If you want to tell Asiya the story about Lu Jin, you must not tell it while standing on the road, nor can you go back to the room. Who knows if there is a bug installed in the room. If you talk happily and accidentally say something that violates taboos,
Aren't you just causing trouble for yourself?
He pointed with his hand towards the pavilion from yesterday and said, "That pavilion is good, let's go there and talk."
"Misha, I think it would be a good idea to go back to the room." Asiya said: "When we want to eat later, we can also ask the waiter to bring lunch to our room."
"No, there are some things that cannot be said in the room." Sokov waved his hands and said, "If I accidentally say something that I shouldn't say, it will cause me a lot of unnecessary trouble."
"How could it be possible? Yasha and I are the only ones listening to your story. Even if you say something wrong, we won't tell anyone what you said..." At this point, Asiya's voice suddenly stopped.
, after a while, she said with a shocked face: "You want to say that there may be... that thing installed in the room we live in?"
Although Asiya didn't name it specifically, Sokov also knew that what she was talking about was a bug, so he nodded in affirmation: "Yes, it's the thing you are thinking of."
Unexpectedly, Asiya's face turned red after hearing this, and she said timidly: "If that thing is really installed in the house, wouldn't all the sounds we make every night be heard by others?"
Sokov was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Asiya's voice was. He said with some embarrassment: "Hey, you just heard it. It's not a big deal. It's not a big deal. The big deal is to keep your voice down from now on."
, they won’t be able to hear it.”
After hearing this, Asiya punched Sokov twice on the shoulder with her fist, and said with a look of disgust: "It's all your fault, I'm so embarrassed."
At first, Yakov didn't understand what the riddle-like conversation between the two meant. But after listening for a while, he discovered that what they were talking about was the couple's movements at night, which might have been monitored by eavesdroppers.
Hearing it clearly, he couldn't help but laugh.
However, in order to resolve the embarrassing situation in front of him, he took the initiative to say to Sokov: "Misha, let's go to the pavilion. We are still waiting for you to tell us the history of Lieutenant General Lukin."
The three of them came to the pavilion and sat around the stone table. Sokov began to tell the story about Lukin to them.
"In the early days of the Patriotic War that ended not long ago, although our army suffered repeated defeats, a group of excellent commanders emerged. Although they only served as corps commanders or even division commanders at the time, they were very effective in local battlefields.
Played a decisive role.
For example, when the war broke out, Marshal Rokossovsky was the commander of the 9th Mechanized Army with the rank of major general; General Chernyakhovsky served as the commander of the 28th Tank Division of the 12th Mechanized Army with the rank of colonel.
I believe you all know the role they both played in the war, so I won’t go into details one by one.”
Hearing Sokov mention Chernyakhovsky, Asiya remembered that when she was entrusted by Sokov to visit the injured Yakov in the Third Belarusian Front, Asya broke into the building where Chernyakhovsky was being served.
The operating room where Chernyakhovsky performed the surgery. After so long, she heard no more news about Chernyakhovsky. She couldn't help but curiously asked Yakov: "Yakov,
What is General Chernyakhovsky's condition now? There has been no news about him since the last time I saw him in the operating room."
"His injury is recovering well." Yakov replied: "I heard Marshal Vasilevsky say that after his injury recovers, he will be promoted to the rank of marshal immediately."
After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help being stunned. He thought to himself: Didn't Chernyakhovsky unfortunately die the day after he was injured? Why is he still alive now? He will even be awarded the rank of marshal in the near future.
?
But soon he figured out the reason. With his appearance, the fate of many people was changed. Not to mention, Yakov in front of him died in a German prisoner of war camp in real history;
His chief of staff, Major General Sidorin, should have died on the battlefield defending Stalingrad; while Ponedelin, Kirillov and others were rescued later in the war, but they still could not get rid of the suspicion of traitors.
, were eventually sentenced to death by a military court.
Since he can change the fate of so many people, it seems not surprising that he can change the fate of another Chernyakhovsky.
"I continued," Sokov continued: "Shortly after the war broke out, our army launched a large-scale counterattack against the German army in Dubno, Ukraine, in accordance with Order No. 3 of the Supreme Command. But the result
Our army, which had superior strength and equipment, suffered a disastrous defeat in a very short period of time due to its lack of air superiority and chaotic command of the troops. It lost 2,648 tanks alone, thus depriving the four mechanized armies of further operations.
Ability.
It was precisely because of this failed counterattack that the troops of the Southwest Front had to shrink across the board, trying to use the second line of defense to stop the German attack. It was under this situation that Marshal Rokossovsky and Lieutenant General Lukin fought with ten
With limited troops, poor equipment and material supplies, they have achieved very good results in the face of enemies that are ten times their size.
