Four Hundred and Sixty Nine Thoughts

"Bastard! That guy dared to surrender without permission? 500,000 troops! Surrendered without resistance for a day?" Khrushchev thumped the table and cursed loudly. Just after he issued the order to stand to the end, almost half of the troops surrendered their weapons and surrendered. This is Hong Guoguo's humiliation and a provocation to him!

"The troops in those encirclements don't have much ammunition. They are not our main force. They are all reserve troops gathered from Ukraine and Belarus. It is not surprising that they surrendered." Marshal Voroshilov sighed and explained. .

He knew that those troops were not so unbearable, but that over the years, Moscow had been biased in its treatment of ethnic issues in Ukraine and Belarus, which had led to growing hatred in these areas. Now that the troops in these areas have begun to collapse on a large scale, it can well explain the support of the Soviet Union in these areas.

Now that the German army is counterattacking, there has been large-scale chaos in some areas. Once the millions of troops on the front line start to rout, will there be problems in Ukraine and Belarus behind him? Just think about it for Voroshilov The head is as big as a bucket. He is now a little envious of Zhukov in the Far East, after all, it is much easier to deal with the Japanese than the Germans.

"This is a betrayal of Comrade Lenin! This is a blasphemy against Comrade Stalin!" Khrushchev did not feel better because of Voroshilov's comfort, but became more tyrannical: "The family members of these people will be shot! Everyone's relatives will be escorted to Siberia! They deserve to die! Those who surrendered! Everyone's wife and children will be exiled to the coldest place! This must be done! Everyone must remember the fate of betraying the Soviet Union. heart!"

Marshal Voroshilov wanted to tell Khrushchev that his order moved almost all the people in Ukraine to Siberia. However, Voroshilov, who had witnessed the purge process with his own eyes, still didn't have the courage to speak out against Khrushchev. He just sighed and stopped expressing his opinions.

After cursing for a while, Khrushchev may have been tired of cursing. He sat on his chair and panted. Young Colonel Arkado Rudolph. If I could kill him at that time, wouldn't there be so many problems now?

"I'm sorry, I lost my composure." Khrushchev finally spoke with difficulty, then leaned on the back of his chair, and said with some annoyance: "The battle on the front line is still going on, so we still need to come up with a way. Solve the trouble of the frontline troops being quickly cut into by the German army."

Voroshilov only answered at this time. After all, this is his field. Khrushchev is not so much a commander as a politician: "Comrade Khrushchev, in this situation, even God Can't stop the rout."

He pointed to an area on the map, and said with some frustration: "German armored forces have appeared in this area,

Our troops here and here and here are surrounded, and here and here are very dangerous and are retreating. "

"Comrade Stalin is not allowed to retreat..." Khrushchev said forcefully.

"These troops lack ammunition and supplies. Most of them have no anti-tank weapons and cannot deal with German tanks and armored vehicles. The two troops of the 25th Army and the 26th Army have not even distributed support weapons. Their bullets still have machine guns and cannons. It's all piled up at the railway station here. How do you let these troops resist?" Voroshilov replied.

The Soviet army is like an egg. The attacking troops on the front line are the slightly hard shell of the egg, while the second-line troops following up are the soft egg white and egg yolk. And once the seemingly hard egg shell is knocked open by the German stone, the egg white and egg yolk will be even more vulnerable in front of the stone.

As for whether it is possible to use the egg whites and yolks behind to stop the German attack, as long as a normal person with a little sense knows that this is an impossible task. The Soviet Union is now doomed to collapse, just to what extent. As for the support and materials negotiated between the Soviet Union and the United States, most of those things have not yet shipped.

"Comrade Stalin is not allowed to retreat!" Khrushchev emphasized again.

It was only then that Voroshilov remembered that Comrade Khrushchev in front of him was just a scumbag, and the real troublemaker was the great god far away in the Kremlin. Even if he has good reasons now, as long as Stalin thinks something is wrong, his fate of Voroshilov will be no different from that of Marshal Tukhachevsky.

So he said to Khrushchev tremblingly: "Now we can't hold our ground at all. If the troops are not allowed to retreat, it will cause mutiny! Those Ukrainians and Belarusians are unreliable. Once there is a problem, we will only collapse. faster."

