The small town of Ilov, nearly 200 kilometers away from Moscow, is a small town surrounded by mountains, in the heart of a large jungle, and even a huge fleet of aircraft will get lost in the vast forest if they want to find it.

Now it is the secret 'palace' of Comrade Stalin, the great leader of the Bolsheviks and the wise leader of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union.

"Comrade Stalin, according to your orders, a total of more than 600 La-5 and La-7 fighters have been secretly transferred to Central Asia and Siberia. A large number of advanced aircraft that we have dispatched will rush to the front line of air combat with the Chinese through multiple transfers in a short period of time. "The Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union, Marshal Novikov, who was in charge of the Air Force, reported to Stalin about this top-secret operation of secretly transferring aircraft to other theaters of war.

"Did the Germans spot any of our anomalies?" Stalin asked with some anxiety.

"The Germans have not yet discovered it, and at present we have asked the pilots to increase the frequency of take-off operations, and many wooden fake planes have been placed on the ground to confuse the Germans for reconnaissance." Marshal Novikov affirmed, "In a short time, the Germans will not be able to discover our operation, this operation is very secretive, it is impossible to leak secrets, and inside, the transferred planes are all in the name of going to the rear for overhaul and upgrade." It would be at least a few months before the Germans discovered the anomaly. ”

"Comrade Novikov, this is a transfer operation that may have a total of more than 2,000 aircraft, lasting months or years, and in order to counter the advanced aircraft of the Chinese, these aircraft are very advanced. If your actions leak out, or if the Americans refuse to help us, then we will face a catastrophe. ”

Marshal Novikov bent slightly, and said with certainty, "Comrade Stalin, rest assured, I can make a military order, and if this operation is revealed in advance, or if it leads to extremely bad consequences, I will commit suicide and apologize."

If we had only transferred 200 aircraft, the Americans would probably have been indifferent, but if we had transferred 2,000 aircraft that belonged to or would have been transferred to the Moscow theater of operations throughout the war in Siberia, then they would have helped us with our worries.

There is not much they can do, either to strengthen support for our army on the Eastern Front, or to vigorously strengthen the air force in the Far East and directly break out an air war with the Chinese. ”

Stalin, of course, knew the pros and cons of this, but he still did not forget to warn his air commander, Marshal Novikov.

Seeing him swear like this, Stalin smiled and approving, "Comrade Novikov, you are a revolutionary comrade in whom I trust very much, and I am confident that your plan will be successful." ”

Su Yuren, the head of operations at the base camp, knocked on Zhang Shusheng's office door, followed by Wei Sancai, director of the Propaganda Department of the Republic.

"Chairman, the Kyakhtujie report has returned."

Su Yuren opened the black briefcase, took out a huge photo, and handed it to Zhang Shusheng. "Although in the city of Kyakhta, we only captured more than 15,000 Soviet officers and soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of armed civilians, the battle in Kyakhta can be regarded as a small summary of the direction of the 'Huo Qu' blitzkrieg in Siberia. The Mongol Front under the command of General Tao Qian fought well.

And, congratulations to the chairman, as soon as the war began, we had excellent war heroes. ”

Zhang Shusheng took the photo, but he couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly, the photo was a close-up of a battlefield. A major deputy battalion commander with a small group of soldiers was photographed there, and in the photo, to their right, was a close-up of a clear epaulette of a Soviet general.

What made Zhang Shusheng laugh was not these prisoners of war, but the deputy battalion commander of the major in this field squad who stretched out his right hand and made V-shaped scissor hand movements when the army reporters were taking pictures.

He still remembers that the first time he taught He An to do this action was when he took a family photo twenty years ago, but he didn't expect that this time the kid made meritorious service on the battlefield, and let himself see He An who was as free and happy as a bird that was released back into nature.

"Chairman, what kind of specifications should be adopted for Major He An's propaganda? Should it be particularly strengthened? "Wei Sancai came this time to deal with this war propaganda photo. As a country that has just fully entered World War II, both the national and the military need some heroes to achieve dazzling performances at the beginning of the war.

He An, by chance, captured useful details and captured so many high-ranking officers of the Soviet Army in one fell swoop, which is very suitable for being molded into a model for the army's young Zhuang faction.

It's only because of his special status that Wei Sancai, the head of the empire's propaganda department, is a little inaccurate.

