Lin Jun once discouraged Stalin's idea of blindly expanding the mechanized army, and built this military group with a strong assault capability in the army as quickly as he could. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The number of infantry corps of the Red Army has reached 63, the absolute number of which is the largest in the world, but although these units are organized into a certain number of mechanized units, the "infantry" is the "infantry", and judging from the current pace of war, it may fall behind in the near future.

The second day of the meeting was expanded in size, and Stalin summoned to the Kremlin all the commanders of the mechanized corps, except for the 30th mechanized corps, which belonged to the Special Military District of the Red Banner in the Far East, a rare gathering of corps commanders in the history of the Red Army.

The 28 army commanders (the 29th Mechanized Corps with the name temporarily missing) who were summoned to Moscow did not know the intentions of the central authorities, and when they reported to the National Defense Committee after arriving in Moscow, they found that more and more army commanders had arrived, and realized that this was a gathering of mechanized army commanders.

It is now the coldest time of the year, and there is no possibility of a major military operation, so the central authorities will transfer so many commanders of troops to Moscow and temporarily hand over command to deputies and political commissars.

When Lin Jun was in Riga, he had promised Tukhachevsky to support several divisions of the Baltic Military District, and this time he had already communicated with Stalin before the joint meeting: Stalin agreed with Lin Jun's suggestion, he knew that the Baltic Military District would be the weak point of the entire defensive circle of the Soviet Union, so he decided to reorganize the 29th Mechanized Army.

In order to fulfill Lin Jun's promise, Stalin decided to integrate the Red Army ace and the 1st Mechanized Division directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of different systems into the newly formed 29th Mechanized Army, and Major General Fekochinov, a close confidant of Lin Jun and commander of the 1st Mechanized Division directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was also the commander of the 29th Mechanized Army.

Lin Jun did not oppose the old man's kindness, the current strategy is to attack the enemy first, the Baltic Sea Coastal Military District needs a force with super attack power, Tukhachevsky has this super strong iron fist in his hands, and Germany's Army Group North has absolutely no good fruit to eat.

However, Stalin's optimism still made Lin Jun feel a little worried: he knew too well the combat effectiveness of the Germans, if one was not good, the elite mechanized 29th Army would be reimbursed on the Baltic Sea coast, and the "Red Napoleon" was to block the muzzle, if it wasn't for the original commander who was chosen for his own suggestion, Lin Jun would have the ridiculous idea of "borrowing a knife to kill".

On the night of January 3, 1941, Lin Jun met with all the commanders of the mechanized army in the conference room of the National Defense Commission in advance to prepare for tomorrow's meeting.

In front of them were all commanders in the prime of life, and only a few were old, and everyone showed fortitude and confidence on their faces, because their troops were the absolute main force of the Red Army.

His former secretary Fekochinov was dressed in the uniform of a major general with the logo of the troops directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and his position was arranged next to Lin Jun.

"Comrade army commanders, tomorrow Comrade Stalin and the leadership of the Central Committee will meet with all of you, and you need to report on the situation of your troops in a truth-seeking manner, mainly how much combat effectiveness your troops can have!"

After taking his seat, Lin Jun glanced at these generals: The materials of the National Defense Committee contain detailed information on the situation of all the troops, but those materials are dead, and the indicators cannot be used as a reference for the central government to make decisions. Gu Linjun knew that some mechanized corps consisted of tank regiments that did not even have tanks at all, and were still waiting for the Urals and Leningrad to be transported.

Most of the 29 commanders in front of him are not familiar to Lin Jun, and he only knows the names of these people, and they are not right. Many of them are famous in history, but many of them did not leave too many footprints in history, and the brutal Great Patriotic War sacrificed too many senior commanders.

"I am not familiar with everyone, so comrades in the army commanders will introduce themselves, and by the way, they will introduce the establishment of their own troops. I have a lot of information here, but I can't match everyone into a seat, so let's start with their respective numbers, and there is no need for greetings. ”

The commanders had never seen such a meeting a few times, but they knew that Comrade Deputy People's Commissar for Defense had come to take the lead in the Central Committee, and they had a premonition that a major military operation would be launched soon.

