The whole of mid-to-late October was an extremely difficult and painful day for the warring parties who were doing their best on the land of the Soviet Union!

The Germans not only tasted what mud was, but also understood "how far a verst is" ( Before the war, the Germans claimed that the Brest fortress could be taken with a single charge; Not on the roster. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ）！ Compared with the Soviets' leisurely work, the Germans faced much greater difficulties in transportation alone - Guderian had returned to the second panzer group, but his more than 20,000 vehicles were planted headlong in the muddy pond of Belarus, and their mobility was not as good as that of ordinary infantry!

In Riga, Minsk, and Odessa, the distance is either measured in "li", or a sand rope (1 verst = 500 sand rope ≈1.0668 km) is measured in human life and flesh and blood!

By the end of the fierce battle until November 4, the battle for Minsk had exhausted the troops in the city on both sides, and the Germans alone had lost more than 200,000 elites! These 200,000 are all reimbursed within the 150 square kilometers of Minsk City, and after the battle for the city broke out, the loss of the two wings is not counted!

The weather was already very cold, and once it rained, the cold rain that fell was as biting as ice water, and the combat effectiveness of the German army under the harsh climate plummeted, and the morale was even lower! The front-line troops in the urban areas of the Red Army faced a series of difficulties, such as a relative lack of ammunition, insufficient warm clothing, and difficulties in transporting food, but their morale was getting higher and higher!

Persistence, persistence! Comrade Stalin's reinforcements are about to launch a major counteroffensive! Just after the earth froze!

"Give the soldiers hope!" This is the slogan shouted by Lin Jun at the military, political and work conference, and it is also true - a large number of combat heroes have emerged, becoming the target of ordinary soldiers to learn to catch up; Reinforcements continue to arrive, and the whole division is engaged in the battle for the city! But these are only small actions, the reserve front and the main forces of the newly formed steppe front have moved closer to Belarus and will encircle and annihilate the enemy of German Army Group Center Minsk when the fighters are ripe!

When the first snow fell in Minsk in 41, Lin Jun received an order from the central government to return to Moscow to participate in the military parade, and even Vuginskaya had to return to Moscow with him; On the same day, in a list of combat heroes forwarded from the front, Lin Jun saw Vasily's name - it was an application for commendation for a small unit of the 87th Infantry Division for holding an important building on the east bank of the Svisloch River: 28 Red Army soldiers and dozens of Minsk citizens have been holding the building for more than ten days and nights, repelling countless German attacks!

The building withstood countless shelling by the Germans, and even fixed-point dive bombing, but the defenders inside firmly guarded the building!

"Let the whole Soviet Union, the whole world know about this heroic deed! - The Pavlov building will forever stand on the land of the Soviets! ”

Vasily's sniper team is now in the Pavlov building, although there are still a few officers in the building, and the actual commander of the defenders of the building is Sergeant Pavlov: the first to arrive at the building!

After the sniper team was cut off last month, Vasily and his comrades had been fighting urban guerrilla warfare against the Germans by relying on difficult terrain and sewer networks, and the day after the 87th Division stormed the east bank of the Svisloch River, they arrived at Pavlov's building through the sewers, where the top commander at that time was Sergeant Pavlov.

The officers of the Deputy Commander's Guard did not take over the command of the building, and at Vasily's suggestion, used themselves as ordinary soldiers, fighting valiantly under the command of Sergeant Pavlov!

"The special operation is okay, but such an operation still depends on a comrade like Pavlov!" - Vasily understood their respective duties and characteristics, and would not let Pavlov obey his orders because of his rank: the first thing is to defend the building!

Lin Jun knew that the timing of the major counteroffensive would lead to the future: the German Army Group Center was no longer sharp, the elite troops had suffered heavy losses, the combat effectiveness and morale had dropped dramatically, and the main force was trapped in Minsk and could not extricate itself -- it was no longer a luxury to encircle the main German army, as long as we waited for the arrival of the complete freezing of the earth!

On November 5, at Minsk Airport No. 6, Lin Jun, Vukinskaya, and Sergei, who "should have returned to Moscow a long time ago," boarded a special plane together, but Zhukov and Chuikov did not come to see them off, and Kobets watched the transport plane fly away from the airport under the escort of 16 Lag-5s.

When the plane made its first turn after takeoff, Lin Jun looked through the porthole at the burning city - the beautiful city no longer exists, only ruins remain, but it still stands!

Vukinskaya had only taken off her surgical gown an hour earlier, and the plane was flying together and she was asleep sitting next to Lin Jun - she was so tired! The other people on this business plane deliberately turned their eyes around: the one in front did not look back, and the one in the back simply closed their eyes to recuperate. I used to want to talk a few words on the plane or discuss the war, but now I just shut up!

