"Major, Sergeant!" Seeing the two of them walk into the bomb shelter, Admiral Kirponos, who was discussing something with his staff officer in front of the map, nodded at the two.

"Comrade General!" Major Gavrilov and Shulka came forward to salute.

Admiral Kirponos turned the map in one direction and handed it to the two of them, saying, "Look at this, major, sergeant, is there anything you need to add?" ”

It was a map of the Kyiv defense, and under the light, you could see in detail the direction of the trenches and the location of pillboxes, mines, turrets and other facilities.

Major Gavrilov glanced at Admiral Kirponos with some surprise and said, "General, this is not a secret that we can get access to!" ”

Major Gavrilov was actually talking about Shulka.

On the surface, this seems to be Major Gavrilov's distrust of Shulka, but Shulka knows that Major Gavrilov has a deep meaning...... Secrets aren't the more you know, the better, although it may seem like some kind of trust and reuse.

The problem is that if the Germans had known these secrets from other sources, the first to be suspected would have been Shulka, who had a low rank and a "past".

Admiral Kirponos spread his hands indifferently and said, "Don't care what the others say, Major! I know who you can trust and who you can't! ”

"Yes, General!" Major Gavrilov replied.

"Waterga?" Admiral Kirponos asked.

"Of course!" Major Gavrilov immediately laughed.

"Oh no!" Shulka hesitated, trying to keep his head above water.

"No, you can't refuse, Sergeant!" Admiral Kirponos poured a full cup and handed it to Shulka as he said, "Because it's an order!" ”

"Yes, General!" Shulka could only take the wine.

The general and the major laughed in unison, and toasted each other like old friends who had been reunited for a long time.

Compared with Chinese baijiu, the difference between vodka is that it does not have that pungent momentum, it is not sweet, not astringent, not bitter, it is very easy to eat, but soon the chest burns like a flame.

Only then did Admiral Kirponos turn to the map and continue: "We have divided the line into thirteen divisions, each of which is garrisoned by a division. They formed a half-circle along Kyiv and defended with their backs to the Dnieper! ”

This defense is certainly correct.

The defense of any area will have problems similar to those of the Brest Fortress...... If it is completely enclosed, that is, encircling Kyiv to form a circle for defense, it will be easily surrounded by the Germans from the outside and then bypass it to continue the offensive in depth.

Unless the defense can lay a defensive line of hundreds of kilometers from north to south, like the field fortifications that were previously built, to block all German troops.

However, there was a problem with this: the equipment and troops were too scattered, and it was easy for the Germans to break through a certain point with a local superiority.

Admiral Kirponos's defense of Kyiv was based on the Dnieper River as an impenetrable barrier:

On the left bank of the Dnieper was the Southwestern Front under the command of Colonel-General Kirponos, on the right bank was the Southern Front under the command of General Tyulenev, and on the Dnieper was the Dnieper detachment of the Minsk District Flotilla.

(Note: the Minsk district fleet includes the Berezino, Pripyat and Dnieper detachments, the first two of which are under the command of the Western Front stationed in Minsk)

So it became clear that the Germans could not encircle Kiev in the same way as they did the Brest Fortress, because in front of them was the Dnieper, facing the shallow heavy gunboats on the river and the Southern Front on the other side of the river.

At this time, the Germans may be able to force their way across the Dnieper, after all, the Germans have air superiority, and air superiority can contain the Soviet fleet.

The problem was that Kiev was again on the left bank of the Dnieper, and the Germans, ignoring the result of Kiev's forced crossing of the Dnieper, were exposing their flanks to the guns of the Southwestern Front in Kiev.

So, it seems that the Germans have only one option, a face-to-face storming of the Kyiv line.

"Every pillbox on the line is disguised as a wooden house!" Admiral Kirponos raised Shulkayan with his hand holding the wine glass: "In addition, every basement has been used as the sergeant said, and we have even dug many basements, outside the wooden house. I seem to have felt the camouflage and latent effect, because at a glance I could not see where the line was, and I believe the Germans too! ”

The general and the major couldn't help laughing, and Major Gavrilov proudly patted Shulka on the shoulder.

But Shulka did not laugh, because he knew that this seemingly impregnable line of defense could not prevent Kyiv from being surrounded, and the entire Southwestern Front was almost completely annihilated, and General Kirponos in front of him would also be sacrificed when breaking through.

"What's wrong, Sergeant?" Admiral Kirponos asked: "Before that, I was worried that we might not be able to hold off the Germans. You know, the bunkers on our old border didn't do much, but now ...... We bought the time to prepare well, and I am sure that we will be able to keep the Germans out of Kyiv! ”

After a pause, Admiral Kilponos continued: "This is all your work, Sergeant. Your tactics have almost turned the whole situation around! All we have to do now is to further consolidate the defenses. That's why I brought you back from the front, the 333rd Regiment has experience in relevant tactics, and you can use that experience to find more deficiencies......"

"No, Comrade Admiral!" Shulka interrupted the words of Admiral Kirponos: "I don't think that such a defense of ours will solve the crisis in Kyiv!" ”

"What do you mean?" Admiral Kirponos asked.

Major Gavrilov also cast a puzzled look at Shulka.

"You mean the Germans can break through our defenses?" Major Gavrilov said: "No, it can't be. YOU HAVE TO KNOW ONE THING, SHULKA, WE EVEN USED 37MM ANTI-TANK GUNS ON THE OLD BORDER DEFENSE LINE, AND THE KYIV DEFENSE LINE IS ALREADY FULL OF 45MM ANTI-TANK GUNS! ”

This is marked on the map, and it is also the result of the concentration of forces and equipment by Admiral Kirponos to defend Kyiv...... OTHERWISE, THESE 45MM ANTI-TANK GUNS SHOULD HAVE BEEN SCATTERED ALL OVER THE PLACE.

"No, I believe that the Germans will not be able to break through the Kyiv line!" Shulka replied.

After all, the Southwestern Front was the main force of the Soviet army, and the German Army Group South was not the main force, that is to say, good horses against bad horses...... Even though the overall quality and combat effectiveness of the Soviet army were inferior to those of the German army, it was still a stalemate on the Kyiv defensive line.

"And why?" Admiral Kirponos asked.

Shulka pointed in the direction of Minsk on the map and said: "The problem is not the Germans in the front, but in the center!" ”

Shulka could even only be referred to as "Central Germans", because a sergeant should not know the number of the German army.