For dinner, Lin Jun basically told Malinovsky a thousand times, and filled in his brother's head with some of the group army tactics that he knew would only be used by the Soviet army in the future, which made Malinovsky's head a little puzzled: "Andrey, why didn't you have a good idea when you were in the academy?" ”

In his opinion, many of Lin Jun's current ideas are very creative, and they are completely inconsistent with the "problematic" student who was full of mistakes when he was studying at the General Staff. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I'm just talking on paper, and it's okay to come up with ideas, but it depends on commanders like you who have actual command experience." Lin Jun knew his few catties and taels, "By the way, after you arrive at the army, you can rest assured in terms of equipment, Moscow will not let your group army suffer, and the Kremlin means to give the 14 newly formed group armies the best equipment, but how to strengthen the technical and tactical aspects of the personnel can only rely on you to figure out a way." ”

There is no shortage of bravery in Soviet soldiers, but compared with the first-class tactical literacy of the German army at the same time, there is still a considerable gap between the ordinary soldiers of the Soviet army. This has always been a fatal flaw of the Soviet army: it only focused on the strengthening of unit firepower and partly neglected the training of technical and tactical capabilities.

Take a sip of the wine in your glass: "Who is your right-hand man?" This time, I dug you away from Comrade Xia Jianke, and I don't care about digging a few more. ”

Lin Jun is blatant, "Lao Tzu wants you to give someone to you, do you dare to give it?!" ”

This was a bit of a surprise to Malinovsky: This was a bit of a "selfish forgetfulness" that was rare in the Soviet Union -- it was a taboo in the Soviet Union to form a small collective. But he also understood that he was going to command a large group of army-level commanders of sub-divisions in this way, and few people who were used to it might have difficulties in carrying out their work at first.

"Andrey, I came out of the Belarusian Military District, and I am quite familiar with the situation there."

"Really, not a single one? It won't be as easy as this time to get someone next time. "This time, the top is to loosen the personnel pass in order to form a group army.

"That's one. Isn't there a cavalry division that I once worked with in Spain, a very good young commander, who is now the commander of a cavalry division in the Belorussian Military District, and who has just been trained here. ”

"Who?"

The young commander who can be called Malinovsky's attention must not be a simple person, and now he is only a regiment commander, it should not be difficult to poach people, not to mention that people are still in the Belarusian Military District.

"Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev." Malinovsky originally wanted to say that it might be a little difficult to dig up this person, because he was a somewhat famous "Hero of the Soviet Union", but Malinovsky didn't need to say any more, because Lin Jun's eyes had already lit up: "Haha! I fought with him in a trench in the university town of Madrid! ”

"What? He spent time in the trenches with you? I never heard him say it when I was in Spain. ”

"He was a good conductor, and if it weren't for his command, the university town of Madrid wouldn't have been able to hold it. With just a few hundred men in our hands, we repelled dozens of attacks by the rebels, holding them for a total of 10 days, and the defense of the first three days was entirely completed by him commanding two infantry battalions that were not satisfied with the infantry battalion and had not yet put together heavy weapons. I remember that he was seriously injured on the 6th day after I arrived with the support unit and was taken to the rear for treatment, and we have not seen each other since. ”

Talking about the bloody battle the year before last, Lin Jun felt that his whole body was a little enthusiastic: "At that time, I was the supreme commander there after he was injured, and less than 100 people survived the decisive battle on the seventh day, all of them are good comrades!" I guess he blamed himself for not participating in the final white-knuckle battle, so he didn't tell you, and I was also transferred back to Moscow after that battle. ”

Lin Jun, a comrade-in-arms in a trench back then, has a deep memory, and although Rodimtsev's later military rank and position are not high, his reputation in the Soviet army is resounding, and later generations often say: "If Rodimtsev is in the position, he will not lose it!" ”

In Madrid, he blocked the insane attack of the rebels, and in the historical Battle of Stalingrad, he commanded the 13th Guards Infantry Division to defend Stalingrad, and was known throughout the Soviet Union for its tenacious defense - Lin Jun remembers this person.

Seeing that Malinovsky was still sitting and not moving, "I said brother, why don't you find him for me quickly!" ”

"Haha, I didn't expect it all at once. Wait, he'll be eating in the big dining room now, and he'll call you right away. ”

In less than 5 minutes, Lin Jun saw Malinovsky and Rodimtsev appear at the door. Lin Jun stood up to welcome his comrades-in-arms back then, and here Rodimtsev gave a standard standing salute: "Hello, Comrade Andrei." ”

"Sit down, my good brother!" After returning the salute, Lin Jun pulled him to sit down, "I didn't expect to see you here, are all your injuries healed?" ”

"It was all right last year."

