The Rise of the Third Reich

"Comrades! Members of the Bolshevik Party and Youth League, all commanders and combatants of the glorious 1st Tank Corps, the time has come to sacrifice your lives for the cause of communism and human liberation! I order you to fight resolutely to the end, not hesitate to fight against the brutal The Nazi enemies will die together, dye the flag of world revolution red with our blood! Tank crews, drive your vehicles and charge towards the tanks of Nazi Germany, Ula! Ula..."

Voloch, commander of the 1st Tank Corps, knew that the time had come for him to devote himself to the cause of communism. He picked up the intercom and gave a final pre-battle speech through the American aid radio on the command vehicle.

Then he boarded a majestic KV-2 heavy tank, and together with other T-34, KV-1 and KV-2 tanks of the 1st Tank Army that were able to move and were deployed at the same time, they faced the surging waves. The incoming German armored group launched an attack.

"They actually took the initiative to attack!" General Steiner stood on the top of the armored command vehicle he was riding in, holding up his binoculars and looking at the vast battlefield and the messy stormtrooper shapes of Soviet tanks in front of him, with an extremely solemn expression.

He didn't mean to look down on Mao Zi now, although the opponent's formation was messy, with various tanks mixed together, and the impact speed was fast and slow. Some tanks were filled with infantry, while others were empty.

But where could Steiner not see that the Soviets were making a desperate charge?

Now the German tank group puts 38 Panther tanks in the front row and 40 Tiger tanks to protect the wings. The 80mm frontal armor installed obliquely on the Panther tank has a protective capability that cannot even hit the 75mm main gun of the Type 4 H tank, let alone the Soviets' less powerful 76.2mm tank gun.

The 75mmKwK42L/70 gun of the Panther tank can penetrate the frontal armor of the Soviet KV-1 tank at a distance of 1,000 meters!

Therefore, it is hopeless to open a formation and shoot at the German tanks. If the Soviet tanks do not want to escape, launching a desperate attack is the only way to cause losses to the Germans.

Boom boom...

The main gun of the Panther tank fired. It was not one Panther tank that was firing, but a salvo of 38 Panther tanks!

Captain Gustav Schwarzenegger rode a No. 4 H tank, following behind these enviable Panther tanks, holding a telescope and stretching his neck to watch the battle. Before the sound of cannon fire in his ears faded away, a ball of fire burst out from the Soviet tank group charging opposite, and at least 10 Novo tanks immediately ignited into fireballs!

"It's really amazing!"

Captain Schwarzenegger felt a little sympathy for those brave Bolsheviks. Their attack was simply a suicide attack, with no hope of victory at all! I really don’t know what their commander is thinking. How can he sacrifice his subordinates’ lives in vain like this?

"Captain, the Soviet tanks have entered the effective range of our main guns!"

Gunner Ogg's voice interrupted Captain Schwarzenegger's thoughts. He looked forward intently, and sure enough, some T-34s were rushing over quickly.

"Okay, it's time for us to fire!" Without even retracting his body back into the turret, he began to look for the target to fire on, "Target, 12 o'clock, 900 meters, T-34 tank!"

"Understood!" Gunner Ogg agreed, the turret rotated slightly, and then the coaxial machine gun fired tracer bullets...

…

"Comrade Commander, Comrade Military Commissar, the 4th Army reported that they were defeated by a German corps-level armored group in the Legionovo-Wovomin area. More than 700 tanks/assault artillery and more than 200 towed guns were lost. Artillery, 18 rocket launchers, and nearly 30,000 commanders and fighters were killed, seriously injured or missing. Comrade Voloch, commander of the 1st Tank Corps, Comrade Sokarov, commander of the 16th Mechanized Corps, and political commissar of the 16th Mechanized Corps. Comrade Fegulov's whereabouts are unknown, and Comrade Qiuxin, commander of the 1st Tank Brigade, died heroically..."

The voice of Major General Rimoschik, Chief of Staff of the Western Front, was trembling a little when he spoke. An entire mechanized group army was defeated in this way! This is not an ordinary infantry group army, but a main force group army composed of tank corps, mechanized army and motorized infantry corps!

Such a powerful group army was effortlessly defeated by the German armored group in just 2 days!

This seems to indicate that the future of world revolution will be very bumpy...

"Where are the German armored groups now?" Pavlov asked with a livid face.

"They retreated," Major General Rimoschik said. "Perhaps the heroic blocking of the 1st Tank Corps caused great losses to the Germans, so they had to give up their plan to attack our army's flank..."

"Nonsense!" Pavlov interrupted Major General Rimoschik, "The Germans launched a short assault!"

