Quiet is quiet, and the final decision to be made must be made with determination. After a long time, unable to wait for the answer he wanted, Stalin finally carried the huge black cauldron on his own. He spoke slowly, as if using all his strength: "Order Govorov's troops to continue south, open the road, and enter Moscow!"

With a sigh of relief, Vatutin's back felt like his back was soaked with sweat. Now that Stalin had made his final decision, there was no need for him to say anything else. In recent meetings, a group of politicians persuaded Stalin to retreat to Chelyabinsk, but the issue was also rejected by Stalin himself, so Vatutin stood up and prepared to withdraw from Stalin's office.

Not knowing whether it was the return of the dying man or the mental confusion before the collapse of his mind, Stalin suddenly spoke up and stopped Vatutin: "Comrade Vatutin, I want to know. From the point of view of the profession of military generals, is the decision to order Govorov to break through and reinforce Moscow correct?"

Vatutin smiled bitterly, knowing that after all, he still did not escape the doom of participating in this matter. He turned around, walked up to Stalin, and replied softly: "Comrade Stalin, the great leader...... The idea of trying to outrun the German armored forces with infantry in the field is extremely unrealistic. The retreat will eventually turn into a rout, a scenario that has already been confirmed by the defeat in the battle for Ukraine. ”

He paused and continued: "And it is not wise to let the infantry attack the German heavy armored group in the field. To this day, we have not had a single successful breakthrough in actual combat. So now no matter what kind of order is given, for the Govorov cluster, it can only be left to fate. ”

Stalin was silent for some reason, he didn't let Vatutin leave, he didn't ask him any other questions, he just sat there in silence and didn't look at Vatutin.

Just when Vatutin didn't know what to do, Stalin suddenly broke out, pounding the luxurious solid wood desk in front of him, and roaring hysterically: "Accardo is a liar! All the aid he calls is a shameful deception! Damn the Germans have been planning to invade the Soviet Union from the very beginning, but our intelligence services are like blind people, deceived by people!"

While scolding, he swept away the piles of papers on the table, and Vatutin used his peripheral vision to sweep the classified documents that had fallen to the ground, and the contents of which proved that Stalin's state at this moment was definitely not caused by one thing.

The scattered documents were varied: the remaining battleships of the Soviet-class battleships had artillery blowouts and boiler explosions, the giant railway guns developed as the Soviet superweapon were nothing more than a pile of unusable scrap metal, and hundreds of small submarines had no ocean-going capability and could not wait for the German Navy to arrive...... A large number of false and empty weapons cooperation projects such as these wasted the Soviet Union's small financial reserves, but they did not play a role at all when war came.

More than half of the German-aided lathes and trained workers were recaptured by the Germans at the beginning of the war, and the Ukrainian workers immediately defected into the German production army, contributing to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet Union had kept an eye on the construction of some industrial bases in Chelyabinsk on its own, the current Soviet Union would have almost come to an end.

The construction of railways, as well as roads and even airfields, now seems to be paving the way for the rapid advance of the German mechanized forces with Soviet money. The national sentiment that had been secretly inflamed and amplified was completely premeditated when I think about it now, and Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union was a huge systematic project, and it is ridiculous that most of it was accomplished by the Soviets themselves.

Vatutin did not have the heart to listen to Stalin's complaints there at all, sweat oozed from his forehead, and he was shocked by a series of German strategic deployments against the USSR. Every link was pre-arranged and then interlocked, and finally helped the German army win today's victory - the earliest plan even began around 1925, how much did it take to know how clear the Soviet goal was, to pre-design such an incredibly accurate "invasion plan"?

Vatutin's sudden thought of some information that was being investigated about the German leader Accardo. The man known as the Führer was called by the German people as a gift from God to Germany, and some even claimed that the Führer could see the future. At that time, Vatutin thought that the Germans were too ignorant, and now he found that this man, who was called a gift from God, could only be explained by God's gift.

Why? Why wasn't such a great leader born in the Soviet Union? For a moment, such an idea popped up in Vatutin's mind, and what he didn't know was that before he had this idea, this idea had sprung up in the minds of British generals and American generals.

