Seven Hundred and Three Beehives
It has been a day since Zhukov received Stalin's sudden order to launch a general attack across the board, but apart from frequently mobilizing his own troops to keep the Soviet Red Army on the front line in a high wartime state, he has not issued even a partial attack order yet. .
If you have seen the command performance of general Zhukov in the Battle of Nomenkan, you will find that he is actually a very cold tactician. He is familiar with all the troops and all the weapons in his hand, and he is good at using these weapons to create various wars for his opponents. Such trouble. Moreover, he didn't care about the loss of his own troops, and regarded casualties as an inevitable price. The Soviet Union still suffered huge losses in the late stage of the Nomonkan Battle even though it was victorious, which is directly related to Zhukov's command style of achieving tactical goals regardless of the cost.
So at this moment, although Zhukov received Stalin's strict order, he still did not change his original combat plan. The main reason is that he knew that his action plan was perfect and it was worth spending countless lives to fill it up. The reason why he didn't carry out the order to attack immediately was not for any other reason, but because he was still waiting, because the result of his waiting was not yet known.
An officer pushed open the door of Zhukov's office, stood in front of Zhukov with a look of embarrassment, and then began to talk about a topic Zhukov was interested in: "General Zhukov, the operation against the beehives has been successfully completed. Twenty people were captured, but none of these people admitted that they were involved in the leak. Several comrades in the intelligence department analyzed the action report we submitted, and they felt that we were tricked by the beehive, and this organization has not been cracked by us.”
Yesterday’s operation was carried out almost in complete secrecy. For this purpose, Zhukov also mobilized some grassroots officers and soldiers of the army, and the front-line headquarters directly commanded the arrest operation. The most confidential state.
In addition, after this operation, Zhukov ordered to monitor the channels used by those beehives. Up to now, the beehives have not continued to emit any radio waves, so Zhukov feels that he may have pulled out the beehives, at least on a large scale. Destroyed this German spy network.
Only after killing the German spies, could Zhukov carry out his plan to conceal the attack, but now it seems that the result of the espionage war is still in vain. How deep this beehive went into the interior of the Soviet Union is really confusing. But if the beehive is not removed, only God can know whether his plan can be realized.
"We have arrested 400 relevant personnel who may reveal the secrets of our army. The highest rank is a colonel, as well as people from the logistics department and the local government." Zhukov held his forehead with one hand, feeling a little tired He said to himself: "Also, 1,100 people were dispatched to Siberia, but the operation of the beehive has not been stopped. Who is this beehive composed of? I really want to know."
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"Want to know who actually made the beehive?" A man in worker's attire lit a cigarette while standing on the side of the road,
He smiled and asked Valshilevsky: "With your authority, you are not allowed to ask this question. In fact, I also want to know how many people are in the beehive and who they are. But the person who knows this secret is in Germany. Not more than five, obviously, I'm not one of those five."
Valshilevsky smiled bitterly. He has worked for the spy network of the beehive for many years, but he still doesn't know how big the beehive is, or who the people are in the beehive. There were about 10 German spies in the factory, and 3 Soviets were developed by him personally. Many people were dissatisfied with Stalin's reign of terror.
It is impossible for Zhukov’s cleaning at the front to spread to production factories in the rear like Chelyabinsk. These factories are all internal self-inspections, supervised and executed by factory directors like Valshilevsky. Of course, this kind of detection in the rear is far less strict than the internal investigation of the front-line military, so that Zhukov did destroy several small German spy networks, but he has never found this real beehive hidden in the rear.
"Our eyeliner in the military system has almost been ruled out by Zhukov. So the beehive decided to hide all the spies temporarily and never show up again, so as to save their strength for more important moments in the future!" The contact person spat Taking a puff of light cigarette, he whispered this to Valshilevsky, then threw away the cigarette butt, stomped it out with his foot, and then turned and walked towards the distant street. Valshilevsky did not stop either, but walked in the opposite direction.
Zhukov overestimated the power of German lurking personnel in the Soviet Union. In fact, there were only very few intelligence personnel lurking in Germany within the Soviet army, and the location was not important. In most cases, German generals relied on Valshilevsky. Part of the information provided by the factory manager was just to confirm their judgment from the reconnaissance plane.
