With the new anti-aircraft vehicles and new medium tanks, Lan Yaozhi has been in a very excited mood in the Far East in recent days. At the same time, he is also looking forward to fighting against the little devils. Ah, yes, should I invite the little devils?
It’s time for the devils to feast.
Kulbalov's first division arrived one after another through the railway line. IS7 and ISU-203, which were in the limelight during various military parades in Red Square, rushed out of the railway station freight yard and headed to the troop garrison and assembly in the suburbs of Khabarovsk.
Click on standby.
The Second Division of Varosha, which traveled all the way from Berlin to the Far East, took longer, but fortunately, Zhukov called on his name and personally supervised the transportation capacity coordination.
The Second Division, which traveled unobstructed all the way, eating and sleeping all on the train, was also very fast. It was the fastest among all the first-level units of the Red Army divisions that went to the Far East to gather for the war.
The only thing that's not so good is that it's fast, but basically all the eating, drinking and sleeping are spent on the train, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
To put it in down-to-earth terms, there is no intercontinental rail travel in a hard-seat green car.
Oh, yes, the speed of the trains in those days was not even as fast as the green trains of later generations. In other words, the experience of traveling on the train was much worse than that of a hard-sleeper green train on the intercontinental railway.
Fortunately, although Varosha's Second Division is not as elite as Kurbalov's First Division, it is at least a long-established and meritorious unit that has been tested for a long time, and it is not a strong one among millions of Red Army troops.
We’ve all slept in Berlin’s smoldering construction rubbish dumps, so what if we sleep in a hard sleeper on an intercontinental trip? That’s considered a “luxury experience,” right?
Malashenko once suggested that Varosha change planes and fly over first, and arrive early to prepare for the establishment of the Eastern Division Headquarters and other related matters that should be left to his division commander.
Unexpectedly, Varosha, who had always obeyed the instructions of his former division commander and current comrade comrade commander, the fierce infantryman who was brought out from the dead in Stalingrad by Malashenko, uncharacteristically declined this time politely in the telegram.
Malashenko's kindness was so great that he vowed that he would arrive by train with the soldiers.
"He made a fuss. What happened to the kid that time? That time he made the little nurse's belly grow bigger. After Berlin was beaten, he also lifted him up high and landed gently on the east side. He didn't deal with it. Why did he do that?
The boy happened to be acting arrogant with him at that time. Didn’t he understand what he meant when he asked him to come over early? What if he didn’t think he was asking for punishment? "
He was holding a fresh telegram that smelled of ink in his lap. Malashenko, who was a little surprised, was a little confused and muttered to himself. In the end, he had just made a cup of tea and was carrying the telegram in his lap.
Comrade Political Commissar came forward to give pointers.
"He, isn't he at odds with Kulbalov?"
"Ah? Kulbalov? What's going on between those two people? I don't want to tell him that Malashenko's right and left men are fighting each other. There are only two divisions under his legs, and the two division commanders are very private.
A fight between the East and the West? Then the Japanese Japanese are really incapable of fighting?"
Malashenko realized that the two people didn't like each other, but his expression turned serious, wondering if something had happened. Fortunately, the political commissar's additional explanation was quick.
Just come.
"It's not that serious. It's just a matter of comparing who is better."
I put the cup of tea I had brewed for Comrade Commander in my lap on the table. Recently, Malashenko, who had nothing to do, had indeed taken over many political commissar comrades who were doing civilian work. They became more leisurely than in previous months.
Quite a few, and of course, there will be more time to do one's own work - issues related to the ideological construction of senior commanders.
As for the incident between Varosha and Kurbalov, it was not something that Comrade Political Commissar just discovered not long ago in the process of handling work in the past few days.
"Didn't Kurbalov take the train from Moscow and follow the troops all the way here?"
"It turns out that Varosha probably feels that in this opportunity, he should strive to show that he is stronger than Kulbalov, or at least not inferior to him."
"Comrade Commander's flight is not the business of Comrade Commander, it has nothing to do with the division commander. Varosha identified his mistake as Kulbalov. Since Kulbalov did not come by train,
Then he can't fly, it will make him look squeamish and weak."
"On the contrary, taking a train from Berlin to the Far East is a better way to show "strength" than taking a train from Moscow to the Far East. It just so happened that the preparation time for that battle was quite sufficient, so don't be in a hurry. As for Varosha, do you want to seize it?
