Chapter 1662

After the temporary military meeting, Zhukov said to me apologetically, "Rita, I know that you are disappointed by my decision to cancel the air supply line. However, I would like to remind you once again that in the next campaign, we alone can not defeat the Germans. In order to achieve effective cooperation with the friendly forces, it is absolutely necessary for us to make some sacrifices. "

In fact, even if Zhukov didn't say this to me, I would also like to understand that this so-called Shanzhai version of "air supply line" was originally the one I imitated from the US army a few years later. It was not my own original creation. Since it has completed the historical mission of rapid supply for the two landing sites, it will be cancelled.

Before I could speak, marinin asked, "Comrade marshal, I want to know when we are going to launch an attack against the Germans?"

"At present, our troops are still assembling, and trains and cars are still delivering weapons, ammunition and military supplies to Lublin all the time." Zhukov said solemnly: "but for me, these materials are far from enough. We need to hoard more than two months of materials at least to attack the enemy in the front."

"Two months later," marinin said, quietly calculating the time, "that is to say, we can't attack the enemy until the middle of January at the earliest?"

"Yes, I plan to launch a new attack on the enemy in mid January." Zhukov said with certainty: "according to my calculation, our troops will have at least 40 days' worth of materials by then, and it will be more than enough to fight a battle with the enemy."

While they were talking, I was thinking about another thing: after a series of attacks by the allies, the German army seemed to have engaged in a counterattack... Well, I remember, it was called "Arden counterattack"... It once made the allies in a mess. The two regiments of the 106th division of the US army were captured by more than 8000 Americans

"Rita!" When I was trying to recall the specific time of Aden's counterattack, I suddenly heard Zhukov calling me and quickly answered, "marshal, what instructions do you have?"

"I want to ask you, before the battle of Belarus, the guerrillas active behind the enemy gave us great support. If they had not disturbed the rear of the German campaign, prevented the German army from sending reserves to the front line, and radioed the movement of the German army. Especially during the period of June 20-23, they brought the railway to the most important section to a standstill and disrupted the operation of other railway lines. Without their support, we are bound to pay a greater price to win the battle of Belarus. "

"That's right, marshal," I replied with a nod to Zhukov's statement, "it's easy to get stuck in the battle simply by relying on frontal attack. Only with the help of guerrillas behind the enemy's back, can we cause interference to the enemy and disrupt their deployment, can we win more easily. "

"But now we are fighting on Polish territory, and the Polish guerrillas active behind the enemy are unwilling to cooperate with us, as you can see when you enter the old city of Warsaw." Zhukov asked me modestly, "do you have any good way to make the German rear not quiet?"

I was just thinking about the content of "Aden counterattack". After hearing Zhukov's question, I immediately linked the two together, so I could quickly reply, "marshal, I have a way to effectively disturb the enemy's rear, so that they can't concentrate on our offensive forces."

"Oh, do you have a way?" When Zhukov heard me say this, his eyes suddenly brightened and he urged me to say, "come on, let's hear it."

I naturally think of Otto skolzner, the leader of the German special forces. In April 1943, because of his outstanding performance in the battle, he entered the sixth special operations department of the German Central Security Bureau. In September of the same year, he became famous for being ordered to lead special forces to rescue Mussolini from house arrest.

In October this year, he once again led special forces and successfully hijacked admiral holdi, the Regent of Hungary, who was planning to sign an armistice agreement with the Soviet Union, forcing Hungary to remain in the axis camp.

Before the start of the Arden counterattack, skorzner personally selected about 2000 German soldiers who spoke English to form a shock team, put on the uniform of the US Army, and bravely crossed the rear of the US defense line in a US jeep, attacking US soldiers everywhere, cutting off telephone lines, reversing road signs, laying false landmine signs, etc., causing chaos and self-danger in the US rear.

In order to search these German units, the US military set up cards everywhere to intercept the relevant vehicles for inspection. If anyone is suspicious when answering questions, he will be immediately detained for subsequent screening. In this way, as long as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops meet on the road, they will cross examine each other. For a moment, people are in a state of panic and restlessness.

After the initial success of the operation, skorzner plans to start the second step, that is, to order all the officers and men of the 150th armored brigade to wear the uniform of us tank soldiers and drive American tanks from the north wing of the front line to take the bridge on the MAS river. It is a pity that this extremely bold interleaving operation was aborted because the operation plan was intercepted by the US military, otherwise it would cause greater chaos and damage to the US military.

So I changed skorzney's plan, told Zhukov about it, and finally said, "we can now gather German speaking people for secret training, and send them to the enemy's rear to destroy and disrupt the enemy's department a week before the battle. And even after the battle, they can still wantonly destroy the German telephone lines, change the marching signs, and even disguise as gendarmerie to point the German troops in the wrong direction, which has brought huge losses to the German army. " After listening to all my plans, Zhukov didn't speak, just frowned and pondered. I looked him in the eye and thought, "he won't deny my plan, will he?" But the fact soon proved that my worry was unnecessary. His brow stretched out and his face showed a satisfied smile: "Rita, your plan is crazy, but it sounds good. Personally, I think it is completely feasible. Since at the beginning of the war, the enemy could dress up as our soldiers and go deep into our army to do damage, today we can deal with them in the same way. I will report this plan to the supreme command immediately. As soon as they pass the plan, we will immediately select German speaking commanders and fighters from the army to start training. "