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"Now their bombers can only reach Moscow from Latvia?" Stalin asked.

"No. But the take-off distance from there is the shortest, and the ammunition load is relatively larger." Baranov replied.

Stalin sighed and looked at Voroshilov. "You see, if we let Hitler build the airport to Smolensk, maybe he can destroy our industry with air strikes."

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In the last few days of November, as temperatures dropped sharply, the Bwag River, which separates Belarus and Poland, finally froze over.At the same time, the muddy road was also frozen hard, and there were no obstacles to the march of the mechanized troops and the dispatch of the air force.So the atmosphere of war began to grow again.The road from Warsaw to the Buwag River was crowded with various vehicles and marching teams. After nearly a month of marching and mobilization, the more than 11 million troops of the German Army Group South finally entered their designated positions.

On the afternoon of November 11th, several gravity locomotives dragged heavily loaded military trains, roaring into the Biała Podlaska railway station.The ground trembled with the movement of the train.On the flatbed carriages are the No. 30 and No. [-] tanks covered with tarpaulins!German armored soldiers in black uniforms stood beside these tanks.Braving the cold and windy march all the way, the eyes of all the officers and soldiers above the railway station were attracted by the heavy military columns full of tanks.Although they have seen Chinese armored divisions before, today they are tanks that have been transported for a whole day!Officers and soldiers with a little brains can guess that the decisive attack will start soon!

Hu Lian's division headquarters is in a three-story building opposite this small railway station, and now he is watching the train full of German tanks coming into the station through the glass window.There was a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, "Hoppner's [-]rd and [-]th Armored Divisions are finally here! Now is the right time to break through the Soviet line. If it takes a few more days, the Red Army will be finished as soon as Estonia is done." Maybe run away."

Several staff officers around him were beaming with joy. These staff officers came to the [-]th Armored Division at the right place.Wowoming won the victory and saved Warsaw, and now he will serve as the vanguard of the invasion of the Soviet Union.Looking at the current situation, the Soviet army was defeated on the northern front, and the central line is already in panic. As long as the armored troops make a surprise attack, they will see a complete victory!And the credit for this decisive victory undoubtedly belongs to the armored force... With this experience, won't he be able to rise to the top in the national defense force in the future?

At this time, the door of the war room opened, and the person who walked in was Wu Tuohao, the deputy chief of staff of the expeditionary force. He had gone to Warsaw to attend the meeting of the Army Group South, and he had just returned to Biala on a train full of tanks. Podlaska's.

"Brother Mouxian, I've been waiting for you for a long time. When will the operation start? What mission did General Halder arrange for us?"

As soon as Hu Lian saw Wu Tuohao, why did he go up to meet him, took his hand, and went straight to the point.

Wu Tuohao dragged Hu Lian to the huge military map hanging on the wall. This map was more than three meters high.The blue and red arrows on the map are densely marked.There are more than 200 million troops concentrated on both sides of the Buwag River!Among them, there are more than 100 million Soviet troops, and there are more than 100 million in China, Germany and Poland.In addition, there is a main group of the Soviet army with at least 150 million people deployed on the borders of Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia, and it is in a fierce confrontation with the German army of about one million people.From the map, it seems that the current extremely fierce war can be seen.

Wu Tuohao pointed to the map and explained to Hu Lian the mission of the Eighth Armored Division.

"The offensive will start on December 12, the day after tomorrow. Our task is to go around from the south of the Brest Fortress, break through the Soviet defense line, and then attack Kobrin, Belyozha, Ivatsevich, Pakistan Ranovich, Dzerzhinsk, Minsk... all the way to the rear of the Soviet army! Do not leave the cities and strongholds that are well-defended by the Soviet army, and leave them to the infantry behind. We The mission is to keep going forward, assault, assault! As long as the tank can drive, don't stop, even if it is all the way to Smolensk!"

