Struggle in Soviet Russia

Mtsensk, the outer southwestern suburbs of Moscow.

A trainer plane cut through the white misty sky and appeared over the boundless snowy field.

The high cold exceeding minus 40 degrees caused the aircraft's hood to be covered with a layer of frost. In the cabin, Victor took off his thick leather gloves and wiped the hood with a warm palm, rubbing off the top one. A layer of frost, allowing him to look down through the hood.

Looking at the boundless snowy field, a large number of Soviet tanks, vehicles, and soldiers on snowboards are moving quickly westward. This is the 10th Army of the Soviet Army. Their task is to advance quickly in the direction of Bryansk to ensure The left flank of the 50th Army that outflanked the German army in the Vyazma area.

After months of hard work, the Soviet army in the direction of Moscow finally launched a counterattack against the German army. The seemingly powerful German defense line appeared a little fragile under the Soviet counterattack. The German army stretched from Kaliningrad to Tula. The defense line completely divided the dominant forces. From November 29 to today, the entire German defense line completely collapsed. In just a few days, the Soviet army was pushed back to the Mozhaisk defense line. nearby.

The trainer hovered in the air for nearly an hour, and finally returned to the Soviet advance airfield in Mtsensk. When Victor got out of the cabin, Varenka, who had been waiting not far away, rushed over and helped him out of the plane.

Varenka was sent to Moscow only a week ago. When the NKVD found him, he had become a grassroots commander of the 16th Army. He was resting in the rear of Moscow, ready to fight.

Also in the recent period, Victor also received news from Safina that she went to the 43rd Army and became a medical soldier in the communications battalion directly under the Army. Victor used some connections and transferred her to the NKVD as a logistician.

There is also Olica, she was transferred to Kolomna, serving as the deputy director of the Kolomna Workers and Peasants Police Department, which is considered to be out of the front line of the battle.

Moreover, since he began to take full charge of the domestic intelligence work of the NKVD, Victor also received news from Jiana and Nino. The special agent training school led by Jiana has been completely moved to the rear, and she is now safe. Nino was originally in Moscow and is now in Tula. This time he came to Mtsensk to inspect, and Victor wanted to meet her on a spoof.

The weather was terribly cold. Even though he was wearing a heavy coat, it seemed difficult to prevent the invasion of the cold. After getting off the plane, Victor got into the car for the first time. Although the jeep did not have heating facilities, it was better than being caught. The wind is blowing much better.

"Comrade Colonel, shall we go to Tula now?" Varenka asked after getting into the car behind him and starting the car.

"Well, go now," Victor nodded, took a document next to him, spread it out on his knee, and said.

"Okay," Varenka turned the steering wheel, turned the jeep on the edge of the runway, and drove directly north. And behind their jeep, there was a jeep and a truck carrying more than a dozen soldiers. It was Victor’s guard. This high-standard guard equipment did not meet his level, but Because of the special work he is responsible for, the security forces have also been strengthened.

Mtsensk is only 30 kilometers away from Tula, but the road is difficult due to heavy snow, so it will take some time to get there.

But this is good, Victor can use this time to digest the documents in his hands.

Since taking over the internal intelligence work of the NKVD, Victor has issued new orders. He requires intelligence agencies in all directions to arrange their own intelligence networks in accordance with the rules he specified. And these rules are summed up when he was engaged in intelligence work in the West, that is: whether it is behind enemy lines or in the Soviet-occupied area, an intelligence team with a radio station as the core must be set up, with two or even one person as the core. The front-line team of latent personnel is assisted by a widely distributed intelligence network.

Since the first batch of aid from the United Kingdom and the United States arrived in Murmansk in October, more than two months have passed since the Soviet Army’s radio needs have been largely met, especially after the shortage of electronic tubes was resolved. The radio stations produced were quickly added to the frontline troops.

Now, as the department in charge of intelligence work, the NKVD’s needs for radio can be supplemented first, and this also laid the hardware foundation for Victor’s idea of ​​building an intelligence communication network.

The report that Victor is looking at right now is the progress of the establishment of the intelligence and communication network submitted by all directions. Yes, Victor has issued very strict orders, requiring all parties to submit progress reports every other week. For those whose progress is not up to the standard, he will strengthen supervision.