Zhang Shusheng smiled slightly, put down the photo, looked at him, and asked, "Sancai, what do you think should be done?" ”

Wei Sancai pondered for a moment and said solemnly, "Chairman of the Committee, whether it is for public or private considerations, I will actively promote such an officer as a war hero."

The Imperial Propaganda Department needs a lot of such frontal war heroes, and I personally hope that he will become a hero of war.

This is because the fact that the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was able to send his wife and brother to the front line of the war and achieved combat exploits by virtue of his own hard work is in itself the best propaganda case. ”

"This incident can indeed be an excellent publicity case." Minister of Operations Su Yuren also nodded and said. Thinking about it from another perspective, if he was in the position of chairman of the committee, he might also be able to send his relatives to the front line, but whether he could be selfless enough to send him to the front line of the war, he himself was not sure that he would be able to pass the level in his heart.

Zhang Shusheng was silent, took the signature pen, and quickly made a short comment on the document issued by the photo, and then said, "I understand your thoughts. In fact, when He An went to the front line, I just pushed the boat with my hands, and it didn't count how selfless I was.

As the chairman of the committee, I also understand that such a battlefield figure will greatly help the image of the Baath Party and the political axe. And as his brother-in-law, I also like that he has been able to get through the ladder beyond his brother-in-law and achieve some success.

For the time being, the propaganda should be confined to the army, and it is enough to ask the Ministry of Defense to issue a commendation order and regularize his post as deputy battalion commander. For external publicity, you can accumulate some information and wait until the right time to start again.

The foal has just learned to run, and if he is shackled too much, even if he is promoted from a personal point of view, it will only hurt him.

Also, his identity, as long as he doesn't say it himself, the army will keep it secret first. Otherwise, I am worried that those regiment commanders and division commanders will protect him from a vanguard battalion commander to a civilian officer at the division headquarters or regiment headquarters, which is not what he wants.

"Understood, Chairman." Wei Sancai and Su Yuren both nodded.

Zhang Shusheng said a few words to Wei Sancai, because at present, only the Mongolian Front has the most fierce offensive and the greatest results, so the appearance of war heroes is also the temporary key work of the Propaganda Department. In the other two directions, the Wehrmacht only encountered a 'small Soviet army', after all, in front of a large army of hundreds of thousands, a whole armored army group in the lead, except for Siberia, which was heavily defended, the Soviet troops in other directions, when the [***] team broke through into the territory for almost 200 kilometers, they had not yet organized a large-scale army group for the battle.

After Wei Sancai left, Zhang Shusheng and Su Yuren then talked about the overall progress of the 'Huo Quzhi Plan'.

"Chairman of the Committee, at present, the Far Eastern Front and the Central Asian Front are advancing smoothly, and the total number of Soviet troops has been wiped out by about 100,000 people, and the results are not great. It is expected that before another move in the Mongolian-Siberian direction, it is unlikely that the armies of either front will encounter a large-scale battle.

However, according to our intelligence, in the Far East, the Soviet army has drawn troops from the already scarce opposing combat forces, and is expected to gather a force of more than 500,000 troops, while in Central Asia, there are also about 700,000 Soviet troops gathered. ”

Zhang Shusheng flipped through a few documents, and then turned his attention back to the direction of Siberia. After all, in order to fight against Germany, the Soviets did not have many remaining troops in Central Asia and the Far East, and most of them were some second-line or even third-line armies. Most of the armies in these two places were sent in the direction of Europe, or joined in the fierce battles with the Far East.

The Soviets originally planned to concentrate their forces and launch a large-scale winter offensive against the Chinese army, but as a result, the Huo Qubing plan of the [***] squadron at the beginning, this operational plan that severely damaged the Far Eastern army could only be put on hold.

Siberia, on the other hand, has a large number of army groups even when the Soviets are at their most strained, and as long as they can keep the Trans-Siberian Railway and the east-west corridor across the country, the Soviets will still have a chance to face any enemy. Siberia is not only a huge resource, but also the backbone of the USSR.

"A large-scale air battle?"

On the documents, Zhang Shusheng saw the latest intelligence showing that in order to compete with the Chinese [***] team for battlefield air supremacy, the Soviet army is expected to break out a large-scale air battle over hundreds of kilometers to 1,000 kilometers away from Chinese territory.

