In modern warfare, the command department is the most important and vital part of a unit, and how to make the command headquarters move and how to make the equipment of the entire command headquarters more convenient are all important topics in the study of the military.

As the forces become more modern, so do the number of non-combatants managing them.

The old pattern of several generals leading troops to fight was put to an end as early as the Napoleonic era.

During the First World War, there were more and more staff officers and other generals, and there was even a prestigious General Staff in Germany.

With the further development of the military field, the command has also embarked on the road of mechanization and dynamics.

Each country is equipped with its own armored command vehicles, some modified with armored vehicles, and some are even independently designed and manufactured.

The set of armored command vehicles that Guderian is using now is a new command platform that Germany has converted from half-track armored vehicles.

It has a wide body and a radio station with enough power. It can be easily and quickly communicated with the subordinate troops, and can be used together with other special command vehicles.

With a power generation vehicle, two telegraph vehicles, and a conference car for holding military meetings with maps, as well as two telephone cars, and telephone cars, a large command center can be quickly built with tents.

The equipment in the headquarters is much more complicated than many people think. The telephone system of the World War II era was a complex specialized device, and it was not a generation behind today's mobile phones.

The telephone system used by the German army included a series of equipment such as ten switches, switch dial-up equipment, FF33 field telephones and landlines.

Take the Shidao switch as an example, this kind of equipment that is not innovative in technology, but was reduced in size by the Germans, is known as the smallest and exquisitely designed combat field switch at that time.

Unlike other switches, the Ten Channel Switch is easier to use, easier to operate, and more efficient.

This thing is mainly composed of a line connection button, a line signal board, a line rope connection hole, a line rope, etc.

The communicator can connect up to 10 lines directly to the control board, and for easy contact with others and receive information, it can connect to the FF33 field phone and landline.

The F33 field telephone was the standard combat telephone of the German military during World War II, while the landline launched in 1933 was widely used due to its compact design and easy portability, and the switch dial-up equipment was specially designed for front-line use.

As long as they are connected, the sappers can quickly communicate with the front-line troops without barriers.

What seems to be a problem today with two satellite telephones was a big project in 1941.

While Guderian was spreading his command at the front, Stalin was in the Kremlin, looking at his guards with a blank face, scrambling to pack up the filing cabinet in front of him.

The filing cabinets were filled with classified Soviet documents, many of which were now thrown into the brazier of the house like unimportant waste paper.

The flames in the iron basin were blazing, and Stalin's mood was rolling and dissipating like ashes.

Moscow has now become a front-line city through and through, with almost no towns in front of it that can stop the German advance, and even come within range of German train guns.

If the Germans were willing at this time, they could have mobilized their own long-range train guns and shelled the city of Moscow without any losses!

"Comrade Stalin, the great leader! Comrade Khrushchev wants to see you! One of the guards walked into the room, saluted, and reported respectfully.

"Khrushchev? What did he come to do? Stalin muttered in a cold voice with an unhappy face, and then walked to the door with his hands behind his back.

"Let him come up to me! I still have a lot of work to take care of! Stalin, who had walked to the door, gave an order, and then he left the archives and walked to the side office.

Within the walls of the Kremlin, many officers and soldiers are throwing unwanted documents out of windows.

Pieces of paper fluttered like snow in the sun, and many worthless boxes were thrown down and smashed on the stone slabs with a clattering sound.

Nervously walking down the corridor to the door of Stalin's office, Khrushchev straightened his clothes before knocking on Stalin's door.

After receiving permission, the guards pushed open the door, and Khrushchev stood in the doorway, standing upright and saluting: "Great leader, Comrade Stalin!" ”

"I heard you're looking for me?" Stalin glanced at Khrushchev and asked.

Khrushchev was embarrassed and reported hesitantly: "I just got the news that the Germans have begun to attack the No. 1 line of defense......"

Before the German attack, the Soviets built two lines of defense on the periphery of Moscow, one was the No. 1 line and the other was the No. 2 line.

Although the No. 1 line of defense was built first, the second line of defense was built more perfectly, fearing the speed of the German attack.

After saying this, "what should come is always coming...... Stalin looked at Khrushchev and continued: "Is there anything else?" ”

"The great leader, Comrade Stalin...... For your safety, you must leave here. Khrushchev opened his mouth and said persuadly.

Stalin was very sensitive to the word "......" to leave, but he also knew that the current departure did not mean to let him leave the center.

He carried out a purge in the Soviet Union and used an iron-fisted policy to restrain his men. He feared that after he left Moscow, those who were driven out of the center by him would take revenge.

Although Stalin was confident that those people were still not his opponents, he was still afraid, afraid that if he left Moscow, he would lose control of the entire empire.

Despite the reluctance to admit it, he really did not want to be buried with Moscow. But he did not dare to leave Moscow easily, leaving the strongest nest he had built.

"The enemy is still less than 50 kilometers from Moscow, and their bombers could start bombing it at any moment...... The USSR cannot do without your leadership...... "Khrushchev was doing political work, and when he opened his mouth, he was full of sincerity.

Everyone was willing to listen to such words, and Stalin also felt that the Soviet Union could not do without a leader like him. So he wavered and contemplated in his mind plans to leave Moscow.

But then he dismissed the idea of leaving, and refused: "The Germans have not cut off any of the three retreats, and I need not be in a hurry to leave!" ”