In response to Stalin's question, Lin Jun responded with the names of a large number of famous equipment designers, including the first recipients of the title of "Hero of Socialist Labor" recorded in history, such as Deggalev, Tokarev, Polikarpov, Mikulin, Klimov and Shpitalny. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"You designed the AK47 to compare with Gygalev and Tokarev, Polikarpov is now designed according to the indicators you designed, and the engines designed by Mikulin and Klimov are also the engines you provide for the design plan that you formulated, and Shpitalny is now designing the aircraft gun according to your instructions. Flying from the air, running on the ground, carrying it on your shoulder, swimming in the water, and even the submarine under the surface of the water, you have made effective new designs. The comrades you mentioned just now are all outstanding comrades in all aspects, but even the artillery carriage you have designed, who do you name if you don't name? ”

"For these designs, you and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet have already given me enough honor."

Lin Jun shot back.

"That's a commendation for merit that can be made public on a small scale, but what about not being made public?! Besides, Andrey, don't forget that awarding a title is not the same thing as awarding a medal! ”

Stalin was telling the truth, and the title had nothing to do with whether he had been awarded a medal or not, and the two could not be added together in the concept.

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The staff of the Kremlin banquet hall can be regarded as having seen a war that has never existed before, and someone would refuse honor and Stalin to fight back, and Stalin actually gave it back! Comrades, this time it can be regarded as a long insight.

But no matter what he saw and heard, the waiter could only treat it as if he had not heard or seen: Stalin could be so polite to Comrade Andrei, but he would not have spoken so well to others.

In the end, Lin Jun said that Stalin was over: he was not Zhukov, and it was not worth fighting the old man for 300 rounds for this issue -- if it was known that he was raising the bar with Stalin in order to refuse a new honor, it would probably become a big joke.

Stalin didn't force Lin Jun to give honor: the words were not taken back, but since Ai Jiang resolutely refused, then the title would be discussed again.

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Before World War II, one of the biggest problems of the Soviet army for the establishment of the army was that the establishment of each level of units changed too frequently, resulting in the commander not being able to command the troops in his hands very skillfully.

The reorganization of the army group was very attractive to most of the senior commanders of the Soviet army, who basically came out of the group army of the year, had a deep affection for the term "group army", and the proposal was easily adopted at the first meeting. However, when it comes to concrete implementation, there are a lot of problems, and the simplest question is which group armies will be reorganized first, and how many will be reorganized in the first batch?

Although all the group armies of more than ten years ago have been disbanded, the glorious title is still in everyone's memory, and it is worth discussing which once glorious units are reorganized.

At the first meeting, as the initiator of the proposal, Lin Jun was officially appointed as one of the members of the "Committee for the Reorganization of the Composite Army of All Arms", and the chairman was Voroshinov. I don't know if it is a good thing for Lin Jun to have a cavalry-born marshal as the chairman of the committee, but fortunately, Comrade Voroshinov only put forward one specific requirement - there must be a cavalry establishment in the new group: a cavalry division or cavalry corps.

The marshal's request is not excessive, and under the current operational conditions, it is also necessary to incorporate a certain number of cavalry units into the group, and besides, the Soviet army group at the end of the 30s generally had cavalry in its establishment. In the end, it was decided that the group army units that were mainly used for attacking fortified positions would be incorporated into a cavalry division, while the units that were mainly engaged in field operations would have a cavalry corps.

During the civil war, the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Armies were reorganized, while the First and Second Armies of that year were temporarily disregarded because of their special status.

Except for the 15th Army, which is located in the Far East, and the 16th Army, which is located in the Transbaikal Military District, the other 12 armies are all located in the Western Military District.

Among them, the third is part of the Belarusian Special Military District (formed on the basis of the original Vitebsk army fleet. ), the fourth (formed on the basis of the original Bobruisk army cluster. ), the 10th and 11th armies,

The 5th, 6th and 12th armies of the Kiev Special Military District are under the command of the Kiev Special Military District

Belonging to the Leningrad Military District are the 7th, 8th (formed on the basis of the Novgorod Battle Cluster. ), the 13th and 14th armies.

The Ninth Army was formed in the Odessa Special Military District.

A glance at the Soviet map shows that the current reorganization of the army group is aimed at coping with the immediate threat, placing the main assault forces in the most important areas - the threat from the west and from the north.

The next thing is the cumbersome reorganization of the army (the problem of the specific units under the jurisdiction of each group army), the appointment of commanders, and the question of commanders is the focus of the focus, you must know that there are "factions" reasons for this, the bigwigs of the National Defense Committee hope that their old subordinates who have made outstanding achievements in war can serve as the commander of the group army, and Lin Jun does not participate much in it, and only proposes that his brother Rodion-Yakovlevich Malinovsky, who studied at the Military Academy of the General Staff, be the commander of the 11th Army.

Malinovsky is now teaching at the Frunze Military Academy, so he can be said to be an idler, and Lin Jun has to let him take on the heavy responsibility, and I believe that he can also be qualified for this position.

The other committee members had no opinion on Lin Jun's proposal: Comrade Andrei should have a title. And for Voroshinov, Malinovsky is also considered "his own man" (he once served as the chief of staff of the 3rd Cavalry Army), and he will not object to this title, besides, Malinovsky has worked in the Belarusian Military District for a long time and is relatively familiar with the situation there.

