Chapter 1276

When the commanders in the meeting room were almost gone, Zhukov and some of them seemed to forget my existence. Their heads were huddled together, looking at the map in front of them and whispering something.

Looking at several people in the heated discussion, I can't help falling into a dilemma: to leave directly will certainly cause Zhukov's displeasure. After all, he said that he announced in public that he wanted me to stay; But it seems inappropriate for me to interrupt their conversation and remind them of my existence.

Just when I was in a dilemma, chief of staff korgenevich inadvertently raised his head and saw me still standing in the same place. He couldn't help asking strangely, "general oshanina, why don't you go back to the army?"

"Comrade chief of staff," I explained in a tearful way after smiling at him, "I was ordered to stay."

"By orders, by whose orders?" Korgenevich didn't know whether he was forgetful or absent-minded at the meeting. He didn't even hear Zhukov's words of leaving me alone.

"Major general, I asked Rita to stay." Zhukov looked away from the map in front of him, and then said slowly, "I'd like to ask her in private what she thinks of this battle plan."

I was stunned by Zhukov's words. I never dreamed that after he made the decision not to let my army take part in the war, he even asked me in private about my views on the battle plan.

"Tell me, Rita." Ignoring the reaction of the people around him, Zhukov looked at me and asked, "what do you think of the battle plan announced today?"

I took a look at the map in front of Zhukov, pointed with my hand and politely asked, "can I use that map?"

Zhukov nodded and pushed the map straight towards us. I looked down at the red and blue arrows above, then pointed to Kiev and said, "because our group army and general Moskalenko's 40th group army crossed the Dnieper River back and forth and established a wide landing site. In this way, the Kiev German army's attention was drawn to the south. According to the operational plan, we will concentrate the forces of the three army groups and launch a fierce attack on the German army from the south. We have to know that the terrain here is not conducive to the deployment of large forces. In this way, we can only adopt the tactics of adding oil and put one group army after another into combat in turn. "

"It's very good," said korgenevich with disapproval. "No matter how strong the enemy's fortifications are, can they withstand the repeated attacks of our three army groups?"

"No, comrade chief of staff." After he finished, I gave him a wry smile, and then I put forward my own opinion: "if we take turns to put our troops into combat, it will lead to the shortage of offensive strength. It is possible that Kiev will not be able to enter after serious losses. "

Seeing that korgenevich wanted to refute me, vasilevsky broke in and said, "chief of staff korgenevich, I think Comrade oshanina has a better say than any of us in attacking Kiev. After all, a few months ago, she once commanded a small infantry army, and it took her one night to take over Kiev. "

Vasilevsky's support made korgenevich give up the idea of mocking me. After a moment's silence, he asked, "Comrade oshanina, if you were to make a battle plan, how would you take Kiev?"

Looking at the map, I said, "if I want to make a plan to capture Kiev, then I will definitely put my heavy troops to the north of Kiev, build a landing site in liujieri, and launch an impact on Kiev from there, striving to capture the city in the shortest time." As I knew in my heart that it was Zhukov's idea to launch an attack from the direction of liujieri, I made the name of liujieri very loud when I talked about my own ideas.

After hearing that I firmly agreed with his opinion, Zhukov looked at me and asked with a smile, "Rita, our troops are about to assemble in your defense area. At this time, pulling out our troops to liujieri will certainly lead to chaos."

Now I have a clear memory of the Kiev campaign in history: on October 16, the Soviet army launched a fierce attack on Kiev with the 27th, 40th and 47th army from the buchlin landing site south of Kiev. However, the German army used the 72nd infantry division, the 112th infantry division and the 255th infantry division to fight against the Soviet Army's attack in the first line. At the same time, the German army tried to counter attack with the 11th armored division, the 19th armored division and the 20th armored division, which led to the defeat of the Soviet Army's attack. Later, the Soviet Army quietly moved its troops to liujieri, leaving behind only some models of tanks and artillery in buklin to confuse the German army and contain their main forces here.

"Marshal," I said immediately after Zhukov finished saying, "at present, we can still rally the troops with great fanfare, but the assembled troops are no longer three group armies, but only general Moskalenko's 40th group army, and the rest have no troops to cross the river, so they quietly move towards liujieri."

"But general oshanina, no matter how big the movement is, one group army is not as big as three." As soon as I finished, korgenevich began to refute me: "if the German army finds that there is only one group army in our attack direction, they will send a large number of scouts to scout the whereabouts of the rest of our troops. In this way, our troops moving in the direction of liujieri will be found by the enemy, and the enemy will transfer enough troops to the north. "

"In fact, it is not impossible for the enemy to have the illusion that one of our group armies should be regarded as two or even three." When I said this, I looked at korgenevich with a smile on my face, but I thought with disdain: Although I haven't been in the army as long as you, you are not my opponent in terms of how to come up with the idea of cheating the Germans.

"Comrade oshanina, I'm very curious about what you said." Watujing asked with a smile, "what can you do to make the enemy regard one of our army groups as two or three?"

