Chapter 1026: Declaration of War (Part II)
"Chairman! Adolf Hitler declared war on us! Germany, declared war on us!! When Stalin received this call in his bedroom, he immediately felt as if he had been hit by five thunderbolts, and his whole body was burned in the thunder fire......
"I'll go to the Kremlin at once, please inform Comrade Trotsky, Comrade Blyukher......" But Stalin, after all, was a weathered man, and in an instant reacted and said in a hurried voice to the other end of the phone.
"We have informed the other comrades of the Supreme Council and asked the chairman to come to the Kremlin for a meeting immediately......"
"I'll be there soon!" Stalin threw down the phone, rang the bell in the secretary's room, put on a coat and hurried to the door. The secretary had already prepared the car by this time, and the secretary knew that Stalin was going out long before the phone rang.
Stalin's secretaries were on shift duty and were on call twenty-four hours a day. The place where they were on duty was the small room downstairs from Stalin's bedroom. There's a bell there.
The buttons were in Stalin's bedroom, study and office. As soon as the bell rang, the secretary had to start preparing Stalin's car.
"Go to the Kremlin right now, as fast as you can!" Stalin, who rushed into the car, roared in a low voice with a blue face, but the driver did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
saw the driver slam into gear, and then kicked the accelerator and the car galloped away like a wild horse.
"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! "......It's a pity that no matter how much Stalin tried to catch up, he never caught up with this battle. At four o'clock in the morning, Ribbentrop received a telegram.
It took more than ten minutes on the way to Kalinin's residence, and by the time Kalinin received the declaration of war, it was already close to 4:20 in the morning.
Kalinin's secretary did not slack off and sent the situation back to Moscow as soon as he received the declaration of war. But after translation, transmission, and then notification to Stalin and others.
It took more than ten minutes in the middle. This was extremely fatal, because the Germans had scheduled the start of the war at 4:45. And Stalin and others were already in their thirties when they received the news.
By the time they hurried to the Kremlin conference room, it was already 4:48.
Other words. By the time they got together to discuss what to do with Germany's declaration of war, the Germans had already started the war. At the same time, the Soviet troops on the front line did not even receive any warning or command orders.
They had recently received orders from Moscow to try not to clash with Germany. The unprepared Soviets also hoped to use Ribbentrop's negotiations to stall for time.
"Buzz...... Tweet ...... "The German fighters and bombers crossed the border directly at the moment ......of the battle, and saw that they were bombing the Soviet positions on the ground.
Countless tons of explosives were thrown at the Soviet positions, and the unprepared Soviet troops on the ground positions were directly attacked and killed in their sleep.
In order to ensure the smooth and successful of this attack, the Germans used the largest batch of their own "mace" heavy rocket-booster bombs.
In order to ensure the complete destruction of the positions of the Soviet troops. You know, the Soviet Union did not relax at all in its defense against Germany. They built a large number of fortifications and chain bunkers on the forward positions, in order to use them to slow down the German attack.
This was also the reason why the Soviet Union felt that it was possible to relax a little more with the German troops on the opposite side of the position. Trotsky and Stalin, having personally visited these positions, decided that even if the Germans launched a surprise attack, the Germans would not be able to break through them for at least forty-eight hours.
Forty-eight hours was enough for the Soviets to gather troops against the German invasion. It's a pity. The ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny.
The power of the heavy rocket-booster bomb could penetrate a reinforced concrete bunker four meters underground, and it was no more than a matter of time to destroy the Soviet fortifications.
And the most serious problem is that the German army had spent more than half a year before the attack to secretly send reconnaissance planes to the Soviet positions for reconnaissance.
Even the loopholes in some positions were not clear to the Soviet troops, but the Germans felt them clearly. One side is calculated or not, and the other side is almost kept in the dark.
War in this case. Then the result can be imagined - the Soviet positions collapsed in the first wave of the offensive.
The units remaining in the positions suffered heavy losses in the first round of German shelling, and the ensuing air raids destroyed more than half of the fortifications. Subsequently, the Soviet positions collapsed on all fronts under the crushing of the German tank units.
"Mom...... Mom ...... "A Soviet soldier whose leg was blown off and abandoned on his position, he was now the only living man in his position.
The rest were either corpses all over the ground or retreated backwards. Under the sound of Kerala's tracks, the German tanks slowly drove into position.
"Please...... Leave me alone......" The Soviet soldier gave his last poignant call, but unfortunately the Germans inside the tank did not understand Russian.