"Yes, Chairman. The Soviets found in the Soviet-German war that in the face of an enemy who also had a large number of aircraft, victory could only be achieved by dispatching as many aircraft as possible at the same time, and small-scale air battles could not affect the strategic direction.

So, in order to fight for air supremacy, to facilitate the possible battle of the Siberian tank cluster in the future, and to defend against our follow-up offensive, the Soviets are massing a large number of aircraft.

According to the most secret intelligence, the Soviets not only concentrated most of the planes in Siberia and built more planes overnight, but they even secretly pulled planes from the Soviet-German battlefield. A large number of new aircraft, which were supposed to be sent to the Soviet-German battlefield, were secretly transferred to Central Asia and Siberia. ”

Su Yuren said with a serious expression that the Soviets dared to draw planes from the Soviet-German battlefield, and even to draw planes supporting Moscow back to Central Asia or Siberia, which is enough to see their understanding of the crisis of 'destroying the country and exterminating the species'.

The pen in Zhang Shusheng's hand lightly tapped on the document, frowned, and said, "Stalin made a good calculation, and it seems that he secretly transferred planes on the Soviet-German battlefield, but in fact, it is likely to be made for the Americans."

So that the Americans know that now they are in danger of losing their country, and even the planes over Moscow have to be transferred back to fight. ”

Su Yuren nodded, the Soviets' tricks were not clever, but they were very effective, "Yes, Stalin's move is to kill two birds with one stone." The Americans will never sit idly by and watch the Soviet Union lose Moscow or more territory, and I estimate that in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the American fleets transporting aircraft are likely to have set off under the protection of a powerful fleet. ”

"More than that, come and see."

Zhang Shusheng and Su Yuren walked in front of the big map, and Zhang Shusheng slapped the position of Arkhangelsk, "You see, this is an important port for the Soviets in the north, and this is the White Sea, which is not even a thousand kilometers away from Moscow in a straight line in the air."

The US aircraft carrier fleet can take off a large number of carrier-based aircraft here, then turn around at land airfields, and rush directly to the front line in Moscow to participate in air battles. Not to mention the possible support aircraft of the fleet, sending the fleet to this position alone would be of great help to the Soviets, enough to help the Soviet Air Force, which had drawn part of its strength, to deal with the Germans. ”

"Most likely, otherwise if air supremacy over Moscow is lost, it may be the next Leningrad there. Moreover, once Moscow is defeated again, the Soviet Union's determination to resist the war may even waver, which the Americans will never tolerate. Su Yuren nodded.

Zhang Shusheng said secretly: Of course, in the original history, in addition to being powerful, the Americans also dared to do things that the armies of other countries had not done, and the aircraft carriers took off B-25 medium-range bombers and even bombed the atomic bombs, all of which showed that the US military would do whatever it could to achieve its operational objectives. In the previous life, even if the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield was not as critical as it is now, they did provide great support to the Soviets through the White Sea.

Su Yuren also frowned and said, "Chairman, it seems that on the Siberian side, we are likely to be strongly counterattacked by the Soviet Air Force. ”

Zhang Shusheng smiled, "Whether it is a strong counterattack or not, I can't say yet." However, since everyone knows the important surname of Siberia, at the beginning of the formulation of the Huo Qubing plan, I asked the main force of the air force in the early stage to secretly transfer the air force after launching the first wave of air raids, and concentrate a considerable part of the air force of the entire plan in the Mongolian-Siberian direction, just so that they can seize air supremacy as soon as possible and gain the initiative in the skies over Siberia.

I did not foresee that Stalin would dare to resolutely and resolutely immediately send a fleet of aircraft to support Siberia, but he did it right. ”

Su Yuren: "In this way, Stalin held back his strength and wanted to teach us a big lesson, thinking that this kind of trick of darkness and Chen Cang could make us fall behind." Does he really think that we don't know how to fight a war because we haven't had a large-scale air battle with the enemy? ”

"It's a mule or a horse, take it out and slip it away, this time the Soviets thought they had concentrated the superior aircraft group, but they didn't expect to run into our elite fighter group in the north, we must teach them a big lesson, modern air warfare, not only the Soviets and Germans, but also the Americans.

We, we will definitely do better than them, because we have better planes, better equipment, better pilots. ”

Zhang Shusheng slammed his fist on the table, and seemed to have seen countless planes about to take off and fly to the skies over Siberia to engage in the largest air battle with Soviet planes since the Sino-Soviet war.

(To be continued)