Struggle in Soviet Russia

The atmosphere in the command post was silent for a long time, and a tall, thin, crooked man asked: "Why do you think so?"

Victor knew this person. He was Afanasyev, the artillery director of the 43rd Army. This person was closely related to Karamay, the artillery director of the 16th Army. The two were not only classmates, but also seemed to be fellows.

Of course, what Victor doesn’t know is that this image does not look good, and Comrade Afanasiev, who seems to be very anti-thief temperament, will meet with the 33rd Army Commander Mikhail Grieg in a year’s time. Lieutenant General Linavich Yefremov committed suicide together in the encirclement of the German army. Those who committed suicide together with them were the members of the entire 33rd Army Command and the wife of Lieutenant General Yefremov.

"I also think this possibility is relatively high," said Lieutenant Seleznev, frowning. He reached out and drew a line on the southern side of the map. "The Bryansk Front has a greater threat to the German southern wing. It does not rule out that the Germans, in order to relieve the troubles, leveled the front, and took the lead in ending the battle in Kiev."

What he said sounded a little boring, but everyone present could understand what it meant.

After the end of the border battle, with the rapid advance of the German Central Army Group toward Moscow, especially after the end of the first phase of the Smolensk Battle, the offensive front lines of the three German Army Groups almost formed a "convex" character. Type posture. The Central Army Group took the lead in the middle of the road, and the front was straight into the heart of Moscow. On the north and south wings, especially the south wing, the offensive of the Southern Army Group was delayed by the Soviets in the periphery of Kiev. Therefore, a crisis and an opportunity coexisted. The "protrusion" appeared.

In the direction of the most dangerous south wing of this protruding part, the Soviet army’s large-scale Kiev combat cluster, which is the main force of the Southwest Front Army, is displayed. Strength.

In addition, when the blood flowed from the battle in the direction of Yaltsovo-Yelnia, the Soviet army, with the defense line in danger, set up a Bryansk Front Army last week. Deployed in the direction of the southeast wing of the German Central Army Group, it is possible at any time to cooperate with the southwest front army to carry out assaults on the German south wing defense line.

That's right, when the Soviet base camp formed the Bryansk Front Army, there was no such plan, but the real intention is obviously still unknown.

Victor nodded in agreement. He was talking about the possibility of the German army going south. The two factors considered belong to the strategic level, while the point Seleznev put forward belongs to the campaign level. Factors, which makes this speculation even more convincing.

"We must pay enough attention to this possibility," Seleznev shook a fist and said categorically. "I need to report to the front army command and ask the intelligence department and aviation to make more investigations."

After speaking, he ignored everyone's reaction, turned around and left. Seeing the back of the lieutenant comrade leaving, Victor pursed his lips. He didn't think it would have any practical significance to do related investigations now.

The Soviet army deployed in Kiev is not a company or regiment. If you want to retreat, you can quickly abandon its position and retreat. It is a huge army of hundreds of thousands or nearly one million. If the order retreats, it will not be completed in a few weeks. If it is a disorderly retreat... it is a rout, and the result is also a disaster.

Just as Victor sighed, in the suburbs of Starodub, hundreds of kilometers away, a mechanized army consisting of hundreds of tanks, followed by a small number of infantrymen, was struggling through the Soliningzitz marsh.

This swamp is part of the swamp belt of the Propiyat River Basin. It is mysterious and dangerous. Especially in the summer season, every puddle floating with dead branches and leaves may be a trap that kills people. One can imagine how difficult it is for a ten-ton tank to navigate such terrain.

However, for this tank unit that has crossed the border between Germany and France, the solution is always more difficult than the difficulty. A large number of German soldiers cut wood on the spot in the jungle of the swamp zone, using whole roots of logs. Come to pave the road and help the tank pass from above.

On a tank with a **** flag on the roof and a tank with the number "105" on its body, a lieutenant colonel with two crosses on his uniform is showing half of his body outside the tank cover , Using a telescope in his hand to probe forward.

The lieutenant colonel wears a pair of sunglasses on his face. The straight bridge of the nose under the sunglasses and the tightly pressed lips seem to imply that he is a tough soldier, and his suit is spotless, not even wrinkled. His military uniform shows that this is a man who pays much attention to personal image.

