Moscow's strategic significance is twofold.

On the one hand, there is political significance.

That sounds a bit of a nonsense...... It's just the capital, and it's enough to move the chain of command to another city and change the capital.

But it's not that simple.

At this time, the Soviet army had been surrounded and annihilated in large numbers by the sudden attack of the German army, and what was even more popular was that many armies had defected to the enemy in formation.

This created a sense of defeat pervading the Soviet army from top to bottom, that is, the belief that the Soviets would lose the war and that the Germans would soon occupy the entire Soviet Union.

As a result, morale was low, fear of the enemy became the norm, and the people rushed to flee the city to take refuge.

If......

Under such circumstances, the loss of the capital Moscow will further encourage this negative mood and get out of control, and it may really be occupied by the German army in the end.

On the other hand, there is the meaning of reality.

Moscow is located in the middle of the country, where almost all roads and railways converge, which means that whether it is the transportation of ammunition, equipment, supplies, or reinforcements, most of them have to arrive in Moscow first and then go their separate ways.

If the Germans occupied Moscow, the first thing would be that the Soviet army would be divided into three parts: east, south and north, which could not be reinforced by each other...... Railways and roads are unavailable, which means they have to fight on their own.

The second is that the German army can use Moscow as a transportation hub as a transit point, and can deliver troops and equipment to the various battlefields needed as quickly as possible.

This will undoubtedly put the Soviet army in a very passive position.

Even the Germans could concentrate their forces to divide and encircle the Soviet troops in all directions.

"What are we supposed to do?" Shulka asked.

"Supplies!" Major Gavrilov said: "What Kyiv needs most is supplies, and if they have more supplies, they can launch an attack on the enemy to threaten their flanks!" ”

"We've been sending supplies to Kyiv all the time, haven't we?" Shulka asked.

"Far from enough!" Major Gavrilov said: "First of all, the blockade of the Black Sea, the Germans laid a large number of mines and strengthened the air blockade, and our transport ships could move cautiously along the passage swept by the minesweepers in the darkness of the night, and then unload and return before dawn, otherwise it could be sunk!" ”

After a pause, Major Gavrilov continued: "But that's not worse, we have mastered the rules and managed to transport a batch of supplies to Odessa every day. The problem lies in the process of sending these supplies to Kyiv: the Germans occupied the eastern bank of the Dnieper and blocked it with artillery fire, and the water could not reach Kyiv. As for roads and railways......"

Speaking of which, Major Gavrilov gritted his teeth and shook his head: "The partisans are active in this area, and most of the supplies are either blown up or cannot move forward because the railroad is blown up. ”

"Guerrillas?" Shulka asked suspiciously.

In his impression, the partisans should be a headache for the invaders, that is, the Germans, because this is the territory of the Soviet Union, and it is the people of the Soviet Union.

But Shulka soon understood that the rebels who were taking advantage of the German attack to revolt.

Sure enough, Gavrilov replied: "They are mostly Ukrainians, who are dissatisfied with Moscow and treat the Germans as 'liberators', and the Germans are supporting them, giving them equipment and the necessary intelligence!" ”

It's a headache.

Because they are not Germans and not Romanians, they are Ukrainians, speak authentic Russian, and even are right around and you don't know it.

On the other hand, they are familiar with the terrain, and they can use this to wreak havoc at any point on the railways and roads.

However, Shulka is quite experienced in such things as partisans.

"Comrade Major, in dealing with such tactics, we should hit them from the root!"

"Roots?" Major Gavrilov said suspiciously: "You mean to investigate among the people? No, Shulka, they won't let us find out anything, they won't write 'I'm a traitor' on their faces, and this will even cause panic among the population to further aggravate the contradictions between us and Ukraine! ”

"No, Comrade Major!" Shulka said: "That's not what I'm talking about. First of all, we need to know that these people are usually scattered among the people, and only when the need arises are they gathered to attack everywhere. So why don't we implement wartime controls? I mean, every household is registered, and martial law is imposed before dark, and people are not allowed to go out......"

Major Gavrilov nodded: "That's right, Shulka, we can say that this is to protect them or to better distribute food to them!" ”

"Yes!" Shulka replied: "In this way, there will be far fewer saboteurs who can sneak up on our lines of communication at night, and if they do, they will have to hide in the mountains or in the wilderness, but it will also make it difficult for them to survive, after all, we have blocked the road and railway lines, and the Germans themselves have cut off their own lines of communication!" ”

"Yes!" Major Gavrilov nodded, but he still said worriedly: "But it still can't be eradicated, because someone will smuggle food for them during the day!" ”

"So we need more guerrillas!" Shulka said.

"What?" Major Gavrilov looked at Shulka suspiciously: "What more partisans?" ”

"The guerrillas are sabotaging in the shadows, why can't we prepare for these guerrillas a guerrilla group that sabotages them in the shadows?"

"You mean, like the German Brownenburg troops?"

"Yes!" "It's even very simple for us to build such a force, we don't need to learn the language, habits, etc., like the Germans did with the Branfenburg troops, they just need to be reliable, and then they will have basic training so that they can hijack trains and destroy communication lines like partisans!" ”

"Of course, they won't really destroy the lines of communication!" Major Gavrilov laughed.

"Yes!" "We just need to put on a show or cooperate with them to send out some false information, and then ...... Not only the partisans, but even the German organizers began to be confused, they could not tell which was real and what was fake! ”

The weakness of the guerrillas is that they are not well organized, and many of their members are improvised patchwork, so it is very easy to infiltrate and divide, especially against the rebels in Ukraine, who have just started up and have little experience.

"Great, Shulka!" Gavrilov happily patted Shulka on the shoulder: "It's like you've fought like this!" ”