On May 4, 1942, an armored train slowly pulled out of Moscow's Belorusskaya railway station to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, more than 1,000 kilometers away. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This time, Lin Jun did not choose a plane when he went to Ukraine, because he brought half of the team and guards of the Southwest Bureau, as well as some long-range communication equipment: However, this armored train was not the "Marshal Plunyakov" that he was familiar with, but the "Marshal Blyukher" armored train that was transferred from the far East and had just arrived in Moscow the day before yesterday.

In order to accommodate so many people, two armored crew cars and two flatbed cars were added to the rear of the not very long armored train, and there were two Soviet marshals on board today: Lin Jun was the secretary of the Party Committee of the Southwest Bureau, and Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukhel, the "soul of the Far Eastern Army", who arrived in Moscow ten days ago, was appointed military commissar of the Southwest Bureau to coordinate the operations of the four fronts in the Ukrainian direction.

Originally, according to the intention of the Central Committee and the Military Council, Blyukhel was supposed to stay in the General Staff for a while and familiarize himself with the situation in the European theater, but he flatly refused.

Although he had been in the Far East for many years and had been transferred to the Western Front from thousands of miles away, the "Far Eastern Army" had only a few staff officers with him, but he did not come to Moscow to familiarize himself with the environment or to see the excitement -- when he was in the Far East, he and his staff were always keeping an eye on the situation in Europe, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Blyukhel had already focused his main efforts on analyzing the situation on the Western Front.

In 42 years, it was impossible for a large-scale military conflict to break out in the Far East, the Japanese army on the other side of the border line no longer had the energy to go north, and Blyukhel's original opponent, the Japanese Kwantung Army, was only concerned with trying to preserve its own strength and building defensive fortifications near the border with the Soviet Union, and the problem of the Far East had been essentially solved.

Blyukhel knew that the Central Committee would not throw him to waste in the Far East, and it was always ready, and besides, General Joseph Rodionovich Apanashchenko, who was transferred from the Central Asian Military District to the Far East as commander, saw little Japan firmly in his eyes!

When Blyukhel was passionately preparing to leave the Far East, he said to Apanashchenko, who had not been able to send an envoy at the airport: "Brother, you won't stay here for long, don't worry!" ”

Like the vast majority of comrades in the Far East, it is estimated that the comrades who remain behind must be extremely depressed in their stomachs, and they have nowhere to go!

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Through the car window, Lin Jun saw that the fertile fields and forests outside Moscow were shrouded in a haze: in Ukraine, the rainy season lasted intermittently for more than 20 days.

In the past 20 days, the Ukrainian army on the four fronts had to make the final preparations before the offensive and guard against a surprise attack by the German army: the weather before the end of the rainy season was unpredictable, and the mud and road conditions in the Great Plains of Ukraine and the Volyn-Podol Heights were complicated.

No one can predict whether the situation on the ground will change drastically, not even the Soviet and German commands.

The two additional carriages that Lin Jun was in were originally armored carriages on Stalin's special trains, and unlike those armored train carriages used for combat, they were designed for peacetime use and had no weapons and equipment, and now the train has been disassembled and used.

Lin Jun walked out of his box, walked to the conference room and dining room at the front of the carriage, and saw that Blyukhel, who lived next door to him, was already here, and he was looking down at a large military map of southwestern Ukraine on the long table, but he did not find Lin Jun coming.

From time to time, Blyukhel used a circular rangefinder to measure a certain distance on the map, but Lin Jun did not disturb him, but sat on the side and remained silent.

After a few minutes, Blyukhel seemed to understand something, put down the magnifying glass in his hand and looked up.

"Oh, Andrei Nikolayevich, you're a dragon!"

Blyukhel smiled and said hello, using a standard Chinese proverb, still in Chinese.

"Vasily Konstantinovich, your Chinese language proficiency has not decreased at all."

Lin Jun also replied in Chinese.

