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Chapter 1155: Advice of Marshal Shaposhnikov

Pavlov made his fortune as a tank soldier and went to the Spanish battlefield. He knew the mobility of the tank troops, but now, the string was not tightened in his mind, because what he was thinking about now was how to avoid letting himself fail, how to save the current situation and maintain his position.

"General Pavlov, we are now in the Third, Fourth and Tenth Army of the Biawestok Prominence. They are about to be surrounded by the Germans. We must consider the retreat of these three armies." At this moment, he accepted Stalin's order and rushed from Moscow to Marshal Shaposhnikov, the representative of the Western Special Military Region, who had just entered the headquarters for half an hour and had already figured out the current situation. He expressed his suggestions to Pavlov.

"We should withdraw our troops to prevent being surrounded by the Germans," said Marshal Shaposhnikov.

Hearing his words, Pavlov immediately shook his head: "No, they must not withdraw. We must organize a new counterattack. We still have enough ability. Well, we must mobilize more troops to the front line, convey my orders, mobilize all the reserves to the front line, organize a bigger counterattack, and we must kill all the Germans who invade our territory."

Pavlov said calmly that it would be absolutely impossible to let him withdraw his army. He must now mobilize more troops to organize a new counterattack.

It seems that the Germans attacked very fiercely, but in fact, the Germans went deeper alone, and it was easier for them to be interrupted by their own side to break the logistics supply line and then eliminate them calmly.

Yes, that's it!

Pavlov was quite confident.

Upon hearing his words, Marshal Shaposhnikov shook his head.

When he came, Marshal Shaposhnikov had Stalin's secret order. If necessary, he could even replace Pavlov to command the entire Western Special Military Region.

However, Moscow was not sure how bad the situation was, and when he got here, he deeply realized how dangerous it was. At the same time, he decided not to go to this muddy water.

Until now, everything is commanded by Pavlov. If it fails in the end, it will be Pavlov who will bear the responsibility. However, if he takes over halfway and fails in the end, the responsibility will be difficult to say, and both sides will accuse the other party of the mistakes they made.

Therefore, Marshal Shaposhnikov just reminded that now Pavlov is still determined to do his best, so Marshal Shaposhnikov can only do his best from another aspect to report all this to Moscow and let Moscow issue an order to retreat.

This should be the best choice.

Marshal Shaposhnikov didn't know that because of his delay, the large forces of the entire Western Special Military Region had lost the opportunity to jump out of the German encirclement. What they lacked was this time.

In the command of the Thirteenth Army, the intelligence arrived was not comprehensive, so in Pavlov's eyes, his three armies were still fully equipped and fully equipped with sufficient logistics supplies, and still had strong counterattack capabilities, so strong that they could even drive the German army, which had already penetrated into the strategic depth of the prominent part, back to the original starting point.

But now Marshal Shaposhnikov has realized that the three armies in the front protruding unit may have lost their ability to counterattack. If they do not retreat, they will be surrounded by the Germans and then destroyed. Letting them fight back now is simply suicide.

Marshal Shaposhnikov sent all his judgments back to Moscow with the radio waves.

With the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in order to better command the war on the front line, Stalin made drastic moves to reorganize the command organs and establish the headquarters base.

This base camp is the highest organization for strategic leadership over the military operations of the Soviet armed forces. Its main tasks are: determining strategic reconnaissance tasks, issuing preparation suggestions to the General Staff Department, formulating battle situation plans and battle plans, forming strategic groups and reserves, planning battle strategic transportation, and developing theater command systems, etc.; organizing coordinated actions between strategic groups of various military services and combat regiments, and between guerrillas; coordinating the actions of the Soviet armed forces and allied troops; supervising the implementation process of the assigned tasks; determining the rear of development, establishing material reserves and establishing animal resources, etc.

In other words, this base camp was the Soviet wartime supreme command body, and Stalin personally served as the People's Committee on the Soviet National Defense. Within the following days, he was appointed as the Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces, becoming the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, and capturing all his powers into his hands.

After the base camp was established, it quickly sent representatives of the base camp to the front. Now, the situation in the western region that they were most concerned about has been reported by the base camp representative Marshal Shaposhnikov.

When the news came back, Stalin was not present, and at this time, he was speaking to the whole country.

The Germans whitewashed the war as a counterattack war launched because the Soviet Union wanted to invade Germany, and of course the Soviets would not agree with it so much.

"We have always looked at the countries around us with a friendly mood. We never thought about invading any country." Stalin's words were low: "But we didn't expect that the Germans actually forged rumors, treason and suddenly launched a military attack on us."

Stalin's radio was spreading to the whole world, and not only the Soviets, but also people from other countries could hear it.

The Finns took off their hats and their expressions were angry. The Soviets never invaded other countries? What happened to the Soviet-Finn War that had been fighting for more than a year?

The Poles also shed tears, and Poland was gone and divided up by the Soviet Union and Germany. Now, the Soviets still say they are friendly?

The three Baltic countries, Central Asia... countries invaded by the Soviet Union and countries invaded by Tsarist Russia are all cursing at the radio.

However, Stalin, who was speaking on the radio, could not hear it. He took his speech and continued to talk about the following content.

"This is a question of life and death of the Soviet country, a question of life and death of the people of all ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, a question of whether the people of all ethnic groups enjoy freedom or become slaves"

"All the Soviet people must resolutely overcome the mentality of calmness and indifference, overcome the sentiment of peace construction, make everything obey the organizational task of crushing the enemy, turn all their work to a new, wartime track, and our country officially enters the wartime system. Our people must actively join the army and contribute your property to support the country. We must also transfer civilian projects to the military industry, so that we can use our own practical actions to defend our freedom, our honor, and our motherland."
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