"A week ago, we still occupied the defensive position on the Suva Uki line," Suchekov pointed to a place on the map and said with a melancholy expression. "It is the first line of defense built by our 11th Army. On our left flank, the third and the 10th Army, and on the right flank, the main force of the Eighth Army. According to the combat arrangements of the Supreme Command, we should have enough time to build fortifications in that area, but the situation is not so optimistic. In front of us, the Third Army and the Tenth Army were defeated too quickly. Those cowardly guys surrendered to the brutal fascism. Several established brigades, while laying down their weapons, would almost have the entire line.

The front was given to the enemy. In this case, the Germans had only used less than two days to advance to the line of defense we had not yet built. Under the full attack of the German Fourth Tank Cluster and the Ninth Army, the fragile line of defense we temporarily built seemed vulnerable. Those two days were a lifelong nightmare for us. The Germans' attack methods were too cruel. Like a locust plane, the entire earth was trembling with powerful bombs, and countless bombs were thrown on our positions. Then, the steel-like 2 and 3 tanks jumped up. Hundreds of soldiers in our company only insisted on resisting the charge, and reduced their personnel by 60%. Captain Kimikolov, the company commander, also died..."

Suchekov said this and swallowed, then said fiercely: "Those guys who dared to surrender to the fascist enemy will be punished. Their cowardice can only bring them temporary peace. What awaits them will be endless humiliation and the death sentence of the military judge, and their relatives will also be implicated... If it weren't for their cowardice, we would have time to build a solid line of defense..."

After complaining, Suchekov turned the topic back. He pointed to a place called Vilnius on the map and said, "This is where we are preparing to arrange the second line of defense. In the initial order issued by the commander, if we lose the first line of defense, we should withdraw here, join the Third, Tenth Army and the Thirteenth Army, and reorganize the defense line. But the Germans obviously learned from the traitors our combat plan, so..."

Chu Siyuan has been looking at the map in front of him for the past half day. He ignored what Suchekov was saying. For him, the history of defeat was not worth considering at all. War only focused on one result, and never paid attention to any process. What's more, he, who is familiar with military history, does not have to listen to the guy in front of him telling him what he had known for a long time.

His eyes searched the map and soon found the Vigi mentioned by Suchekov. The detailed map made him quickly understand the reason why the Soviet command designated the third line of defense, because the map showed that it belonged to the swamp area of ​​the Narochi Lake District. The elite German motorcycle troops could not play any role in the swamp, and would even become a burden to infantry marching.

However, in Chu Sinan's opinion, it was not a good idea to gather troops in this swamp area, which was not a vast area, to confront the German army. In Chu Sinan's memory, the commander who commanded the German Northern Army Group at this time should be Marshal Loeb, a guy from a civilian who had experienced the First World War is definitely not so easy to deal with. Faced with the enemy in the swamp area, he would definitely order his mechanized German troops to circumvent him and encircle him. In that case, the Soviet army trapped in the swamp area had to surrender except to sit and wait for death.

In a sense, Chu Sinan looked down on the so-called passive defense tactics implemented by the Supreme Soviet Army in the early stage of the Soviet-German War, which only cared about the gains and losses of inches of land, but did not consider the huge casualties of people. It was under the influence of this strategy and tactic that the Soviet army lost millions of troops at the beginning of the war, and at the same time, it also put itself in a passive state of being beaten.

This plan is not good at building a strategic defense line against the German mechanized forces. After all, the German army, which relies on blitzkrieg, adopted a large-scale "surface" attack on the long front. If you adopt a "point" defense method, you will not achieve any results. This is like several reefs in a dry river. When the tide comes, they will soon be surrounded and submerged by surging floods.

"Comrade Chu, what did you see?" Suchekov couldn't help asking when he saw Chu Sinan frowning and staring at the map without saying a word.

Just as Suchekov asked this, a place name that was not unfamiliar suddenly jumped into Chu Sinan's eyelid, and this place name made him lit up.

Derissa!

That's right, it's Delisa, a military important military site on the banks of the West Vanderva River. In Chu Sinan's memory, during the Soviet-German War in World War II, the Soviet army also won a slightly meaningful victory here, effectively preventing the German mechanized corps from continuing to advance to the depths of the Russian hinterland.

"We're going here now!"

Without any hesitation, Chu Sinan raised his face and glanced at Suchekov opposite him, then pointed at Delisa on the map, and said firmly.

"Here?!" Suchekov was surprised and hesitated, "It is not the assembly place we reserved. Our assembly place is Viji, Comrade Chu, and Derissa is hundreds of kilometers behind Viji. We have become deserters without the permission of our superiors. We will be shot!"

"Comrade Suchekov, please believe my judgment," Chu Sinan insisted, "our troops could not achieve the purpose of assembly in Vigi. In that case, the only role it would be to add another strong mark to our enemy's military books. And I believe that in the face of the rapid advancement of the German blitzkrieg, the commander should also make adjustments to the original combat plan. On this line, only Derissa is the best defensive front building site.

The West Viagra River connecting the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea will be a natural barrier to block the mechanized German troops. Only there can the German tanks and armored vehicles not advance quickly, thus giving us a chance to breathe. As long as we can temporarily block the German advancement, the great Marshal Stalin and the Supreme Command led by him will be able to mobilize enough troops to launch the most fierce counterattack against fascist Germany based on the entire West Viagra River..."

Chu Sinan said a lot of things in a long way, and the purpose was to make Suchekov give up his plan to go north to Vigi directly, and instead go to the more ideal Delisa.

However, his persuasion obviously did not play any role. Captain Suchekov, who was a Soviet instructor, had a very firm will. He insisted on rushing to Vigi first. Even if there was only one person left in the team he led, he would have completed the task. And he had his own reason, that is, from here to Derisa, passing Vigi was the fastest shortcut.

Faced with Suchekov's stubbornness, Chu Sinan was very helpless. He thought to himself that this was probably a common problem left by Soviet officers after the Soviet Union's Great Purge? He only cared about the orders to go up the peak, but did not pay attention to the actual situation on the battlefield. How could such an army be invincible?
Chapter completed!