown, and the commander of the 1st Tank Brigade, Chuxin, died heroically...

When Lieutenant Colonel Kurbsky, the chief of staff of the 16th Mechanized Army, called and told the bad news from the front to Major General Korobkov, the commander of the 4th Army, he felt like the sky was falling.

This was the first real disastrous defeat since the beginning of the world revolution! Although the Red Army had a record of failure in the Soviet-Finnish War, the Soviet-Polish War in 1939, and Afghanistan, there had never been a mechanized army that was defeated, and the commander and political commissar had never disappeared. Moreover, this time the glorious 1st Tank Brigade was also lost...

Comrade Ponomarenko, the political commissar of the Western Front, had just signed a commendation order, calling on all fronts to learn from the glorious 1st Tank Brigade. In a blink of an eye, the 1st Tank Brigade was almost completely annihilated by Germany.

Where would Comrade Ponomarenko save face? If Comrade Ponomarenko tolerated this, how could he be the successor of the world revolution in the future? If the political commissar of the front Ponomarenko wanted to find someone to attack, then Korobkov would be the reactionary.

Who made Sokalov and Fegulov missing? Whether they died as martyrs or were captured as traitors, it had nothing to do with Comrade Ponomarenko. No matter how high the political commissar of the front was, he could not take care of the dead and the enemy's concentration camps.

Just when I was trembling with fear, the voice of Lieutenant Colonel Kurbsky in the telephone receiver suddenly became more trembling.

"Comrade Commander, the Nazis, the tanks of the Nazis are coming up, they are coming up soon! The 16th Mechanized Army is going to collapse!"

After that, the phone was hung up with a click. Obviously, the headquarters of the 16th Mechanized Army was about to be moved.

On the other end of the phone line, Major General Korobkov was even more dumbfounded. What happened? The 16th Mechanized Army was going to collapse? How could it be possible? That was an army! Even if the 46th Tank Brigade and the 1st Tank Brigade were destroyed, there were still three motorized infantry brigades left. How could the German armored forces collapse in just a few hours?

He was at a loss when someone suddenly shouted: "Rockets! Take cover!"

Korobkov subconsciously wanted to find a hole to crawl into (the engineers had built anti-artillery fortifications near his headquarters), but he heard a series of rumbling explosions in his ears, but Korobkov himself was safe and sound.

It turned out that the target of the German rocket artillery was not Korobkov's headquarters, but the 28th Red Army, which was deploying defenses in front. This army was still marching towards the city of Legionovo two hours ago. After the news of the defeat of the 16th Mechanized Army came, it was ordered to deploy defenses on the line of Wovomin.

But how could an army with 3 motorized infantry divisions and 5 motorized artillery regiments (2 army divisions and 3 division divisions) be deployed from the marching state and complete the deployment within 2 hours? They are not an armored army, and they can fight the enemy's armored troops as long as they put their vehicles in place. Their infantry must build fortifications, dig trenches, bury mines, and arrange various artillery positions before they can possibly stop the enemy's tank clusters.

But how could the German Nazis give the 28th Infantry Army of the Soviet Red Army time to deploy?

When Korobkov thought that the 28th Infantry Army might also collapse in a short time, he no longer had the heart to stay in the headquarters to listen to the report, and took a few staff officers and guards to the front line northwest of the town of Wovomin.

Before the GAZ-61 car he was riding in arrived at the destination, he heard bursts of shouts of "Ura! Ura!"

The troops that had just been attacked by rocket launchers had now regained their spirits under the encouragement of officers and political cadres, and some of them were preparing to launch a desperate counterattack against the German armored group!

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"Captain! Look! The Bolsheviks are coming!"

Captain Gustav Schwarzenegger was sitting in the commander's seat, lowering his head to eat black bread with hard sausage (this was his breakfast), when he heard the gunner Oger shouting.

Captain Schwarzenegger hurriedly stuffed the food into his pocket, then leaned out of the open top hatch, and then saw a scene that made him unbelievable.

Countless Red Army soldiers were holding Mosin-Nagant rifles, PPSh submachine guns and anti-tank grenades, shouting the slogan "Ura! Ura!" and launched a charge like a tide.

"Quick, quick, quick! Get off the car and stop the Bolsheviks!" Captain Schwarzenegger shouted repeatedly, asking the grenadiers riding on the tanks to get off quickly and fire at the Soviet infantry with MKb-42 automatic carbines - these crazy Bolshevik infantrymen must not be allowed to get close at all costs!

Soon, the MKb-42, MG-42 and machine guns on the No. 4 tanks in the hands of the Nazi infantry fired dense bullets like raindrops, knocking down the charging Red Army soldiers one by one.

