"Ah, what, only two divisions of our army have won the high honor of 'Kharkov'?" After hearing this, Samyko said with some disappointment: "I thought we could account for at least half of it.
"
Sokov also felt a little uncomfortable. Whether it was the liberation of Kharkov or the earlier liberation of Belgorod, his troops were the first to rush into the city and planted the flag in the city.
The commanding heights of the city. But now when the lofty honor of naming a city is awarded, only two divisions are on the list.
Lunev saw Sokov and Samyko looking depressed, and quickly comforted them and said: "Comrade Commander, Comrade Chief of Staff, I know that we only have two divisions on the list this time, and the number is indeed too small.
, but you must also consider the difficulties of your superiors."
"What's the difficulty?" Samyko asked angrily: "You know, whether it was the liberation of Belgorod or Kharkov, it was the troops of our group army who took the lead in rushing into the city. The last award was given to Belgorod.
When the title was awarded to Gorod, not one of our divisions was awarded the title; this time, only two divisions were awarded the title. If the commanders and combatants knew about this, they would definitely feel chilled by it."
"I understand your feelings." Lunev said to the two men again: "The reason why we were able to rush into the city first in the battle to liberate Belgorod and Kharkov was entirely because our superiors provided us with
They have sophisticated weapons and a large number of commanders and fighters with rich combat experience. If these things are given to other troops, they can also create the same results..."
When Sokov heard this, he realized that what Lunev said made some sense. The reason why the headquarters did not award its troops the high honor of "Belgorod", but only gave the high honor of "Kharkov" to
I am afraid that my two quotas are due to providing myself with a large number of sophisticated weapons and tens of thousands of commanders and fighters with rich combat experience. Judging from the army's record, all division-level structures in the entire group army can obtain city-level quotas.
It is a high honor to name it, but if this happens, friendly forces may raise objections, causing unnecessary controversy.
"Comrade Military Commissar, you don't have to say anymore." After Sokov thought about this, he said to Lunev: "You are right. Our superiors did give us a large number of sophisticated weapons to fight with tens of thousands of soldiers with rich skills.
As experienced commanders and combatants, our ability to achieve such brilliant results is inseparable from the strong support from our superiors. Therefore, in this lofty honor named after the city, it is considered very good that we can get two seats.
"
Seeing that Sokov had figured it out, Lunev showed a smile on his face: "Comrade Commander, don't worry, although we did not get the high honor of Belgorod, and the high honor of Kharkov is only two
However, there are still many battles to be fought, and I believe that our troops will achieve another glorious record."
Sokov agreed very much with Lunev's statement. After all, the Germans had not yet been driven away from the Soviet Union. To achieve the final victory, it would take almost twenty months for his own troops to win.
There is enough time to build more achievements.
Sokov said to Samyko: "Comrade Chief of Staff, as we just agreed, let Colonel Chuvashov's 98th Guards Division board the train first, and the rest of the troops will finish their rest and seize the time to prepare for departure.
.”
"Okay, Comrade Commander." Samyko nodded and said, "I will call Colonel Chuvashov and ask him to assemble the troops immediately and be ready to board the vehicle at any time."
After hearing the conversation between Sokov and Samyko, Lunev, who had just returned from outside, was confused: "Comrade Commander, Comrade Chief of Staff, what are you talking about? Is there any new combat mission?"
"Yes, Comrade Military Commissar." Sokov nodded, pointed to the map on the table and said to Lunev: "Not long ago, the commander of the front army, General Konev, gave us an order to immediately report to Klei
Menchug set out to seize the city, cut off the retreat of the Poltava defenders, and establish a reliable landing ground on the right bank of the Dnieper."
"What, seize Kremenchug?" Lunev was surprised. As a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he had naturally been to Kremenchug before and knew the environment there very well. At this moment, he heard that the troops were about to capture Kremenchug.
Lemenchug launched the attack, and he said nervously: "We are more than three hundred kilometers away from Kremenchug. I wonder how many days our superiors have given us?"
