After Li Xiaofeng visited the grassroots units, he was very dissatisfied with the current situation of the Red Army, and all kinds of strange and dogmatic and bureaucratic phenomena emerged one after another, and he said unceremoniously that the current living conditions of the Red Army grassroots soldiers and officers were not ideal, and their subjective initiative was greatly stifled.

Compared with the officer corps of the German army, the gap between the Red Army and the German army in this respect was relatively large, which was also the fundamental reason why, after the outbreak of war, the Red Army often lost battles and suffered losses despite the superiority of technical weapons.

Of course, it is not so easy to correct this qiē, the problem is fundamental, and it is almost impossible to reverse it unless the military academy education of the Red Army is more powerful, unless the negative influence of the older generation of officers is completely eliminated.

In Li Xiaofeng's words: "This is a long-term work, and I am afraid it will be difficult to make a big improvement in five to ten years." ”

Indeed, historically, the Red Army, after heavy losses in 1941 and 1942, then after fierce battles in 1943 and 1944, and in the second half of 1944, can really be regarded as a military force that has always been high.

But objectively speaking, there is still a gap between the Red Army's 100-battle divisions in 1945 and the German army around 1941, which is why Li Xiaofeng believes that the Red Army will take five to ten years to be reborn.

Since it is impossible to reinvent the Red Army in a short period of time, what Li Xiaofeng can do is nothing more than two things: to strengthen the military training and education of the Bryansk Front on the one hand, and to carry out cramming education in a manner similar to the "tactics of the sea of questions"; second, to enhance the equipment level of the Bryansk Front, and to overwhelm the German army's superiority in weapons in terms of quality as much as possible.

Before Guderian arrived on the outskirts of Bryansk. The Red Army conducted intensive training for assault. I practiced hard in the way of moon and moon, water, fire, wood and gold. Although it could not immediately change the shortcomings of the rough technical and tactical level of the Red Army. But at least the large number of recruits who had just been recruited into the army were systematically trained. These rookies have at least learned how to accurately carry out the orders of their superiors.

It was also at this time that the Battle of Bryansk began, and the Großdeutsche Division, which was in the lead, crashed headlong into the 16th Infantry Division of the 32nd Army of the 46th Army.

In fact, the 46th Infantry Division only had two regiments, and in the previous stage of the battle, the division's artillery regiment suffered relatively severe losses from air raids, and the 122-mm howitzers originally assigned to the division were almost completely destroyed, and the division's only supporting firepower at this time was the BM-36 130-mm rocket launcher.

In the morning, the Großdeutsche Division and the 46th Infantry Division fought fiercely around the first line of defense. Some sections changed hands five or six times, until a sudden heavy snowfall interrupted the German offensive at noon, which gave the 46th Infantry Division a breather.

The commander of the 32nd Infantry Corps, Major General E.A. Egorov, received calls for help from the 46th Infantry Division more than once, but what distressed the major general was that he did not have extra reserves to support the 46th Infantry Division, for the simple reason that another infantry division of the army (the 152nd Division) was also attacked by the German motorized 10th Division, and in just one morning, the main force of the division reimbursed a battalion of troops, which shows how cruel the battle was.

There were only two infantry divisions under Major General Egorov. In addition, there is only one artillery regiment left under the army, the 126th Artillery Regiment, and the artillery can't be allowed to fight bayonets with the German devils on the front line, right?

It was not only the 32nd Infantry Division that fought very hard. The 41st Infantry Corps, which also belonged to the 16th Army, was also bloody, and the 118th Infantry Division and the 144th Infantry Division were responsible for the defensive section that opened a big hole for the German 1st Panzer Division and the 1st Cavalry Division without paying attention, forcing Lukin to invest the 235th Infantry Division as a reserve in advance to plug the gun hole.

