Chapter 1034

After Morgan, Marshall also came forward to hold my hand and said sincerely, "general oshanina, what I want to say is the same as Sir Morgan. I am very glad that you are our ally and not our enemy, otherwise our landing forces will face one-sided massacre when they step on the beach. On behalf of those officers and men who have survived for this, I would like to express my gratitude to you! " At this point, he released my hand, stepped back, raised his hand and saluted me solemnly.

As soon as I finished the ceremony, Barton came up“ General o'shanina, "in my impression, Barton, who was always rebellious, seemed to speak in a trembling voice, but he soon calmed down." I used to think that women could not enter the army, let alone be officers. Because I always think that they are always at a disadvantage compared with men. In this war that belongs to men, they should go far away. But judging from your performance, I find that I am wrong, and I am quite wrong. I believe that if you were a man, you would be a great commander like Kutuzov. "

Even if a bomb landed next to us and exploded, the noise would not be greater than that of Barton apologizing to me in public, especially when Marshall, who knew him well, looked at his subordinate with his mouth wide open like a stranger. I want to respond with a smile, but I regret to find that I was too excited to speak for a while.

"Now, general," Patton said hastily, seeing that I did not respond to his words, "if you think my apology is enough, please give it to me. I think a person will always make some mistakes. When he realizes his mistakes, he always hopes to be forgiven by others. "

Trying to control my emotions, I reached out to Barton. He shook his hand with an expression of awe. Then he turned to Marshall and said, "chief of staff, if general oshanina can be the commander of landing operations, then I'd like to be her deputy."

Barton's words made me feel dizzy. My God, Barton, the famous general in the US Army, is willing to be my deputy. I'm not dreaming. I kept saying to myself: hallucination, hallucination, it must be hallucination. I don't think a commander of my level can get into Barton's eyes at all. I can't expect to be his superior. It must be the illusion that I've been so tired recently.

Just as I was still in my head, I heard Marshall's voice: "general oshanina, I've never heard little George take the initiative to say that he would like to be someone else's subordinate, let alone a foreign general."

Marshall's words sobered me from my reverie. I stabilized my mood for a moment, and tried to smile in a smooth tone. "Don't you recognize that General Patton is joking with me, chief of staff? He's been in the army longer than I am. He's almost in command of me. Which round can I command him? "

After listening to the translation, Marshall and Barton's face showed a frustrated smile. Morgan picked up the papers and notebooks in front of him, put them under his arm, stood up and said politely to Marshall, "chief of staff, I'm sorry. I'll excuse you. I need to go back and make a new battle plan immediately and try to report to Ike earlier. "

The translator may worry that I don't know that Ike is someone else's nickname for Eisenhower, so when translating me, I still mean to translate this name into Eisenhower.

After hearing this, Marshall nodded and said to Morgan, "Sir Morgan, if Ike thinks there is no problem, please report it to the president immediately, because this plan also involves communication with your Prime Minister Churchill, so the sooner you report it, the better."

Sir Morgan agreed very simply and went out with his things between his fingers. As he passed me, he reached out his hand and politely said to me, "general oshanina, we'll see you later!"

I'm not worried at all that Sir Morgan's plan, which was based on my proposal, will be rejected by Eisenhower, because what I put forward is his final version. Seeing that Morgan wanted to shake hands with me, he quickly reached out and said politely, "Sir Morgan, I hope we have another chance to meet. Goodbye and good luck to you."

After Morgan left, Marshall asked me to sit down again, glanced at Patton on his right hand, and then said, "general o'shanina, after you left yesterday, George and I studied your case of sticking to mamayev post in the battle of Stalingrad. After our repeated deduction, we can't understand how you relied on an infantry division with insufficient training and backward equipment to firmly hold the highland north of Stalingrad, so as to avoid the fate of the garrison in the city being cut off from the traffic line on the river. Can you give us an answer? "

As for Marshall's question, I scratched the back of my head and said, "maybe it has something to do with the fortifications we built on the high ground."

After looking at each other, Marshall and Barton continued to ask, "I don't know what kind of fortification can resist the repeated attacks of several German divisions?"

Considering the war on the peninsula a few years later, in order to prevent the United States from mastering the method of fortification from my narration, I deliberately avoided talking about the fortifications on the mamayev post, and just said in general: "although our commanders and fighters are not afraid of death, our flesh and blood can never compete with steel, Facing the strong ground to air firepower of the German army, only by building various underground and semi underground civil Fortifications on the mamayev post has naturally become an effective means for our commanders and fighters to maintain themselves and eliminate the enemy. Especially for us who reject passive defense, the construction of the position should not only facilitate the protracted and tenacious fight against the enemy's attack, but also facilitate our army's implementation of recoil and upgrading, and rely on the position to attack the enemy

... in the overwhelming German artillery fire and uninterrupted bombing, the fortifications on the Highlands not only saved the precious lives of our countless commanders and fighters, but also made the enemy who attacked the Highlands pay a heavy price, so that in the whole Stalingrad defense war, the German army did their best and could not seize our positions. "

After listening to what I said, Barton held a cigar in his mouth, but it didn't light. He asked me thoughtfully, "you've been fighting with the Germans for two years, so you must have accumulated a lot of valuable experience. We just started a war with the Germans, and we need to know something about this. I wonder if you can tell us something? "

I didn't refuse Patton's request. After all, the Soviet Union and the United States are allies. Every time they destroy one more enemy, the pressure on our side will be reduced. So I imparted the valuable experience I had accumulated on the battlefield to Barton very readily: "the German attack has the following characteristics: first, they have made full preparations before the attack, and they have always been able to find out the defense situation of our army by means of tanks, aircraft photography and reconnaissance team activities. Their main areas of attack are usually the open areas of highways and the joint parts of our army departments. They are good at circuitous encirclement of our army's defense forces, repeatedly fighting for the defense points and commanding heights on both sides of the highway, and never give up until they reach their goals.