The content of the document is not much, and the progress of all parties can basically make Victor feel satisfied. Therefore, when he read the document and made instructions, Tula had not arrived yet, but it floated out of the car window again. Snowflake.

Victor put the file aside, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath with an expression of enjoyment on his face.

Cigarettes are "camels" from the United States. Compared with the choking Mahe cigarettes, this kind of smoke is obviously more in line with Victor's taste. After receiving assistance from the United Kingdom and the United States, the pressure on the Soviet army's logistics supply has plummeted, similar to Victor's. The senior officials of the People’s Committee of the Interior of the People’s Republic of China resumed their special supplies in the past.

As a rebirth, Victor felt a little funny when he recalled some so-called "historical materials" from his previous life.

In his previous life, he had seen some comments saying that the assistance of the United States and Britain to the Soviet Union during World War II was irrelevant and had no effect on the progress of the war, but the reality is that the assistance of the United States and the United States is indeed very important, even though he is on the side of the alliance. Yes, but facts are facts, and they cannot be denied.

But having said that, the aid from the United Kingdom and the United States was not given in vain. They promoted it in the form of loans to the Soviet Union. Moreover, the reason why the United Kingdom and the United States are willing to give assistance to the Soviet Union is not for the alliance itself, but for themselves. Imagine if the Soviet Union surrenders unilaterally, and the Germans who have passed away, the British can still be on that small island. Stay?

Another ridiculous place is about the defeat of the German army. Victor has heard more than once about the German defeat in Moscow because of the severe cold in 1941. It was the coldest winter in Moscow in 140 years. It helped the Soviets.

But the reality is that this severe cold came on December 5, the same day the Soviets launched their counterattack against the German forces besieging Moscow. The retreat of the Soviet Union and the pursuit of the Soviet army caused trouble at the same time.

The reason for the real collapse of the German army was that they advanced too fast and the front line was stretched too long to keep up with the logistics supply. The Soviet army occupies a geographical advantage, and they were able to quickly obtain much-needed supplies from the rear. The root cause of this battle can probably be summarized as one point, that is: the deep depth strategy itself is the nemesis of the blitzkrieg. The Soviet army used the loss of land and military strength to finally drag the Germans into the quagmire of the protracted war, and the mud was deep enough. Stuck, unable to extricate itself.

The snow outside the car windows tended to get bigger and bigger. When the convoy entered Tula City, the rustling snow was already like catkins, dancing densely with the wind.

The city of Tula was basically completely destroyed in the previous war. There are no complete buildings in the entire city. Although the municipal party committee that had been evacuated has returned to the city, it is not known how the war will develop. The reconstruction work has not yet begun.

Victor found the Tula Intelligence Station of the NKVD at the City Youth Palace. Engineers are braving heavy snow to build a proposed radar station to monitor German aircraft that may attack Moscow at any time.

After a brief inspection of the construction of the radar station, Victor went to the General Office of the NKVD in Tula. Yes, that’s where he really wanted to go, because now the NKVD’s map The person in charge is Nino.

The Tula Bureau of the NKVD was temporarily set up in a dormitory building of the original Tula Wool Spinning Mill. Although this dormitory was bombed during the war, the main building is still well preserved. Not only the Tula Bureau is located here. , The main departments of the Tula Municipal Party Committee have also been placed here.

The third floor of the dormitory building was a little broken. Outside a stained pine-wood door on the east side of the corridor, Victor looked at the mottled paint on the door, and first adjusted his coat, then turned his head and glanced at his face. Varenka with a curious expression.

Varenka second understood what he meant, turned around for the first time, and walked a few steps away, before he stood with his back against the corridor wall.

Victor reached out and knocked on the door. The door made a muffled noise, and then a cold voice came out from the door: "Come in!" It was Nino's voice.

Reaching out and turning the handle on the door, Victor pushed the door and walked into the room. At first glance, he saw Nino sitting behind a simple desk. She was wearing a half-new and old uniform of the NKVD. Looking down at a document, the wide-brimmed hat on her head covered her eyes.

"What's the matter?" Nino still didn't look up when the door rang. She still looked at the file in front of her and asked casually.

Victor didn't speak, he walked gently to the edge of the desk, reached out and took off Nino's hat.

Until then, Nino suddenly raised her head, his face was full of anger, but soon the anger turned into confusion, and then ecstasy...