Chapter 1007

"We can beat the Germans in two years?" The speaking engineer glanced at my epaulets quickly and said mildly, "Comrade General, I didn't get it wrong, did I?"

When I saw the curious expression on Ustinov's face, I gave a smile to the engineer who was in trouble and said lightly, "yes, comrade engineer, you have no wrong understanding. We can defeat the German in two years at most. As for the reason, "when I said this, I deliberately stopped for a moment to attract everyone's attention, and then said in an official voice," the German army began to go downhill after Stalingrad's disastrous defeat. Coupled with the various defects of the military, political and economic constitution of * * Germany, it was doomed that they would eventually fail. "

After I had said that, I turned to Ustinov to see how he would react. Did not expect that his face is not only not the slightest smile, but covered with a layer of dignified expression. I didn't know what I said touched his mind, so I quickly cut off the topic and asked, "Comrade member of the people's Committee, I don't know what you want me to do today."

When Ustinov heard my question, he didn't reply immediately. Instead, he stood up and said to the engineers, "comrades engineers, I think oshanina is right. If we really wait for two years and then use this new type of tank in the armed forces, it doesn't mean much. Therefore, I beg you to seize the time to overcome all difficulties. We must let all our tank soldiers run such tanks in the shortest possible time. "

After listening to Ustinov's words and whispering to each other for a while, an older engineer stood up and assured him, "comrades of the people's Committee, I stand for you on behalf of all people. We must overcome the problems faced by the new tanks within three months, and strive to arm our troops with such tanks before August. "

As for the engineer's reply, Ustinov nodded with satisfaction, "since everyone's opinions have been unified, give me a detailed report as soon as possible, so that I can prepare the necessary raw materials and provide you with enough manpower." With these two words, he waved his head at me and said, "Comrade o'shanina, follow me out."

I guessed that he might have something to say to me in private, so I got up and followed him out of the door.

As we walked along the dimly lit corridor, several of the guards behind us deliberately lagged behind to avoid interfering with our private chat. But Ustinov walked forward without saying a word, maybe to take care of me. He walked slowly, so that I could keep up with him.

Walking, he suddenly stopped, turned to me and said seriously, "o'shanina, do you know? Kharkov lost last night. "

"What, Kharkov lost?" This unexpected news startled me. I didn't expect that even if our army occupied Kiev and dispersed the enemy's forces, it still could not change the fate of Kharkov's fall. Instinctively, I asked, "is Kiev still in our hands?"

"The German army rushed into Kharkov on the 11th. At that time, the German army that rushed into the city divided into two columns and pushed north of Kharkov along the Belgorod Kharkov railway line. But when they rushed to Alexandria, a small unit of our army, guided by a T-34, counterattacked the German army and successfully drove them out of the city.

Later, the German army, supported by powerful intermediate air artillery including dive bombers and assault guns, invaded the city again. After repulsing the counter offensive launched by our army from Kharkov airport and destroying many T-34 of our army, we established a base of attack in the residential areas in the northern suburbs.

On March 12, the German armored division broke through the strong defense line of our army in the northern residential area, launched a fierce house by house battle with our army, and quickly pushed towards the city center

When Ustinov talked about the course of the battle of Kharkov, I was worried about Kiev. With the fall of Kharkov, rebarko and his troops would be trapped in Kiev. If they could not get the support of their superiors, even if the German army did not attack, the troops in the battle of Dnieper would collapse because of the depletion of materials.

After Ustinov finished, I saw that he didn't mention Kiev. I just wanted to ask him again. As a result, he said ahead of time: "go, accompany me to the top to have a look."

Listening to what he said, I couldn't help complaining. My heart said that I had just followed the officer here for at least ten minutes, and the wound on my eye was still tearing and aching all the way. If I walk back like this again, I'm really worried about the worst, which will lead to retinal detachment again.

Before I could speak, Ustinov raised his legs and walked forward. Seeing this, I had to follow him. Fortunately, not long after I left, I found that the situation was a little different from what I imagined. Ustinov took me to an elevator. Seeing our arrival, the sentries on both sides of the elevator quickly took the initiative to open the elevator door for us and invited us to enter.

The two of us got on the phone, and the guards who had been following also came in. After closing the elevator door, they pressed the up button of the elevator and let our elevator go up slowly.

When the elevator stops, the guard opens the door and goes outside to act as a guard. Ustinov made a gesture of invitation to me, and then he led the way out. Out of the elevator, he stood in the same place, looked around, then pointed to the right and said, "let's go outside and have a look."

We went through a long corridor and finally came to the outside of the building. On the wall of the building, several tanks covered with camouflage nets were placed in order. From the shape of the tank, it should be a new type of tank produced with the technology brought by Florin.

I thought Ustinov would let people uncover the camouflage net on the tank, and let me see woodlouse's newest tank.

We walked forward for a while, and I suddenly saw that there was a raised embankment on the open ground in front of us, and there were many people standing on the embankment, and several T-34 tanks were parked nearby. When I saw this strange phenomenon, my heart said that Ustinov had taken me so far, he didn't specially take me to see the earth dike, did he?

