The westbound train was surrounded by wind and snow all the way, and the remote radio station equipped on the train constantly received encrypted troop movement information, so that Lin Jun on the train could keep abreast of the situation at any time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And when I was refilling the water at the test station, I received the message that was a higher level of content, the part that was inconvenient for radio contact.

Ten hours after leaving Moscow, the train was moving through the Smolensk region, and in the dark it had already reduced its speed to about 30 kilometers per hour.

A few times, Lin Jun saw through the train window the railway workers working in the wind and snow on both sides of the railway, and the wind and snow showed no signs of abating.

The more than 300-kilometer No. 72 armored train has surpassed at least 10 military trains, and all trains along the line have given way to the deputy commander-in-chief's special train -- the main railway artery is undergoing the greatest test in history.

Looking at the slowly moving scene outside the car window, Lin Jun couldn't help but feel a little irritable. It's not that it's not badly cultivated, everyone is like this when taking a long-distance bus, especially when you're in a hurry, and you don't want to go to sleep at all.

Gusev, who had been following the message in the command compartment for several hours, appeared in the official compartment, accompanied by a gust of cold wind and a few snowflakes drifting in.

"Marshal, there is a snow closure on the railway 20 kilometers ahead, just between Yelnya and Glinka, and personnel have been organized to dredge it in front, and it is estimated that it will be rushed through within a few hours. We will make a temporary stop at Yelnya station. As he spoke, Gusev pointed out the location on the schematic diagram of the railroad spread out on the conference table.

"The headquarters of the 33rd Army will still be in Yelnya, right?"

Lin Jun looked at the site on the map, which was only 80 kilometers away from Smolensk, and was a little helpless. An hour earlier, when the Pavlinoka train had been refueled, a report had arrived at the station that the command of the 33rd Army of the Reserve Front was in Yelnya, which should not have had time to be pulled out.

"It should still be there, they won't be that fast."

Lin Jun motioned for Gusev to go, and stood up and moved his muscles and bones - after staying on the train for so long, it would be good to be able to get off the train and rest.

Twenty minutes later, the silhouette of a city appeared outside the car window, which was supposed to be the city of Yelnya, the hometown of the Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka.

The train slowly approached the platform, and the station was full of busy military figures—there were already people waiting for Lin Jun's special train: a group of officers were standing on the platform, it was the personnel of the 33rd Army headquarters.

Lin Jun didn't get off the train in the end, because it was very busy outside right now—all the troops gathered nearby had to transfer to the train from Yelnya because it was the intersection of four major roads. His sudden arrival has already caused chaos at the station, and getting off the train again will only be more troublesome!

The column where the headquarters of the 33rd Army was located was parked on the nearby railroad tracks, and the commander of the army group asked to meet the deputy commander-in-chief.

Two minutes later, Lin Jun met the commander of the army group, Lieutenant General Mikhail Grigorievich Yevremov, with a mustache and thin eyes and a thick neck, in the official car.

This will be the group army headquarters is also busy, Lin Jun asked the other commanders to do whatever they wanted, and Landscoch got off the train to chat with the few group army officers who stayed on the platform according to Lin Jun's wishes.

It is very interesting that Yefremov will be an out-and-out "commander of the militia group", because the five main infantry divisions under his command still bear the title of "militia division".

The 1st, 5th, 9th, 17th, and 21st militia divisions are all full-strength divisions, and their personnel and equipment are not "militias" -- they have been formed for almost half a year, and the numbers of the militia divisions have not been changed due to the extremely increased number of troops. Budyonny didn't have much to do, but he was trying to find a way to add men and equipment to these newly formed troops.

About half of the personnel are veterans of the past few years, and some are newly drafted recruits, plus some standing troops; Half of the commanders are cadets who have been transferred from other units and graduated from military academies ahead of schedule, and the other half are professional officers -- the personnel are relatively complex, but after at least three months of integrated training and running-in, the combat capability of the 33rd Group Army has reached a very high level, and it is waiting to be tested in actual combat.

Its commander was now sitting in front of Lin Jun -- the image of a commanding officer with a fierce style, forty-four years old this year, who first graduated from the Tsar's warrant officer school and participated in the First World War. During the October Revolution, he joined the Red Guards, participated in the first detachment of the Red Guards on the south bank of the Moscow River, and participated in the October Armed Uprising in Moscow. He joined the party in 19 years, graduated from the advanced training course for senior chiefs in 28 years, studied at the Political Academy in 30 years, and graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 33 years, and was a loyal communist fighter.

During the civil war, Yevremov successively served as a company commander, battalion commander, commander of a railway regiment, commander of an infantry brigade and division commander in the Southern Front and the Caucasian Front. In 27 years he served as a military adviser in China, in May 37 he was the commander of the Volga Military District, and earlier this year he was appointed first deputy director of infantry of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

Lin Jun is generally familiar with Yefremov himself, but he knows his life very well and his combat style - this time to encircle and annihilate the enemy in Minsk, the 33rd Army will take on the important task of interspersing the right flank!

In April 1942, the 33rd Army fell into a heavy encirclement in the Vyazma area, Yefremov led his troops to resolutely break through the encirclement and fought bloodily, and many units of the group army broke out of the encirclement, but Yefremov was unfortunately seriously wounded and died (there are also sources that he was unable to act after being wounded, and shot himself in order to avoid being captured. ）。 Either way, this kind of commander is what Lin Jun likes to use - experienced and determined, he may not be the best famous general to turn the tide of the situation, but he is definitely a brave general who charges into battle!

In front of the deputy commander-in-chief, Yefremov was not inhibited, and he was able to talk eloquently - he was on an armored train, and he was an expert in armored train warfare, and he felt at home here.

Bekryev also sat on the side as Lin Jun ordered, because the conductor's idol and predecessor was here, and he was not worried about what would be wrong with the conductor knowing too many high-level military secrets -- the No. 72 armored train was already a special train for the deputy commander, and its commander was of course a reliable comrade. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )