Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1255 Rebellion
"So what did Pavlov say? Have you got in touch with him?"

"There is no news." Vadudin began to sigh slightly: "The General Staff and the People's Commissar of National Defense were unable to get in touch with the commanders of the Front Army Kuznetsov and Pavlov. All methods have been tried, just a little clue None. In addition, they did not report to the National Defense People's Commissar. They may have gone to a certain army. What's more serious is that the two front army headquarters do not know where their commanders are currently and what they are doing ? Now, the entire headquarters of the Western and Northwest Fronts have become a mess." After a pause, Vatudin suddenly said: "Wait! We just received the No. 1520 battle report brought back from the front line by the plane today:' According to the information obtained from aerial reconnaissance, the battle is taking place in the fortified areas of our borders, and the enemy forces in some areas have penetrated [-] kilometers into our territory. The headquarters of the front forces tried to contact the troops directly, but failed, because most of the group armies and independent armies Between them, there is neither wired communication nor radio communication. Therefore, our counterattack is not violent. The Chinese are not defeated. Now, in some areas, they are entering our positions at high speed. Oh . By the way. I have another report here."

"What report?" Zhukov asked.

"Draft Order No. 3, and ask to sign your and Comrade Vasily's names."

"What order is this?" Obviously, he was not prepared for Stalin's sudden actions.

"This order requires our army to turn into a counter-offensive, smash the enemy in the main direction, and advance towards the enemy's territory."

"What?" Zhukov's voice suddenly rose several times: "Did this order from Comrade Stalin? However, we are still not sure where the enemy is and how many troops will carry out the assault?" After a pause, he continued: "I I thought, if we want to launch an attack, we should wait, at least we should find out what happened on the front line before dawn, and then make the necessary decisions, isn’t it better.”

"I agree with you, but the issue has been decided," Vadudin said in a low voice.

"Okay, sign our names."

In 1928, the warm wind of spring in early March had already begun to blow slowly on the vast plains of Siberia. As the ice melted and the snow melted, new movements began to take place on the battlefield between China and Germany.

During the first week of early March, the southern group of the Dragon Army launched its offensive.They assembled eleven reorganized divisions in the Rostov area, and nearly 30 troops went up the Don River. In less than ten days, they successively conquered Vorosilovgrad, Millie Several Red Army defensive strongholds such as Rovo, Kantemirov, and Salisk pushed forward nearly [-] kilometers and directly threatened Stalingrad, an important Red Army town on the Volga River Basin.

In the first offensive of the Dragon Army, the No.18, No.12, and Sixth Army of the Soviet Southern Front were defeated successively. The Red Army lost nearly 15 troops, and nearly 10 of them became prisoners of the Dragon Army.In this phase of the battle, Major General Joludev, commander of the No. 30 Seventh Infantry Division, and Major General Bystrov, the military commissar of the Seventh Infantry Division, also died in this battle. The commander of the Sixth Army, Felosov, disappeared.

The spread of the crisis situation on the southern front caused a great shock at the Kremlin's top management. Everyone can guess the real purpose of the Dragon Army's strategic intention. They want to capture Stalingrad and then use the Volga River as an entry point. The rear outflanked and completely cut off the full connection between the western front of the Red Army and the rear.

This time the war crisis on the southern front came at a very bad time.After the winter offensive that just passed, although the Red Army achieved an unprecedented victory, it also repelled the attack of the Dragon Army in the direction.But generally speaking, the loss of soldiers and weapons and equipment is still very large. From another perspective, because the Red Army Command put its main energy on the northern front in the previous combat plan, it caused a loss of troops on the southern front. Relatively empty.Now the Dragon Army suddenly launched an assault on the direction of Stalingrad on the southern front, and also destroyed the defense of the Red Army's southern front in one fell swoop, which made the Red Army even more stretched and unable to cope with the strength of the southern front.

At the same time, the crisis on the southern front brought back a long silent question before the Kremlin decision makers, that is, whether the troops of the Far Eastern Military Region should be transferred westward.

On this issue, the Supreme Command has serious differences. Blyukher and Stalin have completely different opinions, and they insist on their own words and refuse to give in to each other.

