Stalin turned to Zhukov: "In this way, your troops will become different! Comrade Zhukov, what do you think?"
"Yes! Belekov is indeed different. Maybe I need to review. I have not paid as much attention to the equipment level of grassroots soldiers as Comrade Belekov. Comrade Belekov!" Zhukov suddenly asked.
"yes."
"Please tell me truthfully, when did you start equipping your troops with such standards?"
"Probably after the winter of last year, the arsenal in the guerrilla zone was operating very stably. After the guerrillas completed their re-equipment, I led my troops to capture a town fifty kilometers to the north that was occupied by the Germans. Until now, that town is still with us.
Hands! During the Battle of Gomel, this town became a battlefield again. More than two thousand Germans were killed here. More than fifty tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed."
"You..." For a moment, Zhukov was speechless.
He thought for a while before saying again: "I have heard a lot of rumors about your troops. It seems that after you completed the change of equipment, the German army suffered heavy casualties in every subsequent battle."
"Yes, comrade!" Yang Mingzhi puffed up his chest: "I'm not afraid of the German tanks! My rocket launcher can easily blow them into pieces the size of fingernails! The German army sent out a large number of infantry, which gave me a chance to make meritorious deeds. We
The special rockets using high-energy fuel as warheads will kill them!"
"Wait!" Zhukov immediately stopped Yang Mingzhi: "You annihilated the 2S59 regiment. The unit was indeed destroyed. This incident is famous in the army! Because of this incident, many generals got to know you again, Belekov
Comrade, how did you win? Those special rockets?"
"right!"
Ever since he had a meeting with these "big guys" who would be famous for generations to come, Yang Mingzhi's physical excitement had been suppressed by his willpower until Zhukov asked this question.
Yang Mingzhi could no longer control his spirit, and his whole body was shaking with excitement, and the joy was on his face. He was so excited that he almost danced, and happily said to Zhukov: "I call that a fuel-air rocket!"
A novel vocabulary that is indeed very novel to these old fools.
Regarding this, Yang Mingzhi felt that Stalin should know something about it, but the expression he showed was clearly unfamiliar.
No problem, Yang Mingzhi will explain it again.
For a long time, soldiers have believed that shrapnel from exploding artillery shells is the only way to kill the enemy. Therefore, artillery in history has used shotguns since the beginning of artillery. In order to destroy enemy infantry to a greater extent, shrapnel shells, submunitions, and other crazy
Cannonballs were invented.
At the same time, people also discovered that the shock wave of the explosion itself was also a weapon for killing the enemy. Gradually, artillerymen no longer expected to kill the enemy with fragments. After all, the era of intensive charges was over. Artillerymen increasingly relied on the impact of artillery shells to defeat the enemy and win.
The shock wave shatters the enemy's internal organs, thus completing the killing. And this kind of damage is almost impossible to treat by the enemy's medical system.
Yang Mingzhi’s discussion can be said to have a third killing mode.
"We launched special rockets, which were the fifty cans of anti-virus given to me by Comrade Timoshenko. They were actually high-energy fuels themselves. I set up such a mechanism. The basic explosives exploded when they touched the ground.
The canister full of antiseptic exploded to pieces. The antiseptic was sprayed over a large area and burned violently at the same time. It was a high temperature that could melt steel, and an incredible high pressure!
We attacked the German positions with more than forty rockets like this!
Haha, they thought we would take the initiative to let the infantry attack, so we used special rockets to prepare firepower.
What was the result? The German camp was instantly plunged into flames. When we finally cleaned the battlefield, all we found were corpses burned to black charcoal and rifles with their butts burned off. What about those tanks? Most of the tanks exploded.
What we found was basically scrap metal."
"So, this is how you destroyed those 2,000 people?" Zhukov asked with his eyes wide open.
"Yes! That's the truth. There is no need for me to lie here, let alone brag."
Yang Mingzhi's explanation shocked Stalin so much that he even became a little angry.
"Comrade Berekov, you should not have informed me of this matter at this time!"
"This...don't you know clearly?"
"No! If I knew you were fighting like this! I would have ordered the Kazan Chemical Plant to produce those damn antiseptics! Yes! I will give the order tonight."
Maybe Stalin really didn't know.
Yang Mingzhi asked curiously: "Comrade Stalin, one of the people you recalled is named Ivanov. He fully understands how to produce propellant and high-energy fuel for special rockets."
"Oh? Really? There is such a person. Where is he?"
"He is in Irkutsk, or you gave the order."
