"Don't let up! The great Soviet Red Army soldiers will not stop because of the tenacity of the enemy! The battle must continue and let those capitalist wastes know that our warriors with firm faith will definitely win the final victory!"
Just after Zhukov sent his request to suspend the offensive to Moscow, Stalin quickly sent a telegram of his instructions.
Holding this telegram, Zhukov was stunned for a long time with an ugly face.
He knew that Stalin's old habit of loving fighting had returned. Stalin, who firmly believed that willpower and faith could solve all problems, very stubbornly rejected Zhukov's suggestion to reorganize the offensive after renovating the army, and ordered the opposite.
gave the order for a further onslaught.
Although he knew that Stalin was giving blind orders, Zhukov was unable to refute.
To be honest, he has very clearly pointed out that the battle situation of the frontline troops is very unsatisfactory, the battle situation is deadlocked, and the battle loss ratio is seriously imbalanced due to various unfavorable factors.
On the surface, the Soviet-German battle was a bland battle of attack and defense. The Soviet army launched a massive offensive and the German army held firm across the board. Other than that, there was no other characteristic at all.
The Soviet army has been attacking, and the German army has been defending unswervingly. Both sides are fighting, but the methods are nothing worthy of praise. They are just fighting stupid battles, positional warfare, and trench warfare.
The last two giants in Europe have been at war for nearly a month. Except for the initial partial advance in the southern German provinces, the Soviet army has not made any substantial progress.
There must be no progress, but heavy losses. If he kills one thousand enemies and loses eight hundred to himself, then Zhukov would admit it. But in fact, the situation he faces is that if he kills one thousand enemies, he loses eight thousand to himself!
Even the German army, which had long been prepared for the attack, was mentally prepared to pay huge losses for attacking the enemy's complete fortification group. Moreover, Zhukov admitted that he was not a general who felt sorry for the loss.
Without sacrifice, there is no victory! This is the principle of war that Zhukov most firmly believes in.
But when the battle has reached this point, continuing to attack is simply sacrificing for the sake of sacrifice. The soldiers' fighting is simply meaningless, and it is even accelerating their own destruction!
Yes, there was nothing commendable about this battle. If I had to describe it, it was that the German army used the carefully set defense lines in advance to efficiently and continuously massacre the Soviet officers and soldiers who came to seek death.
Compared with when they first fought against the Finns, the Soviet army now faced a powerful enemy with stronger combat effectiveness, more advanced weapons, more training and combat experience, and a premeditated enemy.
Especially after Reinhard announced a full-scale counterattack a few days ago, the Soviet-Finnish army and the German army in the north have joined forces to counterattack and stormed into the Vyborg area in one go.
In the south, not only the German Wehrmacht and the SS joined forces, but also the Romanian army with no less than 40 divisions almost devoured the two most elite collective armies in Zhukov's hands. If Zhukov had not put the reserve troops into the South in time,
The front line stabilized the war situation, maybe the southern front has collapsed now!
In order to stabilize the situation, Zhukov transferred almost most of the reserve divisions south. This indirectly led to the fact that the Soviet army on the center line could no longer count on many reinforcements.
There were great crises on both the northern and southern fronts, which in itself was a matter of great vigilance. However, Stalin also believed that on the center line where the Soviet Union and Germany deployed the largest number of troops, the Soviet army still maintained a regular offensive.
, this shows that the Soviet army at least has an advantage in the most critical center line operations, and should continue to expand this advantage and step up its offensive.
But in fact, when it comes to the battle situation on the center line, this is what hurts Zhukov the most!
Stalin only knew that the Soviet troops on the center line had been maintaining his orders and maintaining a stable frequency of attacks. But he did not understand that these attacks were basically the same as killing people! Even if they continued, they would only increase unnecessary casualties.
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"The General Secretary asked us to further strengthen the offensive in the center, but if we really do this, it will be equivalent to reducing the pressure on the German army during future counterattacks on the center line, allowing them to use more defensive positions to kill and injure our soldiers," the command said.
Inside the ministry, Zhukov sighed with a headache.
After hearing this, Marshal Voroshilov, who was standing next to Zhukov, was also very emotional: "Yes, there is nothing wrong with the Mars operation you proposed. We also unanimously agree with the strategy of the Thunderstorm Plan. It's just that the combat effectiveness of the frontline troops is really
Unfortunately, the military quality of many mid-level and senior officers is not even better than that of a low-level officer in the German army."
Sighing, Voroshilov smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly: "Who would have thought that in this battle, our most commendable logistics was established with the help of the railway and highway systems aided by the Germans.
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Hearing this, Zhukov's face became even darker.
Regarding Germany's assistance in building roads and railways, Zhukov never believed that it was the Germans' good intentions to help the Soviet Union optimize its transportation and logistics capabilities. Although, on the surface, it seemed so.
However, if Germany really wanted to help, why did they cut corners in industrial machine tools, weapons data, etc. and pass them off as inferior in their years of dealings with the Soviet Union? They were only diligent in cooperating with the road system.
There is obviously something wrong with this! However, Zhukov still couldn’t figure out what was going on here for a while.
However, when talking about the railway system, Zhukov was also very angry: "Speaking of which, this is not the first time that guy Pavlov has seized supplies and equipment belonging to our command line troops, right?"
General Pavlov, as the commander of the Soviet Western Front, was in charge of the country's elite strategic reserves under Stalin's direct jurisdiction. These days, Pavlov led his troops to stay in the rear to watch the excitement, and even held a meeting for Zhukov to
Embarrassing military parade ceremony, and has repeatedly seized and extracted materials and equipment transported to the front line to supply front line troops.
Pavlov, who commanded the country's elite strategic reserves from the rear, was obviously more convenient to control the army's transportation system than Zhukov, who was commanding operations on the front line. Although this guy did not blatantly withhold all the supplies Zhukov needed, he had been secretly on and off
They detained a lot of key supplies and equipment and used them to arm their Western Front.
By reducing the supplies of frontline troops and strengthening the troops under his command, Pavlov's selfish method regardless of the overall situation really disgusted Zhukov.
In front of him, there was a powerful enemy who took advantage of the danger and gradually launched an orderly counterattack. In the back, there were pig teammates who were holding back, causing obstacles intermittently. Zhukov, the deputy commander-in-chief, was really frustrated to do this.