Chen Dao and General Kleist exchanged details of the battle for a while, and suddenly remembered something.

Raising his hand to look at his watch, Chen Dao exclaimed: "It's almost half past eight, do you have a radio here?" I'm going to listen to the radio. ”

Seeing that Chen Dao was very anxious, General Kleist hurriedly asked the adjutant to take Chen Dao to the office of the intelligence department.

Turning on the radio and tuning into the "Deutsche Welle" radio station, Chen Dao happened to hear a voice coming from the radio.

"Audience friends, below, we are about to interview Lieutenant General Andrei Andreevich Vlasov, who has the greatest sense of justice and the most courage among all those who opposed Stalin in the Soviet Union. Under his call, tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers who opposed Stalin but did not dare to express their stance openly mustered up the courage to stand by his side and formed a powerful force to fight Stalin to the end and rescue more people who were being brutalized by Stalin's tyranny. General Vlasov, say hello to everyone. ”

"Hello everyone, I'm Andrei Vlasov."

"Hello, General Vlasov, in the eyes of many Soviets, especially Stalin and his henchmen, you are a traitor who must be executed. So my first question is, you have to explain to the audience who don't know the truth, why are you on our side, and why are you leading your soldiers against your country? ”

"I must state that I am against Stalin, I am not against the Motherland. Everything I am doing now is aimed at saving my great motherland from Stalin's reactionary government. ”

"General Vlasov, I must remind you that it is not wrong for you to say that Stalin is a tyrant and a great dictator, but he is the heir appointed by Mr. Lenin, and it is not appropriate for you to say that he is a reactionary government."

"This is exactly what I want to say, Stalin was not only the head of a reactionary government, but there were serious problems with the legitimacy of his rule," Vlasov said. To say that he is the appointed heir of Comrade Lenin is the biggest lie of the reactionary government. The real heir of Comrade Lenin was Comrade Trotsky. It was precisely because Stalin saw that Comrade Trotsky was appreciated by Comrade Lenin and thought that his interests were being harmed, that he and his henchman Molotov poisoned Comrade Lenin, and then drove Comrade Trotsky into exile in Mexico. Even so, Stalin did not give up, he sent agents, and in 1940 he killed Comrade Trotsky.

After the expulsion of Comrade Trotsky, Stalin and the hardcore henchmen of Molotov, Beria, as well as Marshal Voroshilov and Timoshenko, carried out a massacre against comrades in the army who had previously supported Trotsky, and Marshal Tukhachevsky, Marshal Blyukher, and Marshal Yegorov all died in this massacre.

The fact that Stalin came to power by assassinating Comrade Lenin and was not the legitimate heir is known to many people, but they just did not dare to make a public statement, because if they showed their dissatisfaction with Stalin, they would be labelled a 'Trotskyist' and sent to the execution ground. In short, Stalin's government was an illegitimate reactionary government. ”

"General Vlasov, if what you say is true, then we can confirm that there is a problem with Stalin's legitimacy. As for your statement that he is a reactionary government, I think the corpses in the Katyn Forest, as well as the fact that the Soviet Union betrayed the Axis coalition and launched wars against Romania and Hungary without authorization, are enough to reflect his reactionary and brutal side. ”

"Stalin's atrocities are much more than that, in terms of life, he is very disrespectful to women, and when he usually does not drink, he can pretend to be a gentleman, and once he drinks, he will reveal his true nature," Vlasov said. At a public banquet, he forced his wife to drink after drinking too much, but when she refused, he yelled at his wife in front of everyone, 'Drink it,'.

Moreover, he sent his close friend, the head of the secret service, Beria, to violently force Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia to join the Soviet Union, and all free people who opposed joining and wanted to guarantee the independence of the country were killed or exiled to Siberia. Some peoples who did not want to accept Stalinism were even exiled en masse. On the way to Siberia, there are countless unjust souls waiting for revenge. Stalin's atrocities, even his sons could not stand it anymore and were against him.

If I had the chance, I would have rescued the countries and peoples who were suffering from Stalin, which is why I formed the 1st Army. ”

"General Vlasov, who are you talking about when you say that Stalin's son is also against him?"

"I'm talking about Stalin's eldest son, Captain Yakov Dzhugashvili, who was also captured in the war, I met him, he was miserable. On the one hand, the sense of justice in his heart makes him ashamed of what his father has done, and on the other hand, as a son, he does not want to openly stand against his father. If it weren't for the father-son relationship with Stalin, he would have joined the 1st Army a long time ago······"

In the Kremlin, next to the radio, Stalin raised his hand and threw the glass rod in his hand against the wall and smashed it, the broken glass was scattered all over the ground, and the vodka in the glass flowed onto the carpet, exuding an intoxicating smell.

"Vlasov, this traitor, he must die, you ·····" Stalin said to the secretary, who was trembling with fear, "Go and inform Beria and immediately send agents to kill the traitor, and ······"

Stalin, like an angry lion, walked back and forth in front of the secretary's eyes a few times, raised his head suddenly, stared at the secretary and said: "Contact the General Headquarters of the Southwestern Direction immediately, I want to talk to Comrade Timoshenko on the phone." ”

Overnight, Lieutenant General Vlasov's interview spread around the world on radio.

Overnight, Stalin's anger spread throughout the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the southwestern direction, Timoshenko, and through the headquarters of Timoshenko, to the headquarters of the 12th Army under the Southern Front.

