Chapter 627 Heavy Thunderstorm 15

"Hey, they actually said I was a traitor! They actually said I betrayed the world revolution, betrayed Lenin's line... a traitor! Do these Germans think the Soviet people will believe their lies?" Stalin's laughter and scolding sounded in the Kremlin. This voice did not sound like he was angry, but rather like he was saying something really ridiculous.

It was already early morning on June 2, and more than 24 hours had passed since the outbreak of the world revolution. From Stalin's perspective, the situation was still satisfactory.

The "Big Thunderstorm Plan" certainly did not achieve 100% success, but facing an opponent like Germany, 60% success was considered a success!

In the most critical Polish-Western Ukrainian battlefield, the Western Front of the Soviet Red Army had already made a breakthrough with a width of 400 kilometers! 10 of the 20 army groups have crossed the river or are crossing. The troops that crossed the Bug River also advanced 20-60 kilometers along the prescribed route. Among the three main breakthrough directions - the northern route to Bialystok (the goal is to threaten East Prussia); the central route to Warsaw (the goal is to encircle and capture Warsaw); the southern route to Lublin (the goal is to cooperate with the Southwestern Front to encircle Lviv) - all successfully advanced about 50 kilometers.

In addition, during the advancement of the ground forces, the Red Army also defeated tens of thousands of German troops and Polish puppet troops, and surrounded 12 divisions (actually brigades) of the "German-Polish Army". Moreover, a military artillery director named Yakov Djugashvili also creatively invented a new tactic of rocket launchers + tank assaults, and used this tactic to defeat several German troops on the way to Warsaw!

So currently, among the three main breakthrough directions, the breakthrough of the central route army is the smoothest, and it has advanced more than 60 kilometers to the west! In at most two days, we can reach the city of Warsaw!

To this end, the political commissar of the 9th Mechanized Army, the political commissar of the 3rd Army Group and the military commissar of the Western Front have jointly proposed to award Comrade Djugashvili the World Revolution Gold Medal and promote his military rank... However, Comrade Stalin believes that Comrade Djugashvili still needs to be further tested, so the medal will not be issued, and he will be promoted to captain first.

In short, the ground offensive is very smooth. Warsaw is likely to be liberated within half a month, and Lviv will be surrounded by then. As for the Baltic, Lithuania and East Prussia, which are likely to be the places where the German army is heavily concentrated, according to the "Big Thunderstorm Plan", they will be cut off after the Battle of Warsaw.

If the main force of the German army wants to flank the Western Front while the Red Army is attacking Warsaw, then the Western Front will dispatch the pre-prepared powerful reserve and the Northern Front to launch a strategic decisive battle with the German army with an absolute advantage in force!

The battle in the air was mixed, and the air strikes on the Kirkuk Oil Field and the Khuzestan Oil Field were a huge success!

Although the price paid was also very huge, at least 300 aircraft participating in the air raid did not return, and the loss rate was nearly one-third. However, the main ones shot down were the US B-17 bombers, and the Soviet Pe-8 and MiG-5 suffered little loss, which obviously withstood the test.

However, the Red Air Force suffered heavy losses in the skies over Poland, the Baltics and Western Ukraine. On June 1 alone, the air forces under the three Western Fronts lost thousands of aircraft! Although thousands of aircraft on German airfields in Poland were also bombed, and 200-300 German aircraft were shot down, the Red Air Force was still at a disadvantage in terms of the exchange ratio of crew members.

Therefore, Stalin had already issued instructions in the early morning of June 2, requiring the air force commanders of the three Western Fronts to attack cautiously to avoid excessive losses.

What made Stalin most dissatisfied was the harassing air raids by German high-altitude and high-speed bombers!

Last night, major Soviet cities including Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkov, Minsk and others reported being attacked by air raids. In addition to bombs, the Germans also dropped a lot of "paper bombs" accusing Stalin of betraying the revolution. This is a ridiculous tactic... I don't know who came up with it? After the victory of the world revolution, we must investigate it thoroughly! The culprit must be sent to Siberia for labor reform for life!

"Woo... Woo..."

Just when Stalin was thinking about arresting someone for labor reform, the sound of the air defense alarm suddenly sounded!

German bombers actually came to Moscow to drop bombs and leaflets in broad daylight.

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"According to the plan, Bialystok and Lublin are to be abandoned. The Soviet Red Army will occupy Bialystok today, and Lublin will be occupied by the Soviet Army tomorrow. At the latest, the Soviet Army will be at the gates of Warsaw the day after tomorrow!"

"The day after tomorrow? June 5th? Didn't it say that it can be delayed to the 7th or 8th?"

