Timoshenko lowered his head, the battle was not good and naturally responsible, and he also needed to take overall responsibility, but he had to put forward his own ideas.

"Comrade Timoshenko, I see that you said in your report that the offensive momentum of the Chinese has weakened?" Stalin asked suddenly.

"Yes, Comrade Stalin, this is also what I want to report to you in person this time." Timoshenko admitted that he guessed that Stalin had already been suggested.

"Well, General Patton's previous advice to me was to send an elite force to flank the Chinese's right flank, so as to drag them to the maximum."

Stalin said that this was the only condition that the Allies were willing to send large numbers of troops to the fierce battle of Moscow.

"How many troops did General Patton promise?"

Timoshenko asked with great joy that at a time when the Soviet Union was in ruin and extinction, for those who were truly loyal to the Soviet Union and to power, any foreign aid must be seized.

"400,000 people, 8 tank divisions. You just need to hold on for a few more days. General Patton will concentrate his forces and work with us against the Germans. ”

Stalin was in a better mood, and in any case, the Allies were at least willing to increase their investment in the Moscow theater of operations, and the mighty Soviet Union, although it was likely to be gone, was not impossible to improve the outcome.

As a marshal of the Soviet Union, Timoshenko's wisdom is not ordinary, but after thinking about it, he understands why the Americans put forward this condition for sending troops.

Sino-German cooperation, millions of troops besieging the Moscow theater of operations, how long the Soviet army can drag it out, not depends on how many reinforcements there are and whether it can be dragged until there is a turnaround, but on the 'performance' of the Allied and Chinese armies.

At the same time, he also understood the true intentions of the allies, but after thinking about it, the Chinese did not want to pick up a bargain again, but secretly said in his heart, "Is General Patton really willing to accompany the Chinese to play another play, and the Germans will taste the bitterness again this time." ”

Stalin took a few puffs of his cigarette and continued, "The Allied assurances will guarantee the Moscow-Leningrad corridor to the maximum extent possible, and a large Allied air force will protect this corridor." Your mission is defense. ”

Seeing this, an officer behind Stalin took out a combat document and handed it to Timoshenko.

With this document in hand, Timoshenko knew that it was from the Allies, a battle plan that had not been consulted at all by the top commander of the field.

"Retreat 15 kilometers ......"

Seeing these simple but very important terms in the plan, Timoshenko knew that this time, Comrade Stalin and the Allies had made up their minds.

The force actively shrank by 15 kilometers, which means that the difficulty of defense will be greatly reduced, and the concentrated heavy artillery groups and a large number of anti-tank weapons, relying on trenches and fortifications, no matter how sharp the Chinese attack is, are likely to waver in fear of heavy casualties.

Of course, this is not the most critical, according to Timoshenge's understanding of the Chinese expeditionary force's leading general, Chen Jun, this person has a very cold-blooded side, if the expeditionary force can concentrate on attacking, he believes that this contracted and strengthened defense line may not be able to stop the Chinese, although they will pay a lot of casualties.

However, once the Allies attack the right flank of the Chinese, the situation will be greatly improved.

"The Chinese will be given a chance to buffer, unless they are willing to pay a huge price in casualties and cooperate with the Germans to destroy us at all costs."

Timoshenko secretly said in his heart, no one knows how the Chinese will choose in the end, it seems that paying huge casualties, and winning the war quickly is the best choice, but he always keeps telling himself in his heart that the Chinese will definitely choose to take the opportunity to fight with the allies, and delay the pace to attack Moscow, which is like a fortress.

In other words, the Allied forces took the initiative to cooperate, creating an illusion for the Chinese that "the offensive forces are insufficient and must be divided to resist the Allied forces."

The two talked again, and then Timoshenko was taken to the General Staff, and Stalin met with General Patton, who had come to the door for the second time in one day.

"General Patton, I have conveyed the entire plan to Comrade Timoshenko, who will resolutely implement the resolution of the Supreme Military Council of the USSR."

Stalin said with a smile that although the Soviet Union was defeated at this time, he still had the absolute right to speak in these remnants of Soviet power, which was not only for him, but also for the top of the Allied forces.

"I'm glad to hear about the results. This plan was proposed by me to General Eisenhower, and was jointly signed by President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill. "Mr. Stalin, at this point in the war, I think victory or defeat is a bad outcome. The cost of victory is too great, the result of defeat is too cruel, and our best hope is to strive for armistice negotiations. ”

"However, Prime Minister Churchill also made a declaration in London yesterday that the Allies would definitely take Berlin." Stalin said in a slightly mocking tone that he had no good feelings for Churchill.