They often carry out successive and echelon raids. When the first echelon fails to attack, the second echelon will continue to attack. As a result, our defense forces have no chance to breathe, and the casualties rise sharply, so as to achieve the goal of occupying our army's positions at one stroke. However, after our army has broken through the breach, we will adopt the tactics of advancing hand in hand and fighting steadily to expand and consolidate the occupied positions.

... before the attack, the artillery observer will calibrate the target to be attacked in case of sudden and accurate shelling when the artillery is ready. During the attack, the air force is usually used to bomb first, and then the distant artillery is used to bombard, so as to destroy our front fortifications, suppress the deep defensive reserves and artillery positions, and kill a large number of our effective targets, and then cover the infantry for multiple continuous charging. If the attack fails, the enemy will withdraw the troops to 100 meters away, quickly attack our position with heavy artillery fire, and then attack again

... during the attack, German tanks usually occupy favorable terrain 300 to 500 meters in front of our army, aim at the fire points on the ground of our square array, destroy the fire points in front of our army, and then cooperate with the infantry to detour behind our army

... the enemy's defense depth and traffic arteries to our army are mostly blocked by air force and artillery in turn, especially at night, so as to disrupt our army's adjustment of deployment, cut off our army's logistics supplies and transport of the wounded... "

Marshall and Barton recorded and said from time to time, "great, great. Such experience is very useful to our army. "

After I finished, I felt thirsty. When I held the coffee cup in front of me for another sip, I found that it was already empty. I didn't know when I had drunk all the coffee. Just as I was hesitating whether to ask Marshall to send me another cup of coffee, a young blonde staff officer came up to me, put a cup of hot coffee in front of me, and said in stiff Russian: "coffee, please!"

Although her grammar is not correct, but I did not correct her, but smile at her and say "thank you" in English.

Just as I picked up my cup and sipped my coffee, I heard Marshall say, "general oshanina, we and the British troops are launching the" Tunis campaign "in Africa. Can you give us an analysis of the progress of the next campaign?"

I was choked by his words and coughed violently. The beauty consultant who had just delivered coffee came to help me clap my back. After I stopped coughing, the female staff officer turned and left. Looking up at Marshall, I was very dissatisfied with his performance of "winning the dragon and looking forward to Sichuan". To provide them with the final version of the "overlord plan" was to help them hang up. It's not necessarily a good thing to instruct them in the "Tunis campaign" and let them kill the Germans and Italians smoothly. If Britain and the United States are more powerful than in history, the Soviet Union will have a hard time.

With the mentality of no longer giving advice to the US side, I resolutely refused to say: "I'm sorry, chief of staff, the battle of Tunis is under the command of General Eisenhower of your country. I believe that with his command ability, he can command the British and American allied forces to defeat the German and Italian allied forces completely."

Despite my refusal, Marshall was still reluctant to ask, "what do you think our campaign will achieve?"

I can tell from Marshall's words that he has something to test my ability. However, it is understandable that the Normandy landing is a top secret plan of great importance. Although I have just made a clear statement, many details need to be further deliberated before the final decision can be made. The credibility of my words depends on how I evaluate the "Tunis campaign".

After thinking about it, I said slowly, "Sir, the general military and political situation formed by the annihilation of German and Italian troops under Stalingrad and the winter offensive of the Soviet Red Army in almost the whole Soviet German battlefield, as well as the great superiority of the Allied forces in military strength, It has created extremely favorable conditions for rapidly annihilating the enemy of Tunisia and ending the whole war situation in North Africa. Once the Allied forces capture the whole North African coast of the Mediterranean, they will be able to ensure the safety of the Mediterranean traffic lines and create favorable conditions for attacking Sicily and the Apennine peninsula. Through this campaign, the British and American allied forces can gain experience in carrying out large-scale offensive campaigns and breaking through the enemy's preset defensive positions, so as to lay a good foundation for landing operations when opening up the second battlefield in the future. "

"When do you think it is most appropriate for us to end this campaign?" Marshall continued. I think that in history, because the British and American allied forces repeatedly delayed the end of the "Tunis campaign", the German side did not feel too much pressure and was able to continue to dispatch reserves from the west to the Soviet German battlefield without hindrance. Thinking of this, I said straightforwardly: "the most ideal situation is that the campaign should end in the middle of this month, and the situation should continue to attack Sicily or Apennine Peninsula, so that the Germans do not dare to transfer their reserves from these areas to the eastern battlefield." I have said all that I need to say, but I know in my heart that it is useless. When the Tunisian campaign will end, not only I can't decide, but even Marshall doesn't have the right. Only by ensuring the maximization of the interests of Britain and the United States, will the victorious campaign end at the time they think fit. After hearing what I said, Marshall just gave a wry smile, but did not speak. After a while, he raised his hand to look at his watch, and then politely said to me, "general o'shanina, it's getting late. I'll send someone to take you back." After walking outside for a few steps, the translator and I suddenly thought that we had met Roosevelt yesterday. We didn't know if we would have a chance to see the president and his wife again. So we stopped and asked Marshall, "chief of staff, when can I have a chance to see President Roosevelt again?"