Zaitsev looked at the Soviet leader in front of him without a trace of expression on his face. He didn't know what Stalin's effect in doing this would be, maybe he would be able to divide the unity within the Axis powers, maybe he would be able to really encourage a few people who didn't know whether they were alive or dead to take up arms and attack the German army...... But what is the point of all this? Even now that Germany has withdrawn from the Soviet Union, all that remains is a ruin and corpses everywhere.

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"Get bayonets! The Germans are coming! Give them some color!" The Soviet Red Army officers led by the Soviet Union stuck their bayonets into the front of their Mosin Nagant rifles and shouted orders to their soldiers for white-knuckle combat. Almost every Soviet soldier had run out of bullets, and the only weapons they had left to defend the ground beneath their feet were bayonets and their own bodies.

"Long live the great Soviet Union!" the leading Soviet officer shouted again, echoed by the earth-shattering shouts of all the Soviet soldiers in the entire building: "Ula!"

It was a cry of victory, a cry from the bottom of their hearts, and before the shouting had subsided, the German soldiers with all kinds of weapons broke out into an even louder cry: "Long live the Third Reich! Long live the Führer!"

"Hey, victory!" Soon, all kinds of shouts converged into such a concise phrase, behind the bright bayonet, there was a black hole in the muzzle, behind the pitch-black muzzle, there were rough hands holding steel guns, and further back, a pair of resolute eyes, and an endless M35 steel helmet.

There was no morality to speak of, and no one on the battlefield had ever stipulated that when one side ran out of bullets, the other side could only attack with bayonets. The Germans never intended to show any bullshit chivalry, and at the first moment they stormed the building, they used their automatic weapons to fire impenetrable bullets at the Soviet soldiers.

Grenades flew into the house through the window, and before the smoke from the explosion had completely cleared, the muzzles of several assault rifles poked through the window and poured an entire magazine of bullets into the room. It's not a fair contest, so it's all the more tragic at this moment, the contrast between the two sides is so great, one side is a storm of steel, and the other side is a flesh and blood with bare hands.

Room by room, the Germans cleared out the recalcitrant Soviet soldiers inside, and from time to time they were stopped by weak fire, and they advanced along the stairs and corridors, and soon captured every room in the entire building.

On the side streets, one after another King Tiger tanks have slowly run over the rubble, groups of grenadiers along both sides of the street have occupied the nearby commanding heights, the Germans have occupied the entire block, the nearest tank barrel is only 2 kilometers away from the Kremlin, if there are no ruins and buildings to cover it, Army A tank crews can even fire at the Kremlin.

This was not a very long distance, and if the Germans really did not count the losses, it would be possible to have the soldiers knock on the door of Stalin's office with the butts of their guns in two days. Downstairs, with their backs to the Soviet lines, the first German battalion soldiers to storm the building were singing and dancing around a lit bonfire, sharing the canned beef and Munich beer they had been rewarded with, cheering for the sumptuous lunch.

At the top of the building, more than a dozen grenadiers, carrying their own weapons, tore a huge German flag on the roof, and on such a landmark building, the German military stipulated that the flag must be placed in the sky to provide the air force with friend or foe identification coordinates to avoid accidental shooting. The German soldiers were careful as they worked, because a few meters away from them lay the bodies of three killed Soviet snipers.

I can't help but be a little more cautious, these Soviet snipers, who are becoming more and more cunning and powerful, are now the most hated death of the German army. A post-war report showed that even in the most disadvantaged period between May and August 1939, Soviet snipers were able to maintain a terrible one-for-two record, which is already a very remarkable statistic.

Soon, the cheers of the German soldiers downstairs became even louder, as the huge German flag was unfurled in the wind by a few windows on the fifth floor, reaching to the very bottom of the building. Many of the soldiers shook their weapons and steel helmets and shouted the slogan "Long live Führer Accardo, Rudolph" at the huge flag.

They were almost destined to be the victors of this war, because they were only 2 kilometers away from the heart of the enemy. If it was in a spacious plain, the distance of 2 kilometers seemed to be only enough for the German armored forces to strike a surprise attack, and it was estimated that it would not take even half an hour to penetrate it.

