The Rise of the Third Reich

"Ta-ta-ta-ta..."

The sound of machine gun fire reached Brandt's ears. The anti-war Nazi German soldier was startled. He quickly picked up the MKB42 automatic carbine, skillfully pulled the bolt, and pointed the muzzle at the road ahead - he Although he was anti-war, he did not believe that the Soviet Red Army was here to liberate Poland.

The Soviets teamed up with Germany to carve up Poland for the fourth time in 1939. The German militarists were a bit more dignified and wanted to form a co-monarchy alliance first, and then slowly think of ways to annex Poland. The Soviets had no respect at all and simply annexed all the Polish land on the east bank of the Bug River! Not to mention, the Soviet Union also swallowed up right-bank Ukraine, causing the displacement of millions of Ukrainian refugees...

"Willy (Brandt's comrades called him this), don't panic, the gunfire is far away." Brandt's squad leader, a strong man named Adolf Miller, said to him in a mocking tone, "This It was the Soviet Red Army that was killing Poles. Every time they occupied a Polish city, they killed a group of priests, nobles, capitalists, landlords, rich peasants, social democrats, reactionary officers, etc. They also did the same in Ukraine. , slaughtered at least 1 million people, and now it is the Poles’ turn to be unlucky.”

Brandt knew that what Sergeant Miller said was not true. As a social democrat, he knew the Soviet Bolshevili relatively well. They generally do not kill people, but remold people and take them to Siberia for labor. They don't arrest people randomly, this is planned, usually 10%-15%, and there is also an indicator for rehabilitation and restoration of reputation. Usually, only a handful of particularly unlucky people were shot.

In addition, it is unlikely that the people who shot unarmed Polish reactionaries were Soviet Red Army soldiers. This kind of thing should be carried out by Cheka soldiers of the Polish Bolshevik Party.

Political Commissar Oktiabriski withdrew his gaze from the pile of corpses of Polish reactionaries lying on the ground. Brandt did not guess correctly this time. The people who killed him were soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, and the order to kill was Oktyabrski. Ordered by political commissar Djabriski.

The person who gave political commissar Oktyabryski the "murder authorization" was Ponomarenko, political commissar of the Western Front. Since the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was constantly attacked by Polish guerrillas and SS agents disguised as civilians (SS Polish Volunteers) after entering White Poland, Ponomarenko, the Political Commissar of the Front Army, signed a document in Poland on June 6. Orders to strengthen the suppression of reactionary elements within the country. At the same time, specific killing targets were also issued. In any Polish town that resisted liberation, reactionaries should be executed according to the standard of no more than 1% of the total population, and hostages should be captured according to the standard of no more than 10% of the total population!

The current Soviet Red Army is the Red Army of the Stalin era, not the Red Army that later became soft-hearted. The Red Army soldiers who wanted to use guerrilla warfare against Stalin, not to mention the Poles who were afraid of death, even the KB elements in the mountains of Afghanistan could not do it. Now they have been killed to pieces, and there are still hundreds of thousands of guys who look relatively KB (it’s okay if they look like they are, all Cheka soldiers know how to recognize each other, you can tell by looking at their faces) who have been arrested and sent to labor reform, and are now in the Red Army Under the supervision of soldiers, we will build railways and roads and build socialist Afghanistan.

"Comrade division commander, are the commandos all ready?" Political Commissar Oktyabryski asked the commander of the 205th Division, Major General Joludev, beside him.

Of course he was not interfering with the command. Although many political commissars liked to interfere in the military, Oktyabryski was not such a person. But he loved speaking in front of Red Army soldiers and hearing them shout "Ula!"

About 2,000 commandos, all commanders and fighters with the highest revolutionary enthusiasm selected from various units of the 205th Division, are now lined up, waiting for Oktyabryski to give a pre-battle speech.

They are all veterans who have been in the army for more than 2 years, and half of them are members of the Bolshevik Party or the Youth League, including Yakov Pavlov. They will be the first to launch a tentative attack on the "Warsaw Forest" in order to find out the general defense situation of the German army. According to the words of the mobilized political cadres: This is the first shot to liberate Warsaw, and it is an extremely glorious task!

Political Commissar Oktyabryski strode up to the commandos who were ready to go, and said loudly in an enthusiastic tone: "Revolutionary workers and soldiers! Please turn your eyes to the West. The destiny of the world revolution is determined in the West. March through the corpses of white Poland and imperialist Germany, paving the way to the conflagration of world revolution! On the bayonet we will bring everlasting peace and happiness to the working people of the world, to fight the decisive battle to achieve greatness. Victory! Ula!"

Pavlov and his comrades were all excited, raising their arms and shouting: "Ula! Ula! Ula!"

