One Thousand One Hundred and Eighteen Mentality Changes

The Michaelmas Church has fallen, which is a disaster for the entire Soviet defense system. (See the latest chapter here:) This is the first place that can be regarded as a landmark building occupied in the Moscow city area since Germany entered the Marino area. As long as the German army firmly guards here, they can claim to have gained a firm foothold in Moscow.

This is definitely a situation that the Soviet defenders do not want to see, because every failure they have now is enough to affect the opposition forces behind them. The closer they are to failure, the more people will stand up and attack them—this is a liquidation against the Great Cleansing Movement, and it is a kind of resistance against power by the oppressed people.

The German army captured the Mikal Cathedral, which also made the surrounding Soviet defenders panic. After all, the German army has not yet been able to enter the city in the north and south of Moscow, and they are even some distance away from the suburbs of Moscow, so The defenders in these areas all have a feeling that their efforts have been dragged down by idiots.

"What? The German army has invaded the city of Moscow? What are you doing? Is Vatutin an idiot?" The commander of the 1st Guards Front, who was commanding the troops to hold their ground, received the news that the German troops in the central region had entered the southwest of Moscow city. Konev frowned, and then passed the telegram to his chief of staff: "I didn't let the Germans move forward here. The idiot Vatutin has already let the Germans go to Moscow."

The chief of staff obviously didn't believe it either. After receiving the telegram from the Southern General Headquarters and confirming that the telegram was sent by Marshal Zhukov himself, he believed that the news was true. Konev was indeed right. The 1st Guards Front Army fought to the death in the area south of Moscow, but now it seems that because of the defeat in other areas, it did not delay the German attack speed at all.

The chief of staff thought for a while before speaking out his thoughts. He knows that at this time, we should not tear each other down, and the frontal German army has been recharging their energy, and it is indeed not an easy role to deal with: "General, Vatutin has held on to Moscow for so long, and he should still have the ability. It may be the German army. The attack was too fierce, so I missed it for a while..."

From the current point of view, in the huge encirclement of Moscow, the position of any independent military commander is stronger than ever before. If it was a normal situation, after someone made a mistake, everyone would often attack it together, so as to make trouble and pave the way for their own promotion. But at a time like this, no one is willing to take on such a responsible position—whoever criticizes an opponent at this time will definitely take the opportunity to resign: you can do it.

So these Soviet defenders have a very interesting phenomenon at this moment, that is, behind the scenes, the Moscow defenders scolded the Zhukov group for failing to go south. ... But when we met, everyone was smiling and didn't mention a single bad word.

"Everyone knows that the German offensive must be very violent...but... oh..." Konev sighed and shook his head,

In the end, he swallowed the words in his heart back into his stomach. He actually wanted to say "but we have no reason to withdraw", but unfortunately he still didn't say it. After all, although they had no reason to lose the war long ago, not many generals on the front line had the courage to die for their country.

On the battlefield, plans never change fast. When Zhukov deceived the eyes of the German armored forces and miraculously returned to Moscow with the main force going south, everyone felt that Moscow's defense strength had never been strengthened. But only a few people such as Zhukov knew that in fact their pre-discussed plan to reinforce Moscow was just a psychological deception aimed at their own people.

First of all, Model's army group followed up from the southern region, stuck to Konev's 1st Guards Front Army and some other scattered troops around, which made Zhukov deploy this time to go north to reinforce Moscow's mobile forces , reduced to a completely negligible level.

As Guderian's G Army began to change its attack direction and cut into the southeast of Moscow, the only remaining 3rd Guards Front Army under the command of General Vasilevsky in the Moscow theater was also forced into the battle— ——Zhukov's troops who fled back to Moscow in groups, only one or two divisions entered the city of Moscow to assist in the defense, and the other troops were entangled by the newly added German enemy to the south.

So this piece of pie that was drawn by Zhukov to defend Moscow was placed in front of all the Moscow defenders like a mirror image. It's a pity that Stalin and Vatutin, the top Soviet leaders, knew exactly whether the pie was full of minced meat or densely covered with cockroaches.

