Chapter 1661

Zhukov arrived in Lublin on November 19. After receiving a brief welcome ceremony organized by me at the airport and knowing all the members of the headquarters, he rushed back to the headquarters. He was eager to learn about the actual situation of the first front army of Belarus in the shortest time.

After listening to my detailed report, he said, "Rita, please make arrangements for me. I plan to visit the landing sites of magnushev and puwai tomorrow to find out the actual situation there."

As soon as Zhukov's words came out, they were immediately refuted by jerekin: "no, marshal, you can't go to the West Bank of the visva river. It's too dangerous there." In order to stop Zhukov's adventure, he even pulled on us, "deputy commander, chief of staff, can we let the commander of the front army take risks with his own life?"

"Yes, comrade marshal." "As far as I know, the enemy's artillery fire can hit the landing site of magnushev at any time. We have no right to let you take risks," malining said

"Rita," Zhukov said, turning to me with a smile, "what do you think?"

"Marshal, if you want to know about the landing site, we can call two commanders, trikov and korpakchi, to the headquarters and ask them to report to you." Although the landing site on the West Bank of the visva river is becoming more and more stable, I am also unwilling to let Zhukov take risks, so I gently advised him: "you really don't have to take risks."

"To be honest, don't you really want me to go to the landing site?" Asked Zhukov, looking at us.

"Yes," the three of us nodded and said in unison, "we have no right to let you take risks."

"Well," Zhukov said, seeing that the three of us agreed, instead of sticking to our own opinions, "since you won't let me go to the other side, call them to the headquarters as soon as possible. I need to have a good talk with them."

As soon as trikov and korpakchi received our notice, they drove from their respective landing sites towards Lublin. In the evening, the two commanders walked into the headquarters one by one.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Zhukov asked, "I don't want to talk much. I want to know the actual situation of the landing site as soon as possible. Which one of you will report first?"

After two people looked at each other, it was still trikov who stood up first: "marshal, I'd better report to you first." With Zhukov's permission, he continued, "according to the current indications, our attack on the German army will first be launched from the magnushev landing site. Therefore, when carrying out defensive construction, I will take into account the needs of the future large forces in carrying out offensive operations.

There are many swamps and quicksand areas in the landing site. In order to facilitate the future attack of the army, general Tkachenko, director of the engineering corps, made a careful plan and built about 200 kilometers of roads in the swamps and quicksand areas, including 130 kilometers of rutted roads and 30 kilometers of narrow roads.

In order to save troops and maintain a high degree of combat readiness, we regularly change the troops at the defensive front. The first shift was held on the night of September 8: four of the nine divisions stayed in the first echelon; The remaining divisions are assigned to Tier 2, where they are replenished, trained and rested.

Now, I can say with full confidence that after the 8th group army joined the first front army of Belarus, it has successfully withstood the test of the current battle under new conditions, and is fully prepared in spirit to complete more arduous and important tasks at any time. "

I never knew that trikov, who always spoke a few words when giving orders, was so eloquent. He spent more than an hour to introduce the specific situation of magnushev landing site to Zhukov. Zhukov could not help nodding and smiling.

As trikov sat down to drink, Zhukov turned his eyes to kolpakchi again: "Comrade kolpakchi, now it's up to you to report the situation of the pwawi landing site."

Hearing Zhukov's name, kolpakchi quickly stood up, opened his notebook, and began to report: "troops, technical equipment, weapons and ammunition are constantly being transported to the pwawi landing site, and various field hospitals have been fully spread out on the landing site,... At the same time, we have also built a new river crossing floating bridge on the viswa river, More troops and materials can cross the visva river at the same time... "

After hearing the report, Zhukov turned to malining and said, "chief of staff, our logistics department has done a good job. It's amazing that tens of thousands of tons of materials have been transported to the landing site in such a short time." With these words, he nodded to lieutenant general an Ji pianke, the director of logistics department, who was sitting behind us. "General an Ji pianke, well done. I thank you very much."

In our headquarters, lieutenant general Anji has always been a neglected role in soy sauce. At the moment, hearing Zhukov's praise for himself, he quickly stood up from his seat and replied excitedly, "marshal, this is all my job." After a quick glance at me, he added, "fortunately, the deputy commander opened up the air supply line, so that we can transport tens of thousands of tons of materials to the two landing sites in such a short time."

After hearing this, Zhukov frowned. After a long silence, Zhukov asked cuikov, "Comrade cuikov, has the enemy plane ever appeared over your landing site?"“ No, "said trakov, shaking his head." since we have deployed strong anti-aircraft fire at the landing site, and the air force has increased air patrols, it is very difficult to see the enemy aircraft appear. " Seeing that Zhukov turned his eyes to himself, kolpakchi quickly replied, "now we can't see the enemy planes in the sky above the powavi landing site, and the enemy's shelling on the river has basically stopped." Zhukov tapped his pencil gently on the table and said, "since the enemy has no longer bombed the visva River, we can build more pontoons on the river, so that we don't have to rely on transport planes to transport materials for our troops. You know, during this period, there have been several flight accidents, leading to the crash of three transport planes, the sacrifice of five pilots, and the consumption of fuel is also an astronomical number. " When I heard Zhukov say this, I could not help but feel a thump: "marshal, the cold winter is coming soon. If air transportation is cancelled, once a large number of ice floes appear on the river, all the floating bridges we built on the river will be destroyed, and then the communication between the two sides of the Strait will be completely interrupted."“ Yes, comrade marshal. Rita is right. " In the battle of Stalingrad defense, trakov suffered from the disruption of transportation on the Volga River caused by ice floes, so when I said this, he immediately echoed: "in the battle of Stalingrad defense, because there were too many ice floes on the Volga River, our contact with the east bank was interrupted for several days, and our troops almost ran out of ammunition and food."“ Comrade marshal, think again. " "In order to ensure that the troops can accumulate enough supplies as soon as possible, I suggest that the air supply lines should not be stopped," he said to Zhukov“ Comrades, I understand your feelings. " Zhukov glanced at us and said, "I know that the air supply lines have contributed a lot to our army's ability to store so many materials in such a short period of time. But have you ever thought that in order to maintain our air supply line, the supreme command will hand over two-thirds of the fuel oil of us aid to our front army, thus affecting the fuel supply of other front army air forces. In order to defeat the Germans, it is far from enough to rely on us alone. We need the cooperation of all sides. Therefore, we must have a view of the overall situation. We can't just think about ourselves without thinking about others. We can't let our superiors give us all the fuel. As a result, the friendly planes can't take off because they don't have fuel, right? " After telling us a lot, Zhukov told the engineer director of the front army: "I will give you three days to build at least five pontoons on the visva River to pass tanks and artillery."“ "Marshal," the chief engineer said in embarrassment, "we are short of enough materials to build bridges. I am afraid that we will not be able to complete your order within the specified time." Zhukov looked at each other, stretched out three fingers, and said faintly, "I will give you three days to build five floating bridges and repair at least one of the two visva river bridges near the landing site. If you can't finish the task by the deadline, I'll replace you with someone who can finish my order. Do you understand? " Seeing that Zhukov gave the death order to the chief engineer, we all gave him a sympathetic look. The chief engineer replied with a sad face: "I understand, comrade marshal. I will finish the task." After a pause, he asked cautiously, "will you allow me to return to the army now to convey your order?"“ Go ahead, chief engineer. " Zhukov waved to him and said in a relaxed tone, "remember, I only give you three days. After three days, you'll be dismissed." When the chief engineer left, Zhukov said to me, "Rita, please tell the commander of the air force, general paulenin, that the air supply line will be finished in three days."