Rebirth of the National Marshal

Chapter 303 The Soviets Failed

The worsening situation on the front line in the Far East should have been reported to Moscow, but Admiral Dudin and Marshal Timoshenko did not dare to pass the news back. If they did, their political careers would be over. Not to mention getting promoted or making money, it would be a big problem whether they could continue to stay in their original positions. Marshal Timoshenko would most likely be sent to a penance camp or even directly executed. Admiral Dudin's fate should be better, after all, he was only a political commissar, not a military commander. He was not responsible for this military failure, but it would be impossible for him to be promoted.

Admiral Dudin was in the worst mood. He thought that he had come to the Far East to gain some political merits and would be able to rise to prominence after returning. He did not expect to gain nothing and face a huge failure. Moreover, the Chinese seemed to be ready to attack the city. Should he retreat now? If he was captured by them, things would be very serious. His father in Moscow would also be implicated, and the whole family would abandon him.

"Your Excellency Marshal, you are the most capable and skilled fighter in our Soviet army. Is there no other solution to this situation? Haven't we built a lot of fortifications outside Irkutsk? We still have 40 troops now? Together with the civilians in the city, we can have 60 troops at any time. Can't we give the Chinese a fight?" Admiral Dudin said unwillingly. The number he said was indeed amazing. There were more than 60 troops to crush all enemies, but now it can be seen from Marshal Timoshenko's face that this is impossible. Don't say that you have 60 troops, even if you have 20 more, what can you do? Your army has no will to fight at all. Now they are all a bunch of cowards.

"If the soldiers you brought had a little stronger willpower, this result would not have happened. Look at the kind of soldiers you brought. When they saw the Chinese planes, they immediately threw away their weapons and ran away. They are not qualified soldiers at all. What do they think the enemy in front of us is? A group of sheep? A group of sheep that they can slaughter at any time? They are not prepared for battle at all, and they don't know what the battlefield is, yet they come here." If it were normal times, Marshal Timoshenko would never dare to speak to Admiral Duding in such a tone.

Although the other party is a general and he is a marshal, their positions are different. Moreover, Admiral Dudin has a large family in Moscow, and many people in the family are high-ranking officials. If Admiral Dudin wants to discipline himself, it is too easy. But in this situation, what do I care about your family? What do I care about you? Anyway, it has failed, and hundreds of thousands of troops are going to be defeated here. What else do I have to be afraid of? The military police in Moscow are probably on the plane. As long as they know the news here, they will definitely take me out and shoot me. Now I even want to scold Stalin, let alone a political commissar like you.

"Marshal Timoshenko, let's not talk about these problems now. Even if we dwell on these mistakes, we can't solve the problems at hand. The most important thing now is to defend Irkutsk. There are not many powerful cities between Irkutsk and the Tyumen oil fields. We have no way to defend against them, so we must defend here. Otherwise, Vladivostok is the only city in the entire Siberia that can defend against them, but that is a seaport." At this moment, Admiral Duding no longer knew what arrogance meant.

Now he is like a jumping clown. As long as Marshal Timoshenko can come up with a practical plan, he will implement it immediately. In fact, the fate of these hundreds of thousands of troops is already decided in the hands of the two of them. It is not impossible to continue to persist here, but that means turning this place into ruins, and in the end there may be no hope of victory.

Marshal Timoshenko didn't want to say anything. Even an idiot like you can see what you said. I have been in the army for my whole life. Can't I see these things? But how can I change it? If we still have air supremacy, we can definitely fight with these Chinese people, but where is our air supremacy? It's all your fault. You idiots left all the good planes in Moscow. What are you doing there? All the planes that flew to us are some garbage. Don't tell me how many times these models have been updated. Actual combat is the most important. In the sky, they can't even hold on for a round. Just two air encounters, 2/3 of the more than planes that came were dropped. The remaining pilots said they were unwilling to fly into the sky, and there was no spirit of sacrifice. Many pilots even asked people to transfer them out of this military region. In this way, how can we win the war? Unless God comes, it is still unclear whether we can win the war.

Admiral Dudin wanted to say something, but seeing the haggard face of Marshal Timoshenko, he knew that even if he continued to speak, there would be no solution. Now the whole army was filled with a sense of failure. How to pull the whole army out of this sense of failure was the most important thing to do now. Even if a batch of weapons and equipment were updated, it would be useless. If a batch of the latest weapons and equipment was obtained at the beginning of the campaign, it might still raise morale, but now morale has been lost. It is too difficult to pull back the morale of the soldiers with one or two weapons and equipment. Don't say that he can't do it. Even if he can do it, there are Chinese planes everywhere outside. Will they drop a bomb and win the prize? So Admiral Dudin chose to go out and stay in his room. After all, this is still an air-raid shelter, which is relatively safe.