The Rise of the Third Reich

"Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. Thank you God for the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ…Amen! "

"Amen!"

When the car stopped, brigade political commissar Ilya Oktyabryski suddenly heard a disgusting reactionary slogan - Amen!

This is not allowed! In the Soviet Union, it was a crime to believe in God, Allah, Amitabha, Taishang Laojun, Amaterasu or other gods and ghosts. According to the 1926 Penal Code, one could be sentenced to 5-10 years of reform through labor!

Oktyabryski got off the car and immediately looked warily towards the place where people were shouting "Amen". He saw a group of civilians in mourning clothes gathering on a wasteland with many brand-new crosses, surrounding a new A rectangular pit dug. A man dressed as a Catholic priest was holding a Bible and chanting something.

This is... an anti-G life group gathering!

Anti-G life group! Oktyabryski thought to himself, this is not 10 years of labor reform, but 25 years of labor reform! These Poles were about to be in trouble... But why didn't anyone arrest them? This place should have been liberated, right?

Thinking of this, Oktyabrski quickly raised his head and looked around - this was the Warsaw front line, and there was a possibility that the car would go the wrong way and end up in a small town controlled by the Germans. If that happens, you must break out immediately or commit suicide...

The first thing that caught his eye was a piece of charred ruins, like the traces left after a cannon bombardment, then another piece of ruins, and then another piece of ruins. It appeared to be a town completely destroyed by artillery, as if there was no place left to hang a flag.

Just when Oktyabryski was looking a little anxiously, a bright red hammer and sickle flag finally appeared in front of his eyes. This is a newly liberated Polish town... But why would someone openly hold an anti-G-revolution rally outside this people's city?

"Is it Comrade Oktyabryski?" came a voice from afar.

Oktyabryski quickly looked up and saw that it was an older, rough-looking Red Army lieutenant general who was about to enter the city under the protection of several guards and staff.

"I am Ilya Oktyabryski, brigade-level political commissar." Oktyabryski hurriedly stepped forward to give the lieutenant general a military salute. "I have been ordered to report to Comrade Gulov, political commissar of the 3rd Army. You must be Comrade Zhimachenko, commander of the 3rd Army, right?”

"I am Zhimachenko," this person is the commander of the 3rd Army Zhimachenko. He said with a smile, "Comrade Gurov went to the 11th Mechanized Army to inspect the work... I heard him talk about the hero of the Warsaw Forest, Oak. Djabriski is going to be the director of the political department of our army."

Oktyabryski is now a great hero - a hero of the Soviet Union! He has not received the "Order of Lenin" and "Gold Star Medal" yet, but he is definitely a hero. Because Comrade Stalin issued the highest directive, awarding the commander and political commissar of the 205th Division that captured the Warsaw Forest the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

While becoming a hero, Oktyabryski was also promoted from the regiment-level political commissar to the brigade-level political commissar. He no longer served as the division political commissar of the 205th Division, but was promoted to the director of the political department of the 3rd Army.

So after receiving the order, he immediately left Minsk, Poland, where the 205th Division was resting, and came to Wowomin, where the 3rd Army Headquarters was located.

"Amen!"

Just when Oktyabryski and Zhimachenko were chatting enthusiastically and almost forgot about the "anti-G-life rally", someone shouted "Amen" again.

"This is..." Oktyabryski glanced at the "reactionaries" gathered together.

"It's a funeral."

"I know," Oktyabryski was not a pure Soviet. He was born in 1902 and had seen Christian burials. “But isn’t this place liberated?”

"Yes, but there are no indicators." Zhimachenko shrugged helplessly, and then pulled Oktyabryski into the small town.

The small town is also full of ruins and piles of rubble. Oktiabriski saw some Poles digging something in the pile of stones. It is estimated that the pile of stones was the house where they used to live...

"You should know here, the Legionovo-Wovomin battle was fought in this area." Zhimachenko explained to Oktyabryski as he walked, "German rocket launchers covered this area more than a dozen times , tens of thousands of rockets! There were also shellings at the same time, and thousands of artillery shells were fired! Many people died in the town... The population has been greatly reduced, and the number of reactionary elements is naturally low, and many have been arrested before. , have been sent for reform, so there are no indicators. This is a special situation. The comrades in Poland are asking for instructions to see if the reactionary indicators can be appropriately increased.”