"I forgot!"
Stalin's answer was really straightforward, and so did Yang Mingzhi when he thought about it. He was busy supervising the operations of various front armies, so how could he remember some little people?
The meeting became very interesting.
At the beginning, Stalin just wanted to know the strength of the German 100th Army currently stationed in Vyazma. Belekov had fought fiercely with this troop and partially took advantage. Belekov must have been clever.
opinion.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be Berekov's praise for the new weapon.
"It seems that we now have the ability to mass-produce it!" Stalin said happily.
"Yes, Comrade Stalin." Yang Mingzhi almost danced like a monkey: "It is just a warhead. Whether it is an aerial bomb or a rocket, it can be equipped. In my opinion, it is very suitable for attacking the enemy's concrete
Bunkers also include targets such as cities. If...if the size of the bomb is large enough, it is completely possible for one bomb to destroy a village."
"Ah?!" Stalin was shocked: "Comrade Berekov, a few days ago you were praising the heroic prospects of what physicists have come up with, claiming that it can destroy a city in an instant. Now you say that this fuel...
…What’s it called? A fuel-air bomb, one destroys a village. Is this all true?”
"It is all true and will definitely come true." Yang Mingzhi affirmed.
Stalin's eyes widened. He looked at Belekov in front of him, and his two pairs of eyes just looked at each other.
Stalin was very observant. By looking at his subordinates' eyes, he could guess whether his subordinates had lied to him. Many times, his judgment was very accurate.
Belekov used very strange means to achieve great military exploits. This man's initial achievements were based on special weapons. Once he performed meritorious services, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. According to his own words, he was able to win more than 100,000 battles in total.
The enemy's attack ended up killing and wounding as many as 70,000 enemies.
It seems that he would not be able to perform these feats without new weapons.
If this is true, it would be crazy. What surprised Stalin even more is that nuclear weapons are still the theory of a group of scientists. It seems that the United States is building them, and it is still unknown whether they can succeed.
But fuel-air weapons can!
Stalin knew that the substance was a very good sterilizing and killing virus. The Soviet army had been trying hard to catch up with the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries, and wanted to surpass them in all aspects, and military hospitals, a place that pays attention to cleanliness and hygiene, also
Ethylene oxide and other high-efficiency disinfectants began to be widely used to treat medical utensils. Stalin knew a thing or two about this.
Of course, the cheapest antiseptic is alcohol. But in the Soviet Union, where everyone loved to drink, no one could believe that doctors would drink it as vodka without mixing some medical alcohol with some water.
A combat planning meeting about a new campaign was abruptly turned into a sales meeting for new weapons by Yang Mingzhi.
In any case, Stalin was really tempted.
Belekov's 284th Division is very famous. After all, "Pravda" often publishes articles praising it. Especially Speroskina, who has stepped up its reporting in recent weeks, belongs to the 284th Guards Red Banner Division.
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The division made great achievements in Minsk. Even though there was not even a tenth infantry division left, the remaining troops withdrew to the swamps to continue the war, but achieved more brilliant results.
According to the standard of "killing for life", the remnants of the 284th Division have avenged the death of more than 10,000 of their soldiers on the outskirts of Minsk. The next step is to avenge the dead Soviet citizens.
Newspaper reports are highly targeted. Newspapers rarely mention the special weapons equipped by the 63rd Army of the 284th Division and their contribution in each battle.
Because the people who write the articles are all experts in propaganda work, and they can serve as commissars of the infantry regiments in every army. Their first priority is to arouse the patriotism of the people through the power of the media, so they desperately praise the desperate situation.
The resistance spirit of the soldiers and civilians in the swamp.
It seems that after joining this army, the most ordinary peasant can become the most heroic warrior, as if there are Paul Korchagin everywhere.
Of course, the newspaper's description of some aspects is very appropriate.
The 284th Infantry Division should have been unknown, but under the leadership of General Berekov, every soldier has the ability to participate in a marathon. Yes! That's how the newspaper described it.
Regarding this point, whether it was Stalin or Zhukov, since Berekov himself was present, of course they had to ask about it.
It was better not to ask, but he had already asked, and Stalin, Zhukov, and Konev and Purkaev, who had been silently listening to Yang Mingzhi's "self-bragging", were filled with admiration.
The Soviet Army has always attached great importance to the physical training of soldiers, but when it came to Berekov, the requirements in the infantry drill were simply too rough.
What is the standard for Belekov?