According to Blucher's suggestion, at this juncture, a unit of the former Northern Front Army stationed in the north and part of the Northwest and Western Front Army units should be mobilized to support the south.According to him, these troops have always been the main combat troops on the front line, with rich combat experience and strong overall strength, which are unmatched by the reserve troops in the eastern region.

In response to Bliuchel's point of view, Stalin refuted it. He believed that the main force that had been fighting on the Western Front had been quite tired after experiencing the large-scale battles against the enemy in the previous stage.They need enough time to rest and not throw themselves into another fight right away.On the other hand, if troops are deployed from the northern and western fronts to support the south, then the troops in these two areas will inevitably be empty.If the dragon army takes advantage of the offensive in these two areas, the consequences will be even more disastrous.

Bleucher was equally dismissive of Stalin's concerns, and his rebuttal sounded equally sound.He believes that after going through the previous stage of the war, the loss of the Dragon Army is also huge. What they originally retained was the nineteen reserve divisions, and now there is nothing left.In this case, they have been unable to launch large-scale offensives on multiple battlefields at the same time.Therefore, local and large-scale battles with critical significance will be their main direction.

In the midst of this endless quarrel at the Supreme Command, another sad news came that stunned everyone.The commander of the Sixth Army, Felousov, who disappeared a few days ago, has rebelled. He shamefully became a lackey of the Chinese, and formed a so-called "People's Committee for the Liberation of Russia" in occupied Rostov to serve as the Chinese promotional tool.In addition, according to the leaflets distributed by the Chinese, Filosov will also select some of the captured Red Army soldiers to form a unit called the "National Liberation Army" and use them to attack cities and villages for the Chinese.

At the beginning, people were still skeptical about this news, but then a "Letter to the Red Army Soldiers, People and People of All Nationalities in the Soviet Union" from Felosov spread at a fast speed, thus fundamentally Confirmed the accuracy of this news.

Since the outbreak of the war, the death or even capture of a general is nothing new to the Red Army, but a general's naked betrayal of the motherland is an unheard of event.Therefore, when receiving this news, the entire Kremlin was boiling.Stalin personally ordered that Filosov be dismissed from all positions in the Soviet party, government and army and expel him from the party.And Blyukher did a bit more ruthless in this regard. He ordered the arrest of all of Felosov's immediate family members and some close friends and comrades-in-arms, and then threw them all into the U.S. Army on charges of treason. prison.A large number of these people were then mercilessly executed.

The impact of the Felosov incident is very great. As a general with great military exploits, Felosov himself has a high reputation in the Soviet army. His treason and defection to the enemy have severely hit the morale of the Soviet army to a large extent. .In particular, his open letter pointed to the nail on the nail on the head of the factional struggle for power in the top ranks of the Soviet army. At the same time, he pointed out that under such circumstances, a large number of senior Soviet generals were in constant fear, trembling all day long, and bearing The reality of great psychological pressure.

There is no doubt that the Felosov incident is not only an existence that affects the morale of the Soviet army, but also a disgrace to the entire Soviet regime. No matter how you look at it, this person should disappear completely.

On this point, the Kremlin quickly reached a consensus, that is, the National Security Council will fully arrange the implementation of an assassination plan code-named "Volong", and send a special operations team to Rostov to kill the traitor Feloso. husband.

However, soon another problem arose, that is, since this matter has to be handed over to the safety committee, who can be the main executor of this plan?In theory, the current first secretary of the Safety Committee is Vasily, so he should be the first commander in this matter.But now that he was still in Yaroslavl, and basically Blyukher was getting rid of him, this project could not be entrusted to him under any circumstances.To this end, he proposed to transfer Abakumov back from Holtri and let him serve as the main planner and executor of the plan.

To Blucher's surprise, his proposal this time was unanimously approved by the High Command. No one opposed him, even Stalin himself voted for it.It was just that at the moment of raising his hands to vote, Blyuchel missed the flash of pity in Stalin's eyes, and also missed the gloating on the faces of Yakir and others.

On the second day of this meeting, a piece of news that shocked the Kremlin came from the east.After half a month of silence, the West Siberia Second Military Region, which was tormented by Abakumov, finally had an accident.

(End of this chapter)