Burning Moscow

　　 Just when Sokolovsky was about to follow Zhukov's order to give orders to the troops, I suddenly did not know where the courage came from, and shouted at his back: "Comrade Chief of Staff, please wait a minute."

Sokolovsky stopped and looked at me blankly, wondering why I stopped him. I did not tell him the reason immediately, but got up and walked in front of Zhukov, and solemnly said: "Comrade Marshal, I have a warning that the Germans will never choose to break through the south because they can guess the direction of their retreat. We analyzed it and took measures to prevent it. The Germans are not fools, and General Hubei is a famous general in the German army. Will he lead the troops stupidly and break into our encirclement?"

After Zhukov listened, he got up from his seat, stared at me for a moment, and then made an unexpected movement. He actually grabbed the tea cup in front of him and fell heavily to my feet. The glass with the silver cup holder fell to the ground and shattered, and the warm tea splashed on my trouser legs.

"Comrade Oshanina!" Zhukov pointed to my nose and said angrily: "Don't forget that the commander of the front army is me, not you. You have to figure out whether it is the commander commanding the deputy commander. Or is the deputy commander giving orders to the commander?"

After he made a fire at me, seeing Sokolovsky still standing there, he glared his eyes and said dissatisfiedly: "Chief of Staff, what are you still standing here, don't you hurry up and give orders? ."

Just as Sokolovsky was about to leave with an embarrassed face, I suddenly heard a familiar voice asking: "Comrade Marshal, what happened here?"

I looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a potbellied commander walk into the command post. Seeing his appearance, the commanders in the room took the initiative to step aside and raised their hands to salute him. Even without looking at the marshal epaulettes on his shoulders, what I recognized at a glance was Vasilevsky, the current Chief of Staff of the Red Army.

Seeing the sudden appearance of Vasilevsky, I felt very curious in my heart. I must know that he is in charge of the coordinated operations of the third and fourth aspects of Ukraine. How could he suddenly appear here?

Zhukov saw the appearance of Vasilevsky, his face also showed a surprised expression. He walked around the table and shook hands with the other party. At the same time, he asked curiously: "Comrade Vasilevsky, why are you free to come to me today?"

"Hello, Comrade Zhukov." Vasilevsky shook Zhukov's hand and replied: "We are about to launch a counterattack against Sevastopol. I am passing by you today, so I came to say hello to you. ."

After talking about his intentions, Vasilevsky turned his head and glanced at me, who was standing upright next to me, and seemed to ask Zhukov casually: "Comrade Marshal, I don’t know what happened just now, and it caused you to make such a big deal. fire?"

Zhukov snarled at me, and said with a hint of anger: "Lida and I have a little bit of disagreement on the direction of the German breakthrough."

"Oh, it turned out to be this." After Vasilevsky heard this, he smiled and asked Zhukov: "Comrade Marshal, can you tell me the judgment of the two of you?"

Hearing Vasilevsky's question, Zhukov took him to the wall, pointed to the map on the wall, and explained his own and my analysis to Vasilevsky.

Vasilevsky stood in front of the map and looked at it for a while, then turned to face me and said, "Comrade Lida, I think you are making a lot of sense. When the Germans are desperate, they can completely throw away their heavy equipment and pack lightly. Over the mountains, escaped from the encirclement of our army. But..."

Originally, when I heard Vasilevsky agree with my opinion, I was secretly delighted, but when I heard him say the word "but" which represents a turning point, my heart was cold and I guessed that he would stand at Zhukov's place. Side, deny my judgment. Sure enough, he went on to say: "But I still agree with Marshal Zhukov. After all, he is an excellent commander recognized by our army, and his judgment should be correct."

After receiving Vasilievsky's approval, Zhukov's face couldn't help showing a smug expression. Because I don’t understand this period of history, and I just judged the direction of the German breakthrough based on my own intuition, if I want to continue the debate with Zhukov, I have some lack of confidence, so I can only keep silent and watch Zhukov tell Sokolo again. Vovsky gave orders to the troops below to arrange for them to establish an ambush circle on the south side of the battlefield.

However, through this matter, I also have a better understanding of Vasilievsky. The reason why the Marshal who succeeded Zhukov as the chief of the general staff was able to do his job well in front of Stalin was related to his character. Zhukov made a suggestion to Stalin. After being rejected, he would recklessly remonstrate, so he lost his position as chief of the general staff and was demoted to the reserve front to serve as a commander.

Compared to Zhukov, Vasilevsky is much smarter. With Zhukov’s lessons learned, he was extremely smart, in order to prevent himself from repeating the same mistakes, so he played a little trick, let Stalin willingly adopt his own opinions. The method he adopted was to talk about unmarginal military issues around him in his leisure time before Stalin dangling his pipe and making strategic deployments, which were neither systematic nor advanced. But as he talked, Stalin, who had been inspired, suddenly realized that he hurriedly deployed strategic points one by one, and there was nothing wrong with it.

In addition, when Stalin held a military meeting, Vasilievsky, who was sitting next to him, also gave a speech, but every time he talked about strategy and tactics, he was incoherent. If he talked about one thing upside down for a long time, it was very verbose, which often made the participants Hearing confused. But when he talked about the latter half, he spoke clearly and was logically rigorous. People with a little military knowledge could tell that these were super nonsense, and as a result, he would naturally be reprimanded by Stalin. However, his non-marginal Kazakhstan can often make Stalin make the right decision.

Perhaps it is precisely because of his performance that many military commanders think that he is an unachievable chief of staff, and always look down on him a little bit. But Vasilievsky always laughed at others' opinions. What he said at the military conference was just to guide Stalin to make the correct strategic deployment according to his own thinking.

