Struggle in Soviet Russia

The continuous drizzle covered the entire Yauza River. Since the beginning of April, perhaps as a response to the severe winter that just passed, the rainfall in the surrounding areas of Moscow has increased sharply. In the past week, there have been three drops in total. It rains almost every other day.

Along the banks of the Yauza River, a convoy composed of a jeep and two trucks crawls **** the muddy road. This convoy looks a bit interesting. The jeep driving in the front is a Soviet-made GAZ. The two trucks behind are Stubeck from the United States.

Stubeck’s truck has strong horsepower, and its maximum power is said to reach 80 horsepower. However, even so, the poor road conditions in the Yauza River still caused a lot of trouble for it. The wheels of the truck were rolled up during the course of the truck. The mud can be thrown to an altitude of more than three meters, just like the eruption of an oil well just drilled out of oil.

In the jeep, Victor's body was constantly swinging with the shaking of the body. The wheels were slipping on the muddy road. Sitting in the car, he felt that he would do a translational movement from time to time. The whole person was inertia. Twisted and pulled.

Finally, when climbing a gentle slope, the wheels of the jeep fell into a mud puddle. Even if the throttle was increased to the maximum, there was no way to climb out of the mud puddle.

The truck following stopped, and a second lieutenant jumped from the back of the vehicle, while blowing a whistle, led a dozen soldiers in canvas ponchoes over to the cart.

Victor couldn't keep sitting in the car. He pushed the door and got out of the car.

The rain is very small, and the raindrops are like silk. It is a real silky rain. It feels a little refreshing when it hits the face, but after a while, you will feel damp and very uncomfortable.

The Yauza River flows slowly in the silky rain. There are various things floating on the seemingly calm river. There are helmets wrapped in grass and dead branches, and there are unrecognizable flags that are burned. You can even see The corpse spinning in the water.

Victor stood on the embankment, raised his binoculars, and looked across the river.

In the view of the telescope, you can see four or five swollen corpses that have been soaked in rain on the bank **** across the river. They are sunk in the mud in various poses, as time goes by. And it rots with the soil. Farther away, you can see a large number of bombed and abandoned tanks and vehicles, a stream of crimson stream, pierced a gap in the embankment, flushing the same crimson stream into the big river.

In the past two months or so, on the 60-kilometer-long frontal road from Bekovo to Polunino, the Soviet and German armies seized an area centered on Lezhev and Sychovka. There were repeated battles.

The intention of the Soviet army was to seize this prominent part of the German army in Lezhev-Siechovka. To this end, the Kalinin Front and the Western Front mobilized millions of troops to continuously launch an offensive against the prominent German army. The goal is to wipe out the defensive forces commanded by Model in the area.

The battle for more than two months was undoubtedly cruel and extremely bloody. Take Bekovo, who just passed by Victor as an example. In just two months, this small city with a population of less than 10,000 had already been on both sides of the Soviet Union and Germany. It's been thirteen times. Often the Soviet army had just taken control of the small town, and the German army would **** it back after the day passed, and within two days, the Soviet army would take it back into their own hands.

For both the Soviet Union and Germany, every change of control of the small city meant countless casualties and a lot of blood. As far as Victor knew, as far as the Soviet army was concerned, in the past two months, nearly 300,000 people had been killed on this front less than 60 kilometers, and the number of injured people had approached 600,000.

The headquarters of the 30th Army under the command of the Kalinin Front Army was replenished after being basically lighted up, and then lighted up and refilled. The huge casualties incurred were enough to make people crazy.

The corpses on the embankment on the other side of the river were not without anyone responsible for burying them. The reason they were exposed to the sky was that they were buried too shallow on the spot. After a few rains, they were washed out from under the mud.

Now, this section of the river has been controlled by the Soviet army, but the German army did not retreat too far. They are less than ten kilometers away from the west bank of the big river. Perhaps at this moment, they are already planning to launch an event. Counterattack, retake this area.

With the efforts of the soldiers, the jeep finally got rid of the mud and the convoy was able to go back on the road.

Victor’s destination was Markanovo, less than 30 kilometers away from Bykovo. It is currently the headquarters of the 20th Army and the forward command post of the Western Front.

Two days ago, he was appointed by the General Staff Headquarters as the former enemy intelligence inspection and patrol representative of the General Staff Headquarters. He carried out a two-week inspection of the three armies under the jurisdiction of the Western Front Army to determine each group army and its subordinate units and the front army. Whether there are hidden dangers in the communication and intelligence exchanges between the headquarters.

Since the victory of the Battle of Moscow, this intelligence inspection and patrol work of the General Staff has been customized, and the related inspection and patrol work has always been the responsibility of the deputy chiefs of the general staff or the heads of the ministries and departments. Everyone takes turns. No one can escape.

In fact, in today's Soviet military command system, a vague responsibility system has been formed. Responsibilities for related matters will be specific to people. If problems occur in any link or period, relevant personnel must be held accountable. This kind of responsibility is specific to a person’s responsibility system, which often puts a lot of pressure on the task performer, forcing him not to be careless, so as to avoid being held accountable if something goes wrong.

Take Victor as an example. Within two weeks of his inspection of the three armies, if there was a problem with the communications and intelligence work of the three armies, he would assume the responsibility and explain the cause of the problem to the Ministry of National Defense. , If his explanation is not clear, then he will take full responsibility. The better result is being demoted and removed. If the problem is serious, he will have to go to a military court.

It is precisely because of this that Victor rushes in the rain, because he must find out the basic communication status of the three fronts in the shortest possible time, make rectifications where there may be problems, and deal with those who have problems. Deal with it quickly-if he doesn't deal with others, the person above will deal with him, the problem is as simple as that.

This kind of inspection work is divided into two parts: technical inspection and work inspection. Technical inspection is mainly to inspect whether the communication equipment of each group army and its subordinate units, radar stations and intelligence stations are functioning well, and the maintenance of standby radio stations, etc. . The nature of the work inspections is similar to that of the inspection teams of the domestic Commission for Discipline Inspection of the later generations. Most of them are carried out by surprise attacks, making surprise checks on whether the communication departments and confidential departments of the various troops maintain sufficient vigilance, and whether the communication facilities can be maintained. 24 hours unblocked and so on.

I have to admit that people are inertia. Even in the cruel war, there will be people who neglect their duties, **** and skid. During the surprise inspection of the 8th Guards Infantry Corps Communication Battalion yesterday, Victor would The second lieutenant of the 43rd battalion of the army's communications unit was arrested. At three o'clock in the morning, he rushed to contact the 43rd Battalion from the military command post, but only got a response from the other half an hour later. When it was determined that there were no technical problems, this was the opponent's negligence.

The convoy started again, and continued to "crawl" along the river bank to the northwest. In the cloudy sky, occasionally fighters would pass by at low altitude. What is reassuring is that they are all Soviet aircraft belonging to the First Army of the Air Force. .

In today’s frontal battlefield of the Western Front, the Soviet army has basically mastered air superiority. The six forward airfields of the German army have all retreated to the area west of Smolensk. In addition, the German High Command has moved the main battlefield to the southern front, so it is difficult for the German army in the Lezhev Bulge to get support from the air force.

Nowadays, the one who is in charge of commanding the German battles in the salient is the so-called "master of defense". To be honest, he is able to hold on to the flanking attack of the two Soviet fronts while he is weak. Easy. But in Victor's view, Mordel's persistence didn't make much sense, and what he was consuming was the few remaining elites of the German Central Army Group.

The Supreme Command of the Soviet Army is undoubtedly cold-blooded and determined. Most of the Soviet troops that have been thrown into the Lezhev battlefield are composed of recruits who lack adequate training. There are also a large number of "atonement camps." To a certain extent, the Soviet army can afford this cruel seesaw in Lezhev, but it is still hard to say whether the German army can afford it. At least the current Lezhev German Army has shown fatigue.

In this state of fatigue, I believe that the Germans themselves can understand that their intention to seize Moscow has gone far, and the Soviet army has also realized this. Therefore, when Victor left Moscow this time, Moscow The city’s defense headquarters has been abolished, and all the anti-aircraft gun positions, sand barriers, explosion-proof glass strips, etc. set up in the urban area have been dismantled, and the Moscow Metro has resumed normal operations.

Nowadays, the thinking of the Muscovites is that in this war, as long as they persist, there will be hope. Well, I don’t know what the Germans think now.

Near noon, the convoy marched to the bend of the Yauza River. At this position, the convoy had to cross the Yauza River and turn to the south. After a dozen kilometers, it was the destination Kalmanovo.

Victor asked the convoy to stop, and at the same time ordered the communicators to send a report to the communications department of the 20th Army to test whether the communication was smooth.