This is an important meeting, and this meeting is really important compared to every "important meeting" before.

Looking at Stalin, whose face was a little blue, no one dared to touch his moldy head.

Marshal Voroshilov, who was standing here, did not say a word, he only glanced at Marshal Budyonny beside him, and saw that the latter, like him, did not have any intention of speaking.

The two men were not optimistic about attacking Germany before, and they did not make any statements about "preemptive strike" like Zhukov. Now there is a problem at the front, at least it will not be their turn to solve it.

Voroshilov had been to the front once before, also as a representative of the High Command. He had seen the battle situation on the front line up close, and he was also one of the generals who saw the huge gap between the Soviet army and the German army very early.

It's just that he didn't argue with Stalin as bluntly as Zhukov, but passed the trip quietly, and then quietly returned to Moscow. Most of the front-line observations submitted are also some empty clichés, with no actual nutrition.

Speaking of which, Voroshilov can be regarded as a Soviet general who has long fought with the German army.

In 1918, Germany and Austria-Hungary captured the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and Kharkov and Petrograd were in a state of emergency. It was Voroshilov who organized and led the first Lugansk partisan detachment and began to fight against the German-Austrian army.

He led partisans from Lugansk, and in Konotop, partisans fought with German-Austrian troops. The partisans he led joined forces with the Kharkov workers' partisans, as a result of which Kharkov was soon occupied by the Germans. He returned to Luhansk to regroup, and then Luhansk was surrounded by German-Austrian troops.

In the final analysis, Voroshilov had nothing to brag about, except for fighting with the German army.

He fought against the Germans, but he didn't win. Since you haven't won the war, whoever you shoot is the same, and the level required to defeat the battle is not high. Now it seems that he has an additional title of "having combat experience against Germany", and this experience is still from more than 20 years ago.

As for Marshal Budyonny, whom Marshal Voroshilov looked at, he was a well-deserved old superior. When he was the commander of the army, the current famous general Timoshenko was still a division commander under him, and as for Zhukov, who had just been thrown into Siberia, he was only a regiment commander in their army at that time.

Interestingly, the officer corps of the 1st Cavalry Army, represented by Budyonny, was at that time in a state of hostility with the officer corps under Tukhachevsky. This made Stalin, who also resented Tukhachevsky, very optimistic about Budyonny.

In Reinhardt's original time and space, later generations gave Budyonny a very interesting evaluation, called "Stalin, Stalin." ”

Budyonny's esteem by Stalin, and his final shelving by Stalin, was not due to his military talents, but for other reasons.

He was promoted because he and the officer corps under him had always been with Stalin in their attitude towards Tukhachevsky. They were also the officer corps that most supported Stalin's execution of Tukhachevsky.

As for Budyonny's original defeat in time and space, it was that in order to save the army that was about to fall into siege, he arbitrarily ordered the troops to retreat despite Stalin's order not to take a step back, thus losing Stalin's trust.

However, in this life, Budyonny also accurately judged that the German Central Collective Army Group was about to cooperate with Army Group South to encircle Kyiv and encircle and annihilate hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops in Ukraine. However, he did not speak up as he did in the original time and space.

Because, Zhukov told the truth before him, and made the decision to retreat.

However, Zhukov's ending was chilling. This only soldier who told the truth, did practical things, and commanded with a conscience, was sent to Siberia to dig potatoes.

Budyonny also glanced quietly at Voroshilov at this time. He knew that the other party had a little old grudge with his old subordinate Timoshenge.

In the previous Soviet-Finnish war, although the Soviet army made Finland surrender, it was actually a miserable strategic defeat, and the blame was placed on Marshal Voroshilov, who succeeded Marshal Voroshilov in Timoshenko, Budyonny's old subordinate.

Seeing that the other party didn't mean to speak at all, Budyonny became more determined to keep silent as gold, slowly retracted his gaze, and maintained the state he had been in at the beginning.

Stalin looked at the two marshals who were speechless, and then turned his gaze to Duvadin, who had arrived in the conference room first.

Now he is the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, and since Zhukov was removed from the General Staff, Duvadin has been in Moscow to coordinate the movement of troops on the front.

"Let's all talk about it, our troops have been routing, what do you all have suggestions?" Stalin spoke slowly, looking at his men.

Who dares to speak, do they want them to stand up and point at Stalin's nose and say, what did you do earlier, now you know that the troops are in a rout? When Zhukov warned you the other day, did you listen to it?

Of course, just think about these words. Don't look at Stalin's current tone of "you can be blunt, I will pardon you for your innocence". Everyone knows in their hearts that if you really dare to say that, people can shoot you in the face.

As a result, everyone did not speak. Stalin had no choice but to pause, adjust the tone of his speech, and continued: "Forget it, don't speak." It's time to transfer a talkative person back to Moscow......"

Who's going to come back?! It seemed that everyone present had the answer in their hearts, but no one could be sure.

"Alright, don't guess." Stalin snorted coldly, waved his hand and said to Duvadin: "You go and arrange it, call Zhukov back." He didn't have to go to Siberia anymore and went straight back to Moscow to report. ”

Call Zhukov back?!

Even if everyone had this kind of speculation just now, when they heard Stalin's words spoken in person, the shock was still incomprehensible.

The decisions made by Stalin were rarely reversed. The most pertinent evaluation of Stalin, the leader, is that he "knows his mistakes and corrects them, but he does not admit them."

It is almost harder for him to take back his fate and acquiesce that he made a mistake in his previous decision.

If Stalin hadn't spoken up about it himself, no one would have dared to speak for him.

Speaking of this, he looked at Voroshilov: "You go and take over the North-Western Front, Comrade Marshal Voroshilov!" Stop the enemy's advance in the direction of Leningrad! ”

Fortunately, it was not to take over Pavlov's Western Front, which had already been encircled, otherwise it would have been the blame of the past. When Voroshilov heard that he was going to take over the defense near Leningrad, he quickly stood up and saluted and promised: "Comrade Stalin, great leader!" I will be there as soon as possible to stop the advance of the Germans and Finns! ”

However, Stalin did not forget about Pavlov either. Now that he has made up his mind to let Zhukov go, it is up to another person to take responsibility......

Stalin's gaze became more and more gloomy: "Find Pavlov and send it back...... I want to see him personally! ”