A burly officer stood up and looked at the identification of the arms as a major general of the tank armored corps: "I am the commander of the 1st Mechanized Corps, Cherniavs, the unit is located in the city of Luga, the unit belongs to the Leningrad Military District, and is subordinate to the 1st and 3rd Tank Divisions, the 163rd Mechanized Division, the 5th Motorized Regiment, the 202nd Independent Mechanized Battalion, and the 50th Independent Mechanized Chemical Battalion. Report complete. ”

The comrades of the army commander introduced themselves one after another, and Lin Jun finally matched the names of the people on these materials with the living people, he had never looked at the personal materials of these army commanders, so he didn't know what they looked like.

Remember these people, they will be the pillars of the Soviets: Major General Chernyavs, Lieutenant General Novosesky, Major General Kurkin Tank Panzer, Major General Gligorievich, Major General Alektenko, Major General Khatsterevich, Major General Vinogradov, Major General Lyabishev, Major General Ralbavi, Major General Lazarev, Major General Mostovenko, Major General Bogdanov, Major General Yavryutsky, Major General Oberlin, Major General Garbezo, Sokolovsky Division Commander (the new ranks have not yet been fully implemented), Major General Petrov, Major General Wolov, Major General Fedulenko Tank Panzer Corps, Major General Nikkin, Major General Lelyushchenko, Major General Kondolshev, Major General Myasnikov, Major General Zischakov, Major General Kurvoshin, Major General Kirchenko, Major General Petrov, Major General Novikov, Major General Gorpov.

29 army commanders, unlike history: Rokossovsky is now the commander of the military district, and the commander of the 4th Mechanized Corps is not the big traitor Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov in the history of the Soviet Union, and Alexander has already asked him to step aside according to Lin Jun's wishes.

"According to the wartime standards formulated last year, the standard mechanized corps should be composed of two tank divisions, one mechanized division, one automobile regiment and other auxiliary units.

Once people know each other, they should understand the actual situation of the troops. The mechanized corps is currently the largest unit in the tank and armored units of the Red Army, and can be an integral part of the army group or directly subordinate to the command of a military district or the People's Commissariat of Defense.

Mechanized corps are generally formed on the basis of composite arms units and cavalry units, and most of the tank divisions within the establishment are formed by expanding the original tank brigades, tank regiments subordinate to cavalry divisions, or independent tank battalions subordinate to infantry divisions.

If you look at the data alone, it is very exciting, the combat effectiveness of the two tank divisions in the mechanized army is simply terrifying! Each tank division has 10,940 troops, and the heavy equipment includes 375 tanks (including 63 KV heavy tanks, 210 T34s, 102 BT fast tanks, and T-26 light tanks). ), 95 armored vehicles, 28 field guns (including 12 152-mm howitzers, 12 122-mm howitzers, 4 76.2-mm cannons. ）

With the addition of the mechanized division and other auxiliary units with a large number of light tanks, a mechanized corps will have 1031 tanks of all types, and the KV and T34 alone add up to a staggering 546 units!

Tank and mechanized units accounted for only a tenth of the total number of the Soviet Red Army, but it is clear that the role they could play in Armageddon could not be ignored, the absolute main force of the ground war.

However, the indicators on the issue are only data, and the actual situation is not optimistic: the 1st to 12th Mechanized Corps are basically full, and the equipment is relatively modern. However, the situation of other mechanized armies is not good, the personnel quota compliance rate is only about 60 percent, and the maintenance of old tanks and the shortage of spare parts are a big problem: according to statistics, about 30 percent of the tanks need to be overhauled, otherwise they can only be used as batteries, and 18 percent of the tanks cannot be repaired on the spot.

The mechanized group armies, which were the first to be established and subordinate to the five major military regions in the western region, are also full of loopholes, with less than 50 percent of vehicles alone meeting the standards, and tractors meeting the standards just over half.

Is it the military-industrial sector that does not work hard? No, although it has not yet reached the production speed of real wartime, it is already very efficient.

Is it a problem at the top? No, the central government cares, and Lin Jun and everyone else have been working hard.

The problem lies in the speed of the army expansion, which will be expanded by 4 million troops in two years. People are not worried, because the central authorities still have about 300,000 troops newly recruited last year as reserves, which can fill the shortfall of the mechanized army and other troops, and the replenishment of equipment needs to be strengthened.

Speaking of those recruits, there is one thing that is very commendable, unlike the slanderous propaganda of the Western world that Soviet recruits do not understand anything: all young men and women in the Soviet Union were required to undergo medical and military training, which means that soldiers have received advanced military training before they join the army, which is probably only comparable to that of later Israel. (To be continued.) )