Chapter 266: The Winter Offensive Begins

After inspecting the finalized test flight of the helicopter, he went to the snail noodle shop opened by his old classmate with Zhou Duanzheng and had a good meal.

If he hadn't become the top leader of the country in the early years, Zhang Shusheng might have gone straight to Liuzhou to taste the most authentic snail noodles, but now, he can only taste them in Guilin.

But what surprised him was that Zhou Duanzheng's old classmate not only operated very authentic snail noodles, but also was very good at Guilin's local rice noodles.

Subsequently, at the special invitation of the local political axe in Guangxi, Zhang Shusheng and Zhou Duanzheng, accompanied by the leaders of the tourism department, took a small tour of Guilin, and gave a high degree of affirmation to the vigorous development of tourism in Guilin. With the improvement of the living standards of the residents of the Republic, the legendary 'Guilin Mountains and Rivers' has now become a scenic feast that ordinary people can enjoy. Because of the early development, the industry is also developed, and it is close to the coast, the east, west, north, south and four major railways converge in Guangxi, and it is close to the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, one of the most economically developed in China, and the tourism industry is developing rapidly.

As a result, when Zhang Shusheng left Guilin, he personally took away four servings of snail noodles, and the soup of the snail noodles was frozen into ice cubes, then put them together with the wet powder, packed them into boxes, and then put them in the refrigerator of Air Force One, and brought them back to Hanjing directly.

"Is it delicious?"

Zhang Shusheng personally cooked snail noodles for his two wives and Yutai, and then sat there, giving them some from his bowl from time to time, and then watched them eat happily. It was the first time for Shantai Luoyu to eat snail noodles, and she immediately liked the special taste, happily eating the slightly spicy snail noodles, and her forehead was drenched with dense fine sweat.

In the second year of junior high school, Tingting is now generous, her hair is not much modified, straight, and she is simply tied with a small ribbon, even when she eats, she looks calm and has a quiet beauty.

"Godfather, you eat too."

When Tantai raised his head, he looked at his godfather who was staring at him with flawless eyes, held chopsticks, picked up a peanut, and handed it to him, Zhang Shusheng was a little dazed, what a similar action, in his previous life, Tantai Jingming was the same, he always liked to pick things from the bowl and feed him.

The face is almost exactly the same, and even the hairstyle is the same, Zhang Shusheng still remembers that when she first met Tantai on campus, she was holding a book, and her beautiful straight black hair was unforgettable.

This is simply a miniature version of the Silent Tea.

"Perhaps, this is simply a relative of Jing Ming's ancestor."

Zhang Shusheng sighed secretly, looked back at the two wives who were immersed in eating snail noodles, and their expressions were complicated.

The next day, Zhang Shusheng suddenly remembered the battlefield observation group sent to the Soviet-German battlefield before, so he asked Cai Yi, who had come to report on the work, about the situation.

"Although our observation mission is on the front line, the German offensive is going well, so there are no casualties reported at the moment. Recently, the Soviet Union and Germany are preparing for the largest war since the beginning of the war, and it is expected that an unprecedented general battle is about to begin. ”

Speaking of the Soviet-German war, Cai Ye gushed endlessly, as the Minister of Defense, he naturally knows everything about these two enemies who are in full swing in Europe. Every day, he reads several reports forwarded by the Special Intelligence Department and sent back by the Military Observer Mission.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, from the point of view of him, the chairman of the committee, almost all the high-level people have a common understanding, no matter what the outcome of the Soviet-German war is, China will have differences with them sooner or later, and take advantage of the early opportunity to learn more about the opponent for later use.

"You put down this battlefield assessment report first, and then I will study it carefully."

Speaking of the Soviet-German war in Europe, Zhang Shusheng could not concentrate on this report on the Soviets' desire to increase military trade with the Soviet Union, and almost at the same time, the Germans sent a report demanding that China sever trade relations with the Soviets.