As soon as I got closer, I could see the acquaintance flonin standing on the embankment and the wide and deep pit under the embankment. I immediately understood that this was the "Golan trench" I proposed. The width and depth of this anti tank trench are in line with the standards I said. Because they only test the applicability of this anti tank trench, the length of the trench is only 30 meters.

Florin walked around the ditch and came to us. After greeting us, he stood by and introduced the advantages of the anti tank trench to Ustinov.

After listening to this, Ustinov said uneasily: "Comrade engineer, are you sure this anti tank trench can block the German steel flood?"

"Comrades of the people's Committee," Florin said cautiously, "after our tests, even though the tanks on the offensive side had exhausted all means, they still could not successfully cross the trench. Just do the test, there is even a tank turned into the ditch, resulting in the car driver also injured

After listening to this, Ustinov turned to me with a smile and said, "Comrade oshanina, it seems that the anti tank trench you have developed can really be of great use."

I didn't expect Florin to hear what he said. He looked at me in surprise and asked, "Comrade people's commissar, you just said that this kind of anti tank trench was groped out by Comrade oshanina?"

"Yes, it was from Marshal Zhukov that I learned about the idea of Comrade oshanina," he said with a smile. "After I heard that, I was dubious. But in order not to save the Marshal's face, I agreed to dig an anti tank trench like this. I didn't expect the effect to be so good. I estimate that as long as we have a large number of such anti tank trenches at the front, it will definitely give the Germans a headache. "

When Ustinov went to the ditch to see the effect, Florin came up to me and asked in a low voice, "Rita, I want to ask you something. How do you know about Golan trench?"

The words of Florin made my heart tight. My heart said it was over. Did he guess that I was also a passer-by. When he was considering how to answer him, he said to himself: "this kind of anti tank trench appeared in the Middle East war in 1973. At that time, the weak Israeli army not only blocked the enemy's attack, but also launched a counterattack to annihilate the invading enemy."

When he finished, I pretended to be mysterious and said, "Comrade engineer, in fact, this is what I came up with. At that time, I thought that after this plan was reported, it would be left unattended. I didn't expect that you spent so much money to build such an anti tank trench. "

"Is your idea just emerging, or is it the product of long deliberation?" asked Florin cautiously

"Well thought out, of course." As soon as I talked about the Golan trench, I was a little overjoyed. In order to let fronin understand, I said in a special place: "in fact, as early as the defense war in Stalingrad, I had thought of digging such an anti tank trench in front of our mamayev post, so that every time the enemy attacked, their tanks would rush to the foot of the mountain to cover the infantry attack on us."

"Since as early as the battle of Stalingrad, you thought of such an anti tank trench." "Why don't you send someone to dig one at the foot of the mountain? Don't you know that such an anti tank trench can block the enemy's armored assault? "

With a long sigh, I reluctantly said to florin, "engineer, it's not that I don't want to repair it, but that I have no conditions. You can only use the antitank trench's earthwork area too large, without special mechanical cooperation, let our soldiers dig with shovel. It is impossible to dig out for one or two months. At that time, the enemy was hovering near the mamayev post. Would they give us enough time to repair the fortifications? "

After listening, Florin shook his head and said with approval, "you're right, Rita. It is impossible for the Germans to let you build such an anti tank trench under their eyes. It is estimated that the enemy's armored forces will rush in front of you before your trench is repaired. "

I looked around and found that the person nearest to us was 10 meters away. I asked in a low voice, "have you heard about Kharkov?"

"I know that the battle of Kharkov in history ended with the defeat of our army and the victory of the German army. Although the casualties of our army were far greater than those of the German army in this battle, it was a victory that was not worth the loss for the German army. A large number of their elite troops were consumed by us in the battle. As a result, the combat effectiveness of their troops is greatly reduced, so that they will fight in the next Kursk... "When fronin said that Kursk, obviously aware that he was still in 1943, not 1975, and could not reveal too many secrets, he stopped directly. I heard him mention the battle of Kursk. Knowing that the main play was coming, I asked in a low voice, "Comrade engineer, can you tell me the details of the battle of Kursk?" After hearing this, he just gave me a white eye and said stubbornly, "Rita, there are some things you'd better not know. If I say it at this time, maybe there will be a deviation in history. Let's just let it go. " Seeing that Florin's attitude was very firm, I continued to ask about the battle of Kursk. Instead, I was concerned about the new tanks: "Comrade engineer, can those tanks really deal with German Tiger tanks? If you want to know their tank, we can't do anything with 45 mm anti tank. " After listening to what I said, Florin sneered twice and said with disdain, "what is tiger style? In front of our T-72, it's just vulnerable. We only need ten t-72s to deal with the tanks of a German regiment. " At this time, Ustinov came back from the ditch. He said to me with a smile, "Comrade oshanina, I can tell you why I called you here at this time." Looking at me and looking at him blankly, he added, "I'm going to let you take charge of the daily affairs of this secret base. What do you think? If you like, you can take office tomorrow! "“ What, comrades of the people's Committee, what do you say? " I was stunned by Ustinov's words, and I asked in disbelief, "are you going to let me take charge of the secret base?"