Chapter 1528

Although Valentina is a famous figure of the Soviet Union and Russia in later generations, even on her birthday, Putin would personally go to her door to send her flowers and gifts to express his congratulations. But at this time, she is an ordinary little girl, a child who lost her father in the patriotic war. I wanted to help them, but I found that I couldn't do anything.

When malining was chatting with me, he suddenly found that my face was gloomy. He couldn't help asking curiously, "Rita, what's the matter? I think you are full of worries?"

I hesitated for a moment, or told malining about Valentina. At last, with a trace of regret, I said, "I look at that little girl. I want to help her, but I find that I can do nothing about many things."

"So that's it?" Malining listened to me explain the reason, frowned and thought for a moment, and then said, "this is simple. When you go back to Moscow, you can talk to boskelebeshev about it and see if he can do anything about it."

"To bosklebshev?" When I heard malining's name, my eyes suddenly brightened, and my heart said, "yes, boskelebeshev is Stalin's secretary. To take care of the affairs of the Valentina family, he only needs to make a phone call to the leader of tutayev City, and it will be solved."

Thinking of this, I quickly took marinin's hand and said gratefully, "thank you, chief of staff. You're absolutely right. When I get back to Moscow, I'll talk to Comrade bosklebshev about it. "

"It's very kind of you, Rita, to help the women and children who have lost their loved ones." As soon as marinin finished this sentence, he suddenly glanced behind me and said in surprise, "why did the marshal and the commander come out so soon?"

I turned to see Zhukov, rokosovsky and Batov coming out from the edge of the wooded swamp with some staff. When I saw this situation, I was also surprised. In the movie I watched, Zhukov chatted with several soldiers who were eating while inspecting the terrain, and asked why they called the American canned stewed meat "the second battlefield". But now, after only ten minutes, Zhukov, who was looking at the terrain, came back. Obviously, the scene that happened in the film was just a fabrication by the director.

Zhukov went to his jeep, opened the back door and sat in silently. See rokosovsky also followed on the car, standing nearby commanders also get on the car. For a moment, the sound of closing the door was heard one after another nearby.

This time back to Batov's headquarters, I was not stopped outside, but followed Zhukov and walked into the headquarters. When Zhukov sat down, he did not speak. Instead, he looked at the busy staff and signalmen in the room. Batov, standing on one side, immediately understood and gave an order to his subordinates: "you all go out first."

When there were only five of us left in the room, Zhukov asked rokosovsky, who was sitting opposite him, "Comrade rokosovsky, how do you think we should transport the tanks to the other side if we choose the attack direction in the swamp area?"

Instead of answering Zhukov's question directly, rokosovsky turned his eyes on me and said with a smile, "marshal, I think this question should be answered by Rita."

"Me?" I did not expect that rokosovsky would suddenly throw this question to me. I was stunned for a moment and asked unexpectedly, "what answer can I give you?"

"I remember when your troops were stationed in moziri kalinkovich, you sent reconnaissance troops many times to the opposite side of the swamp to carry out reconnaissance." Rokosovsky looked at me with a smile on his face: "at that time, I thought you were doing too much. If we were going to attack Minsk, we could attack balic directly. However, after a period of exploration and attack, I found that my view was wrong. The enemy's defense in this area is tight. If we carry out a strong attack, we are bound to pay a heavy price. But attacking from the swamp area can give the German a surprise blow. "

"Tell me, Rita." Zhukov also turned his eyes to me: "you've always been a maverick, and you like to be unique in the arrangement of troops. Since you have already ordered people to carry out reconnaissance in the search area, there must be a perfect attack plan. "

After listening to Zhukov's question, I couldn't laugh or cry. I said in my heart that the reason why I sent people to carry out reconnaissance in the swamp area was that in my memory, Belarus's main direction of attack was in the swamp area. It was really difficult for me to tell the truth.

"It's OK, Rita. You can say whatever you think." Rokosovsky saw that I didn't speak for a long time. He thought I had some scruples. He said quickly, "even if it's wrong, we won't blame you."

Things have come to the present stage. If I don't say anything, I'm sure I can't get through it. So I had to harden my head and say, "as general Batov said, attacking Barich is a good choice. But not only do we think so, but also the Germans think so, so they will set up many obstacles on our way forward. In this way, in order to rush to Minsk, we will have to fight a cruel and protracted positional war with the German army. "

"According to the results of our preliminary trial attack," Batov said suspiciously, "if we want to successfully break into the vicinity of Minsk, it will take as soon as two months, and at the same time, it will cost a lot of 100000 to 150000 casualties."

"We don't have that long time," Zhukov said impolitely as soon as he finished saying, "at most half a month, we have to recover Minsk, so we have to choose other directions that the Germans can't think of to carry out the assault." At this point, he looked at me again. "Rita, come on, how can we get the tanks to the other side of the swamp?"

"Actually, it's very simple." "After the artillery began to use fire to suppress the enemy on the other side, our infantry began to attack. At the same time, engineers laid timber roads in the swamp for our tanks to pass," I said with my hand on the map

"Such a wide area of swamp, if paving Wood Road, it is a huge amount of work." Malining was particularly worried about my proposal: "if it really takes two or three days to pave the road in the swamp, we might as well not use tanks."

