It has been a day since Zhukov received Stalin's sudden order to launch a general attack on the entire front, but apart from the frequent mobilization of his own troops to keep the Soviet Red Army on the front line in a high wartime state, he has not yet given the order for a single partial attack.

If you look at the performance of Zhukov as a general in the Battle of Nomenkan, you will find that he is actually a very ruthless tactician, he is familiar with all the troops and all the weapons in his hands, and is good at using these weapons to cause all kinds of trouble for his opponents. Moreover, he did not care about the losses of his own troops, and regarded casualties as an inevitable price, and the huge losses of the Soviet Union in the late stage of the Battle of Nomenkan in the face of victory were directly related to Zhukov's own command style of achieving tactical goals at any cost.

Therefore, at this moment, although Zhukov received Stalin's strict orders, he still did not change his original battle plan, mainly because he knew that his plan of action was perfect and worthy of being filled with countless lives. The reason why he did not immediately carry out the order to attack was not for any other reason, but because he was still waiting, because the outcome of his waiting was not yet known.

An officer pushed open the door of Zhukov's office, stood in front of Zhukov with an embarrassed expression, and then opened his mouth to talk about the topic of Zhukov's interest: "General Zhukov, the operation against the beehives was successfully completed, and we captured 20 people, but none of these people admitted that they were involved in the leak. Several comrades in the intelligence department analyzed the operation report we submitted, and they felt that we had been tricked by beehives, and that this organization had still not been cracked by us. ”

Yesterday's operation was carried out in almost complete secrecy, and Zhukov also mobilized some grassroots officers and soldiers of the army to direct the arrest operation under the command of the General Headquarters of the Front.

In addition, after this operation, Zhukov ordered to monitor the channels used by the beehives, and until now, the beehives have not continued to emit any radio waves, so Zhukov felt that he was likely to uproot the beehives, at least on a large scale to destroy the German spy network.

Only after the German spies were killed could Zhukov carry out his plan of attack that had been concealed, but now it seems that the result of the espionage war was still in vain. How deep this beehive really went into the interior of the Soviet Union is really difficult to understand. But if this beehive is not removed, only God can know whether his plan can be realized.

"We have arrested 400 people who may reveal the secrets of our army, the highest rank is a colonel, as well as people from the logistics department and the local government. Zhukov put one hand on his forehead and said to himself a little tiredly: "And a whole 1,100 people have been sent to Siberia, but they have not stopped the operation of the beehive, who are the people who make up this beehive?" ”

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"I wonder who the beehives are made of?" a man dressed in a worker's costume asked Valshilevsky with a smile while standing on the side of the road and lighting a cigarette, "With your authority, you are not allowed to ask this question, in fact I also want to know how many people there are in the beehives and who they are." But there are no more than five people in Germany who know this secret, and apparently I am not one of those five. ”

Valsylevsky smiled bitterly, he had worked for the spy network of the beehive for many years, but he still didn't know how big this beehive was, or who the people were in this beehive, he knew that there were about 10 German spies in the factory in the rear, and 3 Soviets were still his own downline, and many people were dissatisfied with Stalin's reign of terror.

It is impossible for Zhukov's purges at the front to spread to production plants in the rear such as Chelyabinsk, which are self-inspected and supervised and carried out by plant directors like Varshilevsky. Of course, this kind of detection in the rear is far less rigorous than the investigation within the front line military, so much so that Zhukov did sabotage the small spy network of several Germans, but never found this real beehive hidden in the rear.

"Our eyeliner in the military system has been almost eliminated by Zhukov. So the beehive decided that all the spies would go into hiding, and not show up again, in order to preserve their strength for the more important moments in the future!" The contactist took a puff of his cigarette and whispered to Valshilevsky, then dropped the cigarette butt, stepped on it with his foot, and turned and walked out into the distant street. Varshilevsky did not stop and went in the opposite direction.

Zhukov's overestimation of the strength of German undercover personnel in the Soviet Union was actually a very small number of German intelligence personnel lurking in the Soviet Army, and their location was not important, and in most cases the German generals relied on part of the information provided by Valshilevsky, the factory director, to confirm their judgment from the reconnaissance plane.

