Chapter 21 The Battle of Moscow (9) Plan to catch fish
Andrei didn't expect that as soon as his report was handed over, it would immediately make the high-level vibrate, after Beria saw Andrei's report, it was unbelievable that he actually wanted to use the Air Force to cooperate with the special forces, Beria's military ability was actually not very good, but after being the NKVD for so long, due to the need to supervise the Red Army and collect intelligence, Beria was also a person who often came into contact with the forefront of the military, he remembered the classic operations of the Luftwaffe and the British Air Force, and suddenly realized that this was completely feasible, And Andrei is a rare military talent in the younger generation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the reason why he appreciates Andrei so much on the one hand, Andrei is an orphan, and he has been trained by the NKVD since he was a child, and he also agrees with Andrei's idea of special warfare, because Andrei's performance is good, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs also has a light on his face, to see who dares to say that the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not fight, so after thinking about it, Beria decided to support Andrei's plan!
And Zhukov didn't expect this little guy to want to play this kind of trick after receiving Andrei's plan, but as the top general of the Soviet Union, Zhukov also felt that the plan was very feasible after carefully reading the plan, and once it succeeded this time, it could deal a hard blow to the German Ninth Army, and he could launch a local counteroffensive to disrupt the deployment of the German army when the Ninth Army was damaged! So Zhukov decided to fully support Andrey's plan!
The next day at the Kremlin's military conference, when the plan was submitted to the National Defense Committee for discussion, it immediately caused controversy, and in the absence of Stalin's clear position, it quickly split into three factions, first of all, Beria, as the boss of the internal affairs forces, took the lead in proposing the plan and also provided the military bigwigs attending the meeting with the battle situation of Unit A for more than a month. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
And as soon as the plan came out, the opponent immediately came out Marshal Shaposhnikov, who immediately said: "The risk of air raids at night is too high, our Red Air Force has already suffered heavy losses, and now if there is another problem, I am afraid that we will not even have an air force." As a conservative person, Shaposhnikov immediately and directly rejected the plan, and Shaposhnikov's words made Beria unhappy, so Beria immediately took out another document and read it aloud:
"In the air battle between Germany and Great Britain
The Luftwaffe's night raids put British air defense in a very passive position, and by February 1941, the Germans had made more than 24,000 sorties, 156 of which were shot down; London, on the other hand, suffered heavy losses, with nearly 10,000 citizens killed, 1/5 of the houses in the city destroyed, more than 1 million buildings, and 147,000 innocent civilians killed and wounded, accounting for 20% of the British casualties in the war. Transport and public facilities were severely damaged, and the number of trains leaving London per day was reduced from 60 before the bombing to four. Other nearby cities were also damaged to varying degrees, the most serious of which was Coventry, the center of the aviation industry, where the Germans dropped more than 16,000 tons of bombs, almost destroying the entire city and 12 aircraft parts factories.
Similarly, on August 25, 40, the British Air Force, on the instructions of Prime Minister Churchill, dispatched 81 bombers to attack Berlin as a means of retaliation. Despite the fact that the material damage caused by the air raids was minimal, it greatly shook Germany psychologically! On the night of August 28 and August 31, the British attacked Berlin twice, and the citizens of Berlin experienced the war firsthand. β
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"Since the Luftwaffe and the British Air Force can do it, can't our great Red Air Force attack the enemy at night and teach the Germans a hard lesson?" On the one hand, the two marshals knew very well that once the plan went wrong, it would be a big blow to the now weak Soviet Red Air Force, but although they were also conservative in their thinking, they also knew that once the plan succeeded, it would not only damage the German Ninth Army, but also boost the morale of the defeated army, which was obviously both risk and benefit! So the two marshals fell into deep thought and became centrists.
At this time, a bald general spoke up: "That's right, the great Red Air Force is no worse than any air force, and the performance of Andrei in leading Force A is also obvious to everyone, I think the plan is completely feasible!" "This is not Zhukov, but Timoshenko. Many people think that he is equally conservative and outdated, but this is not the case!
Timoshenko belonged to the traditional type of general, and during his tenure in the Red Army, he restored the strict discipline of the Tsarist army. But compared with some other conservative generals in the Red Army at that time, he had a strong strategic vision and command ability. Under his leadership, the Red Army accelerated the pace of mechanization of the army and increased the number of tanks to cope with the expected approach of the Soviet-German war. Later wars proved that these measures were very timely.