Rodimtsev did not expect that the "high-powered" Comrade Andrei would be so enthusiastic when he saw him, although he had fought side by side in a trench, but in any case it was only a few days, and Comrade Andrei was now the leading comrade at the highest level.

Lin Jun habitually patted Rodimtsev's shoulder vigorously: "I remember that at that time, you were blown up by a shell and carried down like a broken sack, but I didn't expect that there were no sequelae left, a good thing, a good thing!" ”

"How long has it been since you came back from Spain?"

"I came back in the second half of last year, and after working in the Belarusian Military District for a while, I came to the academy to study according to the platoon."

"How long will it take to graduate?"

"Three months to go."

"Three months? It's been too long, if I prepare you for the graduation exam tomorrow, will you be able to pass it? ”

The general training time of the Frunze Military Academy is 9 months, and Lin Jun is in urgent need of employment and can't wait for 3 months.

"Now I am also teaching their class, I can guarantee that he has completed the refresher course he should have studied in advance, and he is fully qualified to graduate from the academy, but it will be very cumbersome from the procedural point of view to graduate early, and I think it will be okay to wait a while."

"Since the instructors all said that you can do it, I will handle the formalities, and then you will go back to Belarus with Malinovsky, and I will get you a position that you are qualified for."

Lin Jun has finalized Rodimtsev's new task, and even the steps of asking his opinion have been omitted.

"Obey your arrangement, Comrade Andrey."

When Malinovsky approached him just now, he had already given him a summary of what had happened, and as an ordinary middle-level commander, you just had to obey whatever Comrade Andrei said, and there was no need to have too much personal opinion.

Lin Jun thought for a while: "Tomorrow, you prepare, I will take you to Marshal Voroshinov first, he is arranging the assignment to the cavalry division of the 11th Army, and if possible, the cavalry division of which you are the commander of the regiment." ”

"Yes, Comrade Andrei."

"Don't be so restrained, I think we were a brother in the trenches back then, and now we are at the dinner table, don't have so many rules."

Nonsense, there are not many people who can let go in front of Lin Jun, and his name of "Executioner II" is not nonsense.

"Actually, it seems to me that your specialty should be to command infantry, but the situation is relatively complicated now, so you may need to hold the position of cavalry commander for a period of time, and it may not be a regular position, and you also know that Marshal Voroshinov was born in cavalry. When the time is right, I'll find a way to transfer you to the infantry unit. ”

"Comrade Andrey, I obey the organization's arrangements in everything."

A "rip-off" dinner, thanks to the addition of Rodimtsev, the topic ranges from the time of the formation of the army group to the war in Spain, and the three protagonists have fought for internationalism as fighters of the "international column". When it comes to the current situation in Spain, none of them are optimistic: the republican **** is losing and retreating, only the international column is supporting it, and there are different voices within the republic, and the snobbery of the capitulation faction is getting stronger and stronger.

Compared with the other two's cautious language, Lin Jun has no need for this at all: "Those surrender factions should be shot, conniving at fascists and Franco like this will be a step backwards in history!" ”

Lin Jun knows history well, and now the situation in Spain is changing like the history he knows, and now he can only be a spectator.

The only thing that gave the three of them some comfort was that many families and descendants of the martyrs who died fighting and dying in the rebels on the part of the republics had already come to the Soviet Union by boat, and in particular, those orphans of the revolution had received a rare and good environment for their growth in the Soviet Union.

Speaking of which, Lin Juncai paid attention to the affairs of the Comintern that he had never cared about, for example, there was the Second Children's Hospital of the Comintern in Moscow, and the more famous was the First Children's Hospital of the Comintern in Ivanov City, 300 kilometers away from Moscow. These children's homes are not simply a place for children to eat, but also a relatively good learning environment for children.

In his previous life, Lin Jun had the impression that the current Comintern, except for the Spanish War, was more of a "blind command and random order", so he didn't bother to pay more attention to it, but now: "It's time to do something." Lin Jun thought of some questions.

At this time, Lin Jun picked up the cup in his hand: "Come, a glass to the comrades who died in Spain." ”

That night, Lin Jun did not go directly to the armament department or the home in Moscow, but went to find his wife, who was pregnant with a child in the hospital and insisted on continuing to work, and called Alexander to ask him to come too.

"Alexander, if I have time to visit my wife at the First Hospital in Moscow, I need your help with something."

"What's the matter?"

"It's not a big deal, it's inconvenient to find someone, it's inconvenient to say on the phone."

"Okay, I'll be there later."

Lin Jun is looking for a Chinese woman, a Chinese lesbian surnamed He, and she should have just given birth not long ago, and now she is not doing well in Moscow, Lin Jun needs his wife and Alexander to take care of them.

