"Comrade General, Comrade General!" a Soviet intelligence officer rushed into General Vatutin's office, he almost knocked down a hanger in a hurry, and handed a piece of information in his hand to General Vatutin, who was busy preparing for the military parade.

"What's the matter? panicked...... Did the Germans call?" Vatutin frowned for a moment, then scolded. However, he didn't really mean to blame the other party, just said a word, and put down the document he was preparing in his hand.

"This morning, there were three more German reconnaissance planes than yesterday! From the time the sun just rose, there was a German reconnaissance plane, which reconnoitred at a high altitude several times before leaving!" The intelligence officer who rushed into the office hurriedly said: "Now, at least five of their planes have flown over Moscow at a high altitude, so the director asked me to come over quickly and report the situation!"

Vatujing was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it carefully, he knew that the matter of the military parade might have been leaked, and it was not leaked a little. The fact that the Germans knew that today the USSR would hold a grand military parade and seemed to be ready to intervene was not a good thing for the Soviet side, at least for Stalin, it was bad news.

So the commander of the Moscow city defense quickly grabbed the phone in front of him and called the leader, Comrade Stalin, who was arranging his clothes. Apparently Comrade Stalin was also busy on the other side of the phone, and there was no shortage of things to prepare on his side, at least he needed to dye his gray hair black again.

"Great Leader, Comrade Stalin, I have just received information from the air defense forces that in the morning the Germans have made a number of sorties and carried out an unusual reconnaissance of Moscow - I suspect that it may be our adversary, and the Germans know about our parade. ”

"How could the Germans know? This is a very confidential matter, and should not be discovered by the Germans!" Stalin's tone on the other side of the phone was obviously very unpleasant, and he was preparing to review his troops defending Moscow, only to get such fatal news. After all, Moscow is now within range of many heavy artillery, and it is extremely dangerous to review its own troops in such an unsafe situation.

"Because there was such a review plan, most of the officers on the front line were notified...... Great Leader Comrade Stalin, I think that some of the officers who have recently been reported dead in action have in fact been captured by the Germans. Vatutin thought about it, and put the blame on the high-ranking officers who might have been judged dead in battle.

Stalin thought about it and felt that this statement was quite acceptable. After all, it is impossible to achieve complete secrecy for this kind of thing, especially in the last few days when many front-line officers have to be invited to participate in the military parade, and the degree of secrecy of this military parade is not as strict as in the first few days.

But he still scolded loudly, after all, his entire plan might have been postponed or even canceled because of this intelligence leak: "Those bastards who have defected to the enemy! are all complete idiots! Stupid pigs! What if Rokossovsky surrenders? In the end, he was secretly shot in a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin by those people?"

Rokossovsky's death, of course, the Allies will not let it go easily, and they also make a big fuss about this high-ranking general according to normal associations. As for Rokossovsky, who is already dead, even if the Germans admit that he committed suicide, Stalin will never admit it here - after all, Rokossovsky should have died in Stalingrad according to his own promise, and not died in Berlin after a long time.

Vatutin was silent on the other end of the phone, waiting for Stalin to vent his anger before he could get the answer he wanted. In the last few days of cooperation, he has become accustomed to this way of communication, so he is still accustomed to not talking, and is accustomed to having Stalin on the other side of the phone to scold the sinners who betrayed the Soviet Union in the past.

In short, as the war progressed, as the situation became more and more unfavorable, the number of times Stalin cursed people gradually increased. Now this situation is only one step away from despair, so the number of times Stalin scolds people has become so much that he can open his mouth whenever and wherever he wants.

Eventually, after silence was restored on Stalin's phone, Vatutin cautiously and slowly opened his mouth and asked softly: "Then, Comrade Stalin, the great leader, will the military parade originally planned for today be cancelled or continued?"

Stalin, after his habitual scolding, was also full of thoughts about whether the parade should continue or be forced to cancel. He thought about it carefully, and really didn't know whether he and the troops who were reviewing it would have dispersed to the air defense facilities to take refuge in the air defense facilities during the military parade, or whether they should continue to insist on the military parade.

So he could only open his mouth and asked Vatutin's opinion: "Comrade General, what is your opinion? Should we abandon this military parade plan, or will we persist in continuing to complete it?"

"I recommend...... It would be better to postpone it until tomorrow...... Comrade Stalin, great leader, after all, this military parade is for the whole world to see, and if the bombs of the German army fall, then it will be bad for us after all. Vatutin didn't think much about it and immediately answered the question. After all, this issue is not such a life-and-death decision as the transfer of troops, and General Vatutin is still willing to show his ingenuity in such a trivial matter as delaying a certain activity.

So Stalin nodded and agreed to Vatutin's suggestion. He also knew that although it would be humiliating to postpone it for a day, it would be much better than being disturbed by the Germans: "I support your opinion! Then, according to your idea, let the troops of the parade withdraw from the waiting block and go to the original barracks to stand by!"

"Yes! Great Leader Comrade Stalin!" Vatutin put down the phone in his hand and grabbed it again: "Give me the command of the parade troops...... I am Vatutin! Today's military parade has been officially cancelled! You should return to the barracks at once! Yes! This is the order of the great leader, Comrade Stalin! I will send you the order document later! Execute it immediately!"

After giving the order, Vatukin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at a huge clock on one side of the wall, on which there was still three minutes and eight o'clock. He smiled bitterly, shook his head again, and called his secretary: "Strengthen air defense vigilance! Maybe the Germans ......."

