Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 515 Rzhev's Othello I
Major Soschak, the logistics officer of the Kalinin Front, rushed to Mozhaysk, which had just been occupied by the No.30 Ninth Army.

The No.30 Ninth Army has just made a gap in the German defense line, and tens of thousands of troops are rushing into the gap like a tide.

The German army defending on the opposite side was the 190th Seventh Division of the German Army that massacred the famous female guerrilla Zoya.

The two sides kept seeing each other on the position, the death harvester on the German position spewed fire snakes, and row after row of Soviet soldiers rushed up and fell in a pool of blood.

But the Soviet soldiers seemed to be endless. They shouted the slogan of revenge for Zoya, crawled out of the trenches and rushed towards the machine gun bullets.

A dozen tanks were mixed in the tide of the charge and headed towards the German positions.

Seven or eight tanks and assault guns also appeared on the German positions.

Two anti-tank dogs suddenly sprang out of the foxhole, and the half-foot-long wooden poles on the dogs' backs could be clearly seen in the artillery fire.

puff!puff!
One anti-tank dog fell to the ground, and the other anti-tank dog got under a German Panzer III tank, and there was a loud noise, billowing thick smoke from the tank.

The cover on the tank was lifted, and a German soldier struggled to get out of half of his body before being hit by bullets and laying motionless on the tank.

As a logistics officer, Soschak, of course, did not rush forward. He was assigned by Major General Zakharov, Chief of Staff of the Kalinin Front Army, to the front line to investigate the supply of military supplies.

Although the war has been going on for half a year, the logistics supply is still often in chaos.The anti-tank guns get mortar shells, and the cannons get howitzer shells. The logistical supplies are huge, but every unit is in urgent need of supplies.

Although the enemy has been driven a hundred kilometers away from Moscow, their threat to Moscow has not been eliminated.

The huge offensive launched by the Red Army this time was to wipe out all the enemies in the Rzhev salient.

But the German defense on the opposite side was very tenacious. These blood-stained German soldiers also knew that the Red Army would not accept their surrender for their army, so they had to fight hard to the end.

This attack by the Red Army was repelled by the Germans. Soschak slightly raised his head and looked forward. There seemed to be a branch sticking out of the trench not far in front of him.A closer look revealed that it was an arm sticking out of the trench.

On a battlefield where bullets and shell fragments fly everywhere, such outstretched arms are quickly wounded and broken.

"coward!"

A special officer next to Soschak scolded and then carefully climbed out of the trench and crawled towards that arm.

But just as he climbed two or three meters, he was hit by a bullet flying from a distance and lay motionless on the ground.

"There are snipers on the chimney!"

Another special officer shouted, pointing to a half chimney 100 meters away.

The 47mm anti-tank gun fired two shells, and the chimney 100 meters away collapsed with an explosion.

The special officer who spotted the sniper just now immediately climbed out of the trench and crawled towards the arm that was still sticking out of the trench. He climbed to the place where the arm was stretched out, took out his pistol and fired three or four shots into the trench.

Soschak knew that the soldier who had escaped death by getting wounded was dead.

"Where is the [-]st Regiment?" Soschak asked the special officer who had just climbed back.

The officer of the special office pointed to the northwest.

Soschak walked around the trench for a while, then carefully crawled to the northwest facing the ground.

It was this unit that reported the lack of ammunition a day ago, but the logistics supply convoy had already set off.

Soschak was ordered by his superiors to go and see the regiment with his own eyes.

The hard mud and ice blocks from the explosion of the shell kept hitting him, and the bullets flew over him within half a foot.

Soschak climbed 500 meters before finding the place where others pointed him.

An officer was pulling the trigger, and the Jieggarev heavy machine gun fired continuously at the opposite side.

Southchak noticed the political commissar emblem on the officer's armband.

"Comrade Major, where is the [-]st Regiment?" Soschak asked.

"It's all here! These Fritz bastards are trying to capture us alive, don't think so!" the officer replied as he fired.

Soschak looked along the trench, and all he could see were a dozen people!There are only so many people left in a group for two days.

Southchak feels there is no need to ask about logistics supplies now.He will go back immediately and report what he saw on the battlefield.

Moreover, Soschak's intuition is now that the Red Army's offensive has been frustrated, and the next one is likely to be the German counterattack.

Two days later Soschak narrowly escaped death and returned to the headquarters of the Kalinin Front.And the No.30 Ninth Army he had been to had been surrounded by counterattacking German troops.

Soschak returned to his tent dormitory after reporting to Chief of Staff Zakharov. Second Lieutenant Pokulski followed him into the tent and put down the curtains.

"Roll up the curtain, and don't be afraid of being seen by people outside. The more it is blocked, the easier it is to arouse suspicion." Soschak said.

Pokulski asked in a low voice as he rolled up the curtain: "How is the front line?"

"The 39th Army has been surrounded, it is very dangerous. If I go one day later, I will be inside now." Soschak replied.

Soschak and Pokulski have one thing in common, that is, they are both Polish.

Soschak was developed as an intelligence officer by the Polish intelligence service several years ago, and Pokulski was an intelligence officer he secretly developed.

It turned out that Soschak was just a small second lieutenant in the Red Army, not important in the Polish intelligence organization, but only half a year after the war started, he had already been promoted to major.

But now Soschak's boss has also changed. He is now working for the European intelligence organization led by the military attache in Sweden, Onodera Nobuo.

It doesn't matter who they work for. Both Soschak and Pokulski have a common belief in their hearts, that is, whoever is willing to help Poland restore the country is a friend.

"Immediately send a report. I just got the news that the Fourth Airborne Army will soon carry out an airdrop behind the German army. The No. 20 Brigade will be airborne to Zheraniye, and the Eighth Brigade will be airborne to Ozerechnya." South Chuck said.

"Okay, I'll send the report as soon as I get back," Pokulski replied.

"Be careful, don't arouse suspicion." Soschak instructed.

Three days later, Dazuo Ono from the intelligence squad of the Kwantung Army's intelligence department came to report to the head of Liu Tian Yuansan.

"News about Othello came from Sweden." Ono Takahiro said and put a draft telegram on Yanagida Genzo's desk.

Nobuo Onodera, the Japanese military attache in Sweden, could have given Soschak's information to the Germans in Stockholm.However, the intelligence personnel of the enemy in the neutral country of Sweden were all-pervasive. To be safe, he detoured and sent the information to the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, and then the intelligence department handed it over to the Germans in Harbin.

After reading the telegram, Genzo Yanagida said, "You should immediately meet secretly with Schuster, the military attache of the German consulate, and hand over the information to him."

(End of this chapter)