Burning Moscow

89 Lobbying (Part 1)

I let go of Master Lin’s hand, took a step back, looked at Vlasov and Krochkov, and asked in surprise: “Huh! What are you all looking at me for?”

“I heard that when you greeted Master Lin just now, you used Chinese.” Vlasov said in a bit of surprise: “I didn’t expect you to understand Chinese.”

Hearing what Vlasov said, I screamed in my heart: No! Want bad things. Krochkov is a member of the People’s Committee of the Interior. If I can’t come up with a reasonable explanation for this matter, he is bound to have doubts about me. In that case, my future situation will be greatly unfavorable.

I coughed, smiled and concealed: “Where can I speak Chinese?” Then I pointed to Shi Zhe who was standing next to me: “I just remembered when this comrade interpreter introduced you just now. A few Chinese words that I have used, and then string them together to say them.” After listening to my explanation, except for Master Lin, who does not understand Russian, looked at a loss, the other three had a half-trusted expression. So, I deliberately asked Shi Zhe: “Comrade interpreter, my pronunciation just now is still standard, right?”

“The two sentences you just said were very standard. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you thought it was a Chinese speaking.” After Shi Zhe finished speaking, he turned his head and quietly translated what I had just said to Master Lin.

“Sit down, everyone, please sit down!” After listening to what Shi Zhe had translated, Master Lin nodded with a sudden realization, and then beckoned everyone to sit down.

Krochkov did not sit. He said that his mission was to send me and General Vlasov here. Now that his mission has been completed, it is time to go back and return. Hearing what he said, Master Lin couldn’t keep him, so he personally sent him to the door of the room.

Krochkov’s departure gave me a sigh of relief. It was so risky just now. If I hadn’t been in a hurry to perfuse the matter, I guess I should go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to drink coffee tonight. It seems that in the future, I must control my emotions, and even if I am excited, I must remain absolutely calm, otherwise I will lose my life and I don’t know what happened.

After the attendant brought us a few cups of tea, Master Lin and Vlasov had a conversation. Before today, I didn’t know who the Vlasov General beside me was. Even at this moment, I knew very little about him. However, it seems that Master Lin knows him quite well, and I happened to understand the origin of this General Vlasov through the conversation between the two of them.

“Comrade General, I heard that you have been to China?” Master Lin’s words surprised me. I didn’t expect the general next to me to have been to China, but I never seem to have seen his name in a history book. .

“Yes, Master Lin. I arrived in Wuhan in 1938, which is your 27th year of the Republic of China, and helped your Chairman Chiang train the army to resist the Japanese attack.”

“Then when did you return to the Soviet Union?”

“I came back in November 1939. At that time, the war between our country and the Finnish White Bandit Army was about to break out. The army needed a large number of commanders, so I was transferred back from China. Soon after returning home, I was appointed to the Kiev Military District. The commander of the 99th Infantry Division under his jurisdiction. In September of the following year, Marshal Timosin went to Kiev to inspect the troops. He spoke highly of our division. Soon I was awarded the rank of major general and transferred to the 4th Mechanized Army. long.”

“I heard that in the defense of Kiev, your troops were very brave and tenacious, and resolutely blocked the German attack.”

“Yes, you are right.” Vlasov was not humble, and naturally accepted Master Lin’s compliment: “At that time, I took the remnants of the fighting troops from the Przemyszl area on the border of Ukraine. Retreat. The commander of the Front Army, General Kirbonos, and Comrade Khrushchev, who was then a member of the Frontline Military Committee, appointed me as the commander of the newly formed 37th Army. I took in the fighters who had retreated from the front and added them. I went to the various units of the 37th Army and quickly organized a defense. In early August, the 29th Army of the Germans launched the first offensive against Kiev. Under the resistance of our organization, their offensive did not work. In mid-August, The German offensive in southwestern Kiev was repelled by our army again, and we stubbornly defended Kiev’s frontal defense line. If there is a flanking Kuznetsov’s 21st Army and Podras’s 40th Army. If the gap, and the failure of the anti-assault by Yeleimenko’s Bryansk Front against the Germans, the Guderian and Kleist armored clusters will not be able to drive straight in, and Kiev will not fall so easily….” Flaso It was the first time I heard of everything the husband said, so I listened with gusto.

