Seeing Zhukov's departure, Stalin remembered the generals and General Vatutin, who had been deceiving him, so he recruited trusted people and asked him to go from house to house with his soldiers to find military advisers and staff officers who pointed to the map. He wants to send those who deceive him to hell, and he wants them to die sooner than he does!

"You! Take a platoon of soldiers! Find those bastards in the general staff! Shoot them directly without trial! They have all betrayed the Soviet Union and are sinners of treason! You personally carry out the order, kill them, and bring me pictures of their deaths! Understand?" he patted Zaitsev, the captain of his guard, on the shoulder, and vented fiercely.

Zaitsev nodded and replied to Stalin: "Comrade Stalin, great leader, I will resolutely carry out your tasks until the end of the world!" After saying that, he left the underground bunker of the Kremlin where Stalin was hiding, with the people he trusted.

The gunfire in Moscow was more intense than ever, and this time it was not only the Germans who fired bullets at the Soviets, nor the bullets that the Soviets fired at the Germans, but also some of the Soviets' bullets at the Soviets. These Soviet generals, who had been in and out of Stalin's headquarters one moment ago, all became mortal enemies at this moment, and were killed by their own bullets on their own doorstep.

Vatutin stood at the door of his headquarters, waiting for the car in front of him to hold firm in front of him, he numbly enjoyed the salute of Zaitsev, the captain of the Stalin's Guards who jumped out of the car, and then numbly returned a military salute. When Zaitsev crossed him and wanted to enter his headquarters, Vatutin finally remembered what he should do - and he opened his mouth to Zaitsev, who was already on the gun, and said: "I heard that you are executing traitors who deceived the comrades of the leader, and you have killed 34 of them, right?"

"Yes, including many generals who deceived Comrade Stalin that our troops had counterattacked......" Zaitsev seemed to anticipate what Vatutin wanted to say, squeezed out a smile and said to the commander of the Moscow city defense: "They betrayed their loyalty to Comrade Stalin, so I was ordered to teach them a lesson." ”

"Tell Comrade Stalin that it is me who is counterattacking our troops! It is me! It is me Vatutin! I have nothing to do with my men!" Vatutin walked quickly back to Zaitsev, who had already crossed him, blocked the way of the other side, and said: "If you must give an explanation to Comrade Stalin, then start with me!"

Zaitsev was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Comrade General, you must know that Comrade Stalin and I have never questioned your loyalty, so you are not on the list of punishments we have decided to punish this time." Please get out of the way and don't stop me from carrying out my official duties. ”

"But, Comrade Zaitsev, it all started with me! I deceived Comrade Stalin! I said that our troops are fighting back! It's none of my business, I beg you to wait a little longer, and I'll go and meet Stalin and beg him to spare the officers who were lying with me!" Vatutin was already speaking to Zaitsev in a pleading tone.

Zaitsev nodded, then stepped forward and leaned into Vatutin's ear and said: "I only have two choices, the first option is that you continue to entangle with me here, and then I will kill those on the list after I execute you, and the second option is that you get out of the way, and then I will go in and kill those on the list......"

Vatutin did not expect Zaitsev to be so resolute this time, and he never imagined that in such a desperate situation, Stalin would really have the heart to find these trivial troubles. He was stunned, not knowing whether he should really stand up and be killed by his own people at the gate of his headquarters, or whether he should get out of the way and betray his subordinates in full view.

Just as he hesitated, Zaitsev bypassed his body and walked into his headquarters, and by the time Vatutin came to his senses, gunshots had already been heard in his headquarters. At such a sensitive time, it is impossible for this kind of action to hide from the eyes of the Vatutin command, so when Zaitsev came here, Vatutin waited outside the office, and from another point of view, it also means that the people inside are equally prepared.

The gunshots rang out intensively, obviously the people inside did not choose to sit still, but chose to raise their guns to fight back, Vatujing listened to the gunshots in his headquarters in horror, but he never had the courage to go in, persuading people on both sides to stop this kind of consumption of their own people beating their own people. He just stood in the doorway, not even turning his body.

