I Became Stalin chapter 277

I became Stalin chapter 277

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Taking a step forward, he looked down at the map’s troop layout. The Indian officer started explaining for the new chief of staff. Makarov stood behind Nikolai’s foot and gave an interpreter in a low voice.

“The enemy is advancing towards Calcutta with the 6th Corps, which consists of two infantry divisions and one motorized division. Following this, the Portuguese 3rd Division on the left wing, the Italian Expeditionary Division, and the US 4th Panzer Division on the right wing are deployed in this way.”

“Hmm, it seems that we have an overwhelming advantage when it comes to intelligence?”

“That’s right. As for the movement of troops, the spies who infiltrated us… .”

good. It was good for one thing.

If you know your enemy and know yourself, there is no danger in fighting a hundred battles. It was said by a man named Sun tzu (Sun tzu = grandson) who he saw in a book he had read in Frunze’s library, and Nikolai really liked it.

The Indian Revolutionary Army was also aware of the US military’s strength to a considerable extent.

“The enemy is overwhelmingly superior to the air force, but the bad weather conditions, the poor airfield facilities, and the strength of our air defense artillery make it manageable to keep the front line.”

“The US pilots are said to be operating limited operations under thorough escort after suffering losses from several strategic bombing attempts. According to insider intelligence, the story is that pilots are protesting in large numbers… .”

“The armament of the enemy is not uniform. for example… It is classified information, but it is said that Italy intentionally breaks down equipment donated by the US military, handles the loss, and sends it back to the home country to repair it and use it again. Portugal used a similar method to send it to a riot unit in Africa and was discovered by the US military, which is why the armies of the two countries are in relatively poor condition.”

Nikolai was stunned.

“No, how did you find out about all this?”

“Yes? The Homeland Intelligence Department informs you every week… .”

oh my god Now the strategy map is somehow starting to show up again. Each of the chess pieces symbolizing the Red Army had a piece of paper on it.

“It means the power you have.”

“Can you translate this for me? I should be able to find out too. And… .”

“Yep! Just give me orders.”

As Nikolai spent some time contemplating the strategic map, people looked at him with a puzzled expression.

However, Nikolai had a different reason.

‘this… Where do you think I saw a lot?’

The layout of the terrain, the size of the enemy army, and the situation were different. Because what he experienced was a mock war.

‘At the center is a strategic target targeted by the enemy. That too… A great high-value target.’

I didn’t know which corner of the world Calcutta was attached to until I came, but when I came, I learned about its political and military significance. From the point of view of the imperialists, it is a key point to enclose and encircle the Indian revolution in the south.

And for the revolutionary army, it was the last channel to secure a connection with the Soviet Union and the sea.

The intention of the Allies to occupy this place before the armistice is so obvious in the deployment and maneuvering of the enemy, how heavy are the generals?

Therefore, you will be running as fast as possible by concentrating your power in the center. It was obvious how tired the enemy’s main 6th Corps, which had deployed a large number of infantry divisions for street fighting, would be exhausted. Nikolai had also participated in the offensive with Rasputica just finished.

“First… Can I do some terrain reconnaissance?”

“Yes! Yes! good! no, good… good!”

Somehow, these Indians seemed to be expecting Nikolai to come up with some great plan. The Indians, who accepted the request in clumsy Russian, glared at Nikolai with burdensome eyes mixed with great anticipation.

But honestly, Nikolai just wanted to do the basics. Just the basics of tactics. The enemy generals aren’t stupid, but anyway, what he knew was the basics.

In order to strategize, you must first understand the terrain. As he walked out of the headquarters for aerial reconnaissance, Lt. Col. Makarov followed him at a slow pace and asked.

“Also! I knew that Colonel Petrov had something ready!”

“No, I have nothing, what do you mean? First of all, you have to look at the topography to know what to expect.”

“Hahahahaha, don’t say that. Frunze’s comrades all know how well the colonel propelled against the ‘Iron Wall’ brigade commander.”

“… Well?”

Makarov muttered unintelligible noises, such as where he had picked up strange things, how about Nikolai’s command, and how great he was. Is it true that she is a capable person who snatched up her beautiful wife?

Holding a map in his arms, Nikolai, riding in a biplane that would have barely served in the early days of the Great Patriotic War, looked down with a compass and a telescope.

All kinds of landmarks marked on maps of various scales had to be acquainted now. It seemed that Nikolai could not forgive himself if one more drop of his ally’s blood flowed because of one thing he had missed.

“… I don’t know much about tactical tactics like the cadets do, but who? Since that one-eyed general, the basics of strategic tactics are hammer and anvil, right?”

“You mean Hannibal?”

“Ah! okay. Was it that name?”

The imperialist army seemed to have the same intention. It aims to break through one point by putting a powerful armored battalion in the front of the right wing, which is relatively narrow and has poorly deployed allies. However, it seemed too light to see the numerous guerrillas deployed in the large city of Calcutta.

Although it is not a place like Leningrad, where numerous apartments are lined up, the mixture of towns and slums that have repeatedly sprawled can become an anvil for our allies.

“Hmm, what’s the name of that river?”

“Yes? Ah… Perhaps it is the name of Hooglygang.”