As for Zhukov's plan, the German top brass did not know about it, or the German top brass could not confirm the Soviet Union's offensive plan, and as for the main direction of the offensive and the allocation of troops, they could only rely on the reconnaissance planes to make a rough judgment and could not completely control it.

The worker who contacted Valszylevsky walked back to his home, took off his old coat, hung it on a hanger at the door, and then sat down on the sofa, and suddenly covered his face and sneered, his laughter was very low, as if trying to hold back his laughter too freely.

He laughed for a long time, but finally stopped, wiped his face with his hands, sorted out his expression, and looked at his room again. Suddenly, in a small voice that only he could hear, he muttered a few words. No one could hear his whispers, and the contents were one of Germany's top secrets, and what he was muttering just now was "Beehive? Who said that the beehive is a network? Only the Führer knows this secret in this world, the beehive is me, I am the beehive!"

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Zhukov felt that he would not be able to find the intelligence organization called the beehive for a while, and he also knew that if he suppressed Stalin's offensive order any longer, then the pressure from Moscow would destroy him as a front-line commander first, so he had to get the Soviet troops to move as soon as possible and launch the long-awaited Armageddon on the Eastern Front for Stalin, or the entire Soviet Union, or the whole world.

The Soviet general's strategic plan was not complicated, it was just a simple trick, but he was convinced that it would catch the Germans off guard, at least in the early stages of the campaign, and give the Soviet Red Army absolute initiative on the battlefield.

From the time he took office as a Soviet front commander, he was trying his best to strengthen the strength of the Soviet Red Army in Kiev, and hyped that the Soviet Red Army would retake the industrial city of Kyiv in the shortest possible time. Even Timoshenko, another of the more powerful Soviet generals, was transferred to the outskirts of Kyiv, where he commanded nearly 1 million Soviet Red Army troops.

However, in fact, he secretly reorganized the Soviet Red Army in his hands and formed three field armies on the outskirts of Minsk, all of which were equipped with new artillery with better mobility or some self-propelled guns made by the Soviet Union in imitation of German assault guns. Moreover, all three field armies had a large number of tanks, which could be said to be the most elite units of the Soviet Union.

Zhukov used the data on the number of troops to deceive the German intelligence services, and at the same time used all the methods at his disposal to strengthen the forces in the Minsk direction, his intention was very simple, that is, when the battle broke out on a large scale again, he would not break through the trap laid by Germany from the direction of Kyiv, but would wave his army south in Minsk and fight a large-scale war of annihilation to destroy all the main German forces in Ukraine.

This plan was called "harvesting", and it was hoped that the main forces of Germany could be harvested at once and all the lost territories could be recaptured. However, after studying the combat effectiveness of the German army, Zhukov set the strategic goal of encircling Kiev, and he knew that the strategic goal he had drawn up at the beginning was too foolish, and the Soviet Union simply did not have the ability to encircle more than two German armies to eat.

But he felt that as long as he launched an attack in a position where the Germans did not expect, it was absolutely possible to rush through the line and advance to Kyiv. And once Kyiv is recaptured, then the defense line on the Dnieper can be restored, and then in the next time, at least the Soviet Union will be able to rely on the advantage of the river to consume the limited armored forces of the German army.

He even wrote to Stalin about the possibility that in the event of an accident, the Soviet Red Army would hold on to Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad. Once the German army and the Soviet Union have exhausted some of their forces in Kiev, there will be another dangerous force vacuum in the Soviet Union, and if Germany continues to advance eastward, then the capital of the Soviet Union may become the front line.

This plan was approved by Stalin, and under extreme conditions, Moscow was used as bait, but since he learned that there was a very secretive German spy organization called the Hive inside the Soviet Union, and that his plan could be leaked, he could not be sure of his own judgment. If Kiev was a huge pocket, then after his troops crashed into it, the Germans did not suffer serious losses, and it is quite possible that Moscow would have been occupied by Germany, and at that time, he Zhukov would have been the sinner of the whole Soviet Union -

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