By the time the Ming army was rapidly approaching Moscow, the rich fled to St. Petersburg. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And people who don't have money can only struggle to get by here in Moscow. Zhukov recruited a large number of people from among the local civilian population, formed hundreds of citizen commandos and a large number of combat groups, and prepared for street fighting. These people, who were not paid, had to eat and provide their families with the most basic food rations.

If you don't have a source of food, you can do anything when you're hungry. Zhukov did not dare to take a huge risk to cut off the food supply of the absolute common people.

In fact, it is impossible for normal people to survive in a war situation by relying on 200 grams of black bread a day, and fight desperately with the Ming army. At this time, the Russian army was not so conscious, let alone the commandos and battle groups composed of ordinary citizens. When these people have weapons in their hands, they need food even more.

The standard of 200 grams per day is actually the supply of the elite German Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad in modern time and space. With the elite level of the German Sixth Army, they were still completely annihilated in the Stalingrad area by this standard, not to mention the Russian army of this era. If Zhukov really insisted on this rationing system, it would not be long before large-scale infighting broke out.

Zhukov doubled the standard of supply, and in addition to the hard black bread and margarine, he also served some white bread in small quantities. Combat units were even able to receive occasional supplies of luxuries.

Zhukov found more than 100,000 tons of various foodstuffs, most of which were flour, from black market warehouses. In addition, there are thousands of tons of various meats, thousands of tons of various canned goods, cigarettes, candies and other luxury goods, and even they found a wine cellar with tens of thousands of bottles of wine in a hidden underground warehouse!

After receiving a huge supply of supplies, Zhukov's most difficult problem, the food crisis, was solved at least before the onset of winter. As for whether they will be able to hold out until the onset of winter, only God knows.

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"Fire! Fire! Break these bastards to pieces! "In a birch forest on the outskirts of Moscow, more than a dozen Russian tanks hid in the woods and fired fiercely at the charging Ming troops outside. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri of the Russian armored corps, sitting on a command tank with half of his body sticking out of the turret. Lodkin was holding a shortwave intercom supported by the Americans and shouting orders for his troops to open fire on the Ming army.

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri was originally the commander of the 118th Tank Regiment of the 225th Tank Division, but his tank regiment now only has a dozen tanks left around him. Three core KVs, five T34s, and five Shermans with American support. The rest of the vehicles had already been worn out in the constant fighting.

But even if the battle damage is so large, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's troops are relatively strong among the Russian armored forces near Moscow at this moment. They had just received an order from inside the city and were sent outside the city to block the Ming attack. As for how long to block, there was no order from the higher-ups. Maybe it's just an afternoon, maybe it's going to be clean.

The attack on the woods was about the size of a company of Ming infantry. More than a hundred infantrymen, under the cover of seven or eight armored vehicles, rushed towards the woods. However, he was quickly beaten in the face of the fire of Russian tanks. The information received by the Ming army did not say that there were Russian tanks here. A group of light infantry had little to do in the face of tank attacks.

The armor of the KV tanks was too thick, and those armored vehicles of the Ming army could not threaten them at all. Not only KV, but also other models of Russian tanks are not capable of being dealt with by the armored vehicles of the Ming army. The most powerful armored vehicles of the Ming army were only 40 mm caliber anti-aircraft combat vehicles, but such anti-aircraft combat vehicles belonged to anti-aircraft battalions, and they generally did not run over to cooperate with the infantry to attack. The armored vehicles equipped by the Ming army were originally only used to transport infantry to fight with armored units. There is no order to engage enemy tanks head-to-head in their mission.

Sherman's 76mm guns, T34-modified 85mm guns, and KV's artillery machine guns rained down on the Ming army. brought heavy casualties to these unprepared Ming troops. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's troops had just arrived, and he skillfully used the woods as cover to conceal his tracks, and only after the Ming attack force rushed into the woods did he suddenly appear and hit the Ming attack force fiercely.

The infantry is tragic when it comes to tanks, and there is little way for them to be able to fight tanks. The Ming front commander quickly reacted, and the attacking Ming troops quickly began to retreat. It's just that Lieutenant Colonel Yuri will not let go of this rare opportunity, and he immediately ordered to intensify the fire attack and inflict casualties on the Ming army as much as possible.

The Ming army was quickly defeated after leaving behind a few burning armored vehicles and dozens of corpses, and the Russian troops in the woods burst into cheers. They successfully repelled the attack of the Ming army.

