Thick facial features, bald head, very tall Dmitry. Grigolievich. Pavlov, trembling with trembling hands, took the uniform from his wife's hand and put it on his body, only to find that it was worn backwards, and his wife saw it, but sighed softly, and went forward to help her husband put it on, and then handed him a large leather bag, which contained several changes of clothes.

Pavlov was not going to go far, but ...... Always be ready to go to jail. He knew he was guilty - on the wrong track! It was the mistake of following Tukhachevsky's erroneous military course! It is unforgivable and deserves to be caught in the Lubyanka No. 2 mistake!

So after returning to the USSR from the Spanish front (where he had been a tank brigade commander), he very consciously handed over the review to the organization. And then obediently waited for the arrest - many of the people who came back with him had already been arrested!

There were air force members, army members, and the backbone of the armored corps along the way, many of whom were shot, but the order to arrest Pavlov had not yet been issued.

"I must have forgotten ......," Pavlov thought to himself.

He kissed his wife goodbye - he now had to cherish every minute and everyone around him.

"Honey, wait until I get back." After Pavlov said this, he turned around and went out, and then went to work in a car to the headquarters of the Red Army Automobile Armored Corps.

"Maybe I'll be arrested today," he thought on the way, "maybe the people from the General Directorate of Political Security will be waiting there, and they'll arrest people as soon as they enter the door, and then everything will be over......

On the way, he even wanted to escape, find a place where no one was around, and go to the forests of Siberia.

But this was just a thought, and Pavlov did not run away after all. Instead, he took a car along the fixed line of daily commuting to and from work to the headquarters of the automobile armored corps. This is his place of work after returning from Spain, and he is now the director of the auto armored corps (when he returned home, the former auto pandextro was arrested, so he was put on the stage), but that doesn't mean that he won't be moved. In fact, most of the people in this panicked auto armored headquarters are new to their posts (almost all of the original people have been arrested), but people are still often arrested.

In this case. No one has the heart to do anything. Pavlov also had little official duty to do, and he was ordered to write a report on the use of auto armoured units in the Spanish Civil War for most of the day.

And what he wrote in the report was about the disadvantages of concentrating on the use of tanks...... What Tukhachevsky's erroneous military line was, he still knows! Therefore, we can no longer follow the same path as Tukhachevsky, and we must deeply examine ourselves and correct our attitude.

Of course, his report was not written blindly. There are always pros and cons, and the same goes for armored forces. There are advantages to the concentrated use of tanks, but there are also significant disadvantages.

First of all, the coordination of tank troops and infantry is often disjointed, and if the tank impact is too fierce, the infantry will not be able to keep up;

The second is that the concentrated use of tanks is vulnerable to focused bombing by the enemy's air force, and the tanks and vehicles of the brigade are excellent targets on the road. Once bombed, there will be heavy losses......

"Comrade Pavlov!" Someone suddenly shouted, startling Pavlov, who was thinking about something.

It should be "You're arrested", right? Just when Pavlov was in despair, waiting to be knocked down by the iron fist of Soviet justice.

"Dmitry. Grigorievich, what's wrong with you? "That voice sounds familiar, like Voroshilov's." Why don't you answer me? ”

Pavlov hurriedly turned around, and standing in front of him was none other than Voroshilov with a gentle expression.

He's certainly not here to arrest me! Pavlov breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly gave Voroshilov a respectful military salute: "Comrade Voroshilov, why are you here?" ”

"I just came from the Kremlin." Voroshilov smiled and said, "There are some questions for you." He added. It was Comrade Stalin who asked me to ask. ”

What did Stalin ask? Pavlov's heart, which had just been relieved, was raised again, but he could only honestly invite Voroshilov into his office, and then wait for his fate.

"Comrade Stalin wondered if you could not organize an offensive according to Tukhachevsky's theory of large-depth operations?"

As soon as Voroshilov sat down, he asked a question that scared Pavlov half to death.

"This, this depends on the situation......" Pavlov took a deep breath, still telling the truth. If I were to command a cavalry mechanized group consisting of several cavalry divisions and several separate tank brigades and other reinforced units, I would still be competent. ”

Mechanized troops in the USSR got off to a very early start. As early as 1932, the 1st Mechanized Corps was formed - consisting of 2 mechanized brigades, 1 infantry machine gun brigade, 1 anti-aircraft artillery battalion and other units. However, the establishment of this mechanized corps was not very reasonable, with 500 tanks, 215 armored vehicles, 60 artillery pieces and 200 vehicles. The number of tanks is sufficient, and the number of cars is clearly insufficient. This was mainly due to the fact that the tank industry in the USSR was very strong, but the automobile industry was obviously insufficient.

