In this air raid on Romania, Lin Jun has absolute command and deployment power, including the Odessa Military District and the ground forces in the southern part of the Ukrainian Special Military District, which are also within Lin Jun's command authority. The purpose of going to the headquarters of the military district today www.biquge.info to give an explanation and return the decision-making power of the military district to Colonel-General Yakov Timofeevich Cherevchenko.

The motorcade drove into the military compound, and Lin Jun's car stopped in front of the steps of the office building. As soon as they got out of the carriage, the two guards saluted Lin Jun with guns. Walk up the stairs quickly, give a dashing return salute and enter the lobby of the magnificent marble building: like all Soviet military district commands, the office building of the Odessa Military District is a representative of grandeur and grandeur.

The officer on duty saw Comrade Marshal and quickly stepped forward: "Marshal Plunyakov, Commander Cherevichko and Commander of the Odessa Naval Base, General Zhukov, are waiting for you, please follow me." ”

Cherevichko replaced Lieutenant General Ivan Vasilyevich Polkin in July last year as commander of the Odessa Military District, and Polkin was reappointed deputy commander of the Western Special Military District and is now Zhukov's right-hand man.

This time, the Odessa naval base was also under the command of Lin Jun, and the deployment of naval ships was also part of the operation, so Rear Admiral Zhukov was also at the joint command here to obey Lin Jun's dispatch.

Colonel-General Yakov Timofeevich Cherevchenko, 47 years old, came from a cavalry background, accumulated a wealth of combat experience during the Civil War, and was an excellent commander. At present, judging from Lin Jun's contact with him, this general who fought bloody battles in the civil war is a bit conservative in tactics, but he is definitely a master of defense, and he is just right in the Odessa Military District.

And that Rear Admiral Gavril Vasilyevich Zhukov is 42 years old this year, and although the last military rank in history is only vice admiral, he is a rare all-rounder - a general from the navy has a first-class level in land warfare, and in the heroic Battle of Odessa, he led the Red Marine infantry and sailors to stand alone and withstand the onslaught of two German armored divisions for two months! Later, he also participated in the heroic defense of Sevastopol and made great contributions.

The current offensive capability of the Odessa Military District is the weakest among the major military districts in the west, but when it comes to defense, the tenacity and command capabilities here are not inferior to those of any other military district.

The Odessa naval base is a naval formation composed of naval units, shore corps, troops, service departments and agencies. By order of the People's Commissar of the USSR Navy Orlov of February 14, 1940, it was formed from units and corps belonging to the North-Western Fortress District of the Coastal Defense.

The base has three coastal artillery battalions, the cruiser "Comintern," the destroyer "Shao Wumian," and the minelayer "Lukomsky," as well as an independent gunboat brigade, a torpedo boat detachment, a marine district detachment, an antiaircraft artillery regiment, a naval aviation brigade, the Ochakov maritime sector, a naval detachment, and several logistics units.

The Odessa naval base was under the command of the Black Sea Fleet of the Red Navy, but in fact, in the "historical development", the base fought side by side with the Red Army more often. Because of its geographical ties, the base has close ties with the Odessa Military District.

As an important military bloc on the northern shore of the Black Sea, the Odessa Military District includes the Moldavian and Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, the Ukrainian SSR, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kirovgrad oblasts.

After the formation of the Military District, it will administer part of the units of the Kharkiv Military District and the Special Military District of Ukraine, including the 15th Infantry Division of Sivash, the 30th Infantry Division of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation Irkutsk, the 51st Infantry Division of the Working People's Deputies of Moscow Soviet, the 25th Infantry Division of Chapaev, the 9th Crimean Cavalry Division of the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSR, and other corps and units.

In the Odessa Military District, there are far more division-level units than the five divisions mentioned above: the Red Army units are different in "status", those units with honorary titles have a glorious history, and some have only one number, and they need to win their own honors in the war. In the Winter War of '39, the 95th Infantry Division, trained to withstand certain coldiness, earned itself the honorary title of "Vyborg 95th Infantry Division", because of the exploits they achieved in the capture of the outer fortifications of Vyborg, which earned their own troops.

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Lin Jun walked directly into the war room with the door open, and saw that Cherevchenko and Zhukov were there, and both of them saluted Lin Jun at the same time: "Comrade Marshal! ”

After returning the salute, he placed his hat on the coat rack and motioned for Gusev and the two generals to stay, and the others, including the officers who had been in the war room, went out.

