Age of Conquest Reborn

Lieutenant Colonel Kiryakov, Chief of Staff of the 68th Border Guard Regiment of the Belarusian Military District of the Soviet Union, conducted routine inspections of border posts as usual. Everything was normal. Both sides of the Soviet-Polish border were as calm as ever.

Standing in front of the observation hole of the post closest to the border, Chief of Staff Kiryakov's telescopic lens passed through the dark mist before dawn. On the Polish side, the German barracks were still in silence.

There was nothing unusual. He had been almost numb to this situation for several years. After observing for a few minutes, he absentmindedly put down the telescope and signed his name in the officer's patrol post record book.

This means that today's inspection work has ended, and the headache and tedious work will begin next. Just as Chief of Staff Kiryakov was about to leave, the sentry beside him shouted: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you

Look, the Germans opposite seem to be acting strangely?"

"Huh?" Chief of Staff Kiryakov glanced at the sentry suspiciously, then picked up the telescope again. In the dim light of dawn, the German camp opposite began to become active, and large-caliber artillery pieces,

Take off the disguise and reveal the rough

The big gun muzzle pointed darkly at him. Chief of Staff Kiryakov had been stationed at the border for several years, and he had never discovered that the inconspicuous German camp so close to him had such hidden things.

What caliber cannon.

As the German artillery appeared, and then groups of fully armed German soldiers appeared in the telescope lens, Chief of Staff Kiryakov's hair exploded, and he suddenly shivered. A wave of excitement almost suffocated him.

Heart palpitations suddenly struck his mind, "The Germans are going to start a war!" This was his instinctive judgment.

Chief of Staff Kiryakov, with trembling hands, grabbed the phone on the table and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Switchboard, this is Lieutenant Colonel Kiryakov, Chief of Staff of the 68th Border Guard Regiment, call the military area immediately.

There is an important military intelligence report in the combat duty room!"

"Hiss——!" A shrill scream came from far and near, piercing the dawn sky. It sounded like the hair on the body stood up. It was the sound of flying artillery shells. In an instant, Kiryakov

The chief of staff felt that death was approaching!

"Boom!" There was a loud sound, a ball of fire burst out, and a large-caliber artillery shell accurately landed on the post. The huge roar echoed in the air before dawn. The post instantly became a

A pile of broken bricks and rocks. The dozen or so Soviet soldiers inside were reduced to pieces of flesh by the explosion. When the smoke dissipated, only a pale severed hand was still holding a hand that had been blown into two pieces.

The telephone receiver is hanging next to the huge crater.

The fall of the first artillery shell kicked off the German attack on the Soviet Union. Countless German artillery poured artillery shells on the Soviet positions and posts on the border. After the artillery bombardment began, the German tank clusters hidden in the underground fortifications began to

Breaking out of the ground, covering more than six million German soldiers, they poured into the Soviet Union like a tide. In the sky, under the thin light of dawn, tens of thousands of German fighter jets and bombers formed formations and flew over the Soviet Union.

This is just one of the scenes that happened on the thousands-kilometer-long border of the Soviet Union. The same thing happened in the Leningrad Military District, the Baltic Coast Special Military District, the Western Special Military District, and the Kiev Special Military District on the western border of the Soviet Union.

, was repeated in the defense zones of the Odessa Military District and other military districts. More than six million German troops crossed the Soviet-Polish border like a tide and launched a full-line attack on the Soviet Union.

At dawn on April 10, 1942, the Soviet-German war officially broke out. The most brutal and bloody war in World War II was kicked off by Hitler!

In order to quickly destroy the resistance of the Soviet Union as quickly as possible, Hitler spent a lot of money and deployed a huge force of more than 6 million people on the Soviet-Polish border, which was nearly two-thirds of the total strength of the German army at that time.

Above, the Army has 190 divisions (including 19 armored divisions and 14 motorized divisions), more than 4,500 tanks, and nearly 480 million artillery and mortars.

There are more than 5,000 aircraft; the navy has 192 combat ships of various types.

According to the revised "Barbarossa Plan," the German assault group was mainly divided into four lines. Among them, the Northern Army Group had 29 divisions, which launched from Memel to Goudap, heading towards Leningrad.

To carry out the attack, the 1st Luftwaffe of the German Air Force and the 1st and 3rd Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force provided air support and fire cover for the attacking forces. The commander of the Army Group was Army General Albert Kesselin.

The Central Army Group has fifty divisions and two brigades, and it is deployed in the swamps from Goudap to Pripyat. It launches an offensive in the direction of Leningrad. It is the route with the strongest offensive capabilities among the German attack groups.

The 2nd Luftwaffe of the German Air Force and the 2nd and 4th Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force provided air support and fire cover for the attacking forces. The commander of the Army Group was Field Marshal Hermann Hoth.