Even the elite mechanized corps has a shortage of cars, and ordinary infantry units can be imagined. And the lack of a sufficient number of cars. It also made the mechanized units of the Soviet Army "short-legged mechanized," which could carry out assaults ranging from tens of kilometers to more than 100 kilometers, but it was very difficult to carry out long-distance assault operations -- in history, it was actually hundreds of thousands of trucks aided by the United States that made the Soviet Red Army truly mechanized.

If there really been a "thunderstorm assault" in history, the Soviet Red Army might have successfully advanced 100 kilometers, but it would never have been possible for millions of people to "blitzkrieg" 7 or 800 kilometers into Berlin. Without hundreds of thousands of trucks running logistics, it's definitely impossible to complete the right task.

And now Stalin and Voroshilov are faced with another "difficult to do" task. They wanted a smaller mechanized cavalry force to strike 450 to 500 kilometers in a short time to capture Lublin or Häum, east of Lublin and on the Uhelka River, a tributary of the Bug River.

"How?" After Voroshilov finished speaking, he asked with a pleasant face, "Will you be able to complete the tasks assigned by the party?" ”

Answering "yes", Napavlov immediately became the commander of a newly formed mechanized cavalry army. Answer "no", then the comrades of Lubyanka No. 2 will soon come and arrest someone.

Pavlov did not dare to say "no", but also did not dare to nod easily, "Comrade People's Commissar of Defense, the Poles have a defensive line in West Belarus, if my mechanized cavalry army loses too much during the breakthrough......"

In Pavlov's thinking, the Soviet mechanized troops were used to tear through the opponent's defenses.

"The task of breaking through the enemy's line of defense will be carried out by the deputy commander of the Belarusian Special Military District, Comrade Zhukov," Voroshilov replied, "and the mechanized cavalry regiment under your command does not need to be involved." ”

The Belarusian Special Military District was one of the two most important large military districts of the Soviet Red Army (the other being the Ukrainian Special Military District), which in wartime would turn into the Western Front. The commander of a military district is the commander of a front, while the deputy commander can serve as the commander of a group army or group.

"I also need trucks that are the size of the mechanized cavalry group, and a strong infantry group that can follow up in time to encircle Pinsk and Brest."

Pavlov pondered: "Mechanized cavalry clusters cannot be used to besiege enemy cities or fortified areas, but only by the infantry who follow up. Because the job of the mechanized cavalry group was to crush the enemy's hastily organized blocking forces and cut off communication between several enemy heavy groups, it was necessary to pursue a fast enough advance not to engage in unnecessary entanglement with the enemy. ”

"That's fine!" Voroshilov assured that "the program was developed by you and Comrade Zhukov, as well as the commander of the Belarusian Special Military District, Comrade Kovalev." ”

"Very well," Pavlov no longer hesitated, stood up and gave a military salute to Voroshilov, "I promise to complete the task assigned by the party!" ”

……

"Your Excellency, this is the report of the Navy Command on the 'P-class armored ship project wargame deduction'."

Hersmann had just walked out of his office at the Tsosen General Staff when his aide-de-camp, Hans Brown, had just walked out of his office at the Tsosen General Staff. Lieutenant Colonel Speidar walked over with a folder in his arms.

"We'll study it on the way," said Hersman, turning to Canaris and Gramm, who had come out with him, "and you're both in the Navy, and know more than I am, and we'll study it together on the way to Scapa Bay." ”

"What are you studying," Grim, the commander of naval aviation, shook his head, "and what war games they do themselves, and what they don't want?" ”

Canaris, a serious admiral, naturally wanted to speak for the navy, and he said: "Marshal Raeder will not lie in this regard." The formation with 2 P-class and one 'Seydlitz' class as the main force is quite formidable and will become a formidable force in the Atlantic as long as it is not damaged by British aircraft. ”

"The key is the Fokker Zero," Graham said, "and there are only 30 carrier-based fighters on board a 'Sedelitz,' and whether these planes can protect the formation is the key to the formation's successful breakup of diplomatic relations in the Atlantic...... After all, the British had a much larger number of aircraft carriers. ”

"You don't have to worry about the performance of the Fokker Zero," Hersman said with a smile, "and it's entirely possible to sacrifice the possibility of upgrades, dive performance, low-altitude survivability and safety for the advantages of climb rate, speed and hovering performance." And...... It is difficult to say how many aircraft carriers the British will have available by then! (To be continued.) )