"I'm Chuxin, I'm surrounded by enemies, please fire at me! Shoot at me! ”

This was the last roar of the glorious commander of the 1st Tank Brigade of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Colonel Chukhin, who used the T-34 he was riding to command the radio on the tank after being surrounded by German tanks. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The rocket artillery battalion attached to the 16th Mechanized Corps then fired a huge salvo towards the location of Colonel Chukhin!

"Where are the Soviets shelling with rockets?"

Moder, who was watching the battle from the upper floor of a tall Catholic church in the center of Legionovo, was startled by the sudden volley of Soviet rockets, and hurriedly asked the adjutant beside him.

"Admiral, they seem to be ...... On the battlefield in the northeast of the bombardment of the city of Legionovo! ”

"Northeast of the city of Legiono? Did our Tiger repel the T-34 of the Soviets? Modell asked.

"It doesn't seem to be ...... yet"

At this moment, a staff officer ran to Moder's side and reported: "Admiral, Admiral Steiner reports that Rudel's heavy armor cluster was indiscriminately covered by Soviet rocket artillery during the war with the Soviet T-34 tanks!" ”

"No difference!?" Moder was stunned and stunned.

Indiscriminate coverage is to cover German tanks and Soviet tanks with rocket artillery when they are fighting, regardless of whether they are German tanks or Soviet tanks, and kill and wound them together! That's too cruel, isn't it?

"Do you know about the damage?" Moder hurriedly asked.

"It's still being counted." The staff officer replied.

Hearing this news, Moder could no longer sit still, although the Tiger tank and the Panther tank had many problems, and Guderian did not think much of it. But they are the protectors of Warsaw, and even the loss of one is distressing.

Thinking of this, Moder hurriedly went downstairs and got into his armored command car to Steiner's forward headquarters. When he arrived, Steiner was giving the order to counterattack on all fronts.

"All tank companies and assault gun companies must participate, and advance to Vovomin as much as possible!"

"Send a telegram to the Eastern Front Air Force Command to apply for large-scale air support, demanding that air superiority be achieved on the battlefield on the northeast road north of Warsaw tomorrow morning, and at the same time launch suppressive air strikes on transportation hubs, troop assembly areas, and artillery positions behind enemy lines!"

"Order 3 smoke launcher regiments, immediately launch a salvo and cover the starting positions of the Soviet troops with rocket artillery!"

No sooner had he given his order than he saw most of Moder enter.

"Commander." Although Steiner is on the same level as Moder, he is a general. But Moder was the commander of the army group, and Steiner was only the division commander.

"How's it going? Are the losses of the 501st and 505th battalions large? ”

Hearing Moder's question, Steiner hurriedly took a copy of the damage report he had just received from one of the adjutants, and handed it to Moder with both hands.

"The losses of the Tiger tanks were not significant, only five vehicles were damaged, but they could be repaired, four vehicles had mechanical problems, the remaining 46 were still operable, and two were damaged from the No. 3 assault gun," he said. However, the Finnish SS battalion suffered considerable losses in the event of rocket attacks, and now 161 people were killed and 58 seriously wounded. However, the losses of the Soviets were definitely heavier, and the casualties should be around 1000 people! ”

Rocket artillery poses little threat to heavy and medium tanks, but it is a very brutal weapon against the infantry, and the infantry, whether German or Soviet, in its strike range, suffers heavy losses.

However, Qiu Xin's call to "shoot at me" before his sacrifice (he was not killed by rocket artillery, but by the 88mm cannon of the Tiger tank) still worked. After being bombarded by rocket artillery, Major Rudel, the commander of Rudel's cluster, was a little confused, and the Finnish infantry also suffered heavy losses, so he did not immediately give the order to pursue. This decision allowed the remnants of the 1st Soviet Tank Brigade to withdraw from the battlefield and somewhat retain some strength.

But the commander of the 16th Mechanized Army, Major General Sokalov, and the commander of the 4th Army, Major General Korobkov, still have a feeling of imminent disaster.

Because the glorious 1st Tank Brigade not only suffered heavy losses, but also produced a brigade commander who "fired at me".

The 1st Tank Brigade will definitely have to continue to be glorious, and Qiu Xin is undoubtedly a loyal GC fighter and a martyr of the world revolution, and he is not responsible for today's defeat.

So who will be the sinner who single-handedly caused the heavy casualties of the 1st Tank Brigade and the sacrifice of Comrade Chuxin?

Major General Korobkov, who was arranging defenses in Vovomin, believed that Sokalov was a sinner and should be reformed through labor.

And Sokalov at this time...... is struggling to be able to go to Siberia for labor reform. For him now, labor reform is no longer a nightmare, but an ideal that needs to be fought for. Because the rearguard unit of the 16th Mechanized Corps led by him was almost wiped out by the pursuing Germans.