"Report! Comrade General. Height 7 has lost contact. The German artillery fire prevented our signal soldiers from approaching the top of the mountain." An officer walked into the headquarters, stood behind Konev, and stood at attention to report. Said: "An observation post saw that the German troops had already reached the commanding heights, but this news has not been confirmed."

"No need to confirm, it should have been lost there." Konev knew his own troops better than anyone else, and the regiment that was not the main force was able to hold on to Height 7 for 10 hours, which is already a very remarkable achievement. Now that he lost his position, he didn't feel surprised at all, so there was no need to check: "Let the troops on the flank withdraw, and don't sacrifice in vain."

The officer solemnly stood at attention and saluted, and wanted to turn around and go out to give the general the order. The chief of staff stopped the officer at this time, and then asked Konev: "General, Height 7 is a gentle slope on our side. , do you want to fight back and create some trouble for the Germans to advance in the next step?"

Konev was silent for a few seconds. He also wanted to use this high ground to make some articles, but suddenly saw the telegram from Zhukov's headquarters on his desk, and remembered the news that the German army had invaded Moscow. In the end, he let go of his clenched fist and shook his head: "Forget it! No matter how good we are here, if we lose the direction of Moscow, it will be a waste of effort."

The chief of staff was taken aback. During the long time he had worked with Konev, in his eyes, Konev had always been a mature commander with a stable mentality. But now, the battle for the church far away in Moscow has already had an impact on the decision-making of the Soviet commander. This has to make him, the chief of staff who is good at calculating and measuring, have a pessimistic feeling that everything is out of control.

The Soviet Union's millions of troops in front of the German troops only lasted for a short year, and they ended up like this. People who have personally experienced the entire war have to lament the ever-changing and ever-changing battlefield situation .

And in another corner of the world, there is also General Yamashita, a Japanese titan far away in Malaysia, who also sighed like this. At this moment, he is competing with the American army for the small islands that are dotted with stars, so as to save the fate of the Great Japanese Empire from overthrowing as much as possible. However, he knew that what he was preparing now was nothing more than some appetizers. The real storm was coming, and the timing of it would depend on the final result of the Bismarck naval battle of the United Fleet.

"Your Excellency General! Your Excellency General! According to the news from the base camp, the 232nd Division behind us is boarding the ship to reinforce our operations near Malay." A communication officer bowed respectfully behind Yamashita Fufumi, and then He handed over the document in his hand to the general who was known to be vicious in the local area.

I have to say that the Japanese army is indeed very capable of fighting, and its combat effectiveness was absolutely unparalleled in Asia at the time. Standing at the height of the United States, Japan is regarded as a relatively difficult enemy, not to mention that the level is not as good as the Japanese squadron. Any statement that slanders Japan's strength in World War II is mostly a joke with three points of ridicule. Most of the people who have faced the strength of Japanese soldiers are in awe of these fierce and violent monsters.

And this general Fengwen Yamashita was a ruthless man who once defeated the American troops in the Malay region, and even couldn't defend Australia. His troops are good at jungle warfare and island landing warfare. It can be said that he is the most senior Japanese commander in the Nanyang region. Maybe it can break into India.

"232 Division? Whoosh...the United Fleet has lost." Yamashita Fengwen murmured with a very ugly face while holding his command saber. The 232nd Division is obviously not the main Japanese division. This kind of number depends on troops other than 200. Compared with the horse-drawn division in terms of combat effectiveness, it can only be called a brigade at best. At this time, using non-main divisions to support Fengwen Yamashita means that the base camp cannot produce any decent combat power, but it is still worried about his situation near Malay.

To say that the Japanese army is indeed doing better than the navy now, although Ishihara Wanji did not make much progress in the Northeast, he did not fail too much. And his business in Malay has been running for several months. Even if it can't be said to be impenetrable, it can definitely be regarded as a small achievement.

Therefore, Yamashita Fengwen is not so pessimistic at all now. The question he is thinking about is actually how to use the Japanese 14th Front Army under his control to defeat the provocation of the US troops on the islands such as New Guinea and Kalimantan, and stabilize Japan. The Empire's Southwest Line of Defense. () "My Third Reich" only represents the author's point of view. If you find that its content violates national laws and conflicts, please delete it. Our position is only committed to providing a healthy and green reading platform. 【】,thank you all!