Chapter 1252: Giant Cannon Gustav
The newly appointed commander of the Warsaw City Defense, General Zilevski, was originally one of the important leaders of the SS. He had previously been responsible for arresting and massacring Jews in Eastern Europe.
He has a ruthless personality and extremely cruel methods.
After large-scale riots broke out in the Bolan area, the head of state personally appointed him commander-in-chief of Warsaw's city defense.
The first release of this book: Tadu Novel App - free, no ads, no pop-ups, and you can interact with book friends.
Zilevskiy did not take immediate action after accepting the appointment, and his arrangements were mainly outside Warsaw.
In the past few days, the Göring Tank Division and other elite SS units have never entered Warsaw, but have been seizing strategic locations outside the city.
Zilevsky did not fully support the garrison in the city, which resulted in the garrison being quickly driven out of the city by the Polish Home Army.
The rebel forces completely controlled the city, which was a staged victory for Komorowski and others.
Zilevsky received news that the Poles and rebel troops in the city had been singing and dancing in celebration of the city's independence and liberation in the past few days.
Such news did not make him angry, and Zilevsky still carried out his arrangements calmly.
Before March 1, various troops basically blocked the roads in and out of Warsaw, seized various strategic locations, and completely isolated Warsaw from its surroundings.
On the same day, Zilevskiy's long-awaited heavy weapons, personally dispatched by SS leader Himmler, finally arrived on the railway outside Warsaw.
This is a real steel behemoth, so huge that it is intimidating, and the timid will even fight in front of it involuntarily.
This is the largest and heaviest cannon ever built in human history:
The original text comes from the Tadu Novel app. For more free books, please download the Tadu Novel app.
Gustav train gun.
A person standing in front of the Gustav train gun is as small as a fly.
The moment he saw the huge body of Gustav's train gun, Zilevsky's iconic ferocious smile finally appeared on his face.
The Gustav train gun had previously been used on the Soviet-German battlefield to attack the solid reinforced concrete fortresses built by the Soviet army.
The performance on the battlefield is relatively outstanding.
In fact, the purpose of developing it by the German High Command was to attack France's Maginot Line.
But when the Gustav train gun was successfully produced, France had already surrendered.
After playing a significant role on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Gustav train gun was transferred back to East Prussia for maintenance.
During this process, the situation of the German army on the Eastern Front became increasingly severe, especially the loss of air superiority, which made the large, slow-moving Gustav train gun afraid to leave the maintenance factory easily.
Without air superiority, such a big guy is an obvious target, unable to fight back against the enemy's giant bombers and new fighter jets.
Tadu Novel app has more high-quality free novels, and you can read them online for free without ads!
The Gustav train gun had been idle for a year, until the Bolan Home Army launched a large-scale uprising.
In the view of Himmler, Zilevsky and others, since the Bolan people are unwilling to accept the rule of the Third Reich obediently and do not care for their hometown, then they will destroy human civilization on the land of Bolan without any pressure.
The first battle of the Gustav train gun was in Warsaw, the largest city in the troubled region.
Zilevsky's purpose was very simple, that is, to use huge cannons to destroy the city, undermine the morale of the rebel army, and teach those who dared to resist an unforgettable lesson.
The Gustav cannon weighs 1,350 tons, has a maximum range of 47 kilometers, a caliber of 800 mm, and is capable of firing 7-ton armor-piercing projectiles and 4.7-ton high-explosive projectiles.
It is personally commanded by a major general and is surrounded by anti-aircraft artillery units.
All command, control, security personnel and air defense personnel combined, the total number exceeds 4,000.
At noon on March 1, with the help of a crane, a 4.7-ton anti-aircraft shell was slowly stuffed into the barrel of the giant cannon.
After the artillery shells came the propellant. The entire operation process of the German soldiers was methodical and orderly, but it took a huge amount of time.
After loading, the muzzle slowly aimed at the 10-story General Government Palace of Poland in the center of Warsaw.
Tadu novel app, a completely open source and free online novel website
Zilevsky and his soldiers covered their ears in unison.
The huge cannon roared, the earth shook, and the air was completely torn apart.
The 4.7-ton high-explosive bomb flew over a distance of more than ten kilometers and accurately hit the Governor's Palace in the center of the city.
"boom!"
At the moment of the explosion, the top three floors of the Governor's Mansion were completely destroyed and disappeared instantly.
Immediately afterwards, the air waves carrying huge energy continued to expand in all directions like a huge super balloon. The nearby small buildings were directly collapsed, and the doors and windows of the buildings further away were shattered.
Cars and trams on the road were thrown into the air, rolling and falling towards the outer ring of the air wave.
Some of the hundreds of rebel soldiers in the Governor's Mansion were torn to pieces and completely disappeared from the world.