That opportunity proves it."
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Is there no competition between the two of us? If we compete by taking a train to see who is more durable, and whoever is the most capable is the real man?
Malashenko, who was speechless, half-opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words when they reached his lips.
The ethos that soldiers should have is to be martial, respect the strong, and compete with each other in the right way and through the right channels to see who is stronger. That is of course not a good thing, and Malashenko is not wrong either.
Are the two of them really competing like taking a train to see who is better?
Oh, I took the train, so he had to take the train too. If he took the plane, he would look weaker than me and not as good as me. He must not do anything about surrendering, and he would have to walk a longer distance than me.
The train comes to overtake me.
What kind of bullshit logic is that!?
"Forget it, let's do whatever it takes, just ask those two people not to miss his business. Also tell Varosha to check the timetable and figure out the time by himself, even if he arrives half a day late without any legitimate reason.
Everyone begs to deal with him."
In his previous life, he had an indissoluble bond with the Slavs in every sense of the word, but Malashenko still cannot understand some things, some incredible things that do not seem to be "Slavic performance art".
Just those things, sometimes they always happen when I least expect it, and to people I least expect. Even if I am very familiar with that person, I will still have the thought of "Fuck, it's very possible that there is such a thing"
What’s going on!?" A feeling like that.
I neither understood it nor wanted to get to the bottom of it, so the train race was over, at least not like that for Malashenko.
Malashenko, who had been editing documents in the office all morning, raised his leg and looked at his watch. He looked at the time and took a sip of tea made by Comrade Political Commissar himself. He thought that if he went out for a walk to relax, he would be more efficient at work when he came back.
, there happened to be a lot of things that I needed to see for myself, so I simply raised my head and spoke quietly to the political commissar comrade.
"Come on, go to the outskirts of the city and have a look at the river. He won't be at ease until he sees it with his own eyes."
The leader's army wants to command its troops to the south and crush the Kwantung Army. There is a prerequisite. Is the Ussuri River lying in front of them a hurdle that must be overcome?
However, the Wusuli River is very different from an ordinary small river, with a width ranging from 200-500 meters to 1,000 meters wide.
If you attack rashly without preparation, it will be fatal to a heavy synthetic swarm like the Leader Army.
Even if the enemy Tsukimoto on the other side has a big 38-inch cap in his leg, which will break if he hits it hard, I, the IS7, can't cross the river. I have to find a way to get the heavy equipment across in order to have any combat effectiveness.
Fortunately, this month-to-month combat operation is one of the battles that the Red Army has experienced since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, with the most ample preparation time and the most complete coordination of coordinated forces.
At that time, the initiative in the war lay with the Soviet Union, and it was completely predictable whether it would be ready to fight again. This also gave Malashenko the greatest confidence in saying that his troops could cross that river.
Khabarovsk, where the leadership army headquarters is located, is on the bank of the Ussuri River. Accompanied by the political commissar, Malashenko walked all the way out of the city to the outskirts of the city. After getting out of the car, Malashenko could see the calm waves at a glance.
The broad river.
The good news is that the flood season of the Wusuli River will not arrive until July at the earliest.
According to the current battle preparation process, the battle will not reach that time and is expected to be ready to start in June. The heavy equipment of the leading army is fully capable of crossing the east of Henan before the arrival of the flood season.
In the future, the lighter supplies and non-combat vehicles used to support frontline operations will be easy to talk about. Even if the flood season comes, there will be a way to cross the river.
Standing on the soft grass by the river, feeling the warm spring breeze, with the unique coolness of the river blowing across his face, Malashenko looked at his hometown on the other side of the river. For a while, Malashenko put the telescope with his legs to the east and followed him.
The last words blurted out immediately.
"How are the preparations at the engineering corps? Do you have any explanation?"
Regarding whether to support the leader's south-east crossing of the river, Zhukov specially sent an experienced engineering unit to Malashenko, carrying equipment specially prepared for cross-month combat operations.
Come and help.
There is only one purpose, to send the huge war machines of the Leader's Army across the Ussuri River and erect a steel pontoon bridge with a structural capacity of 80 tons, which is an unprecedented and arduous task.