"Kill the wives and children of those who surrendered! Then let everyone know that betraying Comrade Stalin will lead to death! If someone surrenders! His parents will be hanged!" Khrushchev said fiercely: "You Go, give orders! Keep these troops from stepping back! Or shoot them!"

These things have actually been done, but the troops are still collapsing, the defense line is still being breached, and the most important thing is that those troops that should surrender are still surrendering, and it has not played a half role.

After all, the current war is different from the First World War. At that time, everyone only had rifles in their hands. After the fight, courage and strong suppression can play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army and maintaining combat power. But now, these methods have already It's useless at all.

Even soldiers with firm beliefs cannot rely on flesh and blood to face the opponent's torrent of steel. Even soldiers who are not afraid of death cannot rely on courage to defeat the opponent's machine guns and tanks.

Countless unarmed Soviet soldiers squatted on both sides of the road, letting German tanks and armored vehicles rumble past their eyes, but they could only hold their heads in their hands, and were escorted to the rear by a few German soldiers with guns.

It’s not that these Soviet soldiers didn’t want to escape, and it’s not that they didn’t want to resist, but no matter who they were, seeing their fleeing and rebelling companions being smashed into a sieve by the 7.92mm machine guns on the Crusader helicopters that came to suppress them, they would feel depressed and escape. Or the rebellious* bar? As a result, tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers were captured by the German army, and in some areas, the offensive troops had to stop to collect the prisoners because of too many prisoners. A large number of prisoners affected the logistical supplies of the German army, and the Soviet soldiers crowded on both sides of the road were even mixed with the advancing German soldiers.

The Soviet Red Army lost a full 2 ​​million troops in two days, and more than 1.5 million surrendered after being surrounded by the German army, or were captured without preparation. In addition, about 100,000 people were casualties due to offensive operations, and the remaining 400,000 people were disintegrated because they could not resist the German offensive.

In fact, the loss of the Soviet Red Army in the battle was not large, but because of chaotic logistical support and wrong tactical arrangements, the Soviet Red Army suffered an astonishing defeat that lost millions of troops in two days. The defeated troops broke into the mountains and forests, not daring to return to the formation of the army for fear of being sanctioned by the law enforcement team, and did not dare to surrender to the German army for fear of hurting their families, so tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers just disappeared on paper in such a daze. .

At the same time, the international situation of the Soviet Union has become less optimistic. Although the United States has promised to secretly support the Soviet Union, this kind of secret support has not been reflected in the intuitive grassroots changes for a while. On the other hand, the opponent Germany seems to have grown overnight. more than double.

In the past day, the Soviet Union seems to have become a country that is resented by the whole world. After 36 hours of war between the Soviet Union and Germany, Italy, Germany's most solid ally, declared war on the Soviet Union. Continental Europe, declaring that the Iron Axis was obliged to secure the capitalist world from the Soviet demon Stalin.

Immediately after the vassal Vichy France declared war on the Soviet Union, Marshal Petain announced that he would provide steel and other material assistance to the allies fighting the Soviet invasion, and did not rule out the possibility of directly sending troops to intervene.

Then Romania also held high the banner of fighting against the Soviet invasion. Nearly 500,000 Romanian troops and 50,000 German troops in the territory were ready to fight back against the Soviet invaders at any time. Of course, Romania's "leader" Antonescu had his own He hoped to take back the eastern territory of Romania that the Soviet Union had been occupying.

Interestingly, then the overwhelmed British Churchill government declared war on Romania, and Romania officially entered World War II. However, the Scottish regime in the northern mountains of the United Kingdom announced the formal establishment of diplomatic relations with Romania, and the British embassy in Romania announced the recognition of Scotland and the United Kingdom for its own safety.

"I will organize a counterattack here and here. The troops near here, including the troops near the village called Tubosi, are the 1st Guards Infantry Army. They are still fighting." Marshal Voroshilov pointed The map quickly said: "If we can stop the advance of the German army near the village of Persia, then at least we still have hope to prevent the German army from entering Belarus and Ukraine before the German army occupies Poland."

"You better be able to prevent the Germans from entering Belarus and Ukraine! Otherwise, there will be a real mess!" Khrushchev stared at the map, with cold sweat on his forehead.