Age of Rebirth

Lieutenant Colonel Kirakov, Chief of Staff of the No.60 Eighth Border Garrison 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 outpost closest to the border, Chief of Staff Kiryakov's telescopic lens penetrated the dark mist before dawn. On the Polish side, the German barracks were still silent. There was nothing unusual about it. Over the past few years, he was almost numb to seeing such a situation. After observing for a few minutes, he put down the binoculars absent-mindedly, and signed his name on the record book of the officer's inspection post.

This means that today's inspection work is over, and the troublesome and tedious work will begin. As soon as Chief of Staff Kiryakov was about to leave, the sentry beside him shouted: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you Look, the German on the other side seems to be acting strangely?"

"Huh?" Chief of Staff Kiryakov glanced at the sentinel suspiciously, picked up the binoculars again, and in the faint light of dawn, the German camp on the opposite side began to come alive, and a series of large-caliber artillery, The camouflage was removed, and the thick muzzle was exposed, pointing blackly at him. Chief of Staff Kiryakov has been stationed at the border for several years, and he has never found it. The inconspicuous German army is close at hand. There are so many large-caliber artillery hidden in the camp.

With the appearance of German artillery, groups of heavily armed German soldiers appeared in the lens of the telescope, Chief of Staff Kiryakov's hair exploded, and he shivered violently. Almost suffocating heart palpitations suddenly hit his heart, "The Germans are going to start a war!" This was his instinctive judgment. [

Chief of Staff Kiryakov, trembling hands.He grabbed the phone on the table and shouted hoarsely: "Switching station, I am Lieutenant Colonel Kirakov, Chief of Staff of the No. 60 Eighth Border Garrison Regiment. Immediately connect to the combat duty room of the military region. There is an important military report!"

"Hiss—!" The shrill howling sound came from far and near, piercing the sky at dawn, and it sounded like the hairs on your body stood on end. It was the sound of a cannon flying, in an instant.Chief of Staff Kiryakov felt that death was approaching!

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, a burst of flames burst out, and a large-caliber cannon accurately landed on this outpost.The huge roar echoed in the air before dawn.In an instant, the outpost turned into a pile of broken bricks and rocks.The dozen or so Soviet soldiers inside were all reduced to pieces in the sound of the explosion, and the smoke cleared away. There was only one pale severed hand holding the telephone receiver that had been blown into two pieces.Dang "swing" next to the huge pit.

The first shot fell, which opened the prelude to the German army's attack on the Soviet Union. Counting the German artillery, they poured the artillery on the Soviet positions and outposts on the border.After the shelling began, the German tank clusters hidden in the underground fortifications rushed out of the ground one after another, covering more than 600 million German soldiers, and flooded into the territory of the Soviet Union like a tide. In the sky, under the light of dawn, tens of thousands German fighter jets and bombers formed formations and flew over the Soviet Union.

This is just one of the scenes that happened on Su Bo’s thousands-kilometer-long border. The same thing happened in the Leningrad Military District, the Baltic Sea Coast Special Military District, the Western Special Military District, and the Kiev Special Military District on the western border of the Soviet Union. , Odessa Military Region and other military regions were repeatedly staged in the defense zones of various military regions. More than 600 million German troops crossed the Soviet-Polish border like a tide and launched a full-line attack on the Soviet Union.

Dawn on April [-], [-]—the Soviet-German War officially broke out. The most brutal and bloody war in the Second World War was kicked off by Hitler!

In order to quickly destroy the resistance of the Soviet Union at the fastest speed, Hitler spent a lot of money. On the Soviet-Polish border, he deployed a huge force of more than 600 million people, which was close to more than two-thirds of the total German army at that time. , the army has 190 divisions (including 500 armored divisions and 8000 motorized divisions), more than 190 tanks, nearly [-] million artillery and mortars, and more than [-] air force combat aircraft; There are [-] and two naval warships of various types.

According to the revised "Barbarossa plan," the German assault group is mainly divided into four groups. Among them, the Northern Army Group has 29 divisions, which are deployed from Memel to Goudap and implemented in the direction of Leningrad. Offensive, the [-]st Air Force of the German Air Force, the [-]st and [-]rd Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force, provide air support and fire cover for the attacking troops, the commander of the army group is General Albert Kesselring.

The Central Army Group has [-] divisions and two brigades under its jurisdiction. It is deployed in the swampy area from Gołdap to Pripyat and launches an attack in the direction of Leningrad. It is the most powerful route among the German attack groups. The [-]nd Air Force of the Luftwaffe, the [-]nd and [-]th Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force, provided air support and covering fire for the attacking forces, under the command of Field Marshal Hermann Holt.

