The Rise of the Third Reich

Moscow, Kremlin.

At around 7 o'clock in the morning on April 30, the High Command of the Red Army located in the Kremlin had entered the most emergency state!

People including First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Pavlov, Chief of General Staff Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of General Staff Golikov, Commander-in-Chief of the Guerrilla Movement Voroshilov and others have arrived one after another and gathered at the In a combat command room where the walls were covered with maps, a series of urgent battle reports had just been received while discussing.

Starting an hour ago, the forward positions of various army groups stationed along the Dnieper River in Belarus, Smolensk Oblast and Ukraine began to be violently bombarded by the German army (actually the European coalition forces)!

At the same time, fierce aerial battles also started in the above-mentioned areas and over Kalinin State!

According to reports from the Western Front, the Southwestern Front, the Kalinin Front and the Home Defense Force, the total number of German aircraft exceeded 5,000, including a large number of Fokker Zero (D type) and Fw-190 (A-9 and F-8 types). ), has invaded Soviet airspace and is engaged in a desperate battle with fighter jets of the Soviet Red Air Force.

Obviously, the artillery bombardment and air strikes launched by the Germans today are the prelude to a large-scale spring offensive!

"It's impossible to attack in the middle and south at the same time. They don't have that many troops."

Although the First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Pavlov was not a very good frontline commander, he was a very good "chief of the general staff" (his current position is actually the chief of the general staff), and he had a clear understanding of the German army's actual situation. The grasp is also very accurate.

He analyzed: "The Germans do have a lot of artillery, maybe 50%-100% more than us, so they can carry out fierce bombardment across the board. They also have a lot of aircraft, which are equal to ours in quantity, but far better in quality." Far more than us. But the fuel they can use for military operations on the Eastern Front is only half of ours. This bottleneck restricts the size and actions of the German mechanized forces, so the intensity of artillery attacks and air strikes is not enough to explain the problem. Only the movements of mechanized troops, especially heavily armed mechanized troops equipped with Tiger heavy tanks, can determine their main attack targets."

Because it successfully won over France, a country that pursues "big artillery doctrine," the number of towed suppression artillery that Germany can now use on the Eastern Front battlefield far exceeds that of the Soviet Union. And in terms of the number of heavy artillery with a caliber of 150 (155) mm or above, the German army (French army) has an overwhelming advantage.

Therefore, the Soviet high command cannot make a judgment based on the intensity of the opponent's shelling. The movement of mechanized troops, especially Tiger tanks, is the most critical - wherever there are Tiger tanks gathered, there must be the main force of the German army!

"Comrade Voroshilov," Chief of General Staff Shalashnikov took over the topic and asked Voroshilov, who was in charge of the guerrilla work, in a very respectful tone, "our guerrillas can identify the German Tiger The movement of the tanks?"

After returning from Leningrad, Voroshilov lost Stalin's trust and fell from the position of People's Commissar of Defense to the position of commander-in-chief of the guerrillas. However, his political bureau members are still there, so his status within the party is still very high.

"It's hard to say," Voroshilov shook his head and sighed. "The guerrilla movement is not ideal, except in the Pskov Oblast. In Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, the guerrilla movement is very difficult. "

"Comrade Voroshilov, can we determine where the main forces of the Nazi and Fascist armies are before they launch a general offensive?"

Stalin's voice suddenly came from outside the door of the war room. Everyone immediately stopped discussing and turned their bodies towards the door of the war room. Some tall comrades even deliberately hunched their heads and hunched back to make themselves look smaller.

Walking in from the door was Stalin, the fatherly leader with a pipe in his mouth. He came from the Kontsevo villa on the outskirts of Moscow - yesterday, April 29, he stayed in Kontsevo all day A small cocktail party was held there at the Waugh Villa to entertain Donovan, the presidential envoy from the United States, and Yoyo Matsuoka, the special envoy of the Japanese Prime Minister.

The secret talks between the three parties began after dinner and continued until late at night. Although no agreement was reached, the atmosphere of the talks was very harmonious and full of expectations. And Stalin also had a sweet dream that night, dreaming that the red flag was planted on the roof of the Reichstag Building!

Unfortunately, when I woke up, I heard the bad news that the German army had begun large-scale shelling and air raids.

"Comrade General Secretary," Voroshilov quickly and respectfully replied, "if the Germans launch an attack from the territory of Pskov Oblast, we can tell in advance... because we have many brave guerrilla fighters there."

