"Werner, you take a squadron of JU288 to Moscow tonight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The commander of the 6th Luftwaffe Air Force, Jeshunek, immediately after receiving an order from Guderian, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, sent the commander of the 2nd Long-Range Bombardment Regiment, Werner Brown. Lieutenant Colonel Baumbach called his headquarters on the Courland Peninsula.

Back in the 20s, when Germany was not free from the Treaty of Versailles, the Courland Peninsula was an important base for the Luftwaffe, which was still "underground" at that time. The secret military school of the Luftwaffe and the test flight base of the new aircraft, as well as the experimental center of the factory of the FK-BF aircraft manufacturing complex, are located on the Courland Peninsula near Riga.

After the Baltic Republic joined the German Empire, the Courland Peninsula was built as an important stronghold of the Luftwaffe/Naval Aviation on the Eastern Front, not only building several division-sized large airfields, but also building underground ammunition depots and underground oil depots for the use of the Air Force/Naval Aviation, and building a joint command center for the Air Force/Naval Aviation.

And after the outbreak of the World War, the Luftwaffe air defense also deployed radar stations and a large number of anti-aircraft towers on the Courland Peninsula, turning the Courland Peninsula into the strongest nest of the Luftwaffe/Naval Air on the Eastern Front.

Therefore, after the tense situation on the Eastern Front, the headquarters of the 6th Air Force and a large number of aviation regiments mobilized from the Western Front were stationed on the Courland Peninsula. The 2nd Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment, with 85 JU288 long-range bombers and 40 HE-219 high-altitude fighters, was withdrawn from the Western Front in mid-May 1942 and deployed to the most heavily defended base in Tarsi, on the Courland Peninsula. The JU288, which has a maximum range of 6000 km, takes off from here, and the combat radius (the combat radius is generally from one-third to forty percent of the maximum range) can cover all the way to the Ural Mountains and northwestern Kazakhstan!

It's a pity that the JU288 is not a four-engine heavy bomber like the B-29, although the range is not inferior to the B-29, but the maximum bomb load is only 3.6 tons (if you want to fly so far to the Ural Mountains, the bomb load will be reduced to 1.8 tons), and the number of equipment is not much, not enough to carry out the strategic bombing mission of destroying the Soviet Union from the air.

However, it is very ideal to use the JU288 to carry out diversion bombing missions, and to prevent the destruction of 2 regiments of JU288 (there is another regiment in the 4th Air Force), the Soviets need to deploy at least 2,000 MiG-5s strengthened by high-altitude and night battles, as well as a large number of radar stations and 130mm heavy anti-aircraft guns.

Because the JU288 is a very difficult opponent to prevent, a bit like a strengthened version of the British Mosquito, faster, higher, and with a greater range, and the destructive power of remote-controlled gliding bombs is not comparable to throwing bombs indiscriminately at high altitudes, so the Soviet Union cannot but deal with it with all its might.

"General, what good things should we bring to Stalin?" Werner. Lieutenant Colonel Baumbach asked.

"Ordinary bombs and leaflets," said Jeshunek, "are very difficult to use because they are night raids." In addition, the Army Policy Council prepared hundreds of thousands of leaflets to expose the traitorous nature of Stalin. ”

"Stalin was a traitor?" Werner. Baumbach was stunned, "Who did he betray?" ”

"It is said that he betrayed Marxism-Leninism and the world ......revolution," Jeshunek shook his head, "and he is not a good man anyway." ”

"Army Policy ......" Werner. Baumbach shook his head with a wry smile, "What are these guys thinking?" It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Do they expect the Russians to believe our propaganda? ”

"Probably?" Jeshunek shrugged, "Werner, it's none of our business, let's just throw paper bullets, even if no Russians believe it, it's good to disgust Stalin." ”

Jeshunek did not believe in the National Socialist Offensive that Hersman and Natalie had discussed. But he is a soldier, and a soldier must obey orders, so Moscow is not the only city that will throw paper bullets tonight, Leningrad, Minsk, Kharkov and Kiev, as well as the heads of the Soviet Red Army fighters marching west...... Bombs and paper bombs thrown together, of course!

And the same thing was done by the Soviet Air Force during the day on June 1, when their SB bombers dropped countless leaflets in Warsaw, Krakow, and Lublin, telling every Polish working people in these cities the good news that the world revolution had begun and that the Soviet Union was preparing to liberate Poland first, calling on them to launch an armed uprising to overthrow the Nazi rule in Germany. But these bullets will certainly not have any effect in the city of Warsaw, because the citizens of Warsaw will soon be going to Western Europe as refugees - and the people of Western Europe will welcome them with open arms, of course!

"Compatriots, the Russians occupied half of our homeland, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters, and now they still want to deceive us......"

