Timoshenko was specially awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" and the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union by the Soviet government.

It stands to reason that he was also an important figure in the Soviet Union, and his words carried a lot of weight. However, even his words were not listened to by Stalin.

Today, the Supreme Command of the Soviet Army, headed by Stalin, includes Molotov, Timoshenko, Voroshilov, Budyonny, Shaposhnikov, Zhukov and Kuznetsov. The Supreme High Command decided to divide the front into three theaters, with Voroshilov as the commander of the North-Western Theater of Operations, Budyonny as the commander of the South-Western Theater of Operations, and Timoshenko as the commander of the Western Theater of Operations.

However, even his order to direct the troops in the armored theater to retreat and build a defensive line had to be approved by Stalin before it could be successful.

But the point is that Stalin could not have nodded at such orders, all he wanted was to continue the offensive now until Berlin was taken!

The famous cavalry of the Soviet army had three marshals, namely Budyonny, Voroshilov, and Timoshenko. During the Civil War in the USSR, the three were the commander of the prestigious First Cavalry Army, the political commissar and the commander of the main division. At the beginning of the Soviet-German war, it was again the Red Army 3 giants.

Compared with the other two theater commanders, Timoshenko can be said to be the most adapted to contemporary warfare and has not departed from the times.

Timoshenko, who had experienced the Polish campaign, clearly understood the gap between the Soviet and German armies. In the face of the Polish army of the same degree, the German army marched all the way and fought the largest encirclement and annihilation battle to date, while the Soviet army under his command only managed to advance slowly despite all their might.

In the end, if it weren't for the Germans taking Warsaw, Timoshenko's troops would have taken another week to achieve a breakthrough.

Today, Timoshenko is appointed commander-in-chief of the Western Theater of Operations. But one of the big problems he faced was that it was likely that before he could take office, the Western Front would be surrounded by the Germans!

This is definitely not alarmist!

Germany's Army Group North and Army Group South had advanced to a very terrifying distance together with the Allied ** forces of the Central Powers. At this time, as long as the German Army Group Center cooperated with the other two major army groups, especially with Army Group South, it would be easy to eat the 500,000 Soviet troops of the Western Front in one go!

"Can't wait any longer!" So, when Timoshenko received a call from Zhukov and heard Zhukov say that he would join him in suggesting to Stalin to stop the offensive and quickly build a defensive line, he agreed without hesitation.

"Go, come with me to the Kremlin, I must persuade General Secretary Stalin to stop this senseless offensive." Timoshenko grabbed his military jacket casually and walked out the door as he said to his two henchmen.

But just before he was about to open the door of his office, among the two henchmen, a tall and thin lieutenant general took two steps up and grabbed Timoshenko's hand.

"Comrade Commander, you must not speak to the General Secretary like that!" The close general of Timoshenko said with a sincere face: "This will cause great suffering!" ”

"Before I could take office, my front army was already surrounded by the enemy! At this time, I can't be silent anymore! Timoshenko, who was being held back, turned his head sharply and yelled at the henchman who was holding him back.

"But you can't question Comrade Stalin's orders!" Although the henchman was yelled at twice, he still did not let go of the hand that held Temoshenge.

As a man of Timoshenko, he knew very well that his fate had long been tied to Temoshenko. Once the other party offends his superiors and is casually charged, then as a close general under Timoshenge, he will not be able to have good fruit to eat.

In this case, standing on the wrong line is always fatal!

Therefore, what the henchmen could do at this time was to try to keep Timoshenko from provoking Stalin.

It doesn't matter if you lose the battle, it's a big deal to lose a position and retreat a little. But if you disobey Stalin's orders and show disobedience to Stalin's orders, it is a crime worse than losing the battle.

"Then you say, what can I do at this time!" Timoshenko's tone was still angry. But his hand was no longer trying to break free from his henchmen as hard as he had just done.

Finding that Timoshenge was relieved, his confidant general naturally knew that he had moved Timoshenge, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"It doesn't matter, didn't General Zhukov say that they would dissuade Comrade Stalin together. We can agree, but only for him to offend alone. Seeing this, another of Timoshenko's henchmen did not froze, and immediately gave a suggestion to act.

After hearing this suggestion, the general who only cared about holding Timoshenko also quickly nodded and said: "That's right, Comrade Zhukov, as the chief of the General Staff, he can't sit idly by and watch this kind of thing." Moreover, I believe that Comrade Zhukov will be able to see the key to this and put forward his views to Comrade Stalin in a responsible manner. ”

"That's right, I also believe that Comrade Zhukov will do this." Another henchman nodded and added.

Under the advice of the two henchmen, Timoshengo struggled painfully.

Zhukov will not sit idly by, can he Timoshenko pretend not to know the urgency of the situation with peace of mind?

"I ......" Timoshenko wanted to tell his two confidant generals, telling them that he was also a famous Soviet general, a hero of the Soviet Union, and a marshal of the Soviet Union, not a coward who was afraid of death and offended people.

However, Timoshenko did not spit out these words after all.

"I ...... I'll wait and see. After countless internal struggles, Timoshenko used all his strength before he opened his mouth and said: "First of all, I will agree to Comrade Zhukov's suggestion for me, and then I will find an opportunity to advise Comrade Stalin to dissuade him." ”

"Yes, let's go and reply to Comrade Zhukov!" Hearing that Timoshengo was persuaded, the two couldn't wait to quickly receive the order.

Immediately, Zhukov, who had been anxiously waiting for news, finally received a phone call from one of Timoshenko's confidant generals, informing him that he would separately advise Stalin with Zhukov and ask him to rest assured.

At noon that day, Zhukov, who was already worried about the situation, hurriedly drove his driver to the Krem Palace as fast as possible, and went to Stalin's office accompanied by Pos Krebeshev.