"More than 1,000 people were burned to death, and that number is estimated. We did not expect the new weapons of the Germans to go into battle. A Soviet commander bowed his head and reported to Konev.

Konev frowned, listening to the news gathered from the periphery, and kept thinking in his heart how long he could use the forces in his hands to hold Moscow.

In fact, he did not have even 300,000 troops capable of fighting, and the troops outside Moscow were scattered and annihilated, and the rest retreated to Gorky and other areas farther away, which could not be counted on at all.

And the soldiers in Moscow are desperate at this moment, although there are 600,000 or more troops, but almost half of them have no combat effectiveness.

The soldiers had no combat experience and did not have enough weapons or ammunition. Some so-called formed regiments may be defeated by a German battalion.

What's worse is that he had to use this kind of troops to plug holes and garrison important defensive lines, which made it exponentially more difficult for him to command.

The troops in hand do not know when things will go wrong, and such a battle is the most difficult to command.

As the saying goes, I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, but I'm only afraid of pig-like teammates. Speaking of the current situation, Konev had to deal with not only the German army, but also the chaos of his own troops.

The Germans had already occupied the reservoirs and water plants on the outskirts of Moscow to the north, and the power plants had been lost.

Most of the remaining power plants have been blown up, and power supply in the city has largely stopped.

The battle for Spark Stadium ended in a complete defeat for the Soviet army, and Konev no longer wanted to commit troops to the outer ruins of Moscow.

The situation in the south was better, because the Germans had not yet taken the initiative to attack - the units of Army Group Center there were adjusting the troops stationed there, so they had not yet attacked.

But Konev knew that this meant that if the offensive of German troops in the south began, it would be more violent.

"Before we lost that area of control, we investigated some of the bodies, many of whom were suffocated due to lack of oxygen, and the number of burners was not more than ......," the officer continued.

He saw it with his own eyes, and it was almost devastating. There were also traces of the shells carried by the soldiers being burned and detonated by the flames, which was confirmed by eyewitnesses.

The poor people who had seen the fire with their own eyes were now mentally broken, they did not want to participate in the battle, and there was a possibility that something could go wrong at any moment.

Although Konev was very concerned about the loss of thousands of people, he was more concerned about how many weapons of destruction the Germans had, or how easy they were to manufacture.

If such weapons are used on a large scale in Moscow, his lines of defense will be very easily penetrated.

Frequent dropping of such incendiary bombs in the city limits of Moscow would discourage his soldiers and make it easier for the areas under his control to be compressed.

This is not good news, because once the area controlled by the troops is compressed, his command and dispatch will be ineffective, and then there will be a one-sided collapse, and the entire urban area will fall quickly and uncontrollably.

"Comrade General, if we do not popularize the characteristics of this weapon, after the use of this weapon by the German army in the city, the soldiers will panic and cause a rout." The officer said.

It is a very dangerous thing to conceal the enemy's new weapons. Although it is easy to affect morale when talking about the advanced performance of the opponent's weapons, if the grassroots soldiers are exposed to the enemy's new weapons without preparation, it will not only affect morale.

Panic spreads quickly in the frontline and then collapses the defensive line. Therefore, it is much more dangerous to conceal the enemy's new weapons than to popularize the performance of the opponent's weapons.

If this weapon is difficult to make, there must not be many of them, and then he is confident that he will be able to withstand the impact of this weapon.

But if the production of such weapons is very easy, then the situation on the battlefield may change because of this weapon.

Such a change would have made all his previous preparations in vain, and the Battle of Moscow could be over by the Germans within weeks.

"Let the comrades who are mentally normal and have seen that scene popularize it to all the soldiers...... Inform those combat units formed by civilians to do a good job of fire prevention. Konev thought about it, and there was no good way to deal with this new German weapon in the most ordinary way.

He has always been reluctant to admit that the civilians with weapons who assist in the defense are "troops", so he has always used such troops to do some auxiliary work.

Even the transportation of ammunition was something he would rather leave to the reinforcements than to the civilians.

In fact, these civilians are really not much of an army, and they often carry out counterattacks on their own under the command of a group of madmen under Khrushchev, wasting their lives and ammunition.

These civilians would gather hundreds of people and suddenly launch a counter-charge against the Germans in one place, and although there were very few examples of retaking a block or position, they would still insist on doing this kind of unprofitable thing.

Konev was somewhat upset that Khrushchev often approved the allocation of ammunition for such brainless idiocy, and often wasted valuable artillery support needlessly.

The artillery of the Soviet army was really used less than once, and a large number of artillery pieces were destroyed by the Germans in the outlying positions of the city, and the artillery was transferred to the city, and because of the problem of firing range and angle, it could not be used in a centralized manner.

What's worse is that the artillery deployed in the streets and parks has been destroyed by the increasingly rampant carpet bombardment of the German army, which has made the problem of insufficient Soviet artillery even worse.

The reality was that Konev's regular army was now often unable to wait for its own artillery support, so he instructed many artillery commanders to neglect the task of supporting civilian forces.

"Boom!" The sound of explosions was heard in the distance, and as soon as I heard it, it was clear that it was the Germans who were looking for something with a stray 150 mm cannon.

The distant sound was irritating to hear, presumably a new round of German attacks had begun - within a few hours of the siege of Moscow, the Germans were trying to compress the living space of the Soviet army.

Apparently, their efforts were very effective, and the Soviets lost two blocks in two hours, and the encirclement of Moscow became smaller.

"We are running out of time to buy Comrade General Zhukov, everyone will fight to the end, this is my order!" Konev looked at his men and said solemnly.