Chapter 652 Heavy Thunderstorm 40

June 30, 1942 was the day when the Warsaw Offensive and Defense War officially started. The 10 armies of the Western Front of the Soviet Red Army were divided into three routes: North, Central and South. Under the command of Lieutenant General Kuznetsov, Lieutenant General Chuikov and Lieutenant General Vlasov, they simultaneously launched an attack on the city of Warsaw held by the German 6th Army.

At 3:45 a.m. that day, when nearly 10,000 cannons scattered on the 40-kilometer front began to roar, Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn, the leader of the artillery sound detection platoon (who had just been promoted), had already finished his work supporting the construction of the Polish local government and returned to the battlefield full of artillery fire, but at the same time it made people's blood boil.

His Red Army Infantry 4th Army now belongs to the 9th Army and is placed at the forefront of the central cluster attacking Warsaw!

After wandering around the Polish land for more than ten days, Comrade Solzhenitsyn's consciousness has been further improved to a certain extent, and he has a deeper understanding of the necessity of world revolution. In Poland alone, there are so many landlords and rich peasants in the countryside, and they hate the Soviet Union so much and resist liberation. How can they not be killed?

Moreover, Comrade Solzhenitsyn also knows how heavy a price the people of the Soviet motherland have paid in the past twenty years to liberate all mankind. When the reactionary Polish landlords and rich peasants enjoyed the rich food given by the Polish land and the German industrial products exchanged for Polish food, the revolutionary Soviet peasants tightened their belts to support the country's industrialization. Now the backward Russia has finally been transformed into an advanced and powerful Soviet Union, laying a material foundation for the liberation of mankind.

As a glorious world revolutionary fighter, Solzhenitsyn now knows more clearly the heavy responsibility he shoulders - he and millions or perhaps tens of millions of other world revolutionary fighters are now not only responsible for the liberation of all mankind, but also for the happiness of 180 million Soviet people in the Soviet Union.

It turns out that the Soviet people can only liberate themselves in the end if they liberate mankind first!

Solzhenitsyn was thinking about the great issues of human liberation and people's happiness in a very safe artillery sound detection post on the eastern edge of the Warsaw Forest. In the western part of the Warsaw Forest, near the city of Warsaw, Brandt, a German anti-war activist with the blood of internationalist fighters on his hands, was holding his head in a carefully dug anti-artillery tunnel, enduring endless bombardment.

Brandt, who had been in the battlefield of the Warsaw Forest for more than ten days, is now numb and no longer reflects on why he is so keen on killing people - although he does not have a strong physique, runs very slowly, and is often scolded when participating in recruit training, but he is really good at killing people!

That damn MKb42 automatic carbine was in his hands, and it was simply a reactionary killing machine. In more than ten days of combat (the fighting in the Warsaw Forest has not stopped since June 9), he killed 15-20 Soviet Red Army soldiers (actually not so many, less than 10 people were actually killed by him, and several were seriously injured). He was the "number one killer" of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment of the 111th Division.

So much so that Captain Schmidt, the commander of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment, applied for the First Class Iron Cross for him. In addition, he now has an embarrassing nickname - Killer Brandt.

The bunker where Killer Brandt took the shells was built by the Poles before the World War. It was a reinforced concrete structure and was very solid. Even if it was directly hit by a 152mm high-explosive shell, it would be safe and sound, so Brandt still liked to stay in this hot and stuffy place.

But the Soviet bombardment was about to end soon. When the dull artillery sound from outside became more and more sparse, the company commander Captain Schmidt's life-threatening cry came from the bunker: "All personnel, check equipment!"

"Damn war!" Brandt cursed the war in his heart, while checking the guns, magazines, water bottles, first aid kits and helmets and other weapons and equipment with his hands and feet. Then he shouted: "Over!"

At this time, this round of shelling by the Soviet Red Army finally ended, and the end of the shelling naturally meant that the charge of infantry and tanks was about to begin!

"Creaky!"

The iron door of the bunker was pushed open by someone, and a choking smell of gunpowder rushed in, causing Brandt, who was sitting near the door, to cough violently.

"Brothers, we are going out, 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 5 days ago, and Sergeant Miller, as the leader of the 1st squad, was promoted to the platoon leader.