Some of them were instantly blown into a puddle of flesh, which was spread on the floor and walls.
The people and rebel soldiers on the periphery were torn apart by the sweeping air waves and shock waves, and their bodies turned into strands of flesh and blood, turning into blood mist.
Tadu Novel app has more high-quality free novels, and you can read them online for free without ads!
The people in the outermost circle were thrown away and then fell heavily to the ground.
Before they could recover from their dizziness, flying rubble and human tissue hit their faces.
If you were lucky enough, your whole body would be filled with minced meat and blood mist, and there would be dots of red everywhere.
Those who were unlucky were pierced by all kinds of gravel and rubble, with thousands of holes appearing on their bodies, and they died completely.
The crackling rubble and human tissue were scattered throughout the city of Warsaw like hailstones. The previous joy, excitement and joy were swept away. Countless people were stunned, and the shock in their eyes was about to overflow.
The air was filled with the smell of blood, which made people sick.
After capturing the city, Komorovsky took the tallest building, the Governor's Palace, as his headquarters.
When the artillery shells came, he was lucky enough to go to the confrontation line outside the city to inspect.
After the earth-shattering bombing, Komorowski turned his telescope in the direction of the Governor's Palace in surprise.
He watched with his own eyes as the Governor's Mansion collapsed, sending up billows of smoke and dust.
Tadu novel app, a completely open source and free online novel website
The Nazis fired only one shot, and his headquarters was just gone. Komorowski was so shocked that he was speechless.
Countless people stood there blankly like their commander, unable to believe what was happening in front of them.
Until the roar of the mg42 machine gun sounded on the confrontation line.
The SS soldiers took advantage of the fact that the rebel officers and soldiers were suppressed by the Gustav cannon, and began to take the initiative to attack with tanks as the guide.
The morale of the hometown army plummeted, and the SS's attacks were swift and decisive. They broke through the confrontation line outside the city in one fell swoop, and the tanks drove into the streets inside the city.
The former Governor of Poland, General Frank, had been lowered from the roof, and Zilevskiy came to Frank.
Frank was tortured so badly that he was covered in bruises and could only blink his eyelids but could not speak.
Zilevsky knelt down and said in Frank's ear:
"Take good care of yourself. I will command the imperial army to avenge you and make the stupid and ignorant Bolan people pay a thousand times the price."
Frank's eyes began to shed red tears.
The original text comes from the Tadu Novel app. For more free books, please download the Tadu Novel app.
Zilevsky waved his hand, and the medics immediately carried Frank into the ambulance and drove quickly to the field hospital.
An hour later, the advancing SS soldiers suddenly stopped attacking, retreated into various bunkers, and raised their hands to cover their ears.
The sound of gunfire suddenly became sparse, and the hometown army on the opposite side instinctively sensed danger and retracted its head.
The giant cannon Gustav roared again, and another 4.7-ton high-explosive bomb fell into the center of Warsaw.
This time the target is the city hall and surrounding museums and other landmark buildings.
Without any accidents, the scene of destruction reappeared, with walls collapsing and houses collapsing, human bodies shattering, and hails of crackling gravel and rubble raining down on their heads and faces.
After two roars, 1/5 of the city of Warsaw was destroyed.
Looking from the sky, there are two huge circles of ruins in the center of the city. In the center of the circles is the center point of the explosion, and everything is destroyed.
The destruction spreads radially in all directions, with the degree decreasing.
It's like two huge scars are digging into the heart of Warsaw, and the city's vitality seems to be draining away bit by bit.
The first release of this book: Tadu Novel App - free, no ads, no pop-ups, and you can interact with book friends.
The people who had been singing and dancing to celebrate the victory had now fallen into despair. They were either crying, crying and struggling, or they were lying in the ruins in despair.
General Komorovsky, the commander of the Home Army, also had a blank look in his eyes. Only then did he realize that although the Third Reich was in decline, its strength was still beyond the reach of the Home Army.
With the support of the Zhongxia Air Force, the first phase of the uprising progressed smoothly and achieved major success.
But far from reaching the stage of singing and dancing, the most severe challenge lies ahead.
If this hurdle cannot be passed, the so-called national liberation and national independence will come to naught.
The German tanks rumbled into action again, and Komorowski slapped himself hard.
After regaining consciousness, he rushed directly to the front line, grabbed the dazed soldiers, pulled, dragged, kicked and beat them back to their fighting positions.
The Gustav cannon outside the city started the next round of loading.
The cannon rested for too long, as if it had spent a long hibernation, and now it was in urgent need of flesh and blood to fill its empty body.
Chapter content in the web version is slow, please download the Haoyue Novel app to read the latest content
Chapter completed!