"And Khrushchev! And that bastard Voroshilov! Their clumsy command made us lose the war in which we had the greatest advantage!" Stalin clenched his fists and waved them back and forth, as if what he was holding in the palm of his hand was Khrushchev's soul: "These bastards know how to ask me for merit and reward, but they don't have the slightest real ability! The battle of Poland was a situation where we were bound to win, but we were defeated by two of them fools!"

He cursed the dead Soviet veterans and insulted the German spy Marshal Tukhachevsky, whom he had executed. Then he blamed Khrushchev and Voroshilov, and then put the blame on Zhukov, as well as his Konev Vasilev and the mutinous Rokossovsky.

In short, he felt that it was a group of incompetent men who had ruined the good future of the Soviet Union, and in short, he felt that he had been dragged down by those bastards who were good at deception and disguise - but he did not sum up any of his mistakes, and did not even mention the painless prevarication of being easily blinded.

Like a resentful woman who was abandoned by others, Stalin did not have that resolute leadership temperament at this moment, but he was like a completely angry little daughter-in-law. He kept complaining and insulting, not to solve the problem or find a solution, but simply to vent. And the only listener in front of him, His Excellency Vatutin, the commander of the Moscow Defense District, was also out of the way, not paying any attention to what Stalin was saying. So the two of them vented there alone, and the other was distracted, a perfect pair of partners.

At this moment, Stalin was completely immersed in his own feelings of grief and anger, and did not pay attention to whether Vatutin listened to his roar or not, and finally he calmed down, and then looked at Vatutin in front of him with somewhat distracted eyes, and said calmly: "Go! Let Govorov continue to move south, even if he can't break through the encirclement of the German army, it is good to contain the German army north of Moscow." ”

After wandering around for a while, lamenting Accardo's rebellion and the luck of the German generals, Vatutin also retracted his thoughts at this time, so he hurriedly stood up and saluted, and replied to Stalin's decision: "Yes! Great leader, Comrade Stalin! I will convey your decision to the telegraph room." ”

"Go! I hope to see General Govorov and his troops in Moscow as soon as possible. Stalin waved his hand and signaled that Vatutin could leave, and when Vatutin left the office, Stalin silently lit his pipe with a match.

After four hours of waiting, General Govorov finally waited for an order from Moscow. Unsurprisingly, Stalin gave the order to keep his troops moving south, and he smiled bitterly and firmly carried out the order, which did not seem very wise.

Forty minutes later, the Soviet vanguard launched a tentative assault on Tver, but on the outskirts of the city they were met with a fierce counterattack by German armored forces. Seventeen German tanks opened heavy fire, pushing back the light infantry, who lacked heavy weaponry, for a full 7 kilometers before halting the pursuit.

The attacking division of the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses, and about 900 soldiers were eliminated or captured. The Soviet troops, who had lost their armor, retreated along the road in disarray, and only barely stopped, after crushing the baggage troops behind and the infantry of another division.

It is ridiculous that with such heavy losses, the Soviets did not even figure out the size of the German army. The entire Leningrad cluster was now a frightened bird, exhausted and short of supplies, unable to fight to the death against the demoralised German army.

"You have to wait for the artillery from behind to come up before you can officially start the attack. Even if only the vanguard of the German army reached the outskirts of Tver, there was nothing we could do. Govorov sighed helplessly: "Because the vanguard of the German army is far more capable of fighting than our own vanguard troops." ”

So, almost a full 500,000 Soviet infantry stopped in the area north of Tver, helplessly waiting for their artillery to move into the front line position for an attack - all the while, they were waiting for their opponents, German armored forces, to reinforce their defenses.

Later that day, the main forces of the Wehrmacht's 2nd Panzer Corps passed through the city center of Tver and crossed the road of the Soviet Red Army south. The Soviet troops, who were chased by 17 German tanks for several kilometers, were horrified to find that there were now more than 300 German tanks in front of them.

One chapter is added, and one chapter is missing, and the dragon spirit will make it up as soon as possible......