Chapter 12: Troop A Appears in Advance

Then the officers came to the place where the passes were issued, and when it was Andrei's turn, the officers inside checked the ID card, and after registering, wrote Andrei's name on a small card, and handed it back to me along with the ID card. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Walking on, I came to a security entrance, and the lieutenant in charge of the inspection took my temporary pass and asked solemnly, "Do you have a gun?" ”

"Yes." Andrei replied.

"Please hand it over." The lieutenant said to me in a formulaic tone, and I could feel that he had said these words many times today.

Without hesitation, Andrey unfastened his holster, took out his pistol and handed it to the lieutenant on duty.

The lieutenant put the pistol on the table, then tore up a receipt, handed it to me along with the temporary pass, and said, "Get the gun at the guard when you go out." ”

After a while, I followed the team to a hall outside, where the stars were twinkling, and there were many lieutenant generals and major generals, and there were many generals. Andrei found that the lowest rank was himself, a little lieutenant.

After a while, an electric bell rang in the hall. The bell sounded like a call to attack to everyone, and in an instant, people of all ranks, rushed to the door of the hall. Andrei let the people with a higher rank than himself go first, and then the last one to walk in. I found a seat in the last row.

On the podium were long rows of long tables covered with red tablecloths. Shortly after I sat down, the members of the Bureau appeared on the stage.

At the forefront, a man in a gray uniform with all buttons attached, a pair of shiny boots with oiled on his feet, a pipe in his right hand half-raised at his waist, and a brisk step walked calmly on the rostrum, followed by a group of marshals and high-ranking generals two or three paces away.

His photographs Andrei have seen more than a thousand times, and later generations have had mixed reviews of him as the great revolutionary of the "Red Tsar": he is Stalin!

When Stalin appeared, everyone in the hall rose from their seats, and I was no exception, and the thunderous applause mingled with the crash of chairs flipped back.

Without too many pleasantries, after the members of the Bureau were seated, the meeting was called to order.

The meeting lasted several hours. One after another, the military chiefs of the various armies took to the podium to speak.

Almost all those who spoke pointed out in unison that although the equipment and quality of our soldiers were at an absolute disadvantage compared with those of the Germans, the soldiers showed tenacity, and in the face of the enemy's three-dimensional attack, they still nailed themselves to their positions like nails, and did not retreat a single step until they fought to the last man. Even the generals of the Southwestern Front, who had broken through the encirclement of the Germans, were in this position.

For such clichΓ©s, Andrei had no interest in listening to them. As a later generation, Andrei clearly knew that according to the information he read: "Before the outbreak of the war, the Soviet Union was very poorly prepared for the German attack. Although he believed that the Soviet-German war was inevitable, he still wishfully fantasized about delaying the outbreak of war as much as possible. Before the war, the whole country was paralyzed and careless, and before the war, it exported a large number of strategic materials such as grain, coal, and non-ferrous metals to Germany in accordance with the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact." It was Stalin's error of judgment that made the Soviet army, although materially prepared, not spiritually prepared. The sudden outbreak of the war left many officers and men at a loss, and everything from the front headquarters to the troops at all levels fell into confusion. Mental unpreparedness, combined with the rapid offensive of the Germans, led to the rout of the Soviet army on all fronts. After the originally well-prepared material reserves were captured by the Germans, they naturally became the materials of the enemy.

The German generals had fought in Europe for many years, had rich combat experience, and knew how to form a local advantage over the Soviet army in terms of troops. Although the number of weapons of the Soviet army was large, its quality was far inferior to that of the German army, and the German army was a surprise attack, so the Soviet army's numerical advantage was not well played, so that the overall strength of the weapons was at a disadvantage, which was also one of the reasons for the defeat of the war.

What's more, a large number of experienced military chiefs were purged in the Great Purge a few years ago. Instead, a large number of low-ranking and young officers were replaced, resulting in the low military and cultural quality and lack of experience of the commanders of the Soviet army from corps to battalion, and the obsolescence and rigidity of tactical thinking, resulting in a low overall combat effectiveness of the troops. This situation can be seen in the Soviet-Finnish war: as many as a million Soviet troops attacked the Finnish army, which had only 200,000 men, but was repulsed by the Finnish army on all fronts due to poor command. Although the Soviets won in the end, they paid a heavy price in casualties. The Soviets were still inferior to the Finnish army, which was far inferior to them, and even less to the German army, which was far more powerful than the Finnish army.