And the most serious thing is. The sound of the crawlers crushing was like a thousand horses galloping. directly covered up his voice begging for mercy......
......The roar of a heavy machine gun sounded, and the Soviet soldier was swept directly into a pile of broken flesh on the position. The tank, on the other hand, did not stop, and directly crushed the pile of minced meat and continued to drive forward.
Screams, explosions and gunfire were everywhere in the position, and it took the Germans less than an hour to break through the four lines of Soviet defense.
"Bomb! Keep bombing! Extended Bombing!! Goering danced excitedly in the front command. saw him roar with blood-red eyes: "Blow them up!" Don't stop!! Blow up their last blood, their last bit of guts!! ”
Nearly 5,000 German fighters on the front line perfectly carried out the orders of their commander. Supported by mountains of oil and bombs, the Germans continued to carry out extended bombardment of Soviet positions.
By 6 o'clock in the morning, the Germans had broken through nearly 20 kilometers into the Soviet positions. At the same time, a large number of prisoners were escorted back by the front-line troops. A large number of discarded weapons and equipment and ammunition supplies were left on the side of the road, and the logistics department began to follow up step by step.
On the one hand, they began to work on the placement of prisoners. On the other hand, they began to gather away the weapons and equipment that had been discarded. Even if the Germans can't use these, then handing them over to the allies is a good choice.
"I don't want to hear any reason, I don't want to hear any excuses! Of all the officers who were withdrawn from the position, one was counted as one and all of them were executed! Marshal Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky roared angrily in his command.
"Tell everyone that if you take a step back, I'll shoot them directly! No need for any trial! They will be crucified in the history of the Soviets as counter-revolutionaries! Marshal Tukhachevsky pointed to the generals who had fled outside the door and shouted: "Now, shoot them for me!" ”
Tukhachevsky was furious, knowing that the Germans were attacking fiercely. But he believed that if these people had stayed on the battlefield, the front would not have collapsed so quickly and so completely.
And now, the Germans have broken through more than twenty kilometers into the USSR. Even the soldiers have already pointed directly at the command of this marshal!
chaos, then use heavy canons. This allusion may not have been learned by Tukhachevsky, but this did not prevent the youngest marshal of the battle-tested Red Army from making a decision in this situation.
Someone must be killed! All those who returned, regardless of the reason or origin, were all shot. Only in this way will it be possible to hold back the retreating troops.
Otherwise, the only way to annihilate the Soviet army awaited the Soviet army was to be annihilated. Tukhachevsky, who had studied the theory of great depth and the operation of mechanized corps, knew better than anyone how much damage the mechanized corps would do to the troops once they fell into a rout.
The Soviet army, which had lost its logistics support and transportation equipment, would be directly annihilated under the pursuit of the German mechanized corps. None of them might.
"Bang bang......" A burst of gunfire rang out, and Tukhachevsky looked at the corpses that were carried in with a blushing face, and waved his hand to let the news be transmitted to all places by telegram.
"Kill all these Slavs quickly, without stopping!" Hitler was extremely excited when he learned that the offensive on the front line was going well, and that he had already advanced more than 20 kilometers in just over an hour.
"Tell the front that I am going to hold a grand victory parade for them before going to the Kremlin in Moscow in November!" Hitler waved his hand and laughed: "Their names will forever be recorded in history and passed down through the ages!" ”
"Hey! Hitler!! The German generals present shouted excitedly. For soldiers, there is no more exciting thing to win honor with military exploits.
As a military man, there is nothing more to celebrate than the announcement by one's own Führer that a victory parade will be held for himself in the capital of the enemy. Yes, Moscow has never fallen for centuries.
If the city can be captured, there is no doubt that the German army and these generals will go down in history forever!
And at this time, the world is in an uproar!
Germany declared war on the USSR! The news spread around the world less than two hours after the war began. From both sides of the Pacific Ocean to within Europe, people everywhere are whispering.
The White House was filled with anxious cabinet members, and the Supreme Council of the coalition government in China's imperial capital had all gathered for a meeting. And under the huge news of Germany's declaration of war on the Soviet Union, no one noticed that Japan also declared war on the Soviet Union at this time.
At the same time, their troops, who had already gone to Afghanistan, began to attack towards the borders of the USSR......
ps: It's really a good day...... At 8 o'clock in the morning, I set off to Sanya to take 100 days of children's photos. Then I didn't get home until half past eight in the evening...... Hurry up and hurry, there is a chapter...... Ming'er is not going anywhere, so please take a leave of absence to compensate everyone at home......