A small victory in Brest could not hide the temporary passivity on the long border, and Lin Jun was summoned by Stalin to the joint operations room after arranging the plan for the day's night air raids. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

To the south, in the area of Bessarabia, the Germans were advancing at high speed, already bypassing more than thirty towns - the Germans were not occupiing, but interspersed at high speed! If this scenario had followed, the Germans would have arrived in Ukraine in less than three days!

In Moldova, the Red Army did not have heavy troops, and the main line of defense was 100 kilometers away from the border, but according to the current situation, the first main line of defense built by itself could hardly block the German Army Group South and the Romanian army, and strong support needed to be sent to the south!

"Andrey, which unit do you think needs to be sent to the south?" Stalin's usual composure today, he knew that the sudden attack of the Germans had planted a heel fight, and it would be fatal to the Germans, who had lost the suddenness they needed most.

"Highly synthetic troops are needed!" Lin Jun now has no extra choice: the Red Army can deploy many troops, but there is only one choice to give the inferior Southern Front a strong support force with sufficient assault capability - "immediately transfer the 16th Army from the Transbaikal Military District to the reserve of the base camp of the Supreme Command, and transfer it to the junction of Ukraine and Moldova by rail as soon as possible." It is possible that this unit will need to fight in the south of Ukraine upon arrival, and if necessary, it will be placed under the unified command of the Primorsky Front. ”

Stalin nodded, it was time to transfer this new force that was on the border defense duty to the Western Front.

"It's up to you to give the order."

As the deputy commander of the Supreme Command, Lin Jun has the power to give orders to all armies and military regions, and he also has the power to give commanders at all levels greater authority!

After informing the command of the Transbaikal Military District, Lin Jun directly connected to the command of the commander of the 16th Army, Lieutenant General Mikhail Fedorovich Lukin.

"Lukin, I order you and your army group to march out and immediately go to the line of Kodovsko-Balta-Kodema in Ukraine by rail, and organize a strong defensive line, when the time comes, you will be under the unified command of the Primorsky Front. I ask you to entangle the Germans and force them not to advance quickly into the Ukrainian hinterland! If the Germans advance too fast, you have the right to decide for yourself where to build a defensive line, and you have the right to command local troops and use local military supplies! ”

"Yes, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, the 16th Army will resolutely complete the task!"

"Leave as soon as possible, the railway department will fully cooperate with you. The situation in the south is not optimistic, and there will be a new army group behind you to support you. ”

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People often use the word "general" to describe a general. In the star-studded Second World War, Mikhail Fedorovich Lukin could only be regarded as a meteor that passed by. But without a doubt, he is the most beautiful one! Marshal Rokossovsky once spoke extremely highly of him: if it were not for the arrangement of fate, he could have done much more.

Even for those who are more familiar with the history of World War II, 'Lukin' is a very unfamiliar name. This is normal, because his rank is not high, only lieutenant general; The position is not high, and the highest position is the commander of the group army; The course of the battle was also very short, and the time to lead the troops to the war was less than 4 months. But! Without this Lukin, the Soviet Union would not have had enough time in the early stages of the tragic Battle of Smolensk and the Battle of Moscow!

Lukin, born on November 6 (18), 1892 in the village of Poluhitino (in 41 belonged to the Kalinin region). He enlisted in the army in 1913 and fought in the First World War, in 18 he joined the Red Army and in 19 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Graduated from the Moscow Warrant Officer School (1916, during the period of Tsarist Russia. ), the Scout Training Course of the Field Command of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1918) and the Advanced Training Course for the Heads of the Frunze Military Academy (1926). During the Civil War, he successively served as deputy chief of staff of the division, commander of the infantry regiment, brigade commander and chief of staff of the division, and participated in the Southern Front's fight against the White Guards and the Western Front against the Polish White Bandits. From the end of the civil war to 29 years, he successively served as chief of staff and deputy division commander of the division, and successively served in the command of the Ukrainian Military District and the headquarters of the Red Army. In 1929 he was the commander of the infantry division, and from 1935 to 37 he was the commander of the Moscow garrison. Since 1937, he has been Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff of the Siberian Military District. In 39 he was appointed deputy commander of the Siberian Military District, and later commander of the 16th Army.

