"Of course! Of course! Salinchkin's smile never dissipated, and he said proudly: "The great Soviet Red Army was invincible, in the early days of the war it was the Germans who fooled us into making a sneak attack, once we gained a firm foothold, we were able to counterattack little by little, and in the end, we reached Berlin!" We will take Kharkov tomorrow, Kyiv the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow will not be far off. ”

Yang Mingzhi pursed his lips slightly and glanced at him.

Are the Soviets really ready to attack Kharkov? Not necessarily! Timoshenko's main opponent at present is the German Sixth Army, which is very combative. If Timoshenko had been defeated in this battle, there would have been no full-scale fighting in the Don Valley, and the battles of Stalingrad and the Caucasus would not have taken place.

Is this possible? Can Timoshenko win? Since that plane was the defeat of the Southwestern Front, the superior forces were forced to retreat to Stalingrad on the Don River, and the German army was killed to the death, this macro history will be shifted?

Yang Mingzhi knew that he was a butterfly, and the major defeat that the Soviet army should have may be inevitable.

Yang Mingzhi seemed to be preoccupied because of this, and in Salinchkin's opinion, this man was strategizing.

Perhaps because his statement just now was too conceited, Salinchkin tried to recover his mood and said: "Comrade Berekov, there is no doubt that our army destroyed forty tanks No. 4 and thirty heavy guns, and even the high-intensity military transportation of the German army, which fully proves that the German army is strengthening the defense of Ukraine. After receiving this information, I immediately conveyed it to the headquarters of the Southwestern Front, and Comrade Timoshenko attached great importance to this information, and he made a comment on you and asked me to bring you some words. ”

Yang Mingzhi's eyes lit up: "Oh? And what's going on? ”

"Of course! Our actions are too bold......"

It turned out that after the troops reported the results of blowing up several military trains and blowing up the railway, the Novgomel side quickly wrote a summary document and transmitted it to the headquarters of the Southwestern Front as soon as possible.

Timoshenko and Tupikov knew very well that Berekov was a bold man.

"With only two thousand men to launch a large-scale operation, if they are caught in the middle of the German attack on the side of Moziri, he will be finished! This is typical of desperateism! Adventurism! Opportunism! This is what Timoshenko said about the general under his command, and Tupikov, the chief of the General Staff of the Front, has more say in this person.

"If we use military discipline to keep him firmly restrained, he will not be able to exert his own subjective initiative. That man is very bold, and it is not by this boldness that the military miracle is accomplished! He seems bold to us, and it seems to him that all his actions are well thought out! They are in enemy-occupied territory, and they know better than we do in the enemy's rear......"

It sounded like Tupikov was endorsing him, and Timoshenko was still a little displeased.

The bald middle-aged man's recent thoughts were entirely on planning a counteroffensive, and Stalin ordered the Southwestern Front and the Southern Front to launch a counteroffensive in the southeastern part of Ukraine and the Crimea. What was the state of the Southwestern Front, he did not understand that the leader was not on the front line of the battle.

Timoshenko knew his troops best, and during the February counteroffensive, they liberated the Severodonetsk River basin and at one point confronted the Germans. The important town of Belgorod was liberated, and the Soviet troops successfully broke through in the south of the city.

At present, several infantry divisions are building defensive lines in the salient and for a time they are facing off against the German Sixth Front.

Stalin's orders demanded that the next offensive focus of the troops should be Kharkov, and he was too optimistic about the Southwestern Front.

"Many units are missing, many veterans have died in battle, and most of the newly recruited soldiers are on the battlefield for the first time. There are a lot of troops, but it is not ideal that they can actually be put into battle, and the number of the most critical mechanized troops and tanks is too small! The technology of RPGs was mastered by the Germans, who were also equipped with this individual anti-tank weapon, which became a major nemesis of Soviet tanks......"

Thinking about the current pressure on the Southwestern Front, Timoshenko had to think more about that Berekov.

This man has already joined the Soviet Union, and he is still a Chinese in his bones! This man has oriental wisdom, he successfully developed and put into combat the rocket-boosted grenade that the Soviet Union once did not work well. This weapon is so good, the Soviets liked to use it, and the Germans liked it too!

With its presence, the anti-tank capabilities of the Soviet army were greatly enhanced, and so did the German army! What's more, this weapon can also be changed to an anti-infantry grenade by replacing the warhead.

A new type of weapon can only give the troops a tactical advantage, not to mention the fact that both the Soviet Union and Germany have it. Timoshenko was under pressure, and the leader's order was to liberate Kharkov, which made it necessary for him to fight head-on with the German Sixth Army. It was a heavy group of more than 100,000 men and a large number of Nazi client state troops. To liberate Kharkov, these elite German units must be completely annihilated without mercy, not crushed!

Is this possible? Is the win rate great? They were, after all, the elite of the German army!

The armored forces of the German army have been strengthened, and the Soviet army has not many armored forces, and the contrast on the table is not at all advantageous.

Both sides of the war have welded a layer of barbed wire or installed a layer of hollow steel plates on their tanks and armored vehicles.

Such measures can largely neutralize the power of rocket-propelled grenades, and their existence also disables many existing anti-tank guns. It seems that if you want to destroy the opposing tank with one hit, either the howitzer will be fired flat, or the chassis will be blown up with an anti-tank grenade!

The intensity of the war was unprecedented, and it was hard not to worry about the next battle. Even if the German Sixth Army was defeated, its own losses would be huge. Whether or not the German army in front of it can stabilize the battle line depends not only on the courage of its own troops, but also on the timely blood transfusion of the rear troops, and even a little luck to help.

And in the guerrilla areas behind enemy lines, if they can hit and attack the enemy's lines of communication, they don't know what kind of miraculous assistance they have.

Timoshenko had no more illusions, even if his Berekov was a strange man, and the influence of other partisan forces on the campaign was almost negligible.

Berekov was insane, he personally led a small group of troops to attack the Germans, and after the first major tactical victories, new victories followed.

Salinchkin did not hesitate to report these good news to Timoshenko, because this was a commissioner appointed by Stalin, and his report had to be reviewed by Timoshenko.

Even if the so-called 63rd Army is very capable of fighting, they are more than 10,000 people at best, and most of them can be described as a rabble.

However, when Timoshenko quickly changed his attitude after reading the multi-point report document. "Hey, hey! This Berekov, it turns out that his sabotage is so orderly! ”

There are two important railway lines entering Ukraine from Belarus, and now the German military trains are very busy, and that Berekov seems to have a premonition that the railway will be cut at this point.

What surprised Timoshenko the most was that they were able to produce rocket launchers comparable to Katyusha in such a difficult environment as the swamp, and the accuracy seemed to be better. With such weapons, they decisively attacked the German railway station.

Replacing the blown tracks is easy, but cleaning up the destroyed tracks and the wreckage of the trains on them in the wilderness is a big deal.

The new weapons were shipped from Germany, through occupied Poland, along the railway line into Brest in Belarus, and then south through the Mozyr diversion directly into Kyiv, Ukraine's core railway hub, where supplies could be quickly transported to the Donbas.

"Now, Berekov has made it impossible for the German army to use that railway for some time to come, and we must find a way to stabilize Berekov's results!" Timoshenko then thought of an effective solution, he immediately contacted the command of the guerrilla movement, and the operation of concentrated sabotage of the railway line in the four directions of Mozyr began!