(The above views are summarized by other authors, and I think they are basically accurate, so I borrowed them)

So Andrei also wrote a note asking to speak

When Andrei saw that the soldier in charge had collected a large pile of notes from here and was about to hand them over to the Presidium, he wondered if anyone would notice my note with so many requests to speak.

Nevertheless, Andrei kept his eyes on the fighter. With a light step, the man reached for the small ladder leading to the presidium, holding the note in front of his chest. He walked a few steps, bypassing rows of seats, apparently trying to squeeze into Shaposhnikov, who was presiding over the meeting, but when he saw Stalin coming straight towards him, he hurriedly turned around, then ran a few steps back, put the note in front of a general who was sitting at the end of the table, ran down the small ladder to the stage, and disappeared. The general sorted out the notes, folded them neatly, and passed them to the people next to them, and they were passed one by one, and they soon reached Shaposhnikov.

Shaposhnikov looked through the pile of notes in front of him, then stood up with a frown, and handed one of them to Stalin, who was standing in front of him. Stalin took it with his left hand, which did not hold a pipe, looked at it, did not speak, then handed the note back to Shaposhnikov and nodded silently.

Then the audience heard Shaposhnikov announce: "Now I invite Comrade Yakov to speak, from the Western Front!"

And Andrei is now recalling his statement from his seat

In order to achieve a specific strategic campaign objective, special operations are carried out in special ways and means by leading and directing special forces that are mainly specially organized, trained, and equipped, or elite units temporarily organized according to the needs of the mission. Its actions have the characteristics of special purpose, careful planning, unique methods, diverse means, concealment and suddenness, and quick and quick solutions.

He proposed that the scattered units be reorganized into guerrilla units, and that guerrilla warfare of small units that are not easily noticeable blossom everywhere should be carried out on the spot, so as to contain the German army, cooperate with our army's frontal battlefield operations, attack the weak points of the German army's defense, and make the enemy unable to take precautions against one another, ambush a transport team today, and defeat a patrol team tomorrow, so that the enemy will not have peace and panic all day long, accumulate small victories into big victories, and hold the initiative in the war in our hands. ……

"On the frontal battlefield, space is exchanged for time, and while the existing troops are organized to resist step by step, troops are drawn from other places to form a strategic reserve. When we have gathered enough strength, we can have a final decisive battle with the German devils under the city of Moscow. "While I was talking.

Stalin suddenly asked, "Do you mean: the Germans will still fight to the city of Moscow, am I correct?" He paused in a very polite tone, and then asked me again, "Do you think we can stop their attack?" ”

"There's no doubt about that. Comrade Stalin! Andrei, as a traverser, naturally answered this question with confidence: "We will not only be able to stop their frenzied attack under the city of Moscow, but we will also completely crush them." ”

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A burst of thunderous applause woke me up from the recollection, and when I looked up at the stage, I found that Stalin had stood in front of the podium at some point, and was making a summary of today's meeting. Andrei can't take care of summarizing it now, he is actually talking in front of Stalin today!

Moreover, the theory of later generations was systematically proposed, which is really a fraud by using history, what will happen next? And back in the Lubyanka, Beria gave him another bombshell, and when Beria met with Andrei, he said to him: "Andrey, the NKVD has decided to select soldiers from the 300,000 internal guards and 300,000 border guards, and set up a special unit, the backbone of which will be composed of the 60 fighters you brought back, with an initial establishment of 200 people, and the internal code name A unit, and at the same time, Comrade Stalin is very satisfied with your statement today, and has signed an order to promote you to major, and Unit A will be handed over to you!" "What" Andrei's brain was directly clouded, isn't Unit A the Alpha Force of later generations? Andrei remembers: the historical "Alpha Group" was created by the former Soviet Union in the 70s of the last century to fight terrorism. In 1973, a Soviet Yak-40 passenger plane was hijacked by four armed gangsters at Vnukovo Airport, and all the passengers on board were taken hostage. This incident caused quite a stir in the Soviet Union and also attracted great attention from the country's leadership.

At that time, the Soviet Union was in full swing preparing for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In order to prevent the recurrence of the murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics after being kidnapped by **************** fundamentalist terrorists, and to cope with the signs of terrorism that were already emerging in the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership decided to establish as soon as possible a well-trained special forces that could be used at home and abroad to combat terrorism.

On July 14, 1974, the chairman of the Soviet State Security Committee, Yuri Andropov, issued an order to form a special special detachment within the KGB system to carry out anti-terrorist tasks.

But now, Unit A actually appeared in advance!