As for Zhukov's plan, the German high-level officials did not know, or in other words, the German high-level officials could not confirm the Soviet Union's offensive plan. As for the main direction of the offensive and the deployment of troops, they could only be roughly judged by reconnaissance planes, and could not be fully controlled.
The worker who contacted Valshilevsky walked back to his home, took off his old coat, hung it on the hanger at the door, then sat down on the sofa, and suddenly covered his face with a sneer When he got up, his laughter was very low, as if he was trying hard to hold back his laughter from being too presumptuous.
He just laughed like this for a long time, and finally stopped. He wiped his face with both hands, sorted out his expression, and looked at his room again. Suddenly, in a small voice that only he could hear, he muttered a few words. No one can hear his whisper, and that content is one of the top secrets in Germany. What he muttered just now is "beehive? Who said that the beehive is a network? Only the head of state in this world knows this secret. The beehive is me, and I am beehive!"
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Zhukov felt that he might not be able to find the intelligence organization called Beehive for a while, and he also knew that if he suppressed Stalin's offensive order, the pressure from Moscow would destroy him as the frontline commander first, so he The troops of the Soviet Union must be mobilized as soon as possible to start the decisive battle on the Eastern Front that Stalin, or the entire Soviet Union, or the entire world has been looking forward to for a long time.
The strategic plan drawn up by this Soviet general is actually not complicated, it just uses a little simple blindfold, but he firmly believes that this plan can catch the Germans by surprise, at least in the early stages of the battle, the Soviet Red Army will have the absolute initiative on the battlefield .
Since he took office as the Soviet front-line commander, he has been trying his best to strengthen the Soviet Red Army's troops in Kyiv, and he has hyped that the Soviet Red Army will take back the industrial city of Kyiv in the shortest time. Even Timoshenko, another powerful Soviet general, was transferred to the outskirts of Kyiv to command nearly 1 million Soviet Red Army troops there.
But in fact, he secretly reorganized the Soviet Red Army in his hands and formed three field armies outside Minsk. These armies were equipped with new artillery with better mobility, or some self-propelled artillery that the Soviet Union imitated the German assault gun. Moreover, these three field armies all have a large number of tanks, which can be said to be the most elite troops in the Soviet Union.
Zhukov used the data on the number of troops to deceive the German intelligence agencies, and at the same time used all the methods in his hand to strengthen the troops in the direction of Minsk. His intention was very simple, that is, when the battle broke out on a large scale again, he would not They will rush into the traps set up by Germany from the direction of Kyiv, but will march south in Minsk to fight a large-scale war of annihilation to wipe out all the main German forces in Ukraine.
This plan is called "harvest", which means that it is hoped that Germany's main front-line forces can be harvested at once, and all the lost territories can be regained. However, after studying the combat effectiveness of the German army, Zhukov set his strategic goal on encircling Kyiv. He knew that the strategic goal he had initially drawn up was a bit too dreamy. The Soviet Union simply did not have the ability to encircle more than two German armies.
However, he felt that as long as he launched an attack in an unexpected location for the Germans, it was absolutely possible to break through the defense line and advance to Kyiv. And once Kyiv is recaptured, the defense line of the Dnieper River can be restored, and in the next time, at least the Soviet Union can rely on the advantage of the river to consume the limited armored forces of the German army.
He even wrote a letter to Stalin, stating the possibility of the Soviet Red Army defending Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad in the event of an accident. Once the German army consumes part of its troops in Kyiv and the Soviet Union, there will be another dangerous military vacuum period in the Soviet Union. If Germany continues to advance eastward, the capital of the Soviet Union may become the front line.
This plan was approved by Stalin, and under extreme conditions, he did not hesitate to use Moscow as a bait, but ever since he knew that there was a very secret German spy organization called the Beehive inside the Soviet Union, and that his plan might be leaked, he had no choice. There is no way to be sure of your own judgment. If Kyiv was a huge pocket, then after his troops crashed into it, the Germans did not suffer serious losses, and it is very likely that Moscow would be occupied by Germany. At that time, Zhukov was the sinner of the entire Soviet Union.
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