"Five days." Samyko slapped Lunev and said: "Comrade Commander also raised the difficulties we faced with General Konev, but General Konev asked us to go by train, saying that we must
Klementchuk can be captured from the enemy within five days."
"Hell, when General Konev issued this order, was he still drunk?" After hearing this, Lunev said angrily: "We have so many troops, how can we have so many wagons to transport them. If we let him
The troops marched on foot, and by the time they arrived at Kremenchug, I'm afraid a week had passed. How could we complete the tasks assigned to us by our superiors?"
Hearing the two men constantly mentioning Konev's name, Sokov suddenly had a strange thought in his mind: Could Konev be a time traveler like himself, right?
The reason why he had such an idea was entirely because Sokov recalled that in the early days of the Moscow Defense War, when Konev was still the commander of the front army, he suddenly issued an order to Rokossovsky, the commander of the 16th Army at the time.
A strange order: hand over the troops to the commander of the 20th Army Yershakov, and take the former 16th Army headquarters members to Vyazma to receive five new divisions.
But when Rokossovsky arrived in Vyazma, he saw no trace of the troops at all. At this time, enemy tanks rushed into the city, and Rokossovsky could only hastily withdraw from the city.
, and continued to retreat to the east. Shortly after Rokossovsky handed over his troops, his 16th Army and 20th Army were encircled by the Germans and were finally annihilated by the Germans. The commander of these two armies, Lu Jinzhong,
General, was also captured because of his wounds.
Sokov secretly thought: If Konev was not a time traveler, how could he have given Rokossovsky an inexplicable order at such a moment and asked him to leave with the entire command. As a result
The 16th Army was annihilated by the Germans, but because the headquarters was still intact, the new 16th Army was quickly reorganized and established immortal feats in the battle to defend Moscow.
To be fair, although Lukin and Rokossovsky were both lieutenant generals, Lukin was much more famous. After all, when the Soviet army suffered successive defeats, he organized a group of defeated troops and established a
direction, blocking and severely damaging the enemy, leaving a deep impression on the bearded man.
During the same period, there was also a commander of the 63rd Army, Petrovsky. Because he decisively led the troops to launch a counterattack and forcibly crossed the Dnieper River, he dealt a heavy blow to the German army in Belarus. He was directly promoted from colonel to lieutenant general by Big Beard. However,
When his troops were encircled by the Germans, Zhukov negotiated with Marshal Timoshenko to appoint Petrovsky as the commander of the 21st Army and sent a plane to pick him up in the encirclement. However, he refused and only allowed the plane to take a heavy-duty plane.
The wounded leave.
If Konev was not a time traveler, when he discovered that the 16th and 20th Army Groups might be encircled and annihilated by the Germans, the commander he first thought of to protect must be Lukin and not Rokossovsky. But in fact
, but he made the opposite decision. What was even more outrageous was that he asked Rokossovsky to take all the headquarters members of the 16th Army with him when he left. This meant that he knew that this group would be in danger in the future.
, will play an extremely important role.
As for why Konev did not take the protagonist Smooth, Sokov secretly wondered: Maybe the other person is not from the same era as himself, but maybe from the 1950s and 1960s, so his behavior is different from that of people of this era.
There is no difference.
When Sokov was thinking about the problem, he suddenly heard Samyko calling him. He quickly raised his head and asked: "Comrade Chief of Staff, what's the matter?"
"Comrade Commander," Samyko, who was standing aside with a microphone, asked, "Colonel Chuvashov, please tell me, apart from the equipment of the troops, is there anything else you need to bring?"
"In order to prevent our army from advancing rapidly, the Germans may have damaged the railway." Sokov said to Sameko: "Let them hang a special train next to it and install rails and sleepers inside. Once discovered,
If the railway ahead is damaged by the enemy, rapid repairs can be carried out."
"Understood, Comrade Commander." After Samyko said this, he said to Chuvashov on the other end of the phone: "Comrade Colonel, did you hear it? Comrade Commander ordered you to hang an extra truck next to it.
