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777 Sunset IV of the Soviet Empire Don't trust the enemy!

At about 7 o'clock in the afternoon of May 2, when the afterglow of the setting sun completely disappeared, the battlefield in the northeast of Lake Ilmen finally began to gradually calm down. The fierce fighting had been going on for a day, the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, and the ammunition was almost exhausted, and both sides needed to rest and recuperate in the dark night. Of course, the artillery on both sides was still shelling sporadically, as if to add a little bit of gunpowder to the whole battlefield.

By this time, the front had moved a few kilometers closer to the northern shore of Lake Ilmen. The battlefield is full of destroyed tank wreckage, including the Soviet T-26 tank, as well as the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks equipped by the Russian army, but the wreckage of the No. 2 tank, which is equipped with a 75mm cannon and has a total weight of 22 tons, is rare, only about a dozen. The tank stood out in the tank battle that broke out between the Russians this afternoon, and most of the smoke-billowing T-26 tanks on the battlefield were destroyed by the 40 times caliber 75mm cannons of the second tank. However, the T-26 tank modified with a 45mm caliber anti-tank gun also performed well, this small tank used its speed advantage to desperately get close to the No. 2 tank, and then used the 45mm gun to fire at close range, the white tanks were set on fire one after another, and the tank battle between the two sides began at dusk and lasted until 7 o'clock in the evening, which lasted about 2 hours, and at the end of the battle, a total of 366 tanks on both sides were destroyed, The entire battlefield was littered with metal wreckage that burned like torches. But the brutal battle did not distinguish the winner. The warring sides, both with no way out, retreated at nightfall, for another round of fighting that would take place after dawn tomorrow

However, at this time, the warring parties probably could not have imagined that in eastern Belarus and northeastern Ukraine, a few hundred kilometers away from the Ilmen Lake battlefield, 11 armored divisions of German fascists and Chinese imperialism (including 10 German armored divisions and 1 Chinese armored division) and 48 infantry corps (including 45 German infantry corps and 3 Chinese infantry corps) had secretly entered their designated positions. A treacherous raid on the Soviet Union was about to begin

This was what the Germans called the "Blue Plan", which was historically used to attack Stalingrad in the failed campaign, and the target of the "Blue Plan" in this time and space was Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. In addition, unlike history, at this time, Hitler's army did not show fatigue at all, and when the troops and weapons and equipment were the most sufficient, the tanks and strong artillery of the 11 armored divisions were all in full strength, and the 11 armored divisions had a total of nearly 5,000 tanks and strong guns, while the 45 infantry corps were equipped with 135 infantry divisions, with nearly 2.25 million infantry; The artillery has 200 artillery regiments, nearly 15,000 artillery pieces of various calibers, and the size of the air force is also terrifying, with more than 6,000 aircraft concentrated in Belarus and eastern Ukraine.

Moreover, while possessing such overwhelming power, the sinister and cunning Chinese and German imperialism also adopted a series of almost shameless deceptions: they pretended to agree to make peace with Stalin, and put on a posture of vigorous assistance to the Russian empress, so that Stalin and the Soviet top brass mistakenly believed that they wanted to eliminate the Bolsheviks by supporting one side in the Russian civil war...... In fact, the German Führer Adolf. Hitler never gave up his determination to destroy Bolshevik Russia

Late at night on May 2. Lieutenant General Hu Lian, commander of the 8th Armored Division of the Chinese National Defense Forces, who distinguished himself in the war at the end of 1937 and received the title of "Armored Tiger", returned from the headquarters of the 1st Panzer Army in Orsha to the border town of Leozno, located northeast of Orsha. After a cursory observation of the quiet defensive line of the Soviet troops on the opposite side, he immediately issued the order he had just received. That was to order his 8th Panzer Division to launch an attack tomorrow, May 3, 1938, at 3 a.m. sharp, targeting southeast of Smolensk. And this raid will be launched suddenly without any artillery fire preparation, in order to achieve a surprising victory.

"Comrades, we have traveled thousands of miles to Europe, outside Warsaw, on the banks of the Bouag River, and on the vast plains of Belarus to fight under the artillery fire of the Soviets, in order to eliminate the Soviet Union, eliminate the Bolsheviks, and eliminate this great enemy of life and death that has threatened our northern border for hundreds of years."

"After hard fighting at the end of last year, the Bolshevik bandits have succumbed on the surface, as if they no longer pose any threat to the security of our homeland. But this is only the illusion that they have deceived their opponents, and Stalin's concessions are only to gain a respite, and when he has recovered and destroyed the army of His Majesty Anastasia, he will soon extend the clutches of aggression to our northern and western territories of China, so our Chief of the General Staff, Marshal Luo Fuwen, has given us an order that we must take the initiative to attack, to take the initiative again before these Bolshevik devils recover, and to wipe them out completely, in this battle for the survival of the Motherland, All the officers and men of our national defense forces are only allowed to advance, and they are not allowed to retreat without success, then long live the Republic of China, long live the Chinese Kuomintang, long live President Luo Da."

