Chapter 576: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Northern Mongolia Secret Moves Continue (3)

In fact, Pinsko didn't know that these Jewish officers selected by Song Zhewu were all outstanding military talents who were famous in World War II in later generations and made great contributions to the defense of the Soviet Union and finally achieved Shengli, although it cannot be said that without these people, the Soviet Union would definitely collapse in World War II, but it is certain, and even inevitable, that the war will endure longer twists and turns.

For example, Antonov, the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, was the only non-marshal among the millions of Soviet troops in World War II who was awarded the Order of Shengli.

At the beginning of World War II, Antonov served as deputy chief of staff of the Kiev Special Military District. Soon after, he was appointed head of the preparatory group for the formation of the command organ of the Southern Front, and in August 1941 he was appointed chief of staff of the front. From June to November 1942, he served as Chief of Staff of the North Caucasus Front, and later Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Army Group and the Transcaucasian Front. During these positions, he demonstrated a high level of theoretical proficiency and excellent organizational skills.

In December 1942, Antonov was appointed First Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Head of the Operations Department by the headquarters of the Supreme High Command. He took direct part in the planning and command of many battles in the Great Patriotic War. In February 1945, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Liliang. Originally, with his prestige and ability, he was completely rated as a marshal in the wave of Xiwang in 55, but unfortunately he seemed to be "on the wrong side", he was the only Soviet general who was not a marshal and was awarded the Shengli Medal.

You must know that the Shengli Medal is the highest medal of honor of the Soviet Army, which is specially awarded to the top leaders of the Soviet armed forces who have successfully completed a large-scale campaign in which one or more fronts participated and brought about a change in the strategic situation in favor of the Soviet Army. There are only 17 Shengli medals in total, and even the old Budyonny has never received them, and it is the medal with the least number of people on Shijie.

Moreover, not all of these seventeen medals were awarded to Soviet generals, in addition to such as Stalin, Zhukov, Vasilevsky, etc., as well as Brezhnev. In addition, three foreigners, Tito, Eisenhower, and Montgomery, were awarded the Shengli Medal.

This Kreuzel is also remarkable.

At the outbreak of World War II, Kreazel was a colonel and commander of the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division, fighting in Orsha. The successful counterattack on the Berezina River slowed down the advance of the German army, boosted the morale of the Soviet army, and made him the first Soviet hero since the outbreak of the war.

Since then, Kreizel has participated in a series of famous battles such as the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Crimea, and the Siege of Courland, all of which have achieved brilliant results.

The only drawback is that in May 42 he participated in the Kharkov offensive organized by Timoshenko, as a result of which the commander Lieutenant General Podhras was killed, and he managed to fight his way out. As a Jew, he ended up in a prisoner of war camp.

Kreizel took over as commander of the 2nd Guards Army in February 1943, broke through the Rostov region, liberated Donbass, and became commander of the 51st Army in August of the same year. The unit participated in the Melitopol, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog battles, the Crimean campaign, and eliminated the German 17th Army. In July 1944, he was assigned to the 1st Baltic Front, and participated in the Battle of Polotsk, the Battle of Hyoai and the Battle of Riga in the Battle of the Baltic Sea, the Battle of Mermeier, and the siege of the German Courland Group. He was promoted to general in February 1945.

And that Katukov is even more famous, belonging to an absolute wrist-level figure.

Katukov's unit was the first in World War II to receive the title of Guards Tank Corps. In the Battle of Mtsensk during the Battle of Moscow, Katukov, as a brigade commander, carefully disguised and "set up" to severely damage the vanguard of Guderian, the three famous generals of the German army during World War II and the founder of the blitzkrieg, and became famous in World War I.

Later, in the famous Battle of Kursk, although his performance was not as remarkable as that of the Fifth Guards Tank Army, his troops were more efficient in terms of results. Later, as the strongest spearhead of the Soviet offensive, he participated in three of the "Ten Strikes" in 44, as well as the "ultimate PK" - the Battle of Berlin. Twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. …,

Although Katukov did not become the commander of the armored corps, Danshi was recognized as the first wartime tank corps in the Soviet Army, and some later generations still judged him above the commander of the Rotmistrov tank corps. The reason why he did not become a marshal in the end was entirely because he robbed Zhukov of Zhukov's merit when he conquered Berlin, and was hated by Zhukov.

In later films, there is a plot about General Patton.

Lao Ba provoked the Soviet generals in the toast after Shengli, and the two did not buy each other. A lot of subtitles and translations say that it is Zhukov. Obviously, this is wrong, and it is clear by looking at the epaulettes that it is not Zhukov. And Patton is not at all on the same level as Zhukov. The general of his corresponding rank is none other than Katukov.

It is no accident that the non-Jewish officers Zhukov, Rokossovsky, and Vasilevsky appear in the list drawn by Song Zhewu, and this is Song Zhewu's intention.

