Chapter 830: The Final Battle - Begging for Food

Moscow, Kremlin.

At around 7 o'clock in the morning on April 30, the High Command of the Red Army located in the Kremlin had entered the most emergency state!

People including First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Pavlov, Chief of General Staff Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of General Staff Golikov, Commander-in-Chief of the Guerrilla Movement Voroshilov and others have arrived one after another and gathered at the In a combat command room where the walls were covered with maps, a series of urgent battle reports had just been received while discussing.

Starting an hour ago, the forward positions of various armies stationed along the Dnieper River in Belarus, Smolensk Oblast and Ukraine began to be violently bombarded by the German army (actually the European coalition forces)!

At the same time, fierce aerial battles also started in the above-mentioned areas and over Kalinin State!

According to reports from the Western Front, the Southwestern Front, the Kalinin Front and the Home Defense Force, the total number of German aircraft exceeded 5,000, including a large number of Fokker Zero (D type) and Fw-190 (A-9 and F-8 types) ), has invaded Soviet airspace and is engaged in a desperate battle with fighter jets of the Soviet Red Air Force.

Obviously, the artillery bombardment 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 at the same time. They don't have that many troops."

Although the First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Pavlov was not a very good frontline commander, he was a very good "chief of the general staff" (his current position is actually the chief of the general staff), and he had a clear understanding of the German army's actual situation. The grasp is also very accurate.

He analyzed: "The Germans do have a lot of artillery, maybe 50%-100% more than us, so they can carry out fierce bombardment across the board. They also have a lot of aircraft, which are equal to ours in quantity, but far better in quality." Far more than us. But the fuel they can use for military operations on the Eastern Front is only half of ours. This bottleneck restricts the size and actions of the German mechanized forces, so the intensity of artillery attacks and air strikes is not enough to explain the problem. Only the identification of the German army is possible. Only the movements of mechanized troops, especially heavily armed mechanized troops equipped with Tiger heavy tanks, can determine their main attack targets."

Because it successfully won over France, a country that pursues "big artillery doctrine", the number of towed suppression artillery that Germany can now use on the Eastern Front battlefield far exceeds that of the Soviet Union. And in terms of the number of heavy artillery with a caliber of 150 (155) mm or above, the German army (French army) has an overwhelming advantage.

Therefore, the Soviet high command cannot make a judgment based on the intensity of the opponent's shelling. The movement of mechanized troops, especially Tiger tanks, is the most critical - wherever there are Tiger tanks gathered, there must be the main force of the German army!

"Comrade Voroshilov," Chief of General Staff Shalashnikov took over the topic and asked Voroshilov, who was in charge of the guerrilla work, in a very respectful tone, "our guerrillas can identify the German Tiger The movement of the tanks?"

After returning from Leningrad, Voroshilov lost Stalin's trust and fell from the position of People's Commissar of Defense to the position of commander-in-chief of the guerrillas. However, his political bureau members are still there, so his status within the party is still very high.

"It's hard to say," Voroshilov shook his head and sighed. "The guerrilla movement was not ideal, except in the Pskov Oblast. In Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, the guerrilla movement was very difficult. "

"Comrade Voroshilov, can we determine where the main forces of the Nazi and Fascist armies are before they launch a general offensive?"

Stalin's voice suddenly came from outside the door of the war room. Everyone immediately stopped discussing and turned their bodies towards the door of the war room. Some tall comrades even deliberately hunched their heads and hunched back to make themselves look smaller.

Stepping in from the door was Stalin, the fatherly leader with a pipe in his mouth. He came from the Kontsevo villa on the outskirts of Moscow - yesterday, April 29, he stayed in Kontsevo all day A small cocktail party was held there to entertain Donovan, the presidential envoy from the United States, and Yoyo Matsuoka, the special envoy of the Japanese Prime Minister.

The secret talks between the three parties began after dinner and continued until late at night. Although no agreement was reached, the atmosphere of the talks was very harmonious and full of expectations. And Stalin also had a sweet dream that night, dreaming that the red flag was planted on the roof of the Reichstag Building!

Unfortunately, when I woke up, I heard the bad news that the German army had begun large-scale shelling and air raids.

"Comrade General Secretary," Voroshilov quickly and respectfully replied, "if the Germans launch an attack from the territory of Pskov Oblast, we can tell in advance... because we have many brave guerrilla fighters there."