That is to say, the Germans looked very crazy on the first day of the attack, rushing forward at any cost, and had the intention of eating the 16th Army in one go. To tell the truth, the madness of the enemy surprised both Rokossovsky and Lukin, not understanding what kind of madness Guderian was smoking.

In fact, it was just a northwest wind, and the cold winter in Russia made Guderian very troubled, and he knew very well that if he could not defeat the enemy in front of him as much as possible, his troops would only get worse day by day as time went by, so at the beginning he was crazy at all costs, just to defeat the enemy in one breath and not give the enemy a chance to delay time.

"We should throw our reserves into the reserve as much as possible, fight against each other to defeat the enemy's spirit, and give them a blow to the head!" This is Li Xiaofeng's opinion.

However, neither Rokossovsky nor Lukin agreed with this approach, for the simple reason that they both believed that the premature investment of armored forces would only be meaninglessly consumed, and that the armored forces could only be used when the reinforced 12th, 20th, and 21st armies arrived on the battlefield and carried out a full-scale counterattack.

Rokossovsky said: "Although the current situation is more critical, it has not reached the point where it is completely impossible to stop the enemy, and I think that the enemy's rapid offensive cannot be sustained, and when they have passed these three axes, their morale will collapse, and I think the troops will be able to hold out until then!" ”

Lukin also echoed: "Comrade Andrei, I completely agree with Comrade Konstantin's opinion, this kind of offensive of the enemy is absolutely unsustainable, and as the weather gets worse and worse, the road conditions will become very muddy, and it is not a good choice to throw in armored forces to counterattack!" ”

In fact, as long as Rokossovsky is against it, Li Xiaofeng will dispel the idea of counterattacking with armored forces, and now even Lukin is clearly against it, and a certain immortal is naturally as good as a stream. The reason why someone wants to throw in armored forces to counterattack is nothing more than that he was tossed enough by Guderian in the previous paragraph, and he wants to find face-for-tat to see whether the Red Army's ironclad torrent or Germany's armored heroes are stronger.

"Then follow your advice and don't invest in armored forces for the time being," Li Xiaofeng didn't have a trace of displeasure on his face, and said very kindly: "But the weather has been very bad recently, and I'm afraid the air force will not be able to provide enough support, so will the pressure on the troops be too great?" ”

It has to be said that there are pros and cons to everything, and the bad weather made the situation of the German army even worse. It will not be able to exert its full combat effectiveness in the next offensive operations. This was a good thing for the Red Army. But at the same time. The Red Air Force, which gave the Germans a blow in the previous paragraph, could not rush to the battlefield, and this was bad news for the Bryansk Front, which was already at a disadvantage.

Rokossovsky pondered for a moment and replied: "This is really worth paying attention to, it seems that it is necessary for us to put into the 3rd Guards Artillery Division in advance!" ”

In the sequence of the Red Army, all the units with the title of guards are generally relatively awesome, for example, this Third Guards Artillery Division, before the outbreak of the war, was the key construction force of the Military Commission. The establishment of the division is quite unusual, and instead of having three artillery regiments, it has four artillery regiments. Including one super-heavy howitzer regiment and two heavy artillery regiments and one rocket artillery regiment.

Among them, the super-heavy howitzer regiment is subordinate to a 1931 203-mm howitzer battalion (that is, B-4) and a 1937 152-mm howitzer battalion.

The heavy artillery regiments were even more powerful, each with an artillery battalion armed with M-46 cannons (130 mm) and two artillery battalions armed with D-1 howitzers (152 mm). A total of 54 guns.

To put it bluntly, the M-46 produced by NORINCO was a big cut beyond the German artillery, and both counter-battery and fire support were enough to crush the German artillery.

As for the last rocket artillery regiment, it should not be underestimated. Equipped with a 300-mm BM-39 long-range rocket artillery battalion and two 130-mm BM-36 rocket artillery battalions. Among them, long-range rocket artillery was mainly used to hit German targets in depth, with a range of up to 50 km, while BM-36 was used for fire coverage, which was mainly used to kill and injure enemy living forces.

