The Rise of the Third Reich

"Quick, quick! Rush forward!"

The platoon leader, Sergeant Adolph Miller, shouted for his life. "Anti-war activist" Brandt picked up his MKb42 automatic carbine, gasped for air, and ran desperately towards the rubble pile caused by the collapse of the building in front.

The building that his company took over a day ago has now been demolished by the "Stalin Hammer". However, the entire company was safely evacuated before the house collapsed. But this is just the beginning! The house can collapse, but the swastika red flag of Nazism cannot. Brandt and his comrades also had to fight bloody battles for a pile of Polish rubble and the world revolutionary fighters killed by the Soviet Union.

"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

Brandt had just rolled up onto the rubble when he heard the shouts of the Russians.

"Ready to fight!" Sergeant Miller shouted immediately, "Get into firing position!"

What's the shooting position on top of a pile of ruins? Brandt muttered in his mind, but still found a relatively safe and comfortable seat among the rough gravel, and then set up the carbine.

A Carl Zeiss scope was installed on his carbine. Through the scope, he saw a young Slavic face covered in gunpowder smoke. His face was full of sanctity and solemnity. His mouth kept opening and closing, apparently shouting: "Ula!"

"Fire!" Sergeant Miller roared again.

Brandt mechanically pulled the trigger and fired a short burst. In the scope, the Slavic face suddenly burst open like a crushed watermelon, and then disappeared.

Also firing at the same time were dozens of other rifles, automatic carbines and several MG42s. The bullets swept over the bodies of the Soviets like raindrops, cutting them down piece by piece like wheat.

But the comrades in front fell, but the comrades behind still charged without fear!

At the same time, Brandt suddenly noticed that a KV-2 tank charging with the infantry suddenly stopped, and then the turret rotated, as if it wanted to fire and bombard it with a 152mm tank gun! This is a 152mm cannon! Brandt thought to himself, if he was hit by a few bullets, no one on this pile of rubble would be able to survive... he would probably die now!

Boom boom...

The two gunshots came from behind Brandt. In the blink of an eye, the KV-2 located about 300 meters in front of Brandt's right turned into a ball of fire!

The person who saved the life of Brandt, an anti-Nazi, was Captain Gustav Schwarzenegger, a member of the Nazi party. His tank company is now the backbone of the defense area of ​​the 111th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht. Using tanks to fight street battles seems to go against military common sense, but without these No. 4s, the Soviet B-4s would have leveled the entire neighborhood.

"Bombardment! Concealment!"

Before Brandt could cheer for the Nazi tank crews, the cry he feared the most rang in his ears. Before the words were spoken, GC-ism artillery shells were already falling from the sky!

What fired was a 76.2mm cannon group. They were part of the B-4 assault group. In addition to being used to cover the advance of the B-4 howitzers, they could also be used to support the infantry in attacking fortresses. They could be regarded as all-rounders.

Amidst the deafening roar, Brandt, who had nowhere to hide, could only hold his head tightly with both hands, praying in his heart that he would not be hit by shrapnel.

I don’t know whether God took pity on him, an anti-war element who had no choice but to go to the battlefield to kill people, or whether the Soviet artillery shells were drilled into the rubble before exploding, and the power of the explosion (including shrapnel) was absorbed by the rubble. Anyway, no fatal shrapnel fell on Brandt, but there were many small rocks that hit him. Although it was not fatal, it still hurt and made him gasp for air.

Fortunately, the Soviet artillery bombardment did not last long, and the assault artillery battalion belonging to the 111th Division opened fire to counterattack. After the No. 4 H tank of the 5th SS Tank Battalion came to the front line, the No. 3 assault gun and the Hungarian Zliny 2 assault gun became self-propelled artillery (they originally had such a function). Place near the front edge.

Because these two assault guns are armored, they are not very afraid of the Soviet howitzer group counterattack, so they can be used with confidence, supporting the front-line infantry defense with 75mm and 105mm artillery.

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"Boom boom boom..."

Second Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn's ears were filled with the earth-shattering sound of artillery. Such sound of artillery was very annoying to most officers and soldiers on the battlefield. It means death, injury and sleepless nights.

However, as the platoon leader of the artillery acoustic platoon, Second Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn knew the value of artillery sound - because the sound of cannon firing and exploding shells would reveal the location of the artillery group! In the last world war, the artillery of the participating countries began to use acoustic detection to find opponents. During the interwar period, this artillery reconnaissance method developed further. Many acoustic detection equipment were invented, and more formation methods (acoustic sentinel arrays) and mathematical formulas were summarized, which can make faster and more accurate detection. Discover the location of enemy artillery batteries.

