Surrender...... For Khrushchev, this word was a little distant, a little jerky. He had used that word to shoot hundreds of soldiers, and now when it was his turn, he instinctively filled him with awe.

In the almost a year since the start of the war, thousands of Soviet soldiers have been taken prisoner by the German army, and their families who are far away in the Soviet Union have also been sent to the freezing Siberia as laborers to work hard for the eastward relocation of Soviet industrial facilities.

In Khrushchev's eyes, it seemed that he had been involved in everything about the war, and it was Stalin who ordered him to oversee the first offensive and attack the damned border defense of the Germans inside Poland.

That may be the most successful line of defense in human history, with a preset breakthrough and an ambush area, and the entire front is a huge strangulation machine, and whoever attacks there will be attacked and annihilated. It is ridiculous that the Soviet troops rushed into these ambush areas, thinking that they themselves had broken through the German lines and happily burrowed into the pockets left by the Germans.

It was Khrushchev himself who drove the elite Soviet troops into those terrible encirclements, which lacked fuel, did not have much to eat, and even lacked ammunition, so they were cut off by the German army, and bullets came from all directions, easily cutting and encircling the superior Soviet Red Army.

What was supposed to be a great victory turned into a one-sided rout, and before Khrushchev could figure out what was happening, millions of Soviet troops were surrounded by the Germans, and although they bravely and fearlessly resisted until the last moment, they still could not save the Soviet army from defeat.

His blissful moments as the number two in the Soviet Union came to an end, and he was forced to retreat south with the remnants to the fortified fortress of the Crimean Peninsula, where he attempted to transition for some time and for the future. However, the German army rushed to Forte in Ukraine in one go, and the guilt of his defeat also increased as the Germans occupied more and more land.

Now, he had to think about his future, after all, the German offensive was obviously not going to stop for prayers or something, this time the Germans were going to completely occupy the Crimea, and then draw Army Group M on the long front to prepare for the next step of the offensive.

It can be said that on the German side, the script for the counterattack on the Eastern Front in Accardo's hands had already been written, and he Khrushchev was the most unlucky guy who used to sacrifice the flag. The Germans were bound to take out the isolated and disgusted Crimea first, in order to further concentrate their forces in future wars.

The ending was already doomed for Khrushchev personally, but he never thought that this ending would come so quickly, after all, on the Crimean Peninsula, plus the original outer defense line, there were 450,000 troops.

However, since the beginning of the Crimean campaign in the south, in just over a month, almost 250,000 Soviet troops have been annihilated or surrendered, which is still on the basis of a strong defensive line, Soviet soldiers barely fought the results, and in order to eliminate the 250,000 Soviet troops, the German army also suffered 40,000 casualties, as many as 11,000 casualties.

If it weren't for the obvious air superiority of the German army, if it weren't for the fact that the Soviets had cut off all support for the Crimea, and if it weren't for the fact that the Crimea hadn't been replenished since the summer, Manstein's current offensive would have become much more difficult. But there aren't so many ifs in history, and now Manstein has won, and with ease.

In fact, Sevastopol Fortress is a group of fortresses connected by numerous fortresses around a city. Taking the urban area of Sevastopol as a reference, the entire urban area is bordered by the southern shore of the slender Severnaya Bay to the north, and the defense is between the northern shore of the Severnaya Bay and the Bebek Gorge. In this 360-kilometre-long rectangular strip, there are 12 permanent fortified groups, accounting for 75% of the total number of Crimean forts, each with a typical Soviet name, although the Germans prefer to call them by their own nicknames. The center is guarded by three huge fortress groups of "Molotov", "Cheka" and "Kobeu", the angular salient near the sea in the southwest is equipped with two fortresses "Lenin" and "North Fortress", and there are five joint fortresses due east: "Stalin", "Siberia", "Volga", "Donetsk" and "Ural" Combined turret fortress, it has a twin 305 mm cannon made in 1934, the firing range of 44 kilometers, the shape of the outer defense layer resembles the battleship turret at that time, by 200 ~ 300 mm thick armor plate all wrapped, there are 3 layers of permanent fortifications under the turret, each layer of permanent concrete canopy is up to 3000 ~ 4000 mm thick.

