The troops of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union, the 98th Army of the Soviet Army defending Chelyabinsk, the 91st Army defending Yekaterinburg, and the 96th Army defending Nizhny Novgorod, all received orders to withdraw westward.

These three group armies are the latest to expand their troops, known as group armies, and the total number of troops is more than 100,000, but these three group armies cannot find a single large-caliber artillery, nor can they find a single tank, and even the trucks are very few.

Half a month ago, the three group armies arrived in these three cities to carry out key defenses and build a large number of defensive positions.

However, before the enemy could be seen, an order was received from Moscow, and all three armies retreated and retreated to Moscow.

A large number of soldiers, coming out of the defensive trenches, in groups of two, sharing a rifle, left their respective cities in a hurry, formed a huge marching team, and walked on the road they had walked half a month ago.

In the Far Eastern theater, there were already irreversible results, and Stalin, who was almost desperate, no longer had the strength to continue to defend the Eastern Front.

It was a multi-million army, and less than three months had passed since the outbreak of the battlefield, and it was completely lost.

The soldiers of the Red Alert Empire are almost at the gate of Moscow, and the helpless Kremlin can only let the troops concentrate on defense.

Having abandoned all industry, as well as all the cities on the Eastern Front, Stalin had no choice but to defend Moscow.

But for the Soviet soldiers below, such an order was very unsatisfactory.

First from the vicinity of Moscow, the march lasted more than ten days to reach the destination, and after half a month of fortifications, not a single shot was fired, and they had to return to Moscow.

In addition, the soldiers of these three group armies were generally forcibly conscripted into the army, some of the younger ones were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and some of the older ones were in their forties.

The march was full of complaints, and in the cities and towns that passed, no one was speechless when they saw the civilians with confused eyes in their eyes.

Do you tell these civilians that the troops have completely abandoned them and ceded this place to the enemy?

The soldiers marching silently, not daring to touch the eyes of others, lowered their heads, followed the pace in front of them, and numbly moved their hands. Leg.

And at this moment, far away in the Moscow Kremlin, Stalin was not roaring, sitting quietly in his office, with the latest war report in his hand.

What happened the other night on the battlefield on the Eastern Front?

There is no clear record in the war report, only that the Red Alert Empire used a powerful weapon to wipe out 850,000 Soviet troops in one go.

Then Krasnoyarsk was attacked by the special forces of the Red Police Empire, and Marshal Rokossovsky was captured.

What could be more desperate than such news?

The answer is yes.

When the news of Rokossovsky's capture was confirmed, news came from Kazakhstan that the Second Theater of Operations of the Red Alert Empire had passed through Afghanistan, and when Moscow received the news, the troops of the Second Theater had already entered the territory of Kazakhstan and would enter the hinterland of the Soviet Union at any time.

As a last resort, Stalin had no choice but to abandon some cities in the east as much as possible and concentrate his forces on defense.

The Soviet High Command gave a defensive plan, that is, to gather all the forces of the Eastern Front, concentrate on the defense of Ulyanovsk, and use the natural barrier of the Volga River to defend against the offensive of the Red Alert Empire.

Another plan is to strengthen Moscow's defenses, which Germany has now advanced to the periphery of Moscow, and Moscow must strengthen its defenses anyway.

To this end, the Soviet government called on all the people of Moscow to resist the invaders and distributed a large number of grenades to every household.

At the same time, in the city of Moscow, a large number of self-defense forces were formed, these self-defense forces are composed of civilians, after issuing certain weapons, and then carry out simple military training, they are civilians in peacetime, but once invaded by the enemy, they have to take up arms against the enemy.

Zhukov was also appointed commander-in-chief of Moscow's defense, and another Soviet general, Timoshenko, was also ordered to go to Ulyanovsk to organize defense.

Only Stalin, having reached the point of rage, also had to calm down.

The war has reached such a point that everyone knows that the Soviet Union is already struggling to support itself, and the Soviet Union has no chance of reversing the current situation.

Defeat in the war is already doomed.

There were three choices before Stalin, one of which was to defend with all his might, to fight the real war to the last soldier, and resolutely not to give up.

The second option was to surrender to the Germans, a choice that Stalin could not have made.

The third option was to surrender to the Red Alert Empire, and Stalin still had a little possibility of accepting this result, but whenever he had the idea of surrendering, he was automatically cut off by Stalin.

On the Eastern and Western Fronts, the Soviet army was already exhausted, and its aversion to war was spreading rapidly.

The war had reached such a point that the Soviet Union could hardly afford to suffer a large number of casualties, and it did not have the strength to continue to defend the large number of industries in the east.

In such a situation, if you don't surrender, you will only have to fight to the end.

Stalin did not have any choice at this point, he surrendered to Germany, Hitler could not have let him go, and the surrender of the Red Guard Reich would not have a good result.

It seems that there is a choice, but in fact, there is no choice.

In Kazakhstan, the Soviet troops in the second theater of operations collapsed at the first touch, and many simply surrendered on the battlefield.

Over the course of three months, more and more people hated a war that could not be won.

Outside the eastern suburbs of Moscow, a large number of Soviets were building defensive positions, and the Germans had not yet entered Moscow and were blocked by Soviet troops on the outskirts of Moscow.

To the east of Moscow, there were no decent fortifications, but now hundreds of thousands of people were busy building defenses, and a large number of trenches and pillboxes were scattered all around Moscow.

Stalin, who was determined to live and die with the Soviet Union, made the only choice without a choice, and for this he also gathered all the forces he could muster to fight a war for the whole people with all the enemies in Moscow.

A large number of troops in the surrounding area are also gathering towards Moscow, and in just one month, Moscow will become a real war fortress, a huge war fortress capable of holding millions of troops.

This fortress will be like a hedgehog, leaving all the invading enemies with a bloody lesson.

To this end, Stalin also wrote a proclamation to live and die with Moscow, calling on all Soviets to take up everything that could ward off the enemy and resist the invasion.