"I will return to Moscow early tomorrow morning, the air raid has been successfully completed, and the next thing that needs to be done is to prevent retaliation from the Germans and Romanians, and to prepare for new instructions from Moscow."

Lin Jun made a long story short, "After a large number of air force units are withdrawn, you must be prepared enough. I can tell you that the offensive could be launched by mid-June at the latest, and it would be a war in which the fate of the entire country would be at stake, and Nazi Germany and we would have only one left in the end! Hitler would not sit still, and the Central Committee estimated that Germany would be ready to attack me in June. ”

"Comrade Marshal, the Odessa Military District is ready." Cherevchenko's straightness and years of hard work made the forty-year-old general look sixty years old, but he had a surging heart and enough ability and confidence.

Pulled a map of the Black Sea coast, "Two, our war with Germany will be a full-scale war to be waged along the entire border line." As you know, the center of the center is to be placed in the north, and the German army should be arranged in this way, and the Romanian forces may be the main force of the offensive on the southern front, and of course the elite German troops who are now occupying Yugoslavia and are fighting fiercely in Greece. ”

"According to intelligence, the most likely to be the main Romanian force is their Fourth Army, and its superior will be the German Army Group South. Block it! We will concentrate our superior forces in the north to attack Poland, and the Germans will definitely do their best to defend their homeland, and we will ask you to buy time in the center of the south. ”

The two generals heard that their side will not have enough offensive capabilities, and it is also a fact in the current deployment of troops, the good troops are in the Western Special Military District and the Ukrainian Special Military District, where there will be a direct threat to the German mainland, and from the perspective of Lili's distance and terrain, it is most suitable for large corps operations. There are many mountains to the west of the Black Sea coast, and even if there are enough troops, it is not suitable to launch an attack in great depth - it will not be a problem to hit Romania, but the Eastern Carpathians will be blocked there, and after weighing left and right, it is still necessary to place the main force of the army on the northern front.

"I won't say more, both of them are more experienced than me, and Comrade Zhukov is also an excellent commander of the land war as far as I know."

The rear admiral showed a smile on his face, but he did not deliberately be polite: the whole army knew that Marshal Plunyakov was never blindly polite, and what he said was to seek truth from facts.

"By the way, is there enough of the cargo trains?" Lin Jun asked Cherevchenko.

"It should be enough, and the transfer of troops can be completed within a week." There is a special group of people under Comrade Admiral who are responsible for the organization and coordination of this aspect.

"Marshal Orlov promised that the submarine detachment would come from the Georgian side at the end of this month, all of them of the latest Stalinist type, and the garage of the base had been completed, and the strength of the Odessa naval base would increase by a large number by then. Comrade Marshal, thanks to your help, I have never seen a submarine with such outstanding performance. ”

Zhukov said from the bottom of his heart, who would have thought that a marshal from the Air Force could design a revolutionary new technology on a submarine.

"The Black Sea is like a pond, and it's hard to say whether the submarine forces can play a role. Comrade Tupolev was able to help in the design of the torpedo boats of the Red Navy, I like to be whimsical at times, and I really did not expect that one thing that I was thinking about could make a big difference. ”

Lin Jun thought of the group of sailors he had just met, they were the torpedo boat detachment - the maximum speed of the G-5 torpedo boat was more than 50 knots, and Tupolev had provided great help in the design of fluid mechanics and propellers when it was originally designed, otherwise it would not have been possible to have such high-speed performance.

The three of them then talked about the question of the troops and the air defense of the city: a bright light like the present one is not the way to go, and who can guarantee that the angry Hitler will not come to retaliate after the end of the war in Greece, as long as it is in the name of Romania.

At this time, a lieutenant officer knocked on the door and walked in, saluted the three and reported: "Marshal Plunyakov, Moscow phone." ”

"Who called?" But he just spoke to Stalin on the phone, who could it be?

"It's NKVD Commissar Alexander."

"Take it in."

Picking up the microphone, Alexander's voice was heard: "Well done, Andrey!" ”

"Huh." Lin Jun smiled, "What are the instructions?" ”

"Come back early, there are a bunch of things waiting for you in Moscow. Also, ready to be honored, the Supreme Soviet will once again award you the Order of Lenin. ”

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

The two generals beside him both heard the conversation between Lin Jun and Alexander, and after Lin Jun hung up the phone, the two congratulated him -- since Comrade Marshal did not mean to avoid himself, it was unnatural to treat it as if he had not heard it.

Lin Jun just smiled, he didn't have much desire for power and honor, and there was only one thing that could make him excited: defeat Nazi Germany! (To be continued.) )