Chapter 845

After the call with trakov, I sat down and tried to recall the battle of Stalingrad in history. What actually happened during this period would affect the encirclement and annihilation of the three front armies against the German army. I racked my brains for a long time. I vaguely remember that in order to rescue Paulus' troops, Hitler ordered Marshal Manstein outside the encirclement to launch the counterattack operation code named "winter storm". With Holt's tank, I turned and looked at Bantai leiev. I was silent for a long time, Only then cautiously said: "the better solution is to hand over the battle command to one person, so that the command troops can be more handy." After hearing my startling words, all the people were silent, because this issue was considered by the Supreme Commander himself. Not to mention my little division commander, even the commanders of the front army such as yelimenko and rokosovsky had no right to speak. After a long silence, kirilov asked carefully, "Comrade oshanina, if what you said will become a reality, who do you think will be handed over the final command of the army? Is it one of the three existing commanders of the front army, or general Zhukov or general vasilevsky, chief of the general staff? "“ Comrade political commissar, according to the current situation, only the Don river front army and Stalingrad front army are likely to be merged, while general watujing's southwest front army may remain unchanged. " Although I am very clear about the situation after the merger of the two front armies, I still pretended to ponder for a long time before I went on to say, "as for the commander of the merged front army, I will definitely not let general trakov or chief of general staff vassilevsky serve as the commander. I can only choose from the existing two commanders."“ Will the new Commander come from the current commander? " After listening to my so-called analysis, kirilov couldn't help thinking, "who would that be?"“ Is that true? " Akhromeyev said without hesitation: "since we are fighting under the city of Stalingrad, the commander of the newly formed front army must be general yelimenko. Don't forget that his military commissar, comrade Khrushchev, is a member of the Central Committee. If he is not a commander, who can be a commander? "“ Comrade chief of staff, I don't think so. " Bantailiev and he sang the opposite tone: "I do not deny that general yelimenko's qualifications are higher than general rokosovsky, and his military commissar is Comrade Khrushchev. But don't forget, if the two front armies are really merged as the division commander said. In the selection of a commander, the Supreme Commander considers who is more capable of serving as the commander, rather than simply considering his qualifications and who is his deputy. So I think general rokosovsky is more likely to be commander. "