Nine Hundred and Forty-Eight Angry Stalin
Stalingrad became a thing of the past, and the name finally became a thing of the past in front of the torrent of German tanks. Anyone who hopes to immortalize a city by naming it will probably never get there, with the possible beautiful exception of Washington.
Eventually the city was obsequiously renamed St. Rudolf by the Army, and the city would continue to exist as a German city, and it began to serve Germany just 3 days after it was occupied. After confessions made by some high-level captives, some food, oil and ammunition buried underground in the city were found. Batch after batch of supplies feasted the eyes of the occupying army, and the Ukrainian troops who followed Many benefits.
At the same time, Zhukov was still desperately leading his troops to storm south. The Soviet troops once regained part of the German-occupied area in northern Voronezh and lifted the threat of the German army to Voronezh.
The Soviet 1st Guards Armored Front and the Soviet 3rd Guards Armored Front flanked the German 1st Armored Army, and the two sides fought the worst tank battle in human history on the salient. In a narrow area, the tank forces of both sides exceeded 1,000 at one point, and the entire battlefield was full of tank wreckage and dead soldiers.
If Stalingrad is a hell for infantry, then this battle that took place south of Kursk can be called the grave of tank troops. Sadly, as the troops with the highest combat effectiveness on both sides, none of these participating troops were spared the most valuable elites from both the Soviet Union and Germany.
Zhukov's current situation doesn't even know how to deal with it himself. The city that went south for reinforcements has been lost not long ago, and his hundreds of thousands of troops are left in the wild to fight with the German army. This may be the favorite battle of the German army. One of the ways is that the two sides pile up tanks on the plain, and then lose each other at a rate of one to several.
You must know that it took the Soviet Union half a year to barely have so many thousands of tanks that can compete with the German army. Now if all the brains are thrown in the area south of Kursk, then Zhukov will not have to go back to Stalin to plead guilty.
But now it seems that it is not the case to ask him to turn around and go back. He came up with the idea of going south, and he also drew up the strategy of keeping Stalingrad first-even the generals who stick to Stalingrad were promoted by him. All this seemed to be too unfavorable to him, and Zhukov was full of headaches when he thought of these things.
You must know that there is more or less a relationship of distrust between generals and leaders at any time. This distrust relationship may be infinitely close to zero because of the closeness of origin between the two, but this distrust relationship actually exists and affects the harmony between generals and leaders.
For example, in another time and space, Hitler and his army commanders had an extremely distrustful relationship with each other. This mistrust eventually erupted as the war progressed and the routs continued, and Project Valkyrie was the end product of this distrustful relationship.
Accardo was born in the German military,
It also has a deep foundation in the military, but it can still be seen from the intricate command and coordination relationship between the General Staff and the Supreme Command that Marshal Brauchitsch and other veteran army generals do not trust the new head of state. .
But that mistrust can be masked, or made up, with a string of victories. Hitler and his generals, who were victorious all the way, had a good relationship, but once they were defeated, they began to complain to each other. So Akado still has a good relationship with Brauchitsch and others, because Akado hasn't lost yet.
It is not difficult to understand why Stalin increasingly distrusted his generals. At least the Khrushchev, Voroshilov, and Rokossovsky he selected all betrayed him, so now he doesn't trust Zhukov and the generals under Zhukov very much.
In the Kremlin in Moscow, Stalin held a document in his hand and was silent to a group of people. Through the gap between his fingers, he could roughly see the contents of the document. This is an appointment document, a promotion document that Stalin was going to send to Rokossovsky.
Originally, as long as Rokossovsky was finally killed in Stalingrad, this document would be signed and approved by Stalin, and then sent to the entire army as an obituary. This is an attitude that shows Stalin's respect for the generals who fought to the death for him. But before he had time to mourn the fall of Stalingrad, he heard the news of Rokossovsky's surrender.
What about trust? Where is the most basic trust between people? Stalin really wanted to ask these subordinates whose faces were becoming more and more disrespectful. These people are all "reliable comrades" who have experienced the great purge period, but under the current situation, Stalin can't guarantee how long these people will be reliable.
