Several hours of meetings were interrupted by the constant influx of reports from the front: the situation was not encouraging, the Red Army had been driven out of the Bessarabia region in its entirety, and Moldova and Ukraine west of Odessa would be abandoned. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe German Army Group South is advancing at high speed to the east and south, and it is simply unrealistic to drive the German troops out of Moldova now.

Before the war, the Supreme Command, in accordance with the predictions of Lin Jun and Voroshinov, set the most important defensive (offensive) position in the direction of Belarus - Zhukov's heavy army group lived up to the expectations of the Supreme Command and gave the Germans a head-on blow!

Why is it arranged this way? Because Lin Jun believed that the Germans would choose the closest route to attack Moscow, the arrogant Hitler would think that as long as Moscow was captured, the Soviet power would fall and at least submit. Lin's prediction comes from history, when the Red Army believed that Germany would focus its assault on Ukraine, the most important food-producing region of the Soviet Union, because the war machine of the Third Reich needed the big granary of Ukraine to feed, and as a result, the Kiev Special Military District was the strongest.

Not to mention the fiasco of the Kiev Military District, the strategic expectations of the Red Army were wrong - the strongest direction of the German assault was not Ukraine at all, but Belarus! It is also because of this that several new army groups newly formed in the rear were given to Zhukov after forming combat effectiveness, and the current Southwestern Front is at most equal in strength with the Western Front (of course, compared with the "historical Kiev Military District"). The strength has still strengthened. ）。

But this time the Soviet High Command miscalculated another trick this time - the plan could not keep up with the changes, Hitler put the primary direction of the assault on Ukraine, and there was only one reason for the formation of this situation: Lin Jun bombed the oil fields in Romania!

The oil-producing regions of the Caucasus in the south of the Soviet Union became a target for Hitler's eyes and madness, and without oil his war machine would not be able to turn for long, at least not long before it would have to slow down, and this was something that Hitler would not allow - the Third Reich had never felt the importance of the Caucasus oil fields as much as it did now, and the thirst for oil had reached an unprecedented level for the Third Reich: access to oil was more important than the capture of Moscow!

Is Lin Jun to blame for the strategic mistake? No, because Lin Jun and the members of the command had already estimated that such a situation might occur when they were celebrating the successful bombing. But that would have been a matter of how to attack, and the fact that the army that had already entered the north could not be transferred south from the original deployment area as a whole, the Germans did not give Moscow enough time to redeploy.

In their reports to Moscow in the past two days, Zhukov and Tukhachevsky made it clear that their existing forces could carry out a full-scale counterattack and break through the border line into Poland and East Prussia, but at most reach the Warsaw line before they had to stop, and the result would be that the flanks would be completely exposed, and there would be no ability to attack again for the time being.

Zhukov and Tukhachevsky were not carried away by the previous skirmishes: the war had been attrition far beyond expectations in a week, and the Soviets still underestimated Germany as an adversary.

Once it enters the enemy's territory to fight, a series of logistical problems will become more prominent, and the original plan of attacking the enemy first now seems to have been greatly supported, and Germany's preparations for war have reached an almost perfect level.

Lin Jun agreed with the opinion of his "troika": Judging from the current situation, rashly launching an all-out counterattack on the northern border is likely to cause the danger of rashly advancing and then being encircled, because the south is empty, and the troops will be threatened from two strategic directions.

41 years swept Poland in one go? Now it seems a bit too ambitious!

The Soviet war machine was still a long way from full potential and full speed, and that would take time, and the High Command needed to come up with a suitable plan.

The loss of Moldova made Stalin face a very difficult decision - now from the swampy areas of southern Brest to the line of Odessa, an area of eastern Ukraine almost the size of Austria has become a standard salient, and most of Western Ukraine and a large part of Western Ukraine are in danger of being cut off at any time!

The Primorsky Front and the South-Western Front had to organize a strong defensive line on the front line of Odessa and Vinnytsia, and the Marsh blocked the German offensive, and even more horizontally blocked Zhukov's support for the South-Western Front: it would take half a month for the heavy forces around Brest to send a mechanized division to the south!

What to do?!

The only way is to retreat strategically! It took the initiative to abandon the vast areas including Lviv, Chernoveti and other important cities, abandon the Eastern Carpathian defense line, and evacuate all the personnel and materials that could be evacuated to the west of Vinnytsia.