"No, the Russians use rocket launchers in conjunction with tanks, and the cavalry can't stop them at all." Marshal Kesselring, who had not slept all night, shook his head, "Those Russians are smarter than we thought. We didn't think of this method... Rocket launchers can actually be used like this."

Rocket launchers are really good at using Russians! Hessmann thought to himself that the Germans had too many self-propelled artillery and assault guns, so historically they didn't think of turning rocket launchers into mobile ones from the beginning, but made them towed. As a result, they always ran too slowly, were easily counterattacked by artillery, and couldn't be put into battle as quickly as the Russians' vehicle-mounted rocket launchers.

However, in the era when Hersmann was the Chief of General Staff, this problem had been solved. Now German rocket launchers (also called smoke launchers) are all self-propelled. But instead of being mounted on a tracked vehicle, it is mounted on a low-cost truck called the SWR40 self-propelled rocket launcher (or self-propelled smoke launcher).

And it's not just 12 tubes of 130mm. Although it's still not as powerful as the Soviet Katyusha's 1 (the Soviets installed it on an I-shaped rail), it can still handle fierce battles. Therefore, Hessman did not necessarily ask the engineering and technical personnel below to "copy" the Soviet design - in fact, there was no way to copy it. Hessman only knew the concept of "rail", and he did not have the specific design drawings.

"Isn't it just multiple rocket launchers?" Hessman smiled, "We have them too. There are three regiments in Warsaw and Lviv. There are four regiments directly under the Central Army Group, and there are also three regiments in the Northern and Southern Army Groups. 10 regiments. There are 30 regiments and 1,620 rocket launchers on the entire Eastern Front, no less than the Soviets.”

"But we cannot use rocket launchers as self-propelled artillery now." Kesselin shook his head and said, "Because our artillery is much smaller than the Soviets, so we can only rely on concentrated use of rocket launchers for counterattacks."

While the two were talking, the door of the office was pushed open by one of Kesselin's adjutants. The latter handed Kesselin a war briefing. Kesselin glanced at it and frowned slightly.

"The Soviets began to attack the Trespol Ring Fortress, and they also used large-caliber 203mm howitzers!"

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"Boom!"

The earth is really shaking!

Even when he was hiding in the underground bunker of the Trespol Ring Fortress, Major General Carol Rommel felt like he would be blown to pieces by Soviet artillery in the next second.

Although he can be regarded as an old enemy of the Soviet people, he fought with the Soviet army twice in 1920 and 1939. But this was the first time he was bombarded at close range by more than 100 B4 howitzers!

The Soviets' method of fighting the offensive was indeed extremely brutal, completely beyond his expectation. They actually fired a 203mm-caliber cannon and mounted it on a tracked tractor, turning the cannon into a "semi-propelled gun" with a certain degree of mobility, so it could be moved closer to the front of the Trespol Ring Fortress. Take accurate shots.

What was even more frenzied was that the Soviets actually mobilized 30 B-4 artillery batteries at one time to besiege the Trespol Ring Fortress.

In addition, the 5 artillery regiments (2 for the corps and 3 for the division) belonging to the 4th Soviet Infantry Corps have more than 200 cannons of various calibers, and they are now dropping artillery shells on Trespol as if they are free of charge. On the position of the officers and soldiers of the Fortress Brigade, there was a strong intention to blow up the Trespol Fortress.

The Poles guarding this ring fortress can now be described as real cannon fodder!

"For the liberation of all mankind!"

"Ula!"

"For world revolution!"

"Ula!"

"For the victory of the communist cause!"

"Ula!"

"For the leader Stalin!"

"Ula!"

"Comrades! Follow me!"

"Ula! Ula! Ula!"

Second Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn, who was leading a platoon of soldiers to use a carriage to pull shells for the B-4 howitzer on the front line, heard the cheers of the crowd. He turned around and saw a large wheat field on the roadside that had long been trampled. At least 2,000 Red Army soldiers in uniform cheered. A young soldier who might be the political commissar of the regiment had just finished political mobilization. At this time, he waved his big hand vigorously and pointed at a dozen T-34 tanks that had been in formation not far ahead.

Bombarding with too many artillery, and then tanks leading the infantry charge is the standard tactic of the Soviet Red Army!

The kind of strategy in which political workers use machine guns to force infantrymen to death is usually used when there is no other way. What is needed now is not the high morale Red Army, but the Poles shivering in anti-gun bunkers - if it weren't for a few noble officers and non-commissioned officers who joined the Polish Solidarity Party who had no choice but to hold on, Trespo The Er Fortress fell in the first wave of Soviet charges at 10 o'clock this morning.

But how long can the Poles hold on like this? Solzhenitsyn shook his head in confusion. Why did these Poles desperately resist liberation? Don't they want to live a happy life like a Soviet?