In fact, the commander of the German 6th Army, Colonel-General Moder, was wrong in his judgment of the intentions of the Soviet army on the northern road cluster, and after learning the power of the Tiger tank, the Panther tank and the No. 4H tank in the battle of Legionovo-Vovomin, how could the Soviet Red Army ram the muzzle of the German heavy tank cluster like a fool?

Now that the offensive and defensive battles in Warsaw are so fierce, I don't see the shadow of the "Tiger" tank and the "Panther" tank, and if you think about it with your heels, you know that these big tanks are now waiting for the tanks and infantry of the Soviets in Legionovo!

So, there is no such thing as an imaginary attack that is about to take place. According to the plan of the Soviet Western Front, www.biquge.info Soviet 3rd Army (consisting of the 7th Tank Army, the 11th Mechanized Army, and the 18th Infantry Army) will carry out a large detour operation from 7 p.m. on July 19, crossing the Renaf River, and then making a feint to the German flank and rear to attract the German armored group deployed in Legionovo to follow up the decisive battle.

At the beginning of the decisive battle on the north bank of the Renaf River, the other two armies of the Soviet Army in the Warsaw Battle Cluster (the 10th Army and the 11th Army) will launch a fierce attack on Legionovo under the unified command of Lieutenant General Kuznetsov, and at the same time, the main forces of the Central Cluster will also attack from the south of Legionovo under the command of Chuikov.

In this way, regardless of whether the decisive tank battle on the north bank of the Renaf River is won or lost, Legianovo has a high probability of being occupied by the Soviet army. And even if the German heavy armoured group won on the north bank of the Reynaf River, it would have to retreat westward because of the unstable rear road.

And on the front line of Razimin, which was directly opposite Legiononovo, the commander of the 10th Army of the Soviet Red Army, Vasily Murphy. Stepanovich. In the opinion of Major General Popov, such a plan is quite reliable.

The troops of the 3rd Army of the Red Army passed through Razimin between 7 p.m. on July 19 and 3 a.m. on July 20, which was a large corps of more than 80,000 people, and also had more than 800 tanks/self-propelled guns, nearly 1,000 towed guns, and nearly 2,000 motor vehicles of various kinds. It's also night through areas close to the front line, and it's enough to make any mistakes.

Therefore, the 10th Army was also busy up and down, guarding the air, sorting out traffic, and cooperating with the newly established Bolshevik Party Lazimin Special Committee to arrest the Polish traitors.

Major General Popov, as commander of the group army, worked until 5 a.m. on 20 July, when it was overcast and bright, when he returned to his headquarters in a church in the city of Lazimin and began to read the reports sent by the troops.

Most of these reports were sent from the 328th and 330th Divisions of the first line of confrontation with the Germans, but there were also reports of the 57th and 75th Cavalry Divisions operating on the north bank of the Renaf River.

All the reports were very brief, with only a few sentences, but they were actually a report of safety - for the past 12 hours, the front line had been uneventful and surprisingly quiet. The Germans, who were confronting the Soviets, seemed to be asleep, and did not launch harassing artillery bombardments or conduct fire reconnaissance...... This is quite perverse! In these days when the two armies are facing each other, there has never been a occurrence!

Major General Popov, who participated in the First World War, the Soviet-Russian Civil War, the Polish Campaign, and the Soviet-Finnish War, had a lot of battlefield experience, and after reading these reports in a hurry, he knew that there was not much to do. Just when he picked up the telephone receiver on his desk and wanted to hang up the phone to the military headquarters of the 84th Infantry Army on the front line and tell them to be more vigilant, he suddenly heard a faint sound of sighing. He suddenly slammed his desk and stood up, startling everyone in the war room.

"The Nazis are shooting rocket artillery! They're going to raid! Popov yelled.

Just when the commissar of the 10th Army, Chirkov, and the chief of staff Grechko, were at a loss with their mouths open. Explosions exploded almost simultaneously along the entire front line! Popov heard it right, the sound just now was indeed a salvo of 162 rocket launchers from 3 German smoke launcher regiments!

In addition to these 162 rocket launchers, Moder concentrated 13 artillery battalions armed with 150mm howitzers and fired at the same time!

The powerful German artillery group repeatedly plowed the defensive line that the Soviet 10th Army had worked so hard to build, and orange flames exploded one after another above the position, blowing up anti-tank traps, barbed wire, minefields, and various anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns placed on the position. The 130mm rockets and 150mm high-explosive shells were so powerful that each roar blew a gap in the Soviet front and threw everything within the power range.