From 1924 to 1927, Blyukher, under the pseudonym Gallen, was sent to China to serve as the chief military adviser to the Chinese Revolutionary Government in Guangzhou, and participated in the Northern Expedition. He can speak good Chinese, and the story of "General Galen" is well known in China, and has even become a legend.

"No, I haven't used it much for years, and I'm almost forgotten." Blyukhel returned to his native language, competing with the recognized Chinese experts in the military council, and in Blyukhel's words, it was a class to get an axe, although this Chinese idiom was not understood by few Soviets.

Blyukhel put down the circular rangefinder in his right hand, walked over to Lin Jun and sat down, "Andrey, I haven't officially thanked you for helping me speak to this old man in the center, otherwise I would have to be idle in the General Staff." ”

"Haha." Lin Jun laughed, "I said Vasily Konstantinovich, you would also go to Ukraine without my opinion." You don't know the command ability of my secretary when the Southwest Bureau is set up this time -- give me a division, and I can be fully reimbursed within three hours! Originally, Comrade Dingde Benko served as the military commissar of the South-Western Bureau, but with you in Moscow, Pavel Yefimovich could only go to the Don Front, and it is estimated that he had no opinion.

Everyone knows that it's okay for me, the secretary, to engage in political work, and for a war of this scale, the Ukrainian direction needs a commander like you to coordinate and suppress the formation. ”

(This kind of coordination was common in the history of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, for example, Zhukov went to Ukraine to coordinate the operations of the First and Second Ukrainian Fronts, and he was a representative of the base camp at that time, and he did a very good job in any of the Fronts.) ）

"Andrey, I've read the battle report of the Battle of Minsk, it's not as bad as you say." Blyukhel means the question of "a division is reimbursed for three hours under its own command."

"Forget it, the two of us don't have to put high hats on each other's heads, I was embarrassed to say at yesterday's meeting, now let's make it clear, and the work will be carried out when the time comes: you have the final say in military command, and I will do the political work. You can interfere in the work of political work, but I will never interfere in your work. ”

"It's a bit of a reversal."

In the Soviet army at all levels, as long as they have the title of "military commissar", their main work is political work; And the commander, what "long" kind of commander is in charge of the military.

Military commissars can interfere in the command of the army, but "commanders" and the like have no right to interfere in political work. Although this Southwest Bureau sounds like a local unit, it can actually be equated with the way the army operates, and it stands to reason that Lin Jun, the secretary, is in charge of the military, so Blyukhel said so.

"The Central Committee just doesn't have a document, Comrade Stalin, they don't know how capable I am with you? The big husband does what he says, so why bother living in small sections. ”

Blyukhel stood up, knowing the temper of the deputy commander-in-chief, he was not polite, stretched out his hand and said: "A word is a decision!" ”

"A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase!"

The two hands were clasped tightly.

At 9 a.m. on May 5, the armored train arrived in Kyiv, an economic and cultural center located in north-central Ukraine, in the middle reaches of the Dnieper River.

They were greeted by no high-ranking officers at the train station, and the only important figure was a tall, thin man in his forties with gold-rimmed glasses, rubber leather shoes, and a round Lenin cap.

If there were people from the three Baltic republics, especially Lithuania, here, seeing this middle-aged man and the soldiers in the uniforms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs around him, it is estimated that there will be people who gnash their teeth, but more of them should be frightened!

Because he is Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, he has just been transferred from Lithuania to the Southwest Bureau to assist Lin Jun in his work: after receiving the order, he arrived in Kiev by plane in advance.

"Hello, Mikhail Andreevich, I didn't expect you to arrive before us." Lin Jun greeted him first and said to Blyukher: "This is our deputy commissioner, Comrade Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov. ”

"Hello, Deputy Commander-in-Chief; Comrade Marshal. Suslov said the next sentence to Blyukhel, but the latter, although polite, was not very interested in the fierce deputy.

Why not catch a cold? No way, who made him Suslov!

