Chapter 1450

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Ivanov listened patiently to my views and then asked, "Comrade oshanina, in the areas you mentioned, the terrain is very complex. There are a lot of rivers and beaches, and there are a lot of swamps. It's very difficult for our troops to move. I want to find out why you insist on choosing the direction of attack here. We must know that we can certainly achieve great results by advancing along the road to the cities occupied by the enemy

"Comrade deputy chief of general staff," I answered with a smile when I heard Ivanov's question, "it seems to be the most ideal way to break through the German defense line along the road, but the German army is not a fool. They have strong and deep echelon fortifications at the main commanding heights near the Road, and at the same time, they have echelons of heavy and heavy firepower, Our attack from the front is bound to cause huge casualties. "

"Yes, Rita is very thoughtful." As soon as I finished, marinin echoed: "from the area where there was no river or swamp to attack the German defense positions, which was completely expected by them. Their officers and soldiers would hide in the solid fortifications and take the commanders and fighters involved in the attack as targets."

"What about the technical equipment?" As soon as malining finished speaking, Ivanov continued to ask me, "our soldiers can pass, but how can tanks and cannons pass through the swamp?"

"Don't worry, comrade deputy chief of the general staff." As for how to let the tank pass through the swamp, I have found the answer from the film for a long time, and I answered with a clear mind: "as long as the soldiers can go to the place, then our tank can also go, which will make the German unexpected."

Seeing that I was so confident, he then asked, "Comrade oshanina, I have an important question to ask you. How can we prevent the Germans from discovering the action of our assembled troops?" He was deeply afraid that I could not understand him, and added, "you know, it is absolutely not one or two divisions, but one or two army groups. It is almost impossible for such a large-scale assembly not to be discovered by the German army."

"Comrade deputy chief of general staff, we can create a false impression and create an illusion for the German army." As for his question, I hesitated for a moment, and then answered with full assurance: "at the beginning of the offensive, we didn't need a large number of tanks to cooperate with the operation, so that the tank group army still stayed in the original station, and the German Army thought that the focus of our attack was not Belarus. In this way, even if the defense line is attacked by our army, they will think that our attack is just to cooperate with the containment attack on the Ukrainian battlefield. "

Ivanov wrote down what I said one by one in his notebook, then raised his head and continued to ask me, "Comrade oshanina, if you are chief of the general staff, how do you plan to direct the campaign launched in Belarus?"

Before crossing, I had seen the schematic diagram of the Soviet Army's attack in the battle of Belarus. In addition, I read the map every day when I had nothing to do. I was already familiar with it. Hearing Ivanov's question, I bowed my head and pointed to the map in front of me and explained to him, "Comrade deputy chief of general staff, please see, if we want to destroy the enemy of Belarus, we need to use at least four front forces. The southernmost is the Belarusian front, followed by the second and third front to the north, and the Baltic front of general bagramian. The four front armies advanced westward in the same way. After completing the task of seizing Kiev, they continued westward to drive the enemy out of our border line.... "

Ivanov listened to me and asked the four front armies to act at the same time and advance from east to West in a way of going hand in hand. He couldn't help looking up. He laughed at malining and said, "it seems that Comrade oshanina is quite confident that we will win in Belarus." After that, he turned to look at me and said solemnly, "Comrade oshanina, I don't know if you have ever thought about how to overcome the possible chaos by putting so many troops into battle at the same time. You know, in the battle to defend Smolensk a few years ago, we put in too many troops. As soon as the battle started, all the troops were in a mess. Not only did we not defeat the enemy, but also the troops fell into the encirclement of the German army. "

"The battle of Smolensk?" When I heard Ivanov mention this battle, I could not help frowning slightly, because I was not interested in the series of Soviet failures at the beginning of the war, so I did not know what he was talking about. I remember that rokosovsky also took part in the defense of Smolensk. At that time, malining was his chief of staff. Presumably he knew something inside, so he turned to him for help.

Seeing that I looked at him blankly, marinin guessed that I didn't know much about the Smolensk defense, so he took the initiative to come out and help me out and said, "Rita, you joined the Moscow defense at a later stage, so you don't know so much about the battle in Smolensk. I'll give you a brief introduction.