The gunfire in the room gradually subsided, but Vatuin remained still in a state of despair in the desperate eyes of his men, he just stood like this, waiting for no movement in the headquarters, and then slowly turned around and looked at the door of the deep and hollow underground headquarters.

Zaitsev carried his pistol and walked out of the gate with heavy steps, while behind him, only a few of Stalin's guards who followed him went out of the house, everyone was carrying guns and licking blood and eating with knives, so it was indeed a normal thing to be prepared to kill and wound each other.

"I respect you as a truly patriotic general, so this time, I will not report to Stalin, and I will not pursue it. Zaitsev walked up to Vatutin and said to the general: "But I hope you don't make anything else, after all, everyone is not in a good mood right now." ”

Vatutin did not speak, and the soldiers at the gate of his headquarters pressed their hands on their guns and looked at these men in bright and decent guard uniforms with extreme hatred. They didn't really care what the other party was, they cared more about the fact that these people had just killed their colleagues, their bosses - killing the familiar faces in those rooms.

"Sir, if you give the order! We promise that none of them will be able to leave here! They have just killed a large number of officers of our command under the guise of Comrade Stalin!" A guard officer pressed his rifle and stared at Zaitsev to ask Vatutin, who did not speak, but watched the Stalinist guards soldiers with pistols get into their cars and leave the crater-ridden street.

"What the Germans did not do, Stalin did. A Soviet officer carrying a document bag sneered: "He helped the Germans attack our own headquarters, killing so many of us and throwing the whole command into chaos." ”

Soon the abnormal reaction of some Soviet troops made the Germans perceive, some German local attacks, the Soviet counterattack was very slow, they no longer put in troops as quickly as at the beginning, and sometimes when the Germans had already occupied the target area, the reinforcements of the Soviet small forces had not yet arrived in the combat area.

Taking advantage of a series of problems within the Soviet defenders, the Germans completed a limited offensive operation, and Army Group F, under the cover of artillery, took a famous restaurant north of Vorontsov Park and drove the nearby Soviet soldiers behind the line of defense on Lermonosov Street.

Field Marshal Kluger, who threw a battalion of armored units to cover his infantry, attacked all the way north along Union Street, and finally stopped their advance at the intersection of Lemonosov Street and Union Street. Blocking their advance was the building of the Scientific Library, a building desperately guarded by Soviet defenders.

The troops of the German Army Group F on the flank, cutting through the Warsaw Highway to Leninno's flank, almost cut off the communication link between Zhukov and the Kremlin in the area south of the Moscow River. Zhukov had to relocate his command the day after he met with Stalin.

He was forced to move his command back again, to the Paveletsk railway station, where there was a metro connection to the banks of the Moskva River, and a more complete and deep underground anti-aircraft bunker facility. And it is surrounded by the Moskva River on three sides, and it is probably the easiest to defend the core of Moscow.

Zhukov did not intend to leave after moving his headquarters here, and he devoted himself to arranging the surrounding fortifications, inspecting the trenches and barricades one by one, and even helping the soldiers to strengthen the machine-gun pillboxes himself. As a marshal, he had done everything he could, and now all that remained was to live and die with his own country.

Just on July 20, the Leninno region was occupied by the Italian Expeditionary Force, and on their flank, Guderian's tanks had pressed their tracks near the T-junction where the Kahira Highway and Andropov Avenue meet. Marcus's King Tiger tank unit was ordered to storm the Ascension Church along the green strip on the west bank of the Moscow River, and because there were no buildings or obstacles, they quickly captured it and erected a striking German flag there.

July was a month of victory for the German front-line troops stationed on the Eastern Front, who came closer to their own victory every day of the month. The closest troops to the Kremlin were just over six kilometers away from Stalin's bedroom door, and every hour they were able to shorten that distance by another 50 meters or so.

Of course, this 50 meters was not an easy distance to advance, and for this insignificant short distance, the Germans paid more than several times the losses they had lost in previous battles - on average, 20 German soldiers fell for every 1 meter of advance.