All in all, the firepower of the 3rd Guards Artillery Division was very powerful. In fact, at the outbreak of the war in 1941, the Red Army had only five such artillery divisions. Each of them was given the title of Konoe. Among them, the 1st Guards Artillery Division was subordinate to the Baltic Front, the 2nd and 3rd Guards Artillery Divisions were subordinate to the Belarusian Front, and the remaining 4th and 5th Guards Artillery Divisions belonged to the Ukrainian Front.

This time, in order to help a certain immortal win the Battle of Bryansk, Triandafinov deliberately fell from the 3rd Guards Artillery Division in Minsk, although it was not directly assigned to the command of the Bryansk Front (Tukhachevsky strongly objected, he asked that the 3rd Artillery Division be left in Minsk), but in fact, as long as a phone call or a telegram, Li Xiaofeng could command this division.

As soon as the battle broke out, Rokossovsky was ready to use this elite artillery division, which shows that he still attaches great importance to the German army.

The next day, the snow was a little lighter, just as the Germans had just resumed their offensive. All the M-46 and 1937 Type 152 howitzers belonging to the 3rd Artillery Division began to fire fiercely, and the fierce fire coverage lasted for half an hour, directly pushing back the first wave of German attacks. Later, when the Germans were defeated, the M-46 immediately switched to strike in depth and began to bombard the assembly points in the rear of the German army. Soon after, 300-mm long-range rocket artillery was added to the mix, which directly created the scene that impressed Guderian the most:

"The previous heavy shelling of the enemy seemed to me to be only a futile resistance, and they could interrupt one or two of our attacks with such shelling, but this shelling could not be sustained. When the front-line troops were routed and pressed back by the artillery fire, I optimistically ordered the second-line troops to begin to assemble, preparing to launch a large-scale offensive while the enemy's fire was weak. But what I didn't expect was that the second-line troops had just completed their assembly, and just as they were about to move to the first line, more intense shelling came! ”

I don't know what the expression on Guderian's face was when he said this, but from his later records in his diary, he was probably both frightened and remorseful: "...... I made a very stupid mistake and once again underestimated the fighting power of the Russians. The shells from the enemy's depth densely and accurately covered my second-line troops, and these young men who had just completed their assembly did not have much defense at all, and were torn to pieces by the rain of bullets, and all I saw was blood and stumps and broken arms, and an entire armored infantry battalion was evaporated! Oh my God, what the hell did I do......"

The words that followed were all scribbled, which shows how out of control Guderian's feelings were at that time, and the direct consequence of this heavy in-depth artillery attack was that Guderian had to cancel the next attack and order his artillery to fight back fiercely.

It's just that the German artillerymen were very helpless to tell Sù Guderian. They could barely fight back. The reason was that the enemy's artillery positions were completely outside the effective firing range. This result surprised Guderian beyond measure, and he let out a long sigh for a long time.

The Germans were silent all the time, and the morning shelling frightened them so much that they did not know what to do next. Fortunately, their commander Guderian was experienced, and after some adjustments, he returned fire in the afternoon.

This time the German shock formation was very open, and the formation of dense assault was no longer visible. Moreover, all the soldiers who participated in the breakthrough operation were told that they must fight steadily and steadily, not blindly, and especially to avoid being killed or wounded by the enemy's strong firepower.

So in this attack, the German infantry and tanks were cautious, very cautious to advance step by step, and the German artillery cover was also very fierce, in the words of the armored train: "A dozen shells fell every minute, everywhere there was smoke, there were craters everywhere, and the Germans seemed to be avenging the shelling in the morning!" ”

Even the M-46 and BM-39 rocket artillery in depth of the Red Army began to conduct suppressive fire. Nor was it possible to completely suppress the anger of the German artillery, which began at two o'clock in the afternoon. Both sides continued to greet each other with shells, and almost nothing left of the battlefield was the rumbling roar.