At that time, in order to deal with the German pincer attack, the commander of the front army, marshal timoshinger, put four army groups into battle. Rokosovsky's 16th group army pushed the German's pincers upward, while general Lukin's 20th group army pushed the pincers downward. The other two groups received orders to attack the two German pincers at the same time. However, after the battle started, our offensive forces fell into chaos, failed to cooperate effectively, and had to fight on their own until they were defeated by the superior forces of the German army.... "

After marinin finished what happened in Smolensk, I frowned and thought for a long time, then slowly told Ivanov their judgment: "Comrade deputy chief of general staff, according to my judgment, the chaos in the defense of Smolensk should be like this: because at the beginning of the war, Many of our senior commanders had no experience in commanding large regiments, and their ability at that time was not enough to control such an offensive; However, the ability of our military staff is limited, which is not enough to organize an offensive of this scale; In addition, the logistics support capability of our army at that time was not enough to support such an offensive. In this way, it was supposed to be a coordinated fortification, but it was destined to be a melee in which there was no coordination and cooperation After my words, Ivanov looked at me in surprise and said, "Comrade oshanina, have you ever heard anyone comment on the reasons for the failure of this campaign, and can you point out the problem to the point?" Naturally, I would not tell the other party that I saw these contents from later military forums. Instead, I brazenly said, "Comrade deputy chief of general staff, no one has told me anything. Not long ago, I didn't even know that our army had put in four army groups at one time in the battle of defending Smolensk. These are all my own judgments based on the deduction of the map. "“ It's amazing. It's amazing. " Ivanov turned to malining and said excitedly: "I used to listen to Zhukov and vasilevsky about how powerful Comrade oshanina was. I still don't believe them. I think they are exaggerating. When I saw them today, I knew that what they said was true! " After that, he stood up, took the initiative to extend his hand to me, and said in a friendly manner, "don't worry, comrade oshanina. I will report what you just said to the Supreme Commander himself and the chief of general staff."“ Thank you I know what Ivanov's words stand for, so I stood up and expressed my sincere thanks to him: "thank you for your kindness!"“ You're welcome, comrade oshanina. " He waved to me, sat down again and said, "if you are not really capable, I just can't help you. I think you know what happened yesterday. " He said here, pause for a moment, wait for me to nod to confirm, then continue to say, "but don't lose heart, I believe for you, there is still a chance." After he finished speaking, malining next to him interrupted and asked, "Rita, I also want to ask you, how are you going to get our tanks through the swamp?"“ This is very simple, comrade chief of staff. " If malining didn't remind me, I almost forgot to tell Ivanov how to let the tanks in the war pass through the swamp“ When we were preparing for the artillery fire, we asked the engineers to pave a few passages in the swamp with trees, so that our tanks could pass smoothly. "“ Can we really use wood to pave the road in the swamp during the time of artillery preparation? " Ivanov was skeptical of what I said“ Maybe enough, maybe not enough. " Although I saw in the movie that the Soviet Army paved the road to the other side of the marsh before the end of the artillery attack, I was not sure whether this situation had been artistically processed, so I could only say politely: "after the artillery attack, when our engineers paved the road, the infantry would rush through the marsh first. Even if the road to the other side is not paved after the shelling, infantry without tank cover can attack the enemy first. After all, the German army did not have any solid defense lines in these areas, but established small-scale defensive positions on a few dry highlands. " After seeing off Ivanov and malining, chisjakov suddenly said to me excitedly, "Comrade commander, listen to the deputy chief of general staff, you will still have a chance to be commander of the front army in the future." I was deeply afraid that I would be happy again in the future, so I quickly raised my hand to stop what he said. At the same time, I said, "Comrade deputy commander, whether I will have the opportunity to be commander of the front army in the future, the superior will make overall arrangements. We should not discuss it in private." Then I called bezikov in front of me and said, "chief of staff, immediately give orders to the commanders of the 22nd and 23rd armies of the guards, let them organize soldiers to cut down trees, and store all the logs in their respective defense areas."