"Killer! Stop coughing, come out with me and kill people, kill Russians!" Sergeant Miller saw Brandt still huddled at the door and coughed, so he stretched out a big hand and patted him on the head.

"Yes, platoon leader!" Although he was extremely unhappy in his heart, Brandt still picked up his automatic carbine, crouched down and advanced along the communication trench to the forefront position.

The frontline position was already at the edge of the "Warsaw Forest". The forest was not that dense, and the position was leaning against a stream more than three meters wide. There were many trees and bushes on the opposite bank, but under the continuous destruction of Soviet artillery fire, only a few tree stumps were left, and the bumpy mud ground looked a bit like the surface of the moon.

There is a train station about three or four kilometers south of the trench where Brandt is located. It was probably built with the expectation that it would be bombarded one day, so it is extremely strong. It is now a key support point of the entire defense line. Recently, It withstood almost abnormal artillery fire from the Soviet army for two days, but still stood firm. The 111th German Infantry Division deployed half an anti-tank gun battery there, and the 9th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division also deployed a battery of anti-tank guns there. A total of anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns were deployed there, turning the train station into a difficult place. The fortress of Transcendence.

The Soviets attacked the train station several times and even dispatched a B-4 howitzer assault group, but they were repelled by the German Tiger tanks and even a B-4 howitzer was captured.

After the failure of the frontal attack on the train station, the Soviet army changed its strategy and began to attack the German positions on both sides of the train station, hoping to make a detour to the side and rear of the train station.

"Members of the Bolshevik Party, members of the Youth League, and fighters of the world revolution, for the sake of a happy and beautiful tomorrow for all mankind, and for the purpose of planting the red flag all over the world, charge forward!"

Just as the Red Army artillery group stopped firing, the political commissar of the 205th Division, Oktyabryski, took the lead and jumped out of the trench with a trumpet made of rolled tin, loudly speaking the clichés of political mobilization.

"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

The Red Army soldiers in the trenches who were ready to go roared as if they were being squeezed from 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, shouted "Ula! Ula!" and started charging behind a T-34 tank. .

His cheers were genuine and there wasn't a stormtrooper machine gun behind him forcing him to charge, 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 could easily become a cadre as long as he said a few words of conscience, are two different types of people.

He is a young man from the countryside and does not have the brains to go to college. If he does not want to spend his whole life doing farm work on a collective farm, then world revolution is his only chance in this life.

In fact, within a dozen days after the start of the world revolution, his fate changed. Just a few hours ago, he swore an oath in front of the red flag and became a glorious preparatory member of the Bolshevik Party!

A party ticket was so precious before the outbreak of the world revolution. Most Red Army soldiers worked hard for several years and finally returned home empty-handed. If there had been no world revolution, Pavlov would probably have retired from the Red Army with nothing.

Now that Pavlov has entered the party, the next step should be to be promoted!

As long as the commando team he leads can be the first to plant the red flag on the enemy's position, he will soon cross the threshold of Tigan.

Then his life will become more exciting from now on!

"Air strike! Take cover quickly!"

Brandt, a murderous anti-war activist, had just entered the position when he heard someone shouting "air strike." He knew that this was the arrival of the GC-ism Il-2 attack aircraft.

Because the German Air Force does not have air superiority on the Polish battlefield—no one in the Soviet Union or Germany dares to say that they have absolute air superiority in Poland—so these Soviet “flying tanks” will come and drop bombs on the German Army from time to time. Or shoot with the damn 20mm cannon and 7.62mm machine gun!

For the infantry stationed on the ground, because their value is not high enough, Air Force General Jeshunek will not send enough Fokker Zeros to provide them with cover. That is only available for armored forces and artillery positions. treatment.

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 arrived to expel the Il-2, 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 hands, silently praying to Christ in his heart, not to let the Soviet bombs blow him up.

"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

The Il-2 in the sky seems to have not left yet, but the shouts of the Soviet Red Army infantry are getting closer and louder, and there is also the "click" sound of the tracks rolling.

The tanks and infantry of the Soviet Red Army are already close at hand!

"Get ready to fight! Get ready to fight!" The platoon leader Adolf Miller's thick voice rang out at this time. For "Killer Brandt", the time to fight for the German Third Reich, which he does not love at all, has arrived again.