Chapter 829 The Final Battle 2
"Shoulder, be careful and take cover!"
Captain Solzhenitsyn, commander of the reconnaissance company of the 4th Artillery Regiment directly under the 4th Army of the Soviet Red Army (currently part of the 3rd Army), heard an unknown shout from someone, and then came the shell-breaking sound that he hated. A whistling sound coming from the sky!
"Boom boom..."
Then there were two roars like meteors hitting the ground, which almost deafened the ears of this future great writer.
"Damn it!" he muttered obscenities as he ran along the trench.
He had just attended the party committee meeting of the 4th Artillery Regiment - the meeting was arranged to celebrate International Labor Day, because Political Deputy Company Commander Morozov was shot in the shoulder by a German sniper a week ago and was now lying comfortably He was recuperating in a hospital in Smolensk, so he could only take on the political and ideological work within the company.
Who knew that on the way back, we would encounter German shelling!
Based on the sound of the falling German artillery shells, Solzhenitsyn knew that this was not the frontline German army firing indiscriminately with regimental-level artillery, nor even the division-level or corps-level 150mm or 155mm cannons, but the German 170mm. Or the French 194mm heavy cannon is firing shells.
"Boom boom..."
Then there were two more loud noises, and the impact point of the shell seemed to be much closer than the two that exploded just now!
Solzhenitsyn did not choose to hide in a nearby bunker, but accelerated his advance. He knew that the German army was conducting a school shooting, and there would not be overwhelming artillery shells falling for the time being. So he still had time to rush back to his company's bunker on the forward position. It was a very strong bunker. As long as they were not directly hit by 170mm or 194mm artillery shells, theoretically the people hiding inside should not die.
And there was Solzhenitsyn's fighting station! He and his company are now located on the Soviet frontline near a small town called Velizh, about 100 kilometers northwest of Smolensk, facing the German army across the Velikaya River.
The Velikaya River is not a natural chasm, just a medium-sized river with a width of 100 meters. Moreover, there are many places where the rivers are shallow and can be forded by tanks and armored vehicles.
Therefore, Solzhenitsyn and his comrades must act as the eyes of the artillery behind the front when the German tanks and infantry begin to attack, ruthlessly and accurately pouring Soviet artillery shells onto the invaders' heads.
"What kind of invader is that?" Solzhenitsyn thought while running in the traffic trench. "Across the Velikaya River is Russia! There is Russia over there, but here is the Soviet Union... This is A war between Russia and the Soviet Union?"
Captain Solzhenitsyn, who spent several years in the physics department of Rostov University, was confused about fighting "Russia". Lieutenant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov, who serves as a platoon leader in the 13th Guards Rifle Division (which is currently in Kalinin Oblast), would not have such bizarre thoughts.
In fact, he was quite satisfied with his current situation. He was not moved at all by the reactionary Queen Olga's "Agrarian Reform Order".
Because his ideal is to be a party cadre, not a rich farmer who owns land. What are the benefits of being a rich peasant? He worked diligently like a cow, but in the end he became a heinous villain.
Therefore, Pavlov has determined to be a revolutionary cadre since he was a child, and even if he is unlucky, he will become a member of the working class.
And he is already a cadre now...don't mistake the second lieutenant for being a cadre! No matter how young a platoon leader is, he is still an official. After the war, when he returns to the local area, he can at least become the owner of a collective farm. The owner will not agree to divide the land and work alone. Besides, the Great Patriotic War has just begun, and there will be many opportunities in the future.
On the morning of April 30, when the German army began to launch a large-scale offensive, Pavlov was leading a platoon of soldiers on a path through the endless forest, covered with leaves and green camouflage nets. Patrol on simple roads.
"Hurry, hurry, catch up!"
Hearing the urging of the captain, Lieutenant Sprosky, Zoya Kasmodemyanskaya, who was marching with the guerrillas in the forest near Velikiy Luki (belonging to Pskov Oblast), also As excited as Lieutenant Pavlov.
Now she is no longer a tragic figure who comes from a "bad element" family and is destined to struggle at the bottom of the Moscow household (there are also bad people with Moscow household registration, otherwise, who else would Gao JJ use as a target when fighting?).
Because of this sacred war, Zoya got rid of her own destiny, or she has become the master of her own destiny!
