More than three months ago, Stalin said that when Rokossovsky graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff, he would be appointed deputy commander of a military district. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Stalin did not break his promise, and now Rokossovsky is already the deputy of Pavel Yefimovich Debenko, the deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District.

The Leningrad Military District was one of the important military districts of the Soviet Union, and in terms of geographical location and strength, Rokossovsky's new post was more important than the main post of some inland military districts, which shows Stalin's trust in Lin Jun. There is also part of Rokossovsky's own reason for this: he is the undisputed truly outstanding student in the special training class, and his graduation ranking is just ahead of Lin Jun, and this first place is unwatered.

On June 12, Lin Jun bid farewell to Orlov and flew to Leningrad with his staff officers. According to Stalin's intentions, the Leningrad Military District will be one of the first military districts to be equipped with KV-1 heavy tanks, and Lin Jun checked the production progress of Kirov and several other factories according to his intentions, and by the way, he went to visit Comrade Commander of the Military District.

Lin Jun also had a secret mission: to check the situation of the Finnish "Mannalin Line", and after returning to Moscow, he would work with the General Staff to come up with a plan to deal with it.

The situation of the inspection made him somewhat strange, since the Kirov plant, which was the most productive in the Leningrad tank industry, was not fully engaged in the production of KV-1 tanks, but was busy with the production of ultra-thick and high-strength carburized steel sheets.

"Comrade Andrei, this is all for the big guy in the north, the original production plants Enola and Maripov have not been able to catch up with the progress of the project there. After the completion of this batch, it will be loaded and transported to the north, and the level will be urged there. ”

Lin Jun knew that part of the task of producing battleship armor plates had been handed over to Kirov, but he had been avoiding the construction of the navy, and he did not expect that it had not been completed until now.

The total weight of armor used in a "Soviet" class is 23,306 tons, which is even more than the historical "Yamato" class with 23,262 tons of armor, and it is equivalent to 500 KV-1 heavy tanks in weight conversion alone. And more than these armor are generally ultra-thick armor plates with a thickness of more than 200 mm, and the complex processing technology is even more troublesome than the production of tanks of the same weight!

Kotin is pouring bitter water, and the most powerful tank factory in his hands has to produce marine armor steel plates for more than three months, which is a kind of sadness for a chief designer who has just successfully designed a new heavy tank. Lin Jun just came from the "north" he said, these armor plates should be prepared for the "Red Ukraine", and the armor plates of the "Soviet Union" are produced by the Inola Plant and the Maripov Plant, it seems that these two large armor plate producers have not been able to keep up with the construction speed of the shipyard, and have to go through Moscow to find the Kirov factory, which has the strongest production of ultra-thick steel plates, for help.

It is the supreme instruction of the central authorities to make every effort to ensure that the two battleships are completed on time, and everything else must make way for this goal -- this is no longer a boring figure accounting for more than 10 percent of the national economy, but it really makes people feel the tremendous "lethality" of those two behemoths!

The thickest part of the armor of the "Soviet" class battleships exceeded 400 mm, and what was needed was high-strength carburized steel, which was extremely difficult to process, and there were not many factories in the Soviet Union that could produce such armor plates with a thickness of more than 200 mm, because its production process was not comparable to ordinary steel plates, and now only the Kirov plant could resist this difficult production task.

"What is the situation at the Bolshevik factories?" The main forces of the Kirov plant were placed on the production of steel sheets, and it was possible to give the advance production indicators only to the Bolshevik plant.

"One per day, and we hope to reach the rate of 40 to 50 vehicles a month in another two months. When the task is completed, the production line of the Kirov plant will also be running at full capacity, and the total production line should be able to reach about 100 vehicles per month. ”

The products of the Kirov, Bolshevik, and Voroshinov factories of the three giants of the Leningrad tank production system are not only tanks, but also dozens of other machine products, and it is already very good to be able to achieve this speed under the current circumstances, and the ability of Kotin and Salzman, who is responsible for the production in general, is obvious to all.

"Comrade Kejing, I won't say anything if you're so obedient, the results of you and the design team are obvious to all. The KV-1 tank should have no rivals in the world in a few years, you just wait to become a hero! ”

"We are already working on the development of follow-up products, and we will carry out the production here as soon as it becomes regular."

Hearing Lin Jun's words, Kotin was in a very good mood: his father-in-law had already greeted him, and after a while he would be named "Hero of the Soviet Union".

