Chapter 618 The Soviet-German War Begins

Moscow Kremlin

It was already early in the morning, but the lights were still bright in the spacious conference room on the second floor, countless staff officers of the headquarters were running back and forth, and dozens of generals and marshals with medals hanging in front of Xiōng were thinking hard at their desks and maps. At the end of the conference room there was a small office, which was not large, only about 20 square meters, and Stalin sat here to arrange his work. At his desk sat the two top heads of the General Staff, General Zhukov and Marshal Budyonny.

Stalin was a paranoid person, and a paranoid person who said it well is called persistence, and if it is not good, it is called unrepentance. He generally goes all the way to the things he believes in, at least that's his attitude towards Huaxia.

This evening, Vasilevsky, commander of the Siberian Front, sent a telegram saying that the Chinese side today dispatched more than 50 B-17 heavy bombers to bomb the Soviet positions 100 kilometers in front of Kyakhta City, killing more than 1,000 Soviet troops and wounding more than 3,000 people.

Stalin soon received Zhukov's report, and Stalin, who was on high alert for China, immediately convened a military meeting overnight to observe the development of the situation and discuss countermeasures.

Stalin's pipe, which never left his hand, was lightly knocked on the corner of the table, and after removing the remaining soot, he stuffed it with tobacco again, "Comrade Zhukov, Comrade Vasilevsky sent a telegram today, the air raids on us by the Chinese side are now becoming more and more frequent, and the scale has also developed from single or double bombing by tactical bombers to bombing by large-scale formations composed of heavy bombers. This afternoon, they sent heavy bombers to bomb Kyakhta, and our fighters fought a fierce air battle with them, and now Comrade Vasilevsky has asked us to send no less than 300 new Yak-type fighters to reinforce Siberia. ”

"Comrade Stalin, the Chinese have been sending planes to invade our volleys and constantly provoking us for some time now, and this is something we absolutely cannot tolerate, and we should immediately retaliate and send powerful reinforcements again to strengthen Comrade Vasilevsky's forces." Budyonny tǐng straightened his waist and said with a resolute mouth.

"Comrade Zhukov, look!" Stalin turned to his deputy chief of the General Staff and asked.

"I don't think it's a good thing to continue to send more troops to Siberia." Zhukov still insisted on his consistent position, "At present, the Chinese army in Siberia is only about 1 million, which is still the number including Alexei, the remnant of Tsarist Russia, and our troops in Siberia have reached 1.5 million, I think this is enough, if we continue to increase our troops, we will inevitably draw troops from the European side, which is very unwise." ”

"But the Chinese still have more than a million troops stationed in their peace, and they can reinforce Siberia at any time, and if there is a war, we will not have an advantage at all. Comrade Zhukov, I understand your wariness of the Germans, but at least for the time being, the Germans are still basking in the sun, but the planes of the Chinese have already bombed our Kyakhta, don't you know which direction the troops are more needed? Budyonny was puzzled as to why Zhukov was so wary of the Germans.

Seeing that the two sides were at loggerheads, Stalin was also very helpless, his two chiefs of general staff happened to have different opinions on the issue of dealing with the eastern and western fronts, Zhukov never concealed his wariness of the Germans, but Budyonny hated China in the east even more. Stalin could not say who was at fault on this issue, but the biggest problem in Soviet Russia at present was the lack of troops. By the beginning of 1941, Soviet Russia had more than 4 million troops, of which 3 million were deployed in the border areas of Belarus, Ukraine, and Siberia, and more than 1 million were deployed in Moscow. In another time and space, the weakened Huaxia in another time and space had no ability to pose a threat to Soviet Russia, and the only person with some strength was also defeated by Zhukov in the Battle of Nomenkan, so he could only stay in the three eastern provinces honestly. Stalin only deployed less than 500,000 troops in the Far East to suppress the Kwantung Army, which had millions of elites, and Stalin could calmly mobilize troops to meet the German offensive. However, in this time and space, the Russians were not only defeated by the Chinese government, but also forced to accumulate heavy troops on both the eastern and western fronts, so the malaise of insufficient troops suddenly came out.

