Timoshenko was a calm man most of the time, and even showed a submissive appearance when facing Stalin. He was Stalin's "close comrade-in-arms" and was therefore not affected in any way in the thirties. It was also because of his excellent personal friendship that only he dared to ask Stalin for orders to retreat, and only his request for orders Stalin finally agreed.

However, the Battle of Kharkov was a failure after all, and the Soviet counteroffensive in the south for half a year fell short. In terms of responsibility for the defeat, Timoshenko, as the commander of the front, could not escape the blame. The marshal also realized that Stalin was increasingly distrustful of him.

Now, after this brief internal military meeting of the Front, Timoshenko also ordered Tupikov to suspend his continued hype of the 63rd Army.

According to the plan, the headquarters of the Front will be moved to some inconspicuous village near Voronezh, and Timoshenko himself will take a plane back to Moscow before doing so.

Before he set off, he also took time out to write a short message to the 63rd Army.

In all fairness, because he couldn't use it directly for himself, Timoshenge was always unwilling to Yang Mingzhi. He was never biased against this unit and completely hated Tupikov's chatter.

So, on the morning of June 13, the guerrilla republic received this telegram from the command of the Front. The correspondent immediately translated it, and the sorted message, in duplicate, was sent to the headquarters of the army group and to the office of Salinchkin.

For the 63rd Army, this was a very important message.

"Command. Commander of the 63rd Army, Lieutenant General Berekov. The command has received a telegram from your ministry congratulating your ministry on the manufacture of rocket artillery and radar. In the current crisis situation, the Southwestern Front no longer has enough long-range transport aircraft to carry out long-term and stable airdrop operations, and the airdrop supply has been suspended indefinitely. May your ministry be self-sufficient, and the command will coordinate with the Supreme Command, and in the future airdrop supplies will be undertaken by the guerrilla movement command. ”

Yang Mingzhi saw this significant message for the first time, on the surface, this is an order document to suspend the airdrop, Yang Mingzhi, who is very familiar with the direction of history, instantly understood that he was standing at the historical node. Indeed, the future Southwestern Front, judging from space alone, has lost the possibility of continuous and stable air supply!

In addition, the shortness of the content of this telegram also shocked all the senior officers. An emergency military meeting in response to this message officially began after lunchtime that day.

The meeting was attended by only a few people, except for the main personnel of the army group command, two important members of the partisan republics, Salinchkin and Lyudbalev.

Yang Mingzhi read out the telegram in public, which also explained his understanding: "Comrades, our superiors, the Southwest Front Army is facing tremendous military pressure, and they are no longer capable of continuing to support us, and they no longer even have the meaning of commanding us in battle. We are like abandoned children, and in the future, we can only rely on ourselves to fend for ourselves in this swamp. ”

This is a very serious word, and the words are not rough. Everyone was silent, and the command of the army group fell into a deep silence, except for the faint sound of people's smoke and ashes, and the smoke that continued to spread.

Finally, a grumpy man slapped the table and broke the embarrassment.

Yevlov shouted with a big grin: "We have long been abandoned, and for a year we have not all relied on ourselves? Those airdrops from our superiors are really important to us, but without the airdrops, we would have survived. ”

"You can't say that!" Fuming pointed to the right point, "The superiors airdropped a large amount of ammunition, medicine and complete clothing. Especially when the weather turns cooler, we are still facing the severe test of winter! Last winter, wasn't it the cotton clothes airdropped by the superiors, which gave our army a great help! ”

"Nope! Last winter we launched Operation Shuba, and we collected a lot of clothes to get through the winter! Even if there is no airdrop, we will have to launch another operation to loot it! ”

"That's it! Don't make any noise! Yang Mingzhi knocked on the table and signaled everyone to be quiet.

Fomin and Yevlov really have no reason to quarrel, their attitudes are actually the same, they are helpless about the termination of assistance by their superiors, Yevlov's thinking is changing quickly, and the future can only rely on himself.

It's June 13, and the Soviet Union is indeed in crisis at this world juncture. The United States has not yet fully launched support for the Soviet Union, and the international assistance before that was basically borne by the United Kingdom. Even from the outbreak of the war, Britain, which knew that it was cold, immediately put aside its past prejudices and policies and formed an alliance with the Soviet Union. The first PQ flotilla, escorted by the Royal Navy, took the Arctic route to transport supplies to Murmansk in the Soviet Union.

The amount of supplies they transported was huge, and it played no small positive role in the war in the USSR. However, the quantitative change in aid cannot be translated into a qualitative change. This is like the large-scale airdrops of the Southwestern Front Army many times, and the large-scale materials helped the 63rd Army to improve its combat effectiveness again. However, the root cause of the support for this force to maintain its strong combat effectiveness is the self-sufficiency policy they have set from the beginning.

The Southwestern Front, which has no time to take care of the swamps hundreds of kilometers away because of its own pressure, has made a clear statement today that future airdrop supplies will be suspended indefinitely.

On a macro level, the shipping route between Britain and the United States, that is, the North Sea-Arctic Ocean, has also become precarious because of the continuous strangulation of the German navy. The defeat in the Battle of Kharkov caused the Soviet Union's international prestige to plummet. To add insult to injury, on June 10, the PQ convoy, escorted by the British Royal Navy, was ambushed by a large number of U-boats in the waters north of Norway.

The transport fleet suffered heavy losses, and among all the goods transported, there were large quantities of rations and transport trucks that the Soviet army needed most.

More than 2,000 trucks sank to the bottom of the sea, 100,000 tons of flour fed North Sea cod, and a large number of medicines, even amoxicillin, the latest life-saving miracle drug, which began mass production, sank into the sea with the ships.

The situation for the Soviet Union was aggravated and showed clear signs of further deterioration.

Even if the Battle of Kharkiv failed, the broadcast of TASS was also publicizing that the military of the Southwestern Front had stabilized the front in a short time. As for the situation in which the Southern Front and the Crimean Front were almost collapsing, this was something that the Soviet propaganda could not hide.

At this meeting, a consensus was quickly reached that the key to victory lay not in the frequent support of the superiors, but in the initiative of the guerrilla republics themselves.

"We don't know if it's appropriate for the Front to restart aid, and we don't know if the guerrilla command will risk reinforcing us. At present, the state of our troops, weapons and equipment has reached an unprecedented scale. We should take this as an opportunity, and in the future, it is time for us to continue to expand the zone of control! ”

This was Yang Mingzhi's decision, and it was also the development strategy of the guerrilla republic.

Salinchkin's speeches at normal meetings basically revolve around the data he counts. He really doesn't need to make some slogan statements, because this commander Berekov, his words themselves are inspiring! As long as the general's mind is still functioning efficiently, the forces of the guerrilla republic will surely flourish!

Now, the gloom of the telegram is gone, replaced by the grinding hands of a group of high-ranking officers.

Therefore, the matter of radar had to be discussed again at this meeting......