Thinking about the Soviet-German battlefield, the kind of exciting war scene where soldiers are approaching the city, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but go into the basement several times, get into the one-man mecha of his own dream, and then fly directly to the Soviet-German battlefield to be a secret observer. But I still gave up thinking about it, it's okay for this thing to drive around in China, in case you are unlucky enough to step on the shit and expose it early, don't be scared Su De thinks it's not good for the aliens to attack and stop fighting.

What Zhang Shusheng needs is the improvement of the overall strength of the republic, not the speed of a moment.

This individual mecha that spent 10,000 Dream Points to exchange from the Dream Machine when the national system was turned on, was made by the second-level cosmic civilization.

According to the description of the Dreamer, the earth is still in the middle form of a first-level cosmic country, of course, according to its probability calculation, with the current crazy development speed of the republic, and then taking into account the human factor, the republic will soon enter the advanced form of the first-level cosmic country civilization.

Of course, Zhang Shusheng also knows that this kid is very fast, at least ten years later. You know, the first time humans landed in space in history was in 1961. The first satellite was launched in 1957.

With the current scientific research strength of the Republic, the rocket has been successfully developed, and is currently focusing on the research and development of new materials and new electronic equipment, improving the load and safety of the rocket, further researching and strengthening sounding technology, and developing practical sounding satellites. According to the most recent report of the head of state that Zhang Shusheng saw that he had read, it would take at least the first half of 1942 for the Republic to successfully develop its first test satellite, and the test launch of the satellite would take place at the end of 1942 or even 1943 at the earliest.

The development of the universe is not in a hurry, even if it is a large investment, it is still slow to develop. Zhang Shusheng also knows that China's foresight and priority are key developments, and it is already a great success to be able to test-launch satellites more than 10 years ahead of schedule.

Although he could not go to Germany, Zhang Shusheng ordered to bring in the reports of the field observation mission on the Soviet-German war in recent issues and read them carefully...... In September 1941, after the start of a new round of German offensive, although the Soviets temporarily ended their retreat, they paid the price of a large number of troops being surrounded and annihilated.

It was not the heroic resistance of the Soviets that slowed down the German offensive, but the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops in the encirclement, and under the combination of the tactics of a large-depth advance and the tactics of armored lightning advance, a large number of Soviet Red Army troops were surrounded by German armored forces and army groups before they could fully recover their senses.

The Soviets not only bought some time for space, but also for some shameful buffer time for the Soviet Red Army in these encirclements.

Since the outbreak of the war, the Soviet Red Army received orders on the entire battlefield, initially resolutely counterattacked, when suffering huge losses, the Soviet top brass reacted, at this time the order was to hold on to resistance, in order to resist and eliminate the attacking German army, and when it was found that a number of Soviet Red Army groups were surrounded, the order was to wait for reinforcements, and strive to delay or eliminate more Germans before the reinforcements arrived.

But when the war came to an end, Stalin no longer thought about rescuing the Soviet Red Army, which was surrounded by heavy German troops, and he had to think about how to defend such an important city as Leningrad. In a vast land, with a large city as the center, and these cities were forced to be taken by the Germans, the Soviets stationed heavy troops in the cities, and even if the Germans wanted to bypass them, they had to destroy these huge number of urban troops first.

The whole of September was extremely important for both the Soviet Union and Germany, and compared to the offensive in the Far East, Stalin could only care about reading the war report, and the war on the Eastern Front was what he was most worried about.

Following the German occupation of Minsk, an important city in the western part of the Soviet Union, through fierce fighting, the middle route army of the three major armies captured Smolensk, the gateway to the Soviet capital Moscow, encircled 17 Soviet Red Army divisions, and cut off the Minsk-Moscow road, the most important communication artery in the western Soviet Union. The Germans had the headquarters of Army Group Center here, because at this time the Germans were only 380 kilometers from Moscow. However, the Germans were not busy attacking Moscow, but divided their forces to attack Kyiv in an attempt to occupy Ukraine.

This arduous battle, which began in midsummer and lasted until autumn, decided the winner, the two Red Army fronts deployed by the Soviet Union in the direction of Kiev, 6 army groups were surrounded, and the final loss was more than 600,000 people encircled and annihilated, and the Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses since the beginning of the war.