Lin Jun had his own ideas: "Hero of the Soviet Union" is an honor for front-line soldiers, and since the "Hero of Socialist Labor" is about to be born in history, it is simply up to him to propose the establishment, and Koshkin of Kharkov and Kotin in front of him will be one of the first people to be named in his list -- their contributions have proved that they have this qualification.

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Pavel Efimovich Debenko, commander of the Leningrad Military District and commander of the 2nd Army Group, was a veteran Bolshevik who not only had outstanding command of troops in combat ability, but was also a good hand in army building -- he had served as the head of the Red Army's ordnance department for three years in the late 20s.

Historically, Debenko was not spared in the "rebellion purge," but now he is still firmly in the position of commander of the military district. History did not give him too many opportunities to show the world his war command talent, but judging from his resume, this should be a steady commander. Now that the decisive Rokossovsky is being assigned to him as his deputy, from Lin Jun's point of view, soon the Leningrad Military District will be a powerful army cluster with both offensive and defensive capabilities. The modern expansion of the Red Army was about to begin, and Leningrad would be the first to change.

Debenko was "afraid" to see Andrei from Moscow, because he had been summoned to Moscow last year to correct Tukhachevsky's conspiracy and rebellion. He himself was interrogated for several days, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs pressed him to testify against the so-called incriminating evidence, which at first glance was full of holes. It's just that his own "witness" is suddenly no longer needed, because Yenov was sent to the execution ground, and Tukhachevsky and others were demoted.

The "forgotten" Debenko returned to Leningrad with a scar and continued to serve as his commander, but the storm in Moscow gave him a clear glimpse of Andrei's power.

He was an upright man, and when he attended the trial of Tukhachevsky and others as a witness in history, he used to shout to Tukhachevsky and others in the dock in the courtroom: "Don't believe them!" Don't believe what they say! The result, of course, was to be pulled out of the courtroom by the guards - Lin Jun knew all this in his previous life. Although he later succumbed to the coercion of agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was still an upright soldier, although not comparable to Rokossovsky, who killed and did not confess and bite.

From the moment he met Debenko today, Lin Jun could feel that this commander was a little "afraid" of himself: only those who had entered the special interrogation room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs really knew how much power the person in control of it was and how terrifying it was! Don't blame Debenko, this can only be blamed on the "rebellion" -- fortunately, now everyone knows that Comrade Andrei is a person who is willing to protect his comrades, otherwise Lin Jun would not know how to deal with this Debenko.

Rokossovsky had not been in Leningrad for a long time, but he seemed to have been able to adapt to the new working environment, especially since many decisions in the affairs of General Debenko's district were entrusted to him - the comrades who were able to get out of prison by Comrade Andrei must have been outstanding, not to mention the fact that Moscow promoted him to deputy commander of the military district at once, and Rokossovsky's actual work ability was the same as Debenko expected, or even better: this is completely the material of a commander.

On June 13, two Gaz cars drove out of the city of Leningrad and headed north along the Leningrad-Agalatovo-Lembolovo road. In the car were Lin Jun and Debenko, as well as two staff officers, and their destination this time would be the salient on the Soviet side near the border.

For the sake of secrecy during the inspection, the two sedans first drove into a barracks on the outskirts of the city, reloaded and replaced with a Giess truck, and then set off again. Lin Jun changed into a lieutenant uniform today, and the commander of the military region became a major, and the others had a second lieutenant plus 6 soldiers, the standard travel standard for commanders of general battalion-level border defense units.

If they don't change their clothes and run to the border, the Finnish observation post on the opposite side will have to report to their high command when they see this posture, which is not a good thing for the border area where the atmosphere is not very friendly.

"According to intelligence, the Finns have built a defence on the opposite side of the border to a depth of 15 to 60 kilometres, with several echelons of obstacles and support points with permanent fortifications. In particular, the main defensive zone with a depth of 7 to 10 km, along the line of Murila, Suma, Murao, Ritasaari, through the left bank of the Vouoksi River to Tepalie, from the Gulf of Finland to Lake Ladoga across the entire Karelian Isthmus, they have built more than 20 resistance hubs, plus the second defensive zone behind, there are more than 2,000 light-firing fortifications, and the length of anti-tank barriers adds up to more than 100 kilometers. ”

Debenko in the car made an introduction.

"Comrade commander, if you want to fight, I will get you a sufficient amount of effective equipment to deal with those fortifications, and I will soon equip you with them." (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )