"Maybe we should seriously consider surrendering." A general said to a few of his cronies in the dimly lit basement.

"Keep it up! We don't have any hope at all! Feeling the vibration of being shelled outside, the Soviet general sighed.

His troops, which originally numbered more than 50,000 men, are now less than 30,000 still on the defensive line.

Now that his defenses were crumbling, the Germans could at any moment crush his soldiers and seize some of the cities he was tasked with.

However, Voroshilov's order was to hold on to the last soldier, and he was not allowed to retreat to rest and replenish his troops.

Only he and his staff, as well as all the soldiers and officers in the units under his command, knew that they needed rest, that they needed ammunition, that they needed to be replenished, that they needed to be replenished.

What is helpless is that no matter what kind of supplementary request he makes, Marshal Voroshilov will not hesitate to refuse him: reinforcements? No! Ammunition? No! Breaks? Sorry, still not!

In such a situation, he could not give his troops a respite, and there was no way to continue to hold his ground, which made him very desperate.

Once a man is in a state of despair, he may make any decision, and he feels that surrender is a way out, at least to keep his soldiers and himself alive.

"If we can hold on to the existing districts, and then surrender and surrender them, then the Germans may be able to give us a good deal...... "His chief of staff did not want to hold on any longer.

In fact, if it were not for the insistence of Marshal Voroshilov, half of the soldiers and officers in the city would not have been willing to continue fighting.

Food needs to be rummaged through the ruins yourself, or to rob the things of the common people. Ammunition was already in short supply, and now there is very little left.

No one wanted to fight in such a situation, because the Germans were getting more and more difficult and adapted to the rhythm of street fighting......

Soldiers crowded into dimly lit basements, civilians who didn't have time to retreat, and all sorts of valuables.

Leningrad was not a city built for war, so it could not withstand German artillery and invasion.

"Wouldn't it be too right to do this, Comrade Marshal Roshilov?" Although he was also in favor of surrendering, the general was stunned for a moment when he heard the choice of the chief of staff.

This is tantamount to selling out the other troops holding out in Leningrad in exchange for their own future.

For a general, surrender is shameful enough, and it is even more despicable to sell his comrades in exchange for more and better benefits.

"If we just surrender, we can only go to the German prisoner of war camps, and if we choose to help the Germans, we can put forward a lot of conditions!" The chief of staff is ready to carry out the practice of not being a husband without drugs.

He saw the hesitation in the eyes of his boss, that is, the general, which made his lobbying even harder - the other party was hesitant, that is, he was moved!

No one wants to go to the prisoner of war camp to endure hardship, and if they can get a German promise by defecting, they may be able to wait until after the war in a more comfortable environment.

As for whether he will be unlucky because of this choice after the war, that is at least a matter after the war. After all, you have to pass the current hurdle before you can survive until after the war, right?

So, the staff officer continued to speak, persuading the general: "I heard that if it had not been for the refusal of Marshal Voroshilov, the entire city would have surrendered long ago!" ”

In his desperation, he even ignored the title of comrade, because he had already decided to fight for a chance to live for himself.

Not all people, after facing countless 381 mm caliber cannon shells, still have the courage to hold on to resistance.

Not everyone, when they ran out of ammunition and food, still dared to sacrifice themselves and fight until the last moment.

"Send the liaison officer, find a way to negotiate terms with the Germans! We are a conditional surrender and only hope to be treated decently! He tugged at his general's sleeve and persuaded him bitterly.

Unable to resist the temptation, the general nodded, and finally agreed to this method: "You do it yourself, choose a reliable person to contact the German army...... Confidentiality is observed! ”

"Don't worry! Comrade General! The chief of staff was overjoyed, and quickly turned around and went to his henchmen - he really didn't want to fight for a minute in this war......

The loud explosion of the shells outside the window was like a death knell, and it had already made him feel painful.

If it were possible, he would never want to hear the sound of shells exploding in his life, and he would not want to go on the battlefield against the Germans again!

For them, this is a shameful choice, but this shameful choice is their best choice so far......

Historically, the German attack on Leningrad was not very large, and after being thwarted once, it was basically under siege and unwilling to make any further attempts at the offensive.

More interestingly, the Germans tried to trap Leningrad, but they could not block the transportation on the lake, so that the Soviets could resupply through the frozen lake in the most critical situation.

With supplies, coupled with the failure of the Moscow Raiders, Germany and the Soviet Union have in fact entered a stage where they can completely trap Leningrad in an impossible task.

In this time and space, Germany completely dealt with Britain before the Barbarossa Plan, and because of the British solution, the Mediterranean region became a non-war zone.

This directly made the Balkans less intractable, and the Yugoslav partisans became vulnerable without supplies and arms.

The German troops drawn from these places were reinforced to the entire Soviet-German theater of operations, so that all fronts had full reserves.

The increased number of troops also enriched the options of commanders on all fronts, and at least on the northern front, Marshal Loeb received an incomparably correct order to capture Leningrad.

In another time and space, when the German forces were unable to attack Leningrad, they also obeyed Hitler's wishes and prepared to besiege Leningrad into a dead city.

But there was a very wasteful aspect to this, that is, it wasted both the forces of Army Group North and the port of Leningrad.

Germany's fragile supply lines, already stretched, were completely unable to take advantage of the Baltic Sea route and effectively take advantage of the numerical advantage of sea transportation.