USSR 1941

Of course, this is just Zolotarev looking for a step down.

In fact, everyone knows that at that time Shulka had no other choice... At that time, there was no time for Shulka to use "other methods".

In the end, Zolotarev did not report the matter.

Fortunately for Shulka and Trufanov in this regard, Zolotarev is not the kind of person who becomes angry and fights hard to the end.

But when I think about it, this actually has nothing to do with "luck".

Because even if Zolotarev reported the matter, Shulka would not be guilty.

The reason is very simple, Shurka has no choice but to do this, especially Shurka also made such a good suggestion, if Surovikino is successfully won, it will undoubtedly be a great achievement... No one will dislike victory , even the Supreme Command.

Therefore, if Zolotarev reports the matter, it is most likely that the style of painting will suddenly change. A telegram from the Supreme Command accused Zolotarev, as a political commissar, of being self-willed and not listening to the opinions of his subordinates to act arbitrarily.

So, this statement is actually reasonable no matter what you say, it depends on where you stand.

If there is any responsibility, it is Trufanov... As a commander, he should never join his subordinates to hold the political commissar hostage. The suspicion of forming cliques is a taboo for Soviet commanders. Shulka was transferred because of this.

But it was clear that Zolotarev also knew that this was not a glorious thing, and that it would be of no benefit to him to report it, so he pretended nothing had happened.

Trufanov was also very interested, and ordered the guards, correspondents, and staff officers in the headquarters who were on the scene at the time to keep their mouths shut and classified the matter as a military secret.

So although the atmosphere was a bit awkward, the three of them still discussed the plan.

"Why don't we just let the Frelovo reservoir open?" Zolotarev asked.

"There is not enough water to release the gate!" Shulka said: "Even if this can achieve the purpose of flooding Surovikino, it will take a long period of time, such as a few days. During this time, the Germans may Response, such as withdrawing from Surovikino and building another line of defense behind it! But if we blow up the reservoir, the water level will rise rapidly in a few hours, and the entire line of defense will be destroyed before the Germans react. collapsed, and our army attacked it with the help of the water..."

Zolotarev nodded,

At the same time, he also realized the gap between himself and Shulka.

"So we should operate at night!" Trufanov said.

"Yes!" Shulka agreed: "It's best in the early morning, when the enemy is sleeping soundly, the water level suddenly rises, and it's already dawn when our army launches an attack! Therefore, we also need to ensure air supremacy, at least partial air supremacy!"

Needless to say, the reason for this is the enemy's aircraft, especially the fragile small boats like amphibious landing craft... "Henschel" can kill an amphibious landing craft even if it dives and shoots at dawn. Take the boat and smash it.

Although this will not affect the outcome of the entire battle, the German army can be said to be defeated after being flooded, but the German Air Force may still inflict heavy losses on the Soviet army.

"But..." said Trufanov, "we don't have much air force!"

"Contact Comrade Rokossovsky!" Shulka said. "He promised to support our plane. It's time for him to fulfill his promise!"

Trufanov turned his gaze to Zolotarev.

This means that it is obvious that in the army, the commander of the army group like Trufanov actually has no say. The command power is actually in the hands of the political commissar, or more precisely, the Supreme Command.

Therefore, to be precise, even Rokossovsky has no right to transfer the Air Force to the 51st Army.

"I will report this plan to the Supreme Command!" Zolotarev said without hesitation, "I believe they will agree to this plan and bring in the reinforcements we need! I am confident!"

This is not a question of "confidence", but that Shulka's plan is irrefutable. If there are no accidents, it is almost foreseeable that he will win the battle, so Zolotarev has confidence in this plan.

Sure enough, Zolotarev got a call back shortly after reporting the plan:

"Comrade Stalin greatly appreciated this plan, and he personally instructed that in the ensuing war situation, the Supreme Command will make every effort to allocate all possible resources for the realization of this plan!"

There was a burst of cheers from the headquarters, with this sentence, it was almost equivalent to owning a Shangfang sword.

Then the plan started step by step.

The first is to contact the Frelovo Reservoir and obtain various data... These are the basis for formulating a combat plan.

Of course, these are all done in secret, and even a considerable part of the work is done by the Supreme Command.

Although this is a trivial matter, it is inexplicably refreshing psychologically: originally it was only suppressed by the Supreme Command, but now the Supreme Command can do something.

As soon as the data arrived, Shulka and others knew how much the water level would rise after blowing up the reservoir and how long it would take.

To the surprise of Shulka and others, the duration can reach several days.

"This is due to the large water storage capacity of the Frelovo Reservoir!" Zolotarev said: "The construction of the reservoir is to adjust the impact of water resources changing with the seasons, so it will store water when there is a lot of rain. !"

This is easy to understand. When there is a lot of rain, the river will rise and there will be floods. If there is little rain, the water level will fall and there will be drought.

The construction of reservoirs can solve or alleviate this problem to a certain extent, that is, to store water to reduce floods when there is a lot of rain, and to release water to alleviate drought when there is little rain.

So this is not a simple problem of water storage and power generation.

Therefore, the reservoir must be large enough to play a role in regulating drought and flood, otherwise it will be meaningless if the water is drained in two and a half times.

"But the superior told us not to worry about this!" Zolotarev said: "They will control the duration of the flood peak, that is, blast a small section of the dam in a targeted manner, and make preparations for repairing the blockage before then!"

So this problem is perfectly solved.

In the end, after communicating with the reservoir personnel, the best data I got was to reach the flood peak within five hours...the reason why it takes five hours is because this way the dam does not need to blow up too much, they chose to open the gate and blow up a short section way to meet this requirement.

Then, the water level returned to its original state by noon the next day.

This time is also accurately and repeatedly calculated.

Too early, too late is not good.

It's too early, and the attack time of the amphibious landing ship is too short.

Later, the tanks would not have time to pass Surovikino during the day.