How many people's names can a person's brain remember? How many people remember all aspects ?! It is difficult to say, perhaps as a teacher can remember the most names, but Lin Jun is not a teacher - now he must use his memory to the extreme, because he is already the deputy commander of the Soviets, and Stalin wants him, with the cooperation of the General Staff, to form a sufficient number of army groups in the shortest possible time to fight. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The General Staff had already planned it, but when a large pile of documents were handed over to Lin Jun, the situation of those troops and the names of the main commanders would allow Lin Jun to spend a while! It's not peacetime, he has to know what is going on with the army and all the top commanders!

After the transfer of Lukin's 16th Army, the 17th Army will remain in the Transbaikal Military District and will be responsible for the security of the Transbaikal region. The huge Red Army is now about to undergo a completely new wartime reorganization, and not counting the newly established front armies, the number of the group army alone will be from 18 to 55! The commander of the army group alone will appoint 38 people! (I won't list the names of all the army commanders in detail here, otherwise someone will say that I cheated on the word count, and in the future chapters will automatically appear one by one.) ）

"No wonder the courtiers in ancient times hoped that the emperor would remember his name, and the emperor would forget! Figuring out how many generals you have under your command is nerve-wracking! ”

With an army of nearly 10 million, how many senior commanders are there?! The long list of names on the list is enough for Lin Jun to ponder, but he doesn't have that time - these are all famous generals in history, except for the commander of the 37th Army, who is not Andrei Andreevich Vlasov who let Alexander "deal with", the commanders of various army groups will be famous in the future!

Where will Vlasov go? Probably only Alexander knew, and it seemed that he had been sent to Siberia to manage mining: Alexander couldn't kill this army commander that Lin Jun didn't like, which had an impact on Lin Jun's prestige, so he let the energetic Vlasov go to Siberia to show his talents.

Each of these armies has a proud record in history, just like the 18th Army: Lin Jun asked it to complete the reorganization within two days and go directly to the front line of the battle - because the various units that formed it were basically army clusters near Kharkov, Ukraine, mainly formed on the basis of the organs of the Kharkiv Military District and some units of the original Kiev Special Military District, under the jurisdiction of the 55th Infantry Army, the 17th Infantry Army (the 96th and 60th Mountain Infantry Divisions and the 164th Infantry Division). ), the 16th Mechanized Army (16th Tank Division, 39th Division and 240th Motorized Division. ), the 64th Division of Aviation and the 45th Division of Mixed Aviation.

In the distribution of military equipment, the Red Army has always had the habit of "giving priority to key troops" and has also taken measures to give priority to equipment according to the region, which can reduce the pressure on transportation. Although the units that will be subsumed into the 18th Army are not "key targets", they are garrisons near Kharkov, and with the heavy industry base of Kharkiv as a guarantee, the two tank divisions were basically reequipped with T34 tanks last year -- Lin Jun wanted them to block the muzzles at the junction of Belarus and Ukraine! Because the eastern side of Ukraine is a salient in terms of terrain, which is conducive to the German offensive rather than its own defense!

There are mountains on one side and the vast Ukrainian plain on the other, which is just right for the deployment of troops of the 18th Army! Will the 18th Army be able to accomplish such a difficult mission? Lin Jun doesn't know, but there is confidence - this is the "small land" that participated in history (small land, you can understand the inside story by looking at the MTV of "Soviet Song - Little Land" or "Little Nameless Land", it is completely a flesh and blood millstone!). The commander of the army group at that time was Major General Alexei Yalisandrovich Grichkin. The troops that went down in history for the battle with the "Land of Fire" do not have to doubt the tenacity of the will to fight!

Judging from the current situation, the situation on the entire front is the most unobjective in the southwestern part of the USSR, but the greatest pressure is not on the Primorsky Front, nor on the Southwestern Front, but on the Western Front! Belarus is under threat from the west and from the Ukrainian flank! Now there is a partial victory in the Brest direction, but the strength of Army Group Center of the German army is still the strongest, and it is necessary to give a sufficient force of support behind the Western Front!

"The formation of a new front army behind the Western Front will not only give favorable support to the Western Front, but also support the Southwestern Front on the flanks." Lin Jun's proposal was immediately supported by Stalin.

"It is called the Reserve Front, and according to the location and movement plan of the new army, it has the 24th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 43rd, and 49th armies under its jurisdiction. An experienced and steady commander is needed to lead the force. ”

Who is suitable? There are people here who are not idle - the reserve front is not a "reserve" as its name suggests, it is to be put into battle! At present, this unit needs to have a commander of sufficient ability, and it and its seven subordinate group armies were formed almost at the same time, and the workload is extremely huge, and experienced commanders can only be competent, and the overall operation may be under the direct command of the Supreme Command.

