Moscow, Kremlin.
At about 7 o'clock in the morning of April 30, the high command of the Red Army, located in the Kremlin, had entered a state of the most emergency First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Pavlov, General Staff Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Golikov, and Commander-in-Chief of the Partisan Movement Voroshilov had already arrived one after another, gathering in an operational command room with maps on the walls, while discussing the series of urgent war reports they had just received.
Since an hour ago, the forward positions of various army groups stationed in Belarus, the Smolensk region and along the Dnieper River in Ukraine have been under heavy shelling by the Germans, who are actually European coalition forces At the same time, fierce air battles are also taking place in the above-mentioned areas and over the Kalinin region According to reports from the Western Front, the Southwestern Front, the Kalinin Front, and the Territorial Defense Forces, more than 5,000 sorties of German aircraft, including a large number of Fokker Zero D, FW190A9 and F8, had already invaded Soviet airspace and were engaged in a desperate contest with the fighters of the Soviet Red Air Force.
It is clear that the artillery and air strikes launched by the Germans today are the prelude to a large-scale spring offensive "It's impossible to attack in the middle and south lanes at the same time, they don't have that many troops."
Although First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Pavlov was not a very good commander-in-chief at the front, he was a very good "chief of the General Staff."
His current position is actually that of Chief of the General Staff, and he also has a very accurate grasp of the reality of the German army.
He analyzed: "The Germans do have a lot of artillery, probably 50,100 more than us, so they can carry out heavy shelling on the whole line.
There are also quite a few of their aircraft, which are comparable to ours in quantity and far surpass us in quality.
But the fuel they could use for military operations on the Eastern Front was always only half of ours.
This bottleneck constrained the size and movement of the German mechanized forces, so the intensity of the artillery bombardment and air strikes was not enough to tell the story, and only by ascertaining the movements of the German mechanized units, especially the heavily armed mechanized units equipped with Tiger heavy tanks, could their main targets be determined. ” Because of its success in co-opting France, a country that pursued the "Artillery Doctrine", Germany now had far more towed suppression artillery at its disposal on the Eastern Front than the Soviet Union.
In terms of the number of heavy artillery above the caliber, the German and French forces had an overwhelming advantage.
Therefore, the Soviet high command could not make a judgment based on the intensity of the enemy's shelling.
And the movement of mechanized troops, especially the Tiger tanks, is the most crucial thing, where there is a gathering of Tigers, there must be the main force of the German army "Comrade Voroshilov," the General Staff Chief, Shalashnikov, took over the topic and asked Voroshilov, who was in charge of the work of the partisans, in a very respectful tone, "can our partisans find out the movements of the German Tiger tanks" After returning from Leningrad, Voroshilov lost Stalin's trust and fell from the post of People's Commissar of Defense to the post of chief of the partisan detachment.
However, he is still a member of the Political Bureau, so his status in the party is still very high.
"It's hard to say," Voroshilov shook his head and sighed, "the partisan movement is not carried out ideally, but in the Pskov region, in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, the partisan movement is very difficult. ” "Comrade Voroshilov, can we determine the main forces of the Nazi and fascist armies before they launch a general offensive?"
Stalin's voice suddenly came from outside the door of the war room, and everyone immediately stopped the discussion, and all turned their bodies to the door of the war room, and some of the tall comrades deliberately shrank their heads and backs to make themselves look shorter.
Coming in from outside the door was Stalin, the leader of the loving father with a pipe in his mouth, who had arrived from the Kontsevo villa on the outskirts of Moscow Yesterday, April 29, he stayed at the Kontsevo villa all day, where he held a small reception to entertain Donovan, the president's special envoy, and Matsuoka Yoyote, the Japanese prime minister's special envoy, who had arrived from the United States.
The secret talks between the three parties began after dinner and lasted until late at night.
Although no agreement was reached, the atmosphere of the talks was very harmonious and full of expectations.
And Stalin had a sweet dream that night, dreaming that the red flag was planted on the roof of the Reichstag Unfortunately, when I woke up, I heard the bad news that the Germans had indeed begun large-scale artillery bombardment and air strikes.
