Of course, Zhukov, who has a tough personality, is not something that Vasilevsky can persuade him in just a few words, otherwise he is not Zhukov. As for resolute decisions, Vasilevsky has said it many times, and Zhukov himself has also said it many times, but the connotation of everyone's "resolute decision" is obviously different, and it cannot be put on the table to make it clear.

At the earliest time before the fall of the Volga River Basin on the Central Front, Zhukov's decisive decision was to hope that Stalin would promote peace as soon as possible with the right bank of the Volga River as the dividing line. Stalin did not agree, and Huasilevsky also expressed his unacceptance and gave up the left bank before he even fought. But after the German army continued to attack and destroyed the left bank, it was impossible to allow the opponent to accept the right bank ceasefire.

Then Vasilevsky made a resolute decision at this time to demand peace talks. Now it was Zhukov's turn to quit. He believed that it was impossible to negotiate peace talks. He had to use the winter break to give the German army a warning, and to achieve victory in one battle. Due to several consecutive arrivals of US aid and the situation in the rear was restored after rectification, Stalin gritted his teeth and agreed to Zhukov's opinion. Not only did he draw nearly 1 million troops from the central front, but he also handed over the most elite guard tank brigades to Zhukov.

The two lieutenant generals Chernyakhovsky and Cuikov were specially selected by Zhukov to coordinate with him to manage the special front army in Central Asia. After agreeing to Zhukov's offensive plan, Stalin's father took great pains to serve the capable commanders. Of course, Zhukov could not escape the command, but Zhukov alone could not control the 1 million troops. Originally, Zhukov wanted Bagramiyan to help him, but Stalin scoffed at the latter's defeat in the previous battle and refused Zhukov's request. Except for the people who were unable to move, the rest seemed to be particularly outstanding. In the end, Zhukov selected these two people to help him manage the left and right wing clusters (relative to the front level), and Stalin recognized this.

These two people are definitely younger generations in terms of age. Cuikov is less than 44 years old, and Chernyakovsky is even 38 years old. Not to mention the commander of the Front Army, even the more important commander of the Army is rare. Of course, Zhukov is also a young commander. He is less than 50 years old until now, and the opponents he has confronted, including Manstein, Guderian, Hort, Klester, etc., are generally 8-15 years older.

It can also be seen from generals at other levels that Wenk and Cui Kov were both in the same year, and they were both lieutenant general. When the current one was promoted to the commander of the main division due to their outstanding performance, Cui Kov had been even the commander of the group army for several years. Although Zhukov had a lot of friends and classmates, he had no personal team, and he had no confidant generals. His personality was more direct and stubborn, and he was naive in politics and had no too many unreasonable thoughts, so Stalin was more at ease with him, and these two generals were relieved by Zhukov to take him.

Chernyakovsky and Cuikov are both powerful generals in the first level of the new generation of army commanders. One is good at attacking and the other is good at defense. In history, the former was personally selected by Stalin as the successor of the command headquarters in 1945 (taken by Zhukov). Unfortunately, he was unlucky and was killed by German artillery shells five days before he was promoted to marshal. The latter was stubborn in the Battle of Stalingrad, from 150,000 to more than 200 people unshakable.

, which is a unique one. Although the historical process has changed, Zhukov himself is far inferior to Hoffman knows that they are very famous in history, he still discovered two people from the battles in the past two years: Chernyakhovsky achieved the best results in the offensive battle against the Central Army Group, while Cuikov performed the best in the Great Hequ tribe of the Don River and subsequent battles, and blocked the rear cover to prevent the collapse of the entire front.

So this time he brought both of them to Central Asia. Chernyakovsky was responsible for commanding the offensive cluster to surround the Central Asian Army, and Cuikov was responsible for defending the cluster against the German army that could reinforce. The two were also very nervous about this battle. Although Stalin did not give them the title of commander of the front army, the troops they commanded were already at the level of the front army. As long as the battle was fought well, Comrade Zhukov recommended it again, the rank of general and even general, and the title of commander of the front army was still at your fingertips?

Zhukov first showed them the letter. After reading it, Cuikov didn't say much, and Chernyakovsky asked: "What does Comrade Vasilevsky mean by resolute decision?"

"This will be the last winter break we can get. Once April is over, the German army will resume full-scale attack, so we don't have much time left, and we must decide as soon as possible whether to continue to advance the Central Asian battle or let the Central Asian Special Front return to the middle road."

