The Rise of the Third Reich

June 30, 1942 is the day when the Warsaw offensive and defensive battle officially begins. The 10 armies of the Western Front of the Soviet Red Army will be divided into three groups: North, Central and South. Under the command of Lieutenant General Sov, they simultaneously launched an attack on the city of Warsaw held by the German 6th Army.

At 3:45 in the morning that day, when nearly 10,000 artillery pieces scattered on the 40-kilometer front began to roar, Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn, the leader of the artillery acoustic platoon (who had just received a promotion), had already After finishing the work of supporting the construction of local political power in Poland, I returned to the battlefield where artillery fire was raging, but at the same time it was exciting.

The 4th Red Army Infantry Army he belongs to now belongs to the 9th Army and is placed at the forefront of the center group attacking Warsaw!

After wandering around the Polish land for more than ten days, Comrade Solzhenski's consciousness has improved to a certain extent, and he has more deeply realized the necessity of world revolution - in Poland alone, the rural landlords and rich peasants There are so many people, and they hate the Soviet Union so much and resist liberation. How can they not die?

Moreover, Comrade Solzhenitsyn also knew what a heavy price the people of the Soviet motherland had paid over the past twenty years in order to liberate all mankind. While the reactionary Polish landowners and rich peasants were enjoying the abundant food provided by Polish land and the German industrial products exchanged for Polish food, the revolutionary Soviet farmers tightened their belts to support the country's industrialization. Now the backward Russia has finally been transformed into an advanced and powerful Soviet Union, laying a material foundation for the cause of human liberation.

As a glorious world revolutionary warrior, Solzhenitsyn is now more aware of the heavy responsibility he shoulders - he and millions of other perhaps ten million world revolutionary warriors are now not only responsible for the liberation of all mankind, but also for the liberation of all mankind. Responsible for the happiness of 180 million Soviet people in the Soviet Union.

It turns out that only by liberating mankind first can the Soviet people finally liberate themselves!

Solzhenitsyn was thinking about the big issues of human liberation and people's happiness in a very safe artillery sound detection post located on the eastern edge of the Warsaw Forest. In the western part of the Warsaw Forest, close to the city of Warsaw, Brandt, a German anti-war activist whose hands were stained with the blood of internationalist fighters, was holding his head in a carefully dug anti-artillery tunnel, enduring the endless bombardment.

Brandt, who has been on the battlefield in the Warsaw forest for more than ten days, is now numb and no longer reflects on why he is so keen on killing people - although he does not have a strong body and runs very slowly, he often He gets scolded, but he really knows how to kill!

That damn MKb42 automatic carbine came into his hands. It was simply a reactionary killing machine. In more than ten days of fighting (the fighting in the Warsaw forest has not stopped since June 9), he killed 15-20 people. A Soviet Red Army soldier (actually not that many, less than 10 people were actually killed by him, and a few were seriously injured), he was the "number one killer" of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment of the 111th Division.

So much so that Captain Schmidt, the company commander of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment, reported to him and applied for the Iron Cross First Class. In addition, he now has an embarrassing nickname - Brandt the Killer.

The bunker where Killer Brandt seized the cannonball was built by the Poles before the World War. It is a reinforced concrete structure and is very strong. Even if he is directly hit by a 152mm high-explosive bomb, he will be unharmed, so Brandt still likes to stay in this hot and stuffy place.

However, the Soviet shelling was about to end soon. When the dull sound of artillery coming from outside became more and more sparse, the company commander Captain Schmidt shouted from inside the bunker: "All personnel, Check the equipment!”

"Damn war!" Brandt cursed the war in his mind, while quickly checking the firearms, magazines, water bottles, first aid kits, helmets and other weapons and equipment. Then he shouted: "It's over!"

At this time, this round of shelling by the Soviet Red Army finally ended, and the end of the shelling naturally meant that the charge of infantry and tanks was about to begin!

"Crunch!"

The iron door of the bunker was pushed open by someone unknown, and a choking smell of gunpowder smoke came in, causing Brandt, who was sitting near the door, to cough violently.

"Brothers, we are out, follow me!" Sergeant Adolf Miller's loud voice rang out, because the original platoon leader of the 2nd Platoon of the 3rd Company of the 406th Regiment died five days ago, and Miller, as the 1st Squad Leader The sergeant was promoted one level to become a platoon leader.

"Killer! Stop coughing, come out with me and kill the Russians!" Sergeant Miller saw Brandt still huddled at the door coughing, so he stretched out a big hand and patted him on the head.