However, this seemingly unprecedented victory provided enough time for the Soviet Union to mobilize troops to defend Moscow and other important towns, a large number of Soviet Red Army troops withdrew from the front line and entered the city, while at the same time, more newly formed Red Army divisions were driving from the rear to the front line day and night, preparing to fight to the death with the German army in several major towns, when the German army won the victory in the direction of Kiev, the Soviet cities, including the capital Moscow, were already beginning to be fortified, and the German offensive would encounter unprecedented resistance.

The Battle of Moscow had not yet begun, but the German Army Group North had completely occupied all of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, entered the suburbs of Leningrad, and united with the Finnish army to completely blockade Leningrad With the deepening of the autumn offensive, the decline of the German army began to appear, while the Soviets relied on their strong national strength and vast territorial strategic depth, as well as rapid troop mobilization, gradually eased up, even if it was a two-front battle, it still showed the heroic spirit of the giant. A steady stream of Soviet youths were armed, some even armed with weapons from the October Revolution, and began to go to the Eastern Front and the Far East.

"This is a great battle of defense, the Soviet Union will surely usher in the greatest victory, the Germans and themselves will suffer unprecedented punishment, the great Bolsheviks, invincible."

It was Stalin's monumental speech at the military parade on Red Square, and his waving arms seemed to tell the people of Moscow that the Soviet Union was certain of victory.

And actually...... The German offensive had not yet begun, and Stalin had already signed an order for the emergency evacuation of the Soviet military and political top in wartime if conditions were unfavorable.

By this time, the vanguard of the German army had reached the small town of Kaleglio, less than 40 kilometers from Leningrad.

The fire that burned all night had already burned the town beyond recognition, and it was full of German troops running by, and the victory of the battle made the soldiers shout powerful slogans, and the water bottles they wore were constantly clattering with guns and other things. Occasionally, tanks or armored vehicles rumbled by, and these were armored units that the Germans had just finished repairing and resupplying and were about to participate in the next battle.

"Snort~"

On the road in the direction of Leningrad, passing through the middle of the small town of Kaleglio, a jeep got out of the town, finally found a clearing at a wide junction and stopped.

There were four people sitting in the jeep, a German driver, a Chinese translator, and two yellow-skinned lieutenant [***] officers in German Nazi uniforms.

"Let's go down and walk, you can wait for us in the car." As soon as a younger lieutenant [***] officer turned over and jumped out of the jeep, he immediately turned back to the interpreter who was about to get out of the car.

Seeing that both of them jumped out of the car, the interpreter had no choice but to advise: "Lieutenant Colonel Hou, Lieutenant He, you must bring your identification, otherwise, you are likely to cause some unnecessary trouble." ”

The two waved their hands, and then walked to the side of the town, watched the busy dispatch of the German army, casually smoked the Chinese cigarette in the bag, and talked while smoking.

"Battalion commander, you said that the Germans were simply beaten with chicken blood, the speed of the attack was so fast, we couldn't catch up with their vanguard in jeeps. Even if they are in armored vehicles, this battle still has to be fought, right? The Soviet Red Army was really a wretch. Lieutenant He pointed in the distance, but found a large group of people walking slowly towards the town, although they were also wearing military uniforms, but they were holding their hands high, obviously prisoners, "I heard that after last night's battle, the Red Army of a small division was swept behind by tanks, and made dumplings in a circle. ”

The lieutenant colonel took two puffs of cigarette hard, then exhaled a large puff of smoke, and then said pleasantly, "You kid went to bed early last night, and after the regiment commander returned from the German drinking party, he said that at midnight several more Soviet divisions had not had time to retreat to Leningrad and were surrounded. The Germans were afraid that their appetite was panicking, and along the way, no less than dozens of divisions were captured. It's the time when the combat power is at its peak. ”

As far as the eye could see, the German troops passing by all held their heads high, as if they were not going to participate in the battle, but to capture an endless number of Soviets.