Stalin nodded, knowing in his heart what the problem was - although there were many ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, the Russians could really be relied upon when disaster struck!

“Okay,” Stalin said, “tell our brave guerrilla fighters to uncover the movements of the Nazi and Fascist armies at all costs. The Soviet people and the Bolshevik Party will never forget what they did for the victory in the Great Patriotic War. sacrifice.”

"Okay, I will convey your instructions to every guerrilla."

…

Stalin's instructions will surely inspire every guerrilla, including the brave Comrade Zoya Kasmodemyanskaya.

She is currently performing the important task of finding out the movements of the German mechanized group!

For this reason, she did not hesitate to go barefoot, wearing a thin, dirty coat with a few holes, and pants that were not long enough to expose her calves, and stood on the side of an important highway in Velikiy Luki. , stretched out his right hand towards the ferocious enemy advancing along the road...

She is... begging for food!

As a youth league member and guerrilla who was always ready to sacrifice for the cause of communism, Zoya originally thought that the reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines would be to lie down in the grass beside the road, covered with leaves, and then use military binoculars to observe. This is what the instructors taught when introducing training in guerrilla training camps.

But there is always a big gap between reality and imagination. If she lies on the side of the road as she did during training, she will most likely be discovered by the ferocious enemy and tragically hanged.

Therefore, the experienced Second Lieutenant Sprosky dressed up this revolutionary girl with a fairly decent appearance and full of youthful spirit into a "female beggar" and a delinquent woman - this kind of shameless woman is very popular in Pskov Region. There are quite a few of them, there is one every 100 meters or so on every important road that the German and White Russian troops pass by.

Therefore, Comrade Kasmodemyanskaya is just one of many "begging girls" and it is very easy to hide.

According to Lieutenant Sproski's arrangement, she could count the passing German tanks (Zoya could identify various types of tanks and assault artillery) and troops while begging for food. In this way, the problem of eating and reconnaissance tasks can be solved together, and it is very safe.

Of course, you still have to be prepared to sacrifice your life for the revolution!

Not giving up your life, but giving up your body! However, most of the victims were not German Nazis. The German army had strict discipline and no flirting was allowed during the march. However, the reactionary White Russian army of the Empress and the French army and Croatian-Hungarian army that followed the Nazis did not have such strict discipline...

Zoya felt like vomiting when she thought that her virginity might be taken away by a reactionary old white man (old Belarusian man).

A rumble of motor sound came over, interrupting Zoya's thoughts as she was begging for revolution. She quickly looked towards the place where the motor sound came from. I saw a puff of smoke and dust billowing in. At first glance, I knew that mechanized troops were coming.

Zoya quickly held her breath, opened her eyes wide, and stared at the road carefully. After a while, a scene that made her almost breathless with excitement appeared in front of her.

The legendary Tiger tank appears!

Just following a row of wheeled or half-tracked armored vehicles, one after another, rumbled forward. Zoya counted carefully until she reached 44, and then passed another short-barreled No. 4 tank. There were 22 tanks in total...

Zoya knew that what passed was a German heavy armor battalion!

Then, another row of wheeled/half-track armored vehicles rumbled forward, followed by another Tiger tank!

Two heavy armored battalions!

Zoya's breathing was a little rapid. There were two heavy armored battalions, and there might be more. She might have discovered the main force of the Germans this time!

At this moment, a tank in the German Tiger tank convoy that was passing in front of her seemed to have malfunctioned and suddenly stalled. Then the vehicles following it also stopped moving forward.

Several men who seemed to be German officers got out of the tank body or wheeled/half-tracked armored vehicles, gathered in front of the broken down tank, and started talking. Zoya can understand some German (because of the previous twenty years of Russian-German cooperation, German has always been the first foreign language in the Soviet Union, so Zoya, who is well-read, can understand some German), and those people seemed to say "Anchor down" ”, “fixed” and “pushed to the curb first”.

Then the German conversation ended, and a Nazi officer who was even more handsome than the "Charming Secretary" in Zoya's dream (Soviet girls didn't like Prince Charming, because the princes were all against the Communist Party) suddenly walked towards her. Come.

"Have you been discovered? Will you be captured by this handsome Nazi villain? Should you resist?" Zoya watched the handsome blond guy leave, her heart beating nervously, but she had no idea what to do. . Because her superior, Lieutenant Sproski, did not allow her to carry any weapons, and she was not allowed to resist the unscrupulous enemy...