The number of units of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War was at its extreme, and at the final stage of the war, the entire armed forces of the USSR were said to have exceeded twenty million people! A pre-war population of less than 200 million (about 180 million) and more than 27 million people died in the war (there is also a claim of 45 million, which is difficult to determine, but 27 million is the least.) Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 It is unbelievable that such a large army can be maintained!

Expand the army, expand the army!

The continuous expansion of the army provided the Soviet Union with an almost endless stream of junior soldiers to supplement the army, and the army numbers were so numerous that it was difficult for Lin Jun to remember - in order for the deputy commander to know how many troops the Red Army really had, the high command had to constantly send the ever-increasing troop statistics to Minsk: if a deputy commander did not know how many troops the country had, it would be a joke!

"How much actual assault capability can 5 tank armies plus 5 assault armies give us in the summer?"

Even the commander of the front army didn't know how many troops there were at the bottom of the whole army, but Lin Jun knew: in two months, the most powerful support that the high command could give to Belarus and Ukraine was the ten new group armies.

As a powerful assault force, in addition to the five tank armies that are about to be formed, there are also five brand-new assault armies in the hands of the reserve of the headquarters of the headquarters. It has been at least a month since the formation of the force was completed.

Stalin was also able to bear the bearing: the assault army was formed to carry out offensive campaigns and increase the assault force of the troops. However, after the situation of the battle in the Minsk direction gradually turned in favor of its side, the assault armies did not move, but were constantly replenished in the place of formation.

Compared with other combined armies, assault armies were equipped with more artillery and strengthened mechanized, tank and cavalry units, and some were also equipped with armored trains and ski units.

The assault 1st Army, formed in November 41 from the reorganization of the 19th Army in the reserve of the base camp of the Supreme Command, composed of the 29th, 44th, 47th, 50th, 55th, 56th and 71st Infantry Brigades, skis, artillery and other corps and units. Commander of the Army Group, Lieutenant General Vasily Ivanovich Kuznetsov.

The 2nd Assault Army, which was reorganized and formed by the 26th Army in December last year, currently consists of the 327th Infantry Division, the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 53rd, 57th, 58th, and 59th Infantry Brigades, as well as tanks, skis, artillery, aviation, and other independent units. Commander of the army group, Lieutenant General Nikolai Kuzmich-Krykov.

The assault 3rd Army, which was reorganized and formed in December last year from the base camp reserve of the Supreme Command, currently consists of the 23rd, 33rd and 257th Infantry Divisions, the 20th, 27th, 31st, 42nd, 45th and 54th Infantry Brigades, and other units. Commander of the Army Group, Lieutenant General Maxim Alekseevich Pulkaev.

The Assault 4th Army, which was reorganized and formed by the 27th Army of the Northwest Front in December last year, currently consists of the 249th, 332nd, 334th, 358th, and 360th Infantry Divisions, the 21st Infantry Brigade, skis, tanks, and other units. The commander of the army group, General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko, the former deputy commander of the Western Front, had already commanded troops in eastern Latvia to support the Baltic coast, under the command of Marshal Tukhachevsky, and was to fight within the formation of the Northwestern Front.

Assault 5th Army: In January this year, the reserve of the base camp of the Supreme Command was reorganized and formed from the reserve 10th Army, which included the 87th, 300th and 315th infantry divisions, the 4th mechanized army, the 7th tank army, artillery and other units. Commander of the Army Group Lieutenant General Malgian Mikhailovich Popov.

All four assault armies will arrive at the front line by the end of February, replacing the combined armies of all arms that need to be reorganized, and will serve as the main assault force after the muddy season ends.

The Soviet-German war has entered the stage of "a formal movement and a quick decisive battle of attrition in essence", and the battle of Minsk caused heavy losses at both ends, and the cruelty of the war once again clearly shows that whether the war potential can withstand the attrition of the battlefield and how long it can withstand it has become the primary factor determining the victory or defeat of the war!

For the Soviet Union to win the war, it had to be stronger than Germany in terms of actual mobilized forces, so that it could form an overwhelming scale advantage on the battlefield. And the current reality is this: the mobilization of the war potential in the USSR was efficient and thorough!

Today, Lin Jun met Yankrov, a 40-year-old captain, at the accumulation yard, which reflected a reality: the Soviet Union had already mobilized commanders who had long been demobilized and had entered middle age. Recruits of 17 years old have appeared in the Red Army, and although there have not yet been more than 30-year-old privates on the line, in fact, adult men under the age of 50 have already received military training.

