October 15, 1940, was not a satisfactory day for Lin Jun - the Marshal of the Soviet Union and General Staff Shaposhnikov fell to the floor in front of his eyes, which made everyone break out in a cold sweat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The chief of the General Staff's physical condition has been declining in the past few years, and this year's overwork has overdrawn his body, and now he finally can't hold on, which is by no means good news at this juncture.

After all-out rescue, Shaposhnikov was relieved, but he needed to continue treatment in the hospital. The doctor's advice is that it is necessary to rest for a long time, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

The Red Army has a reliable brain, this is Shaposhnikov, and now there is something wrong with the brain, what to do ?!

A temporary solution must be found, a capable person must be found to temporarily take the position of Chief of the General Staff, so who is suitable? Stalin meant to let his first love take up this pivotal post for the time being, and there was no objection from others.

Lin Jun's performance over the years has shown that he is one of the most successful staff officers, but he himself has self-knowledge -- it is okay to be a chief of staff, but it is absolutely impossible to carry the word "general," and he does not have that ability -- the problems that the chief of general staff has to consider are not something that he, a student of the senior command class, can do.

Lin Jun firmly disagreed with his appointment as acting chief of the General Staff, and he had two candidates in mind: Zhukov and Tukhachevsky. But they had to dismiss this plan themselves, and the situation in the West was not suitable for the two to return to Moscow to take up their posts.

Those comrades are also not suitable for this post, they are either the commanders of military districts for many years or the commanders of a single service, the set of things in the general staff are all laymen, and Blyukhel in the Far East cannot be moved, and he must be counted on to deter the Far East.

What to do? Fortunately, there is still an "old fellow" who can count on Marshal Alexander Ilyich Egorov, who "lived more" for more than a year, to manage the construction of medium machines in the Red Army in the capacity of Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, and it is clear that it would be a good option to return the first Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army to his original post.

Like Tukhachevsky, Yegorov was also an advocate of the theory of large-depth operations, and the "Regulations on the Organization of Large-Depth Operations" promulgated in 33 years were formulated on the basis of the documents he submitted to the Central Committee. His temporary appointment as chief of the General Staff is in line with the existing strategic guiding ideology of the Red Army.

But Stalin did not like Yegorov, and if Lin Jun did not agree to the post of acting chief of the General Staff, Stalin's second choice was General Timulsinger. This made Lin Jun take a lot of trouble and described the gains and losses: Who is Timulsinghe? He is definitely an excellent commander with a very strategic vision, but he does not have a good view of the overall situation, and sometimes he cannot think about everything comprehensively, and he is absolutely unsuitable for the post of chief of the general staff, and commanding a front army may be almost the same.

As a result, Yegorov became the acting chief of the General Staff, and Vasilevsky, the head of the Operations Department of the General Staff, was exceptionally promoted to deputy chief of the General Staff.

After the problems of the General Staff are resolved, it is time for the final strategic plan to be finalized. At several joint meetings of the National Defense Committee and the General Staff, the Soviets decided on two different sets of operational plans -- attacking the enemy first and counterattacking on the defensive.

The situation in the world was changing rapidly, and the Red Army had to develop two different sets of strategic plans. The first enemy attack is that before the German army sends out a substantial attack, the Red Army advances westward on all fronts, which requires great risks, and now everyone does not have a clear estimate of the combat capability of the German army, only that they know that they are very strong, and the German army is also very strong.

The second plan is relatively safe, using the strategic buffer zone obtained in the past two years as a buffer, waiting for a possible strategic offensive by the German army, delaying the German offensive with front-line troops, and then carrying out a decisive counterattack.

The dilemma is true for everyone, and so is Lin Jun. pre-emptive, but that would require both political and military risks; The latter was controlled by others and led by the nose by the Germans.

Which plan should you choose?

On the October Revolution Day of 1940, Stalin finally made a decision in the Kremlin: march west in early summer next year!

What gave Stalin such determination, Lin Jun, who had no idea in his heart, finally figured it out after thinking about it -- it was the atomic bomb that gave Stalin confidence that even if the enemy would be at a political disadvantage if he attacked first, the atomic bomb should be able to offset any unfavorable situation that might arise.

Was the decision of himself and Stalin right or wrong? Lin Jun really didn't know how to fight a Soviet-German war that attacked the enemy first?!

It doesn't matter if Lin Jun doesn't know, the Red Army officers know it. The "first enemy" in the attack of the first enemy is learned, and the treaty is still there, so how can it be recognized by the "justice" of the world, there are many articles that can be done.

At the beginning of next year, the German army will garrison the national border, this is the best excuse, and if you engage in a border incident, you can get enough excuses, and of course, the final judgment is on the side that wins.

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Lin Jun expressed his depression and worry to Alexander, and whenever he thought of Alexander, he easily helped Lin Jun solve the problem.

It was on November 21 that Lin Jun inspected the reorganization and combat readiness of the Red Army in Riga (the capital of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic), and inspected the parade of commanders and fighters of the 24th Infantry Corps with German equipment and some wearing German 1918 steel helmets in the snow.

The person who reviewed the parade was not only Lin Jun, but also Alexander, who arrived in Riga on the same plane.

Why is Alexander coming to Riga? He had come to inspect the political rectification of the three Baltic states after they joined the Soviets, and his subordinates had done a good job here in the past few months, and had cooperated with Tukhachevsky to stabilize the situation without many deaths.

What the Ministry of Internal Affairs did Lin Jun was not interested in knowing, this time he and the two strongest assistants in his group military and political affairs gathered in Tallinn, just to solve the worries in his heart.

At Tukhachevsky's command, Lin Jun voiced his concerns.

"Andrey, this is very risky, in terms of our strength, if we don't give support, I don't have the strength to attack northern Poland here. If the Germans could not be driven out of Poland in the first round of the offensive, the Germans would have been the first to target our military district for a counteroffensive. The most optimistic scenario is that here I can drag on the German offensive for three months. ”

Red Napoleon did not speak big and did not speak nonsense, the Baltic coastal region would be the strategic weak point of the entire USSR.

"The National Defense Council will mobilize troops from the east to strengthen your forces here, and to be honest, I can't count on those troops at the gate, at least for now. How are you preparing for the strategic defense facilities here? ”

"Thirty defensive strongholds and nearly 2,500 permanent pillboxes in the border area are under construction, and they should be completed by the summer of next year."

"I'm starting to hate winter, I can't do anything." Lin Jun looked out the window at the heavy snow - outdoor infrastructure could not be constructed at all in winter. Historically, less than 20 percent of the permanent fortifications in the western border areas have been completed! In the Baltic Coastal Military District it is less than ten percent! The defense of the national border is useless.

These are not the biggest problems, the Red Army can overcome them, the trouble is in how to start the war - in the future everyone understands that the fight against German fascism is a just war, but not necessarily in 1940!

"Andrey, are you worried about this?" Alexander's expression was not grim at all after listening to Lin Jun's narration.

"So what am I worried about? Do you have any good advice? "Lin Jun's head is big.

"Liberation. We are to liberate the enslaved peoples of Europe. Alexander said with a smile.

Lin Jun seemed to have caught something: "What should I do?" ”

"I have intelligence and photographs that even the hell that stuffed Hitler with strong evidence that would not negate the crimes committed by the Nazis."

It's really a fan of the authorities, Lin Jun has always acted according to history, and when the wheel of history changes direction, he is habitually at a loss.

"Liberate!" What has Germany been doing in Poland for more than a year, and what has it been doing in other occupied territories?! No one knows better than himself, and one who is not paying attention but asks Alexander to remind him.

Needless to say, Himmler and Heydrich were responsible for the extermination of the Jews, and in Poland alone, the task of the Nazi governor Hans-Frank, in addition to extracting food and other supplies from Poland and forcibly recruiting labor, was first and foremost to exterminate Polish intellectuals.

What is forced labor for? This is not just about getting labor, but also about reducing the birth rate of Poles - the Nazis are "very scientific". In the spring of 1940, when the German offensive on the Western Front diverted the world's attention from Poland, Frank went into action, and in a month he dealt with tens of thousands of Polish intellectuals.

Last year, Himmler thought that 550,000 of the 650,000 Jews living in the incorporated German provinces would be relocated to the "Viceroyalty" east of the Vistula River, along with other Poles who were not suitable for "assimilation." Within a year, 1.2 million Poles and 300,000 Jews had been expelled from their homes and moved to eastern Poland.

The winter of 1939 was particularly cold, snowy, and the "migration" was carried out in sub-zero temperatures, often in the face of heavy snowstorms, and as a result, more Jews and Poles died than at gunpoint and on the gallows of Nazi firing squads.

If you add those concentration camps, it is estimated that saliva can drown Hitler.

Alexander obtained that information through a network of spies within Germany, which was enough to fight a public opinion offensive and defensive war. (To be continued.) )