"It won't be that long, comrade chief of staff." I hastily explained to the crowd, "we just need to pile up every other distance, and then put up the wood, so that the tanks can pass." I was deeply afraid that I didn't understand what I said, so I quickly added, "maybe the comrades of the engineers know better than me how to build a bridge in the swamp."

After listening to my speech, Zhukov nodded, and then told Batov: "general Batov, it seems that you need to transfer your hands, start cutting down trees, and get ready to build a floating bridge in the swamp."

Zhukov stood up and said to some of us, "well, we've finished what we should see here. Now we'll go to other places to have a look." Then he reached out and shook bartov, "I wish you good health!"

In the next two days, Zhukov and I, accompanied by rokosovsky, inspected all the troops of the front army nonstop.

After the inspection, Zhukov received a call from Stalin from Moscow. Stalin politely asked Zhukov, "Comrade Zhukov, have you finished your work in Belarus?"

"Yes, comrade Stalin." Zhukov respectfully replied: "after these days of work, we have chosen a new main direction."

After he finished, Stalin said slowly, "now that the investigation work has been completed, we should return to Moscow as soon as possible to study the specific combat plan with the General Staff Headquarters."

"OK, I'll fly back in the afternoon." Zhukov said to Zhukov, "I will study the battle plan with Comrade Antonov as soon as possible."

"Vasilevsky's injury has almost recovered. He has returned to the staff headquarters these two days. You can work out the battle plan with him." Stalin seemed to be ready to hang up when he said this, and suddenly added: "by the way, bring Rita back together. We still have to study the work arrangement for her."

Because of Stalin's special advice, I followed Zhukov to fly back to Moscow. In the staff headquarters which was rejected last time, I met vasilevsky, who was discharged from the hospital after his injury. I immediately saluted him and politely asked, "Hello, chief of general staff, are you all well?"

While shaking hands with me, vasilevsky touched a scar on his forehead and said with a smile, "it's almost all right, but this scar broke my face."

He sent Zhukov and I to his office, called Antonov, and Ivanov, who had a tendency to sit on the bench. When they arrived, we began to study the main direction of attack.

Before Zhukov's speech, vasilevsky asked his two deputies to speak about launching an offensive against the German army in this area. The first speaker was Ivanov, who stood up and looked at vasilevsky and said: "marshal, I think the conditions for us to launch an attack in Belarus are not mature, because there are still a large number of German troops in the direction of Leningrad. If we launch an attack in this area, we may be attacked by German and Finnish forces."

As soon as Ivanov's words came out, I was so surprised that I couldn't say a word. You know, the first attack in Belarus was decided by Stalin at the meeting a few days ago. As the deputy chief of general staff of the General Staff Headquarters, he didn't know this decision. It's a bit outrageous.

Just listen to him continue: "I think we should choose the right direction of attack in Ukraine. At present, there are nearly two million troops of our four group armies assembled here, and the morale of the troops is high because of continuous battles and victories. We can make full use of our existing advantages to strike a thunderbolt at the enemy, completely eliminate the enemy in Ukraine, and push our front to Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland... "

"Comrade Ivanov," Zhukov said solemnly as soon as Ivanov finished, "what's the matter with you? At the meeting a few days ago, comrade Stalin rejected the plan of choosing Ukraine and the Baltic coastal areas as the main attack direction, and determined Belarus as the main attack direction of our next round of offensive campaign. "

"I'm sorry, marshal. I don't know." After listening to Zhukov's criticism, Ivanov blushed and apologized to him, then looked at Antonov who went to the meeting that day with resentment, and finally said, "my speech is over." Then he sat down directly“ Two Marshal comrades, "Antonov stood up from his seat and said respectfully to Zhukov and vasilevsky," since we have chosen Belarus as our main attack direction, our next focus is to replenish our troops and ammunition for the White Russian front army that will take part in the battle. "“ It's easy to say Ivanov said to his colleague with some disdain, "where should we solve the problem? You know, in order to ensure the victory of the offensive campaign on the right bank of Ukraine in the early stage, our staff headquarters always focused on Ukraine. Now to supplement the Belarusian front army, where can we find so many soldiers? "“ According to my investigation, "Antonov just glanced at Ivanov, then turned his eyes back to Zhukov and vasilevsky, and continued:" there are 370000 guerrillas in Belarus, which can be added to the regular army after the battle. At the same time, we can add 100000 new soldiers to rokosovsky from the rear. In this way, we should have enough troops to take part in the campaign. "“ It's not enough. It's not enough. " As soon as Antonov's words were finished, Ivanov refuted them. Regardless of Zhukov's ugly expression and frown, he said to himself, "even though there are 370000 guerrillas in Belarus, they are separated in a vast area. How can you gather them up and distribute them to the army?" Although Ivanov's remarks are aimed at Antonov, what he said is quite reasonable. No matter how many guerrillas there are, it is ridiculous to gather them from their respective areas of activity and join the regular army of rokosovsky through the German controlled areas. So as soon as his words were finished, the whole room fell into silence. After a while, I heard Zhukov ask drily, "besides reorganizing the guerrillas, what else do you have to do to add enough soldiers to rokosovsky?"