If the war continues with casualties at such a rate, the number of privates over 30 years old in the Red Army will soon become widespread. The Soviet Union was ahead of Germany in relation to it, at least Hitler had not organized any "people's stormtroopers".

The Propaganda and Agitation Department in Moscow sometimes receives reports of exhausted workers dying of exhaustion at machine tools in factories, and that the Soviet people are doing everything they can to win the war, while the Germans are still working the eight-hour day!

"Punishment camps" have been sent to war, and the Germans are still putting large quantities of labor in concentration camps and gas chambers for inexplicable reasons -- this year, the Red Army needs to weaken Germany's war potential as much as possible with the military superiority it has built up with all its forces, and gain an overwhelming advantage before Germany is fully mobilized.

Germany was slow to respond, and the German military and capitalists, especially the top brass of the Wehrmacht, sometimes had unrealistic illusions about the fate of the country and individuals after the defeat of the war, and tried to leave room and retreat for themselves and Germany in the war.

Perhaps many Germans did not expect to be defeated, but the Soviet people knew very clearly: defeat would be the loss of everything!

There was only one voice, one will, in the entire Soviet Union, and that was Stalin's resolute and complete will to defeat fascist Germany, and the whole country was carrying out this will thoroughly, and for this purpose any difficulty could be overcome.

Lin Jun understands those truths, and as the deputy commander-in-chief, he should fully implement the commander-in-chief's will and become the person who most thoroughly implements Stalin's will.

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On January 25, a passenger train, rarely seen on the railway line today, left the Stalingrad railway station and headed south. The workers on the platform who had finished loading the military freight train on the nearby railroad tracks had been discussing the passenger train for a while: a very strange train, through the windows you could see the people inside, some soldiers and some wearing civilian clothes, but except for the conductor, no one got off the train and walked away in the half-hour stop.

This is very strange, not only because there are not many passenger trains now, but also because it is rare to encounter activities that do not come down from major stations. The comrades at the station were also well-informed, and they had seen a high-security bus, but it seemed that the car was only a person on top of the car who did not get off, and it was not that there was some big man on the bus who imposed martial law - the workers could see that among those looking out of the window, whether military or civilian, were almost all young people.

For Moscow, this train is not a mystery, and the comrades above also want to come down and do activities, but the discipline is that you can get off the train when you fill up water at a small station, and you have to stay in the carriage honestly when you stop at a large station.

In fact, it is also for the sake of secrecy: the level of secrecy is not high, because they (she) are the Soviet Union to visit the British and American youth delegations.

Young people come from all walks of life, there are combat heroes, young scholars, artists, ordinary laborers, but there is only one thing in common, and that is that they all made a great contribution to the Great Patriotic War.

It is not only soldiers who can contribute to the war, but also ordinary workers.

The train's destination was the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in Asia, and in the distant Transcaucasus, it would take at least 2 days to arrive. There they would then meet with a small number of diplomats on planes, and then take planes via Iran to the seaport city of Haifa on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, where the warships of the British Mediterranean Fleet would transport them to England.

After the visit to the United Kingdom, the delegation will also travel to the United States, and finally pass through Canada, Alaska and return home across the Bering Strait.

It will be a long journey, a full circle around the world, and full of thrills and thrills - the Mediterranean and North Africa are in the middle of a major war, and planes and submarines will pose a threat to them: it is supposed that the fastest and safest way to enter Alaska from the Kochi Peninsula is to enter the United States, but it is now January, and it will take at least four months to walk from Chukotka.

The responsibility of the motherland on a foreign trip made the vast majority of the delegation lose sleep for many days before departure. Excitement is inevitable, but it doesn't include five of them - the sniper Sidorenko, Vasily, Lyudmila, Ludvik and Pavlov, who once defended the building.

Since the members of the delegation came from all walks of life and all over the Soviet Union, most of them did not know each other in the first place, which also made the people who could talk after the departure closer. Naturally, the five of Shidorenko, Vasily, Lyudmila, Ludvik and Pavlov were also relatively close, and they were also the most eye-catching group of people in the car - 5 Heroes of the Soviet Union, who together almost killed a regiment of fascists!

At this time, Lyudmila was playing chess with Pavlov, and Ludvik was pointing at him, without any consciousness of "watching chess without saying a word". And on one side, Shidorenko and Vasily were chatting about everything from the warm climate of the Mediterranean to Comrade Leonov, who was still with the deputy commander-in-chief. (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.) )