"Don't worry, knowing your feelings for China, there is nothing I can't do with your Comrade Vuginskaya."

Alexander assured Lin Jun.

"I'm at ease with you, hehe. Kaya, that lesbian is a very strong person, you should bring Lin Lin with you when you go, otherwise she will most likely refuse our help. ”

"Okay, as long as Alexander can find someone, I'll go tomorrow."

"You can find it tonight, and I'll send a car to pick you up tomorrow." Alexander said to Vukinskaya.

"I can't come forward in this matter myself, so let Kaya come forward, and don't say that it was arranged by our NKVD comrades. Alexander, you are behind the scenes to make them provide them with better living conditions. ”

Alexander was almost annoyed by Lin Jun's chatter: "I said Andre, when did you become so troublesome, what else can I do." ”

"Huh." Lin Jun also knew that he had too much nonsense today, and only he could do these "trivial" things for the NKVD to do, in fact, he could do it properly by informing the attaché around him.

"My wife went out hoping to save the life of that little life." Only Lin Jun knows what his arrangements are today, why he can't come forward, some things are very complicated.

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August 1, 1938, Kremlin Auditorium.

Lin Jun appeared in the crowd in a straight uniform, and there were 7 comrades here who had not been together for 4 years - Liapidevsky, Levanevsky, Molokov, Kamanin, Slepniov, Vodopianov and Doronin, this is Lin Jun's real old friend, his witnesses back then, the seven heroic pilots who were awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" together that year!

Stalin gave Lin Jun a big surprise: the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued an order today to establish a medal of the same name awarded to the "Hero of the Soviet Union", and the first eight pilots to receive this title four years ago will be the first to receive this medal in the Kremlin.

Surprise! Absolute surprise! Even the medal has been made, and Lin Jun has been kept in the dark, according to memory, it is a medal that will be born a year later, and the premise is that he has not interfered in the development of this world.

The supreme reward, the shape and color of the profile, when worn, will always be above any medal and medal, everything is the same as remembered. Because the number of the large award certificate of "Hero of the Soviet Union" that Lin Jun received that year was "1", the number on the back of the medal he received today is also "1", and he will be the first to receive the medal from Comrade Kalinin. What was even more surprising was that when everyone had finished awarding it, Stalin personally wore the second medal of "Hero of the Soviet Union" for him, and the second time he was awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union", and the number below the Roman numeral "II" on the back of the second medal of "Hero of the Soviet Union" was still "1".

Lin Lun finally had this dream, his own "Golden Star" medal, although now it is officially called the "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal.

Four years is like a moment in this moment.

"My old friend, Comrade Vasily Sergei Molokov." Lin Jun warmly hugged his eldest brother back then: If it weren't for this excellent pilot, "Andre" who was not qualified to fly might not be where he is today.

In recent years, Molotov has been concentrating on the study of the routes of the Soviet Northern Sea Route, and in a few years he has completed a series of extremely dangerous flights, and he has now taken off the clothing of the "common man" and has become a brigade commander - Stalin appointed him the head of the USSR Civil Aviation Administration, and this position was only held by a military (at that time, the demarcation between civil aviation and aviation in the Soviet Union was not obvious, many, and even said that most of the civil aviation pilots were military personnel, and this situation was quite common in all countries of the world at that time, Historically, Molotov also took the post of head of the General Administration of Civil Aviation in 1938. Such was the degree to which the early recipients of the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" were taken seriously, and the ascent to the post was like riding a rocket. ）。

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky enlisted in the army for the second time in 1935 and is now working at an aviation institute in Leningrad.

Sigismund Aleksandrovich Levanevsky is still in the civil aviation department, and a few years ago he often carried out ultra-long-distance flights across the North Pole and between the United States and the Soviet Union, and escaped the plane crash in history.

Mavriki Trofimovich Srepniov is now Levanevsky's superior, head of the General Inspectorate of Civil Aviation.

Nikolai Nikolayevich Kamanin is now the head of an aviation detachment in the Kharkiv Military District.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopianov is now also in the Air Force, serving as the head of a heavy flying detachment specializing in transporting large equipment in the Arctic; And Ivan Vasilyevich Doronin is now in the test flight department and is doing well.

A medal brought together eight heroes who caused a sensation in the Soviet Union that year, some of whom had met several times in recent years, but not once. This time, he will not work in Moscow and will stay for a few days, because there are still a few small activities, and Lin Jun has a reason to ask his comrades to stay for a few days.

"Andre, these are all your witnesses, so you have to entertain them, right?" Stalin joked with Lin Jun at the banquet after the ceremony.

"Yes, Comrade Stalin, I intend to invite my comrades to dinner at home tomorrow." (To be continued.) )