1148th Self-Destruction of the Great Wall

Watching Zhukov leave, Stalin remembered the generals who had been deceiving him and General Vatutin, so he recruited trusted people and asked him to take soldiers to door-to-door to find those military advisers who pointed at maps and talked nonsense. staff officers. [No pop-up novel network] He wants to send those who deceive him to hell, and he wants to make those people die faster than himself!

"You! Take a platoon of soldiers! Find those bastards in the staff department! There is no need for a trial, just shoot them! They all betrayed the Soviet Union and are treasonable sinners! You personally execute the order, kill them, and take their Give me the picture of the dead man! Do you understand?" He patted Zaitsev, the captain of his guard, on the shoulder and vented fiercely.

Zaitsev nodded, and replied to Stalin: "Great leader, Comrade Stalin, I will resolutely carry out your mission until the end of the world!" After speaking, he took his trusted people and left The underground bunker in the Kremlin where Stalin hid.

The gunshots in Moscow sounded more intensively than before. This time, not only were the bullets fired by the Germans at the Soviets, and it was not only the bullets fired by the Soviets at the Germans. At the same time, some Soviets also fired at the Soviet Union. human bullet. These Soviet generals who had been in and out of Stalin's headquarters a moment ago all became damned enemies at this moment, and were killed by their own bullets at their doorstep.

Vatutin stood at the entrance of his command department, waiting for the car in front of him to stand firm in front of him. He numbly enjoyed the salute from Stalin Guard Captain Zaitsev who jumped out of the car, and then numbly returned a military salute. When Zaitsev passed him and wanted to enter his headquarters, Vatutin finally remembered what he should do—so he spoke to Zaitsev, who was already on the gun, and said: "I I heard that you were executing traitors who deceived the leaders and comrades, and you have killed 34 of them, right?"

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

"It was I who told Comrade Stalin that our troops were fighting back! It was me! It was I, Vatutin! I had nothing to do with my subordinates!" Vatutin walked quickly back to Zaitsev's side, who had already passed him. In front of him, after blocking the other party's way, he said: "If you have to give an explanation to Comrade Stalin, then start with me!"

Zaitsev was taken aback, 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 we decided to punish this time. Please let me Make way, and do not prevent me from carrying out my duties."

"But! Comrade Zaitsev, it all started with me! It was I who lied to Comrade Stalin! It was I who said our troops were fighting back! It's none of my men's business, please forgive me! Wait for me, I'm going to meet Stalin now,

Beg him to spare those officers who lie with me! "Vatutin was already speaking to Zaitsev in a pleading tone.

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

Vatutin did not expect Zaitsev to be so resolute this time, and he never imagined that in such a hopeless situation, Stalin really wanted to find these trivial troubles. He stood there in a daze, not knowing if he should really stand up and be beaten to death by his own people at the entrance of his command department, or if he should get out of the way and betray his subordinates in full view.

Just when he was hesitating, Zaitsev walked around his body and walked into his command post, and when Vatutin came back to his senses, gunshots had already been heard in his command post. At such a sensitive time, it is impossible for this kind of action to hide from the eyes of Vatutin's command, so when Zaitsev came here, Vatutin waited outside the office, and this came from another From a perspective, it also means that the people inside are also well prepared.

Gunshots rang out intensively. Obviously, the people inside did not choose to sit still, but chose to raise their guns to fight back. Vatutin listened to the gunshots in his headquarters in horror, but he never had the courage to go in. People who want to stop this consumption of their own people beating their own people. He just stood at the door without even turning his body.

The gunshots in the room gradually subsided, but Vatutin still kept a still state under the desperate eyes of his subordinates. He just stood there, waiting for there to be no movement in the headquarters, and then slowly moved. Turning around, he looked at the gate of the underground headquarters in the deep space.

Zaitsev walked out of the gate with heavy steps, holding his own pistol. Behind him, only a few of Stalin's guards who followed in followed out of the room, all of them carrying guns. It is indeed a normal thing to lick blood and eat food at the edge of a knife, so it is indeed a normal thing for each other to die and injure each other under prepared conditions.

"I respect that you are a truly patriotic general, so I will not report to Stalin this time, nor will I pursue it." Zaitsev walked in front of Vatutin and said to the general: " But I hope you don't make any other troubles, after all, everyone's mood is not very good now."

Vatutin didn't speak, and the soldiers at the gate of his command put their hands on their guns, and looked at these people in bright and decent guard uniforms with extreme hatred. They don't really care about the identity of the other party. What they care more about is that these people have just killed their colleagues and their bosses-killed those familiar faces in the room.

"Sir! If you give the order! We promise that none of them will be able to leave here! They just killed a large number of officers in our headquarters under the guise of Comrade Stalin!" A guard officer pressed his gun and stared at the stabbed Itsev asked Vatutin, but Vatutin did not speak, but watched the soldiers of the Stalin Guard with pistols get into the car and leave the street full of bullet holes.

"What the Germans failed to do, Stalin did." A Soviet officer carrying a document bag said sarcastically: "He helped the Germans attack our own headquarters, killed so many of us, let The entire command center was thrown into chaos."

Soon the abnormal reactions of some Soviet troops made the Germans aware. Some German troops attacked locally, and the Soviets counterattacked very slowly. They no longer invested troops as quickly as they did at the beginning. However, the reinforcements of the Soviet Union's small force had not yet arrived in the warring area.

Taking advantage of a series of problems within the Soviet defenders, the German army completed a limited offensive operation. Under the cover of artillery, the F Group Army captured a famous restaurant north of Vorontsov Park and moved the nearby Soviet soldiers drove behind the defense line on Lemonosov Avenue.

Marshal Kluge put a battalion of armored troops to cover his infantry, and attacked all the way north along Trade Union Street, and finally stopped at the intersection of Lemonosov Street and Trade Union Street. What blocked their advance was a building on their flank that the Soviet defenders were desperately guarding - the building of the Science Library.

The troops of the German F Group Army on the side cut into Lenino's flank from the Warsaw Highway, almost cutting off the communication line between Zhukov and the Kremlin in the area south of the Moscow River. Zhukov had to relocate his headquarters the day after his meeting with Stalin.

He was forced to move his command back again and moved to Paveletsk Railway Station, where there are subway facilities connecting the two banks of the Moscow River and more complete and deeper underground air defense bunker facilities. And surrounded by the Moscow River on three sides, it may be the most easily defensible Moscow core.

After Zhukov moved his headquarters here, he did not plan to leave. He carefully arranged the surrounding fortifications, inspected the trenches and barricades one by one, and even helped the soldiers strengthen the machine gun bunkers. As a marshal, he has done everything he can do, and now the only thing left is to live and die with his own country.

Just on July 20, the Lenino area was occupied by the Italian Expeditionary Force, and on their flanks, Guderian's tanks had pressed their tracks near the T-junction at the intersection of Kashila Highway and Andropov Avenue. Marcus's King Tiger tank unit was ordered to launch a fierce attack in the direction of the Ascension Church along the green belt on the west bank of the Moscow River. Because there were no buildings and obstacles to obstruct them, they quickly captured there and erected a tower there. A prominent German swastika flag.

July was a month of victory for the German frontline troops stationed on the Eastern Front, and they were getting closer to their victory every day in July. For the troops closest to the Kremlin, the straight-line distance between the muzzle of their guns and the door of Stalin's bedroom was only a little more than 6 kilometers, and they could shorten this distance by about 50 meters every hour.

Of course, this 50 meters is not a distance that can be advanced easily. For this insignificant and short distance, the price paid by the German army when advancing was several times more than their losses in previous battles. Twenty German soldiers fell.