Chapter 1088: The Battle of Moscow (I)

"Great victory! Great victory! The headquarters of General Qi Muden of the Expeditionary Force of our National Defense Force completely annihilated the Japanese Expeditionary Force against the Soviet Expeditionary Force in the Soviet Union, and the Japanese slave general Sugiyama Yuan committed suicide! Destroy more than 20,000 enemies and capture 80,000 enemies! Great victory! Great victory......"

China's newsboys were screaming excitedly in the streets again, and every time there was a big victory, the newspapers were out of stock very quickly. They believe it will be the same this time.

Sure enough, at the moment when the voice of "Great Victory" shouted, countless people flocked to the newsboy. They eagerly took out the money and took the newspapers from the newsboy's hands and read them hungrily.

At this time, on the streets, whether it is the elderly, women, middle-aged men at work, or the owners of those shops, they all do the same thing - buy newspapers.

"Hahaha...... We've won again! We've won again!! Hahaha......" laughter rang out in the crowd, and then these laughter turned into cheers!

People seem to forget for a moment that they have to go to work, go to school, or take care of their business. Everyone stood in the street and cheered.

"Long live China! Long live the Wehrmacht!! A cheer rang out, triggering bursts of response. After a while, everyone seemed to remember what they should do, and they rushed to their school, business, or shop while reading the handwriting on it repeatedly.

"Old woman! Add two dishes today! We won again, and Xiao Rì was completely overturned for us! The chubby grocery store owner laughed and threw the newspaper on the table and yelled.

"Add vegetables! Add dishes tonight! Let Lao Zhou come over too, and our old brothers will have a good drink! Hahaha......"

The cheers of the capital naturally spread to the conference room of the joint zhèngfǔ, and Lin Sen and the others couldn't help but smile bitterly when they heard it. Everyone was celebrating the victory, but the old foxes who united zhèngfǔ had a headache.

"I didn't expect this rì himself to be ruthless enough, more than 100,000 people said that they would lose it......" Lin Sen sighed, he knew that Qi Muden's approach was not wrong.

Rì himself is fighting to the death, and if he does not fight ruthlessly, then the Wehrmacht's own losses will increase. It's better to kill these gangs of suckers.

Of course, this has caused the expeditionary force to lose its reason not to go to Moscow for support. Moreover, the number of prisoners of the Rì Army was also reduced, and according to the deduction of the earliest joint zhèngfǔ and the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, at least 100,000 Rì troops could be captured.

But now, the expeditionary force has only captured more than 80,000 rì troops. It is too far from the estimation of these old foxes who are united zhèngfǔ.

That's 20,000 people! Many kilometers of railways can be repaired, and by the way, reservoirs in several cities and counties can be dug up. It's so few, and these bigwigs naturally don't feel good.

"This is not the most troublesome, the most troublesome thing is that our expeditionary force has packed up the rì himself, what to use as an excuse not to go to Moscow......" Minister of Commerce Yang Yuting also sighed, and it was easy for the cannon master to find an excuse for him.

As a result, it was gone in a blink of an eye. This rì himself, called Yang Yuting, seems to be poor and ruthless. There are more than 100,000 people, and it is not distressing at all to lose him.

"We are not worried about Moscow, the German train guns have already arrived. According to the news from Lei Daxiang, the current situation of the battle is extremely unfavorable for the Allies. By the time we get there, it's estimated that Moscow will be almost done......"

Lin Sen and the others held their chins and pondered for a while, but it was also true that the Allies had been storming the Germans' positions some time ago, and the losses were not small. At this time, the Germans brought the train cannons, and also transported a large number of heavy bombs, which were estimated to be impossible for the Allies to stop.

"It takes at least a week to clean up the battlefield and clean it up. Zimuden's current position is to rush to Moscow, at least half a month. And counting the logistical supplies, the situation that happened along the way......"

Su Zongzhe, chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, counted his fingers and calculated that even if he arrived in Moscow, it would definitely be after October.

And since October, the entire Soviet Union has gradually entered a long winter. The daytime temperature is better, about 10 degrees below and above freezing.

Once it enters the night, the temperature drops to more than ten degrees below zero. And if it starts to snow at this time, the temperature will only keep dropping, and it will be difficult to stop the heavy snow.

And once it enters November, then until March of the following year, the whole of Moscow will be covered with a thick layer of snow. In peacetime, this can be inconvenient at best, and in wartime, it can be fatal to both logistics and forward combat units.

"We have to drag it out until November, if Moscow is not yet occupied. Then let's help ......" Lin Sen smiled and said, "If they are already occupied by then, then we will have no need to make unnecessary sacrifices......

The threat to China has been lifted once and for all, unless they can again secure the support of huge resources. Otherwise, they would have to cower on their own soil and not move.