"Just as the Soviet Union announced that it would drive the Chinese out of the Far East, and the US political axe announced that it would regain control of the Pacific, what the people want to see is always a big pie." General Patton also said in a self-deprecating tone. "I am the Supreme Commander of the Theater of Operations, and I am currently in charge of the 1.5 million Allied forces attacking from the direction of the Netherlands, the 2 million Allied troops attacking from the direction of Northern Europe into the heart of Europe, and 600,000 troops assisting you in the defense of the Moscow-Leningrad corridor. This was the number of troops we had transported to Europe during the six-month campaign preparation period and several years of war in Europe, and we had mobilized a total of 4 million Allied troops.

However, the results of the war were still not smooth, and the fight to Berlin was far away, and even the Soviet Union had to be eaten whole. ”

"Yes, it is difficult for us to see the hope of victory, the Nazi army still has more than 10 million troops, and the Chinese are already in the city." Stalin had to admit that, although he always declared to the outside world that the great Soviets would be victorious.

General Patton bumped his pipe, changed it, relit it, and after exhaling a string of smoke rings, he said, "There is a wise general who has proposed to the Allied top brass a very strategic and far-sighted plan, which I have seen and am ready to sign my name, and I suggest that Comrade Stalin take a look." ”

"Huh? What kind of strategic vision would have made General Patton praise? ”

Stalin took the document solemnly handed over by General Patton, but when he looked at it, his face changed, and Rao, as the supreme commander of the Soviet Union, could not help but feel shocked by this plan.

"All for the sake of armistice negotiations...... Abandon Moscow and hand it over to Chinese in exchange for Chinese concessions...... Concentrate forces to settle the Eastern Front of the Germans...... Let Chinese and the Germans border ......"

This was definitely a huge plan and very strategic foresight, but Stalin's face turned blue at the abandonment of Moscow to the Chinese.

"Mr. Stalin don't need to be in a hurry, the plan is still here, we can talk slowly......"

General Patton did not mention how serious the current situation was, nor what the general trend of World War II was, but just smiled casually, as if he did not see Stalin's change of face in his eyes.

…… On April 15, 1947, 500,000 Allied troops, led by eight tank divisions, suddenly moved south and traveled 150 kilometers from Leningrad to the Moscow theater.

Instead of stationing in Moscow, reinforcements took an offensive stance on the northern defensive line of the Moscow theater of operations, confronting the Chinese right flank offensive front.

The sudden heavy addition of the Allied forces, supplemented by a large number of tanks and air forces, made the right flank of the expeditionary force only three army groups, and the strength suddenly became tense.

In light of this sudden situation, Chen's army decisively ordered to suspend the attack on the center to break through the defense line in Moscow, and instead mobilized troops to gather troops on the right flank to confront the 500,000 British and American Allied forces and more than 600,000 Soviet troops, totaling more than 1.1 million allied forces.

The first day of the battle was fierce, and the attack of the right flank of the expeditionary force was frustrated and turned to the defensive, and with the support of a tank army in the center, it finally withstood the sudden counterattack of the Allied forces.

What some of the expeditionary force generals did not understand was that it was clear that the expeditionary force had received information when the allies moved, but Chen's army did not deal with it immediately, neither speeding up the breakthrough of the northern defense line of the Soviets in the Moscow theater, nor stabilizing the defense, and immediately retreating as soon as the battle began, and did not start a new confrontation with the allies until the reinforcements from the middle came up.

Compared with the offensive disadvantage of the Chinese [***] team, the German [***] team can be described as overwhelming.

At the height of its success, a German army group once penetrated 25 kilometers into the city of Moscow, and although it was eventually repulsed, the German army was greatly encouraged.

Hitler, after receiving such good news, even thought that Moscow would be able to take it within a week.

At the base camp military conference, Hitler told many senior German generals that the Chinese had provided great help, and that China and Germany were strategic friendships, precisely because the attack of the Chinese [***] team east of Moscow greatly contained the Soviet forces in the Moscow theater and won the conditions for the German army to achieve a breakthrough victory.

At the meeting, Hitler firmly rejected the suggestions of several generals to slow down the offensive and let the Chinese take on larger and heavier offensive tasks. He believed that under the circumstances when the strength of the Soviet army was greatly constrained and the situation in the Moscow theater was unprecedentedly good, it was necessary to concentrate forces to take Moscow.

Hitler's idea was not bad, and Germany at this time, and indeed all of Europe, needed an unprecedented victory to be inspired.

And when the Allies attacked the right flank of the Chinese, found a serious confrontation, and broke out a fierce positional offensive and defensive battle, Hitler did not care.

"They shamefully want to break through the [***] squadron first, and use the more elite Allied forces to hold back the Chinese brothers, whatever their thoughts, my generals, you used to complain to me that the Soviets had too many troops in Moscow, and their cities were too advantageous, but now, no matter what, the Chinese have dragged the Soviets for us, and you will attack Moscow with sufficient forces, and I will mobilize new forces for you."

Whatever the Americans, Soviets, and British think, and the Chinese may have, I just want a brilliant victory, a brilliant victory that must be achieved by Nazi Europe under German leadership. ”

(To be continued)