The reactionaries also have targets. They cannot arrest everyone, otherwise who will be liberated? The situation here in Wovomin is special. Everyone who should be arrested before Legionovo-Wovomin was arrested. As a result, the German army and the Red Army started fighting in Wovomin. The firepower was fierce and many innocent people were killed. All of a sudden Reduced Wovomin's population base. The reactionaries survived because they were captured in advance. As a result, the proportion of reactionaries in the population of Wowoming Town has greatly exceeded the standard, and they can no longer be arrested...

…

"Private Herbert Ernst Carl Fram, you are now awarded the Iron Cross First Class in recognition of your contribution to the defense of Warsaw, the defense of the German Empire and its emperor!"

A black Iron Cross with a silver rim and a swastika in the middle was worn on the left chest of the anti-war Brandt... This is an Iron Cross First Class! A soldier can obtain it by performing three to five heroic combat actions on the battlefield. And "Killer Brandt" fully meets the conditions and can have this medal.

"Long live my country! Long live my emperor!"

Although Brandt was very reluctant, he still raised his right arm high and shouted the slogan.

Colonel Korfas, the commander of the 111th Division who awarded him the medal, also returned the gift in a routine manner and didn't pay much attention to the soldier in front of him. Because he was full of worries-his division would soon end its rest and go into battle again. This time the task was to defend an area southwest of Warsaw and adjacent to the Vistula River. A regiment of the 62nd Division is now responsible for defending there, but the Soviet Red Army's offensive is unexpectedly fierce, and it is impossible to sustain it with just one regiment. Therefore, Model could only adjust his deployment and let the 111th Division, which had originally planned to rest for a period of time, move forward in advance.

Click, click, click...

The sound of tracks crushing the ground was loud, reaching Captain Yakov Dzhugashvili's still buzzing ears - the sound of B-4 howitzers firing at close range was really enough! The second generation of the Soviet Union's top official is currently lying in a muddy anti-gun bunker converted from a bomb crater, stretching his neck to look at the four B-4 howitzers and four KVs rolling forward a few hundred meters away. -2 tanks and a battalion of infantry.

And 1,500 meters away from the crater where he was, there was a four-story building that had almost collapsed in half, and a swastika flag still flying high on the roof. A series of muzzle flashes flashed from time to time at many windows of the building. It should be Nazi soldiers firing.

"Comrade Artillery Director, it's dangerous here, you'd better move back!"

An artillery regiment commander named Sharapov was lying next to Yakov, sweating profusely, trying to persuade this great god to leave the front line where he could die at any time.

"Comrade Sharapov, what you need to consider now is not where I should be, but how to take down the building occupied by the Germans."

Yakov's answer made Comrade Sharapov cry in his heart - you are the successor of the revolution. If you have any shortcomings, I will be the number one sinner of the world revolution!

"Tanks! German tanks..."

The sudden shouts startled both Yakov and Sharapov. They raised their binoculars at the same time and saw a German Panzer IV tank slowly coming out from behind the crumbling building. , and pointed the muzzle at the advancing B-4 howitzer.

"Og, 11 o'clock! See those cannons? No need to aim, just shoot out the grenades!"

What appeared in Yakov's eyepiece was Captain Schwarzenegger's No. 4 H tank. Because the situation around Legionovo was once again tense, nine heavy armored battalions were transferred from downtown Warsaw for support. Therefore, the task of supporting the infantry in street fighting in urban areas fell on the shoulders of the 5th SS Tank Battalion.

"Boom!" Captain Schwarzenegger felt a huge vibration in his tank. He quickly grabbed the armrest to prevent himself from being shaken, and at the same time stretched his neck to watch the effect of the shelling.

Because the target was less than 1,000 meters away, it was impossible for the experienced gunner Ogg to miss. A cloud of smoke exploded among the four B-4 howitzers that were pushed forward and backward by the tank tractor. However, the four cannons seemed to be safe and sound and were still advancing slowly.

"Damn it!" Schwarzenegger cursed. It seems that the 75mm high-explosive bomb is still not powerful enough. It must hit directly to destroy the huge and sturdy B-4 howitzer.

He quickly changed his order, "Aim and hit again! The target is a B-4 howitzer! It's still a high-explosive bomb!"

"Tatata...boom!" This time, the coaxial machine gun fired first, and then the shelling. One B-4 howitzer fell down in response, but the other three B-4 howitzers were still advancing slowly.