It is more difficult to retreat than to attack, it is like to move Austria as a whole, and the price to be paid is difficult for Kalinin and several other comrades to accept! It is impossible to achieve "the common people withdraw first, and the troops fight to block the attack", which will only cause chaos along the entire defense line and the collapse of the army! In order to ensure the withdrawal of more troops from the salient area, Stalin made a decision that only a qualified leader had the courage to make: blow up all industrial facilities in the salient area and withdraw the army in formation!

For the sake of the final victory, the Soviet Union could only make the decision of a strong man with a broken wrist - to leave the cities, villages and people to the enslavement of the fascist German army for the time being, and to withdraw as many troops and equipment as possible!

Such a decision was extremely painful, and Lin Jun deeply blamed himself, he could imagine what kind of fate those people who had been abandoned by him would face!

"Lads, our comrades of the Red Army! Are you just leaving us to the fascists?! What are we going to do? What to do?! In the movie, the old aunt's desperate cry for the retreating Red Army seemed to echo in his ears, and any soldier would be embarrassed in the face of such a scene!

Lin Jun didn't need to face the desperate eyes and the shouts of the people, but he could feel that this was the greatest sorrow of those in power! But for the sake of the victory of the whole war, as a commander-in-chief, you can only learn to give up as necessary! It is the responsibility of every soldier to hold on to every inch of the country, but for the sake of the final victory, for the sake of the homeland not all lost, you can only give up what is in front of you! War is like this, sometimes you are forced to do something against your will, otherwise it will not be called war!

Stalin was notoriously ruthless at times, but now Lin Jun would not blame the old man: if he was in his place, he would have to make the same decision, because it was the only right choice.

The retreat was left to the south-west, and nothing of strategic value could be left to the Germans. After the meeting, Stalin saw that Lin Jun's face was very unpleasant - the war is changing rapidly, and the elation that has just been made will soon make your heart very heavy.

Lin Jun stayed for a while, Stalin wanted to talk to him privately, and there were some things that Stalin did not want to discuss with others.

"Yakov's troops have been crippled, and the entire division is now practically non-existent. In the morning I received a report from the Baltic Front that Tukhachevsky had ordered the 1st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take command of the remnants, and that Yakov was now in Fekochinov's unit, and that no one was fine. ”

Lin Jun knew that Stalin should be a little worried about the situation of his two sons, although his father could not care too much about the situation of his sons, but Lin Jun still needed to help him take care of it: "Yakov fought very bravely, and the report said that the company under his command wiped out several times more German troops than himself, and made a very important contribution to the consolidation of the battle line. Fekochinov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner just yesterday, and he deserves that honor. ”

"Just let him stay in the 1st Division, I don't worry about Fekochinov, don't let him stay behind, tell Fekochinov, don't watch and protect Yakov just because I am my son."

"Yes, I understand, and so does Fekochinov. Now Yakov is already the commander of the armored artillery battalion, and a good commander like him will not be idle anywhere. ”

One can see a hint of relief on Stalin's face when he heard such a sentence: he never interfered in the work and life of his eldest son, and he was still a captain in his early thirties, which was a normal situation in the Red Army, because in peacetime commanders were not promoted quickly, and personal ability could not be highlighted. Now it's a war, and since the son's ability and combat record are outstanding, it's normal for his position to be promoted, and Yakov won't think that his father is making moves behind him.

"If it weren't for the fact that there is no suitable position now, Fekochinov thinks that Yakov is fully capable of being the commander of the artillery regiment, even the commander of the tank regiment, he is very capable!"

Stalin did not say anything more, but Lin Jun needed to continue, because Vasily must not be forgotten: "Vasily has arrived in Vinnytsia, and yesterday his fighter regiment cooperated with bomber units in air strikes on German targets in Moldova. Although the enemy plane was not shot down, his superiors reported that Vasily behaved well and was very brave. ”

Vasily is brave, no commander on the front line can leave him in the rear, probably the only one who can really suppress him is Lin Jun. Lin Jun had a lot to deal with, but he still greeted the relevant commanders at the front, and he should pay attention to the situation of Yakov and Vasily, and the important situation could be reported to him directly: Yakov's unit was merged into the 1st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and served as the battalion commander; Vasily withstood the test of the first battle, and this is an important situation, and there is no need to report on ordinary combat missions, and the commanders know it in their hearts. (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.) )