Lilia. Litvyak was hanging from an open parachute and was slowly falling. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The German Fokker Zero did not fall into the ground and fired at her. However, Lilia soon finds herself out of danger because she is in the middle of the battlefield where she has skydive. The front of the Soviet 40th Army was a few kilometers to the south of her, and to the north of her...... She found a large number of German tanks and infantry slowly advancing!

"Don't be captured!" Stalin's White Rose (the German pilots mistook the lily for a rose) thought to himself, "If you fall among the Germans, you will commit suicide, you must commit suicide, and you must not betray the Motherland and the cause of GCISM." Maybe when you die, you will be able to see Solomartin again......"

I don't know if Lilia's determination to dedicate herself to the cause of GCISM moved God (unlikely, to be honest), she fell from the sky when a not very strong north wind was blowing, so she was lucky enough to land relatively close to the Soviet position. But the Germans' tanks and infantry were also approaching.

Lilia didn't dare to stay here for long, and quickly tore off the parachute she was carrying, her hat hooked away by the rope of the parachute, revealing her curly blonde hair. Then the delicate, slender, girl-like Soviet ace pilot sprang up in the middle of a crater-strewn battlefield.

And at this moment, a G43 sniper rifle with a sight mounted on the body was facing the Soviet heroine from a distance.

"Herbert, why don't you fire! Hurry up and fire! Standing on a slow-moving Grizzly assault gun, Brandt's urging voice sounded in the ears of the squad leader, Sergeant Schmidt.

"That'...... That's a girl, I don't kill girls! "Brandt has now given up a lot of bottom lines, but he really can't bear to shoot a GC loli with one shot.

"Girls? How can there be girls on the battlefield? Sergeant Schmidt also climbed into the Grizzly assault gun where Brandt was located, and then raised the binoculars to look.

"Really a girl? What's going on? Isn't this a pilot? How can it be a girl? Sergeant Schmidt shook his head, and finally did not force Brandt to shoot again, but pulled Brandt down to the ground.

At this time, the German armored vehicles on the battlefield had stopped advancing three thousand meters away from the front of the Soviet positions - at this distance, the Soviet anti-tank weapons could not threaten the "Grizzly" assault guns at all, while the short-barreled 150mm guns of the "Grizzly Bears" assault guns could accurately hit the positions of the Soviet Red Army!

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"Air raids! Hide! ”

"Air defense! Air defense ......"

When the German armored infantry group stopped advancing, the Soviet heroine Lilia galloped towards her position. Solzhenitsyn, for his part, rushed to the bunker prepared for artillery observers amid the hasty shouts of the Red Army soldiers.

It turned out that the German Fokker Zero D fighters had already eliminated (shot down or expelled) all the Yak-1 fighters, and the French Breguet planes that had been scattered and evaded before also returned to the battlefield, dived down, first dropping 50-kilogram bombs, and then using 20mm cannons and 13mm machine guns mounted on the nose and wings to frantically strafe the defenders on the killing positions. The Fokker Zero D, which had defeated the Yak-1, joined the fray at this time, a barrage of bullets whizzing through the air, and the trenches and the surrounding ground were suddenly stirred up with large clouds of dust and mud.

In his hurry, Solzhenitsyn did not have time to get into the bunker, and could only huddle directly at the bottom of the trench like ordinary infantry. However, the German Fokker Zero D fighter and the latest French Breguet attack aircraft are both "strong strike" types with reinforced armor, which can almost strafe at low altitudes along the trenches against the Soviet anti-aircraft machine guns!

Solzhenitsyn could only helplessly close his eyes, curl up, let the bullets whizz in his ears, and waited for the Grim Reaper, who did not know when it would appear, to end his glorious, combative, revolutionary life...... If so, he's a loyal GC fighter!

The smell of blood began to permeate the narrow trenches, and the screams of dying replaced the hum of planes and gunfire.

Solzhenitsyn knew that the German and French planes had finally left, but the bloody battle had only just begun.

"Bolshevik Party members, members of the Youth League, the time has come to defend the Soviet Fatherland......"

The roars of the political workers rang out one after another in the trenches, and although these political workers could not control such artillery observers as Solzhenitsyn, they did not dare to shrink into the trenches to avoid their responsibilities. If the artillery command above could not get the enemy position reported by him and his company, then the position would have been quickly broken through by the Germans, then he would have waited to be put in a punitive camp.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

No sooner had Solzhenitsyn reached his command post than a landslide-like explosion began to shake the Soviet positions beneath his feet again. This is the German "Grizzly Bear" assault gun firing! However, the distance of 3000 meters is too close for the "Grizzly Bear" to miss, and the 150mm shell has enough lethality for the field position. It is really an ideal weapon for attacking field defensive positions -- according to the regulations of the Wehrmacht Panzer Headquarters, the Grizzly is an infantry support assault gun mainly used to break through field fortifications.