However, there was no smile on the face of Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who had just won a battle. As a veteran, he knew very well in his heart that the main reason why he was able to successfully repel the Ming army this time was that their small armored force successfully caught the Ming army by surprise. The next Ming army's offensive will certainly not be as ignorant as this one. The real battle has not yet begun.

"Go collect ammunition!" Seeing the corpses of some officers and soldiers left on the battlefield after the defeat of the Ming army, as well as the several pierced armored vehicles, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri calmly faced the infantry and stepped forward to collect all kinds of useful supplies.

Zhukov raided the black market in Moscow and got a large amount of supplies, barely solving the temporary food crisis. However, so many troops in the entire Moscow region were sorely lacking in ammunition and weapons. When Lieutenant Colonel Yuri was collecting valuable fuel from the city, he had seen the citizen commandos, many of whom were digging trenches on the road with cold weapons. Tanks, artillery, and firearms are devoid of ammunition and fuel, that is, burning sticks.

The Moscow region has been cut off from the outside world, and the defenders have less ammunition to fight, and there is simply nowhere to replenish it. The Russian army on the front line had to take a huge risk to pick up the weapons and equipment of the Ming army and everything useful in the interval between the battlefields. Even if the caliber of ammunition between the two sides is not the same, something is better than nothing.

The soldiers on the battlefield may not care about the desecration of the enemy's dead officers and soldiers, but the Ming officers and soldiers are extremely indignant about this. Many of the officers and soldiers killed in the Ming army were usually stripped away, and they didn't even have a pair of underwear left on their bodies. Positions in such a situation were usually met with fierce retaliation from the Ming army, and once the defenders lost their positions, they were usually killed by the Ming army in retaliation. However, the Russian army, which has been forced to be in a hurry, can no longer take care of these things.

Following the order of Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, dozens of Russian infantry jumped out of their bunkers, hunched over in the woods, and quickly ran to the Ming attack position not far away. In a hurry, he wanted to drag the remains of some Ming soldiers who had not had time to be taken away back to their positions.

The fools who were exposed between the positions of the two sides to rummage through the supplies had already been killed, and now the Russian army had to desperately bring back the remains of the Ming officers and soldiers if they wanted to get something.

The Ming army has always attached great importance to the remains of their own people, and under normal circumstances, when they retreat, they will take away the remains of the wounded and dead comrades as much as possible. However, when the situation is critical, it is a little too much to take care of. Usually no one on the battlefield will desecrate the dead, after all, no one knows when they will die in battle. But now the Russians have greatly angered the Ming officers and soldiers.

"Bang bang bang!" The Russian army, which was running back, suddenly fell several people, and Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's heart suddenly tightened. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who had been fighting on the front line for a long time, knew that it was a sniper from the Ming army who was shooting, or it would not be long before the fierce fire would whistle.

"Come back soon!" Lieutenant Colonel Yuri shouted anxiously for the Russian troops to come back quickly, especially the Russian ones who ran to the armored vehicle to rummage for supplies. It's just that the Ming army's response was very fast.

The snipers who were directly attached to the infantry squad shot one after another to the ground of the Russian officers and soldiers. Then, a strange sound of 'whooshing' sounded over the heads of the Russian army. Before they could react, swarms of mortar shells fell. At the same time, a light flashed on the starting position of the Ming army in the distance, and more than a dozen long machine-gun bullet chains were thrown over in an instant, knocking many Russian officers and soldiers to the ground.

Rather than being stripped naked by the Russians, the Ming army would rather blow up the bodies of their comrades with the Russian army than let them fall into the hands of the Russian army. The small grove was suddenly lively again. Gunfire, cannon fire, and all kinds of shouts and screams rang out.

However, in just a few minutes, less than ten of the Russian infantry who went out to clean up the battlefield escaped alive. The things they brought back from the Ming officers and soldiers were really a drop in the bucket. The need for the entire line of defense does not help at all. However, the cigarettes, tea, honey, military rations and other materials on the Ming army were very popular with the Russian army, and they would rather exchange their lives for these materials to anesthetize their nerves.

Taking the cigarette handed by his subordinates, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who was hiding in the KV tank, took a deep puff on the cigarette with a greedy face. This feeling of anesthesia made him forget the dangers and troubles of the battlefield for a while, as if he had returned to his peaceful and peaceful hometown.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri knew in his heart that all this was just an illusion. The retaliatory attack of the Ming army will soon come again, and whether it will survive the Ming offensive by that time is a huge question mark. Judging from the extremely bad situation of the Russian army at this moment, their death in battle is only a matter of time. (To be continued.) )