The Red Army's engineering troops had never experienced such a mission before, and they had no ready-made equipment. Most of the mission materials required for this operation were specially customized.
As for the pontoon itself, it is not really a problem. Is buoyancy a thing? I just need to make the buoyancy container big and strong enough so that even a warship of tens of thousands of tons can float on the water. The floating structure has a carrying capacity of 80 tons.
Whether it is easy to assemble the pontoon bridge or not, the principle is the same.
But whether the actual amount of the project was indeed more huge and arduous, and the eldest girl was at the front of the sedan, that’s why Malashenko specifically asked the engineering troops.
"The engineering troops conducted on-the-spot inspections immediately after arriving, even before the establishment of the military headquarters of the leadership army was completed. They were one of the first troops to arrive in Khabarovsk for battle preparations."
"Are the steel structural parts of the pontoon that need to be used specially customized, and the width and bearing capacity are completely tailor-made for them. Or because they are too big and heavy, those steel structural parts and the ones that need to be used
The buoyancy container was dismantled into more than a dozen trains and shipped one after another."
"So far, all the materials and equipment required for the project have arrived, and the engineering troops have also signed for them. Franov, who led the team at the school, believes that they can complete the construction of the pontoon bridge as long as they have 6 hours of safety time.
I hope they can protect their construction work and ensure that they are not attacked by the Moon Army."
".6 hours?"
After hearing this, Malashenko frowned.
It's not that it's difficult to stop the Japanese Japanese from impeding the construction, but the construction time makes people really unhappy after hearing about it.
"Once the fighting starts, the Tsukimoto Japanese will not just wait for them to build the bridge. He is afraid that they will attack the construction site. He is even afraid that they will not come. But what if those guys run away when the situation is bad?"
"Six hours plus the time required for the troops to cross the bridge and assemble after crossing the bridge, it will take 8 to 10 hours before the Moon Army can truly launch its first large-scale cluster attack. 10 hours means that the Moon Army will
Even if they have two legs to escape, they can still march quickly into the nearest stronghold, the town."
"I don't want to tell him that the aviation force delays the enemy's retreat. There is no reason for the aviation force to block it. Is it true that the aviation force cannot complete its mission in an unexpected situation? Even if a large-scale assault is launched an hour late, the battlefield situation may undergo major changes.
It is never a good thing to leave the enemy so long."
Malashenko made his worries very clear. Knowing that the Red Army was powerful, the Tsukimoto Japanese had a high probability of engaging in a shrinking defense.
I really hope that those weaklings can be allowed to defend a solid city or position, and with a high troop density, not to mention how much trivial losses they can cause to the leading army, otherwise it will take longer to solve the problem.
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What does Malashenko lack most?
No time.
Don't forget, Malashenko is very much on an "additional combat mission", competing for time with the Transbaikal Front to advance into the enemy's territory.
10 hours was too precious and too long for a completely mechanized leadership force. Malashenko did not want to waste so much time easily by making a fool of himself.
Of course, Comrade Political Commissar can also understand Malashenko's mood. Although the particularity of that mission was extraordinary, it cannot be measured by ordinary bridge-building tasks.
With a structural bearing capacity of 80 tons, the erection of such an ultra-long steel pontoon is a task that has never been done before.
That is comparable to the difficulty of building a 60-ton pontoon bridge that is enough to allow IS6 to pass, and is two levels of difficulty higher than that of a 10-ton bridge. Coupled with the ultra-long length across the Ussuri River, the overall difficulty is naturally obvious.
Comrade Political Commissar, who had weighed things carefully before, still spoke calmly.
"He will communicate with Franov at the school again to see if he needs support. They can provide manpower and material resources to help compress the six-hour project time eastward."
"Actually, he doesn't want to do that. He knows that the people Marshal Zhukov sends to them must be the elite of the elite, but I know that they - hey"
After a long sigh, the words ended here. Malashenko believed that Comrade Political Commissar could understand clearly, and it was enough to say that everything was clear.
However, Malashenko and his Comrade Political Commissar were accompanying each other by the riverside, talking about things on the spot, with a large group of staff and security personnel following behind them, but a group of people suddenly appeared across the river.
Climb down the slope and emerge.
The figure carrying an old man with a big headband on his shoulders was immediately reflected in Malashenko's binoculars. It was really a sight that turned people off and put them in a bad mood.