"Yes, platoon leader!" Although he was extremely unhappy, Brandt still picked up his automatic carbine, crouched and advanced along the traffic trench to the forefront position.

The location of the forward position was already on the edge of the "Warsaw Forest". The trees were not that dense. The position leaned against a stream more than three meters wide. There were originally many trees and bushes on the other side. However, under the continuous destruction of Soviet artillery fire, There were only a few tree stumps left, and the pitted mud looked a bit like the surface of the moon.

There is a train station about three or four kilometers south of the trench where Brandt is located. It was probably built with the expectation that it would be bombarded one day, so it is extremely strong. It is now a key support point of the entire defense line. Recently, It withstood almost abnormal artillery fire from the Soviet army for two days, but still stood firm. The 111th German Infantry Division deployed half an anti-tank gun battery there, and the 9th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division also deployed a battery of anti-tank guns there. A total of anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns were deployed there, turning the train station into a difficult place. The fortress of Transcendence.

The Soviets attacked the train station several times and even dispatched a B-4 howitzer assault group, but they were repelled by the German Tiger tanks and even a B-4 howitzer was captured.

After the failure of the frontal attack on the train station, the Soviet army changed its strategy and began to attack the German positions on both sides of the train station, hoping to make a detour to the side and rear of the train station.

"Members of the Bolshevik Party, members of the Youth League, and fighters of the world revolution, for the sake of a happy and beautiful tomorrow for all mankind, and for the purpose of planting the red flag all over the world, charge forward!"

Just as the Red Army artillery group stopped firing, the political commissar of the 205th Division, Oktyabryski, took the lead and jumped out of the trench with a trumpet made of rolled tin, loudly speaking the clichés of political mobilization.

"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

The Red Army soldiers in the trenches who were ready to go roared as if they were being squeezed from their chests.

Comrade Pavlov, who had just become a glorious probationary member of the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union, held a DP-27 light machine gun, shouted "Ula! Ula!" and started charging behind a T-34 tank. .

His cheers were genuine and there wasn't a stormtrooper machine gun behind him forcing him to charge, which was completely unnecessary. Because he and Comrade Solzhenitsyn, who graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Rostov University, easily became an officer, and could easily become a cadre as long as he said a few words of conscience, are two different types of people.

He is a young man from the countryside and does not have the brains to go to college. If he does not want to spend his whole life doing farm work on a collective farm, then world revolution is his only chance in this life.

In fact, within a dozen days after the start of the world revolution, his fate changed. Just a few hours ago, he swore an oath in front of the red flag and became a glorious preparatory member of the Bolshevik Party!

A party ticket was so precious before the outbreak of the world revolution. Most Red Army soldiers worked hard for several years and finally returned home empty-handed. If there had been no world revolution, Pavlov would probably have retired from the Red Army with nothing.

Now that Pavlov has entered the party, the next step should be to be promoted!

As long as the commando team he leads can be the first to plant the red flag on the enemy's position, he will soon cross the threshold of Tigan.

Then his life will become more exciting from now on!

"Air strike! Take cover quickly!"

Brandt, a murderous anti-war activist, had just entered the position when he heard someone shouting "air strike." He knew that this was the arrival of the GC-ism Il-2 attack aircraft.

Because the German Air Force does not have air superiority on the Polish battlefield—no one in the Soviet Union or Germany dares to say that they have absolute air superiority in Poland—so these Soviet “flying tanks” will come and drop bombs on the German Army from time to time. Or shoot with the damn 20mm cannon and 7.62mm machine gun!

For the infantry stationed on the ground, because their value is not high enough, Air Force General Jeshunek will not send enough Fokker Zeros to provide them with cover. That is only available for armored units and artillery positions. treatment.

German infantry commanders on the Polish battlefield could only apply for air cover after discovering the Soviet IL-2 or other bombers. Before the famous Fokker Zero arrived to expel the Il-2, German infantry usually could only rely on the Flak30 20mm anti-aircraft gun and the anti-aircraft version of the MG42 machine gun to deal with the "Black Death" Il-2 in the air.

But for Brandt, he could only squat in the trench with his head in his hands, silently praying to Christ in his heart, not to let the Soviet bombs blow him up.

"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

The Il-2 in the sky seems to have not left yet, but the shouts of the Soviet Red Army infantry are getting closer and louder, and there is also the "click" sound of the tracks rolling.

The tanks and infantry of the Soviet Red Army are already close at hand!

"Get ready to fight! Get ready to fight!" The platoon leader Adolf Miller's thick voice rang out at this time. For "Killer Brandt", the time to fight for the German Third Reich, which he does not love at all, has arrived again.