Without the elbow system of the rì book, the flexibility of the joint zhèngfǔ was greatly increased. It was feared that Germany, which had gained the upper hand, would attack China from the Soviet Union and Korea and the southeast coast.

But now that concern has become unnecessary. Rì had already lost their greatest reliance, and if they desperately launched this kind of attack, then they could only consume the last vestiges of their vitality to hold their homeland.

And in that situation, rì has become a fish on the board for China to slaughter.

Although the rì army on the Korean Peninsula now has a certain amount of weapons and ammunition in stock, these weapons and ammunition are not enough to support a large-scale war.

In fact, this is also the reason why they did not dare to act rashly after retreating behind the Korean front. They know better than anyone that they are not fit to go to war at all. Because once they fail, what awaits them will be a complete destruction.

The combined zhèngfǔ and the Wehrmacht, if it were not for the fact that a strong attack would cause unnecessary heavy casualties on their own side, would have started a war on the Korean Peninsula long ago.

"We have to take these positions by the end of the month! We must take Moscow before the end of October!! "At the operational meeting, Fedor. Feng. General Bock said solemnly to the generals below.

"Time is running out for us, and time is running out for Germany! We only have two months to go, and once winter goes on, all our advantages will be gone! ”

"Now, the Führer has given us four of the train guns we need most. And the 'Macing' heavy rocket-booster bomb, the Führer also gave us. If we have not taken the position, then it is a crime against Germany, against the entire Wehrmacht! ”

"Tomorrow at five o'clock in the morning, we will launch an all-out offensive against the Allies!" Bock glanced at Rundstein beside him, and when he saw the latter nodding, he said in a deep voice: "The specific battle plan is as follows......"

Unbeknownst to the Allies, the Germans on the other side of their position had been given the weapons they needed most. And their offensive plan will begin the next day.

Allied generals such as Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Patton were studying countermeasures in their headquarters all night, and the German train guns were the biggest threat to the Allied forces. Tens of kilometers of shè distance, the huge power made all the positions in front of it turn into paper paste.

"We can't do it, we have to retreat into Moscow. Take advantage of the complex terrain in the city and carry out street battles against the German army! Tukhachevsky snuffed out the cigarette butt in the can box, which was a simple ashtray.

"Comrade Trotsky, after these months of preparation, has built Moscow into a strong fortress. We've all been there, and I'm sure we all have some idea of what Moscow is now......"

Eisenhower and Montgomery nodded, and after months of preparation, Trotsky had indeed built the whole of Moscow into a strong fortress.

Most importantly, the entire city of Moscow is intricately intertwined with alleys and alleys. If the Germans had entered Moscow, then their formidable firepower would have been difficult to function.

Because the two sides are so close, if one is not careful, then your own troops will probably be killed by their own fire.

And the intricate terrain will also give the allies more opportunities to counterattack. It could even be used to kill the living forces of the German army on a large scale.

If the Germans continued to stay in Moscow, they would face only mounting casualties. And if they withdraw from Moscow, they will soon lose their last chance to take Moscow until at least next March, when the long winter soon begins.

Even if they want to make a comeback next year when they want to make a comeback, then the muddy roads will greatly slow down their movements. As long as the casualties and losses of the German army continued, then in the end the German army had to choose to withdraw from the Soviet Union.

"I don't agree with withdrawing into Moscow now, after all, it's not that time. I feel like we should continue to hold on to the position for a while. Montgomery said to the crowd: "The longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for the German army." ”

"If we can hold out until the end of October, the Germans will even most likely retreat from Moscow. Even if we can't, we should try to withdraw from the positions we are in late October, Moscow in winter will be their nightmare. Unless they have their brains in water, they will not choose to attack Moscow at that time......"

Montgomery's argument also makes sense, after all, the longer it drags on to the current position, the better it will be for the Allies. Even if the Germans could be delayed until winter, then the Germans would not necessarily retreat without a fight.

"General, I admit that what you say is indeed very reasonable. But we need to take into account that the German train guns were very damaging to our positions. Our positions were simply not able to withstand German shelling, and if we stayed on our positions and continued to fight, our casualties would continue to increase......"

Eisenhower worriedly put forward his opinion, how could he not know the benefits of holding his ground?! But the German train artillery was a great threat to the Allies.

Under this artillery, the positions of the Allies were simply powerless to counterattack.

"Our train guns are already on their way, but it's going to take time to get here......," Barton interjected with a wry smile.

Unlike World War II in history, the U.S. military immediately put the development of this giant cannon on the agenda after tasting the hardships of train artillery.

The United States has long had experience in building giant artillery. In 1895, in March ~ April, at the end of the American Civil War, in the offensive and defensive battle of Liqimon, the capital of the Southern Union, the Northern Army loaded a 320mm caliber giant cast iron mortar on the reinforced railway vehicle, and achieved quite good results.

This is also the ancestor of the train gun. Of course, until later the United States rarely made this type of artillery. There are many reasons for this, the biggest one being that it is really difficult to transport this kind of artillery, and it is basically unusable for the United States.