He paused and said: "Boyu, the task of the armored forces this time is like a knife to cut butter, treat millions of Soviet Red Army as cakes, and cut them into pieces! Germany's third and fourth , The Seventh Armored Division is also with us, and our three armored divisions are under the unified command of General Hoppner! There is also an armored group in the north, which is the 19th Armored Army commanded by Guderian, with five armored divisions, Latvia broke into the city of Great Luki in the Soviet Union, and then went south to Smolensk! The task of our 16th Panzer Corps is to cooperate with the 19th Panzer Corps to encircle the main force of the Soviet Western Front and the Second Baltic Front! If all goes well , after this battle is won, two million Soviet troops can always be wiped out."

Hu Lian nodded. He was very satisfied with the style of the armored troops this time. The armored soldiers acted as the blades of the army, used to cut through the enemy's defenses, mess up their rear, and divide and encircle them.

"Mouxian, just now I heard that General Rommel's 16th Armored Division has also arrived in the [-]th Armored Army. When will he arrive?"

Wu Tuohao smiled, "What's the matter, do you miss your mentor? I heard that your first batch of armored soldiers were trained by General Rommel and General Guderian. No wonder they are so sharp in battle!"

Hu Lian nodded: "That's right! Our National Defense Force has achieved such achievements over the years. The credit of those German teachers cannot be denied. Of course, the first contribution is still the assistant commander!"

"That is, that is." Wu Tuohao patted Hu Lian on the shoulder, "General Rommel came to Biała Podlaska on the same train with me. But I'm afraid you won't see him now .His [-]th Armored Division was brought here by train all the way from Latvia. There were less than two days for them to enter the position, and now he, the division commander, has a lot to do."

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At this time, in northern Latvia and southern Estonia, all places are in a mess.Nearly 200 million troops from both sides are engaged in the fiercest fierce battle on this fertile land along the Baltic Sea!Soldiers from Germany, China, Russia, and Italy have already launched a magnificent counterattack on the battlefield.Among them, the First Russian Army, composed of China, Russia and Italy, was responsible for launching an attack from Aluksny County, targeting the small city of Pskov in Russia.This small city on the shore of Lake Chud is the only way for the First Baltic Front to break out from the encirclement on the southern line.After some not too fierce fighting, it was finally captured by the Russian Sixth Army on the night of November 11.The German Sixth Army counterattacked Viljandi from Valmiera, where the Chinese Expeditionary Army had fought.As the Soviet army's logistics had been interrupted for many days, the ammunition reserves were almost exhausted, and the weather improved, the German air superiority began to show its power.Therefore, the resistance of the Soviet army gradually weakened.The attack of the German Sixth Army was also relatively smooth. At noon on the 29th, it invaded the city of Viljandi and expelled the Soviet army there!

Inside the headquarters of the Soviet First Baltic Front at Kehera, there was an atmosphere of panic and depression in the face of imminent catastrophe.Internal affairs personnel wearing blue hats patrolled every corner with a straight face. Any defeatist remarks may lead to death in the future.

The staff officers of the headquarters were arguing around the map with red faces.A large blue circle appears to be forming on the map.But it's not finally closed yet.The entire front army, or to be precise, part of the front army still has a way out!Because most people are going to withstand the enemy's attack in exchange for a small number of people fleeing to Leningrad from the north shore of Chulei Lake...

"We can't retreat! Comrade Stalin has instructed us to stand firm, and the high command will raise new troops to rescue us! Moreover, the enemy's attack is not particularly sharp. As long as we get enough logistics, we will definitely be able to repel them!"

"It can't be done! Lieutenant Colonel Menshikov, you stretch your ears and listen. Did you hear the explosion outside? Now the sky is owned by the Germans, and we can't even move during the day. Comrade Commander, make up your mind Now! Before the encirclement circle is closed, break out, there will always be some people who can stand out!"

At this moment, several "rumbling" bomb explosions sounded around the headquarters converted from a church. It was the German He-111 and Ju-88 bombers coming to bomb again.Since the weather improved, the entire First Baltic Front has been bombed almost paralyzed by overwhelming aircraft!During the day, troops cannot be mobilized, materials cannot be transferred, and even the cannons dare not fire easily. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for the troops to organize a powerful counterattack.I can only wait here to die slowly.

