Malashenko could have expected that someone would come to pick him up, so he didn’t say how awesome he was, but he was still a lieutenant general and a high-ranking person.
There was no bus to pick me up from the airport, so it was indeed said that I would go there by myself.
But Malashenko really didn't expect that the person waiting at the airport gate to pick him up would turn out to be Vatutin.
We’ve all heard that Eastern subordinates come to pick up leaders. How can there be any reason for leaders to come to pick up Eastern subordinates?
Although he and Vatutin have a good personal relationship, it’s too. Anyway, it just doesn’t feel like a normal thing that should be done.
Malashenko, who was confused about what was going on, walked forward, and what was waiting for him was Vatutin's smiling face. Not only that, he even took the initiative to walk forward and talk to the old man who had worked with him for a long time.
Dongzhu opened his arms and gave him a big bear hug.
"Flying directly from Berlin to that place, you must have suffered a lot along the way, right? Huh?"
The first sentence I said directly touched the heart of Lan Yizhi, who almost had tears in his eyes because he already suffered from back pain.
"I'm sure it's not a big deal to talk about the situation, but in our relationship, he really can't shut up against his conscience, Comrade Marshal. Now he really feels that there is no place in his body from his arms to his legs. Isn't it normal to talk about it?
Even if it’s a fight, it’s not that light.”
"Pfft hahahaha——"
As soon as Malashenko said this, he made Vatutin, who had just finished the bear hug in front of him, laugh out loud. Before his laughter subsided, he patted Malashenko's arm and said.
"That's right, but telling him the truth means that we are not estranged from each other. That's how you should be with him!"
"Look, the food has been prepared for me. He has just arrived there not long ago. It happens that his motorcade is also there, so he just came to pick me up and see what their "Hero of Berlin" did that time.
What surprises did the Japanese devils bring?"
After the Battle of Berlin, the name "Berlin" was added to the already long full name of the Leader's Army.
From Moscow to Berlin, the title of the capital of the Soviet Union and Germany was undoubtedly one of the top honors in the Great Patriotic War.
The titles of other meritorious units are basically like "Vistula to Oder River", or even worse, they can be embellished with place names like "Tamanskaya".
Like the Leader's Army, which has the top double honorary title of "Stalin" in the front and "Moscow to Berlin" in the back, this is the only one among the millions of Soviet Red Army troops, and there is no other.
Now Vatutin said that Malashenko is the "hero of Berlin", which is also referring to the newly added title of Berlin.
After getting into the car, he and Vatutin walked side by side in the back row of the car for the convenience of chatting. Comrade Comrade Political Commissar and Lavrinenko and his party walked behind according to Vatutin's arrangement. The other cars were in the same group as the convoy.
Malashenko, who was greeted by Vatutin's praise, smiled and nodded without any embarrassment to say anything more. The words that followed directly got to the point.
"Comrade Marshal, how much time do they have left to prepare? You know that his troops are currently on the road to expand the country from Baidu, and he is worried that if the time is too tight, it will not be possible."
Malashenko didn't finish his words. Vatutin could have guessed the meaning of "Joining the East", and after thinking about it for a moment, he spoke directly and gave Malashenko the answer.
"I don't have to worry about that. The time left for them to prepare for the battle is quite sufficient."
"Although the First Far East Front Army has undertaken a considerable number of combat tasks, the transportation resources assigned to them by superiors are not sufficient. Our army has a lot of assets, and superiors also know this.
Now the property of that army is much greater than that of some newly formed group armies, and there is no other commander as wealthy as me in the entire Red Army."
Malashenko's main concern is that the leader's army has a lot of tanks. If there is no transport capacity and resources, it will be difficult to assemble the troops in a short time. The assembly speed will definitely be faster than that of a certain leader.
On the other hand, the fact before us is just as Vatutin said. The current leader of the army is unique in the entire Red Army. Looking at the scale of the military-level establishment, no one can find the same first-level leader in the whole world.
Two families.
After the Battle of Berlin, when the highly integrated leading army expanded, it did not have infantry divisions, tank divisions, and a large number of various eastern-level units like the traditional Red Army corps-level units.
Under Malashenko's personal drafting plan, there were only two combat units at the divisional level of the leader's corps, namely Nokurbalov's 1st Division and Varosha's 2nd Division.
But don't think, "How can I be so poor with only two divisions in one army?" The two heavy-duty combined divisions east of Malashenko's legs are far beyond the comparison of ordinary Guards divisions.