The Southern Army Group has 57 divisions and [-] brigades (including [-] Romanian divisions, nine Romanian brigades and four Hungarian brigades), deployed from the Pripyat swamp to the Black Sea, and launched an attack in the direction of Kiev. The Third Air Force of the German Air Force, the Fifth and Sixth Fighter Divisions of the Romanian Air Force, provide air support and fire cover for the attacking troops. The Lutheran Army is the most powerful route among the German attack groups. General Günther von Kruger.

The last attack group consists of 21 divisions and three brigades of the German Army Group and the Finnish Army Group stationed in Norway. They carried out assaults in the direction of Murmansk and Leningrad respectively. Together with the Central Army Group, they formed two fronts for Leningrad. In the midst of the attack, the Fourth Air Force of the Luftwaffe and the First, Third, and Fourth Fighter Divisions of the Finnish Air Force were attached to the ground forces to attack, provide air cover and fire support, and destroy the Soviet ground airport.

In addition, there was an extremely concealed German army, consisting of two German armies and [-] divisions, commanded by Army General William Lister. They bypassed the frontal German attacking battlefield and marched desperately. Pounce on the Soviet oil production base, the Transcaucasus oil field, this was Hitler's move when revising the "Barbarossa plan", he listened to Tang Qiuli's opinion, and made a wonderful move, which was added later.

According to what Tang Qiuli said to Hitler in Berlin at the time, seizing the main oil producing areas of the Soviet Union could provide enough fuel for the German army, which mainly engaged in mechanized warfare. At the same time, it also cut off the oil supply base of the Soviet army. Of course, Hitler was happy to kill two birds with one stone, and he obeyed.

In fact, Tang Qiuli’s overreach was definitely ruthless enough. For the Soviet Union, it was a means of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot. The output of oil in the Transcaucasus oil fields of the Soviet Union accounted for more than one-third of the total output of the Soviet Union at that time. For the Germans , It belongs to filling fat and adding meat, and occupying the Transcaucasus oil fields is tantamount to cutting off the main artery of the Soviet army and achieving the purpose of supporting war with war.

Therefore, the German offensive is actually divided into five routes, not four offensive directions as recorded in history, and the last offensive group will have an immeasurable impact on the future Soviet-German battlefield. It was only one year after the outbreak of the war that Hitler really tasted the sweetness. He was more convinced of Tang Qiuli's strategic vision and grasp of the key nodes of the battlefield.

The war broke out suddenly at the dawn of an ordinary day. The German attack was sudden and ferocious, and the strategic concealment was unprecedentedly successful.

On the thousands-kilometer-long border in the western part of the Soviet Union, fireworks were everywhere, and the sound of artillery was loud. The German army suddenly shot and punched the Soviet border guards in a dizzy manner. Many troops, even in their sleep, were killed. The heavy bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe bombers were blown to pieces, and the German special forces who had sneaked into the Soviet Union in advance shot around, attacking the Soviet army's transportation hubs, occupying bridges and railway lines, and important targets.

It was a mess. Under the sudden attack of the German army, all the military regions in the western Soviet Union were in chaos. The telephones in the combat duty room of the military regions rang like a violent plane, and the reports from the various border guards were chaotic. 』, but one thing is consistent, the troops were suddenly attacked by the German army, but every emergency call said that they were the main attack direction of the German army. According to this statement, the main attack direction of the German army has reached an astonishing Quantity, where are there so many German teams?

Facing the "chaotic" situation in the border area, where there were smoldering wars and frequent sirens, the commanders and political commissars of various military regions in the western Soviet Union immediately held an emergency military meeting to discuss countermeasures. At the meeting, a strange phenomenon appeared. Many Soviet troops The commanders, especially the political and industrial officers with a Chekist background, and the officers who were suddenly sent to high positions after the Soviet Union's purge, never believed that the Germans would attack the Soviet Union. [

They firmly insisted that the border guards must have lied about their military information. Perhaps there might have been 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 troop commanders who are free to chat along the border are used to making a big fuss in order to attract enough attention from the military headquarters to show their importance. In other words, in the face of small frictions on the border, some Being in a hurry is a sign of political immaturity.

However, these Soviet officers did not think about it through their brains. Some small-scale border conflicts broke out in one or several places. , are all so exaggerated, that is not the coming of war, what is it?

(to be continued) (to be continued..)

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