The occasional car or convoy of trucks coming back from the front elicited a great cheer, and even the commander of the convoy did not stop them, for those who had withdrawn were troops who had just joined the all-night.

"Battalion commander, you see, there are quite a few SS troops, just the division number, I see three. These Hitler's personal guards are still very combative. However, in general, it should be attributed to the Germans who were the most ruthless, surround the Soviets with superior forces, and then quickly eat them, and then advance. Lieutenant He said with a smile, the Germans' trick is indeed tried and tested, the Soviets just can't do anything about it, in the rapid offensive of the Germans with elite armored forces and superior air force, the Soviets have been defeated again and again.

"He Xiaobao, your eyes are also very poisonous, when your father came to the army to take you back to pass on the ancestry, I saved you alive and dead, and I am not mistaken, you kid has a hand in the military, at least this look and memory and analysis ability are stronger than many people."

Hou Xiaoshan patted He Xiaobao's shoulder in front of him, this kid was desperate to be a soldier back then, but after he secretly joined the army, he was discovered by the old man in the family, and he chased after the army directly.

If you want to say that it is someone else, it doesn't matter, but this old man is not only He Xiaobao's father, but also the chairman of Xinhe Industry and the father-in-law of the current chairman.

It was called a chicken flying dog jumping, and in the end, it was Hou Xiaoshan, a young army faction who was not afraid of that, and came forward to stop it.

Not for anything else, although this He Xiaobao has not been in the army for a long time, but the talent he has shown is also very extraordinary, not to mention the training top of the recruit company, as a college student who joined the army, he was originally a high-quality soldier, but he gave up the opportunity to directly enter the military academy, and insisted on becoming a soldier first and then taking the exam. And the military-related things, he can say a lot of things casually, and there are a lot of self-taught books on military affairs, this kid has always regarded those military works as novels, and put them in high school and college classes to peek.

Not to mention anything else, since Hou Xiaoshan, the deputy head of the military observation group, was brought to the Soviet-German battlefield, his amazing vision, super memory, and outstanding analysis of the battle made Hou Xiaoshan feel embarrassed. Young people are terrible, their family conditions are so good, but they are not a fool, but a crazy national militarist.

The two chatted there, and during this period, several teams of German pickets also came over to check their documents, but they all passed easily, and at this time, the Germans still had a general favorable impression of China.

When you have a telescope with the surname Gao in your hand, the engine of a car, the engine of some tanks are engraved with Chinese, and even the cigarette in your hand, the cup you drink water, and even the underwear you wear have the Chinese logo made in China, you will not have a bad feeling for China, but will be extremely curious, what is the China that the whole world once took turns to bully.

"China? It turned out that it was not me. ”

When a picket captain wearing the rank of major came over and checked his documents in person, He Xiaobao casually threw him a pack of high-quality Chinese cigarettes.

The major was very pleased, looked at the papers, handed them back, took the cigarette, and praised happily, "China is a very beautiful country, and we welcome you." ”

Then, to Hou Xiaoshan and He Xiaobao's surprise, the major actually said a few Chinese brands lamely, "Haihong card, Haier pie, China tobacco, are all good." ”

The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

After a small episode, Hou Xiaoshan and the others boarded the jeep again and headed in the direction of Leningrad, and what they saw along the way was that there was no exchange of fire at all, that is, the sky was full of German planes, and the planes of the Soviets had all returned to the sky over Leningrad, and they could not even organize a counterattack.

Everywhere you look, the Soviet Red Army is holding up its hands and surrendering, staring blankly at these fierce German Nazi soldiers, allowing them to search their belongings before being handed over to the Turkish or Italian armies and escorted to the rear, where they will be left to the heart of Europe to participate in the labor production of the Axis system.

According to the distribution agreement, even Turkey, Italy, and Finland were able to share many Soviet workers as laborers. This is also the reason why these client states are so zealous. Hitler was unprecedentedly generous to them, not only giving them full garrison and management rights in certain places, but also allocating prisoners of war to them.

"The armored forces of the Germans began to assault the marginal towns of Leningrad."

