Chapter 1208: The Situation in June
It's not hard to find Salinchkin. This person's initial mission in coming to the swamp was to connect with Yang Mingzhi and act as his close comrade-in-arms, even close enough to monitor him.
In the past few days, Salinchkin has communicated with the Moscow side many times through special bands and through radio stations under his control that amplify the signal.
In fact, these days, his mood is as bad as the weather.
First of all, the most uncomfortable thing for Salinchkin was the failure of the Kharkov offensive. The defeat of the campaign has already been qualitatively made for Moscow, and TASS has also released Stalin's speech to the world.
As the current leader of real power in the Soviet Union, Stalin's image is somewhat tyrannical, but this time, he is actually humbly self-criticizing, the so-called too ideal for the war situation, is that he stubbornly refused to listen to the military opinions of the generals and marshals, and ordered the implementation of this campaign in his own opinion.
It is difficult not to shock Salinchkin, TASS even announced to the world the losses of the Soviet army, as well as Stalin's request, the so-called if the United States and Britain and other countries do not vigorously support the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is likely to not be able to hold on!
The current Stalin, together with the Military Council, the Supreme Soviet, has made an in-depth assessment of the current situation in the Soviet Union. The situation of the country was precarious, and it was not impossible for Germany to defeat the USSR! Although the current Southwestern Front and Southern Front are still struggling to hold on in the south, it is not impossible for the German army to continue the offensive and occupy the rich South Russia in one fell swoop.
Before the start of this campaign, the Soviet Union was still confident that it would inflict heavy losses on the elite of the German army and liberate half of Ukraine. Now that they have been deeply slapped in the face by the German army, the Soviet top brass also has to consider the fact that this war will go to what extent it will be fought and whether the war can end in a short time.
Therefore, the top of the Soviet Union also began to have the idea that finding a way to make peace with Germany, even if it was to cede a part of the land, at least to stop the Soviet Union's "hemorrhage". It is not inconceivable that some people have such an idea, and when the Soviet Union was founded, it ceded half of Belarus and western Ukraine, thus gaining a period of twenty years of recuperation. Since it has been successful once, is it possible to try again?
This idea seems to be an expedient solution in the current predicament, and most people do not agree with it, because the Soviet Union has been calling on the people to fight all year round! If you make peace with Germany without authorization, it is equivalent to tearing your face with Britain and the United States and other countries!
Just on June 3, at a meeting of the Kremlin, such an idea was raised. The atmosphere of the meeting was very dimensional, and a figure like Beria did not stand up to oppose it in public! There was an eerie silence in the room, for even Stalin had to wonder whether this attempt to make peace and preserve the strength of the Soviet Union was justified.
Stalin did not agree or object, he was silent for a while and vaguely revealed to everyone: "We are in great need of American assistance, and we must urge them to quickly launch strategic assistance." Perhaps, we can use the German peace to urge them to give us assistance! ”
Salinchkin was not aware of this situation, and there were only a dozen people in the secret meeting of the Soviet high-level who knew about it.
Salinchkin received several important messages, among which Stalin himself had approved.
It turned out that the report of the rocket shelling of Chernihiv had indeed been missed by Stalin, whose mind was all in Kharkov, and he had only read the report of the partisan republic a few days later.
Stalin knew very well that Berekov was still in the Pripet swamp, and this man insisted on not retreating to the rear, and he did strike a number of major victories in the marshes. If all the guerrillas behind enemy lines, even if they only have one-tenth of the combined combat strength of the 63rd Army and the guerrilla republics, then the war situation will not be known to be like this. But he also knew that because the swamp was too far away from the nearest Soviet army, material support was very difficult and dangerous.
They had many victories, especially at the end of May, when they did inflict heavy losses on a Romanian infantry division, a Romanian infantry division that had defeated the Soviets in Odessa.
This unit annihilated more than 7,000 German soldiers in January, and it was finally confirmed that this was all true! Therefore, the report claimed to have annihilated more than 6,000 enemies, and the Supreme Command initially believed that it was true.
But what is the deal with their alleged rocket artillery shelling of Chernihiv? Is this possible? Bah! It's simply an exaggeration!
Stalin asked the opinion of a number of generals of the Supreme High Command, especially Zhukov, Voroshilov and Timoshenko. The Soviet army has long used Katyusha rocket artillery in real combat, and the performance of this rocket artillery is well known to the generals.
The guerrilla republic's report claimed to have produced rockets with a range of up to 41 kilometres, and all those in the know immediately questioned whether the telegraph operator had negligently counted a decimal point in the record, i.e., the range was only 4.1 kilometres. After all, for this Berekov, because of his unique identity, it is difficult for these generals who have not even met him not to be suspicious.
Everyone knows that this person is a blessing to the Soviet Union, and what he is doing is indeed helping the Soviet Union, but his telegram is too bizarre.
Thus, Salinchkin received a telegram from Stalin, in which the leader verbally commended the 63rd Army for inflicting heavy losses on the Romanians and the successful rescue of the 17th Partisan Brigade, and promised new air support in the future. As for rocket artillery, Stalin made it clear that "you must really prove the operability of your own rocket artillery."
This meaning is already very obvious, and the top management does not believe it!
Salinchkin knew that if he told Berekov about it as it was, he would be adding to his blockage! Only those who actually fought in this swamp know that these reports are all true! It's not just rocket artillery with a range of 40 km, soon, the 63rd Army will be able to build even radar!
So when Salinchkin learned that the commander Berekov suddenly fell ill, he hurriedly changed his clothes and ran out of the dormitory. If something happens to this iron-like veteran, the inventor of weapons, and the best guerrilla commander, the situation in which the guerrilla republic is thriving will be reversed.
Fortunately, his fever was detected in time, and there were some anti-disease drugs in the hospital. But he was sick, and the situation still made it difficult for Salinchkin to sleep.
Furthermore, there are still a large number of wounded prisoners of war lying in the hospital, do they pose a threat to the commander? As soon as Salinchkin and Yevlov combined, they simply pulled a row of stools outside the special care ward where Yang Mingzhi was lying, and ten guards with submachine guns, led by Abram, were always on guard! Yang Mingzhi was completely unaware of this situation.
Finally, Salinchkin arrived in a hurry, and it was said that Berekov had something urgent to look for, and he was afraid that it was closely related to the radar. Therefore, this time, Salinchkin also decisively brought this Yevlov, Fomin and others to come together, and these three people appeared at the same time in this special care department, visiting the commander who had already awakened......