When the time comes, he will either be captured in a humiliating manner - this is a betrayal of the Motherland!

Either heroic and heroic sacrifice - that is the revolutionary martyrs!

Sokalov did not want to betray his homeland, but he was reluctant to die, so he had already made up his mind that he would either go to Siberia for reform, or die in Poland and pull down...... If you really can't break out, you kill yourself with a pistol.

"Comrades! Now is the time for us to be tested, for the cause of the emancipation of mankind, for the glory of the Soviet Fatherland, no one is allowed to take a step back! ”

"To retreat is a betrayal of the Soviet Fatherland, a betrayal of the world revolution! Comrades, take up your weapons and continue the fight against murderous imperialism! ”

Just when Sokalov made up his mind, the voice of political commissar Fedulov suddenly sounded in his ears.

He followed the sound and saw that Fegulov was standing on a damaged T-34 tank with a tin horn, speaking agitation to a group of empty-handed infantry who had just retreated from the front line.

Those infantry were all motorized infantry of the 16th Mechanized Army, and after the 46th Tank Brigade of the 16th Mechanized Corps and the 1st Tank Brigade temporarily attached to the 16th Mechanized Corps were defeated by the German armored group, Sokalov could only personally lead more than 3,000 infantry in order to save his mechanized army. But where did these infantry hold back the tracks of German tanks? After barely resisting for thirty or forty minutes, they all retreated. But before he could retreat, he was blocked by more than a dozen cadres of the political department of the army led by political commissar Fedulov.

Yes, there are only a dozen political cadres with pistols, and the machine gun supervision team does not exist. Now, in 1942, only a few years before the Great Purge, the prestige of the political commissars and political cadres is high. One sentence of them can make people go to Siberia for labor reform, and one sentence can also make people join the party and work for a happy life.

"Comrade Political Commissar, it's dangerous here, you should withdraw first!" Sokalov ran to the wreckage of the T-34 tank where Fegulov was standing with a couple of staff officers, "The tanks of the Germans will soon come up!" ”

"Comrade commander, you should withdraw first!" Fegulov jumped out of the car, but he did not agree to run away. He is not stupid, now that the army commander has not run, how can he, the political commissar, run first? In the event that Comrade Army Commander dies with honor, he, the political commissar, will be responsible for the defeat! At that time, the political commissar will have to go to jail if he doesn't have to do it.

"I'm the commander, and it's my responsibility to cover everyone to go first." Where did Sokalov dare to go. Now that the battle has been fought like this, the commissar will not be withdrawn, and the army commander will run away first, but it is not a question of going to Siberia for a few years to reform, but the highest security measures will be imposed - that is, shooting and deportation, but usually shooting.

When the two of them were humble, they suddenly shouted without knowing who shouted: "Rockets!" Hide! ”

Then Sokalov and Fegulov were thrown down by the people around them next to the wreckage of the T-34 tank to avoid bombs.

As soon as the two of them lay down, they felt the earth tremble, and at the same time, a strange cry of "Xiuxiu" sounded in their ears, and then there were continuous explosions! Almost instantly, the Soviet soldiers, who were congested on and on both sides of the road to Vovomin, were drowned in a jungle of smoke columns. Shrapnel representing death flew in all directions, causing the Soviet infantry to scream and be swept down in a strange way. These are all 130mm large-caliber rockets, falling like raindrops, and the density is unbelievably large, so that the Soviet officers and soldiers who suffered such an unprecedented rapid blow have almost not even had time to turn around the idea of concealment, and most of them have been killed!

But rocket attacks come and go quickly. Before the big guys could react, the rocket artillery attack was over.

Sokalov and Fegulov escaped by hiding next to a destroyed T-34 tank, but the two GC fighters were also mortals, and now they were a little dizzy and showed symptoms of shock. Sokalov regained some consciousness, and the clatter of tank tracks against the ground came from his buzzing ears.

Was it a Soviet tank? Sokalov thought in a daze, most of this time he would go to Siberia for labor reform, but his life should be saved. At that moment, he suddenly heard a faint voice of conversation in German.

"So many corpses!"

"Maybe there are still alive, look for them."

"Found a living, as if it were an officer, this is ...... A general? ”

Sokalov sensed that someone was dragging him, most likely the Germans were going to capture him! What a betrayal! He hurriedly touched his pistol and wanted to shoot himself. But as soon as he moved, his arm was twisted by force. Then he heard the shouts of the military political commissar Fedulov: "Long live the world revolution!" Long live the Bolshevik Party! Long live the great leader Stalin...... Bang! (To be continued.) )