"Long live the Republic of China, Long live the Chinese Kuomintang, long live President Luo." After listening to the inflammatory speech, the middle- and lower-ranking officers present also raised their arms and shouted slogans one after another, and the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became warm.

Since its arrival in East Prussia in May last year, the 8th Panzer Division has been mingling with the German fascists for a year, and it is inevitable that it has also been infected with some ...... If it were in China, the Wehrmacht would not have shouted the slogans of Long Live the Kuomintang and Long Live President Luo Da, and the division commanders and army commanders in China would not have made such a big speech before the attack.

After the speech, the commanders of the 8th Panzer Division all returned to their respective units to direct the final preparations before the attack, in fact, the order to "make all preparations before the attack" was sent to the regimental level as early as the end of April, and the officers below had already guessed the intention of their superiors from the deployment of the troops. Therefore, everything is now ready, and the attack of the Soviet Red Army on the White Army of the Russian Empire that took place this morning in the northeast of Lake Ilmen is the starting gun of this raidHitler decisively issued the order to activate the "Blue Plan" after determining that the "Soviet and Russian sides" have been inextricably linked.

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And on this night, General Zhukov, who was praised by Moscow as the "Red God of War", also inspected the front. Before today, he never imagined that this attack would encounter such great difficulties. The North-Western Front built strong fortifications in the face of the Russian army, built dense civil and engineering fire points, equipped with large-caliber machine guns and cannons, and set up barbed wire and minefields between the various defensive areas. The villages where the White Army was stationed were also converted into small fortresses, with engineering detachments in them, which were ready to repair every fortification and firing point destroyed by Red Army artillery fire, to repair every section of barbed wire that had been blown up, and every minefield that had been destroyed. Such a tight armament can be seen at a glance as the handiwork of Tukhachevsky, who is well aware of the power of tank assault.

However, there is nothing of these, and a little more blood can still break through. What surprised Zhukov most about today's battle was the desperate resistance of the White Guards, who seemed to be completely different from what he had seen in the civil war 20 years earlier. Every Red Army assault was carried out at a heavy price. Even when the White Army was isolated and completely surrounded, it would never give up resistance. The reports sent everywhere claimed that the White Army was stubborn in battle and refused to surrender?000 hook 3s bloody death to admonish the neon to the twilight of the ≈ Wei Wei Clans and the White Guards 0 years ago had half of their bravery, and the Soviet Union would not have been able to win back then

Moreover, these enemies were particularly stubborn and cunning, and no matter how much the political workers of the Red Army swore in front of the loudspeakers, guaranteeing that the surrendered White Guards would not be settled by the Autumn Queen, they would not believe that in fact the words of the political workers were not completely deceiving, and that if the surrendered White Army behaved well in the labor camps, they would still be forgiven in the end...... Historically, in the years following Stalin's death, Khrushchev made revisionist mistakes and released more than 20 million political prisoners from the labor camps and restored his reputation. The result was the beginning of the split and weakening of the socialist camp.

In a temporary command of the former enemy, Admiral Zhukov glanced at the map of the battle, and in the midst of a dense mass of lines and arrows that looked completely chaotic, he found at a glance the crux of the whole battle - that is, the salient northeast of Lake Ilmen, where the Red Army was like a wedge driven deep into the White line, and with a little more effort, the White line could be cut through the middle, but Tukhachevsky must have noticed this. Konev's report mentions the tank battle that broke out this afternoon, the Soviet army lost nearly 200 tanks in just two hours, plus the losses when breaking through the positions of the White Army's Young Guards, the Northwest Front can operate less than 200 tanks, and it is estimated that by the end of the battle tomorrow, all of them will be lost

At the thought of the tanks of the Red Army, Zhukov could not help but sigh. The T-28, which was large in size, but moved slowly and was too thinly armored, behaved on the battlefield as nothing more than tragedy. The T-26 tank, on the other hand, was too small and weak to act as an "infantry nanny" and could not be used in inter-tank combat at all. If you insist on using them to engage the White Guards' No. 2 tank, the only option is to choose a "suicide assault", braving the shells fired by the No. 2 tank's 75mm cannon, and then firing at the 45mm tank gun after closing the distance between the two sides. Such tactics were barely enough against the White Guards, who had only a handful of No. 2 tanks, but what about the German and Chinese armoured divisions? The tragic scene of the battle of Wovomin suddenly resurfaced before his eyes......

With a "bang", the door of the command post was slammed open, and Zhukov looked up to see that the chief of staff of the front, Lieutenant General Balagmiyan, rushed in with a crawl.

"Fascist, fascist Germany is attacking us again," Baragmiyan shouted in a voice full of fear.

