Rebirth of the National Marshal

Although Li Dongsheng did not want to criticize his soldiers, just like what the tank company commander said, these soldiers nowadays are too pampered. Each one of them has been spoiled by the commander-in-chief. If the supply from behind cannot keep up on the battlefield, problems will arise everywhere. This kind of thing never happened in the past. They should be allowed to try their luck in the Central Army.

Not to mention eating canned beef every day, even having a steamed bun a day was considered good enough to fill you up. Now, things like steamed buns were rare on the front lines of the Central Army, mainly because they were fighting too fiercely with the Japanese devils, and it was not easy for the cooks in the back to deliver meals. So they were asked to bring enough dry food for the day, and they had to eat it in the morning and again in the evening, and they ate the same things all day long.

Let's look back at the Soviet side. Now the Soviet command finally realized that their air force had been defeated. They had lost so many planes, and even those that flew back were damaged.

This time, it was not just Marshal Timoshenko who was shocked by the news.

Admiral Duding who came from Moscow now really understands what is going on. It turns out that these Moscow pilots are nothing special. These Chahar pilots are really amazing. They went up and beat your air force back. Look at your air force, it is completely useless. If you want to fight with them, you are still far from it. You should go back and practice well. If you want to continue to teach them a lesson, it will be a death sentence. This time you have already lost two-thirds of your troops. Do you still want to continue fighting?

That's simply impossible. How can we have so many planes for you to continue playing? Even if Moscow provides support, we can't continue playing like this. The result is that we will end up in a Siberian penance camp with Timoshenko.

"It's over now. We must withdraw our troops quickly. Without air support, they will be in danger. The Chinese are best at using their armored forces to insert into our army. Our army doesn't even have a way to dodge, and the gap in our mobility is too big compared to theirs. Their army is good at interspersing like this, and our army's mobility is too poor compared to theirs. There is no way we can win." Marshal Timoshenko suddenly thought of the infantry divisions that were advancing towards the Chinese army's positions on the front line.

They must be in trouble now, otherwise there should have been news back long ago. Although the Soviet army is short of communication equipment, it is impossible that they are short of it to this extent. There should have been news back long ago. There is no news back now, which means there is only one problem, they must be fighting with the Chinese army.

"Marshal Timoshenko, what do you mean? Do you want me to order our great Soviet army to retreat? The air force has failed, but we still have the army. How can we retreat like this? We have sent out tens of thousands of soldiers. At most, we can send more troops to support them. We can't let them retreat. If they retreat, how should we explain to Moscow? This matter is serious, do you understand? Respected Marshal." Admiral Duding looked at the people around him and said calmly.

He hoped that Timoshenko could hear his hidden meaning. Now things are different from before. We have already reported to Moscow that we are going to launch a counterattack, but less than half an hour has passed and you want to withdraw the county's troops. What are you doing?

Do you think all those people in Moscow are fools? If you were alone, it would be up to you to do whatever you want. Now you want to take me with you. I have a bright future. As long as I can achieve some success in this battle, my friends and family in Moscow will mobilize to transfer me back. They will never let me stay here. Now you say you want to withdraw. Doesn't that mean there is no chance at all? If there is no fundamental improvement, those people in Moscow will not be able to get me back even if they are giving away money.

Marshal Timoshenko, who was about to give the order, hesitated at this moment. Just as Admiral Dudin said, if he really let the troops on the front line come back, the people in Moscow would definitely think he was playing tricks on them. If he was really playing tricks on them, at most the common people would be unhappy. But now the ones who would be unhappy might very well be these senior officials from Moscow. If they were unhappy, the entire Soviet Union would not be happy, including himself, the commander of the military district.

"But now it's not a question of whether to send reinforcements or not. Even if we send reinforcements, their final outcome will certainly not be good. Moreover, these reinforcements will most likely be sacrificed. We can't lose too many troops now. Our reinforcements have not arrived in full force yet, so we really shouldn't participate in this attack." The marshal sat in his seat in a daze and finally told the truth.

It's your own problem that you rashly launched the attack when all the reinforcements had not arrived, he just sighed, but to Admiral Duding next to him, it seemed that you had already taken the responsibility for the failure of this battle on your own shoulders. I don't have the responsibility to share this responsibility with you, you must know that you are old and you have no future.

My political career, Admiral Duding, has just begun. The Far Eastern Military Region is just a starting point for me. I will never let you withdraw the troops. If you withdraw them, it will be a stain on my life. Even if I can return to Moscow and continue to rise in those places where powerful people gather, it will be very difficult. This stain will definitely allow my political enemies to attack me for the rest of my life.

"I've thought about it and decided that we should let them come back. Compared with so many soldiers, our political future means nothing." Marshal Timoshenko had a very positive outlook on life. He knew what he should do and would not use the lives of soldiers to taint his official hat.