“South of the city, that is… Identify all bridges on your left wing. Will the bombing experts be there?”

Seeing Nikolai who suddenly began to shoot and wait for orders, Makarov stood out. As a former soldier, Nikolai didn’t seem particularly extraordinary for the fact that he had repeatedly made special advances and swept up numerous medals.

Even in the days of Frunze, I studied the hardest in the library, and the fact that my wife looked outstanding other than that she was a beauty was not that much… There didn’t seem to be much. However, there was something that Colonel Petrov could not disobey when he gave this order.

“Find out the design load of the bridge, and prepare to blow up anything over 45 tons at any time, but don’t touch anything below it.”

“Yes? 45 tons?”

“Did you say it was the US 4th Panzer Division? The main tanks of the U.S. Armored Division are Pershing heavy tanks weighing about 45 tons. They are as big as our wealth?? On the other hand, aren’t our T-34 tanks around 30 tons?”

“… Ah!”

Like an armored officer, Nikolai was an enemy and an ally, and he was memorizing the specifications of the tanks. It was only then that Makarov could understand Nikolai’s intentions.

“In other words, you are saying that friendly T-34s can cross that river, and enemy Pershing cannot cross it.”

“That’s it!”

The outline of the strategy was already emerging. Although the Indian Revolutionary Army itself was poorly equipped, it had strong anvils of cities and rivers.

Conversely, the Soviet army also had a small number of hammers of their own. Once confirmed, the anti-tank weapons possessed by the Portuguese and Italian forces were at a level that could not be matched.

“Tell me honestly. In your opinion, what are the capabilities of the commanders of small Indian guerrilla units? I mean, um… Do you think it will be enough to hold the troops from disintegrating while retreating?”

“Yes? uh… Yes. It will be possible. First of all, the morale of the guerrillas who have endured this far is very high. As they retreated, they scattered and fled, causing the entire unit to collapse… Not at that level.”

“very good. Good job. There is nothing missing, but everything there is.”

I was so grateful to the command center for providing such an environment. Would Nikolai’s plan be possible without the trucks that would have been loaded with disguised non-combat supplies?

Even in a distant hometown, the sun began to set the same red. The scout plane now lowered its nose and began to turn back. A dark fog lingering in the distance seemed to hint at an approaching enemy.

‘Will it be successful?’

He had never entered the battlefield with certainty.

The battlefield was an unknown place. A place where a single soldier like him survived and became a colonel, and the heroic and valiant enemy who was the same as the enemy of the wealthy was also killed by a savage bullet.

On the battlefield where you can’t predict even an inch ahead, you’ve learned from the battlefield that certainty is the enemy that brings pride.

Will the Goddess of Destiny smile at him once more?

* * *

Upon landing, the senior officers at the Indian Revolutionary Army’s headquarters were seen pacing. Makarov followed Nikolai closely after passing the orders given by Nikolai to another officer in the advisory group.

“To some extent, the plan has been laid out. First… Are you maintaining contact with front-line units?”

“That’s right. Thanks to the radios sent by the Soviet Union… .”

“good. then… Command the left wing to retreat quickly and the right wing to retreat slowly. As I looked, a number of small rivers were flowing from northwest to southeast. Using these as a natural line of defense will prevent the advancing enemy infantry units.”

“Yes? Ah, um… Yes! Yes!”

The officers of the Indian Revolutionary Army, who thought that the young colonel, who looked fierce, was funny at heart, were startled by Nikolai’s sudden change in attitude and began to write down proposals, no, orders.

“The Portuguese army our right wing will face is the weakest of the three sides of the enemy. Our goal is to keep the distance between the units as much as possible while maximizing the defensive front they have to cover. The motorized unit is on the right wing, the T-34 armored brigade is on the left wing, and the engineers are on the left wing… .”

Nikolai’s hand swung over the strategic layout within the headquarters. After moving the units from place to place, the result was a rather strange shape.

The secondary heavy tank battalion and motorized units were intensively deployed on the right wing, and the armored brigade and artillery battalion were intensively deployed on the left wing. It looked like he couldn’t guess which side he was going to do.

“this is… how… .”

“The outline is as follows. Here, the central Calcutta becomes the anvil. While the left wing armored brigades fight against the enemy’s powerful armored divisions… In the right wing, if you put a heavy tank battalion at the forefront and operate a motorized unit to stab the enemy’s central main force from behind… .”

“… !”

“It is important here that the units that will be deployed to Calcutta do well. The enemy is now desperate to somehow quickly take over the city. Bring it into the city. I heard you know a lot about street fighting, right?”

The man who Makarov, the commander of the anti-army brigade, called the ‘iron wall’, was very fond of this operation. After attracting the enemy by throwing the bait, the enemy with the bait is crushed by siege maneuvers and concentrated operation of artillery.

How many elites from Frunze were fishing for that technique!

“Yes! If it’s a street fight… .”

“Okay. Then I’ll go oversee the construction of the Fort Iman. Colonel Makarov! Follow me!”

Nikolai was still not confident. It seemed that I would be relieved if I had to see at least one more and find out the pile of problems.

But the Revolutionary Army officers had a different look behind him. A faint hope similar.

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