USSR 1941

  Chapter 856 Scene talk

   There is nothing wrong with what Kirillovich said.

  Although the superior has abolished the political commissar system, what has been abolished is only the military command power of the political commissar. When the troops are not fighting, even the power of ideological and political guidance during the war is still in the hands of the political commissar.

  The issue of the lynching of the Second Infantry Battalion is obviously an ideological and political issue rather than a military command issue.

  So Kirillovich does not need Shulka's consent at all. Shulka not only has no right to interfere, but also accepts Kirillovich's criticism.

  Of course, Kirillovich would not ask Shulka to tell Sokolov as Shulka asked.

   This is definitely the work of Kirillovich, and Shulka is interfering with Kirillovich's authority.

But more importantly, Shulka believes that Kirillovich is trying to establish his authority in the army...He is telling everyone that he is the one who can give orders in the army, not Kirillovich. Shulka, it won't matter if Shulka ever fights again.

   On the other hand, Kirillovich's actions can also discredit Shulka and widen the distance between Shulka and the troops, or it can also be said to weaken Shulka's control over the troops.

Thus, a very ironic scene appeared: Shulka made a suggestion to Stalin, and Stalin agreed to Shulka's suggestion to weaken the power of the political commissar, but the result was that the political commissar and instructors had increased control over the 82nd Infantry Regiment It can even be said that it has reached an unprecedented level.

   When Kirillovich left, Shulka lamented that Khrushchev had chosen the right person.

This Kirillovich can be said to be almost impeccable, without any bad habits that Shulka would not be able to find out if he tried to pick him out... If Shulka could pick out his faults, Shulka only needed a phone call, of course Akady Jevich was happy to use his power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to convey the situation to the Supreme Command, so Kirillovich could only leave in despair.

   But Khrushchev obviously thought of this, so he sent Kirillovich, a "righteous" and "upright" political commissar to disgust Shulka.

   "Comrade Commander!" Andrianka approached Shulka and asked in a low voice, "What should we do now?"

   "Nothing!" Shulka replied: "If he wants to control the 82nd Infantry Regiment like this, then it is too simple!"

Things are really as Shulka thought, if it is other troops, maybe it can be done, but this is the 82nd Infantry Regiment, a unit that grew up from the battle and most of them are able to live until now because of Shulka The 82nd Infantry Regiment, if Khrushchev and Kirillovich think that sending a few random people can shake Shulka's position in the 82nd Infantry Regiment, then they will underestimate Shulka and at the same time Look at the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

   Kirillovich came to the station of the Second Infantry Battalion with two guards.

  At this time, the 2nd Infantry Battalion is undergoing coordinated training, including mortar operators and artillery observers.

  This is Shulka's request to all officers and soldiers of the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

   The most difficult and dangerous thing to cooperate with infantry tanks is actually infantry coordination.

The coordination between infantry and tanks is of course difficult, but at least the tanks and infantry can still see each other. You can even answer the phone behind the tank and talk to the tank. The infantry can tell the tank to go slower or faster to attack. orientation and so on.

  This kind of coordination is not very dangerous. It is a relationship of mutual protection. In order to survive, infantry and tank soldiers will naturally cooperate as much as possible.

  But infantry coordination is different. Infantry and long-range artillery cannot see each other. The coordination between them can only report the position and distance through telephone and radio. If you accidentally calculate the wrong shell, you will hit yourself on the head.

   More importantly, Shulka hopes that the 82nd Infantry Regiment can develop in the direction of modern infantry, that is, to abandon the tactic of blindly using people to pile up in the face of the enemy.

  “If you can use artillery shells to repel the enemy, you can use artillery shells to destroy the enemy’s bunkers and defense lines, and our army still has enough artillery shells, why not? Why use human lives to fight against the enemy to capture these bunkers and fortifications?”

   This is what Shulka said to his subordinates.

   This sentence is very popular among officers and soldiers. After all, no one is willing to risk their lives in a meaningless situation.

At the same time, infantry coordination training is the cheapest and fastest effective. All it needs to do is to change the concept of officers and soldiers into prioritizing contact with artillery to destroy targets, and then let artillery observers select some soldiers with good arithmetic from infantry. Teach them to calculate the bearing on it.

Then it didn't take long before a troop that could only charge with a sea of ​​people with a gun was transformed into a troop that continuously guided artillery fire to accurately bomb the enemy's firepower and coordinated the attack... The artillery became the weapon of the infantry, and the infantry became the eyes of the artillery , if this conversion is in place, it can be said to be completely reborn.

  The Second Infantry Battalion is part of the 82nd Infantry Regiment, so this kind of training is also being carried out intensively.

   Kirillovich walked up to Sokolov, who was discussing training details with the staff, and ordered: "Comrade Sokolov, order your troops to assemble!"

   Sokolov felt something was wrong when he saw Kirillovich's face, but he still responded: "Yes, Comrade Commissar!"

  The Second Infantry Battalion was quickly assembled in a rush of whistles. Because of the serious battle damage, the whole battalion had less than 200 people, which made Kirillovich do not need a small speaker to speak.

"Comrades!" Kirillovich said loudly: "I heard that there are still private executions of deserters in our battalion. Your intentions are good. Deserters are indeed shameful and should be killed! However, as a One soldier has no right to decide the life and death of these deserters, this is our responsibility! In the future, when you encounter such a thing, you should report to the instructor or me at the first time! We will arrest them and let them get due punishment..."

   There are a lot of blah blah, Kirillovich is very eloquent, and he can speak eloquently for half an hour without a script. This may be an occupational disease of a thinker.

After    finished, Kirillovich asked: "Do you understand, comrades?"

   "Understood!" The soldiers replied in unison.

   "Do you understand, Comrade Sokolov?" Kirillovich turned his head and asked.

   "Understood, Comrade Kirillovich!" Sokolov replied very simply.

   This surprised Kirillovich. He thought Sokolov would at least explain a few words, but Sokolov didn't say anything.

  However, of course Sokolov didn't really "understand", because Sokolov and his subordinates just took these words as a scene, and they went in and out of their ears, and they did what they should do.

  (end of this chapter)