"It's very simple, Comrade General." I replied with a relaxed look: "during the day, we drive trucks full of commanders and fighters towards the front line. At night, we quietly transport them back to the original camp. After dawn, we carry them to the front line in a big way. In this way, the German scouts will think that we are sending a large number of troops to the front. When the enemy is convinced that our direction of attack is to the south of Kiev, they will concentrate their main forces to the south to defend against our possible attack. "

Since I have used this tactic more than once, Zhukov and vasilevsky are not surprised. On the contrary, vatukin exclaimed: "it's wonderful, comrade oshanina. I can only say that this method you have come up with is really wonderful. In this way, as long as this method can deceive the Germans, then we can use general Moskalenko's 40th army to contain the main force of the German army in the south of Kiev, while the rest of the troops quietly move to the north of Kiev. After the deployment is completed, a sudden attack can be launched from liujieri in the north to take the Germans by surprise. "

When vatukin finished, I looked at Zhukov and said, "although we can use this way to confuse the enemy, for the sake of safety, we should send more planes to patrol in the air and prevent the enemy's reconnaissance planes from taking off, otherwise this plan of hiding the truth from the world may be discovered by the Germans."

"What is" hiding the truth from the world and crossing the sea " I used to say an idiom by accident, but it was heard by korgenevich. He asked curiously, "it's the first time I've heard this kind of saying."

"Concealing the world and crossing the sea" is a word from the East. Its general meaning is to use deception to divert the enemy's attention in order to achieve the goal we want to achieve. " After volunteering to explain the whole idiom, vasilevsky turned to me and asked, "Comrade oshanina, am I right?"

"Yes, marshal," said vasilevsky. Although his explanation was not accurate enough, at such a time, I could only flatter him, so as to cover up the slip of tongue caused by my quick talk as soon as possible. "That's exactly what you mean."

"Well, comrades in command, Rita has already expressed her opinion. What do you think?" After glancing at the crowd, Zhukov asked slowly, "do we need to adjust the attack direction of the 27th and 47th army?"

Zhukov's words made the room fall into silence. After looking at each other, vatukin and korgenevich turned their eyes to Zhukov again. Just half an hour ago, korgenevich had just assigned offensive tasks to the commanders of the 27th and 47th army groups. Now he has to adjust his deployment, which will not only affect the prestige of the commanders in the army, but also cause unnecessary confusion. It is based on this consideration that neither of them has expressed their opinions.

"Well, let the 40th group army hand over the defense area to the friendly forces as soon as possible and assemble to the attack starting point." At this time, it was vasilevsky who came out to make a comeback. He looked at Zhukov and asked in a consultative tone: "as for the 27th and 47th group armies, since they have not crossed the river to the other side, they will stay in the defense area and continue to stand by. Before the battle starts, they will quietly move towards liujieri. Deputy commander, what do you think? "

"Well, comrade vasilevsky." Zhukov immediately expressed his support for China's silevsky proposal, and said: "let general Moskalenko lead his 40th army northward, and the rest of the troops stay in the current camp and continue to stand by." With that, he waved to korgenevich and said, "chief of staff, what are you still doing here? Hurry up and call the two commanders of the group army and ask them to stop mobilizing troops immediately..."

After I came out of the headquarters of the front army, I joined chisgakov and kirilov outside the door. Chisjakov asked curiously, "Comrade commander, marshal asked you to stay. Is there anything important?"

I turned my head and looked left and right. I saw that there were not only military vehicles coming and going in the street, but also soldiers passing by from time to time. I raised my hand and said, "this is not a place to talk. Let's get on the bus."

Kirilov was not in the same car with us when he came here. At the moment, he heard that there was something important. He immediately drove busmanov down from the co driver's seat and sat on it himself, just to listen to the reason why Zhukov left me.

After the car started, except for our three commanders, there was only one driver on board, and the driver was also a trustworthy person. So I told them what happened after I stayed.

After listening to what I said, chisjakov asked thoughtfully, "Comrade commander, do you really think that if we attack from the South with three group armies, we will be defeated?"“ Yes, comrade chisgakov After listening to his whole question, I immediately restrained my smile and said to him seriously, "I think the assembly of our troops in the south of Kiev will soon be discovered by the Germans. They will build a strong and perfect defense system in the South against our attack. At the same time, due to the terrain restrictions in the south of Kiev, we can not launch large forces here, so we can only use the worst refueling tactics to put one division after another into combat. If we fight like this, we will pay huge casualties. " While chisjakov was deep in thought about my statement, kirilov suddenly interrupted and asked, "Rita, can we still make our troops disguised as Germans, bypass the enemy's defensive zone, quietly enter Kiev and make another sneak attack on the horses, just like a few months ago?" As for kirilov's statement, I refuted it almost without thinking: "no, comrade military commissar, today's situation is different from a few months ago. At that time, because the main force of Manstein confronted our southwest front army and Voronezh front army on the other side of the Dnieper River, Kiev was almost an empty city, and the defenders were not on guard, so we easily captured the city. Now Kiev has a lot of German troops. Even if we have one or two divisions, disguised as German troops, we will be quickly divided and eliminated by the enemy after launching the attack. Therefore, we can only fight a face-to-face battle with the Germans this time. " Kirilov sighed at what I said, then stopped talking and turned to look out the window in silence“ Comrade commander, although our superior did not assign us an offensive task this time, do you think we will join the war in the future? " Asked chisgakov, who was in deep thought“ Yes, my deputy commander I replied with a smile, "if there is only one group army left when we attack Kiev from the south, then we will have a chance to fight."