Throughout the Americas, no one can pose a threat to the United States. Making train cannons is a wasteful move. If it is a foreign war, then large-caliber guns on battleships are more practical than train guns.

Of course, the United States will not completely abandon the defense of the mainland, but most of the coastal defense artillery or fixed large-caliber artillery they have deployed on the mainland. Train guns are really of little use to the United States unless there is a civil war.

But now the U.S. military has chosen to fight in the vast territory of the Soviet Union, not in Britain as in history. So they were forced to make this kind of train cannon, which was not very needed in their own country.

In order to ensure that the firepower of the front line of their own army will not be weaker than that of the German army. But the train cannon is not easy to manufacture. Secondly, transportation from the continental United States to the Soviet Union was a huge project both by land and sea.

Therefore, even if the German train guns have arrived, the American train guns are still on the way.

After Eisenhower and Montgomery had finished speaking, there was a long silence in the room. Everyone was smoking, and no one was making an opinion.

Obviously, Montgomery's words were correct. If you want the Germans to retreat, then the longer you hold on to this position, the better. But Eisenhower was right.

The huge power of the train cannon will pose a great threat to the Allied forces, and if they hold on to the position, it is likely to cause heavy casualties to the Allied forces.

"The Wehrmacht's expeditionary force, where is it now?!" After a moment of silence, Montgomery asked Eisenhower. The latter shook his head with a wry smile and said.

"General, you don't want to fight their ideas. They have now just annihilated the troops of the Rìben Expeditionary Force, and it will take time to clean up the battlefield and repair. Besides, even if they are in their current position, it will take at least half a month to reach Moscow......"

The Soviet Union at this time was different from the historical one, and their railway system was not as developed as it was in history. As a result, many areas can only be walked and cannot be transported by train.

"Half a month...... Montgomery smiled bitterly, and the daylilies were cold in half a month. If the Germans had used the train guns, Montgomery would have had only the confidence to hold on for a week.

As for the casualties, he didn't dare to think about it at all. Because as long as he thought of the terrifying power of the train cannons, he didn't think how many people would survive on the battlefield.

"General Montgomery, General Eisenhower, now withdraw your forces to Moscow!" Tukhachevsky was silent for a long time, then said to the two men.

"This war is our war. More precisely, it was a war that belonged to the Soviets. Tukhachevsky's face flushed with a hint of cháo: "If we don't defend Moscow, then who will?!" ”

"You retreat to Moscow first, and we will take over the position." Tukhachevsky paused, looked at Montgomery and the others who were inexplicably surprised, and said, "Don't worry. The fighters of the Soviets, the least feared side is death. Especially when it comes to the purpose of defending one's homeland! ”

"If that's the case, your casualties will be heavy...... Eisenhower said to Tukhachevsky with some hesitation. And Tukhachevsky grinned.

"There will be casualties in war, where is there a war that does not produce casualties?! If this is our destination, then we are willing to accept ......"

Montgomery sighed, if the British army could have such an awareness on the battlefield of France and the battlefield of Britain, then at least the British Empire would not have fallen to the point it is today.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world to take. And even if the British were to return to the scene at that time, perhaps those MPs would still choose to flee.

The life is gone, and the rest is just more and another piece of bullshit?! These parliamentarians will definitely choose to save their lives first.

"I suggest that we begin to change positions now, otherwise the Germans will find out what we are doing as soon as we wait until dawn. When the time comes, if they intervene, it will cause unnecessary casualties to us......"

Tukhachevsky struck while the iron was hot and faced Eisenhower and the others. Montgomery did not object, after all, the sooner he withdrew to Moscow, the safer it would be.

At the very least, it can allow two exhausted troops who have been fighting for a long time to temporarily enter a state of repair.

"Alright! Marshal Tukhachevsky, be careful yourself! For the first time, Eisenhower had a heartfelt respect for the Soviet general: "If the position cannot be held, then withdraw to the city as soon as possible." We'll set up our defenses and look forward to continuing to fight with you! ”

"That's what I'm looking forward to!" Tukhachevsky stretched out his hand and shook Eisenhower's hand tightly.

That night, the Allied American and British positions received orders for a large-scale change of defense. Soviet troops began to move into their positions, while the American and British troops left a large number of machine guns and ammunition for the Soviet army. Then he withdrew his position and retreated towards the city of Moscow.

Until the wee hours of the morning... Left and right, almost more than ninety percent of the positions have been evacuated. Eisenhower, fearing that the Soviet army was under-armed, left some troops behind to help Tukhachevsky in defensive operations.

At the same time, Montgomery chose the same.

"Clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, and then march on Moscow!" After receiving the order from the Wehrmacht, Zimudeng said, "If they can hold on, we will help them." If you can't hold on, you can't blame us......"