Stalin nodded, knowing in his heart what the problem was - although there were many ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, the Russians could really be relied upon when disaster struck!

“Okay,” Stalin said, “tell our brave guerrilla fighters to find out the movements of the Nazi and Fascist armies at all costs. The Soviet people and the Bolshevik Party will never forget what they did for the victory in the Great Patriotic War. sacrifice.”

"Okay, I will convey your instructions to every guerrilla."

…

Stalin's instructions will surely inspire every guerrilla, including the brave Comrade Zoya Kasmodemyanskaya.

She is currently performing the important task of finding out the movements of the German mechanized group!

For this, she stood barefoot, wearing a thin, dirty coat with several holes, and pants that were not long enough to expose her calves, on the side of an important highway in the city of Bolshaya Luki, and stretched out her right hand towards the vicious enemy that was marching along the highway...

She was... begging!

As a youth league member and guerrilla fighter who was always ready to sacrifice herself for the cause of GCism, Zoya originally thought that the reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines should be to lie in the grass beside the highway, covered with leaves all over the body, and then use a military telescope to observe. This is what the instructors taught during the introduction training in the guerrilla training camp.

But there is always a big gap between reality and imagination. If she lay on the side of the road as she did during training, she would most likely be discovered by the brutal enemy and then tragically hanged to death.

So the experienced Lieutenant Sprosky dressed this revolutionary girl, who was fairly decent-looking and full of youth, as a "beggar" and a fallen woman - there were many such shameless women in Pskov Oblast, and there was one every 100 meters or so on every important road where the German and White Russian troops passed.

Therefore, Comrade Kasmodemyanskaya was just one of many "beggars" and was very easy to hide.

According to Lieutenant Sprosky's arrangement, she could beg for food while counting the German tanks (Zoya could identify various types of tanks and assault artillery) and troops passing by. In this way, the problem of eating and the reconnaissance mission could be solved together, and it was very safe.

Of course, you still have to be prepared to sacrifice yourself for the revolution!

Not to sacrifice your life, but to sacrifice your body! However, the object of sacrifice is mostly not the German Nazis. The German army has strict discipline and is not allowed to flirt with women during the march. But the White Russian army of the reactionary empress and the French and Croatian-Hungarian armies that followed the Nazis did not have such strict discipline...

When Zoya thought that her chastity might be taken away by an extremely reactionary old white man (White Russian old man), she felt like vomiting.

A rumbling sound of a motor came over, interrupting Zoya's thoughts as she was begging for food for the revolution. She hurriedly looked towards the place where the sound of the motor came from. A cloud of smoke and dust rolled in, and it was obvious that the mechanized troops were coming.

Zoya hurriedly held her breath, opened her eyes wide, and stared at the road carefully. After a while, a scene that made her so excited that she almost couldn't breathe appeared in front of her.

The legendary Tiger tank appeared!

It followed a column of wheeled or half-tracked armored vehicles, one after another, rumbling forward. Zoya counted carefully, all the way to 44, and then the short-barreled No. 4 tank passed by, a total of 22...

Zoya knew that it was a German heavy armored battalion that passed!

Then, another column of wheeled/half-tracked armored vehicles rumbled over, followed by another Tiger tank!

Two heavy armored battalions!

Zoya's breathing was a little rapid. Two heavy armored battalions, maybe there will be more. This time, she might have discovered the main force of the Germans!

Just then, a tank in the German Tiger tank convoy that was passing in front of her seemed to have a malfunction and suddenly stopped. Then the vehicles behind it also stopped moving.

Several men who seemed to be German officers got out of the tank or wheeled/half-tracked armored vehicles, gathered in front of the broken-down tank and started talking. Zoya could understand some German (because of the previous 20 years of Russian-German cooperation, German has always been the first foreign language of the Soviet Union, so Zoya, who is well educated, can understand a little German). Those people seemed to say words like "break down", "repair" and "push to the side of the road first".

Then the Germans finished their conversation, and a Nazi officer who looked even more handsome than the "white horse secretary" in Zoya's dream (Soviet girls don't like white horse princes, because princes are anti-German) suddenly walked towards her.

"Will I be discovered? Will I be captured by this handsome Nazi villain? Should I resist?" Zoya watched the blond and blue-eyed handsome man leave, her heart pounding with nervousness, but she had no way out. Because her superior, Lieutenant Sprosky, did not allow her to carry any weapons, and did not allow her to resist the clumsy enemy...