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"Comrade Marshal Zhukov! Comrade Marshal Zhukov! Communication on the other side of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was broken, and cheers of the Germans were heard in the nearby positions, which may now have been occupied by the Germans. "An officer hurriedly ran into Zhukov's headquarters, and it seemed that every time he walked into this headquarters recently, something bad would happen, and every time he walked in, he was in a hurry.

Zhukov threw a statistical table of the remaining ammunition in his hand on the table, looked at his sweaty subordinates, smiled bitterly and comforted: "This is not unexpected by me...... If they can hold out until the night or tomorrow, it can only be called a surprise. ”

"Yes...... But, Comrade Marshal, it is only 2 kilometers away from the Kremlin. The officer, knowing that Zhukov had almost memorized the topographical map of Moscow, emphasized the terrible distance. This distance has allowed German small-caliber mortars to hit the very center of Moscow, which is really desperate to say.

"Comrade...... Starting from the Foreign Ministry building and continuing to the Kremlin, there are many such fortified buildings and complex ruins of urban areas along the way...... If there is enough ammunition, the Germans will have only one direction of attack, and I will be able to fight there until June next year. Zhukov reluctantly explained: "Just two hours ago, I got an even more depressing news. ”

He walked to the front of the map, pointed to a railway bridge north of the Moscow River in the city of Moscow, and said: "A special German unit has attacked our defenders, and has taken this railway bridge in the same way as a daytime assault, contrary to the pattern of night movements. Now the Germans can flank the remnants of Konev's hands, and in less than three hours we may be taking more blocks. ”

The situation of defending Moscow became more and more unfavorable, and even the German army began to adopt various flanking and roundabout methods to compress the space for the Soviet defenders to maneuver, so that Zhukov, Konev and Vasilevsky's combat deployment became more and more restricted. The German army's step-by-step approach to fighting from the Battle of St. Rudolph completely shattered the Soviet army's plan to fight guerrilla warfare in the city. The German army was strictly defended and alienated from the people, and did not give the Soviet army the slightest opportunity to take advantage of the opportunistic tricks, but once the two sides entered the time when they were forced to fight a frontal battle, the huge superiority of the German army was vividly reflected.

"The Germans captured a railway bridge......? What can I do?" the Soviet officer was clearly stunned by the unfavorable situation in front of him, and did not know what to do. So he asked Zhukov stupidly, hoping to get an answer from the marshal of the Soviet Union, so that he could recover some of his frustration.

Zhukov shook his head unprecedentedly, and said something that shocked everyone in the room: "I don't have any good way to do it, and in this situation, any command is just a futile struggle." ”

He had known that this would be the end, and when Moscow was surrounded, he knew that his only chance to turn the tables was to lead the defenders of Moscow to hold out until winter came. At that time, he may still have the opportunity to lead his troops to break out of Moscow and retreat to Siberia to continue the fight with the help of the United States.

However, when the outskirts of Moscow were gradually pulled out by the Germans, Zhukov knew that his wishful thinking had completely failed, and even if he held out in Moscow until winter, his troops would not have any possibility of breaking through. There is no essential difference between expecting these remnants of the defeated army to break through the German lines and then rush to Siberia in the cold winter months, and hoping that Accardo will now die of a myocardial infarction in his office.

"After losing the defensive positions on the periphery, and losing all the strategic reserves, we have no chance of changing the tide of the war. Zhukov didn't mind hitting the officers in the room, and said lonely: "We don't have the strength to fight back, and even if we hold out until this winter, there is no way to break through or counterattack." Now it's just that we're doing our duty as a Soviet soldier, that's all. ”

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In the radio room, Stalin was exhausted with his hands propping up the table, and the exhilarating speech just now made him use all his strength, and he could only hold this position now, feeling the sound of his own heartbeat.

"Comrade Stalin! I have just received the news that the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been occupied by the Germans a few minutes earlier. There was now the cheers of the Germans, who ...... "Before the officers who had come to report could finish their sentences, they saw Stalin falling, surrounded by cries for help."