The Third Reich in Desperation

"Where is it?" Konev looked at this annoying German prisoner with some displeasure.

"Smolensk!" The machine gunner smiled even brighter.

"hiss......"

Everyone present couldn't help but gasp.

I have seen someone who is arrogant, but I have never seen someone who is so arrogant. Does this person have the self-consciousness that a prisoner of war should have?

The political commissar standing beside Konev frowned and looked at the expression on the face of the German machine gunner.

The political commissar in his 30s has worked with Konev for more than ten years.In the past ten years, he has never seen Konev, who was a political commissar, really get angry and lose his temper.But today, he felt that the German in front of him might break this zero record.

After all, he had never seen a prisoner like the German machine gunner in front of him.

In terms of identity, Konev is an army commander, and the opponent is just a small machine gunner.

The political commissar shook his head. It was the first time he had seen a person with such a disparity in status who dared to be so aggressive.

"To capture Smolensk within tomorrow, is this your division's combat mission?" The political commissar continued to ask Konev on his behalf when he saw that Konev's face was very ugly.

"No, I said it casually. I just think that the time before tomorrow is enough to take down a small city of Smolensk. When you decided to invade us, you didn't consider the opponent you provoked. Is it the Third Reich stronger than you?" The machine gunner continued to reply arrogantly.

Hearing his answer, there was another breath of air from all around.Even basically all the Soviets present, including the translator, were thinking, from whom did this German machine gunner learn how to kill? It is really first-class.

Where is Smolensk? It was a famous historical city that gave Napoleon a headache and made the French Expeditionary Force bleed!

Is this a small city that you Germans can take if you want?

The political commissar also took a deep breath with a toothache, shut his mouth and said nothing more.In his heart, he already had the idea of ​​privately killing the machine gunner who dragged him to the sky.

"Just like this, even if we don't kill you today, how can you still drag Stalin in front of Moscow in Moscow? If you can survive the end of this month, I will read my name upside down in the future." The political commissar thought to himself.

"This prisoner, doesn't he know the current situation at all?" A staff officer of the 19th Army Command was talking to another staff officer with great interest: "I used to only know that the Germans are not afraid of death in war, but now it seems that They are not afraid of death, they are trying their best to find death!"

In his opinion, even if Konev did not kill him and sent him to Moscow in the future, this man would not live for a few days.

This kind of thorn is destined to die in the hands of some big shots who don't like him.

After seeing the machine gunner approaching with a series of deadly actions, everyone present no longer wanted to ask him for any information, and wished to send him to Moscow to make a fuss and seek death, so as not to stay here Also a headache.

"A little machine gunner, you don't pay attention to your words."

"That's right, I don't look at myself in the mirror to see what he looks like now. He has been captured by us, do you still think you are great?"

"Hmph, this kind of person is only worthy of being cannon fodder on the battlefield. I still can't recognize my status here. In terms of rank, who here is not higher than him? It's his turn to be a machine gunner playing big cards?"

For a while, several Soviet staff officers who watched the excitement also opened their mouths to mock the German prisoner, venting their anger for their commander and political commissar.

Konev finally lost all his patience and shouted angrily: "Take him down! Send him directly to Moscow tomorrow!"

Konev tried his best to calm down the anger aroused by the German prisoner. He knew very well in his heart that the reason for the captive's arrogance was also because of the German army's overwhelming offensive and the embarrassment of his own retreat.

What is even more embarrassing is that this war was clearly initiated by the Soviet Union, with the purpose of aggressing and occupying German land.As a result, the battle is completely one-sided now, but it is the opposite of the Soviet army.

"I was going to run to occupy German land, but the German army turned and hit my own hinterland. I was ashamed and ashamed." Konev thought painfully.

Text 762 The Secret Weapon of the Soviet Union

"The younger brother of Commander Webb of the 17th Armored Division, did you arrange to fight?" Guderian asked Dietrich, the party representative of their headquarters, in a serious tone.

The two stood at the door of the church and looked at each other. Afterwards, Dietrich waved his hands helplessly: "Okay, I lost. Yes, I admit that I sent Masco to be captured on purpose. We have already The design is complete, let seventeen of them deliberately carry only a small amount of ammunition, and then find a position with sufficient cover, fire at the Soviet army at a long distance, and finally pretend to be captured. Then, we will announce to the outside world that they An honorable sacrifice."

"Why? Major General Webb's younger brother, I have a picture of him, he should be a major officer?" Guderian was a little puzzled: "Why did you let him be captured?"

"We forged the identity of a machine gunner for him, but please rest assured that when he arrives in Moscow, he will regain his original identity and military rank." Dietrich smiled and gave Li Guderian an explanation that was not an explanation.

"Is this an arrangement by your SS?" Guderian thought for a while, then shook his head again: "Forget it, it shouldn't be an arrangement of the Waffen SS, is this a higher-level plan? "

Dietrich nodded. He likes to communicate with smart people like Guderian. There is no need to talk more nonsense, and the other party can understand his side.