In front of the two, Zhukov told his strategy in full, which he called it five steps:

The first step: Take risks and draw Central Asian forces. Huasilevsky firmly opposed this, but in the hindsight, Zhukov's adventure was successful. The German army did not advance wildly because of the weak opponents on the central battlefield. On the contrary, it still took steady steps and took steps. Although the speed decreased, its stability increased. The front line had just surpassed 200-300 kilometers in the right bank of the Volga River. However, Huasilevsky's hope of counterattack failed and his first strategy was successful.

The second step: surround the German army in Central Asia, eat or fight it to the point of collapse, and attract German troops west of the Caspian Sea to help. Zhukov believes that the number of German troops in rescue will not be too large, which is about 100,000 to 150,000. The Central Asia road system and supply capacity are here, so the infantry can be placed a little more, and the German mechanized troops will be able to survive the 150,000 level. The second step is that the siege is barely successful, but eating or fighting until it collapses is still far away.

Step 3: Attach the point to attack the aid, use Cui Kov's defensive cluster to eat or surround the rescue force, and force the main force of the German army on the southern front to continue to divide the troops to rescue;

The fourth step: It is also the most critical and core step. After the German army's southern front is adjusted and weakened, it will no longer pay attention to the situation in Central Asia and require the central front to restrain part of the German army on the southern front. The Red Army will draw four fronts from north to south in the direction of Moscow and Stalingrad to advance to cut off the roots of the German outskirts on the Central Front. Although the German army has made a lot of advances on the Central Front, since the Red Army has always firmly grasped Moscow and Stalingrad, the Central Front has always been a giant outskirts.

Step 5: Defeat or repel the German offensive forces in the central battlefield (Zhukov believes that it is impossible to eliminate them), take advantage of the German retreat to push the front back to the left bank of the Volga River, and then make peace between the two sides to win a favorable condition for the Soviet side. He even believes that Moscow can also be given up in exchange for the overall front to push forward, so that the Soviet Union can have two relatively concentrated industrial bases and corresponding populations, and is barely considered a major European power.

These five steps were promoted step by step, but unexpectedly, the second link was in trouble now. Chernyakhovsky commanded a 500,000 offensive cluster and actually won 100,000 German troops without a good idea! But Zhukov also believed that his command had no mistakes.

"Comrade Huasilevsky's resolute decision is very obvious, including two meanings: first, continue to attack and speed up the progress, and cannot lose too much power, because these forces will return to the central battlefield to serve as defense in the future. In other words, Huasilevsky is not optimistic about Zhukov's five-step move, believing that at most, Central Asia's small victory shocked the German army, and then the defense issue on the central front; second, abandoning the overall combat goal, using several months to build a defense line, striving to block the German attack on the Ural line after the beginning of spring, and then conducting political negotiations to resolve the problem of political negotiations, and also disagreeing with the attitude of the five-step move strategy."

Cui Kefu asked in a deep thought: "Which one do you prefer?"

"I have no inclination! First of all, it is basically impossible to win without losses. Just driving the Germans into this basin has caused us to lose 70,000 to 80,000 troops and a large number of tanks." Zhukov was a little annoyed and a little depressed. "Comrade Stalin only gave me two tank brigades reinforcements, and nothing else was available; I think if we were more optimistic, we would have to sacrifice 200,000 people to enter the basin. If we were more pessimistic, the 200,000 people would have little effect."

Chernyakovsky sighed: "The is-1 heavy tank is a good tank, which is basically comparable to the Tiger Type, and each has its own merits. Unfortunately, it came too late and the number was too small. If we had such a good tank shortly after the Tiger Type came out at the beginning of last year, many battles would not have been like this last year..."

Now the Soviet army knew that the German army was not an ordinary person in the encirclement, but were all famous elite front-line divisions, especially the two first-line divisions, the Great German Division and Prince Eugen, fought until now, even ordinary Red Army officers and soldiers understood that these first-line divisions were almost the endorsement of the ace division. Unlike the Soviet soldiers who rushed to fight, they were all veterans with special training and practical experience. With sufficient supply and material supply, the Germans could rely on efficient radio systems to effectively command these troops to carry out tenacious resistance based on support points, and not be quickly disrupted and eventually destroyed in the encirclement due to communication interruptions like the Soviet army.

"What should we do now?" Cui Kefu was also a little depressed. "Do you need me to divide an army to support the offensive cluster? The Germans didn't move at all."

"I thought of an adjusted strategy and want to hear your opinions." Zhukov walked to the map and explained his complete thoughts, which made the two of them completely stupid...

ps: Guess what strategy?
Chapter completed!