Malashenko meditated for a long time with a cigarette in his mouth, and finally faced Commissar Petrov and spat out these words.
In fact, Comrade Ma has been thinking in his heart, maybe it is because we have fought too many bad battles in the past two years. Either he was pressed to the ground and rubbed by the Germans, or he was beaten to the ground by the Germans.
Link up and add a fancy slingshot,
After so many thrilling moments and hanging by a thread, Malashenko felt like he was just a little bit close to losing his life.
In such a back-and-forth cycle of hard battles, Malashenko now realizes that he seems to regard all of this as an ordinary day-to-day.
It's like...it's just like being suppressed by the Germans and beaten violently by the enemy while being pinned to the ground. But if you encounter a smooth battle and fight smoothly, this would be weird.
Time has arrived in 1944 in the blink of an eye, and the most difficult period of the Patriotic War has completely gone and has passed forever.
44 years, what does 44 years mean?
With a cigarette between his fingers, Malashenko kept asking himself repeatedly, and the answer that was not difficult to come up with was actually obvious.
From now on, the Germans will be beaten violently by the Red Army backhand and will enter a normal stage. The serious losses in the number of troops will lead to the inability to make ends meet, which will force the Germans to put more and more young soldiers and child soldiers into the battlefield.
The power of the Allied strategic bombing cannot be underestimated, and the number of advanced technological equipment of the Germans will only decrease day by day.
On the other hand, the Soviet Union, which has received blood transfusions from the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as its own strong resilience, is now completely different from what it was in 1941.
It is not difficult to understand who will win in this ebb and flow of events and where the advantage lies.
After thinking about it, Malashenko finally realized that all this was caused by his inertial thinking. The casualties of the infantry were so small. At first glance, it seemed that he was judging them by the previous battle losses, until he felt deeply.
unusual.
It sounds a bit ridiculous, right? But even Malashenko himself, who has been awarded the honor of Hero of the Soviet Union twice, really thinks so.
When you get used to something and regard it as a normal situation without any surprises, if you can still maintain a clear insight and analytical ability to control the details, this is an extremely rare advantage.
Malashenko, who has already become a major general at a young age, lacks life experience. To be honest, he does not have the ability and ability to do so, and it is easy to fall into an endless loop of inertial thinking.
Although there is also the factor of "bystander's clarity", in the end it is Comrade Political Commissar's age and richer and more diverse life experience. At this critical moment when the old and new eras change, Malashenko is reminded: The situation is no longer the same as before.
Same.
From now on, the fighting power of the Germans will only become more and more stretched, and they will go downhill all the way, and they will completely become an adou who cannot be supported. Mud cannot build up the wall. It will never be possible to recreate the grand occasion of conquering Europe with iron hoofs in the past.
thing.
Future battles will continue to develop in a direction that is more and more favorable to the Red Army and will have greater and greater advantages. The enemy's advantages in terms of military strength and technical equipment will continue to increase and become larger and larger.
There is no better time to adjust your mentality than to do it now, to wipe away the haze of the past and regard the enemy's defeat as a truly normal situation.
Although Comrade Political Commissar did not say it explicitly, he did not want Malashenko to become arrogant and underestimate the enemy.
But the truth is like this. Objective reality cannot be changed by human subjective will. No matter which angle you look at some things, whether you are willing to admit it or not, these are ironclad facts and there is no doubt about them.
Malashenko, who has worked with Comrade Political Commissar for a long time and is both a teacher and a friend, understands this. Some subtle changes that are difficult to detect with the naked eye have actually been made in a deep breath.
"Honestly, if you hadn't reminded me, it might have taken me a while to change over and get a better understanding of what's going on now."
"But now, I just want to say that it's good to have you. Every failure and defeat shown by those Germans is the best proof that we have caused irreparable wounds to them."
"It seems that future battles will be much easier to fight, but we still need to pay attention to our opponents at the tactical level. The enemy's new equipment is still coming one after another, and its performance cannot be underestimated, and it is a threat. But in terms of fighting will and morale, it is already
We definitely have the upper hand, but this is the only reason why we must despise those Germans and we must not lose to them."
"We must use the highest morale and the most tenacious fighting will, supplemented by the latest and most powerful equipment of our division, to cleanly and completely eliminate these fascist fanatics in the future battles!"
"I can even feel that there is a high possibility that the war will end next year or even earlier! We will regain all the lost land in the motherland, cross the border, and then go to Europe to liberate the areas occupied by Nazi fascism.
Every inch of the land. Then break into the heart of these villains and scum and capture Berlin. The final victory will definitely belong to our great Red Army!"
It sounds a bit similar to a pre-war preaching or a pep rally speech...
All in all, our Comrade Ma became more and more excited as he talked, and in the end he simply entered a state of complete selflessness.
It was inevitable that the voice would get louder and louder, and the staff officers and various personnel in the entire division headquarters tent could not help but stop what they were doing and cast their gazes at the young and passionate comrade division commander.
Malashenko didn't notice all the strange eyes on him at first, but when the speech ended and the words just fell, Comrade Ma, who noticed something was wrong, finally looked around.
After looking around, his face looked a little embarrassed.
But before Comrade Ma could take any actual action in response, a burst of passionate applause suddenly erupted and resounded throughout the division. Comrade Ma was quite confused for a moment.
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There was no unnecessary praise or impassioned approval, only the long-lasting applause that always echoed in the air and reached the ears.
The political commissar who witnessed this scene also smiled indifferently. Without waiting for Malashenko to say anything, he stood up and came to the side of the division commander who had been his partner for a long time.
"Stalin, this is the greatest honor of this elite unit. Just like the name itself in the name of the supreme leader, Comrade Division Commander, this is an army that cannot be defeated, cannot be destroyed, let alone attack
The enemy has the iron-clad troops to compromise and surrender."
"This is the real Red Army, the most elite steel division in our armed forces!"