Probably because he knew that he was going to die, Tukhachevsky looked indifferent like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.He simply turned a deaf ear to the quarrels of those staff officers, and just paced around leisurely.What are you thinking?

"Give power to the Kremlin." Tukhachevsky's hoarse voice suddenly sounded, and the noisy headquarters suddenly fell silent. Everyone was looking at him, waiting for his clever plan.Tukhachevsky said: "The First Baltic Front is going to shrink to stand around Kehera and contain the main force of the enemy's Northern Group. The main force of the front retreated to the east of the Dnieper River to establish a defensive line..."

Chapter 0754 The Great Siege ([-]) The Soviet Disaster

Because of the news that Germany is about to bomb Moscow, the Kremlin has been digging a bomb shelter for the past two days.But before the completion of this huge project.The headquarters and the office of the Supreme Commander were moved to No. 37 Miyanitsky Avenue. This old mansion is connected to the newly completed Moscow Metro, and there is an unknown underground bunker under the Moscow Metro.The military conference at the base camp was held here in Stalin's office.

Zhukov, who was ordered to stay in Moscow, also received an order to attend the meeting at Miyanitsky Street 37.In the reception room of the base camp, he saw Baranov, director of the Red Air Force, Shahulin, his deputy and People's Commissar of Aviation Industry, Voronov, director of the Red Artillery, General Zhigalev, commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, and others.At exactly four o'clock in the afternoon, Marshal Voroshilov and General Berzin arrived together, and a few minutes later Stalin and Molotov also arrived.Stalin went straight to his office and asked everyone to follow him in.When people were seated at one side of the long table, Zhukov was pulled by Voroshilov to sit beside him.This was the first time he had seen Stalin at such a close distance, and it was also the first time he had attended a base camp meeting.

Seeing that Stalin was in a bad mood, Zhukov seemed a little depressed.In fact, he himself was also depressed. Why did the battle situation, which was supposed to be good, suddenly come to this point?

Stalin paced the open space indoors while Berzin and Baranov spread out various charts and maps.Zhukov glanced at the charts.He saw a colored pencil map of the circular communication lines around Moscow.

"If Germany bombs our central telegraph office, can we maintain reliable communication with the front and the rear?" Stalin asked Berzin.Only then did Zhukov know that the first topic of today's meeting was about air defense.It seems that the great leader has not yet realized the crisis facing the front line.

"Comrade Stalin, please allow me to interject before General Berzin answers your question." Zhukov stood up amidst the surprised eyes of everyone, and gave a military salute to Stalin.

"Oh, it's Comrade Zhukov. Let's talk about it. What do you think is more important than the air defense of the capital?" Stalin was obviously displeased, and even suppressed his anger.

Zhukov didn't care about these anymore. He unhurriedly took out a map from his leather bag and spread it out on the long table. It was a situation map of the western battlefield.After opening the map, he said to Stalin: "Comrade Stalin, our Western Front is facing an unprecedented crisis! If we don't find a solution in a short period of time, I doubt whether Hitler still needs to send planes to bomb. Maybe he can I drove to Moscow to travel by myself!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a buzz in the office. Voroshilov looked at the young general who didn't know whether he was alive or dead with horrified eyes.Just as he was about to reprimand, Stalin spoke first, "Of course I know there is a crisis at the front, otherwise why would I invite you here. Since Comrade Zhukov asked to speak first, let's give him a chance."

"Comrade Stalin, I think you and the headquarters have received a report from Comrade Tukhachevsky. He suggested that the [-]st Baltic Front should serve as a diversionary task, cover the three fronts located in the western region and retreat to the east of the Dnieper River to establish a new The defense line..." Listening to Zhukov's low tone, one feels that the front line seems to be on the verge of collapse.

"But now, apart from the bad situation of the First Baltic Front, the situation in the west and southwest is not bad! Why give up a large piece of Soviet land?" Stalin said coldly.

