Chapter 403 Preparation
Mechlis and Shulka can almost be said to be two-dimensional people, and their ideas are completely different.
Mehlis doesn't care about the battlefield at all, he only cares about his own power, prestige and so on.
But Shulka only had war in his eyes, and tried every means to survive in this cruel war with a very low survival rate.
Of course, if possible, he also hopes that his comrades can do the same.
However, these two people from two different worlds and different fields got together by chance and became partners.
Or it can be said to use each other.
In the end Shulka was still worried about letting Mekhlis convey information to Kyiv, or that the information of the representatives of the Supreme Command in this regard was probably not taken seriously... The reason is simply that Mekhlis has a bad reputation, which in the Soviet army Everyone knows that when Admiral Kirponos received the warning message from Mehlis, he would probably sneer and ignore it, but if the message was sent by Shulka, it must be taken seriously. It's different.
As Shulka thought, Kirponos tossed the telegram aside as soon as he saw it was from Mehlis.
"Comrade General!" Shulka said to General Kirponos in the telegram: "The battle situation has changed, and the Germans are likely to change their main attack direction. It is recommended to focus their troops on Odessa!"
Admiral Kirponos couldn't help being surprised when he received the telegram, and then he saw the problem.
He hurriedly replied Shulka with two words: "Received".
Then immediately ordered the staff: "Get ready for battle and transfer the armored troops to Odessa!"
It is a wise choice to mobilize armored units first, because tanks, armored vehicles, etc. all need fuel, and without fuel, they are no different from scrap iron.
Once the supply line between Odessa and Kyiv is cut off, it will be a waste for the armored troops to stay in Kyiv, not only that, but it will also increase the supply burden in series.
This problem is obviously much better if the armored forces are deployed in Odessa.
More importantly, the railway from Kyiv to Odessa is still smooth at this time, and it is relatively easy to transport tanks. Once the Germans start bombing, it will be difficult to transport them.
Next, Admiral Kirponos made several preparations:
First of all, supplies are stored in Kiev... In fact, Kyiv has been storing supplies for several months, in addition to military supplies, there are also civilian supplies.
The second is to migrate a large number of people.
Needless to say why the people need to be relocated. If Kyiv is surrounded, the people will not only be unable to help Kiev when the transportation line is cut off, but will also become a big consumer of supplies... unless Kirponos can look at these people Starve to death.
Of course, Kirponos would not say it was because Kyiv might be surrounded. What he told the people was that "Although the Moscow battle was won, it was destroyed by the Germans, so a lot of labor was needed to rebuild!"
Again, Kirponos seized the time to use Kyiv's buildings to build fortifications.
He even sent Shulka a telegram: "Can you ship us a batch of bazookas? We need it!"
Shulka was relieved when he saw this telegram.
Kilponos knows how to defend Kyiv.
Any strong defense line is useless to the Germans, because the Germans have air superiority, and also have assault guns... As long as there are enough shells and bombs, they can knock down the Soviet fortifications bit by bit.
Therefore, the only way to deal with them is street fighting, and the bazooka in street fighting is an artifact to resist armored troops.
This is not a big problem, Shulka just needs to convince Mehlis, there is nothing he can't do.
Mechlis readily agreed to Shulka's suggestion.
The reason is very simple... The bazooka is not his own anyway, it doesn't matter whoever uses it.
But if Mechlis, as a representative of the Supreme Command, urgently transferred them to Kyiv, and they will play a huge role in the future battlefield, then he, the representative of the Supreme Command, can be said to be "extremely farsighted" And "sightedness".
As a result, the first batch of 500 bazookas and rockets were urgently airlifted to Kyiv, followed by another 2,000 by rail and sea...but this was too slow, they had just arrived in the Caucasus and had not had time to ship the German defense line against Kyiv. The attack unfolded.
That was the third day of Shulka's warning.
Shuerka is discussing armor tactics with Stephen...Since the last incident, Stephen has completely changed his attitude towards Shurka. After all, the facts are in front of him, and Stephen can't accept it.
"We can also do the same as you!" Stephen said: "It is to add additional armor to the 'Matilda' and 'Valentine' tanks so that they have better protection!"
"It's useless, Colonel!" Shulka said: "I think what you need to do is to speed up the tanks instead of strengthening the defense!"
What Stephen didn’t know was that the German “Tiger” and “Leopard” would be on the battlefield soon, and there was almost no difference between adding additional armor to them or not.
"But we have many of these tanks, Captain!" Stephen said, "Speeding them up won't happen overnight!"
"Then you should be like us!" Shulka said: "Try to use it for street fighting with the Germans or attacking fixed military targets, because it doesn't require much maneuvering!"
Other things, Shulka really can't help it... He is not a god, and he can't bring this kind of "infantry tank" that is about to be eliminated from the dead back to life.
At this moment, a jeep stopped in front of Shulka's headquarters, and Mechlis jumped out of the car. Before he could run into the headquarters, he shouted: "War, Shulka, what we predicted War, it really is coming!"
Here Mehlist uses "we" deliberately, which sounds like the result of Shulka's discussion with him.
But of course, Shulka did not expose Mehlis... Just kidding, Shulka doesn't want to live anymore, it's not just a matter of not being able to use each other, Shulka has every reason to believe that if Shulka exposes Mehlis , Mehlis would not hesitate to find an excuse to kill people for this trivial matter.
It wasn't a problem for Mehlis, he did it all the time.
So Shulka even complimented Mehlis.
"Oh, is that so?" Shulka pretended to be surprised and looked at Mechlis: "You mean Kyiv? My God, I really made you guess right!"
Mechlis was stunned for a moment, and then laughed "haha": "Yes, Comrade Shulka! You are right, it is Kyiv. An hour ago, the Germans launched a full-scale attack on the Kyiv defense line!"
(end of this chapter)
