Stalin was determined, he would not leave Moscow, he would live and die with Moscow, and if Moscow was defeated, then for Stalin, his life would no longer be meaningful.

Stalin was quite determined.

"Comrade Stalin, we got good news that at the Gromov test flight institute, the program of using alcohol instead of gasoline has been completed, and now the nearby distillery is stepping up the production of this fuel alcohol, and our fighters can all take off." It was then that Stalin received a piece of news that pleased him.

As long as the air power remains, the battle for the defense of Moscow will be smoother, and the fighting of the ground army will often cause heavy losses due to the enemy's air superiority.

Now as long as the air force can recover, it can delay the German offensive.

"Let the Gromov Test Flight Institute immediately move to the rear." Stalin said: "Beria, you are in charge, we are about to carry out the great defense of Moscow, and our valuable technicians, industry, and students must be relocated to the rear as soon as possible." Ordinary citizens of Moscow, put them together and join the militia. ”

A part of the population had to retreat, and these retreats were the technology and industry that kept the Soviet development going, and ordinary citizens, like the soldiers, had to defend Moscow.

Now that it has entered a state of war, even if civilians do not obey orders and take the initiative to retreat, they will be arrested and shot.

Everyone, fight for the defense of Moscow!

"Yes." Beria nodded, now, the retreat of Moscow is proceeding in an orderly manner, except for the withdrawal of university students who have encountered big problems, everything else can be completed in the plan.

At the time of Stalin's arrangement, Zhukov was still constantly directing the battles at the front, phone calls came in one after another, and Zhukov was busy.

In the midst of his busyness, Zhukov still found time and said to Stalin: "Right now, our north is strange. ”

The German army in the north, which was supposed to be closest to Moscow, after taking Kalinin, supposedly the German army should continue to advance to the south, but now they did not move again.

What do the Germans want to do? Are you going to march several legions at the same time? Or is there some other conspiracy? Zhukov was a little uneasy, after all, he had too few reserves at hand.

Stalin turned his head, looked at the map, and also pondered, he knew Zhukov's worries.

"Comrade Stalin, General Zhukov, it's not good." At this moment, an adjutant hurriedly walked in and said: "Our reconnaissance found that the Germans' Northern Route Corps, after occupying Kalinin, did not continue the offensive to the south, they, they went to the east!" ”

The Northern Route Army of the Germans, leaving Moscow close at hand, did not fight, and actually marched east? When they heard the news, Zhukov, Stalin and others all changed their faces.

Sure enough, the same as they had been worried about.

The Germans not only want to win the battle of Moscow, but also win beautifully, and the Germans want to block their own back road!

For this battle of Moscow, Germany has also been preparing for a long time, and they want to win beautifully, encircle and annihilate like before!

What's even more terrifying is that, of course, this hit the soft underbelly of the Soviet Union, in order to cope with the huge German offensive queue, Moscow did not even let go of a nearby third-line army, and sent it to the front line, and in their rear, it was indeed an empty force, once the Germans copied the back road, the encirclement battle that had already happened many times on the land of the Soviet Union would be staged again!

The winding Volga River, downstream of Kalinin, converges to form the Ivankov reservoir, which grows in strips and is distributed from east to west, and to the east of the reservoir is Dubna, which, if viewed from the azimuth, should belong to the north of Moscow, but due to the problems of the German offensive line, it is considered an absolute rear.

So, in the whole of Dubna, only one infantry battalion was stationed, and when the tank units of the Germans were discovered, the Soviet soldiers of the infantry battalion, stubbornly resisted, and in just half an hour they were completely annihilated, and the tracks of the tanks ran over their bodies and entered the city of Dubna, where the flag of the sickle and hammer was lowered and the swastika of the Third Reich was raised.

The inhabitants of the small town, silently, listened to the detachments of German soldiers outside, their eyes filled with tears.

After leaving a force to garrison Dubna, the strong tank force once again swooped down on Aleksandrov, southeast of Dubna.

If you look at the map, you can see that Dubna, Aleksandrov, are not big cities, but they are all on the railway line, the vast Soviet, the railway is the main transport situation, and having control of the railway junction, it is possible to successfully cut off the support of Moscow.

At this time, the Northern Route Army was considered to be alone, but they were not afraid, because the rear of the Soviets was really empty, and similar mistakes, the Soviets made again and again, but they never made up for this mistake.

It's not that they don't want to make up for it, it's because they don't have the ability to do it, because they don't have enough troops.

For example, now, when he learned that the German Northern Route Army was slamming into his own rear, Zhukov suddenly found that he couldn't find a strong enough force to fight back!

The reinforcements had to be strong, strong enough to deal with the entire Northern Route Army, and if they went less, they would only be eaten by the Germans in one bite, and they hurried over, and when they were exhausted, they happened to be killed by the Germans ambushes along the way.

But where to find this powerful enough force?

The Germans once again proved their toughness with their superb tactics, and Moscow, already in turmoil, was about to fall.

And just when everyone was turning their attention to the north, to the fact that the Germans might bypass the semi-circular Moscow line of defense and move towards the rear of Moscow with the intention of closing the door and fighting the dogs, no one noticed that in the south of Moscow, Tula, a battle, had begun.

Since the German army wants to give full play to the previous tactics of encirclement, of course, it will not only start from the north, but when the army in the north has begun to make a detour to the rear of Moscow, the army in the south will of course also have to make a detour to the east of Moscow, and finally achieve a successful encirclement!

Germany had this strength, because the southbound troops of the Central Route Army, which had completed the Battle of Kiev, and the Southern Route Corps, had already moved in.