Blyukhel had only met Suslov only once, in 1931-1937 when he was in charge of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Communist Party, but his reputation in recent years has been thunderous.

"Deputy commander, I'll be here as soon as I receive a notice from the central government."

"Didn't you be notified that you could arrive in half a month, why was it so urgent?" Lin Jun asked.

"The problems of Lithuania have been solved, and the small problems left over from the local comrades will be able to solve them." Suslov's answer was as simple as ever.

In Lithuania, as he did in Estonia and Latvia, Suslov carried out a violent repression against the Brothers in the Woods, an anti-Soviet terrorist organization composed of kulaks and pro-German nationalists, and in a short time resolved the problem of national division in Lithuania. Of course, there are also people in the top echelons of the central government who privately think that Suslov's approach is more extensive and ruthless, but Stalin and Lin Jun disagree with this: against national separatists and terrorist organizations, only one means is needed: kill!

Blyukhel's mental attitude towards him was a misunderstanding of Suslov, because he was not only capable of killing: in the historical Soviet Union, the fifth place in the ranks of Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin was Suslov, and it is a pity that he did not leave himself a successor. Even Brezhnev, who loved medals, and who knew very little about Marxism, knew very well who was the shadow general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee after Stalin's death.

(Historically, Suslov, unlike other Kremlin leaders, did not like to show his head, did not want to attract attention, and rarely talked about him or wrote about him at home and abroad.) Suslov's special carriage never exceeded 60 kilometers per hour, he never shouted a loud rebuke to his subordinates, he was courteous to all of them, shaking hands not only with the authors and scholars he invited, but also with the most ordinary functionaries of the Party Central organs, and he usually always omitted the strongest acerbic phrases and metaphors from the speeches and articles prepared for him.

Suslov has a generous appearance and a practical personality, is not easily excited, is polite to people, does not like to show his head very much, and does not personally direct others to do many things. People who don't know how powerful he is, when they first come into contact with him, often underestimate him. The writer Solni Renqin once wrote: A tall and thin man came up to us in the cinema hall, and he shook my hand vigorously, saying that he had read my book and liked it very much, as if it were my closest friend. Everyone else gave their names, but he didn't say who he was. I asked someone who had just talked to me, and the man blamed me: Why don't you even know Suslov!?

Suslov was an ascetic in his private life, did not build luxurious villas, did not hold grand banquets, never drank excessively, did not care much about the future of his children, and neither his son nor his eldest daughter received important positions. Suslov, who did not yet have a degree and an academic title, did not aspire to it, and contrary to Brezhnev, Suslov also proposed to prohibit the use of rights by the functionaries of the CPSU organs to obtain degrees. Suslov was also outside the wave of honors from the top of the CPSU. Suslov called the central accountant to the office twice a year, reported to him his half-year income and expenditure, opened the drawer, and handed over all the remaining salaries. When he went to inspect other places, he had to pay for his meal.

Suslov was dressed in no particular way, always wearing old-fashioned suits and galoshes that many of the leaders of the CPSU did not wear. Even **********, who had always hated the older generation of cadres during the Brezhnev period, could not hide his reverence for Suslov, and after Suslov's last hospitalization, ********** exclaimed: "This man is really amazing, very smart, and now he has so much work as ****** and the Secretariat." I don't understand, how can he handle all this...... When it comes to doing the work of the Secretariat, no one can compare to him, he is always so methodical and full of confidence. ”）

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"It's okay to arrive early, this time you didn't come to Ukraine for long-term work, and you are also a good hand in publicity, so my work can be much easier, and I can rest assured that you can do things."

Lin Jun was not polite at all, everyone in the Central Committee knew that Suslov was one of the cronies of the deputy commander

Without much talk, the group immediately went to the former Kiev Military District Command in the south of the city.

(Except for the paragraph that introduces Lao Su, it's already 3000, don't say let's make up the number of words.) Eccentric! Great! (To be continued.) )