"But the marshal...... Surrender now, maybe we can still make a condition, and if we continue to fight, we will not have any qualifications to negotiate conditions. The chief of staff looked at Marshal Voroshilov and persuaded bitterly.

If the German army can smoothly take over Leningrad, then this port will still have the value of use, and it will also save the German army's troops.

Once they were in ruins, they had no leverage to trade for their freedom.

And the German losses have already been done, and the fighting will not be easily stopped. All the Soviet troops here had only one fate, that is, they were sent to concentration camps by the Germans and worked to death.

Every time he thought about it, the chief of staff shuddered. He really didn't want to die fighting for this city, he still had his wife and family.

"Death is not terrible, my comrade. It is terrible to watch your country perish. Marshal Voroshilov seemed to see the thoughts of his men and opened his mouth to say this.

He stood up, walked to the chief of staff with his hands behind his back, and said persuasively: "We are dead, we are already dead in this ruin, as long as we think about it, it will always be better." ”

"But we're not dead! We fought for this country, but we don't have to die for this country! The chief of staff pleaded bitterly.

"Stalin threatened me with my son and my wife, such a person is not worthy of my death." The man with despair in his eyes stared at Voroshilov and said.

Marshal Voroshilov sighed, shook his head and said: "Then fight for your wife and son, at least you are dead, they can live." ”

"Can they really live?" The chief of staff followed up with a rhetorical question: "If the war is lost, you and I are dead people hated by Germany, and they will find our families and kill them." ”

When he said this, as if he had caught something, his eyes suddenly turned to Voroshilov: "Then our death will be meaningless!" ”

"If, if Marshal Tukhachevsky had still been there, maybe the war would not have been lost like this." When it comes to these, the chief of staff is a little out of control.

He remembered a lot of old comrades-in-arms, as well as the young, Marshal Tukhachevsky, who was executed by Stalin.

It is not that Marshal Tukhachevsky was the savior of the Soviet Union, but that he died during the Great Purge, with a strong sense of tragedy.

This purge did include many promising and capable military commanders, who died unexplained and caused incalculable losses to the Soviet army.

Now many people have a question in their hearts whether the Soviet Red Army would have suffered such a crushing defeat if Stalin had not launched this purge.

You must know that in the era when Comrade Lenin was still alive, countless foreign intervention armies, as well as white bandits inside Russia, were defeated by the commanders and fighters of the Red Army.

But only a dozen years have passed, and they have suffered a series of defeats - whether they have started their own wars or those started by others, they have failed.

At the beginning, he couldn't beat Poland and was taught to be a man by Poland; Then they were abused by the small country of Finland, and they suffered heavy losses.

The outbreak of the Soviet-German war, which was supposed to be a concentrated attack on Germany by the Soviet Union, turned out to be a defensive war......

The defensive war was also defeated, losing a large amount of land and millions of soldiers.

They lost Brest, they lost Minsk, they lost Smolensk, and now even Moscow and Leningrad are lost......

Many of the generals left over from the faction, even if they don't mention it, are sympathetic and support those who died.

Stalin's purges, while ostensibly unifying Soviet government and military orders, also left the seeds of hatred at their roots.

The liquidation of Stalin by Khrushchev Zhukov and others after the war was actually a counteroffensive against various problems left over from the Great Purge.

"What do you mention him for? He and the Germans ...... "Marshal Voroshilov has always been on the opposite side of Tukhachevsky in his position."

Marshal Voroshilov had always been a supporter of cavalry theory in the previous debates over military doctrine, and before that he had simply not looked down on more advanced tanks.

It was only later that the German tanks shook all sides, and he reluctantly accepted the status quo of tanks replacing cavalry.

But he, like Budyonny, did not like Tukhachevsky, the already dead marshal.

Regardless of why Stalin got rid of Tukhachevsky, or why he started the Great Purge, the pessimistic atmosphere of defeat now turns over these old accounts.

"We all know, what that campaign is......" the chief of staff said to Marshal Voroshilov, frowning, "we all know. ”

"Know what? Even if he was still alive, a marshal who could not beat Poland would have been able to save the USSR and defeat Germany? "Somewhat hysterical," Marshal Voroshilov roared.

He looked at his comrades-in-arms, lowered his voice and said, "If you don't want to be arrested and hanged by those political commissars, don't say anything about that man!" I'm here for your own good! ”

"Hanged? We are defeated, Comrade Marshal! Accept the defeat, maybe we still have a chance to save the country! The Chief of Staff also lowered his voice, and he was also afraid of the overseers who were pressing on his head.

"Save? Make peace with the Germans? As long as Stalin remains, we are all traitors, we do not have this power! Voroshilov argued coldly.

Unconsciously, he has shifted the focus of the controversy from fighting to the end to the topic of peace......

No one here wants to die here willingly, even a hero, a hero who is not afraid of death, is not willing to die.

"Perhaps, he himself is almost finished!" The chief of staff sneered and said in a low voice: "As long as he leaves Moscow, it will be over." Those people in Chelyabinsk, eighty percent will not let him continue to give orders! ”

"As long as we insist on it, we may be qualified to negotiate with the Germans." After he finished speaking, without waiting for Voroshilov's reprimand, he turned around and walked out of the basement command room.

The sound of artillery outside was still the same, and Voroshilov looked at the back of the chief of staff, not knowing what to say for a while.

It was not Voroshilov who knew that Stalin was still in Moscow, but he had been informed of the fact that the Germans had attacked Moscow.