When I walked out of the tent, I saw the lieutenant and two soldiers standing on an open space smoking. When I saw me coming out, the lieutenant quickly threw the cigarette butt on the ground, then crushed it with his feet twice, then ran to me, and asked with a smile, "Comrade General, have you finished the phone?"

I nodded and said politely to him: "Yes, Comrade Lieutenant, I'll call you can go in."

When Cuikov saw me walking into the tent, he stopped talking to Leliushenko, but looked up and asked me: "Comrade Oshanina, I don't know if there is anything important to Commander Vatujing called you."

"It's nothing big, it's just a matter of making arrangements for the deployment of the troops." Of course, I couldn't tell them what Vatujing said, and said perfunctorily: "But it may take some time to supplement our army."

When Cui Kefu heard what I said, he did not ask any more questions. He just nodded to show that he knew. After I sat down, he pushed the map in front of me and said, "At present, our road situation is very bad. With limited transportation vehicles, it is very difficult to replenish hundreds of thousands or millions of troops in a short period of time. So I would like to give you a suggestion that in order to get supplies from your superiors in the shortest time, you should build roads."

"Build roads, what roads are built?" Cui Kefu's words confused me. When I thought of the earthy highway that turned slurry when it rained, I felt a headache: "You won't let me send troops to build roads, do you?"

"Of course not," Cui Kov immediately denied my guess and continued: "Even if you mobilize the entire army, it is an unfinished task to repair the road from Kursk to Ijium within a few days."

"Then what road are you going to let us build?" Cui Kefu's words made me even more confused.

"Oshaninna, look here." He pointed to the map and explained to me: "In fact, there are railways from Kursk to Belgorod, to Kharkov, and even to Ijium. As long as you repair the railways in damaged areas, our railway transportation will be restored. You must know that the materials carried by a train are far more than a hundred trucks. As long as your superiors can replenish you through the railway, I believe your troops will soon be able to restore combat effectiveness."

"This is a good idea." As soon as Cuikov finished speaking, Chisdakov continued: "I think we only need to withdraw one division's troops to repair the railway from Kharkov to Ijium in about two days. As for railways in other areas, we can only leave them for other troops to repair them."

"After completing the replenishment, what direction will your troops be transferred?" Cui Kefu looked at me and asked curiously: "Is it the Southwest Front that is responsible for our Southwest Front to participate in the attack on Zaporoshi, or is it transferred to another direction?"

I thought about the next direction of the troops, which should not be a secret in front of commanders of the level of Cuikov. Besides, even if I don’t say anything, he can learn from other directions, so I said openly: “After completing the rest, my troops will set out in the direction of Priluki to participate in the next action of the Front!”

Cuikov searched the map for a moment and found the place name I mentioned. After looking at it for a while, he slapped the table suddenly and said excitedly: "Priluki is only more than one hundred kilometers away from Kiev. It seems that the Supreme Commander has handed over the task of liberating Kiev to you the Voronezh Front."

"It's so enviable." Hearing that the mission of liberating Kiev fell on the Voronezh Front, Leliushenko also said with envy: "I really hope that my army can be assigned to the command of General Vatujing, so that we can participate in the battle to liberate Kiev. This can be recorded in history."

"If I remember correctly, Comrade Oshanina led the 79th Infantry Army to liberate Kiev a few months ago." Cui Kev looked at me and said with a smile: "If the city was not surrounded by the German army, it would be difficult to replenish supplies. I think Kiev is still in our hands."

"Don't worry, General Cuikov." Thinking of Kiev, who lost again, my heart felt like someone was snatched hard. It was here that my direct troops were almost completely lost, which made me start from scratch now. I gritted my teeth and said, "If I liberate Kiev this time, I will never let the Germans go back again."

"If we want to attack Kiev and want to rush into the city from the cross-river bridge, it is almost impossible." Cuikov pointed at Kiev's position and began to explain to me various situations that might be encountered in the battle: "Although Kiev was divided into two pieces by the Dnieper River, once we eliminate the enemies in the east bank and stay on the west bank, we can decisively blow up the bridge on the river, so that our mechanized troops cannot rush across the river."

"At this time, if you want to seize the city on the west bank, you must carry out landing battles." When Leyliushenka heard this, he also said with a serious expression: "Like the Dnieper River, like the Volga River, the east bank is flat, and the west bank is steep. If you do not have a comprehensive plan in advance, you will rashly attack the west bank guarded by the enemy, and it will probably end in failure."

After Leliushenka said this, I found that this is true. The Dnieper River and Volga River are both flat on the east bank and steep on the west bank. After the troops crossed the Dnieper River, they still had to attack the enemy on the other side of the shore. The price they paid must be small.

"General Leliushenko," I thought for a long time, but didn't come up with any good solutions, so I humbly asked Leliushenko for advice: "Is there any good solution?"

Hearing my question, Lelyushenko and Cuikov looked at each other, and then said jokingly: "I really didn't expect that General Oshenina, who is good at winning unexpectedly, would ask me how to force the Dnieper River." After saying these two sentences, he paused for a moment, and then said thoughtfully, "I have two ways. One is a stupid way, which is to let the artillery constantly bombard the positions on the west bank of the German army, and then let the infantry cross the troops regardless of casualties; the second is to use a frontal feint to attract the attention of the German army, and then our main force crosses the river from other areas and detours to the rear of the enemy."

After hearing this, I didn't say anything, but just frowned and gently tapped on the table with my fingers. I was thinking about the two combat plans proposed by Leliushenko, which one is more suitable.
Chapter completed!