The Southern Army Group has fifty-seven divisions and thirteen brigades (including 13 Romanian divisions, nine Romanian brigades and four Hungarian brigades). It is deployed from the Pripyat swamps to the Black Sea area and is implemented in the direction of Kiev.

During the attack, the 3rd Luftwaffe and the 5th and 6th Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force provided air support and fire cover for the attacking forces. The Lutheran Army was the most powerful force among the German attack groups and was the commander of the Army Group.

His official title is Army General Günter von Kluge.

The last attack group was the German Army Group in Norway and the two Finnish armies, a total of 21 divisions and three brigades, which carried out assaults in the direction of Murmansk and Leningrad respectively. Together with Army Group Center, they attacked Leningrad.

Forming a two-sided attack, the 4th Luftwaffe of the German Air Force and the 1st, 3rd and 4th Fighter Divisions of the Finnish Air Force assigned ground troops to attack, provide air cover and fire support, and destroy the Soviet ground airports.

In addition, there was an extremely concealed Lutheran Army, consisting of two German army groups and eighteen divisions. It was commanded by Army General William Lister. It bypassed the frontal attack battlefield of the German army and marched desperately.

, pounced on the Soviet oil production base and the Transcaucasus oil fields. This was a clever move made by Hitler after listening to Tang Qiuli's opinions when revising the "Barbarossa Plan". It was added later.

According to what Tang Qiuli told Hitler in Berlin at the time, seizing the Soviet Union's main oil producing areas would provide enough oil for the German army, which mainly engaged in mechanized operations. At the same time, it would also cut off the Soviet army's oil supply base.

Hitler was of course happy about killing two birds with one stone and obeyed his advice.

In fact, Tang Qiuli's super move was absolutely ruthless. For the Soviet Union, it was a means of removing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron. The output of oil in the Soviet Transcaucasus oil fields accounted for more than one-third of the Soviet Union's national output at that time. For the Germans,

, it is a matter of filling fat and meat, and occupying the Transcaucasus oil fields is equivalent to cutting off the main artery of the Soviet army, achieving the purpose of using war to support war.

Therefore, the German attack was actually divided into five directions. It was not divided into four directions of attack as recorded in history. The last attack group would have an immeasurable impact on the future Soviet-German battlefield.

It was only one year after the outbreak of the war that Hitler finally tasted the benefits of the war, and became extremely convinced of Tang Qiuli's strategic vision and ability to grasp key battlefield nodes.

The war suddenly broke out at the dawn of an ordinary day. The German attack was sudden and ferocious, and the strategic concealment was an unprecedented success. This dawn, which was enough to affect the world structure, was destined to go down in history for its cruelty and bloodshed.

Along the thousands-kilometer-long border of the western Soviet Union, fireworks were everywhere and the sound of artillery was loud. The German army suddenly took action and punched the Soviet border guards, which stunned the Soviet border guards. Many troops were even killed in their sleep.

The heavy bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe bombers blew them to pieces, and the German special forces that had sneaked into the Soviet Union in advance took action everywhere, attacking Soviet transportation hubs, occupying bridges and railway lines, and important targets.

Chaos. Under the sudden attack of the German army, all military districts in the western Soviet Union were in chaos. The telephones in the military district's combat duty rooms rang like crazy. The situation reported by the various border guards was chaotic, but one thing was consistent.

Yes, the troops were suddenly attacked by the German army. However, every emergency call said that they were the main direction of the German army's attack. According to this statement, the main direction of the German army's attack reached an astonishing number. There were so many German troops there.

**Team?

Faced with the chaos in the border areas, where smoke was everywhere and sirens were blaring frequently, the commanders and political commissars of various military districts in the western Soviet Union immediately held an emergency military meeting to discuss countermeasures. At the meeting, a strange phenomenon occurred. Many Soviet commanders

, especially the political and industrial officers with Cheka background, as well as the officers who were suddenly assigned to high positions after the Great Purge of the Soviet Union, never believed that the Germans would attack the Soviet Union.

They swore that the border guards must be lying about the military situation. Maybe there were small-scale border frictions, but a large-scale attack by millions of German troops was absolutely impossible because there was no warning in advance!

Those bored troop commanders along the border are accustomed to making fuss out of molehills in order to attract enough attention from the military district headquarters to show their importance. In other words, in the face of small frictions along the border, they are a little confused.

, which is a sign of political immaturity.

However, these Soviet officers did not think through their brains. If some small-scale border conflicts broke out in one or several places, they could make a fuss out of a molehill and exaggerate the situation. The border could be thousands of kilometers long, and all the border defense forces

, are all so exaggerated. If that’s not the coming of war, what is it?

(To be continued) (To be continued..)