Historically, he commanded a completely inferior unit and gave Guderian's second armored group, which was overwhelmingly attacking the heart of the Soviet Union, a head-on blow! It also blocked the absolute main force of the 3rd Panzer Group - the 7th Panzer Division (this was Rommel's old home!) The way to go! The Sixteenth Army held back the Germans in a situation where the war was full of defeats, and Rokossovsky, who had fought alongside Lukin decades later, still remembers Lukin's sigh: "The Sixteenth Army was not defeated, she was only depleted." ”

The heroic troops under the command of the 16th Army can be said to have grasped a large number of them, and there are many excellent and tenacious commanders, just like the 8th Guards Infantry Division of the Russian Federation, which is well known to "Lin Jun in his previous life" -- "Lin Jun's previous life" was also one of the ace divisions in the world at that time, and its predecessor was the Red Army's "Guards Red Banner Panfilovlov Lezhcha Division Awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Suvorov", with the unit number 316 Division. This unit was mainly Kazakhs at that time, and it was famous for daring to fight tough battles! Both in the Red Army and in the current Russian Army, the number of this unit has been retained, and this unit belonged to the 16th Army in 41, and the division commander was the famous Major General Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov.

The cavalry group under the command of Major General Lev Mikhailovich Dovatol also belonged to the 16th Army, the famous "Chertkov Tank Brigade" (28th Brigade) and other heroic units, all from the 16th Army under the command of Lukin!

In September 1941, after the Battle of Smolensk, Lukin led his troops to retreat to the west of Moscow and participated in the defense of Moscow. However, due to the misjudgment of the Soviet top brass (for which Konev is largely responsible), the flanks of the Western Front were not protected enough, and the German armored clusters outflanked the main forces of the Western Front. When the Soviet High Command finally realized the danger and ordered the entire line to retreat on October 6, it was too late: the German armored spearheads were already closed behind the main forces of the Western Front and the Reserve Front!

Having lost contact with the rear, being cut off from all supplies and leaving the positions, the Red Army was in a desperate situation. In order to unify the command, the Soviet High Command ordered Lukin to command all the besieged Soviet troops, and Stalin hoped that Lukin would once again perform a miracle and lead his troops to break out of the encirclement.

But this time Lukin knew that he and his troops were hopeless, and on October 10 he reported that "there is little ammunition left, food has been exhausted, the troops feed on food provided by the local population and slaughter war horses, medical supplies have been used up, the remaining tents are left for the wounded, and the troops can only sleep in the open." ”

Even in this situation, Lukin decided to hold on, because he knew very well: the Soviet troops in the Vyazma area were the last organized force on the front of Moscow, and after the inevitable destruction of this force, it would take time for the Supreme High Command to rebuild the defense of Moscow!

In order to buy Moscow this time, every division of German troops he dragged and every day he insisted on was priceless! Lukin knew at the time that this was his last battle, and he and his troops were determined to make their final contribution. In this way, Lukin and his troops held out in the encirclement for almost three weeks, and fought until the end of October! During this time, Lukin's troops held off twenty-five infantry divisions, four armored divisions and two motorized divisions of the German army! During the crucial three weeks from October 10 to the end of October, Lukin and his besieged soldiers made immeasurable contributions! (Lukin's command was subjected to artillery fire, he himself was seriously wounded by shells, lost his legs, and was seriously wounded and captured.) )

Lukin fought valiantly in the German death camps and survived until the final victory came, when he was liberated in May '45. Unlike the Soviet tradition of treating ordinary prisoners of war, the Motherland and the people did not forget him: after the war, Lukin returned to the USSR, where he was greeted heroically. He was reappointed deputy commander of the Odessa Military District, and in 1946 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general for health reasons.

Such an excellent commander, such an excellent army, is exactly what Lin Jun and the USSR need now: it is no longer "history", Guderian was driven across the Bug River, and there is no longer a need for the 16th Army to go to Smolensk, its new mission is on the southern front!

Lin Jun gave Lu Jin enough power, in fact, he would do it even if he didn't give it to him: an excellent commander knows when to make a decision, even if he violates military law! -- Determining the area of operation for oneself is already a huge power, and the use of local military supplies is subject to court-martials in peacetime! But Lukin in "history" did just that, and Lin Jun simply gave him this power, removed the obstacles in front of excellent commanders, and let him have enough room to play.

Half a day of war made Stalin and the High Command understand one thing: the military strength of fascist Germany still exceeded its own expectations, and it was impossible to effectively defeat the opponent with this existing strength!

As soon as the war began, the Germans attacked with a high degree of synthesis, and if they had not been prepared, the Germans might have advanced at a rapid pace! To deal with such an opponent, the Red Army also needed to make a new combination.

Stalin's meaning was very clear: the Red Army needed new group armies, not scattered units at the corps and division levels, and that it needed to form an iron fist with flexible command and strong assault capability! (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.) )