But this plan was a matter for later, and now the situation in Lyuban was terrible, and on April 23, the Volkhov Front was merged into the Leningrad Front, with General Khozin as commander. At the time of his departure, www.biquge.info Meretskov suggested to the base camp that, since the 2nd Shock Army was exhausted, it could neither attack nor defend with its current formation, and its lines of communication were under the threat of the enemy, and that it should either send elite troops to strengthen the army or immediately withdraw the 2nd Shock Army from the forest swamps, otherwise there was a danger of total annihilation. But Khotzin did not heed this advice, and still wanted the 2nd Shock Army to advance with its existing strength, and the 2nd Shock Army was only a surprise in name only, and it had difficulty even implementing defenses, let alone crushing the strong resistance of the German army. Replenishing it through the choke point was again blocked by the Germans, and after suffering a setback, Hozin had to abandon the offensive and decided to withdraw the 2nd Shock Army to replenish and recuperate.

On May 21, the base camp approved Khotzin's plan, but due to the lack of reserves and the delay, the Germans discovered the attempts of the Soviet Red Army, so the Germans brought in new reinforcements and switched to the offensive on May 30. The Germans counterattacked on both sides of the Soviet Red Army breakthrough with SS police divisions from the north and the 58th, 126th and 250th Spanish divisions from the south, in coordination with the 18th Army. By 5 June, the Germans had managed to disrupt the battle formation of the assault 2nd Army and divide it. On June 6, the Germans completely sealed the pocket mouth and tightly surrounded more than 130,000 people from 7 divisions and 6 brigades of the Soviet Red Army. The assault 2nd Army was cut off from the Soviet Red Army outside, food and ammunition were desperately scarce, its rearguard units slowly retreated to the southeast, under pressure from the enemy, and the avant-garde units wanted to open a corridor to join the units of the 59th and 52nd armies.

But the 59th and 52nd armies, which already had no reserves, could not help at all, they were scattered on a wide front, and could only barely withstand the enemy's attack, so that the distance between them and the assault 2nd Army did not widen. It is no longer possible to reduce the distance between the existing forces of the two armies from outside the encirclement and the encircled troops.

And Andrei is also in a hurry now, because according to the report of the infiltrated GRU special forces, a large number of troops have appeared in the rear of the German army, and at the same time, artillery and various technical equipment have also appeared in large quantities, according to the telegrams sent back by various groups, in combination with the memory of the previous life, Andrei can be sure that the German army is going to make dumplings now, if it can't break through in time, the second assault army has only one consequence, that is, the whole army is annihilated, so Andrei immediately sent the information to Moscow, Leningrad, And General Meretskov, Andrei clearly pointed out in the report that now the German army has assembled a powerful heavy group, and the Second Assault Army had better immediately organize a breakthrough to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the German army, and now the German army's strength and technical equipment level is still above the Soviet army, so the next step must be ready to preserve strength as soon as possible in order to advance backwards. In this way, Andrei wrote a detailed report, which not only synthesized the information but also the memories of his later generations to his immediate superiors, hoping that Beria would exert his influence.

And in Lubyanka, after receiving Andrei's report, the telecommunications department did not dare to delay, and immediately sent Andrei's report to Beria, but now Beria was a little hesitant when he saw this information, not that he didn't believe Andrei's report, but the arrangement of the battle of Lyuban this time can be said to be a complete failure, although the military talent is not very good, but Beria, as the People's Commissar of National Defense, still has the basic military judgment ability, It's just that since Andrei was born, there are already people in the Red Army who are very dissatisfied with the Ministry of Internal Affairs' involvement in the war, although because of his own identity here, no one dares to openly sing against the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it is not a good thing for him that Andrei is so big all of a sudden, and at the same time, for himself, after all, this is related to the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and if his status is improved in the future, he may leave the NKVD when the time comes, and there must be a new anti-rebellion cadre to come up, so, However, Beria took the initiative to delete many of the recommendations in Andrei's report, and at the meeting of the People's Commissariat of National Defense, Beria said in his speech: "According to the reconnaissance of our special forces, now a large number of German troops have been assembled near Lyuban, and I am afraid that next... "This is a clever thing about Beria, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must play a role, but now that he and Andrei have done their best, after all, the intelligence has been obtained, what to do is the matter of the Red Army, Andrei's words that are too outspoken and offended, he can't say it as it is, but after all, the situation is urgent, of course, it has to be reported.

Seeing the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the senior generals present knew that it was now 100,000 urgent, so it was decided that Vasilevsky would go to the Lyuban area to organize the operational deployment of the breakout as soon as possible, but because Andrei's report was changed, the breakthrough did not really follow lightly, and the pots and tanks were thrown away, which led to disastrous consequences later!

However, at this time, Andrei did not know about this, after the breakout battle began, Andrei on the one hand organized various work in the rear, and at the same time applied again to transfer the internal affairs troops to the battlefield, and on June 10, the Soviet army launched a campaign to relieve the siege, Meretskov and Vasilevsky transferred three infantry brigades and some other units from other regions. Among them was a tank battalion. Weave these meager forces into two clusters. They were ordered to open a corridor one and a half kilometers to two kilometers wide. and cover both flanks of the corridor to ensure the withdrawal of the troops of the encircled 2nd Shock Army.

At dawn on June 10, after a short period of artillery preparation, tanks and infantry launched an assault on the enemy's positions. Although everything was well thought out in advance, the attack did not work.

Three days later, on June 13th, in Command:

"From the analysis of the situation on the battlefield, it is clear that it is unrealistic for us to crush the enemy with the existing forces," Meretskov said. Comrade Vasilevsky, I repeatedly calculated the entire strength of the front and tried by all means to transfer some troops from other areas to the breakthrough site in order to strengthen the assault forces there.

But we were moving our troops, and the enemy was not idle, and they had also increased their forces, and now the Germans had brought in three infantry divisions and an SS police division from the north, west of the Leningrad Highway, as well as some units and detachments that had previously defended in other areas, and they were combined into three brigades, 'Kalenburg', 'Bass', and 'Main Road'. From the Novgorod side, two clusters 'Jump' and 'Yashkai' were transferred, as well as other troops. From the west, a 'Duke' cluster of two infantry divisions and a security division pressed towards the 2nd Assault Army. The fighting did not stop for a minute, and it was unprecedentedly fierce. Both sides suffered heavy casualties......"

Vasilevsky said: "Meretskov, do we have any other forces that can be mobilized?" Meretskov pondered for a while and said: "The troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are all elite, but we have no right to transfer them directly under the base camp, Vasilevsky, you are the representative of the base camp, can you suggest to Comrade Stalin that we transfer the nearby troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" ”

Vasilevsky said: "You want to use Army A to fight positional warfare, this is impossible, Comrade Stalin will not agree to it in any case, and even if he agrees, Beria will not have to fight with us!" "Vasilevsky is very aware of the weight of Unit A, and if he causes heavy casualties to Unit A, Beria will definitely have to kill himself!

And it was their hesitation that made the later battles almost different from history, and Andrei now found that there was still no order to come over and order Unit A to participate in the battle, and now the elite Unit A has actually become a spectator of the big war.