General Manstein's street fighting troops were quite professional, and they trained street fighting in Polish cities, for which they even emptied a small part of the city as a special training base.

Anyway, for the army, it was completely costless for them to do so, and emptying half of Poland's cities was actually easier than the task of capturing the Jews.

"Onward! Advance! "A commissar took command of the nearby soldiers, because the commander of the battalion had been killed in the shelling just now.

Some people are restraining the troops to continue to move forward, some people are rushing forward in obscurity with their heads bowed, everyone is silent, and there is no heroism and passion when they heard "Holy War" just now.

After this round of shelling, these Soviet troops, who had been temporarily safe, walked while some people looked back and looked at the crater-riddled road behind them.

Along the way, almost half of them were not able to get back on their feet. There are more corpses here, and the smell of blood here is a little stronger......

And in the distance, at the place where they started, the girls of the military band were still singing heroic songs, and the Soviet soldiers of another division were gathering, preparing to take their things and take this already dangerous road.

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"The Germans are less than 10 kilometers away...... We're going to be cut off here. The general of the Soviet army looked depressedly at the supplementary troops that were constantly entering Moscow in front of him, and said to the political commissar beside him.

He also has more than 30,000 soldiers here, as well as some supplies that need to be sent to Moscow.

However, the German troops on both flanks of him were trying to attack in the center, trying to cut off the supply lines of the Soviet army and completely encircle Moscow.

Since the end of the Battle of Red Tekach, when the road between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was cut off, the Soviet army forbade anyone to leave Moscow.

Because if any civilians go outside Moscow, they can only take the road between Moscow and Vladimir, which will cause congestion and affect the efficiency of transportation.

Now, in the last two days, the Germans are getting closer and closer to Moscow's last passage to the outside world, which has long since ceased to be safe.

Whether you can leave Moscow by going here is anyone's guess. Therefore, the civilians have also broken off this thought, and only the army is fighting both sides of this passage.

"Our troops must all enter Moscow, where we are needed." The commissar frowned and spoke to his military commander.

The commander took his eyes off the Soviet soldiers who were constantly entering the German shelling zone and said: "Is it worth it to receive only three-fifths of the troops over there?" ”

"What if......" He just wanted to say what was in his heart, but when the words came to his lips, he still couldn't say it.

After all, at this time, even a reasonable suggestion can be mistaken for cowardice and rebellion, right?

What he wanted to say was that if these troops were allowed to fight on the periphery and gradually accumulate combat experience, they might be able to play a greater role.

But now that he does not enter Moscow to fill the attrition in the city, Khrushchev may hold out for a few days less.

In the past few days, if he does not say well, he may decide the outcome of the entire Soviet-German war, and he cannot afford this responsibility.

If the Germans had captured Moscow a few days in advance, and then liberated millions of troops, gathered and headed south, Zhukov would have suffered from the enemy on his back, and the Soviet Union would have really been doomed.

Although in his heart, Stalin's purge of army cadres was indeed not very good, but after all, the Soviet Union was his homeland, and if he was given the choice, he was still willing to fight for the motherland until the last moment.

"There's nothing to be if...... What we can do now is to obey the command, even if it is an order that tells us to die, we will die......" The political commissar said what he had often said in recent days, with a helpless expression.

Loyal to the motherland until the last moment, brainless and resolute to die in Moscow, is what he thinks is the best way to serve the motherland.

"Our passage is only 21 kilometers wide, and if you count the front-line area, there may not even be 15 kilometers." The general glanced at the political commissar and said with a wry smile: "My troops, almost to Moscow, there are only two divisions left to fight." ”

His corps had a total of three divisions, and the strength of the troops was full. After all, his troops were new recruits, and before they were scattered and distributed to other units, they were indeed three divisions in number.

It's a pity that this does not mean that he has three divisions with combat effectiveness, on the contrary, his troops only have light weapons, and they may not even be able to achieve the combat effectiveness of one division.

"For the troops further north, the situation is not good." The commissar spoke: "I have inquired, and their losses are even greater, and it seems that they will lose half of their men if they cross the blockade area. ”

"Try to let the troops go as quickly as possible, if the front line collapses, we may not be able to hold out here for even half an hour." The general sighed and spoke.

If the outer line of defense was broken by the Germans, he would basically be in a state of collapse here. The soldiers gathered and waited for the distribution of supplies, and there was not even a decent trench around them.

"Report! Comrade General! A Soviet signal soldier rushed into the farmhouse where the two men were talking, saluted and said, "An urgent telegram from the 54th Guards Division." ”

The general took the telegram, looked at it, and handed it to the political commissar beside him with a bad face: "The German army is less than 5 kilometers away from here. ”

"The last line of defense? So fast? The political commissar couldn't believe the contents of the message, so he pulled it over and read it before asking himself.

"It's not fast...... If we follow the estimated speed, it is possible that the other side will hit the place where we are standing this morning...... They were controlling the tempo and didn't seem to want our troops around them to leave. "The general analyzed the ideas of the German army from a professional point of view.

"Let the troops enter Moscow as soon as possible, and bring as many things as they can, and move forward lightly if they can't!" Subsequently, the general, fearing that his troops would be cut off by the waist, gave his own orders.

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the messenger who had not had time to exit the house, and said: "You go, send a telegram to the 118th Division in front, and order them to pass through the blockade as soon as possible, we don't have much time!" ”

"Yes!" The messenger quickly stood up and saluted, then turned and ran out of the farmhouse.

The general also began to tie his own belt, and while wearing it, he said to the commissar: "We are also moving......