Zhukov shook his head in pain, "The west and southwest are facing a huge crisis! Because in the past period of battle, no one has seen the powerful German armored force! The Germans are definitely brewing a big crisis. Large-scale armored assault... They may use 1 to [-] tanks, [-] aircraft, and more than [-] cannons to concentrate their forces to break through the weak link of the western defense line. Then launch a powerful tank column into the depth of our army Assault, it is possible to advance directly to the Dnieper River and encircle the entire Second Baltic Front and Western Front in one fell swoop!"

"Comrade Berzin, where are the German armored divisions?" Stalin took out his pipe and slowly filled it with shredded tobacco, lit it and smoked.But if you look closely, you can see that the great leader's hand holding the pipe is slightly trembling!

"There are some circumstances." Berzin stood up, took out a document and handed it to Stalin with both hands. "Our intelligence officers found several trains full of tanks going from East Prussia to Poland, and some tanks were being shipped to Latvia."

Stalin exhaled a circle of blue smoke and asked, "What does this mean?"

"It means that the enemy is about to attack!" Zhukov replied in the tone of the undertaker of the funeral: "Obviously this is unavoidable. Therefore, we must adjust our deployment... Even if we cannot retreat to the Dnieper River, we should retreat to Stalin's line of defense. It is absolutely impossible to place troops in field fortifications on the east bank of the Bouage River, because that would be suicide!"

There was a sudden silence in the room, and all eyes were on Stalin.Retreating to Stalin's line of defense was originally part of the pre-emptive strike plan.Now seems to be the time for it to be implemented.

"But what about the First Baltic Front?" Stalin thought for a while and asked again: "If both the Second Baltic Front and the Western Front retreat, wouldn't the more than one million men of the First Baltic Front be wiped out?"

"That's better than annihilation of the three front armies together!" Zhukov said loudly, "Comrade Stalin! There is no need to hesitate any longer. The Western Front has been defeated, and now it's time to switch from offense to defense."

Zhukov's loud cry seems to have awakened Stalin, and the Western Front now looks defeated!If there is no way to save the main force, I am afraid that the entire Soviet Union will cease to exist because of this failure!Stalin glanced at Zhukov with slight appreciation, and then looked at Chief of General Staff Berzin and People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov, as if he was not very satisfied with the military work they presided over.Stalin began to slowly refill his carved pipe.It seems that he is thinking about something.When he put the lit match into the pipe, he said in a nonchalant tone: "We should make some adjustments... The war is still going on, so we should continue to make adjustments according to the changing situation..." He was silent for a moment , Turning to Voroshilov, he said: "After the meeting ends today, you will be in charge of formulating a plan to transfer the front to the Stalin line, and... the breakout plan for the First Baltic Front."

No one who participated in this military meeting expected that Stalin's correct decision came too late...

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December 1937, 12 at 2 am.It was the darkest time of the day.On the west bank of the Bouage River, the German long-range artillery group suddenly fired in silence!More than 2 cannons of various calibers fired together at the same time.Streams of fire pierced the night sky and poured towards the positions of the Soviet Red Army.Pillars of smoke and fireballs continued to rise, and the Soviet army's forward position was immediately engulfed in flames.

The Soviet Army's response was also timely.The artillery group deployed behind the position began to fight back immediately. The 80 artillery regiments belonging to the two front armies had the same cannons as the German army, and they also joined the artillery chorus at this time.The artillery shells exploded repeatedly on the positions of both sides, and the snow and ice mixed with shrapnel flew around, turning the frontiers of the two armies into a real artillery hell.The flashes and explosions of the [-] cannons on both sides turned the entire sky red.Countless burning tail flames tore through the entire night sky, like thunderstorms falling from the sky, sweeping across the entire land of West Belarus.

