Chapter 487: Moscow is in danger
September 10, 1941. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoMoscow.
Since July, German planes have been bombing Moscow. This is the German blitzkrieg.
At first, the Germans believed that although the Soviets had anti-aircraft guns, they did not have searchlights, night planes, or air defense airships.
That's how powerful the Cheka is, it's the disinformation they create.
The German army flew over Moscow, and then realized that Moscow had anti-aircraft guns, and the Soviet army had field aircraft. In addition, there are air defense airships in the skies over Moscow.
An air defense airship is a very interesting type of air defense weapon. During World War II, aerial bombs were left alone after they were dropped, and the accuracy was very limited by simple aiming before they were dropped. The low the plane flies, the higher the accuracy. Too low there are anti-aircraft guns, slightly higher, and the anti-aircraft weapon is an anti-aircraft airship.
An air defense airship is a huge balloon in the shape of an airship with several steel wires tethered. Tandem airships can reach altitudes of up to 4,500 meters. Whether an airplane hits a balloon or a tightrope, it's a disaster.
German aircraft had to increase their flight altitude and fly above 4500 meters, which made the German bombing accuracy less accurate.
Despite this, a large number of important targets were bombed, and even a bomb fell into the Kremlin, smashed through the ceiling, fortunately did not explode. A 1,000-kilogram bomb exploded in the square, blowing up a large crater more than 10 meters deep and dozens of meters in diameter. A number of important buildings were blown up one after another.
Unlike history, because there were a large number of White Russian spies in Moscow, many factories were bombed, automobile factories were bombed, rifles, submachine guns and bullets could not be produced, tractor factories were bombed, and tanks could not be produced.
The Soviet Union learned about war during the war and trained tank units in bus factories, so that tank units could not only fire guns, drive, but also make simple repairs. This significantly increased the combat effectiveness of the tank units.
Because of these devastations, the resilience of war has been greatly diminished.
Moscow is a transport hub, with more than a dozen road and rail routes running out of Moscow. The streets and roads leading to the east were crowded with people fleeing.
The Far East was attacked by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army did not declare war, and the families of the Japanese embassy all left ten hours before the attack began and flew to other countries.
Immediately after the start of the Japanese attack, Stalin convened a meeting of the political and political bureaus, and convened a military meeting of the generals. The conference demanded the mobilization of the whole people of the Far East, the massive conscription of troops, and the persistence of resistance to the Japanese army.
In addition, the Soviet units that left Novosibirsk stopped moving westward, returned to Novosibirsk, and began to build.
Every day the news comes back from the Far East is bad. In order to stabilize the people's minds, the authorities withheld the news and did not release it. The Russian-language broadcasts of the German and Japanese armies desperately exaggerated this victory, and propaganda bombs were often fired in the bombing bombs, and after the explosions, thousands of leaflets fell to tell the Muscovites in Russian where the Germans had arrived and where the Japanese had arrived today. There are both real and fake, overwhelming.
Since the Far East was attacked by the Japanese army, a large number of saboteurs began to sabotage factory facilities, some began to loot and loot shops, and riots were raging in the city of Moscow.
After the riots, the Moscow City Committee acted immediately and shot several hundred looters. Those saboteurs who took the lead seem to be cunning and have not caught a single one so far.
With the victory of the Japanese army in these days, the command in Moscow became more nervous and anxious, and a plan for a retreat to Central Asia was drawn up, which was quickly approved by the political bureau and Stalin, and the implementation had already begun.
An even worse situation occurred on the Western Front.
The recent offensive of German tank units, replenished with fuel, to the east was already assured. According to the analysis of the Bryansk Front, the Germans would attack along Bryansk, and while waiting for the German attack, news came that Guderian's tank group attacked south, jumped to the east side of Bryansk in great stride, and quickly surrounded the Bryansk Front with other troops.
Now the fields and steppes were dry, and the German tanks were unimpeded.
After other units caught up and surrounded the Soviet reserve army, Guderian's troops, again replenished with supplies, marched in triumph and stormed Moscow.
By the time Guderian was advancing, several German units had already greatly damaged the Soviet reserve army, more than 100,000 people were killed, wounded and captured, and the commander, Lieutenant General Yeremenko, was wounded and transported back to Moscow.
At this time, Zhukov's assessment of the situation on the Western Front made the political situation more pessimistic.
Zhukov believed that with the annihilation of the reserve group, the Western Front was actually a complete defeat, and the road from Bryansk to Moscow was unimpeded for the Germans, and several other roads were immediately opened by the Germans.
Because the Soviets did not have air superiority, the supply of the German army went smoothly, while the retreat and supply of the Soviet army were hit. It won't be long before the Soviets will have problems.
Zhukov's measure was to speed up the deployment of Moscow's defenses, and in addition to continuing to build the original defensive line, he also sent small troops to cut down trees and set up roadblocks on all possible offensive roads. In the city of Moscow, barricades and barricades were erected, the entire city was under military control, and all lights were turned off at night so as not to lead German aircraft to bomb.
Barricades were built on the roads, pillboxes were built. Many buildings are enclosed with sandbags and the windows are covered with shatterproof notes. Military cadets go to war, men mobilize to join the troops, and military training begins. Produced by women in the factory.
Gradually, the whole of Moscow began to be fortressed.
Moscow's defenses were far less complete than they were in history before the German offensive.
However, the problem arises, historically, the Far Eastern troops were the most important card for Zhukov to defend Moscow. At the critical moment, he put this unit to good use and hastened the victory.
Now, controversy arose over whether to transfer troops from the Far East into the battle for the defense of Moscow, and Zhukov's order was corrected to keep part of the army in Novosibirsk.
The political and political bureaus began to discuss. As the Japanese forces in the Far East advanced step by step, opposition to the transfer of troops in the Far East prevailed.
This discussion is a week.
During the discussion of the political and political situation in the Soviet Union, another problem came to the Soviet Union, which was the shortage of military supplies.
The supply of arms is seriously insufficient. Production began at the new plants in Yekaterinburg, and orders were placed to move them again at once and retreat to Central Asia. In this way, the production that had just begun was stopped.
Food supplies are severely inadequate. Because of the war, as well as the burning of saboteurs, the grain in Belleros, Ukraine and other places either could not be harvested, or the production was greatly reduced, and the grain east of Moscow was not harvested due to the big war during the harvest season.
In the area occupied by the Germans, the harvested grain was robbed by the Germans, potatoes, wheat, all of them.
The food supply of the Soviet army was seriously insufficient, and the grain rationing system in Moscow was implemented.
Due to the lack of food, it was decided at the recent meeting of the Political and Governance Bureau to evacuate the old and the weak and children from Moscow.
This time, the evacuation was orderly. There are many women who are asking to be evacuated and to take care of the elderly and children. In some areas, they were allowed to evacuate, and in others, women were not allowed to evacuate, causing riots.
Moscow's future depended on the Western Front, which arrived from afar. The Kalinin Front, consisting of the right flank of the Western Front, is currently moving closer to Moscow.
It was at this time that bad news came that a German armored cluster appeared southwest of Moscow.
Guderian bypassed the southern section of the line and fought towards Moscow.
Moscow is in danger.