To put it simply, the two main forces of the original leader division, the 1st and 2nd brigades, will be promoted and expanded into the original leader division according to the previous organization plan that was continuously reorganized based on actual combat experience of the leader division during the Battle of Berlin.
Troops of the same size as a division.
According to the book figures, the two combat divisions of the Ming Dynasty's leader army are now fully equipped. They should have 530 medium and heavy tanks, as well as self-propelled artillery, rocket launchers and rocket assault weapons assigned from the battalion level.
The tanks are counted up to the division level, and the total number reaches 430 or more.
In addition, because the Leader's Army was also the first unit in the Red Army to implement a fully mechanized unit, it literally realized "everyone has a car to travel"; just like its predecessor, the Leader's Division, it was also the first unit in the Red Army.
Just like a fully mechanized division.
Therefore, in terms of the distribution of armored combat vehicles, Ruming's leader army now has 530 infantry fighting vehicles, which are allocated in a 1:1 ratio, with the same number of tanks, to achieve "one tank with one squadron" infantry-tank coordination.
Ideal configuration.
In addition, Malashenko, who reserved the ultimate lethal weapon of TOS-1A for division-level deployment rather than continuing to hold it in his lap, also has newer and stronger military-affiliated fire support equipment-ISU
-203 self-propelled artillery.
That super self-propelled artillery was a super self-propelled artillery that shocked the foreigners who saw it with their own eyes, whether it was on the battlefield or on the parade ground.
In addition to the two military parades in the east and west, 24 new vehicles were received in each, for a total of 48 vehicles.
In the period after the military parade, the Leningrad Kirov Factory, which was seizing the time to continue rolling out vehicles, will probably count the initial prototype vehicles that have been delivered before the start of combat operations in the wrong month.
24 vehicles were collected and delivered to Malashenko.
So if everything goes according to plan, then the military support firepower of the leader army will consist of a total of 72 ISU-203 self-propelled artillery vehicles.
In terms of the specific establishment, Malashenko determined that 23 vehicles would constitute a battalion, including the battalion command vehicle, and 72 vehicles would exactly pull out 3 artillery battalions to form a regiment-level headquarters.
Furthermore, Malashenko's original division-level guard tank company has now been expanded into a guard tank battalion. A total of 48 IS7 heavy tanks are equipped with a guard mechanized infantry battalion directly under the army for coordinated operations.
Although these two units have the title of "guard" in name, in the actual combat concept, they play the role of a military permanent reserve. Together with the ISU-203 self-propelled artillery regiment, they are not Malashenko's leg.
It is a military-level combat unit directly under the control.
Quite a bit, although the IS7 is good, it is limited by many factors such as weight and productivity. Therefore, the main battle heavy tanks of the leading army so far are still the 50-ton IS6. The IS7 is in the first division.
The level is only used as a breakthrough spearhead suitable for the battlefield environment.
Then there is the IS7 tank battalion that Malashenko holds in his lap. Once deployed at the most anxious moment of the war, it will most likely play a role in turning the tide of the war.
Therefore, all the miscellaneous things are counted together, including all the combat equipment of the army and divisions. The total number of armored combat vehicles such as tanks and infantry fighting vehicles has exceeded 1,100. The total number of self-propelled artillery, rocket launchers, and rocket assault tanks is 500.
Since then, the total strength of the combat troops has exceeded 50,000.
That's not to mention the logistics support truck fleet, whose number of vehicles is much larger than the total number of combat equipment.
It is not true at all to say that the leader's army is "an army with steel tracks and truck pulleys."
By the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army had a total of 6 Guards Tank Armies.
After the leadership army was reorganized and established, some people jokingly called the leadership army the "7th Guards Tank Army".
Malashenko heard about that statement and responded with a smile, saying "it's true."
Because based solely on the frontal battlefield width required by the leader's army and the comprehensive combat strength at the corps level, the powerful assault capability of the leader's army is not weaker than that of a traditional tank army.
From the infantry to the artillery, everything was mounted on tracks and wheels. The huge advancement made the leader's assault speed completely realize the unprecedented "how fast the tank can fight, the other arms that cooperate with the tank can definitely follow."
breakthrough.
Taking the tank as the core does not hold the tank back, and builds a complete combat system around the tank that can follow the tank.
