Chapter 1512

The conscription proposal I gave Khrushchev achieved remarkable results in a few days. When he called me, there was constant laughter, and he was very happy to hear: "Rita, the advice you gave me is really great. At that time, with a dubious attitude, I asked people to post a notice at the recruiting station. As a result, there was a long line at the gate of the recruiting station that afternoon, so that our comrades in charge of the recruitment could not be busy at all. "

Although I heard what Khrushchev said, I still felt a little uneasy. I carefully asked, "Comrade Khrushchev, I don't know how many people sign up to join the army every day?"

"In addition to workers, collective farm workers, students, and some disabled veterans, they signed up for the event." Khrushchev happily said: "damn the German guy." After listening to sokolovsky read the phone, I said angrily, "he's fast this time, but we'll deal with him sooner or later."

"Who are you going to deal with, Rita?" Khrushchev's puzzled voice suddenly came from the receiver, and I found that I didn't know when I had released my hand covering the microphone.

In order to prevent Khrushchev from misunderstandings, I quickly explained to him, "well, comrade Khrushchev. We have just received information that Hube successfully escaped from the encirclement of our army for commanding troops, was promoted to General of the army by Hitler, and was awarded a jeweled Iron Cross of Knight of oak leaf. "

I just said this to Khrushchev in a very objective tone, but I didn't expect that he said angrily after hearing this: "this damned one armed general was surrounded by us last time in Stalingrad. Unexpectedly, Hitler sent someone to pick him up from the encirclement before the sixth group army was completely annihilated. I thought he was surrounded by us this time, and it must be impossible for him to escape, but I let him run away. "

Khrushchev was silent for a while, and then said to me, "Rita, if you have a chance to surround his troops in the future, promise me that you will never let him escape again!"

"Don't worry, comrade Khrushchev." Although I have never heard of this man in the history that I know, he is certainly not among the German generals who stick to Berlin, so I answered with confidence: "no more than three things. Although he escaped the first two times, as long as we surround his troops again, he will never escape from the encirclement again."

Seeing that I had finished my conversation with Khrushchev, konev, who had been walking back and forth in the room, stopped. He went back to the table, sat down, lit a cigarette, looked up and asked me, "Rita, what did you talk about with Comrade Khrushchev?"

Seeing that konev was so interested in the conversation between Khrushchev and me, I reported to him with a smile: "he told me that more than 50000 soldiers could be recruited within ten days. After a short period of military training, these recruits will be able to supplement those troops with a relatively large shortage of troops. "

After listening, konev had a smile on his tense face: "great, this is really great. I was worried about the shortage of soldiers. After screening, the 70000 prisoners of war rescued were robbed by all the troops. In this way, we still have a large shortage of troops. Khrushchev can really supply us with another 50000 troops. That's just timely help. "

"With all due respect, marshal." Sokolovsky interjected: "even if Comrade Khrushchev has added a large number of soldiers to us, it will take a long time for new recruits to form combat effectiveness. We can't be too blindly optimistic about this."

After listening to sokolovsky's views, konev shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Comrade chief of staff, if the troops are not replenished in time, we will not be able to launch a new attack. As for the problem of more recruits, we certainly don't have much time to wait for them to complete training. We have to take the form of fighting instead of training so that the troops can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. "

"Fight instead of practice?" After listening to konev's words, sokolovsky could not help but show his disapproval. Fortunately, they were old partners, so he spoke casually: "Comrade marshal, the recruits have not received enough military training to fight. The effect is limited. Even if they defeat the enemy, they will pay a heavy price."

"Do you have any good idea?" Konev put out his cigarette in the crystal ashtray and looked up at sokolovsky, "chief of staff, what can you do to make the recruits form combat effectiveness as soon as possible without causing too much damage?"

"I remember Comrade o'shanina once said: sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime." Sokolovsky looked at me with eyes and continued: "I think it can only increase the training intensity of recruits and let them work hard to train all kinds of tactical skills, including stabbing, shooting, bombing and fortification. We have to train new recruits regardless of price, consumption or even loss, so that they can form combat effectiveness in a short period of time. "

"Chief of staff, your method sounds reasonable, but there are many problems in actual operation." For sokolovsky's method, konev thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "under such training intensity, even if the recruits barely reach the qualified standard, but they have not really been on the battlefield, can you guarantee that they will not panic after hearing the gunshot? Maybe many people will be completely flustered when they hear the gun ring, and even forget how to shoot. "

Seeing that his opinion was denied, sokolovsky gave a wry smile, then shut up and did not continue to argue with konev. When konev saw that sokolovsky did not speak, he cast his eyes on me and asked with a smile, "Rita, what can I do for you?" In fact, I very much agree with the method of replacing training with war proposed by konev. At the moment, when he asked me, he immediately replied, "marshal, I think your method of replacing training with war is very good, which is conducive to the formation of combat effectiveness in the short term."“ To be specific. " Obviously, konev was not satisfied with the way I expressed my opinion in a few words, so he asked, "how can I replace practice with war?"“ Marshal, I think you should be very clear about how general watujing, the former commander of the front army, died? " When I said this, I stopped for a moment. After he nodded his approval, I went on to say, "there are still many such anti Soviet guerrillas in our occupied areas. No, to be exact, they are bandits. There are not many of them, and their combat effectiveness is not very strong. I think we can make our recruits regard the suppression of these bandits as training, and give them a chance to see their blood through continuous fighting, so as to increase their actual combat experience. Comrade marshal, do you think this is OK? "“ Yes, that's a good idea When konev heard my proposal, his eyes suddenly brightened. He nodded and said, "use new soldiers to suppress bandits, so that they can have a chance to see blood and increase their actual combat experience. I think that's OK." Then he turned to ask sokolovsky, "chief of staff, what's your opinion?"“ "Marshal," sokolovsky thought for a moment, and then replied, "I don't think it's just recruits. We must have veterans and backbone soldiers. Only when such troops are pulled out can we finish the task of suppressing bandits."“ Let me add a little more. " After sokolovsky finished speaking, konev said: "more experienced commanders and fighters will be transferred to the new troops. The backbone of the fighting will be the platoon leader. The former platoon leader will be promoted to company commander, and the company commander will be promoted to battalion commander. As long as we fight a few battles, our troops will gradually become effective. When we launch the final attack on the German army, these new soldiers who have already formed combat capacity can be put to use. " As soon as konev finished speaking, sokolovsky was a little impatient. He stood up and said excitedly, "Comrade marshal, I'm going to select the troops. As soon as the additional soldiers from Kiev arrive, I'll organize them." Seeing that sokolovsky couldn't wait, konev shook his head with a bitter smile and said helplessly: "chief of staff, don't worry. Comrade Khrushchev is still recruiting. It will take at least a week to send us the recruits one after another." Sokolovsky scratched the back of his head and said with a shy smile: "I also want to make the troops form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, so that when we launch an offensive against the German army, our chances of winning will be higher." Konev patted the map spread out in front of him with his hand and said: "anyway, there are still several days for the recruits to come. We'd better seize the time to study which area of bandits should be the primary target of attack."“ Is that true? " Sokolovsky restrained the smile on his face, pointed to a point on the map, and said firmly: "let's eliminate the bandits here first. Comrade vatukin was attacked in this area at the beginning, and we want to avenge him."