, put rails and sleepers inside, so that if the road ahead is damaged, emergency repairs can be carried out in time."
"Then when can we leave?"
Upon hearing Chuvashov's question, Samyko quickly turned his questioning eyes to Sokov again.
Sokov originally wanted to wait until dark before setting off, so that the target would not be exposed easily, but then he thought about it. Now that the Soviet Air Force has occupied the air superiority, and the shadows of enemy planes have been seen in the sky, there is no need to worry about the whereabouts of the troops being revealed.
When the German reconnaissance plane discovered it, he decisively changed his story and said: "I think the train leaves at seven o'clock, so that they can almost approach the Poltava area before dark. Even if the railway is damaged by the enemy, the train driver can be there in time."
discovered.”
After delivering Sokov's order, Samyko put down the phone and continued to ask: "Comrade Commander, the troops of the 98th Guards Division are lightly armed troops and do not have any heavy weapons. If the sneak attack turns into a strong attack, I will
I’m worried that they don’t have enough attack power.”
"Don't we still have carriages?" Sokov said: "We can load tanks and artillery onto the carriage and follow Chuvashov and the others. Once we need to attack fortresses, our tanks and artillery can be put to use."
After hearing what Sokov said, Runev on the side intervened and said: "It's a pity that there is no armored train, otherwise the powerful firepower on the train would be enough to crush the German resistance."
Although Sokov said nothing, he disagreed with Lunev's statement. The armored train seemed powerful, but it also had strong limitations. Once the enemy destroyed the track, the armored train could only stop.
On the railway, they became the target of enemy long-range artillery fire or aircraft bombing. Moreover, after the Battle of Stalingrad, armored trains were rarely mentioned, and you probably can’t find them here either.
Samyko had the same idea as Sokov. He rebutted Lunev and said: "Comrade Military Commissar, despite the powerful firepower of armored trains, once the railway line is damaged by the enemy, our armored trains will not be able to continue operating.
An immovable armored train placed in the middle of the railway is a target for enemy artillery fire or aircraft bombing."
"Well, Comrade Chief of Staff, what you said makes some sense." After Lunev said this, he turned his gaze to Sokov and asked curiously: "Comrade Commander, do you think it's just close to the 98th Guards Division?"
With some tanks and artillery, can we take Klementchuk?"
"There is a certain chance." Sokov was not sure about Klemenko's situation. When he heard Runev's question, he could only answer in an uncertain tone: "If the 98th Guards Division cannot take Klemenko,
Chug, I will put more troops into the battle one after another."
"Also," Samyko pushed the map in front of Sokov: "I'm worried that once we capture Kremenchug and establish a landing site on the right bank of the Dnieper River, we will definitely encounter a crazy counterattack by the German army.
"
"That's for sure, Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov said to Samyko: "A few months ago, Mustache did not even think that our army would have the strength to go out to the Dnieper River, so he banned Manstein.
Because of the establishment of a defense line on the Dnieper River. According to him, once the German soldiers knew that there was a solid defense line behind them, facing our powerful offensive, the soldiers would grease their feet and flee back to the defense line, throwing away the vast land.
Give us.
Now, with the successive victories of our army, the Germans realized that it was only a matter of time before our army crossed the Dnieper River, so they began to work overtime to repair the offensive along the river. However, due to the short time, they did not complete many areas. Once somewhere
If they are broken through by our army, they will concentrate their superior forces to launch a counterattack in an attempt to restore their lost positions.
I can imagine that once our troops establish a landing site on the right bank of the Dnieper River, they will be attacked again and again by the German army. The battle will be extremely brutal, and I am afraid that the troops will suffer considerable losses."
"Then how do we block the German counterattack?" Samek asked.
Sokov looked at him and said: "Comrade Chief of Staff, don't worry, we can deploy the artillery on the left bank and hide the tank troops at the landing site on the right bank. Once the German army launches an attack on the landing site, we will use artillery fire to stop them.
Shoot; wait until the enemy approaches our position, and then use the tank troops to cover the infantry attack to crush the German offensive."