For Second Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn, the constant roaring of artillery in his ears also meant another very important thing - alive!

On a battlefield filled with artillery fire, acoustic reconnaissance is probably the safest job. Because acoustic detection is a passive detection method, you do not need to go to the front line to observe with your eyes (this is the job of artillery observers, they are the most dangerous people), but stay in the acoustic detection station behind the battle line. The approximate location of enemy artillery groups is discovered through listening and calculation, so they are almost impossible to detect by the enemy.

In addition, acoustic survey soldiers are the indispensable ears of the artillery group (without them, the enemy's artillery group will not be afraid of artillery counterattacks and can fire unscrupulously). It is also a highly professional job, so there is no commander. The acoustic troops will be asked to fight the enemy who breaks through.

Therefore, when one's own defense line is breached by the enemy, the sonic soldiers can run away gracefully without worrying about the political commissar's bullets.

It was precisely because there was no danger of losing his life with him that Solzhenitsyn had the extra time to observe and think about the war in front of him. Later, he used deadly paper and pen to record what he saw and heard. and what comes to mind.

He has now realized that the Polish people's original life was not in dire straits. At least the Polish farmers lived a very comfortable life. Before being destroyed by communist cannons, their houses were all in good repair, almost every family had horses, and the land was relatively even. The legendary Polish serfs did not exist at all, and there were no poor peasants who were burdened with heavy land rents and lived a hard life - listen to those The liberated Poles said that no one in Poland needs to live such a miserable life because the Kingdom of Poland is a member of the European Community and part of the German Empire. Therefore, for Poles, the door to work in Germany, France and Belgium is wide open. There seems to be no restrictions on Berlin household registration or Paris household registration...

As for the progressive working class in Warsaw... If such people really exist, it is estimated that by the time the Red Army liberates Warsaw, they will have been killed by communist cannons!

Yes, although Solzhenitsyn now has doubts about "liberating the Polish people", he is very sure that the Red Army can occupy Warsaw.

Because the firepower of the Red Army is too powerful! As a platoon leader of the acoustic detection platoon, Solzhenitsyn knew very well the difference in artillery strength between the two sides. The Germans had about one-seventh to one-eighth as many artillery pieces as the Red Army in Warsaw. It was completely suppressed, so the Red Army's capture of Warsaw was only a matter of time and losses...

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"So fast! So high!"

"Yeah, it's still... so big!"

Just as the fierce battle in Warsaw was heating up, two old French men were watching the launch and liftoff of the A-5 rocket from the stands at the Peenemünde rocket test site on Usedom Island in northeastern Germany.

These two old men are General Wei Gang, the French Minister of Defense, and Langevin, an academician of the French Academy of Sciences. To people like them, rockets are nothing new. There are people in France who are also engaged in research in this area, but a rocket as big as ten meters high and flying so fast and high is unheard of.

"Marshal Imperial, how high can this rocket fly?"

Hessmann also tilted his neck to watch the rocket soaring - this was a historic invention! This is a big step for mankind to conquer the universe!

Hearing the question from French scientist Langevin, Hersman replied loudly: "About 100 kilometers! It is about to break through the constraints of gravity and rush into space... I think the next generation A-6 rocket can achieve this goal. , the A-7 rocket will send humans into space! In our lifetime, we may even see humans land on the moon!”

"Going to the moon? Sounds like a myth..." Admiral Weygand muttered, then glanced at Hessmann. "Perhaps A-6 rockets and A7 rockets can be used to send your nuclear fission bombs to New York?"

Admiral Wei Gang and Academician Langevin have already met Joliot Curie and his wife. This scientist couple is currently engaged in research on nuclear fission power reactors. Although they do not know the existence of Project 94, they still clearly told Langevin that the Germans must have a production reactor for element 94!

And considering the research progress of the power reactor, the German production reactor is likely to have been built, which means that the Germans will definitely have bombs that can level the entire city in two years.

This thing is more powerful than poison gas!

Although French chemists agree that sarin is extremely toxic, the gas can only kill people who are outdoors without gas masks or with exposed skin. And considering the wind direction and force, it is impossible to kill the population of a city in actual use.

But both the Joliot Curies and Academician Langevin believe that nuclear fission bombs can destroy entire cities!

Hersman suddenly laughed, then looked at Wei Gang and said: "The rocket that can hit New York will not be produced within 10 years, but the long-range bomber that can fly from France to New York will soon be tested!"