Vlasov finished telling his story, and then asked Master Lin: “General Lin, do you think the German army will occupy Moscow?”

“Occupy Moscow?” When Master Lin heard his question, he waved his hand disapprovingly and said, “This is impossible.”

“Why?” Although Vlasov asked this, it is also the question I want to ask. I am from a later generation, knowing that Moscow will never fall. But Master Lin is not a traverser, how can he be so sure that the Soviet army will be able to defend Moscow? We must know that the Soviet army outside the city is retreating, and the German army is approaching Moscow little by little.

“Don’t look at the German offensive, but if they want to take Moscow, it is not that easy.” Master Lin smiled slightly and said, “Besides, there is a natural ally who will help you.”

“Natural ally? Who is it, British or American?” Vlasov asked in confusion. Hearing what Master Lin said, I have guessed that the “ally” he referred to is neither the United Kingdom nor the United States, but the severe cold weather of Russia.

Sure enough, Commander Lin explained to Vlasov: “…The Germans originally planned to take the Soviet Union within two months, so they have no preparations for winter operations. Although the Germans are already under the city of Moscow, they will be able to do so in the short term. The strategic goal cannot be achieved within the country. Therefore, with the advent of winter, the German army, which lacks winter combat equipment and even winter outfits, is bound to pay a heavy price in the face of severe cold, Russia’s natural ally.”

Hearing Master Lin talking about this, Vlasov slapped the table and said excitedly: “You are too right! As long as the cold comes, the unprepared Germans will suffer hardships, and their artillery will be frozen in the soil. Here, the tank’s engine cannot be started, and the soldiers will freeze to death in large numbers. In that case, they will have to turn to defense and wait for the arrival of spring….”

“Not bad.” Master Lin added: “But with Comrade Stalin’s character, he will never let them wait quietly on the defensive positions until spring arrives. He will definitely bring well-equipped and powerful infantry divisions from Siberia. They are constantly being transferred to Moscow City, consuming the effective strength of the German army little by little, and launching a counterattack at the right time to completely defeat the German army!”

After listening to Master Lin’s analysis I can’t help but secretly give my thumbs under the table. I really deserve to be a famous general! The analysis is really too accurate. As far as I know, Hitler has always planned to end the war before the arrival of winter, so instead of urging the relevant departments to increase the production of cotton-padded clothes, he delays the shipment of cotton-padded clothes to the front. Now the winter in Russia has started for more than a month, and many German soldiers are still wearing summer combat uniforms. As a result, many German soldiers had to take off short fur coats from the fallen Soviet soldiers to keep out the cold.

“General Lin, Comrade Stalin also appreciates your military talent. He sent me today because he wanted me to convey a word to you.”

“What are you talking about? Just say it.”

“Please stay and take part in our Patriotic War. Comrade Stalin said, if you are willing to stay, you can first serve as deputy commander and chief of staff of my 20th Army. After you get acquainted with the troops, Let you go to the headquarters of the Western Front and serve as Comrade Zhukov’s deputy.”

Master Lin was silent after hearing this, but tapped the map on the table lightly with his fingers.

Vlasov was a little anxious when he saw his expression, and added: “Comrade Stalin also said that if you are willing to stay, he is willing to provide the Chinese comrades in Yan’an with the weapons and equipment of the two divisions.” Later legends Most of all, Stalin was willing to replace him with ten divisions in order to keep Master Lin. I have always believed that it was true. Now I understand that there are actually not ten divisions, but only two divisions’ weapons and equipment.

Master Lin raised his head, gave Vlasov a blank expression, then lowered his head to look at the map in front of him, and continued to tap the table with his fingers.