At the railway station in Warsaw, it was a very lively evening, with loudspeakers constantly broadcasting the speech of the leader of the Polish Solidarity party. Countless Warsaw civilians, mostly elderly people, women and children, carrying packages and suitcases, wept as they boarded a train bound for Western Europe under the command of Solidarity cadres and soldiers of the SS Polish Division – the evacuation of the million-strong man was still going on and was not expected to be completed until around June 10.

And at the same time, the train from the West also pulled cartloads of German officers and soldiers! These officers and men were all part of the Wehrmacht's 6th Army, which was currently tasked with defending Warsaw and was therefore a purely infantry army.

The direct forces under the command of the 6th Army included the 168th Infantry Division, the 29th SS Polish Volunteer Division (there were two SS Polish Divisions and the 20th Polish Volunteer Cavalry Division, which is now under the direct jurisdiction of Army Group Center), the 9th Anti-aircraft Artillery Division and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Smoke Launcher Regiments (rocket artillery) of the Air Defense Corps, the 49th, 101st, and 733rd heavy artillery battalions, and the 6th and 41st light engineer battalions.

The subordinate units of the group army included the 17th Army (with the 50th, 62nd, and 298th Infantry Divisions), the 29th Army (with the 44th and 289th Infantry Divisions), the 44th Army (with the 9th, 57th, 262nd, and 297th Infantry Divisions) and the 55th Army (with the 75th and 111th Infantry Divisions).

In total, there are 13 infantry divisions, 1 anti-aircraft artillery division and 1 smoke launcher regiment (rocket artillery regiment), with a strength of about 240,000 troops. It wasn't very powerful, and it didn't have much mechanized equipment, but it was enough to defend the fortified city of Warsaw.

Of course, it was not the hapless Paulus who commanded this army group, and Paulus was still hospitalized in Brest. General Modell, who was sent by Marshal Guderian to serve as the commander of the 6th Army, was a classmate of the military academy with Hersman, and served in the general staff system for a long time during the war, and had a good relationship with Hersman, so his official fortune was also better than in history.

Moder now holds the rank of General of the Panzer Corps, but he is not given command of the Panzer Corps, but becomes the commander of an infantry army. However, his experience in the armored forces for a long time can be applied to anti-armor operations.

"Walter, can you really hold Warsaw?"

On the afternoon of 1 June, the commander of Army Group Center, Field Marshal Rundstead, also arrived in Warsaw by train from Posen's headquarters to inspect the city's defenses. And after seeing the situation in the city defense of Warsaw, Marshal Rundstead looked very worried.

Because Warsaw is practically not fortified! There are no fortifications outside the city, except for the fortifications left over from the Pilsudski era in the area of the "Warsaw Forest".

"You can hold on for a while," replied Modell, "for two or three months." ”

"Can you stay that long?" Marshal Rundstead was not convinced, "You don't even have a perimeter fortification!" ”

"I don't need outlying fortifications," Moder spread his hands, "Marshal, I only have 13 infantry divisions, the perimeter of Warsaw is more than 60 kilometers, the 13th division is scattered on a defensive line of more than 60 kilometers, each division is responsible for 5 kilometers of defense, and the strength is definitely not enough." ”

"Then how do you keep it?"

Modell walked over to a model of the city in the center of his headquarters' war room, and then gestured to the model of Warsaw, which was lined with buildings.

"Marshal, isn't this just a fortress? There are tall buildings everywhere, and the Vistula River, which is more than 200 meters wide, runs through the city. ”

"Street fighting?"

"Yes," said Modell, "that's the best way to do it." Tanks are relatively vulnerable in urban operations, and many tanks were destroyed in urban operations during the Western Front campaign. And at that time the British and French did not have such a thing as an Iron Fist anti-tank grenade launcher. The range of the Iron Fist is only 30 meters, and at this distance it is possible to destroy the frontal armor of any known tank. And what better place to be suited to this weapon than the streets of Warsaw? ”

Morder paused, and then said, "And not only do we have an iron fist and anti-tank guns, we also have the No. 3 assault gun." Each division had a battalion of No. 3, and the No. 3 assault gun was enough to deal with the tanks of the Soviets. ”

Assault gun No. 3 was an artillery formation, so each division had a battalion. Because it is artillery, there are only 18 No. 3 assault guns in one assault gun battalion, and there are a total of 234 No. 3 assault guns in 13 battalions, which is almost equivalent to an armored division. Moder plans to use the No. 3 assault gun as a mobile fortress, and use it with the tall buildings that have been transformed into defensive fortresses by the German army, that is, to effectively combine the fixed fortress, the mobile fortress and the German Superman to form a battle group. (To be continued.) )