"Announce to the outside world that Rokossovsky is the number one criminal in the Soviet Union! All his family members, friends, relatives, and neighbors are to be hanged immediately!" Stalin's voice broke the silence: "He should die in battle! He should die in battle There! He swore to live and die with Stalingrad! He swore!"
No one listened to Stalin's words. It is obviously not a wise thing to stand up and express one's opinion at this time. What Stalin needed was to vent, to yell at a group of idiot-like subordinates. After being sprayed, everyone went back to their respective homes and prepared to escape from the city with an excuse.
Do you really think that everyone is willing to contribute their lives for their motherland? Do you really think that everyone firmly supports Comrade Stalin forever? I really think that under the current situation, someone is really willing to cheat Zhukov again, and then take over this hot potato?
This point can be clearly observed from the process of changing generals on the front line several times: at the beginning, whoever went to the front line was determined by competition, and those who could go to the front line were all people whom Stalin trusted extremely, such as Khrushchev And Voroshilov, all of them. After the two of them are finished, everyone knows that the Germans are not easy to deal with "ruthless characters", so everyone started to recommend the route, and collectively recommended the more capable Zhukov to block the gun for everyone; now it's Zhukov's turn to hurry up If you can't stop it, then it's someone's turn to be unlucky. If you recommend yourself at this time, it's purely because you have a hole in the back of your head.
joke! The purpose of seizing power is to gain more benefits, to be promoted and get ahead, and to accumulate one's political capital more comfortably in a good environment. Under the current situation, if anyone still thinks about the chair that Zhukov lowered his buttocks, then he can't be called crazy, it can be called extremely stupid! Even if Stalin wanted to replace Zhukov, this group of people would probably be crying and begging Stalin to take back his life.
Of course, after Stalin ordered the execution of all people related to Rokossovsky, he spoke slowly and raised the issue of his distrust of the front-line combat generals: "Although Yezhov had ambitions that he shouldn't have, he There is a saying that is true, these generals are wolves who have not been raised well, and they will never be of one mind with me!"
Hearing Stalin's evaluation, these officials and generals who bowed their heads lowered their heads even lower. This kind of time is often when a storm is about to start, so everyone tries to make themselves less conspicuous, so that the big thunder will hit the top of others first.
"I'm considering replacing Zhukov and letting him come back from the front to report on his duties. Do you have any good candidates to replace him?" Stalin saw that everyone was silent, and the resentment in his tone became more obvious. He was playing with his pipe with one hand, and rubbing Rokossovsky's marshal commission with the other hand. Finally, he scanned everyone's heads with sharp eyes, and gave up his plan to force these people to speak with a sigh. .
He also knows that the current war situation is extremely unfavorable to the Soviet Union, and the fool can also see that no matter who goes to the front line at this time, it is impossible to do better than Zhukov. At this time, even if Zhukov is called back, Stalin himself will not be able to escape this fate in the end, and he will still follow Zhukov's old path. It's just tandem, and it's pointless to do so.
The sound of sighing echoed in the empty conference room, and everyone's hanging hearts were finally let go with this sigh. After all, Stalin compromised and gave up his plan to recall Zhukov, so the rotten frontline situation may be delayed for a while, so as to buy more opportunities for everyone to retreat to the more distant hinterland.
The curtain has fallen on Stalingrad, which is now called St. Rudolph. This city represents the achievements of the German head of state in all directions, and also represents the great power of the great head of state in Germany. The name change this time is a blatant "slap in the face" to the leader of another country.
In the highest conference room of the Soviet Union, few people think about the future of the Soviet Union. Everyone thinks about finding a reason to go to Chelyabinsk as soon as possible, or somewhere farther away—in short , Waiting to die in Moscow is not a good choice.
"Don't think about escaping! Think about it carefully when you go back, how can you hold on to Moscow!" As if he had seen everyone's thoughts clearly, Stalin's final words made every high-ranking Soviet official present heartbroken. Jing: "I know you are all planning to leave Moscow, but...no one can leave without my order! Violators will be punished as treason!"
"Yes!..." Everyone answered weakly, the meeting was dissolved, and how to stop the German army from advancing was still an unsolved problem.
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Adding a new chapter, a bit late, everyone forgive me...