"What" Zhukov jumped violently. "When? What location? ”

"Even now Smolensk, Bryansk, Charkutov, Belgorod and other places are being attacked by the Germans" Balagmiyan stamped his foot, and then added: "Comrade Stalin instructed us to get rid of the enemy in front of us as soon as possible, to bring the troops back to Moscow, we are going to defend Moscow"

"Bring the troops back to Moscow?" Zhukov smiled bitterly. Now his Northwestern Front was fighting nearly 1.6 million White troops on the plains near Lake Ilmen, and Moscow was 500 kilometers away, and at dawn it was estimated that the German bombers would arrive...... How is it possible for an army of 1.8 million people, with pursuers behind their butts and enemy planes overhead, to return to Moscow, 500 kilometers away, in a short time?

But General Zhukov soon had no trouble with how to bring the main forces of the North-Western Front back to Moscow, for Stalin sent him another urgent telegram on the morning of May 3, calling him back to Moscow and appointing him commander of the Moscow Front, responsible for the defense of the capital of the Soviet Empire

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It was already May 6, 1938 when Zhukov returned to Moscow, three days after the invasion of fascist Germany. At that time, Moscow was under air strikes by thousands of German aircraft

In the bullet shelter room inside the Kremlin, there is a combat map that occupies half of the wall, on which the battle line is marked, the arrow representing the direction of the assault, the circle indicating the reserve station, and some flag-shaped, triangular and square symbols, through each symbol, Zhukov can see the specific battle situation on the Moscow front and the number of rear echelons...... Of course, the situation is very unoptimistic

"Comrades, this is the latest situation on the Soviet-German battlefield." Stalin sat at the head of the rectangular conference table and swept the room with gloomy eyes. "The situation is critical, Moscow is critical, our Soviet Motherland has reached the most critical moment......"

Everyone was silent, looking carefully at the map, waiting for Stalin to ask questions or say his judgment. In fact, the current situation is almost irretrievable, more than 2 million fascist troops armed to the teeth and 10,000 tanks (as usual, overestimating the enemy's situation) are advancing towards Moscow with an unstoppable momentum, but there are only three or four hundred thousand defenders inside and outside Moscow, and there are no weapons and equipment, no tanks, no planes. Unless a miracle happens, Moscow is doomed. It's just that no one dares to say this, including Zhukov, because Stalin doesn't want this answer, he wants the generals to find a way to conjure up an army and defend their nest for him.

"Now that the enemy's plot has been exposed, exposed to the working people of the world, it is better than that they continue to hide the plot and wait for the most favorable moment to launch it...... Comrades, is there anything you can do to defuse Hitler's conspiracy? ”。 Stalin was still there pretending to be calm, smoking his pipe and asking questions as if nothing had happened.

"Comrade Stalin," Zhukov saw the silence in the conference room, so he was the first to speak, "the biggest difficulty in smashing Hitler's conspiracy now is that the Moscow Front does not have many troops, and the main forces of the Red Army are in the Northwest Front. He paused, glanced at Stalin's reaction, and added: "In addition, there are too many party and government organs and non-combatants in Moscow...... I estimate that Moscow may be surrounded by Hitler's troops in the near future, and that these men will become a burden to defend the city, so I propose to immediately begin a major evacuation and to evacuate all men and institutions not related to the war to the rear. Evacuate to Chelyabinsk or Transcaucasia. ”

"If the enemy surrounds us, we can hold on to Moscow and wait for the main forces of the North-Western Front to come back, right?" Stalin calmly asked, in fact, he had already signed the order for the great retreat, and the party and government offices in Moscow were to be transferred to Kuibyshev, and even most of the personnel of the Supreme High Command and the base camp were to be evacuated. However, Stalin himself will not leave for the time being, and Molotov and Voroshilov will also stay. They will declare their co-existence with Moscow...... After all, when the Red Army was approaching Petersburg, that prostitute openly declared that she would fight to the end in Petersburg, and now it was Stalin's turn, he couldn't just run away so quickly, right? Of course, at the last moment, he still had to retreat to the safety of Chelyabinsk.

"It depends on the situation, maybe the enemy is trying to fight a decisive battle with the main forces of the North-Western Front under the city of Moscow, Comrade Stalin." Zhukov pondered the words, "In 1812, Napoleon also conquered Moscow, and in the end did not also suffer a shameful defeat? His army and empire were all wiped out in the wars that followed."

After saying this, Zhukov felt that his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. He looked at Stalin with trepidation, waiting for the supreme instructions of the great leader. Stalin, on the other hand, furrowed his eyebrows and began to think for a long time. There was silence in the conference room, only the sound of rapid breathing could be heard, and it was clear that everyone was nervous.

"Georgi. Konstantinovich, your suggestion makes a lot of sense. After a long silence, Stalin still spat out these words with great difficulty, and he said in Russian with a Georgian accent: "Even the decaying Romanov dynasty can defeat Napoleon, who ruled almost the entire European continent, and we Bolsheviks can certainly defeat Hitler, who only occupies part of Central and Eastern Europe, even if we temporarily abandon Moscow ......" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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