In addition, on the east side of the "Gorky-1" fortress, the "Bastion 1" fortress was set up as a foresight. All fortresses were covered with permanent concrete armor plates, connected by underground passages and small railways, and countless bunkers and firing points were set up in the mountainous areas, and all the fortress turrets were sunken and had an absolutely superior firing range, making it theoretically impossible to carry out a ground attack on this defensive area. Moreover, the designers stored the basic ammunition of the fortress in the main ammunition depot of "Kulabe", which is 30 meters underground on the southern shore of Sevinaya Bay.

In contrast, the southern and western parts of the city of Sevastopol were less concentrated: from due east to southeast there were only three fortresses, "Bastion 2", "Kube" and "Bal Kuleva", interspersed with five main first-line infantry defensive positions, and on the west side of the first-line positions there were only three second-line infantry positions: "Uphill Heights", "Vulture Heights" and "Windmill Heights". In order to prevent threats from the southern sea, the "Gorky-2" joint turret fortress was set up in the salient at the southern tip of the Crimean Peninsula. Between the second-line positions and the city of Sevastopol were the "Soviet mountain positions", which were the last barriers.

Of course, many of these fortifications only existed on the blueprints, and the Soviet Union, whose naval power had improved more than a little with the help of Germany, had unparalleled confidence in the navy with an increasing number of battleships, so the funds originally spent on the Crimean fortress were diverted to the navy for the construction of battleships.

Because of this, most of these fortified fortresses, which were a headache for Manstein in another plane, were simply simple ground trenches and impregnable bunkers. The nasty 305 mm cannon turret on Gorky Fortress No. 1 is still there, but it's just a lonely one.

The Soviet soldiers guarding Sevastopol are quite special, in addition to the ordinary Red Army, there are also marines and Soviet internal affairs troops, these special units are very strong in combat effectiveness, weapons and equipment, and officer quality, and they are also the last little bit of strength in Khrushchev's hands. At that time, the garrison of the city was about 70,000 people, but there were only a pitiful 40 T-26s in tanks.

The surrender of the defenders on the main peak of Mount Romankosh suddenly made a huge gap in the defensive line, and almost 10,000 soldiers became prisoners of the German army, and the few reserves in Khrushchev's hands were also lost in such a surrender.

This surrender caused a gap between Khrushchev's political workers and military commanders, suspicions and accusations began to occur frequently, and some political workers began to crowd out commanders for self-protection.

"Comrade Khrushchev! Our men in the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Marine Corps reported that their company commander was dissatisfied with you. "A political officer was at Khrushchev's desk, tirelessly reporting the small reports that had gathered at all levels of the army these days.

Khrushchev is a little tired now, he is now thinking about his own way out, how can he be in the mood to care about such trivial matters? Not to mention that he and Yezhov single-handedly carried out a magnificent purge campaign back then, can he still know the unsightly and shabby behind this whistleblower and expose?

A year ago, he Khrushchev was a sought-after power figure in the Soviet Union, controlling the political and ideological work of millions of people on the front. At that time, the Great Purge was just coming to an end, and it can be said that there was not the slightest discordant voice in the entire army. And so what? Now he is not hiding in the underground fortifications, sighing at the cold walls?

It's impossible. It won't be long before the whole of Sevastopol collapses, and Khrushchev knows that even if a military talent like Zhukov is in command of such a must-lose battle now, it will only drag on for a few days. What's more, he's a "general" who doesn't have much ability at all.

He couldn't even think of surrendering, he dealt with traitors who surrendered all his life, and in the end, if he became like that, even his soul would not forgive himself. The rest of the options seem to be very simple, nothing more than two options: die here or commit suicide here.

Where is the fighting spirit and momentum that I had back then? Since I can't die well, I must live like a real fighter, right? Khrushchev thought of this, and his eyes became firm. Even if you die, you can't commit suicide humbly, you are still young, at least you should be like a real brave man, and die on the road of charging.