Among these three, the current commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Soviet Army, Zhukov, is the second commander of the Soviet Army to be awarded the title of marshal after Stalin in the Soviet-German War, and is considered one of the best generals in the Second Shijie War because of his outstanding exploits in the Soviet-German War, and he has become one of the only two people to be awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union four times.

In Song Zhewu's opinion, it can even be said that if the Soviet army did not have Zhukov in World War II, there would be no Soviet Union in later generations.

Rokossovsky, commander of the Soviet Seventh Cavalry Division, was the commander of the Don Front of the Soviet Union in the early stage of World War II, and together with Yeremenko, the commander of the Stalingrad Front, led his troops to engage in a fierce battle with the German 6th Army that invaded Stalingrad, and captured German Field Marshal Paulus in February of the following year.

During World War II, Rokossovsky organized and commanded major battles including: Smolensk Battle, Moscow Battle, Stalingrad Battle, Curonian Battle, Belarus Campaign, East Prussian Campaign, East Pomeranian Campaign, Berlin Campaign, etc., known as the "Victorious Marshal".

Although Vasilevsky, who is currently a lieutenant colonel and staff officer of the Military Training Department of the Soviet Red Army, is the most inconspicuous of the three, and even later military fans do not particularly respect him, in Song Zhewu's view, Vasilevsky is a truly outstanding military strategist of the Soviet Union. It is precisely because he served as the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army in World War II, personally directed the Stalingrad counteroffensive operations, was the reconquistabilizer of the Crimea and the destroyer of Königsberg, he was the most talented general in the troika of the Soviet Army, and Stalin's right-hand man as the supreme commander-in-chief.

Song Zhewu added Zhukov, Rokossovsky, and Vasilevsky, who were later known as heavyweights of the Soviet troika, to the list of prisoners exchanged, which was completely ulterior motives. Song Zhewu just wanted to take advantage of Stalin's suspicion and use Stalin's cruel methods to get rid of them. Without these three people, the Soviet Union would have suffered even greater losses in World War II, and would have been weaker after the war, and it would have been much less difficult for him to recover the Outer Northeast, including the whole of Siberia.

Although Song Zhewu had long had ideas about how to deal with the captives, many problems were exposed when it came to practice. Song Zhewu found that he took many things for granted.

For example, according to his original idea, all the Kazakhs captured by the Soviet army should be handed over to Kasimov, and he believed that these Kazakhs would support Kasimov in establishing a state of his own. However, he was surprised by the fact that the Bolsheviks among the Kazakhs and many Komsomol members resolutely refused to join the government-in-exile. In desperation, Song Zhewu had no choice but to send these staunch Bolsheviks back to the prisoner of war camp.

However, the attitude of the senior officers of the Soviet army gave Song Zhewu a big surprise. …,

During the interrogation of Soviet officers, not only Blyukhel and Soviet officers at the rank of colonel, but also political commissars at all levels and personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of political work, almost all asked whether Song Zhewu's promise to exchange prisoners for their families was zhende. After receiving Song Zhewu's sincere and firm promises, almost all of them expressed their willingness to stay in China or go abroad. Moreover, the higher the ranks, the greater the proportion of those who stayed, and several military commanders said that they would be willing to stay in China as long as their families were brought in. However, the lower the rank, the smaller the percentage of officers willing to stay in China.

Song Zhewu fully understands this.

Because the senior officers will have to take responsibility for the defeat in Northern Mongolia when they return home, they will not only be forced to leave the army, but they will almost certainly be imprisoned or sent to Siberia for labor. As high-ranking military officers, they know all this.

Lower-ranking officers bear much less responsibility, and they don't know much about the Kremlin, so it's understandable that they chose to return to the Soviet Union.

In order to ensure that he could fulfill his promise, Song Zhewu released a political commissar of the Soviet Army and asked him to bring back a message to the ruthless Georgian in the Moscow Kremlin.

The content of the message was: exchange all the family and relatives of Blyukhel for 10,000 captured Soviet soldiers; the families of each of the other officers of the rank of officer, for 300 prisoners; The families of the officers at the school level were exchanged for 50 to 200 prisoners.

In the list of Jewish officers issued by Song Zhewu, including Zhukov, Rokossovsky, and Vasilevsky, they themselves exchanged 5,000 prisoners each, while Zhukov, Rokossovsky, and Vasilevsky exchanged 10,000 prisoners. The family members of those on this list are to be exchanged in accordance with the principle of exchanging the dependents of captured Soviet officers.

In order to prevent the occurrence of Stalin's refusal to exchange the family of a certain person, Song Zhewu stressed that the family members of all the captured high-ranking Soviet officers who voluntarily remained in China must be exchanged in one go, otherwise the operation of exchanging the families of prisoners of war would fail......

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