"As expected of the Führer's confidant general," Dietrich mentioned the title with a strong sense of private consciousness: "This is a matter handled by the Führer, although I can't tell you the specifics for the time being, I'm sorry, even the party Inside the guard, not many people know about it."

"I understand this." Guderian nodded and said, "I just want to confirm why Masco brought people to that position."

After all, Guderian also had an understanding of Webb's combat deployment, and Major General Webb should not have made arrangements for troops to appear in the arc-shaped area where the Soviet army gathered.In addition, his younger brother, Masco, was also the party representative of Webb's division. He had an important status and was generally responsible for political work.

"Only by the location of a small army, we can judge that there is something wrong with it. General Guderian really deserves his reputation." Dietrich applauded with a smile.

"Then, may I ask, does your arrangement have any impact on the situation of the war? You know, this kind of military action often has a great impact on my command." Speaking of this, Guderian changed the subject , and asked back to the original topic: "Will this help the Soviet army in the east of Smolensk?"

Just this afternoon, Guderian suddenly received a report: he was using the few Soviet broad-gauge trains seized at Orsha Railway Station to arrest

The German logistics force, which was transporting the supplies from the rear to the front supply station, encountered a sudden roar of artillery at 2:30 pm.

The rapid and intensive artillery fire caused terrible casualties to the German army near the station, and also blew up all the material trains they seized into scrap iron.The whole process took less than 10 seconds, and after a brief shelling, everything fell into dead silence again.The surviving German army immediately organized a search team and a security team, but none of them found the surrounding enemy troops, nor did they figure out what kind of artillery was able to pour so much ammunition in such a short period of time, and then moved immediately?

The report on the use of new artillery by the Soviet army was quickly reported to the headquarters of the 2nd Armored Army, but Guderian was equally puzzled by this.He sent a report to General Huot of the 3rd Armored Army, but the other party said that he had not encountered such Soviet artillery.

In other words, Guderian's troops won the lottery and became the first Soviet army to take out this weapon to deal with it.

This makes Guderian still feel lingering anxiety.

According to the information provided by the logistics force, the Soviet army should be equipped with a self-propelled artillery similar to the German army, otherwise it would be impossible to quickly transfer and evacuate after the shelling.In addition, this self-propelled artillery of the Soviet army, compared with other artillery, including the self-propelled artillery currently used by the German army, can quickly pour a large amount of explosives on the target, causing a highly effective one-time strike.

Be able to deploy a large amount of firepower at once, and leave quickly before being counterattacked.This is simply the nemesis of Guderian's armored forces!

Faced with this kind of effective weapon with fierce shooting firepower, large damage range, and capable of destroying dense formations on a large scale, suppressing the opponent's firepower system, and destroying the enemy's fortifications, Guderian basically has no good way to deal with it.

In front of such a powerful artillery that ignores most of the fortifications, all he can do is continue to attack, give up defense, and regard offense as the best defense, as he has always done before.

Guderian said frankly to Dietrich: "We speculate that the Soviet army should be equipped with a self-propelled artillery that is far more powerful than our army. If the Soviet army is not wiped out as soon as possible, find out their artillery units and figure out what the other side uses. What kind of weapon is used, our army will be very passive."

"That's no problem. Ask the troops who discovered the relevant information to submit a report to the wolf den. The high command will help analyze the new Soviet weapons. I believe you will be able to get the relevant data of this weapon in a short time." Dietrich Xi agreed very confidently.

In fact, Guderian has already arranged to interrogate the senior generals among the prisoners.However, among the hundreds of thousands of captives, none of them asked why.It is enough to see how much the Soviet army has worked hard to keep this secret weapon secret.

Now, what he can count on is the High Command, which has always claimed to be extremely capable of intelligence collection.It is said that the High Command even obtained information on the Pearl Harbor base, the most important military base of the US military in the Pacific Ocean, and then sent it to the Japanese, which helped the Japanese win a big battle.

Obviously, it shouldn't be difficult to obtain information about this weapon.

In fact, at that time, the Soviet army had only 7 trial-produced secret weapons in total, and formed the only special independent artillery company. The company commander was 36-year-old Ivan Andreyevich Ferre Captain Love.Due to extreme secrecy, even the insiders of this artillery company do not know the official name of the secret weapon.Only a К letter can be seen on the gun mount.

And this independent artillery company equipped with secret weapons happened to be incorporated into the Western Front of the Soviet Union.Regardless of Pavlov's poor fighting, the Western Front was known as the most elite and best equipped army in the Soviet Union before the war. They had secret weapons, and of course they were allocated to them.

It's a pity that this weapon failed to play a role in the previous battle, and it didn't even have time to show its face.It wasn't until Timoshenko arrived at the Western Front that the special independent artillery company that had been at the rear of the Front was transferred to the surrounding areas of Smolensk to execute combat orders.

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