Pavlov made his fortune as a tank soldier and went to the Spanish battlefield, and he knew the mobility of the tank troops, but now, his mind did not tighten this string, because all he was thinking about now was how not to let himself fail, how to save the current situation, and keep his position.

"General Pavlov, we now have the Third, Fourth, and Tenth Armies in the Bialystok salient, they are about to be surrounded by the Germans, and we must consider the rear of these three armies." At this moment, Marshal Shaposhnikov, the representative of the Western Special Military District, who had received Stalin's order and hurried from Moscow to the Western Special Military District, had already figured out the current situation just half an hour after entering the headquarters, and he expressed his proposal to Pavlov.

"We should withdraw our troops and prevent them from being surrounded by the Germans." Marshal Shaposhnikov said.

Hearing his words, Pavlov immediately shook his head: "No, they must not withdraw, we must organize a new counteroffensive, we still have enough capabilities." Well, we have to move more troops to the front, convey my orders, move all the reserves, to the front, organize a bigger counterattack, we have to kill all the Germans who invaded our territory. ”

Pavlov calmly said that it was absolutely impossible to ask him to withdraw his troops, and he must now mobilize more troops to organize a new counteroffensive.

It seems that the Germans are attacking fiercely, but in fact, the Germans are alone in the depths, and it is more likely that their own side will interrupt the logistics supply line and then calmly destroy them.

Yes, that's it!

Pavlov was quite confident.

Hearing his words, Marshal Shaposhnikov shook his head.

At the time of his arrival, Marshal Shaposhnikov had a secret order from Stalin, and if necessary, he could even take over Pavlov to command the entire army of the Western Special Military District.

However, Moscow did not know how bad the situation was here, and it was only when he arrived that he realized how dangerous it was, and at the same time, he decided not to wade into this troubled water.

Until now, everything was commanded by Pavlov, and if it failed in the end, then Pavlov was also responsible, but if he took over halfway and finally failed, the responsibility is not easy to say, and both sides will blame each other for their mistakes.

Therefore, Marshal Shaposhnikov just reminded him, and now, Pavlov is still insisting on going his own way, so Marshal Shaposhnikov can only do his best from another side, report all this to Moscow, and let Moscow give the order to retreat.

This should be the best option.

Marshal Shaposhnikov did not know, because because of his delay, the large forces of the entire Western Special Military District lost the opportunity to jump out of the German encirclement, and this was what they lacked.

In the command headquarters of the 13th Army, the information that arrived was not comprehensive, so in Pavlov's eyes, his three armies were still fully equipped and fully supplied with logistics, and they still had a strong counterattack capability, so strong that they could even drive the German troops that had penetrated deep into the strategic depth of the salient back to their original starting point.

But now Marshal Shaposhnikov has realized that the three armies in the front salient have probably lost the ability to counterattack, and if they do not retreat, they will be surrounded and eliminated by the Germans, and now let them fight back, it is simply suicidal.

Marshal Shaposhnikov transmitted these judgments of his own back to Moscow along with the radio waves.

With the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in order to better command the war at the front, Stalin made drastic moves, reorganized the command organs, and established the headquarters of the high command.

This base camp is the highest body for exercising strategic leadership over the military operations of the Soviet Armed Forces, and its main tasks are: determining strategic reconnaissance tasks, giving preparation suggestions to the General Staff, formulating battle situation plans and campaign plans, forming strategic groups and reserves, planning campaign strategic transportation, and developing the theater command system; organize coordinated actions between strategic groups, campaign corps, and guerrilla units of various services; coordination of the actions of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the armies of the allies; supervise the implementation of the tasks assigned; Measures to determine the development of the rear, the creation of material reserves and the creation of mobile materials, etc.

That is, this base camp was the supreme wartime command organ of the Soviets, and Stalin personally served as the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR. In the following days, he was appointed Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces, became the supreme leader of the Soviets, and seized all power into his hands.

After the establishment of the base camp, representatives of the base camp were quickly sent to the front, and now the situation in the west, which they were most concerned about, had been reported by the representative of the base camp, Marshal Shaposhnikov.

When the news came back, Stalin was not present, at this time, he was addressing the whole country.

The Germans presented the war as a counterattack because the Soviet Union was about to invade Germany, and the Soviets certainly did not agree with it.

"We've always looked at the countries around us with a friendly mind, and we've never thought about invading any country." Stalin's words were low: "It's just that we didn't expect that the Germans would actually fabricate rumors, treacherously and suddenly launch a military attack on us." ”

Stalin's radio was broadcast to the whole world, not only by the Soviets, but also by people from other countries.

The Finns took off their hats, the expressions on their faces were angry, the Soviets, never invaded other countries? The Soviet-Finnish war, which has been fought for more than a year, what is going on?

The Poles also shed tears, Poland is gone, it was divided between the USSR and Germany, and now, the Soviets still say that they are friendly?

The three Baltic states, Central Asia ... The countries that were invaded by the Soviet Union, those that were invaded by Tsarist Russia, were cursing at the radio.

But Stalin, who was speaking on the radio, could not be heard, and he took his speech and continued to say what was going on.

"It is a question of the life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of the Soviet Union, of the freedom of the people of the Soviet Union or of slavery."

"The entire Soviet people must resolutely overcome their composure and indifference, overcome the mood of peace-building, subordinate everything to the organizational task of crushing the enemy, and turn all their work onto a new, wartime track, and our country will officially enter the wartime system, our people will enthusiastically join the army, you will contribute your property to support the country, we will transfer civilian projects to the military industry, let us defend our freedom, our honor, our homeland with our own practical actions."