From the telescope, Hou Xiaoshan and the others saw the German armored troops attacking again, and frankly speaking, neither of them had experienced such a large armored force sortie training when they were in China.

More than a thousand tanks, on the flat outskirts of Leningrad, were advancing rapidly, and as far as the eye could see, there was a torrent of armored tanks.

Hou Xiaoshan looked at the boundless armored troops a little distracted, and then said to He Xiaobao next to him, "He Xiaobao, the unfinished in-depth report on the actual combat level of the German armored forces, you have to make a big effort to pay attention to me." ”

"Don't worry, battalion commander, I can memorize the surnames and data of these tanks, and then compare their actual combat capabilities, battle damage ratios or something, observe carefully, I will come up with a complete report." My brother-in-law said that there are no secrets in this world, knowing oneself and knowing the other, and then seeing each other, these things of the Germans in my eyes can be understood in a circle. ”

Whether it is this kid's perverted analysis and memory ability, or his brother-in-law, Hou Xiaoshan feels deeply powerless, and has to admit that this kid is stronger than himself, at least, he doesn't have such a perverted brother-in-law.

…… When Zhang Shusheng saw the analysis report on the actual use of two new tanks by the Germans in the war, he couldn't help but be amazed, and he was even more happy to see that the main reporter actually had his brother-in-law, He Xiaobao.

"This kid, it's a shame that he always pestered Lao Tzu to ask for military intelligence from other countries, and at that time, considering that it didn't involve the secrets of this [***] matter, he let him look at it at random in his own home, but I didn't expect that he really had some ability."

Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but think that that kid pestered himself every day, asking himself to ask for the military information of those foreign armies, and the reason was very good, brother-in-law, I don't ask you for domestic military secrets, that will make it difficult for you to do, it will leak secrets, I will look at other countries, they will be the enemies of our republic in the future, know yourself and know the enemy, it is good to know more.

As a result, when the kid was on vacation, he found an excuse to run to his house for three days, after all, it was impossible for him to take away those materials, every time he watched it in the dark, he could also rub a meal by the way, his sister He Ning's craftsmanship was better than his mother.

He has seen a lot of sea, land and air data of major foreign military countries.

When I was a freshman, I was making a fuss that there was nothing to learn in college to join the army, and the whole He family was made by him, and later even made a fuss about going to the army with a certificate of identity, and the result was that they were all enlisted in the army for two months, and the family received a call from the inspector to know that the old man also introduced him to Zhang Luo's youngest daughter of an old friend, who had actually been trained in the recruit company, and was so angry that he chased him to the army on the spot, and wanted He Xiaobao to retire from the army.

At this point, the old man never gave in at the end, and always thought that he donated more money and bought more aircraft and artillery for the country, which was not only to help his son-in-law, but also to exchange for the younger son's non-service. After all, it is not yet time for universal military service.

Zhang Shusheng is still very satisfied with his father-in-law, at least he is self-disciplined, and he never claims to be a 'national master'. Although the vast majority of Xinhe Industry is He Ning's dowry industry, even the little bit left is enough for their He family to eat and drink for two lifetimes.

Only in this little son, He Fangjiong didn't want him to be a soldier, and his originally somewhat relaxed attitude was ignited again because the kid ran to the army without permission. After returning from the reception of the army, He Ning went home, and the two mothers and daughters talked about He Fangjiong well, and he knew that he had done too much, and if he had changed abroad, it was estimated that he would have made headlines in the newspaper.

But in the end, he was not embarrassed to come to Zhang Shusheng to admit his mistake, but just made a phone call and said that it would never be like this in the future, Yunyun.

said this, but it was late October, and Jiang Baili walked into Zhang Shusheng's office.

"Chairman, the south is basically ready, and the winter offensive can begin." ――

Next is the tense and dense small high-tide plot, Xiaoyu has been very nervous in the past two days, seeing that it is only two days away from the National Day, and when the time comes, he will go home to get married, so he can only save the manuscript and update it slowly, for fear that the plot will be too scummy.

(To be continued)