A short assault is originally a concept of positional warfare, which is to launch a surprise, rapid and short assault on the enemy who is advancing to build a fortification while his foothold is unstable to annihilate the enemy's effective strength.

This tactic is obviously very effective when used in defensive operations in mechanized warfare! What the German 6th Army launched in the Legionovo-Wovomin area was obviously a short assault.

If the Germans really wanted to drive the Red Army away from Warsaw through this counterattack, they would not have withdrawn their troops when the 4th Army was almost defeated.

Does this mean that the Germans are not eager to drive the Red Army away from Warsaw? Did they deliberately attract the Red Army to Warsaw?

Thinking of this, Pavlov's bald head was already covered with beads of sweat.

"Comrade Pavlov, is the defeat of the 4th Army very serious? Will it affect the battle to liberate Poland?" Ponomarenko, the military commissar of the Western Front, looked extremely sad. He saw that Pavlov had a big head. Khan asked in a calm voice.

"The loss of 30,000 people is not serious..." Pavlov frowned, "and our offensive status against Warsaw has not been broken."

After the world revolution began, the Soviet Union began a larger-scale general mobilization. For the Soviet army, which had a strength of 10 million, the loss of 30,000 people was indeed nothing. As for more than 700 tanks and more than 200 cannons, they are not big numbers. Soviet industry can quickly produce more tanks and cannons.

"That's good," Ponomarenko breathed a sigh of relief, then glanced at Pavlov meaningfully and said in a more serious tone: "Because the attack on Warsaw can only win, not fail... Even if the loss is huge, We must win too!”

Pavlov didn't understand what Ponomarenko meant. The Battle of Warsaw was related to his and Ponomarenko's political lives.

After capturing Warsaw, Pavlov and Ponomarenko were the heroes who liberated Poland! Even if the Red Army could not advance even half a step further, Ponomarenko was determined to enter the political situation, and Pavlov could be made a marshal and then promoted to the first deputy people's commissar of defense.

In the future, Ponomarenko will inherit the GC doctrine, and Pavlov will take Roshilov's seat...

If the Battle of Warsaw cannot be won, Ponomarenko will not be able to enter the political situation, and he will be lucky to be idle. And Pavlov would be even worse, he might lose his life and become a reactionary!

"The Battle of Warsaw... will definitely be won!" Pavlov gritted his teeth and nodded, "We have more people and more tanks, so we can defeat Warsaw just by relying on numbers!"

"That's good!" Ponomarenko nodded and ordered, "Invite Comrades Korobkov, Comrade Telekin and Comrade Sandalov of the 4th Army to Minsk and ask Leggio What about the battle of Novo-Wovomin?”

…

"Kakaka..."

The sound of tracks crushing the ground suddenly stopped. Captain Schwarzenegger dazedly pushed open the top cover of a T-34 tank and climbed out.

"How is it?" Admiral Steiner asked loudly.

"Reporting to the division commander, the interior of the T-34 tank is too crowded and it is very inconvenient to move inside. Moreover, its turret does not have a hanging basket. The gunner must move with it when the turret rotates. In addition, there is no Radio station, I don’t know how the Russians direct it?”

Steiner looked back at General Model, who was carefully examining the captured T-34 tank with his arms folded, and said with a smile: "It has a lot of minor flaws, but it's still a good tank...it's Like a reduced Panther tank, it is the best choice to replace the Type 4 H tank. "

"Actually we have similar plans," Model said with a smile. "Daimler-Benz's No. 5 plan and Skoda's T-25 plan are similar to the T-34... But the difference between these two tanks is The overall performance is not better than the No. 4 H model, so we still chose the Black Panther. How is the performance of our Black Panther?"

"Of course it's good. It can defeat T-34 and KV-1 at a distance of 1,000 meters," Steiner shrugged. "There are just too many faults. More than 20 units collapsed, and nearly 30 Tigers collapsed."

"New products are all like this," Model said. "Have all the broken down cars been towed back?"

"They were all brought back," Steiner said. "We also brought back a lot of T-34s, KV-1s and KV-2s along the way."

Model smiled and said: "Great, let's get a few T-34s, KV-1s and KV-2s to Berlin for the people above to refer to. Maybe we can use Mercedes-Benz's No. 5 plan and T-25 plan. Back to life. And...the armored forces are preparing to evacuate Legionovo, and the 50th Division will soon come to defend it."

"50th Division? Commander, do you want to defend Legionovo?"

Model nodded and said: "Just hold on, there might be a second short assault on Legionovo... This place is likely to become the focus of competition between us and the Russians."