A yellow lamp illuminated the dim light in the box. Star Tao was leaning sideways. Because it was dark, she could no longer look at the scenery outside the window. She looked lazy after dinner but was not sleepy at all.
When she saw her husband, she sat cross-legged on the bed, ignoring the shaking of the carriage, and continued to draw a sketch of my new weapon in her notebook.
"Brother, the light is so dark, stop painting."
"Haha, I have plenty of time now, how can I waste it?"
"How about you chat with those two people, or play cards for fun?"
"I don't want it. That's a real waste of time! Look at me now, I feel that once the picture is ready, when we get to Novosibirsk, Popov and those young people will understand it quickly."
"All right."
Since you can't sleep, don't lie down any longer. Starfruit slowly got up and sat cross-legged with his back against the wooden wall.
During the day, the sky is hazy, and at night, it is completely dark outside the window.
"Brother, we will arrive in Kazan in a few hours."
"Well, what's wrong?"
"You...do you know anything about that city? It seems that it is a big city."
"Of course, it was a big city there, and it was a very important city to the Soviet Union."
"Huh? How much do you still know?"
"What? Are you bored?" Yang Mingzhi gently put down his notebook, and his wife's questioning of Kazan immediately cheered him up.
He scratched his head and immediately started talking.
"Kashan is a big city. It existed hundreds of years ago. Kazan was originally a country established by the Mongols. When Russia was still a principality, the two countries fought a war for a hundred years. In the end, Lao Maozi conquered
There. But this was four hundred years ago. There should still be many people of Mongolian descent in Kazan now."
"Huh? Is there such a thing? We also have Mongols in China. I really don't know. The Mongols are almost approaching Moscow?"
"It's not just Moscow. Do you know Genghis Khan? That man's descendants have fought until now Germany. Later, the Mongols ruled Russia for two hundred years and taught them the concept of expansion and unification. So Lao Maozi was active in Europe.
The Russian nation, they desperately expanded, and finally bordered China. But expansion is a kind of aggression, and the Russian nation has also deeply hurt us."
"Really? Is that true? They actually hurt us?" Yang Tao's eyes widened.
Looking into his wife's eyes, Yang Mingzhi felt that sometimes he knew less and was more confused, which was good for him personally. He had always felt that his wife had nationalistic tendencies. In fact, this was understandable. When family members were killed and compatriots were massacred, even if they were doing
The obedient people under the enemy's rule are just fat sheep to be slaughtered. The loose masses gather together and unite to form a powerful fist. This is the way to save the country.
However, it is shameful and sinful to use this concentrated power to deliberately harm the people of another country.
Yang Mingzhi shrugged: "Yes, Tsarist Russia hurt us. Now, the people of Russia have eliminated their cruel emperor. The Soviet Union is a victory for the people. We were all once poor people, so the poor people of more than ten countries have worked together to
The establishment of an alliance became the first time in human history and gave great inspiration to the suffering people of other countries. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world. You have seen Stalin. That person is the leader recognized by the people of the Soviet Union. You see
Look at him, ignoring the enemy's bombing and insisting on staying in Moscow. He did not retreat, so the army will not retreat."
Yang Tao nodded as if he understood something: "I at least understand something. Officers lead the way, and the soldiers below will be very brave. The leaders of the alliance stand on the front line of the war, and millions of soldiers will also be brave. So, don't you go there in the future?
It’s too dangerous to think about taking the lead anymore.”
"Okay, I promise you."
Looking at her husband's smile, Yang Tao felt very safe: "Let's continue talking about Kazan."
"Okay! Kazan is still a large industrial city that can manufacture airplanes, tanks, etc. There are many residents in the city. Maybe the young men in the city have enlisted in the army, and now all the workers in the factories are women. I guess, men fight in wars
, women are responsible for logistics, this is the model in most cities.”
Yang Tao, who had been feeling comfortable just now, suddenly felt a chill: "You... you told me one thing. Almost none of the young people who enlisted in the army this year will be able to see the day of victory."
"That's probably true. It's indeed very cruel. Although victory must be ours, it doesn't mean that we can wait for victory as long as we sit still. Victory needs people to promote it. Someone has to make sacrifices, and their sacrifices are exchanged for others.
survival. Their sacrifice is great.”
Yang Tao sighed softly: "But if the young men are dead, wouldn't it mean that many women will become widows? It's... so cruel."