That is the core answer given by Malashenko on the topic of "how to enhance the efficiency of first-level assault group operations of corps and army groups".
There is one thing that Malashenko is very lucky about.
Thanks to the timing of the expansion and formation of the Leader's Army, in the late stages of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet military industrial production was able to surge to an unprecedented level, and the production of various required main battle equipment could be maintained in both quality and quantity.
Delivered in place.
Otherwise, the military-level synthetic assault group adaptation plan that Malashenko has been conceiving for a long time would not allow enough time to "equip the equipment", but on second thought, it is still better than "equipping the equipment and waiting for the people".
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All in all, in Malashenko's view, the current situation is basically in line with the expectations of the plan he has always conceived, and it can be said to be quite good.
At the level of the front army, Vatutin's leg base does not have a large number of tanks to handle, and now there is a "super tank army not called a tank army" like the Leader's Army.
The 1st Far Eastern Front Army led by Vatutin, armed with more than 2,900 tanks and armed artillery, suddenly became the most powerful front-level unit in the entire month-long combat operation, completely surpassing the existing history of Japan.
The most powerful Transbaikal Front had 500 more tanks and self-propelled artillery than the latter.
In fact, there is nothing that can be done about it, and it does not mean that the superiors deliberately favored Vatutin.
As for the Leader's Army, a special experimental army-level unit, the Transbaikal Front, and the 1st Far East Front, whoever is in its lap will surely be number one and whoever is the strongest.
Even if the Second Far East Front Army, which is the weakest among the three front armies and takes on auxiliary combat tasks, can suddenly become a strong army on par with the other two front armies.
If the leader of the army gives a thumbs up to someone, then things will not be the same.
Considering that the tacit cooperation and familiarity between Vatutin and Malashenko will help the leadership army's combat operations to unfold at the actual battlefield level, and the front-level combat tasks that Vatutin is responsible for are indeed required
The Leader's Army was such an army. After comprehensive consideration, the Leader's Army was placed under the command of Vatugin, so Vatugin's First Far Eastern Front Army suddenly became "the most powerful army in the Far East."
The causal relationship is just that, it's that simple.
If the other two front commanders are dissatisfied, then that's fine. If I'm not convinced, I'll go to the General Staff Headquarters and go to the loving comrade who signed and approved the previous plan for the Far East operations. If I'm willing to go and really have the ability to go,
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He led Malashenko to eat all the food prepared on the table. Malashenko, who had a big belly like a pregnant woman who was five months pregnant, patted his belly and burped one after another. But he just walked in.
Vatutin on the side looked surprised, with an expression like "I wonder if I just escaped from Africa to the Soviet Union."
"Isn't the food delicious all the way back?"
Vatutin asked in a half-joking tone. His reaction was a little slow because he was too full. Malashenko, who was walking on a chair and stroking his belly with his legs, had a reaction and then tried to figure out what was going on.
"Oh, that's not true. I was shaking all the way back, and my brains were shaken to pieces. I couldn't sleep well, let alone eat. I didn't have much appetite when I had everything in front of me.
I didn’t expect that he was used to riding with such a bumpy tank, but that trip would actually turn him into such a hard place.”
After eating and drinking, he went to the local guesthouse in Chita and slept. Malashenko, who had fallen asleep, opened his eyes again and found that it was already 7:20, 40 minutes east of the 8:00 train departure time.
It was only thanks to the proximity to the train station that he dared to sleep until then. Malashenko got up and hurriedly packed up his things to leave. When he left the guest house, he saw at a glance that the political commissar who had finished packing was waiting at the roadside with a special car.
"Come on, just send me. If I don't come east, he's going to call me. Lavri and the others have already gone to the station first."
"In addition, while I was sleeping, Kulbalov sent a telegram. He has arrived in Khabarovsk and is setting up the division headquarters. It is said that the military headquarters has also prepared the site, and now it is
Wait until I bring someone over."
"Oh, there's something very special. Marshal Vatutin has already set off ahead of time. The front army headquarters is also located in Khabarovsk. It will be more convenient for combat meetings and liaisons. At least I don't have to take a train to go to the front army headquarters for meetings.
Already."
Just like the preparations for every major war before, Comrade Political Commissar would always quietly figure everything out and arrange everything in an orderly manner when Malashenko was tired.
Malashenko didn't know how long such a monthly routine would last. Some things were bound to go wrong, so he hoped that such a good time could last as long as possible, even for a little while longer.