General Pavlov, who was taking a walk, was discussing with his close generals: "Zhukov's first move to the Southwest Front was to have the troops retreat?"
"Yes, Zhukov was afraid of the enemy's power, took the lead in spreading defeatist remarks, and gave up a large area of the country, completely handing the initiative into the hands of the enemy!" Of course, Pavlov's cronies knew what he wanted to hear, and quickly expressed their stance to slander Zhukov.
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Maybe it was because the sunlight reflected from the snow was too strong, or maybe it was because these words reached Pavlov's heart. He narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded thoughtfully.
For some reason, Pavlov suddenly remembered the last exercise that had just ended.
It was a chaotic disaster!
In Pavlov's opinion, he had never heard of the red team losing to the blue team in an exercise.
As usual, the General Staff notified the blue team played by Zhukov of the red team's troop deployment plan under its command. But Weikov, this guy, didn't even wait for the official start of the exercise, and pushed his blue team forward nearly 100 meters.
100 kilometers away, entering major attack positions in advance.
Therefore, as soon as the exercise began, Zhukov's Blue Army completely surrounded the main center line of Pavlov's Red Army and quickly completed the tactical task of dividing and strangulating.
From Pavlov's point of view, this is simply a foul. No, it is a violation of discipline, a serious violation of discipline!
The purpose of the exercise from the beginning was just to test the Red Army's homeland defense and counter-offensive capabilities. As a result, the Red Army responsible for defense was surrounded by Zhukov's Blue Army before it even deployed. What a big deal!
"Zhukov, that guy who likes to show off, messed up the offensive and defensive war exercises that the General Staff had spent a lot of money and worked hard to organize. Now, the Germans will not tell him their configuration plan in advance. So his little cleverness has no effect.
, it seems normal." Pavlov accused and slandered Zhukov without any concealment.
Of course, this kind of thing is nothing new to him.
However, the current Zhukov will not be able to show anything about his past achievements for a while. In contrast, Pavlov, who has been stationed in the rear, has various opportunities to spread rumors and slander Zhukov, and distort facts to discredit the opponent's ability.
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But in fact, among the two, the one with truly low ability is precisely Pavlov himself who speaks ill of others!
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, Pavlov can be regarded as a rising star in the Soviet Red Army in recent years.
Pavlov and Zhukov respectively became the two commanders of the first two tank regiments of the Soviet Army.
He also participated in the Spanish Civil War, where he wore the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. After joining the country, he served as the director of the Soviet Army's automobile, tank and armored forces. Together with Zhukov, he was promoted to general and was appointed commander of an important military region.
Zhukov is in the Kiev Special Military District, and Payouluo is in the Western Special Military District.
Because of that exercise, there was a gap in status between the two for the first time. Zhukov, who won the exercise, became the Chief of General Staff of the Soviet Army, while Pavlov was still just a military district commander.
Even so, every step of Pavlov's promotion has appeared to be very smooth.
However, behind these honors, one terrible fact cannot be concealed - Pavlov was not at all a battle-experienced military genius like Lakov, but more like a politician.
Pavlov's climb to such a prestigious position as Commander-in-Chief of the Western Special Military Region was attributed to the vacuum of senior Soviet commanders caused by Stalin's "Great Purge". In order to fill the vacancies, many low-level Soviet generals were promoted under unusual circumstances.
Of course, military geniuses like Zhukov are indispensable among them, but there are also a lot of opportunistic politicians like Pavlov who wear the title of military strategist.
For example, when he previously made suggestions for the construction of the Soviet army as a tank expert, he mistakenly accepted the experience of the Spanish Civil War and believed that the Soviet Army was unable to fight alone and could only support infantry, which led the Soviet Army to disband the mechanized army it had already formed.
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It was not until 1940 that Zhukov, another Soviet tank expert, suggested that Pavlov's point of view was actually based on the poor protection of light tanks like the T-26, but General Pavlov mistakenly denied this.
All tanks.
Including the previous exercise, Pavlov also completely exposed his incompetent nature as a "military novice".
During the exercise, his Red Army headquarters did not deploy troops around Minsk, but deployed the main force of the Red Army in the Bialystok protrusion not far from the border. He even forgot to set aside sufficient strategic reserves.
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As the commander of the blue army in the exercise, Zhukov, who has real materials, quickly clearly saw this serious problem. Therefore, he mobilized his troops in advance and quietly approached the main force of the red army. At the beginning of the exercise, he immediately rushed forward in two directions and surrounded Biya.
The main force of the Red Army in the Vistock salient.
And Pavlov's deployment did not have enough mobile reserve troops to clear the protrusion, or to have another decisive battle with the Blue Army in the deep zone.
The result is that, under Pavlov's command, Minsk's door is completely open to the Blue Army.
This was originally because Zhukov realized the crisis of Pavlov's wrong deployment and used his superb military command level to teach the opponent how to fight a war.
But Pavlov secretly changed his concept and accused Zhukov: "The main reason why this exercise failed was due to the Blue Army Commander Zhukov's repeated violations of the rules and his unworthy actions with the Red Army. They knew about us in advance
The deployment of the exercise was carried out in advance, and the attack method and the use of troops arranged by General Zhukov did not comply with the arrangements of the exercise headquarters."
At the end, Pavlov once again satirized Zhukov's excellent performance in the exercise: "I think the General Staff spent a lot of effort preparing for this exercise to test the Red Army's combat effectiveness, not to demonstrate military talents for individual individuals.
of!"
These words angered Zhukov completely, causing him to respond tit-for-tat to Pavlov: "If the blue team were the German army, would they inform you of the time of the attack and strictly abide by this time? The German army would cooperate with your troops.
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In the end, the two people refused to give in and stared at each other fiercely.
Pavlov has remembered this hatred to this day, and then converted all prejudice against Zhukov into revenge in the war, causing a lot of trouble for Zhukov's Mars operation.
It is no exaggeration to say that what Pavlov did in the rear and withheld a huge amount of supplies from the frontline troops were enough to affect the war on the frontline.
To a certain extent, the harm he caused to the Soviet army was greater than all the spies arranged by Germany in advance in the Soviet Union combined!