"Cruel? It is indeed very cruel! If the enemy has a conscience, he should be angry immediately and the two sides sit down to negotiate! I think the Soviet Union and its allies will allow Germany to surrender conditionally. In this way, no one will have to die anymore, how wonderful
Bar."
Yang Tao gently hugged his shoulders: "Yeah, it would be great if the little Japanese surrendered immediately and ended the war. I don't want to ask for too much now. They leave China immediately, stop their crimes, and make full compensation. I think everyone
It will be accepted."
"You...suddenly feel like a holy mother again." Yang Mingzhi shook his head, and his voice became louder unconsciously: "It is a good idea that if we don't do anything, we can meet each other later. Now we expect Japan to surrender immediately, which is impossible.
The war has become like this. The war is no longer caused by a small group of careerists, but the result of a nation completely falling into madness. The Japanese people have fallen into madness. They feel that their country should rule the entire world! Japan must surrender unconditionally
, then go back to their small island, and the whole nation will re-educate their ideological education, peel off their ambitions, put them into a coffin, and bury them deep in the ground."
Suddenly, Yang Tao felt that her husband's words were ambiguous: "Why. Why can Germany accept conditional surrender? Listen to you, the Germans have also gone crazy? We have seen so many atrocities in Belarus.
Even if thousands of innocent people do this, can they still accept conditional surrender?"
Yang Mingzhi shrugged helplessly: "Maybe I'm wrong. If you don't give up until you reach the Yellow River, you won't look back when you hit the south wall. Germany must feel that it can win, even if it costs 10 million German deaths, they still won't give up.
I feel that I can win. I think that only after the devil is dead, the Germans will face the fact that they will be defeated. But at that time, the Soviets and several Western countries will not step down for Germany.
.It's too late.
But now, Germany still feels that it can win. Germany thinks that by occupying several large cities in the Soviet Union and controlling many elite areas, the Soviet Union will perish? In fact, this is not the case.
My dear, do you know that Russia paid a huge price to capture Kazan? The current Stalingrad was once the territory of the Mongols. To the south of Kazan, the entire Volga River Basin once belonged to the Mongols. The Russians spent two
The Hundred Years' War captured him. Then neighboring Turkey fought ten wars. Therefore, the Soviets were not afraid of death. If sacrifice could bring national dignity, they would rather die in battle. Now, the territory of the Mongol Empire has become another part of the Soviet Union.
A highlight area.”
If the Soviet Union was defeated in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet Union was indeed in danger of national subjugation, so they could not be defeated. Even if the war could be won with the lives of 10 million people, the Soviet Union would accept this tragic victory, and then 100 million people would share the same hatred and organize
He raised an army of millions of women and old men and marched to Berlin."
Hearing this, Yang Tao was already trembling. She did not admire the perseverance of the Soviet people, but felt that the war had escalated to tens of millions of people fighting on the same battlefield, which was completely beyond her imagination. If the swamp is a place where everyone is a soldier
Everyone must receive training. The swamp is 60,000 people, and the maximum mobilization is 45,000. Does the Soviet Union also follow this ratio? It is said that the Soviet Union has nearly 200 million people, and now it controls 100 million people. Could it be said that the Soviet Union can
Mobilize 70 million people at the maximum limit?
"It's really crazy. Brother, there is absolutely no such war in history, right?"
Yang Mingzhi forced a smile and said, "Yes, we are witnessing history. Your husband and I are promoting history."
"Well, do you know anything else about Kazan?"
"No more, really no more."
Yang Mingzhi is telling the truth here, that's all he knows about Kazan.
He definitely didn't know another past incident about Kazan.
In 1988, the Soviet Union began to build a tank school and began teaching the following year. After World War I, the Soviet Union and Germany almost became "European outcasts". The Soviet Union was squeezed out by the capitalist world, and Germany was humiliated by Britain, France and other countries. The two countries
A large-scale cooperation was launched.
Therefore, many German officers studied at the Kazan Tank School, and even Guderian visited this school and was rumored to have been a student here.
The tank combat theories of the Soviet Union and Germany were very similar at first.
Among them, Guderian and Zhukov had great similarities in their concepts of using tanks, but General Pavlov of the Soviet Union decided to use the original method against his will.
It was Tukhachevsky who requested the vigorous development of the tank force and selected two cavalry regiment commanders from among the cavalry to become the original tank force commanders - Zhukov and Pavlov.