When Lieutenant General Lukin led his troops to Shepetovka, he found that the situation here was in chaos. Commanders at all levels could not find their troops, and the soldiers could not find their commanders. The roads were crowded with people.
Refugees fleeing to the rear, as well as disorderly retreating troops. As an important logistics supply warehouse for the Southwest Front, Shepetovka did not have any organized troops to hold on.
It was under this circumstance that Lieutenant General Lukin established a line of defense in Shepetovka with the 109th Motorized Division and the 116th Regiment of the 57th Tank Division as the core, and sent people to the roads and railways to intercept those
After organizing the retreating troops, they appointed special commanders, then took the risk to open all the warehouses, distributed weapons, ammunition and food to the soldiers, and ordered them to hold on where they were or to launch a counterattack against the enemy.
Under the command of Lieutenant General Lu Jin, a miracle happened. In the next half month, the improvised troops repelled all the attacks launched by the German army, like a nail, firmly nailing the
In the Shepetovka region, there was not a single step back.
When the commander of the Southwest Front learned that Lukin actually stayed in Shepetovka and reorganized the retreating troops and established a solid defense line, he couldn't help being surprised and delighted, and quickly reported the situation to the Supreme Command.
A report was made. Soon, the troops commanded by Lieutenant General Lukin were called the Lukin Group by the Southwest Front Army Headquarters and the Supreme Command."
"Misha," Asia heard this and couldn't help but interjected and asked: "The places you mentioned are all in Ukraine, but how did I hear that Lieutenant General Lukin was captured in the Smolensk area?"
"Asiya, you are right." Sokov looked at Asiya and said: "At that time, Lieutenant General Lukin received the order to take his 16th Army to Smolensk to participate in the defense battle there.
, but seeing the critical situation in Shepetovka where he was staying, he chose to stay and command the troops to defend this important military warehouse.
After the fighting in Ukraine came to an end, Lukin set off for Smolensk. When he arrived, the southern part of the city had been occupied by the Germans. The garrison commander, Colonel Malyshev, was worried that the enemy would take the opportunity to occupy the northern part of the city, so he
Decisively ordered people to blow up the bridges on the Dnieper River, so that the German troops without equipment to cross the river could only stay on the south bank of the Dnieper River."
"What a great job." Hearing this, Yakov suddenly waved his fist and said excitedly: "This Colonel Malyshev is really good. If he doesn't blow up the bridge, Germany will
People will definitely enter the northern city of Smolensk through the bridge over the Dnieper River."
"After Malyshev ordered people to blow up the bridge, many people did not understand the significance of blowing up the bridge. People, including Marshal Timoshenko, wanted to send him to a military court," Sokov continued.
: "But after Lieutenant General Lukin understood the situation in Smolensk and the forces at his disposal, he said thankfully: Thank God, fortunately the bridge on the Dnieper River was blown up, otherwise the Germans could have passed through the bridge
Rushed into the northern city. For this reason, he asked Timoshenko not to impose any punishment on Malyshev."
"Colonel Malyshev did the right thing." Yakov nodded and said: "If I had been the garrison commander of Smolensk at that time, I would have ordered the bridge to be blown up."
When Sokov heard this, he couldn't help but laugh, "Yasha, actually you also know this Colonel Malyshev."
"I know him too?" Yakov couldn't help but be stunned when he heard what Sokov said, and then asked: "Who is he and where did I know him? Misha, although my troops were also in Smoleng at that time
outside the city of Skok, but my tank division has never entered the city at all, so how could it possibly know the garrison commander?"
"My director of armored forces is Malyshev, but now he is not a colonel, but a major general." Sokov reminded Yakov: "When you sent me weapons, you also dealt with him.
But you are in a hurry every time, so I’m afraid you don’t have time to chat with him, and you don’t understand his situation, which is normal.”
"Oh, it turns out it's him." After Sokov's reminder, Yakov immediately remembered that he had met the director of armored forces and the director of artillery in Sokov's headquarters, and said with a smile: "I remember that except him
In addition, Major General Potapov, the former commander of the 5th Army, serves as the artillery director in your headquarters."
"You have a good memory." Sokov nodded and said, "After General Potapov was rescued from the enemy's prisoner of war camp, his superiors originally arranged for him to serve as deputy commander of a certain group army.
, after all, he has been in Ukraine for so many years and is more familiar with the situation in Ukraine than other commanders. But he rejected the kindness of his superiors and insisted on staying in my army group as the artillery director."
When Yakov heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "Misha, I don't know if I don't tell you. I'm shocked when I tell you that there are so many army-level commanders in your army. Even if you are asked to be just one
Commander of the Front Army, I think you are also qualified."
