Chapter 1496

Just when sokolovsky was going to give orders to the army according to Zhukov's orders, I suddenly didn't know where the courage came from and yelled at his back: "chief of staff, please wait a moment."

Sokolovsky stopped and looked at me blankly, wondering why I stopped him. Instead of telling him the reason immediately, I got up and walked up to Zhukov and said solemnly, "marshal, I have a warning that the German army will never choose to break through in the south, because they can guess the direction of their retreat, which will be analyzed by us, and we will take measures to prevent them. The German is not a fool. General Hube is a famous general in the German army. Will he lead the army foolishly and break into our encirclement? "

After listening, Zhukov got up from his seat, looked at me for a moment, and then made an unexpected action. He grabbed the cup in front of me and fell to my feet. The glass with the silver cup holder fell to the ground and smashed. The warm tea splashed on my trouser legs.

"Comrade oshanina!" Zhukov pointed to my nose and said angrily, "don't forget that I am the commander of the front army, not you. Do you want to know whether the commander commands the deputy commander or the deputy commander gives orders to the commander

After he made a fire at me, seeing sokolovsky still standing in the same place, he glared and said discontentedly, "chief of staff, what are you still doing here? Don't go and give an order soon."

Just as sokolovsky, who looked embarrassed, was about to leave, I suddenly heard a familiar voice asking, "what's the matter here, marshal?"

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a big bellied commander enter the headquarters. Seeing his appearance, the commanders in the room took the initiative to let him aside and raised their hands to salute him. Even if I don't look at the Marshal's epaulet on his shoulder, what I recognize at a glance is the current chief of general staff of the Red Army, vasilevsky.

Seeing the sudden appearance of vasilevsky, I feel very curious. I want to know that he is in charge of the third and fourth aspects of cooperative combat in Ukraine. How can he suddenly appear here?

Zhukov saw the appearance of vasilevsky, his face also showed a surprised expression. He walked around the table and shook hands with each other. At the same time, he asked curiously, "Comrade vasilevsky, how can you come to me today?"

"Hello, comrade Zhukov." Holding Zhukov's hand, vasilevsky replied, "we are about to launch a counterattack against Sevastopol. I'm passing by you today, so I'm here to say hello to you."

After saying his intention, vasilevsky turned to look at me standing upright beside me, seemingly casually asked Zhukov: "Marshal comrade, I don't know what happened just now, how can I make you so angry?"

Zhukov nodded at me and said with a trace of anger, "Rita and I have a little difference in the judgment of the direction of the German breakthrough."

"Oh, that's the thing." After hearing this, vasilevsky asked Zhukov with a smile: "marshal, can you tell me your judgment?"

When he heard that, Zhukov took him to the wall, pointed to the map on the wall and told him his and my analysis.

Vasilevsky stood in front of the map and looked at it for a while. Then he turned to me and said, "Comrade Rita, I think what you said is very reasonable. The German army can completely throw away their heavy equipment when they have no way out, and then cross the mountains lightly to escape from the encirclement of our army. But... "

Originally, when I heard that vasilevsky agreed with his opinion, I was still very happy. But when I heard that he said "but", the word representing turning point, my heart cooled. I guessed that he would stand on Zhukov's side and deny my judgment. Sure enough, he continued, "but I still agree with Marshal Zhukov. After all, he is recognized as an excellent commander in our army. His judgment should be correct."

After being approved by vasilevsky, Zhukov's face also showed a trace of satisfaction. Because I don't understand this period of history, and my judgment of the direction of German breakthrough is only based on my own intuition, so if I want to continue to debate with Zhukov, I'm not confident enough. Therefore, I can only keep silent and watch Zhukov again command sokolovsky to give orders to the following troops to set up an ambush circle in the south of the battlefield.

However, through this, I have a further understanding of vasilevsky. The reason why the marshal, who succeeded Zhukov as chief of the general staff, was able to cope with Stalin was due to his character. Zhukov made a proposal to Stalin, but when he was rejected, he would do everything he could to remonstrate him. As a result, he lost his position as chief of the general staff and was demoted to the reserve army as commander.

Compared with Zhukov, vasilevsky is much smarter. Having learned from Zhukov's experience, he was extremely clever. In order not to repeat his mistakes, he played tricks and let Stalin willingly adopt his own opinions. His approach is to talk about irrelevant military issues around Stalin in his spare time before he made strategic plans with his pipe in his mouth, which is neither systematic nor profound. But when he said that, inspired by Stalin's inspiration, he quickly deployed the strategic points, but there was no big mistake.

In addition, when Stalin held a military conference, vasilevsky, who was sitting next to him, also had to speak. However, every time he talked about strategy and tactics, he was incoherent. He talked about one thing upside down for a long time and was very wordy, which often confused the participants. However, when he talked about the latter part, he was clear-cut and logical. Anyone with a little military common sense could recognize that these were all super nonsense. As a result, he was naturally denounced by Stalin. However, he often made Stalin make the right decisions because of his carelessness.

Perhaps because of his performance, many military commanders think that he is a chief of the general staff with no achievements, and they always look down on him. But vasilevsky always laughs at other people's opinions. What he said at the military conference was just to guide Stalin to make correct strategic deployment according to his own ideas.