However, because Tukhachevsky was found guilty, the "tank hit use" theory he supported became a real "mistake." For the sake of his own future, Pavlov decisively drew a clear line with him, and then
Deny the "theory of concentrated use of tanks".
The time finally arrived in 1941, and Guderian and Pavlov, who were also related to the Kazan Tank School, had the opportunity to fight in Belarus. The Soviet army obviously had more tanks, but the concentrated German armored forces struck hard.
Penetrating the Soviet defense line and completing the pocket formation. Pavlov paid the price with his life for this disastrous defeat.
Zhukov has always demanded that tanks must be used in hits. Stalin was originally opposed to it. Especially when the tank crew failed in the first Rzhev counterattack, the two were furious. However, the fact of defeat was indeed the case. By now, Stalin had completely
Agree with the ideas Zhukov adheres to.
Now that the Kazan Tank School has been closed, those teachers have gone to the new school to serve as a large number of "tank soldier crash course" instructors.
The night was getting deeper and the time was about to reach ten o'clock when the lights were forced to be turned off. Yang Mingzhi finally stopped his pen and his sketch work had to come to an end. Looking at his wife who was sleeping soundly again, he wrapped himself in a blanket...
…
The military column arrived in Kazan at two o'clock in the morning, and the huge Kazan Railway Station was brightly lit at this moment.
Kazan itself is also a transportation hub. Not only the railway system is developed, but the Volga River shipping system is even more developed.
Yang Mingzhi was fast asleep. He had no idea when the military column passed the Volga Railway Bridge. If he had gotten up, he would have seen the long line of lights on the river!
A large number of transport ships lined up in a column, with their lights on, carrying large amounts of food and ammunition towards downstream cities.
During the war, Kazan seemed to function as the "Stalingrad of the North" and an important transportation hub. A large number of British and American aid supplies came from the east and further north, and even unloaded from Murmansk and Arkhangelsk.
, gathered in Kazan one after another.
After the goods arrive here, they can be transported by military trains or freighters along the waves of the Volga River to Kuibyshev, the wartime capital in the south.
More goods will continue to be transported south, especially shipping, which can transport large quantities of ammunition, military rations and recruits, continuously replenishing the Soviet troops fighting in Stalingrad and surrounding areas.
Therefore, Kazan-Kuibyshev-Stalingrad, and even the entire Volga River Basin, a Soviet material artery has been formed.
It’s late at night, and several railway stations in Kazan are busy. All railway workers often only sleep for six hours a day, and devote all the rest of their time to work. They sweat so much that their backs are so tired, just to be on time.
Complete loading and unloading and ensure that the train is operating in optimal condition.
The largest number of people at the railway station are not railway workers, but a large number of new recruits.
The new troops brought from the east got off the train in Kazan and were about to join in the bloody battle of Stalingrad. These young men had a variety of faces, and they were filled with a large number of indigenous residents of Central Asia and Siberia, and their national attributes were diverse.
But they all wore the same military uniforms, held the same weapons, and went to the same battlefield.
They were so enthusiastic that they seemed not to care about the bad journey of many days on a simple train. Because for many recruits, this was their first time taking a train, and it was also their first time arriving at a place that was perhaps two or three thousand kilometers away from their hometown.
However, many of them cannot imagine that this is their first train experience and the last in their lives.
"Run! Hurry up!"
A military column full of new recruits stopped, and the accompanying officer immediately shouted.
The new recruits staggered and ran in line, and soon boarded another military column. They only stayed in Kazan for less than an hour and began their final journey.
The outdoor world is bustling with activity, with the running footsteps of new recruits breaking the tranquility of the night, and the constant roar of the factory bringing true 24-hour noise to the city streets.
Unfortunately, it is cloudy tonight. The night sky in Kazan is completely covered by dense clouds, making the world extremely dark.
In fact, there is another source of darkness - the thick smoke coming from the tall chimneys of various factories.
A large number of new factories were built and put into operation quickly within half a year of the war. Now, all industries in Kazan are tilted towards heavy industry, and the production capacity of heavy industry has been five times that before the war! Kazan has also become a huge arms factory, and again
Because Kazan has a long history of animal husbandry, all the cotton spinning mills and clothing factories in the city are also fully efficient, manufacturing sweaters and cotton-padded clothes in large quantities to supply the Soviet army's winter clothing requirements. (To be continued)