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"The Bolsheviks are coming!"

"Thud, tug, tug..."

Brandt, an anti-war activist from the 111th German Infantry Division, carried an MKB42 automatic carbine and ran on a bumpy road buried with many anti-tank mines. He shouted while running, and occasionally turned around and used The automatic carbine in his hand fired several shots at the Soviet soldiers chasing behind him.

This anti-war element was very unlucky today. When it was almost dark in the evening, he followed his squad leader Miller and several other "superhuman soldiers" to leave their stationed positions to perform patrol missions.

But unexpectedly, as soon as they reached the edge of the woods, they encountered the black Red Army. "Superman Miller" knew he was no match, so he fired a bunch of bullets casually (not to kill people, but to give warning), then ordered a retreat, and several people flew along the road. But Brandt ran slowly and fell behind, while the pursuing Red Army soldiers ran fast and gradually caught up. And from time to time, he would shoot with a Mosin-Nagant rifle, and the bullets would fly past Brandt's ears. The "anti-war people" were so frightened that their hairs almost stood up, and they could only grit their teeth and use the gun in their hands. Automatic carbine fire returned.

I don't know whether it was good luck or the German army's training level was really high, but Brandt's continuous "short bursts" were actually quite accurate. He knocked down two or three Soviet Red Army soldiers at a distance of more than 300 meters, and the remaining Red Army soldiers were too slow to catch up. Finally, Brandt escaped with his life and returned to the position where he originally started. As soon as he jumped into the trench and before he could catch his breath, he heard his boss Miller yelling.

"Willy, your shooting skills are good, you knocked down three of them!"

"Three?" Brandt gasped and was in a daze. He wasn't that cruel, was he?

"That's right, three!" Miller laughed and said, "I saw it with my own eyes."

It turned out that Sergeant Miller was running and discovered that Brandt was missing. He knew that Brandt was running relatively slowly, so he wanted to respond. Unexpectedly, he saw Brandt showing off his power with a MKB42 automatic carbine, firing continuously. Downed three Red Army soldiers armed with Mosin-Nagant rifles.

"Stop being dazed and get ready to fight!" Sergeant Miller patted Brandt, who was in a daze, "You will be a good soldier of His Majesty the Emperor, and maybe you can even win the Iron Cross."

"Latte Cross?" Brandt really couldn't imagine himself, an anti-war activist, receiving a medal for killing too many people on the battlefield.

However, he did not have much time to reflect on his actions, because the Red Army soldiers were not deterred by the loss of three casualties. Instead, under the supervision of Major General Ruolu Jeff, commander of the 205th Division, they pursued all the way. According to Major General Joludev's plan, his people will use fire reconnaissance to find out the German front and troop strength in the Warsaw forest, and then establish a front corresponding to the German army. This front is the starting line for the next attack.

"Tell comrades, be careful when attacking. The Nazis have a submachine gun that can shoot from a long distance!" Major General Ruoludev gave an order to the soldiers in a depressed tone.

Although the Red Army had a numerical advantage in tanks and artillery, it was far inferior to the German army in terms of infantry weapons. The firearms currently used by the Red Army infantry are mainly the outdated M1910 heavy machine gun, the Deggarev DP-27 light machine gun with a large plate on the back, the Mosin-Nagant rifle that is older than the M1910 heavy machine gun, and just PPSh-41 submachine gun equipped with troops.

But none of these firearms can compare with the German submachine guns with an effective range of 300-500 meters. As a result, the Soviet infantry suffered a big loss when they were in close combat with the enemy. Their PPSh-41 submachine guns often could not reach the opponent, and the rate of fire of the Mosin-Nagant rifle was too slow. The enemy's "long-range submachine gun" could Suppress four or five Mosin-Nagants. As for machine guns...it's fine for positional warfare, but it's inconvenient to engage in firefights on the move.

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"Commander, the 406th Regiment of the 111th Division reported that their security positions deployed in the Warsaw forest were engaged in fire with the Russians."

General Model, commander of the German 6th Army, received news of the exchange of fire in the "Warsaw Forest" during dinner on June 9.

"Has it started?" Model put down the wine glass in his hand, and then looked at his chief of staff, Major General Artur Schmidt.

"Is there a situation at the security positions of the 407th and 408th Regiments?" Major General Schmidt asked.

The security positions outside Warsaw were in charge of three infantrymen from the 111th Infantry Division. The troops of the three regiments stretched a front of more than 80 kilometers, which was quite loose. The middle road, that is, the direction of the Warsaw Forest, relies on the woods for defense, and the left and right wings rely on the Vistula River. Both Model and Schmidt believed that the Soviet Union would definitely use its superiority in strength to outflank the German army on both sides in order to lengthen the front.