All the communication lines of the Soviet army are screaming, and the long-awaited German fascist attack is just around the corner.As soon as the artillery fire was extended, the Red Army soldiers who had been waiting for a battle for a long time poured into the trenches.One by one Mosin Nagant rifles were set up, the Maxim heavy machine gun and DP light machine gun were also ready, and a pair of 37mm and 57mm anti-tank guns were also dragged out of the shelter and entered the firing position.Braving the rain of bullets from the German army, the Soviet Red Army quickly opened up a posture of desperate resistance!

To the east of Biała Podlaska, the Buwag River, which has been covered with thick ice, is the breakthrough point of the Chinese 16th Armored Division assigned to the German 3000th Panzer Army.On the assault front of less than 380 meters, 32 No. 22 and No. 72 tanks of a tank brigade of the Eighth Armored Division formed a huge equilateral triangle.With the [-]-ton Panzer III as the vanguard, followed by the [-]-ton Panzer II.Behind them are armored grenadiers riding on half-track armored vehicles, and finally Hu Lian's division headquarters and [-] assault artillery/air defense vehicles and trucks of the supply unit.After completing the formation, hundreds of steel behemoths rumbled across the Buwag River that lay in front of the two armies, braving artillery fire to rush towards the Soviet Army's Buwag River defense line.

The Soviet army established a continuous defense system on the east bank of the Buwag River, dug trenches, anti-tank trenches, and anti-gun bunkers, and built permanent fortifications with large-caliber machine guns and cannons.Between the key defense areas, there are barbed wire fences and barbed wire fences, and landmines are planted.The Soviet army also built every village on the east bank of the Buwag River into an independent support point.Facing such a line of defense, the infantry was helpless, but if replaced by hundreds of roaring steel behemoths, the line of defense would be nothing more than a thin layer of paper.

However, the Soviet Red Army defending this line of defense did not intend to give up. The overwhelming artillery fire covered them. The report of the Soviet army on the front line made Marshal Ubolevich, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet army on the western front, immediately confirm the German army's attack. The main direction of attack.He immediately ordered to use all the artillery groups that could get the German tanks to fight back!It's just that these howitzers have almost no threat to the No. [-] and No. [-] tanks wrapped in thick armor, unless the tanks are directly hit by shells.However, the half-track armored vehicles that followed the tanks suffered some losses. More than a dozen armored vehicles were ignited by artillery shells, and some were overturned by the shock wave of the Soviet heavy artillery explosion. The panzergrenadiers screamed on the ground Roll on.But the vast majority of tanks and armored vehicles are still roaring forward!

The armored troops quickly rushed through the wall of fire created by the Soviet artillery fire, and tanks rushed straight into the Soviet defense line. The barbed wire and wire fences were easily torn off under the tracks, and a small number of remaining anti-tank mines were blown up by the shelling. The tracks of some tanks were broken, and some tanks were destroyed by ZIS-1 anti-tank guns.However, in the face of more than 1000 tanks from four armored divisions, this level of resistance is just a drop in the bucket. The 75mm tank guns began to roar, and tens of thousands of armored grenadiers jumped off the half-track armored vehicles, using their submachine guns, MG37 machine guns, Min-26 automatic rifles, 60mm mortars, and 37mm anti-tank guns to fight against the Soviet army defending the line of defense. shoot at.The blood and flesh of the Soviet army on the entire front are flying everywhere!One after another shells penetrated into the firepower point and permanent fortifications, fragments of fortifications, weapons, and human body stumps were all thrown into the air at the same time.Intensive firepower swept across the entire front, and the resistance of the Soviet army was quickly shattered. The terrified Red Army soldiers ignored the machine guns of the political workers, dropped their weapons, turned around and fled!There were even some Eastern Shakers who were not firm in their will, simply raised their hands high and betrayed their Soviet motherland...

The tank group that successfully broke through the Soviet defense line did not stop, nor did it take time to deal with the Soviet soldiers entrenched in various isolated strongholds. Instead, they continued to assault in depth and crushed the Soviet reserve positions. It rushed into the artillery position of the Soviet army and smashed all the resistance and counterattack of the Soviet army!