Before he could finish his order, the terrible air raid siren was sounded. He was stunned for a moment, and an officer of the air defense unit had already burst into his office, and then loudly reported to him what had just happened: "Comrade General! Radar! The radar station has found a large number of planes! It's not ours, it's the Germans!"

He was a little incoherent, but it was nothing compared to the look on his face. Because he had just heard a surprising adjective that was used to describe the German planes that invaded Moscow's airspace this time - "I have never seen so much before!"

Yes, I have never seen so many of them, in the operating room of the radar station built with the help of the Americans, several Soviet radar soldiers looked at the chaotic and beating tremor lines on the screen, and at first thought that their machines were malfunctioning. It wasn't until a call from the naked eye observation post at the front line that they learned that their equipment was not broken, but that there were too many German planes.

The FW-190D fighters were hung with as many small bombs as possible, which were required to attack as many Moscow construction targets as possible, then more than 300 Stuka and Stuka 2 attack planes, which were dispatched in full force to suppress the vulnerable Moscow anti-aircraft fire, and more than 500 DO-217 bombers, which were not long-range but had very good performance, and were responsible for destroying the whole of Moscow, carrying a large number of high-explosive bombs.

The main reason why only a small number of incendiary bombs were carried was because the Air Force intelligence department analyzed that Moscow used a large number of brick and stone structures to build houses because of its function of keeping out the cold, and the direct drop of incendiary bombs may have a mediocre effect. So the Air Force decided to explore the way with high-explosive bombs first, and by the way, to test how well Moscow's buildings can withstand attacks.

Who would have thought that the German army had the luxury of using 200 fighter planes to carry bombs as attack aircraft, and dispatched more than 1,100 sorties of various types of aircraft in one go to carry out the largest bombing attack on Moscow since the beginning of the battle.

At the same moment, at 8 o'clock sharp, the 210 mm howitzers placed behind the German positions were the first to roar, and a full 30 towed cannons of this caliber were thrown 25 kilometers away. These guns were used to compensate for the density of the railroad guns, and although they may not be able to hit the city center of Moscow, they can hit the urban area and give the Soviets some deterrent effect.

Vatutin was shocked by the news he had received, and as soon as he was seated in his underground air defense headquarters, he heard the news that the Germans had bombed the western city, and then news came from some observation posts that they had just been shelled by enemy troops.

The phone was in a mess, all the phones seemed to be ringing, and Vatutin had to deal with these interrogative calls separately with his secretary, almost every one of them was a big man who would not allow him to slack off. There were mayors and government officials, and they were all confirming one thing: where the Germans were shelling from.

Stalin's telephone was picked up by Vatutin, which was the means of communication between this command and Stalin's anti-aircraft bunkers. As soon as the phone rang, Vatutin had to answer: "Great leader, Comrade Stalin! I am Vatutin!"

"Damn it! Some people say that the explosions in some parts of the city were not from German bombardment, but from German shelling! What the hell is going on? How many kilometers are the enemy from Moscow? Their 150 howitzers are already approaching Moscow!" Stalin was annoyed on the phone, bombing and shelling are really two completely different things for Moscow.

Vatutin was not a fool either, he certainly knew that the nearest German troops were only 18 kilometers from the city of Moscow. But he also knew that it was not the 150 mm howitzers that bombarded the city of Moscow with a very limited range, at least 210 mm heavy guns.

So he hurriedly comforted Stalin: "Comrade Great Leader, I assure you that those guns are not German 150-mm towed guns......! I suspect that the Germans used 210 mm heavy guns during the attack on Stalingrad. ”

"I don't care what weapons can reach Moscow! Now the enemy is shelling our capital! General Vatutin! Give me a way!" Stalin relaxed a little when he heard that he had not been deceived. But the kind of thing that happens to be under fire from artillery does affect the mood of people, at least all the high-ranking officials in Moscow - the enemy is really close enough to them!

The Germans had no intention of sparing Moscow, and although the buildings were very solid, the hundreds of tons of bombs dropped by the German bombers in the sky still did their part, and a large number of houses were hit and collapsed, and the debris of the explosion covered the streets and alleys...... Huge craters everywhere, Moscow has finally experienced the biggest catastrophe since the beginning of the war.

Then the more terrifying 280-millimeter large-caliber shells fired by the K-type railway guns landed near Red Square, and one of these huge shells pierced directly through a towering Kremlin spire. The building collapsed with a bang, and then a huge explosion of shells spread nearby, and all the windows peeled and shattered in the shock.

The Soviet soldiers who were maintaining law and order in the city leaned on the bunkers piled up with sandbags at the entrance of the bomb shelter, looked up at the sky above them, and watched the graceful German planes fly through the sky obscured by the buildings, dropping bomb after bomb on the city they swore to defend.

"Everything the Germans did to the Soviet Union! I'm going to give back to the Germans tenfold, no, a hundred! I'm going to make that Accardo crouch in the basement! I'm waiting for my troops to cut off his head!" Stalin cursed loudly in the underground bunker, listening to the dense explosions overhead, feeling the vibration of everything around him.

I'm sorry, today's Lantern Festival, the dragon spirit is a little late, only such a more offered, owing more 4 chapters, the dragon spirit will start tomorrow, for everyone to gradually make up!