"Comrade Budyonny, it is precisely because the Chinese are making a lot of trouble in Siberia that I have concluded that there may not be a big war in Siberia in the last few months, but it is the quiet Germans who have a big problem. Moreover, according to the news from Europe and from all quarters, the timetable for the Germans to attack our country has actually been determined, in June or July. I suggest that our country should carry out a partial mobilization in the western region and quickly form 30 to 50 infantry divisions to cope with possible sudden changes. Zhukov is worthy of being the best general of Soviet Russia at the same time, although he once suffered a big loss at the hands of Su Tong, but after several years of tempering in the Siberian war, his insight into the national strategic situation has been very keen.

As soon as Zhukov's proposal came out, Stalin and Budyonny could not help but groan: The western region is the most densely populated and economically prosperous place in Soviet Russia, and once the mobilization order is issued, it will not only cause a great sensation in the international community, but also have a great impact on the economy of Soviet Russia. The consequence of this was that Stalin had to weigh it carefully.

Stalin pondered for a while and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Zhukov, have you ever considered the consequences of putting the country into combat readiness for the sake of an uncertain piece of intelligence? This will cause great losses to our country, once the mobilization order is issued, countless workers will have to leave the factory to carry rifles, countless students will have to leave the school ship military uniform, have you counted the losses caused during this period? ”

"Of course I do." Zhukov said proudly: "But I know more that if we are not prepared, once we wait for Germany to start a war against us, we will lose even more if we rush to the war." The situation is already so grim that if we do not respond we are the sinners of the state. ”

"Comrade Zhukov!" Budyonny slapped the table and stood up and shouted: "What do you mean, you mean to say that Comrade Stalin and I are unqualified leaders?" ”

As soon as Zhukov's words came out, he knew that it was bad, didn't this sentence scold the monk and scold the bald donkey? If he angered Stalin, the day when he would report to the concentration camps in Siberia would not be far off, and Zhukov immediately stood up and quickly said: "I'm sorry, Comrade Stalin, I didn't mean to. ”

"Comrade Zhukov, sit down." To the surprise of the two, Stalin was not angry, the pipe in his hand was still faintly smoking, and although his eyes were still open, the focus of his eyes did not know where to go. After hearing Zhukov's apology, he just said lightly: "Comrade Zhukov, your concerns about the Germans are not unreasonable, but at present our situation is not critical to the point where local mobilization is necessary, right?" If the Germans really want to do anything, it will not be too late for us to make arrangements. ”

Zhukov sighed secretly in his heart and stopped talking.

In the face of Deko's aggressive momentum, if Stalin did not perceive it, it was purely an insult to the intelligence agencies of Soviet Russia and Stalin's intelligence. However, considering that their own contingency measures were not sufficient, the Russian government and Stalin still hoped to avoid or delay the rupture of Soviet-German relations as much as possible, so as to buy more time to prepare for war. In order to gain more time, Soviet Russia tried its best to profess its sincerity for peace, continued to deliver goods in accordance with the trade agreement between the two countries, and refuted the prophecies of an imminent war between the Soviet Union and Germany in the press and broadcast. Inside, Stalin wanted to push back the timetable of the war by one to three years.

Stalin stood up, walked along, opened the curtains, looked at the sky that had begun to brighten, and was about to say something to the two of them, when the door was suddenly pushed open, and a young staff officer stumbled in, and his originally handsome face turned gray at this time.

Seeing his subordinates lose their temper in this way, Budyonny's face could not help but change and he was about to scold the officer, but the officer was the first to speak: "Comrade Stalin, Marshal Budyonny, no, the Germans...... The Germans are attacking us! ”

At 3 a.m. on June 22, 1941, the sky was dark and the earth was still sleeping. More than 1,000 German light single- and twin-engine bombers sailed through uninhabited swamps and forests in dense fog, intruding into Soviet and Russian airspace without even noticing. At 3:15 p.m., German bombers swooped down from a high altitude and rushed to the Soviet airfield that had been reconnoitred in advance. Hitler's "Barbarossa" plan for a full-scale invasion of Soviet Russia began to be implemented.

The Germans mobilized 190 divisions, 3,500 tanks, and more than 5,000 aircraft to attack Soviet Russia on a 1,800-kilometer-long front from the Bō Lodi Sea to the Black Sea.......

Caught off guard, Soviet Russia was defeated and retreated, and the Russian Air Force, which was not mentally prepared on the first day of the war, suffered heavy losses. Sixty-six airfields in the Western Border Military District were hit by air strikes, and the Soviet Russian Air Force lost about 1,200 aircraft on the first day of the war, of which 800 were lost on airfields.

And just like that, the Soviet-German war began...... ro@。

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