Zoya is now a glorious revolutionary warrior. This bad girl from Moscow, through her own efforts, became the squad leader of a guerrilla unit behind enemy lines. She also submitted an application to join the glorious Bolshevik Party. Zoya knew that as long as she made a little more merit, her application to join the party would definitely be approved. By then she would be a member of the proletarian revolutionary vanguard. After the war, she wanted to go to university. Studying will certainly not be a problem.
A dream I’ve had for many years looks like it’s about to come true!
Just a week ago, she had participated in her first battle, taking four boys and three girls (including Zoya, all from Moscow) on a road leading to Velikiy Luki. Mines are laid on the road. And it seems like something exploded...
And today, Lieutenant Sproski, the leader of the guerrillas, told Zoya that she would be carrying out a difficult reconnaissance mission, lurking near several important roads in the territory of Velikiye Luki to find out the situation of the German convoy passing through.
Just as Zoya and others were quickly passing through the woods, a dull sound like thunder came from afar.
"Listen, it seems like thunder is coming somewhere?" Someone asked.
"No, it's not thunder!" Lieutenant Sproski is a veteran who participated in the Polish Campaign. He said, "It's artillery fire! The Germans are shelling our positions!"
"Germans?" Zoya asked, "Do they want to attack?"
The lieutenant nodded and said in a low voice: "It should be! Comrades, we are going to find out the strength of the enemy's attacking forces now. This is very important intelligence!"
"Got it, Comrade Lieutenant!" Zoya answered, thinking that she must complete this task no matter what, even if she sacrificed her life!
Zoya and her companions were not the only ones who secretly made up their minds to find out the situation of the German army. After the battlefield situation reversed last autumn, the Soviet Supreme Command issued an order to launch guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. A large number of guerrillas were organized and trained and sent to the occupied Western Belarus, Right Bank Ukraine and Pskov region of Russia.
Because Pskov is a Russian-populated area, its mass base is far greater than that of Western Belarus and Right Bank Ukraine, which are Polish territories and Belarusian and Ukrainian-populated areas. Even after the empress issued the "Land Reform Decree", there are still many supporters of the Bolshevik Party - not to mention that there is such a thing as urban household registration in Pslav Province, there are also vested interests in collective farms, such as farm owners, secretaries, accountants, etc., even if these people are allocated land and can be exempted from tax for three years, they will still support and love Comrade Stalin.
However, there are always reactionaries who actively sell themselves to the reactionary empress, and Sergei Bunyachenko from the glorious 1st Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army is one of them.
The 1st Tank Army where he was was devastated by the German army outside Warsaw. However, he did not devote his entire life to the cause of GCism like most of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Tank Army, but chose to betray! He became a shameful prisoner of war! And he knelt down under the court skirt of Russian Empress Olga not long after.
Now, this former GCist fighter has become the colonel commander of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Russian Imperial Army. At this moment, he is leading a cavalry division made up of Soviet traitors and the remnants of the Tsarist Russia, passing through the forest area east of the city of Velikiye Luki (belonging to Pskov Oblast), entering the western part of Kalinin Oblast for fire reconnaissance, and establishing a search curtain that can cover the flank of the German army.
For national defense and security reasons, the southern part of Pskov Oblast and the western part of Kalinin Oblast are undeveloped forest areas, which are not suitable for mechanized troop movements. But the geographical location of this forest area is very important. The straight-line distance from here to the Soviet capital Moscow is less than 400 kilometers. From the city of Velikiye to the east, through a forest area about 150 kilometers wide, you will enter a plain agricultural area with good road facilities. It is only about 220 kilometers away from Moscow!
In other words, as long as the German army and the Russian Imperial Army can control this forest and cut a road for cars and tanks to pass through, the German-Russian coalition can reach Moscow in a very short time-of course, there is also a prerequisite that they must defeat the Kalinin Front commanded by Marshal Zhukov.
Soviet generals such as Zhukov and Pavlov certainly saw the importance of this forest area early on. If the Red Army can firmly control this place and build several roads in the forest, then the Red Army can quickly pass through the middle of Pskov and attack the German Baltic State. The distance from this forest area to Riga, the capital of the Baltic State, is only more than 400 kilometers.
The work of felling trees and building roads has been secretly carried out after Marshal Zhukov took over the Kalinin Front. While Bunyachenko was commanding the cavalry to enter Kalinin Oblast, tens of thousands of Red Army infantrymen had already used axes and saws to carve out a simple road stretching hundreds of kilometers through the forest. In order to avoid being discovered by German reconnaissance aircraft, the roads that had been built (actually mainly dirt roads with wood laid in muddy areas) were covered with a large number of branches and camouflage nets.