At 8 o'clock in the night of December 24, 1941, "Christmas Eve" in the Western world, Lin Jun took his silver-gray "Mercedes-Benz 770K Boorman" bulletproof car and prepared to return to his home in Moscow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today is Christmas Eve in the West, but the Russians are the same as usual, because today is not their holiday, January 7 is their Christmas. Moscow is business as usual, and most of the Western world will not have the heart to go to this important Christmas Eve, tradition has made the situation worse!

The top brass of the Third Reich is worried about the troops on the front in Minsk, the situation of the war is so anxious that countless families are worried about their loved ones in distant places!

The Americans are just as sad, and the whole Pacific region is bleak and cold! In the Philippines, the day before yesterday, the main force of the 48th Division of the Japanese Army landed in Lingjiayan Bay on the west coast of Luzon Island. Today, however, the 16th Division landed at Ramon Bay in the southeastern part of Luzon -- the Japanese troops landed in a favorable situation of attacking Manila from the north and south and encircling and annihilating the main force of the US and Philippine forces.

The situation in the Philippines is irreversibly developing in the direction of collapse, and the US troops stationed in the Philippines are in danger!

The British had a very bad Christmas Eve: in Malaya, the Japanese army had already won sea and air supremacy, the main force was rapidly advancing along the Malay Peninsula from north to south, and Kuantan was already in danger!

On the part of the Central Powers as a whole, only the Soviet Union was probably in a slightly better position, the front remained relatively stable, and the powerful ally of the Cold was helping the Soviet Red Army to erode the German army's vital forces step by step.

Today, Lin Jun just attended an enlarged meeting of the Supreme High Command, which included a joint meeting of the General Staff Headquarters, logistics, and commanders of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Navy and various arms of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to discuss next year's strategy.

In the Kremlin compound, its own guards were already waiting in front of several cars. Gusev walked behind Lin Jun's bag, and Landskocchi walked slightly ahead, beside the two new faces of the guards, the two personal guards that Alexander had chosen for Lin Jun.

Lieutenant Alexei Yefimovich Vostov is 26 years old, similar in height to Lin Jun, with blonde hair and a standard Russian look. Senior Warrant Officer Ivan Ivanovich Alexandrov, who used to be one of the martial arts instructors in Vostov and Landskozy, is 36 years old this year, is only a little more than 1.7 meters tall, and his appearance is not outstanding, and he belongs to the public face.

Both of them are the best personal guards Alexander can put his hands on at the moment, and they exist purely to protect the chief.

That afternoon, the two went to Zhukov to report to Lin Jun that Landskozy, the captain of the guard, was waiting for them, and when they saw the senior warrant officer who got out of the car, Lin Jun happened to walk to the door to take a breather, and saw that the Cossack actually saluted the man first: "Hello, instructor Alexandrov." ”

Aleksandrov had only been a fighting instructor at Landskozy for three months, but this was enough to impress the Cossacks! I learned from the Cossacks that this senior warrant officer is a real martial arts master, don't look at the fact that he is thirty-six years old, according to Landeskoc: even if he is three together, he can be killed by the instructor in 10 seconds!

And the young lieutenant in his winter coat looked a little like a ballet dancer, but the look in his eyes seemed to pierce everything like sharp arrows, like the pupils of a beast! However, when they reported to Lin Jun and looked at each other, those turquoise blue eyes became resolute and seemed to be very kind—he was an absolute dangerous person, who could use different eyes on different occasions, not the pupils of beasts that always made people feel dangerous!

Aleksandrov is married, his wife is a community leader, and they have two sons and a daughter. Lieutenant Vostov was the best cadet trained by Aleksandrov and the Guard Training Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for two years, and for three years he had been Alexander's own personal bodyguard.

If they are only skilled in martial arts and are not qualified to serve as personal guards of national leaders, their job is to detect and defuse threats, rather than just trying to destroy them - this is harder than killing! The "Cheka" is a personal guard specially trained for the country's leaders, and they are outstanding in all the skills they need to master, and the requirements of the so-called "sharpshooter" are the most basic.

The two of them, Alyosha and Sasha are Lin Jun's "four-person personal guard team", and they usually work in shifts, except for going to the toilet, bathing, sleeping and meeting with the headquarters, two of them will follow Lin Jun at any time, and of course, the group of guards on the periphery is indispensable. As for Landscoch, he, the captain of the guard, is in charge of the overall situation.

If it's an important outing, all four personal guards will follow.

Landeskoch opened the car door for Lin Jun, and after Lin Jun entered, Alexandrov was followed by him, and he sat on Lin Jun's left hand, while Landskoche got into the car from the other side and sat next to Lin Jun: the back seat of the bulletproof car is wide enough, so it is not very crowded.

Vostov got into the car in front, while Gusev sat in a folding leather chair opposite Lin Jun. Aleksandrov did not wear an overcoat, and a huge holster hung brightly on his belt, which was not a Tokarev Type 33 holster, but an American-made pistol.

Strangely, neither of the two new guards used Soviet-made pistols, and the Cheka had very lenient rules regarding the management of their personal weapons, allowing them to use different guns on different occasions according to their own habits.

According to Senior Warrant Officer Aleksandrov, the M1911 A1 11.43mm automatic pistol is powerful enough to completely render the target completely incapacitated in a sudden situation.

As for its bullet capacity, it is enough for a personal guard. And the different guns on different occasions - if there were foreign leaders, they would still use the Tokarev 33 - the two pistols were as familiar to the two as their fingers, and they would not be uncomfortable because of their differences.

Today's meeting also set a time for the complete encirclement and annihilation of the German troops in the Minsk encirclement, and Lin Jun's highly tense nerves in the past few days can be relieved a little. But it's only a little loose for two days, and the next moment is a critical moment, and there must be no problems! The general offensive was launched in the early morning of January 7, which happened to be Christmas, and according to the code name given by Marshal Shaposhnikov, it was "Operation Christmas".

Christmas is arguably one of the most important traditions of the year for ordinary Soviet people, and although it has been no longer customary to go to church in recent years, everyone tries to stay at home and stay with their loved ones on that day, and do nothing else.

This plan of the Chief of the General Staff was drawn up in order to give the Germans a surprise blow -- the Germans would not have thought that the Red Army would launch a general offensive that day!

"Landscot, how are you going? Tomorrow the four of you will not use it, and the day after tomorrow, your sister-in-law and I will go to the Happiness Palace first, and if you have any questions, please tell Pauker. ”

"All ready, Marshal."

It is talking about the collective wedding of the four attachés, and the day after tomorrow, when Lin Jun will go to the Happy Palace as a witness--during the war, all special events, and those trivial conventions that used to appear in Fekochinov's wedding will be omitted.

The marriage decision was a bit hasty, but for the woman's parents, there is a deputy commander as a witness to their daughter's wedding, what is there to be dissatisfied with? Besides, the grooms are so good!

(Resume the update, take it slowly, in fact, the brain is still adjusting.) For two days, it was as if they were relieved. (To be continued.) )