It has to be said that the German infantry artillery coordination was quite excellent, at least at that time the Red Army could not reach such a level, and the German artillery almost jumped forward step by step on the craters of their own artillery until they reached the front of the Red Army's position.

And then there was a brutal hand-to-hand fight, and the telephone rang out in the command room of the commander of the 46th Infantry Division, Colonel Banin, and the regiments were constantly asking him for reinforcements, and just a few minutes earlier, he had sent his guard company to the front:

"You have to hold on, you must not take a step back! This is a battle in which the brave win the battle on the narrow road, and we must summon up courage and bravely strike at the enemy......"

However, for Colonel Banin's subordinates, this kind of empty words of encouragement is meaningless, they would rather have one more person to help, rather than a basket of nonsense, and even many people think that Colonel Banin is standing and talking without back pain, you go to the front line to take a look, see if you can withstand it, the German is as excited as eating two catties of aphrodisiacs, it is simply an animal!

Just when Colonel Banin was doing ideological work "out of the sky", under the accompaniment of the rumbling shelling, several uninvited guests broke into his command post, led by Major General Yegorov, the commander of the 32nd Infantry Corps.

Banin hurriedly stood up and saluted, but before his hand could be raised, the person who entered the command post immediately made him completely petrified, and the golden epaulettes were decorated with four large stars, as long as he could count, he knew that this was the rank of general.

And at this time, in Bryansk, the only general was Li Xiaofeng. When a certain immortal approached the command post, a shell landed on the top cover of the command post, and a loud bang shook off countless dust, and the dust fell on the top cover, and Colonel Banin, who had just raised his hand, made a gray face, and was too shocked, he began to cough violently.

"Comrade Commander, why are you here?" Banin asked, dumbfounded.

Li Xiaofeng frowned slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Why can't I come?" Or what I should ask is, why are you still here? ”

Banin is a little inexplicable, as a division commander, where does he stay if he doesn't stay at the division headquarters?

"Where you are most needed, you should go!" Li Xiaofeng was very unhappy and said, "The commanders and fighters on the front line are watching us, our every move will affect their actions, as a Communist Party member, a real Bolshevik, you should stay with those soldiers who fought bravely against the enemy, instead of guarding this turtle shell and watching a white show!" ”

Baning understood what Li Xiaofeng meant, that is, let him hurry to the front line, go and stand in the most dangerous trenches to stay with the soldiers, in Li Xiaofeng's words: "You are needed more there, and you standing there are more effective than giving a hundred speeches across the telephone line!" Now, do what you have to do! Fast! ”

Baning hurriedly grabbed the armed belt on the table, and under the escort of the two guards, he was not the first officer to be driven out of the command post by Li Xiaofeng, before that, a certain immortal had already driven people all the way.

"Let's move on!"

After Baning away, Li Xiaofeng did not intend to continue to be in a daze in the empty headquarters of the 46th Infantry Division, he came this time to instill a philosophy to all the officers of the Red Army by example - never say to the soldiers: "Rush me!" And to say, "Follow me!" "The role of party members and cadres is to play a leading role in the most critical moment!

But this time Yegorov didn't dare to continue to let a certain immortal continue to move forward, to tell the truth, the command of the 46th Infantry Division was already very unsafe, from time to time shells fell, and even faintly heard shouts of killing from the front line. In case of a mistake that makes a member of the Politburo, a member of the Military Commission, and the director of the General Political Department die, how will he explain?

Rokossovsky had already sternly warned him before: "Thousands, thousands must ensure the personal safety of Comrade Andrei, and in particular, we must pay attention not to let his temperament come to me!" Comrade Andrei is sometimes too impulsive and will make some choices that ordinary people cannot imagine, but you must remain calm and sober, and you must bring Comrade Andrei back to my command in peace! This is an order, and it is also the strictest political task, and you must execute it well without compromise! (To be continued......)

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