And the weapon for attacking cities and fortresses is another "Assault Tiger" self-propelled assault mortar developed on the territory of the Tiger tank!

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Elias. Major General Oktyabrisky was at this time on a hill quite close to the forward position of the 40th Infantry Army, and was watching the battle with the commander of the 3rd Army, Colonel-General Zhimachenko.

Seeing the tremendous power of the German "Grizzly" assault guns in front, Major General Oktyabrysky put down his binoculars and looked at Zhimachenko, who was pale-faced beside him.

"Comrade commander, the enemy's assault artillery is too powerful, and the fighters of the 4th Infantry Army may be difficult to resist." Major General Oktyabrysky said, "Shouldn't the 11th Mechanized Corps be committed?" ”

"It's not time, it's not time." Zhimachenko shook his head, "I haven't seen their Tiger tanks yet...... Now there are only a small number of No. 4 tanks covering the assault guns with 150mm cannons, not even the 'Rhino' tank destroyer. They must be lying in ambush somewhere, waiting for our tanks to show up. ”

Zhimachenko's analysis is good, there are really 2 German heavy armored battalions and 2 German tank destroyer battalions nearby. There are a total of 80 movable Tiger and 87 movable Rhinoceros. In addition, the forces that are now attacking the 40th Army of the Red Army are tactical clusters consisting of the 3rd Panzer Division and the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division of the German Army. And the main forces of these two divisions (each with a heavy armored battalion) also drove to the vicinity of Demidov.

So in addition to the armored units (including 2 assault gun battalions, 1 tank battalion, 2 heavy battalions, 2 tank destroyer battalions, 4 self-propelled artillery battalions) that appeared in front of the Soviet 40th Army or were ambushing in the nearby woods, there were as many as 2 armored regiments (4 tank battalions in total) of tanks waiting in places that could quickly rush to the outskirts of Demidov. In total, you have more than 700 active tanks/SPGs!

Such armored forces are simply not what the 3rd Mechanized Corps and the 11th Tank Destroyer Brigade have, which the 2nd Army has.

Moreover, the 3rd Panzer Division and the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division were only a small part of the armored forces that the German 4th Tank Army had.

Zhimachenko was silent for a while, and then said: "It's better to report on the situation with Demidov...... At the same time, we can propose a decisive battle with the German armored forces in the Rudnya area south of Demidov and near the Katyn Forest. ”

Wooded areas were flanked by rail and road, but the German armoured clusters would not pass through them, and would most likely make a detour through the relatively flat Rudnia region, then through the flat areas north of the Katyn Forest, and finally into the vicinity of the city of Smolensk.

For the Soviet army, which obviously did not have the upper hand in armored forces, it was obviously more advantageous to take advantage of the relatively complex terrain and the backdrop of the Smotsk fortification area in the area of the Rudnia-Katyn Forest.

Zhimachenko's proposal was quickly supported by Marshal Kulik and reported to the Supreme High Command in Moscow.

At the same time, an even grander idea of a decisive battle was brewing in the mind of Stalin, the great leader of the Soviet Union.

Unlike the small goal envisaged by Pavlov and Shaposhnikov, which focused on striking the German army in the north (the 4th Panzer Army of General Hort) in order to force the Germans around Leningrad to break the siege and move south, Comrade Stalin had two big goals!

The first thing that Stalin targeted was the headquarters of the German 1st Panzer Army from the north of the southern front -- in the early morning of May 3, the direction of the German offensive on the southern route had gradually become clear, and instead of going back to the flank of the Soviet Southwestern Front, it was heading straight for Bryansk. The goal of the German army on this road is obviously not Smolensk, but simply to go straight to Moscow, where the troops are slightly empty!

Moreover, the German army advanced at great speed, and played a devastating momentum along the way, as if it was the strongest of the 3-way attack on the German army (at this time, the German Army Group Center also sent another offensive group, which was directly inserted from Novelis between Minsk and Smolensk).

If the Bryansk Front and the Western Front and part of the forces of the South-West Front can be concentrated and crushed, the other two German armies will certainly be greatly shaken. In this way, the Red Army had the possibility of concentrating its forces again to annihilate or inflict heavy damage on the German army on the northern route! (To be continued.) )