Leonov took a cushion to Lin Jun, and Lin Jun let his wife lean comfortably on him, and there was no sound in the plane except for the roar of the engine.

Lin Jun had already changed into the winter marshal's regular clothes, and his coat was used as a blanket for his wife; Vukinskaya wears a colonel's winter uniform, and the bright gold star medal is on her chest: Lin Jun estimates that his wife's colonel's uniform will not be worn for a few days - she will become a general-level commander like the world's No. 1 air ace, but because Vukinskaya is a military doctor, her professional rank will be "divisional military doctor".

Vuginskaya's name is now not only a household name in the Soviet Union, but also familiar to the Western media - in Minsk, in the midst of the great war, there was a strong female military doctor who was an angel in the hearts of the wounded, and the scalpel was her weapon!

Even the Germans, after seizing propaganda materials depicting Vukinskaya's deeds, had to be convinced: she was on top of the last reinforced battalion!

The number of wounded rescued by Vuginskaya in Minsk has long exceeded that of a reinforced battalion, and she is known as the iron man in the operating room!

Her face was haggard, and she felt distressed when she saw it—Heaven had always favored his wife, protecting the beauty that would make angels jealous: 35 years old, wrinkles and gray hair did not belong to her before the war, but now Vukinskaya has thin wrinkles in the corners of her eyes, and a few strands of gray hair occasionally show out.

But wrinkles and gray hair do not affect his wife's beauty, but make her more attractive, at least in Lin Jun's heart.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the plane landed at a newly built airfield west of Moscow, and the convoy was already waiting for the deputy commander-in-chief: it was heading straight for the Kremlin along Kutuzov Street.

Stalin summoned Lin Jun, first, to serve as the commander-in-chief of the October Revolution Day parade in 41, and second, to discuss and deploy the enemy to encircle Minsk: the time was almost ripe.

The snow in Moscow came earlier than Minsk, and there was a thin layer of snow on Red Square: Lin Jun's first statement about the military parade was that there was no need to clear the snow, the scale of the parade did not need to be too large, and the troops defending Moscow could draw a group of people, which would better reflect the difference of this military parade and the firm determination of the Soviets!

The central government agreed.

Voroshinov promoted Sergei and Vuginskaya to the rank of People's Commissar of Defense, while Lin Jun held meetings with members of the Supreme High Command until night. After a brief dinner, Lin Jun was supposed to listen to the report of the Equipment Department at the Headquarters, but Alexander's words made him postpone his plan: Alexander wanted him to meet someone.

The new Director of the Second Division of the Fourth Intelligence Bureau - Richard Sorge!

After a great deal of hardship, Sorge actually arrived in Moscow via China, and is now appointed as the director of the Second Division in charge of Asian intelligence affairs: although the position is only that of the director, the Central Committee has given him the rank equivalent of a major general.

Due to his "friendly" diplomatic relations with Japan, Sorge lived in seclusion in the Ministry of the Interior, like an invisible man, under a pseudonym: but in front of Lin Jun and Alexander, he was Richard Sorge.

Lin Jun finally saw this elegant and graceful red spy and a legendary figure in World War II in Alexander's office!

When Sorge walked into Alexander's office, Lin Jun did not walk up and hold Sorge's hand tightly as he had imagined, but stood in place and looked at the legendary figure in front of him from head to toe for 5 seconds!

dressed in an ordinary gray woolen suit, ninety percent new leather shoes polished, shallow wrinkles on the forehead and the corners of the eyes, and the hair was naturally combed back; The penetrating eyes are not the aggressive kind, but the kind of professional vision that a good journalist has—a middle-aged man who is harmonious and approachable.

Lin Jun was observing Sorge, and Sorge did not avoid the eyes of the deputy commander, and he was also observing the Soviet deputy commander in front of him, who had seen countless times in propaganda materials and materials!

After a few seconds of dullness, Lin Jun smiled slightly, breaking the strange silence: "Why don't you wear the Venus Medal?" ”

"It's not appropriate to be too eye-catching right now." Sorge obviously didn't expect the deputy commander's first sentence to be like this, but there was no trace of strangeness on his face.

"Put it on, that's your honor."

Lin Jun's tone made Alexander and Sorge, who were good at intelligence work, feel a little strange in their hearts, because his tone was really very peculiar: neither of them would understand Lin Jun's opinion of Sorge.

A few big strides forward, holding Sorge's hand tightly: "Hello, Comrade Richard Sorge! ”

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