"Comrade Stalin, I am willing to take on the organization of the formation of the reserve front." It was Marshal Budyonny, who had a big beard, who spoke.

As in history, the cavalry marshal did not want to be an idler anymore, hoping to actually command the combat troops - the first commander in the history of the reserve front was Zhukov, but this would have Zhukov commanding the troops and the German central cluster, and it was impossible for him to be the commander of the reserve front.

In fact, Lin Jun has a better candidate - Timoshenko, but since Budyonny volunteered, he can't object: although Budyonny's tactics are outdated, it is still no problem to be responsible for the formation of the front army, and in history he served as the second commander of the reserve front army, although the time was only 2 months. The old handsome man is out of the horse, and the work can still be done carefully. In this way, Comrade Marshal "deigned" to become the commander of the Reserve Front.

Of course, Lin Jun would not let the senior general of the meeting sit idle -- if the Moscow Military District was to form the Southern Front, General Timoshenko would be in charge. It turned out that historically this position belonged to General Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev, but this comrade General had not yet had time to step down from the position of commander of the 12th Army, and the Orthodox Command fought fiercely with the German Army Group South (the general served as the commander of the army group and was wronged. Just let him stay in Ukraine first. According to Lin Jun's estimate, with the development of the war, the huge Southwest Front Army will definitely need to be reorganized and a new front army will be separated, so that the role of Tyulenev can be brought into play at that time.

There are too many excellent commanders in the Red Army, Fediko, Belov and others are still there, and it is not the turn of the "young people" to charge into battle, those "old guys" are not outdated, and they can make the heads of German marshals and generals like Rundstead three big in the front army!

Konev is still idle, he has to hurry up and find him some work, he will get moldy if he stays in the General Staff! Where did he go? There was no hurry, soon a large number of army groups would reinforce the Western Front, and no matter how strong Zhukov's ability was, there was no need for a Western Front with more than double digits in its hands - Konev would also have to be the commander of a front.

A purging revolution made Stalin finally taste the "sweetness" today -- the excellent commanders at hand grabbed a lot of them, and there was no one to command the troops!

Tukhachevsky was commanding the Baltic Front in a fierce battle with Army Group North under the command of Field Marshal William-Joseph Franz von Loeb, who had thought that it would be able to quickly break through the Lithuanian defenses, and like Guderian in the south, suffered a fierce counterattack from the Red Army, and it was the powerful 1st Mechanized Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that took the lead in the Red Army's assault knife!

Fekochinov's troops in Lithuania gave the Germans a taste of what it was like to be "overwhelmed", and the three-hour exchange of fire actually cut the advancing German troops of nearly 100,000 troops into three sections, and the tanks of the first division were cooperating with friendly troops to encircle and suppress the German troops blocked at both ends.

Loeb made the mistake of underestimating the enemy: after entering Lithuania from East Prussia, Army Group North's strategy was to advance along central Lithuania and then divide into multiple arrows to cut the Red Army troops north (to the north was the Baltic Sea, and the Red Army would either be annihilated or retreat from the sea, and Loeb's strategy was historically correct. This needs to be "suddenly", and the tactics are correct, but he is facing the "Red Napoleon"!

Tukhachevsky estimated the intentions of the German army, and initially did not send the strongest assault force to confront Army Group North head-on, but only slowed down the German army with a line of defense, and three hours after the German army entered Lithuania and entered the interior, the 1st Mechanized Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs attacked the German flank from north to south, and cut off the German offensive arrow with equipment and firepower that far exceeded the equivalent combat effectiveness of the German army!

If it were other troops, Tukhachevsky might not have commanded like this, which would have been in danger of falling into the encirclement of the German army, but Fekochinov and his more than 40,000 Red officers and soldiers had this ability and strength! Because they are the first ace division of the Red Army in the Marine War! A 1st Division with more troops and equipment than the Mechanized Army!

But Lithuania is not Belarus or Ukraine, and Tukhachevsky, with his current strength, does not want to fight to the death with the Germans on the front line of the border - Lin Jun has already asked him to give him 5 more new army groups, and what the "Red Napoleon" has to do now is to stall for time. The combat effectiveness of the original Lithuanian army is really not very good, and Comrade Marshal is not yet able to make a full-scale counterattack on the Baltic coast.

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