Seeing that Zhukov and vasilevsky had something to say, I consciously followed sokolovsky and walked out of the headquarters. On the corridor leading to the telecommunication room, the chief of staff kindly reminded me, "Rita, marshal sometimes is stubborn. He is right about things and not about people. Don't take it to heart."

Zhukov's image in my mind has always been a polite and kind old man, so I always respect him. But I didn't expect that after I became his deputy, I found the bad side of his character, and also had several conflicts with him, which is probably "far fragrant near smelly".

When I heard sokolovsky comforting me, I quickly waved my hand, tried to squeeze a smile on my face, pretended to be indifferent and said, "I see, chief of staff. Marshal Zhukov and I have known each other for several years. I still have some idea of his character. What happened just now is just a dispute at work. I won't keep it in mind. "

Sokolovsky looked left and right, saw only a few staff officers in a hurry with papers, and asked me in a low voice, "Rita, do you really think the German army will break through from the north?"

Instead of answering his question directly, I asked: "Comrade chief of staff, although you have not been in the first front army of Ukraine for a long time, you should know the 48th armored army under the command of general balk of the German army?" Without waiting for him to speak, I said to myself, "at that time, I also judged that they would break through our attack. Unfortunately, this analysis was denied by the marshal."

With that, I didn't wait for sokolovsky to say anything, so I quickened my pace and walked forward, leaving him alone in a daze.

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The day after vasilevsky left, an unfortunate news suddenly came. On his way to the front by car, he unfortunately triggered a mine buried by the German army. He was seriously injured in the head and had been sent back to Moscow by plane overnight.

Zhukov's face became more serious when he heard the news. Seeing Zhukov's expression, all the busy staff members in the headquarters were afraid that if they were not careful, Zhukov would be scolded. More than a month ago, vatujing, the former commander of the front army, was ambushed by the enemy and seriously injured on his way to inspect the army; Now that vassilevsky is seriously injured again, Zhukov's mood becomes worse. If anyone makes him angry, the end will be very miserable. So I sat quietly in the corner and watched the war report, trying to be a transparent person to avoid Zhukov's attention.

When I heard the telephone ringing in front of Zhukov, I could not help shivering. If there was any bad news, the commander on the phone would be scolded by Zhukov. But sometimes the more you worry about something, the more you come. When I thought to myself that there would be no telephone to disturb Zhukov, the high-frequency telephone in front of him rang again.

I saw him put the microphone to his ear and said, "I'm Zhukov. Where are you?"

A moment later, I suddenly found that he stood up from his seat, straightened up and said respectfully, "Hello, comrade Stalin, do you have any instructions?"

Because the headquarters is very quiet, even though I am separated from him for a certain distance, I can still hear the voice from the receiver clearly: "Zhukov, now Comrade vasilevsky is seriously injured, who do you think is more suitable to take over his post?"

Zhukov was silent for a moment, then said: "Comrade Stalin, I think it is most appropriate for Comrade Antonov, the first deputy chief of general staff of the general staff, to take over the work of vasilevsky and take charge of the coordinated operations of the third and fourth front forces of Ukraine."

"No way." Stalin rejected Zhukov's proposal without hesitation: "at present, the general staff can't go without Comrade Antonov."

"What about Ivanov, deputy chief of the general staff?" Although Zhukov knew that Stalin hated the deputy chief of general staff, he could only harden his head and say, "he has the experience of commanding the group army and has been in the general staff for so long. If he is sent to take charge of the coordinated operations of the two front armies, it is OK."

Stalin was silent for a long time about the candidate proposed by Zhukov, and finally said, "well, in that case, I will send Ivanov to the third and Fourth Front Army tomorrow to command the troops."

Just when I thought Stalin would hang up on this, I suddenly heard Stalin mention my name: "by the way, comrade Zhukov, when I went to visit vasilevsky today, I heard that you were angry with Rita yesterday. Is that right?" Zhukov gave me a blank look, which made me pretend to be buried in the war report, but I still listened to the conversation between him and Stalin“ Yes, comrade Stalin, "Zhukov truthfully reported to Stalin," we had some disputes on the analysis of the direction of the German army's breakthrough. " Stalin snorted and said slowly, "is it really just a dispute? But I seem to hear that you've also broken your glass. It seems that your argument is quite fierce. " Stalin's words made Zhukov look a little embarrassed. He said in a somewhat awkward way: "Comrade Stalin, you know, I'm a bit too hasty..." "yes," Stalin said, without waiting for Zhukov to finish, and then interrupted, "you are the commander of the front army, and the deployment of the front army has the final say. That's it. Good luck Then he hung up without waiting for Zhukov to say anything. Zhukov put down the high frequency phone, picked up another phone, shook the crank a few times, and said to the microphone, "do you have the latest German war report?" Send someone to me immediately... Yes, right away. " The first German tank group army, besieged by our army, in order to get rid of the fate of being destroyed by our army, after repeated stubborn resistance, finally began to break through the encirclement. The German army's preferred direction, like Zhukov's judgment, was to break through Romania along the road to the south. When I saw the war report, my heart could not help but thump and thump, saying in secret, was my judgment really wrong? But in the evening, unexpected changes appeared on the battlefield. Originally, only three German infantry divisions broke south along the road, while the armored division abandoned its heavy weapons and crossed the mountains to the north.