However, the desperate charge of the Red Army infantry temporarily blocked the advance of the German armored group. Taking advantage of this breathing opportunity won with blood, a division of the 28th Infantry Army of the Soviet Army also quickly withdrew into the town of Wowomin and began to hastily build simple fortifications. Because time was too tight, the Soviet infantry could only take materials from the houses and yards of each household, and piled up miscellaneous items such as carts, wooden boxes, and furniture into barricades and anti-tank fire shelters.

Some of the M1 anti-tank guns and ZIS-3 76.2mm anti-tank guns that survived the German rocket attack just now were dragged into the town of Wowoming and deployed at various intersections.

Some Red Army snipers also entered the houses on the outskirts of the town. Due to two rocket attacks, most of these houses were somewhat damaged, but they could still be used as firepower bases. Rifles, machine guns, and anti-tank guns were set up. Pointing to the open area ahead, everyone held their breath, waiting for the German attack.

The 28th Army of the Red Army received special training in street fighting before the start of the world revolution. Each of them knew various street fighting skills by heart and knew how to fight in central cities like Warsaw, Berlin, and Paris where the bourgeoisie gathered. Put the red flag on the Warsaw Castle, the Reichstag in Berlin, and the Elysee Palace in Paris.

Of course, they also knew how to use the city's buildings to repel the counterattacks of Nazi German tanks and infantry!

However, the Nazi tanks and infantry attacking today did not intend to recapture Wowomin. They were only ordered to launch a short assault. The purpose was only to maximize the damage to the Soviet army's effective forces and delay their attack on Warsaw.

For Model, the current commander of the 6th Army, the biggest difficulty in holding on to Warsaw is the lack of troops. He has only 270,000 officers and soldiers under his command, and his opponents may have as many as 1 million.

Therefore, any attack that may cause heavy losses but cannot completely repel the Soviet army is worthless.

Therefore, after discovering that the Soviet infantry retreated into Wovomin in an attempt to hold on, General Steiner, who was commanding the battle on the front line, decisively gave up the action of recapturing Wovomin. On the one hand, he ordered the artillery cluster (excluding rocket launchers) to bombard Wovomin to kill and injure the Soviet infantry standing there; on the other hand, he ordered the pursuing armored cluster to bypass the town and gather towards the artillery positions and rear elements of the Soviet 28th Army. Launch an attack in the area.

The 28th Soviet Army was already in chaos. According to the plan, they were supposed to attack Legionovo. Before the collapse of the 16th Mechanized Corps and the 1st Tank Brigade, they were still on the march. Before it was fully deployed, it was covered by German rocket launchers and attacked by armored troops, and it was completely messed up.

While the German armored group repelled the desperate counterattack by the infantry of the 28th Army, three German smoke launcher regiments launched a rocket launcher raid targeting the rear area of ​​the 28th Army under the guidance of aircraft.

So when hundreds of Type 4 H tanks, Type 3 assault guns and more than 10,000 armored grenadiers attacked, the artillery positions of the Soviet 28th Army had just been halfway deployed, and they were also hit by nearly 2,000 rockets. Covered with bullets, everything was a mess and a mess, unable to withstand the impact of the German armored group.

The headquarters of the 4th Army of the Red Army is just behind the 28th Infantry Army, and some scattered troops directly under the 4th Army are also around the headquarters of the 4th Army.

When Korobkov returned from the front line in despair, these scattered troops were setting up defenses, and the 4th Army headquarters was not ready to move. The political commissar of the group army, Telekin, was like an ant on a hot pot. He was scurrying around in the headquarters while holding a telephone receiver and shouting angrily: "No retreat! Vovomin must be defended! Anyone who dares to retreat is against G-man's destiny and is reactionary." molecular!"

Seeing Korobkov come in, Telekin finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was just a political officer and didn't quite know how to fight.

"Comrade Commander, how is the situation?" Telekin asked.

"They're coming!"

"Them? Who?"

"German armored units!" Korobkov replied. "They have bypassed Wovomin and are coming towards us. At most..."

Boom boom...

The sound of exploding artillery shells was already heard. This was the firing of the Wasp self-propelled artillery that followed the advancement of the German armored forces.

"Comrade Commander...are the Germans coming?" Telekin asked with a livid face.

"coming!"

"Then what do we do?"

"What should we do?" Korobkov sighed, "If you don't want to be a prisoner, then move immediately and join the 1st Tank Corps... There are still 2 tank brigades there, which should be able to block the counterattack of the German armored forces. "