Unlike the usual hit-and-run situation, today's German artillery groups repeatedly slapped at the front of the Soviet 10th Army, pouring shells and rockets to their heart's content, seemingly not caring about the opponent's artillery counterattack.

The sound gauge posts placed behind the forward positions of the Soviet troops quickly reported the results of the interpretation to the artillery headquarters of the 10th Army, and the approximate position of the German artillery group was immediately calculated by a master of mathematics.

"Commander, determine the position of the German artillery group!" The artillery chief of the 10th Army excitedly reported.

Now the Soviet planes and tanks dare not say that they can suppress their opponents, and even the infantry does not necessarily have an advantage when it meets the Nazi infantry, but the Soviet artillery still has an overwhelming advantage!

Whether it's howitzers, cannons or anti-tank guns, they can crush the Germans in numbers!

There are as many as 10 infantry corps, 1 tank corps, 1 cavalry corps and artillery regiments directly under the 17th Army alone! There are up to 544 guns of various suppression guns...... This figure does not take into account the brigade and regimental artillery, various mortars and anti-aircraft guns, and rocket artillery.

"The artillery group fires at me!" Popov ordered loudly, "Give me a hard blow to the Nazi artillery and let them know what the anger of the Bolsheviks was like!" ”

As soon as Major General Popov gave the order, the 17 artillery regiments under the 10th Army immediately began to counterattack, and the flashes fired by more than 500 cannons turned the entire sky red. Looking down from an altitude of three or four thousand meters, the Luftwaffe bomber pilots could immediately spot the location of the Soviet artillery group that was firing!

It turned out that it was not only the German 6th Army that participated in today's short assault operation, but also the powerful 6th Air Force of the Luftwaffe, which had also sent more than 1,000 fighters, and had already reached the air near the theater of operations before the 3 smoke launcher regiments and 13 artillery battalions of the 6th Army opened fire.

Now the artillery group of the 10th Soviet Army opened fire and exposed the target, and it was immediately subjected to the most intense bombardment! Although the anti-aircraft guns responsible for protecting the Soviet artillery group all desperately fired into the air, the Yak-1 and Lager-3, who were rushing into the air, were desperate to block the German aircraft group.

But where can a limited number of German aircraft and fighters such as the Yak-1 and Lager-3 be blocked by a sudden and massive sortie? Thousands of bombs of tens of thousands soon fell on the heads of the Soviet artillerymen, and the artillery group that had just opened fire suddenly became dumb!

"Well, the artillery of the Soviets is suppressed!"

Sitting in an armored command vehicle, Major General Hubei, the commander of the "Hube Heavy Armored Division", saw that there were no more orange or dark red lights flying from east to west in the sky, and he knew that the Soviet artillery group had been suppressed by the Luftwaffe.

"It's our turn now!" Major General Hube stood up, his eyes were leveled ahead, and he only saw that on a wide and flat plain, countless armored vehicles had been lined up in a neat attack formation!

At the forefront were three heavily armored battalions armed with Tiger tanks, and 132 Tiger heavy tanks were lined up in a wedge assault formation. Hundreds of wheeled or half-tracked armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft combat vehicles, tank repair vehicles, and Zlini 2 105mm assault guns were also lined up and followed behind the Tiger heavy tanks, forming a mighty divisional armored cluster assault formation!

"Vehicle start!" Major General Hube gave the order in a loud voice.

The staff officer on the side immediately sent his order to every combat vehicle in front through the on-board radio. In less than 15 minutes, the roar of the motor was resounding in the sky, almost overwhelming the sound of shelling and bomb explosions.

The sound of the internal combustion engine soon reached the positions of the 328th Infantry Division of the Soviet Red Army, which had just been bombarded by German artillery and rocket artillery.

The commanders and fighters of the Red Army who were guarding there soon knew that something was wrong, how could they not hear the sound of the tank motor? And this movement is so big, I don't think it's a small cluster of ten or eight.

"Comrades! Grab your weapons and get to the ground! ”

"Comrades! Fighters of the world revolution, prepare to fight and strike hard at the Nazis! ”

"Bolshevik Party members, members of the Youth League, fighters of the world revolution, the time has come to test us......"

The shouts of commanders and political workers reverberated throughout the position, and the Red Army soldiers of the brigade were soon organized. Armed with rifles, anti-tank grenades and Molotov cocktail bottles, and dragged machine guns, the Red Army soldiers rushed from their hidden positions to the front line bombarded by German artillery. The 1937 45mm anti-tank gun and the PTRD-41 14.5mm anti-tank gun were also dragged or carried into firing positions.

The counterattack of the German Empire has begun! (To be continued.) )