After holding the telescope and watching for a long time, no abnormality was found. The lieutenant colonel put down the telescope, directly reached out and patted the canopy, and said loudly: "Notify Duke, let him speed up, we must be at 6 in the afternoon. Arrived to Kochulikup before the point...Oh, is that **** village on the map called by this name?"

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped again, and the whole person suddenly turned his head to look to the side and back, and then he said loudly: "Be careful to be concealed!"

Following the command of the lieutenant colonel, the marching tank queue quickly stopped. Some soldiers started to put camouflage branches on the tanks, but it was obviously late at this time, and they had not waited for the exhaust from the tanks to be over the swamp. After dispersing, a brown-green plane with the roar of the engine swept over directly from above the bushes not far away, and quickly disappeared above the woods on the other side.

The lieutenant colonel breathed a sigh of relief. He supported the top of the tower with both hands, got out of the tank compartment, raised the telescope, and glanced in the direction where the plane disappeared.

It was indeed a Soviet aircraft, but it was a trainer aircraft. If there was no error in the estimation, it should have come for reconnaissance. The flying height just now was so low, the tanks of this group must have been discovered. .

There was no sign of the plane flying back again. The lieutenant colonel stretched the belt around his waist, and the pistol that straddled his waist was very conspicuous-as a German lieutenant colonel, the pistol in his holster On the top, there is a red star logo, this red star is inlaid on the all black gun handle, it is very eye-catching. Judging from the look of the pistol, it should be a TT. If Victor were here, he could tell at a glance that the pistol should have belonged to him.

According to the memory of his previous life, Victor knew that a main force in the German Central Army Group would go south to Ukraine, but he did not say the number of this main force because the German lieutenant colonel did not belong to the German Fourth Tank Army. It belongs to the Second Tank Army. The commander's name was Hecht Adenauer, and yes, he was the German captain who had drunk with Victor in Lviv.

Different from Victor's fate, Hatchett led the troops to transfer to the Western Front after the end of the Polish campaign. After that, he participated in the campaign against France and rushed to Dunkirk. He is a very qualified professional soldier, and he has demonstrated his commanding ability in a series of battles. Therefore, he is promoted faster than Victor in terms of promotion speed. He just made a round in France and then returned to the Eastern Front. Promoted from captain to lieutenant colonel.

Victor must have never imagined that the pistol he gave out at the beginning is moving to Kiev with its new owner. The pistol that Hecht gave him at the beginning has been hidden by him. In the environment of war, he carried a German. The pistol given by people is not a wise choice.

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Aprelevka, a small town under Narofominsk, is only 60 kilometers away from Moscow.

On a **** on the western outskirts of the town, an old windmill mill was erected. In the previous German air raid, the windmill on the top of the mill was knocked out with two blades, and now there is only one solitary and missing half of the windmill. The fan leaves were hung there half dead, looking indescribably desolate.

The mill was built entirely of stone blocks, in the shape of a wine bottle, which seemed very sturdy from the outside. Perhaps because of this, the Soviet army set up an anti-aircraft gun on the top of the mill.

It was early in the morning when the mist that had spread over the pastoral field had just dissipated, and the sun in the eastern sky had just barely scalped, and the tranquility of the town was shattered by gunfire.

On the southern **** of the small hill where the mill is located, a man in the uniform of a Soviet captain and six men and women in casual clothes, with their backs to the east, kneeling on the slope, and on their far right, there is a woman's The corpse fell to the ground, and scarlet blood was overflowing from the place where the woman had dropped half of her chin.

Amazingly, this woman was not dead yet. She arched her forehead on the ground, her legs twitched, as if she wanted to get up from the ground.

Behind the woman, a sergeant wearing a blue hat checked the gun in his hand, and then stepped forward, stepping on the woman’s back with his left foot, and pointing his gun’s right hand at the back of the woman’s head. Pull the trigger again.

Seeing that the woman's skull was knocked off, the sergeant lifted his foot and walked over to the next kneeling guy.

"Bah..."

After several consecutive gunshots, all six people kneeling on the ground became dead. The sergeant walked behind the kneeling captain. Unlike the previous executions of those people, the sergeant kicked the man. The captain kicked to the ground and spit on him viciously before bending down and pulling the trigger with the muzzle of his head against the back of his head.

Twenty steps away next to the mill, Victor dropped the cigarette in his hand, flapped his military cap on his hand, and turned and walked towards the entrance of the mill.