Chapter 583: Retreat

"Okay, you can cooperate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Wang Liang agreed without hesitation, first, he had no reason to refuse, and second, the conditions offered by Stalin were really good.

It doesn't matter what bullshit senior military adviser, what bullshit major general.

Wang Liang valued the Soviet army to help him eliminate Zhang Hanjian's troops, which was the key.

If the Soviets had taken action, this would have saved them a lot of trouble, which was very cost-effective.

Wang Liang knew that his injuries would not heal within three months, and that it would be the end of 1941 at the earliest.

Being idle in the Soviet Union is also idle, and helping the Soviets fight Hitler is just a matter of effort.

Back then, the Soviets let the Germans fight to the ground, and Wang Liang was interested in intervening.

Senior Military Adviser with the rank of Major General.

The name sounds good, and perhaps the officers in the lower ranks look intimidating.

But in the upper echelons of the Soviet army, this is not even a fart.

The military ranks of the Soviet Union were 7 and 22 grades: Marshal of the Soviet Union (Marshal of the Soviet Navy), Commander-in-Chief of the Arms and Arms, General (Marshal of the Arms and Arms), General, Lieutenant General, Major General; Officers: Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major; Lieutenants: Captain, Captain, Lieutenant, Ensign; Senior warrant officer, warrant officer; Non-commissioned officers: sergeant, sergeant, sergeant, corporal; Soldiers: Private of the upper ranks, privates.

Wang Liang was directly promoted to major general by leaps and bounds, which can be regarded as stepping into the ranks of senior officers.

But in this era, if you are not the chief officer of the army, you are not even as good as a fart.

What's more, Wang Liang, a foreign military adviser, is just a chicken rib.

When Stalin found Wang Liang useful, Wang Liang was a high-ranking officer.

When Stalin felt that Wang Liang was useless, it was nothing.

Now a marshal or general of the Soviet Union would be suddenly executed, and the higher the rank, the more dangerous it became.

"Then it's decided." Stalin smiled, and he was glad to see that Wang Liang had agreed to his request.

"I'll arrange for the troops to go into action as soon as possible." Stalin then added.

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September 16, 1941.

Background: After the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht achieved great success on the Northern and Central Fronts, leaving only a huge salient in the south, where a large Red Army, including almost the entire Southwestern Front, achieved a significant victory in the Battle of Uman.

Most of the Red Army remained in the vicinity of Kiev under the command of Semyon Budyonny, and since most of the armored forces had been wiped out in the Battle of Uman, they lacked the armoured and mobile forces to threaten the German offensive and were the largest Red Army force on the Eastern Front at the time.

At the end of August 1941, the Wehrmacht High Command was faced with the choice of continuing its offensive on Moscow or destroying the Soviet Red Army in the south.

After some debate, the 2nd Panzer Group and the 2nd Army Corps were transferred from Army Group Center to Army Group South and advanced southward, joining up with the attacking forces of Army Group South east of Kiev.

The rapid attack of the armored forces to complete the encirclement caught Budyonny by surprise, and he was removed from his post as commander of the Southwestern Front by Stalin on 13 September 1941.

Oh, here's a brief introduction to Budyonny's identity.

One of the members of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Union, then commander of the Southwestern Front.

At this time, Wang Liang was with him, a senior brother who also graduated from the Frunze Military Academy.

However, the campaign did not go so smoothly.

Three days earlier, on 13 September, Budyonny had been dismissed because of the unfavorable operation.

After being dismissed, there was no one to take over the command, and the commanders of the armies and divisions fought separately.

Just today, the advance forces of the German 1st Panzer Group and the 2nd Panzer Group met at Lokhvica, 200 kilometers east of Kiev, to complete the encirclement of the Soviet army.

In other words, Wang Liang, who was in Kiev, was surrounded by the Germans along with nearly 600,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers.

At this moment, Wang Liang was lying on the marching bed in the headquarters smoking a cigarette and closing his eyes to recuperate.

His bowels were about to repent, and he regretted that he had taken on this drudgery.

Although Stalin deployed according to a series of his own proposals, Wang Liang was far from estimating the problems of the Soviet army.

There is a general shortage of experienced officers, and a sluggish and corrupt bureaucracy is common.

The incompetence of the leadership of the Soviet Red Army has been fully revealed in this battle.

"General, it's time for us to move." An officer ran over to inform Wang Liangdao.

"Oh, I see." Wang Liang pinched off the cigarette butt, replied to the officer listlessly, and sat up from the bed.

It's time to get out of this hellish place, it's the most rubbish battle I've ever fought.

While the encirclement of the German army has not yet been firmly encircled, hurry up and run away.

The real history of that year was that more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers were captured by the German army, Wang Liang sighed bitterly, and history repeated itself amazingly.

Soviet army, big defeat!

Heeshun simply packed up his things and sorted out his gear.

Prepare to follow the command to break out.

In the previous two months, Wang Liang had put forward numerous proposals, but they were all vetoed by the marshals and generals.

Who can listen to the words of a senior military adviser?

Even Stalin's appointment will not work, after all, Stalin is not in sight.

The marshals and generals said, "The generals are outside, and the military orders are not accepted." ā€

Seeing that the Soviets were all hanging like this, Wang Liang simply didn't talk nonsense, and directly chose to shut up.

If you love it, it's over, I don't care.

No, under the wise command of the marshals, the Southwestern Front was surrounded by German troops of 850,000 men.

Now the Soviet troops are preparing to break out of the encirclement, taking advantage of the fact that the German armored forces have not yet sealed the encirclement.

The General Headquarters was defended by an infantry division, a cavalry division, two artillery regiments and a tank brigade.

Next, these units will break through with the command.

As for the other armies, they can't be controlled, and the command has long lost contact with them at this time, so they can only settle their own destiny.

The more than 800,000 troops could only break through on their own under the leadership of their own army commanders, division commanders and other officers.

"All the troops are out!" On the orders of a Soviet major, the army pulled.

The tank brigade opened the way at the front, followed by the artillery regiment, then the headquarters under the cover of the infantry division, and the cavalry division in charge of the rear of the hall.

There were also several historical celebrities who retreated with Wang Liang, anyway, Wang Liang knew, in addition to Marshal Semyon Budyonny, there was also Marshal Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko.

The most famous is this one, Khrushchev.