In the city of Voroshilovgrad, when he met his immediate superior, Lieutenant General Malinovsky of the Southern Front Command, and the immediate superior, Marshal Timoshenko, the commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Direction, and Comrade Khrushchev, the General Political Commissar of the Southwestern Direction, came together, and the intuition of the commander of the 12th Army, Major General Grechko, told him that he had something big to do.

After saluting each other, without any spectacle and kind words, Khrushchev was the first to ask: "In recent days, the traitor's troops are still the same?" ”

Grechko felt an invisible pressure from the expressions of the three bigwigs, so much so that his brain was inexplicably short-circuited, and he stammered and asked, "What is the old thing?" ”

"I'm talking about the radio they played." Khrushchev said.

Major General Grechko suddenly realized that Khrushchev was talking about the 1st Army under the command of Vlasov, opposite the 12th Army.

The 12th Army, commanded by Major General Grechko, was attached to the Southern Front and had five infantry divisions. The position of the defensive line was in the center of the Front, opposite facing the Hungarian 2nd Army.

Originally, the Southern Front was located in the south, far from Moscow, and the 12th Army was facing the Hungarians, who were not strong in combat, and Major General Grechko believed that his line of defense was not within the range of the German army's key strikes.

His superior, Lieutenant General Malinovsky, also thought so, so there were no armored units in the 12th Army's establishment.

However, not so long ago, the arrival of a detachment of troops caused collective concern from Major General Grechko to Marshal Timoshenko.

A unit dressed in German camouflage uniforms took over the positions of the 4th Hungarian Infantry Corps and became neighbors to the 12th Army.

The danger of a German unit replacing the weaker Hungarian unit is a danger with a big war coming.

The alarm went from Major General Grechko all the way to the headquarters of the Southern Front, then to the command of Marshal Timoshenko, and finally to the Supreme High Command.

The order to ascertain the number of the opposing unit and keep a close eye on the movements of this force was quickly handed down to Major General Grechko, but before Major General Grechko could send scouts to scratch his tongue, a continuous broadcast spread throughout the troops of the 12th Army.

The German troops on the opposite side set up loudspeakers on their positions, and at night, in the dead of night, they played the recorded propaganda slogans on a loop.

"I am Lieutenant General Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov, comrades of the 12th Army opposite, you have worked hard, stop working for Stalin. The Germans have come to fight Stalin and his henchmen, and you are not enemies of Germany. Hurry up and join our 1st Army with weapons, and together we will turn our guns and fight Stalin, and save our motherland from the tyrant of Stalin as soon as possible······"

On the radio, the enemy on the opposite side reported that it was the 1st Army formed by Vlasov, a big traitor, with a group of traitors, and was an accomplice of the German ***.

Major General Gretchko immediately sent this information to his superiors, and soon Comrade Khrushchev, political commissar of the General Headquarters of the Southwestern Direction, personally visited the 12th Army and secretly went to the forward positions to investigate, and finally confirmed that the information was correct.

When Khrushchev left, he left a group of political cadres at the command of Major General Grechko, who remained in the forward positions, put up loudspeakers, and broadcast propaganda slogans on a loop 24 hours a day, confronting the rebels on the opposite side.

“····· You accomplices of Germany, traitors to the Soviet Fatherland, the gallows is your destination, and you will be judged by the people and punished by the law······"

Seeing that Khrushchev asked about this, Major General Grechko nodded and said: "That traitor broadcasts every night, no one listens to him, and the comrades are scolding him, saying that he deliberately makes noise and does not let everyone sleep well. ”

Khrushchev nodded silently, and Marshal Timoshenko said: "The general secretary already knows about the broadcast, and he thinks that the traitor cannot be allowed to indulge like this, and we must lash him severely." Therefore, the general secretary personally issued an order to launch a quick, accurate and ruthless attack on the traitor's troops, with the 12th Army as the main force and the 37th Army on the right flank as the auxiliary, to strike a blow at his arrogance and let him know that there is no good end to being a traitor. ”

Grechko suddenly realized, no wonder the three superiors came together, it turned out that they had an important task to hand over to him.

"I wanted to teach that traitor a lesson a long time ago, but I didn't have enough troops, only five infantry divisions, and I didn't have the necessary tank strength."

Timoshenko said: "The general secretary decided to transfer units of two tank corps and eight artillery regiments to you. Your mission is to carry out a punitive operation against that traitor's troops, without having to go deep into the enemy's lines. ”

"When will the reinforcements arrive? I'm sure I'll be sure of a date for the attack. ”

"Soon, the offensive will start on June 20 at the latest, and the sooner the better. I have given the order to the troops to move, and they have already left. Comrade Malinovsky, your duty is to coordinate the relations between the 37th and 12th armies so that their actions can be synchronized. Remember, the General Secretary is waiting for the good news of your victory. Do you have any difficulties? ”

Marshal Timoshenko said.

"There is no difficulty, I will immediately let people start making a battle plan." Major General Grechko said.

Lieutenant General Malinovsky said: "Remember, it is necessary to keep the actions of the troops secret, not to reveal our operational intentions, and to ensure the suddenness of the offensive. ”

"In this way, I will have all my troops move at night, avoiding the aerial reconnaissance of the Germans, but this will make the preparation for the attack longer." Major General Grechko said.

"Just let it go, we'll do it all." Marshal Timoshenko said.