In this way, a simple title of Lin Jun allowed Malinovsky to ascend to the sky in one step, directly crossing the military-level unit to become a hot new army commander, and he has served as the commander of the infantry corps for many years in history, and from Lin Jun's point of view, he should be more able to give full play to his talents in his new position.

It was not until mid-July that the preliminary work of the "reorganization committee" could be regarded as having achieved certain results, at least the selection of commanders and the composition of the troops had been decided, and Lin Jun went to the Frunze Military Academy to find Malinovsky at this time.

Now Comrade Malinovsky is working daily with teaching materials and giving lessons to a group of battalion and regimental commanders who have come to study in the group. It is "painful" for a front-line commander to calm down and teach, and the average person will feel uncomfortable for a day when he leaves his unit, let alone a commander who has been in the front-line unit for decades, but Malinovsky is not an ordinary person, and any work can be done in an orderly manner.

This certain want to return to the troops, not to mention the fact that Rokossovsky, who had been with him for some time, is now the deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District. Malinovsky would not compare himself with others, and besides, Rokossovsky was appointed by Comrade Stalin, and he did not think that he could be taken so seriously.

Now that the military top brass knows that the central authorities are reorganizing the group army, this makes him a little itchy, and he hopes that the Andrei brothers, who are members of the "reorganization committee" who hold a lot of power, will think of him and let him take up the post of army commander or something in the new group army.

But it doesn't matter if you don't have your own part, the current teaching work is also the work of the Soviets for itself, and the training of middle-level commanders is also very important, he will not think too much about his own problems, as long as he can serve the Soviets.

On July 15, Malinovsky, who was finishing his class, was still answering questions from some students, when he saw the person he most wanted to see coming.

knew that Lin Jun must have something important to come to him: "Andre, what is the matter?" ”

"If you miss your brother, I'll come and see you."

"It's not that simple, I've heard you've been busy lately. Tell me, what the hell are you trying to get me to? ”

"Go to Belarus and serve as the commander of the soon-to-be-formed 11th Army."

Lin Jun's words made Malinovsky a little unresponsive, he never thought that he could hold such an important position.

"Don't be in a daze, I've put a lot of thought into getting you this position, and I'm sure you can do a better job than anyone else." Lin Jun slapped him on the shoulder: "Dinner, please, I can't work in vain." I heard that the faculty cafeteria of the Frunze Academy is top-notch. ”

Lin Tian Lin Jun not only came to tell him about the new appointment, but also had some things to talk to him about in detail.

The food in the faculty cafeteria of the Frunze Military Academy is really good, even better than the canteen of the armament department, but the instructor comrades need to pay for it themselves. Usually, most of the instructors eat in the big restaurant with the students, because the "big pot rice" there is provided for free, of course, there are few physical varieties and can only be filled, so once there are guests or want to improve the food, they will go to the faculty restaurant.

Today, Lin Jun and his staff officers did not give Malinovsky politeness, the good things in the restaurant were desperate, Lin Jun told Gusev: "Don't be polite to him, you can't eat him." ”

The best Georgian wine, the special Caspian caviar, and the best veal are just as much, in Lin Jun's words: "I can't eat it and take it home for supper." ”

"Pain and happiness!" One meal costs him a week's salary, and such a "good thing" is 10,000 compared to Lin Jun's news.

"The command and training of the new composite group army is a relatively new topic, and this is somewhat different from the combined force operations that we usually pay attention to; after you arrive in Belarus, you have to work with a completely new mindset, and this time the central authorities have also considered this, and it is necessary to build the group army into a new powerful core of the troops."

At the dinner table, Lin Jun began to talk to Malinovsky about the group army.

"After comprehensive consideration, the 16th and 29th Infantry Corps, the 23rd, 126th, and 128th Infantry Divisions over there, plus some other independent artillery and logistics units, will belong to the 11th Army, and the Cavalry Command will also give you a division of cavalry in the near future. One thing is very important, you may have heard about the formation of the key mechanized army, and now I can tell you that the central government has decided to form the first batch of five mechanized armies equipped with 300 to 400 new tanks each, and the new mechanized 3rd army will be subsumed into the group army under your command after it is formed. ”

Lin Jun has invested a lot of money, and the infantry units belonging to the 11th Army alone are independent two infantry corps and three infantry divisions (at that time, some of the Soviet Union's infantry divisions and infantry corps had no subordinate relationship in administration, and some infantry divisions were directly subordinate to various military regions rather than infantry armies, which is different from our general concept.) Not to mention the new mechanized corps whose combat effectiveness will be significantly stronger than the existing tank army.

As soon as Malinovsky heard Lin Jun's words, he knew how huge the troops in his hands would be in the future: those three infantry divisions were all 12,000 full divisions, not 6,000 "downsizing divisions", and all these troops added up to far more than 100,000 troops in his hands in the future, which was completely a force with strong assault capability and defensive power.

"Comrade Mikhail Prokofievich-Kovalev, commander of the Belarusian Military District, has received instructions from the Central Committee, and you will report to him as soon as you go to Minsk, and Comrade Kovalev will give you specific help in carrying out specific work."

"Andrei, I don't even know how to thank you."

"What is there to chirp and crooked, we are good comrades and good brothers, and besides, you are very suitable for the post of commander of the group army, but Comrade Xia Jianke is a little unhappy with me for blatantly poaching people from him."

Where is Xia Jianke sacred? - Yefim Afanasyevich Shatenko, then Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, Head of the Department of Management of the Command of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and Director of the Frunze Military Academy: Only Lin Jun can poach his people from the comrades appointed by the special authorities! (To be continued.) )