Seeing that Zhukov and Vasilevsky had something to say, I also consciously followed Sokolovsky and walked out of the headquarters. In the corridor leading to the telecommunications room, the chief of staff kindly reminded me: "Lida, Comrade Marshal is sometimes stubborn. He is not right to the person. Don't take it to your heart."

Zhukov's image in my mind has always been a polite and kind old man, so I always respect him. But I didn't expect that after I became his deputy, I discovered the bad side of his character, and I had several conflicts with him. This is probably "far fragrant and near smelly".

Hearing Sokolovsky's words of comforting me, I waved my hand quickly, tried to squeeze a smile on my face, and pretended to say nonchalantly: "I understand, Comrade Chief of Staff. I have known Marshal Zhukov for a few years. Time, what kind of character he is, I still know a little bit. What happened just now is just a dispute over work, I won't remember it."

Sokolovsky looked around and saw that there were only a few staff officers hurriedly holding documents, so he lowered his voice and asked me: "Lida, do you really think the Germans will break through from the north?"

I did not answer his question directly, but instead asked: "Comrade Chief of Staff, although you have not been to the Ukrainian First Front for a long time, you should know the 48th Panzer Corps commanded by the German General Balk? "Without waiting for him to speak, I asked and answered and said, "At the time I also judged that they would break through from our offensive front. Unfortunately, this analysis was denied by Comrade Marshal."

After I finished speaking, I didn't wait for Sokolovsky to say anything, so I speeded up and walked forward, leaving him alone in a daze.

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On the second day of Vasilevsky’s departure, unfortunate news came suddenly. On his way to the front in a car, he unfortunately triggered a landmine planted by the German army. He suffered serious head injuries and was sent back by plane overnight. Moscow.

When Zhukov heard the news, the expression on his face became more serious. Seeing Zhukov's expression, all the busy staff officers in the command headquarters were very worried. They were afraid that if they were not careful, Zhukov's curse would be incurred. More than a month ago, the former commander of the Front Army, Vatutin, was ambushed by the enemy on his way to inspect the troops and was seriously injured. Now that Vasilevsky is seriously injured, Zhukov’s mood has become even worse. If anyone makes him angry, the end will be very miserable. Therefore, I also kept silent, sitting quietly in the corner and watching the report, trying to be a transparent person to avoid attracting Zhukov's attention.

When I heard the phone ringing in front of Zhukov, I couldn't help shivering. If there was any bad news, the commander who called would be scolded by Zhukov. But sometimes, the more I worry about something, it happens to be something. When I thought to myself not to have a phone call to disturb Zhukov, the high-frequency phone in front of him rang again.

I saw him stick the microphone to his ear and said angrily into the microphone: "I am Zhukov, where are you?"

After a while, I suddenly found him standing up from his seat, standing straight and respectfully saying: "Hello, Comrade Stalin, do you have any instructions?"

Since the command post is very quiet, even if I am some distance away from him, I can still hear the voice from the receiver: "Zhukov, now Comrade Vasilevsky is seriously injured. Who do you think will replace him? Position, is it more appropriate?"

Zhukov was silent for a moment, and then said: "Comrade Stalin, I think Comrade Antonov, the first deputy chief of staff of the General Staff, will take over the work of Vasilevsky and be responsible for the coordination of the Third and Fourth Ukrainian Army. Fighting is the most suitable."

"No." Stalin vetoed Zhukov's proposal without hesitation: "At present, the General Staff cannot do without Comrade Antonov, he cannot go."

"Where is the deputy chief of staff Ivanov?" Although Zhukov knew that Stalin hated the deputy chief of staff, he could only bite the bullet and said: "He has experience in commanding group army units, and he is in the general staff. After so long, if he was sent to take charge of the coordinated operations of the two fronts, it would be okay."

Regarding Zhukov’s candidate, Stalin was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Well, since this is the case, I will send Ivanov to the third and fourth fronts to command the troops tomorrow."

Just when I thought Stalin would hang up the phone, I suddenly heard Stalin mention my name: "By the way, Comrade Zhukov, when I went to visit Vasilevsky today, I heard that you were angry with Lida yesterday. Is this something?"

Zhukov gave me a blank face, and was so frightened that I quickly pretended to be immersed in the battle report, but still listened carefully to the call between him and Stalin. "Yes, Comrade Stalin," Zhukov reported truthfully to Stalin: "We had some disputes over the analysis of the direction of the German breakthrough."

Stalin snorted and said slowly: "Is it really just a dispute? But I seem to hear that you also dropped the cup~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It seems that your dispute is quite serious."

Stalin's words made Zhukov a little embarrassed. He said embarrassedly: "Comrade Stalin, you know, my temper is a bit too anxious..."

"Okay," Stalin interrupted his words before Zhukov was finished, and continued: "You are the commander of the front army, and you are in charge of the military deployment of the front army. So be it, and good luck! "After speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Zhukov to say anything.

After Zhukov put down the high-frequency phone, he picked up another phone, shook the crank a few times, and said into the microphone: "Are there the latest German military reports?...Send someone to me immediately,...Yes, send it right away." come."

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The 1st Group of German Tanks, which was besieged by our army, finally began a breakthrough operation after repeated stubborn resistance in order to get rid of the fate of being wiped out by our army. The preferred direction of the German army, like Zhukov's judgment, was to break through Romania along the road to the south.

When I saw this battle report, I couldn't help but chuckle, and wondered if I really made a mistake in judgment?

But in the evening, unexpected changes appeared on the battlefield. It turned out that there were only three German infantry divisions with incomplete formation along the road to the south, while the armored divisions abandoned heavy weapons and broke through the high mountains to the north.

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