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Stalin took over the post of People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union. As a result of the crushing defeat of the Western Front under the command of General Pavlov, a huge breakthrough in the campaign was formed. In July 1941, Timoshenko took over the command of the Western Front in a critical situation, commanding the retreat in Smolensk. Despite the huge costs, Timoshenko managed to stabilize the situation on the Western Front, stabilizing the front until the end of September 1941, when the Germans launched the Battle of Moscow. In September 1941, Timoshenko was transferred to the Ukrainian front, where he commanded the Red Army, which had just annihilated 1.5 million people in Kiev and Uman, and successfully stabilized the front.
Timoshenko was a military commander with high moral integrity, profound qualifications, rich command experience, outstanding command ability, and at the same time a leader who was easy to respect. Timoshenko, who ranks among the three marshals of the cavalry and is on a par with Voroshilov and Budyonny, is only one year older than Zhukov and Rokossovsky.
And Timoshenko's support suddenly made the prestige of the opposition go down a lot, and at this time someone knocked on the door of the office, Poloshenin sent a telegram from the command of the Western Front, Zhukov specified that it should be submitted to Stalin for review, so the people below did not dare to delay and directly handed over the telegram to Stalin, and Stalin saw that the telegram turned out to be Zhukov's opinion on Andrei's plan, Zhukov pointed out that the plan was still more feasible, and at the same time submitted his plan to launch a counteroffensive against the German army after the night attack of the air force, Zhukov hoped that Stalin would approve the plan!
And Stalin, after carefully reading the plan, took a deep breath of cigarette, and then said slowly: "Comrades, it is very normal for everyone to have a big argument about this plan now, after all, this is a battle plan, and the arguments of several comrades have their own reasons, but I would like to express my opinion, you must know that the war itself is a dangerous game, and any mistake in decision-making will bring great disaster, but several comrades are very reasonable, Since the air forces of the capitalist countries can carry out successful night raids, then does our Red Air Force not have such capabilities? We also have fighters with good pilots, and now the great Motherland is fighting hard, gentlemen, isn't that enough? The audacity and wisdom of our Comrade Andrei, his use of special forces, far exceeded our expectations, why can't we trust them? Can't trust our good fighters? β
In fact, the people of the People's Commissariat of Defense did not know about these materials read by Stalin, and the intelligence department of the NKVD had long ago sorted them out and put them on their desks, and they did not believe it, but they did not pay enough attention to it. They believe in technological superiority, and they believe that strong technological superiority has the absolute status of king in modern warfare. But the adventure of Unit A more than a month ago made them understand one thing, there is nothing that cannot be done, only the unexpected.
These proud achievements of Unit A have once again caused these generals to ponder, and no one has doubted that they are now the best special forces in the world.
Stalin paused and then said
"Comrades, what are we waiting for? We're going to show the power of the Air Force, think about it, do you want our pilot boys and the Germans to chase each other in the air, or blow these damn guys to pieces in their sleep? So I propose to carry out this operation, the target of which is the Ninth Army of the Germans! β
Comrade Stalin made a decision, naturally no one dared to object, and then arranged the details of the implementation of the plan, and now the General Staff began to operate intensively, on the one hand, organizing and arranging the attack aircraft of the Air Force, as well as airfields and ammunition, and at the same time sorting out the intelligence of Unit A and the partisans, and at the same time carrying out war games, and the goal of the plan was not only against the German 137th Infantry Division, but on the entire German Army Group Center Ninth Army!
AndrΓ© finally received a telegram from his superiors behind the enemy, Andrei found that he was still a child, and his superiors asked Andrei to try his best to determine the logistics base, command post, artillery position, and troop assembly point of the German Ninth Army within two days, and two days after the night guidance, that is, on November 3, the Soviet Red Air Force will dispatch bombers and Black Death attack planes to carry out a night attack on the German army, the goal is to carry out a devastating blow to the German Ninth Army, and at the same time, the ground forces will also counterattack the German army, and strive to inflict heavy damage on the German Ninth Army, Disrupt the battle plan of the German army!
And seeing that he had now changed history, Andrei felt very honored, so he contacted the various groups and partisans, did a good job of reconnaissance and determined the target, and at the same time asked his superiors to drop flares and signal flares, and at the same time prepared things that could be ignited, and then set off a bonfire, and now from behind enemy lines to the Western Front and even Moscow were busy nervously, and a great counterattack was about to begin!