Each soldier carries a lot of equipment, and the average may be close to 30 kilograms. Even so, soldiers undergo high-intensity physical training every day, such as ten-kilometer march training with all equipment, which is as important a training event as target shooting. Every day
Week after week, they will be fully armed for a march that is longer than a marathon.
In Zhukov's view, Berekov was simply abusing his soldiers. They were all undergoing Spartan training. Berekov was challenging people's limits. Wouldn't the soldiers' bodies collapse as a result?
It doesn't seem like it.
Not only that, soldiers are trained to have iron-man-like physical fitness. In forests and swamps, they have the ability to maneuver faster than the enemy. This ability is indeed another magic weapon to defeat the enemy.
As for this training model, Zhukov feels that recruit training camps everywhere should learn from it.
After a mouth-drying speech, Yang Mingzhi's speech became a little hoarse.
Stalin also needed time to digest the huge amount of information he had just heard.
Stalin decided to adjourn the meeting temporarily, and after half an hour, he concentrated on studying the battle.
According to the original plan, Yang Mingzhi's self-praise and promotion of the new weapon were not planned at all, and its existence was purely accidental.
This was a benign accident, and Stalin had to think carefully about it. What about Zhukov? He really got great inspiration from Yang Mingzhi.
A half-hour rest was basically Stalin's own rest.
Konev and Purkayev, they met Berekov for the first time today. This young man from afar is indeed young and promising! This thirty-year-old young man has trained his troops into a group of iron men.
, and then let this group of iron men carry heavy new weapons.
The fighting strength of his troops is exactly the same as that of the soldiers of the 62nd Army who fought to the death in Stalingrad. However, Chuikov's 62nd Army is completely different from Berekov's nominal 63rd Army. Assume that Chuikov's Army is full of people who have been defeated.
The 284th Guards Division-style troops modified by Berekov were afraid that the Soviet army had already driven the German army out of the city.
While Stalin was resting, Konev and Purkaev received equally important revelations from Yang Mingzhi.
What can they talk about?
Yang Mingzhi pointed out a major shortcoming of the Soviet army: the shortage of radio stations.
In today's war, poor communication between various military units is very fatal.
"During the campaign, I was always at the guerrilla zone headquarters, remotely commanding troops fighting more than a hundred kilometers away through radio. My orders could be issued to various regiment-level units, and even some special battalion-level units. I actually gave
Each battalion is equipped with two radio stations. I can do this because those radio stations were captured by us. I have always ordered the telegraph operators with the army to be on duty in turns. The staff in the telegraph room of the headquarters also take turns in duty. So I can guarantee that I
You can contact a unit on the front line at any time and learn their precise location."
On this issue, Yang Mingzhi did not lie at all.
His words really made Konev and Purkaev envious.
Radio technology developed by leaps and bounds during World War I. Unfortunately, Tsarist Russia's development in this area was very limited. After the Soviet Union realized its shortcomings in this area, it did its best to develop, but the war suddenly broke out.
According to the Lend-Lease Act, radio stations were included in the list of U.S. aid to the Soviet Union. These radio stations provided by the United States can be described as high-tech. Some models were carried by signal soldiers in boxes. They could send Morse code and make direct calls.
Good things come too late, and even if they do come, they can only equip some of the troops.
At present, only a small number of ordinary infantry divisions in the Soviet Union can enjoy the comfort of radio broadcasts to battalion-level units. However, even if there is no radio radio, the Soviet army has old methods to solve the communication problem between the rear and vanguard troops.
That is, the brave signal soldiers march forward carrying a huge "snail shell"-like telephone line. It is a very small line, so the signal soldiers can quickly deploy a three-kilometer-long telephone line to allow frontline soldiers to communicate with the rear.
How could the two front army commanders not have daydreams? If the radio stations could be implemented in the battalions, there would be no embarrassment of grassroots troops being unable to find their headquarters in many cases.
After more than a year of war, the Soviet army actively summarized the reasons for the defeat. Due to communication barriers, the soldiers could not find generals and generals could not find soldiers, which was one of the major reasons for the failure.
Konev thought about it for a moment, and he also knew that Belekov had no communication problems here. This person was definitely not lucky. This man himself knew modern warfare very well. When he reached the enemy's headquarters, he seized the radio station as soon as possible.
It is not unreasonable for Kokov to stand here as the commander of the group army and talk to everyone.
But wait!
Does Belekov's participation in meetings at the front commander level mean that Stalin...
Konev estimated that Zhukov had exactly the same idea as him. Then, maybe he and Berekov could be close comrades in the future?!