Chapter 12 News you shouldn’t know

After hearing Malashenko's admonition-like words, Kirill said nothing. Kirill, who kept his head low and remained silent, looked to others like a man who was raped by an adult after doing something wrong. Children who are scolded are generally autistic.

After seeing the scene in front of him and remembering it in his heart, Malashenko, who was already holding an important position after being promoted to captain, did not have the leisure time and extra time to sit down with a big boy and have a heart-to-heart talk with him. Malashenko, the company commander, has more important things to do right now.

"Captain Malashenko, according to the latest instructions from the division headquarters and the decision made by the regiment headquarters, you are hereby informed that you must assemble your units within half an hour to prepare to follow the large force and move forward. Please hurry up!"

After listening to the regimental communications soldier in front of him come to dictate the order to him, Malashenko, who was a little confused, couldn't help but ask in a slightly questioning tone.

"Continue to move forward? Can you tell me what our next phase of combat goals are?"

Although judging from his position, Malashenko, who is only a captain and company commander, does not need and should not take the initiative to inquire about the strategic intentions and tactical directions decided by the superior headquarters.

However, this communications soldier who belonged to the 1st Regiment of the 20th Tank Division where Malashenko was located did not intend to make things difficult for Malashenko on such detailed issues. Instead, he uncharacteristically told Malashenko. The terrible real fighting conditions on the front line.

"According to reports from the frontline reconnaissance force, a large number of German armored groups are currently moving towards the area from Lutsk to Brod. Prisoners captured by our army confessed that the enemy of our 9th Mechanized Army is the German Army Group South," said A German field marshal named Rundstedt took the lead.”

"The 1st Armored Group, the vanguard of the German Army Group South, has the most ferocious offensive. It has defeated many of our friendly troops along the way and continues to advance, posing a serious threat to Kiev. The Army Headquarters has instructed us to find ways to stop it. The continued advance of this German army must be prevented from threatening the safety of the city of Kiev.”

After putting away the folder that still smelled of ink in his hand and standing at attention, the meticulous regimental correspondent immediately raised his hand to Malashenko and gave him a military salute.

"These are the next stage of our division's combat operation plan and the combat details that Political Commissar Petrov asked me to pass on to you. Please be sure to abide by the confidentiality regulations, Comrade Malashenko."

After finishing his words, without waiting for Malashenko's reaction, the travel-traveled regimental correspondent immediately disappeared in the blink of an eye among the crowd of Red Army soldiers coming and going, never to be seen again.

After Malashenko, who was in a daze, fully understood what the correspondent had just told him, a more puzzling thought suddenly arose.

"This does not seem to be military information that grassroots commanders and fighters in my position should know, but why did Petrov's political commissar specifically ask this correspondent to pass it on to me? Could it be that there is some reason that I don't know, or maybe there is some conspiracy. ?”

Perhaps due to the deliberate slander and slander of later generations of Western culture against officers at the Soviet political commissar level, Lin Jie, who grew up in a highly developed social and cultural background with the explosion of information since childhood, has now transformed into Malashenko. From then on, he was still quite afraid of the political commissar Lieutenant Colonel Petrov.

Ultimately, it is because the surviving political commissars who have just experienced the purges of the Soviet army, but are still able to hold on to their positions and remain safe and sound to this day, are too powerful.

It can be said that none of the Soviet officers who were able to protect themselves wisely and survive the great purge that was like a catastrophe to the Soviet Red Army were fools with low emotional intelligence. Among them, those who were good at figuring out people's hearts and whose job was political propaganda The Soviet military political commissar class can be said to be the most intelligent among them.

As one of the high-ranking political commissars who survived the Great Purge, Lieutenant Colonel Petrov's ability in tactical command and his own work is not high or low.

But when it comes to intrigues and secret intrigues, Lin Jie, who had just traveled to the world of World War II, knew very well in his heart that he was definitely no match for the high-ranking political commissar Petrov.

It is precisely because of this that we adhere to the supreme concept of "you must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others".

Malashenko, who realized that Petrov's political commissar's behavior was unclear and unexplainable, finally began to wonder what the intentions of a division-level political commissar comrade who had a much higher official position than himself had towards him. The situation really gave Malashenko, who was not very familiar with this strange world, a headache.

"Forget it, let's just take it one step at a time. If such a big official really wants to do something to me or set a trap for me, I guess I can't do anything. Who knows, the Germans' cannonballs might take me away with one shot that day. , who will care about this then.”

Muttering these self-comforting words in his mouth, he returned to his No. 177 T34 tank and began to plan the next action. As far as the current situation is concerned, Malashen, who had just taken over the hot potato position of commander of the first company, It can be said that the situation faced by Ke can't get any worse.

In yesterday's counterattack against the 13th Armored Division of the German Wehrmacht, the Soviet army, despite its high morale and playing the role of a surprise attacker, finally won a complete victory.

But that did not count the full pre-war preparations and the tenacious resistance of the elite German infantry and tank coordination units in the village, but it eventually caused the victorious Soviet 20th Tank Division to suffer heavy losses.

During this battle, the First Tank Company of the 1st Regiment of the 20th Tank Division, which was the first to launch a surprise attack as a sharp knife force, received orders from superiors and immediately entered the battle almost as soon as it arrived at the designated position after a long-distance raid.

The commanders and fighters of the Soviet army's grassroots units who had just experienced the Great Purge clearly lacked the appropriate tactical literacy and command experience. Most of them were tank commanders and company and platoon-level officers who had just graduated from military schools and did not even have basic infantry-tank coordination. Unable to do it well, I just copied what I learned in the military school textbooks.

The war will not develop in the direction you expect, and similarly, the elite soldiers of the 13th Armored Division of the German Wehrmacht will not act as opponents and fight according to the courses taught in your Soviet military school textbooks.

Soon, the Soviet troops, who were ill-prepared and rushed into the attack with their exhausted bodies after a long-distance attack, paid a heavy price for their reckless behavior.