"Comrade General Secretary," Voroshilov quickly replied respectfully, "if the Germans attack from the territory of the Pskov region, we can determine in advance, because we have many valiant partisan fighters there." ” Stalin nodded, knowing in his heart what the problem was, although the Soviet Union had many nationalities, but when the catastrophe came, it was the Russians who could really be relied on "Well," said Stalin, "tell our brave partisans to find out at all costs the movements of the Nazi and fascist troops, and that the Soviet people and the Bolshevik Party will never forget the sacrifices they made for victory in the Great Patriotic War." ” "Okay, I'll pass on your instructions to every guerrilla."
Stalin's instructions were bound to inspire every partisan, including the brave Comrade Zoya Kasmodemyyanskaya.
She is now carrying out the important task of identifying the movements of the German mechanized clusters To this end, she stood barefoot, in a thin, dirty, and porous tunic with a thin, filthy garment, and trousers of insufficient length to expose her calves, and stood on the side of an important highway in the city of Velikiye Luki, and stretched out her right hand to the fierce enemy who was marching along the road She's asking for food As a youth league member and guerrilla who was always ready to dedicate herself to the cause of GCISM, Zoya originally thought that the reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines should be to lie in the grass on the side of the road, covered with leaves, and then use military binoculars to check it.
This is how the instructors were taught when training was introduced in the guerrilla training camp.
But there is always a big gap between reality and imagination, and if she lies on the side of the road as she did in training, then she will most likely be discovered by the murderous enemy and then tragically hanged.
Therefore, the experienced Second Lieutenant Sprosky dressed this revolutionary girl, who was quite good-looking and full of youthful atmosphere, as a "woman called Hanako" and a woman who had lost her footing, and there were many shameless women in the Pskov region, and there was one every hundred meters or so on every important road passed by the German and White Russian troops.
Therefore, Comrade Kasmodemyanskaya is only one of the many "begging girls" and is very easy to hide.
According to Ensign Sprosky's arrangement, she could ask for food while counting the German tanks passing by, and Zoya was able to identify various types of tanks and assault guns and units.
In this way, the problem of eating and the reconnaissance mission can be solved together, and it is also very safe.
Of course, it is necessary to be prepared to dedicate oneself to the revolution Not to give his life, but to give his body, but most of the objects of dedication were not German Nazis, the discipline of the German army was strict, and it was not allowed to mess with flowers and grass during the march.
But the White Russian army of the reactionary empress and the French and Croatian-Hungarian armies who fought after the Nazis were not so disciplined The thought that her virginity might be taken away by a reactionary old white man and an old white Russian man gave Zoya a feeling of wanting to vomit.
A rumbling motor sound came, interrupting Zoya's train of thought, who was asking for food for the revolution, and she hurriedly looked at the place where the motor sound came from.
I saw a puff of smoke and dust billowing in, and at a glance, I knew that it was a mechanized army driving over.
Zoya quickly held her breath, her eyes widened, and she stared carefully at the road.
After a while, a scene that made her so excited that she was almost out of breath appeared in front of her eyes.
The legendary Tiger tank appeared It was followed by a column of wheeled or half-tracked armored vehicles, one after the other, rumbling forward.
Zoya counted carefully, until she reached 44, and then passed through the short-barreled No. 4 tank, a total of 22 Zoya knew that it was a heavily armored battalion of Germans that had passed Then, another column of wheeled half-track armored vehicles rumbled, followed by Tiger tanks Two heavily armored battalions Zoya's breathing was a little short, two heavily armored battalions, maybe more, he was likely to find the main force of the Germans this time At that moment, one of the tanks in the German Tiger convoy that was passing in front of her seemed to malfunction and suddenly stalled.
Then the vehicles that followed it all stopped.
Several men who appeared to be German officers disembarked from the tank body or wheeled half-track armored vehicle, gathered in front of the broken down tank, and began to talk.
Zoya can understand some GermanBecause of the previous twenty years of Russian-German cooperation, German has always been the first foreign language in the Soviet Union, so Zoya, who is well-read, can understand a little German, and those people seem to say things like "break down", "repair" and "push to the side of the road first".
Then the conversation of the Germans ended, and a Soviet girl who looked better than the "secretary of the white horse" in Zoya's dream did not like Prince Charming, because the princes were all anti-grums and handsome Nazi officers suddenly walked towards her.
"If you are discovered, will you be captured by this handsome Nazi villain, should you resist" Zoya watched the handsome blonde guy leave, and her heart thumped nervously, but she couldn't do anything.
Because her superior, Second Lieutenant Sprosky, did not allow her to carry any weapons, nor did she resist the hairy enemy t1706231537: