At the same time as the Battle of Midway started, the largest battle on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Battle of Moscow officially kicked off.

Stalin has announced that Moscow has become a front-line city and is preparing to have an endless strategic decisive battle with the German troops here.

For this strategic decisive battle, he made full use of the time that two old marshals: Budoni and Voroshilov had bought him.

The soldiers recruited from the heart of the Soviet Union were transported to Moscow in hundreds and thousands, gathered here and reorganized into division-level combat units.

How many more soldiers were there in a month near Moscow? According to the Soviet Union's own statistics, there were a total of 170 armies!

Yes, this number is not an exaggeration at all. You must know that in real history, the Third Reich, which was declining in the west, could also assemble an army of 1 million people in the Battle of Berlin.

At this time, the Soviet Union was far from reaching a slump, so Stalin still had countless resources to use.

Soviet soldiers were desperately concentrating in Moscow. If we included the main forces stationed there, the total number of Soviet troops exceeded 2 million.

Stalin is not Budonny, nor is he Temuxin. The city he wants to stick to, the support and supplies he can get are incomparable to anyone.

There are about 500,000 elderly and weak people digging various fortifications around Moscow. This place has become a large construction site like Kursk in history.

If there are no large anti-tank weapons, use the original anti-tank rifles to charge the numbers. If there are no tanks and armored vehicles, use the rifle and bayonets!

It seems that 2 million Soviet soldiers are numerous, but most of them are light infantry temporarily armed. These soldiers are just "soldiers", and the troops they form are just light infantry divisions.

Because the previous battles suffered too much losses, the tens of thousands of cannons accumulated by the Soviet army have become the spoils of the Germans.

In this case, the Soviet army guarding Moscow did not have much artillery support to enjoy.

Only what made Stalin happy was that the latest weapons produced from factories in Kalinin and other places were concentrated in Moscow.

He has more than 400 newly produced T-34 tanks and more than 150 kv-1 tanks.

Adding to thousands of light tanks like T-26s, Stalin's armored troops did not look weak. He allocated these tanks to form three guard tank divisions.

On the other hand, he appointed two generals to command the Battle of Moscow, one named Rokosovsky and the other named Konev.

These two men were together with Zhukov as powerful commanders of the Soviet Union's three troikas, and at this moment they took over Moscow's defensive command.

It was these two commanders who helped Khrushchev reorganize the troops near Moscow and formed the 1st Front of the Guards and the 2nd Front of the Guards.

The newly trained troops mixed with newly trained recruits who had just completed training and continued to train at the garrison. This is the trick to quickly expand the army near Moscow in the Soviet Union.

Although these troops are still unable to compare with the elite German army, it is unlikely that they will collapse at once.

Rokosovsky is responsible for the defense outside the city, and Konev is responsible for the security inside the city. Moscow is now martial law, and the entire city is dead.

"Great leader Comrade Stalin! According to your order, some government agencies have retreated to Chelyabinsk..." Konev stood in front of Stalin and reported on the latest progress in urban defense.

About 100,000 people were ordered to retreat to Chelyabinsk, and countless confidential documents were destroyed or loaded on special trains and transported to distant cities.

Stalin's office was still very clean and tidy, because someone was helping him clean.

Upon hearing this news, Stalin put down the report that Budonnie committed suicide and Smolensk lost, and looked at his commander.

He spoke slowly and asked in a tone of not knowing whether to search or confirmation: "Moscow will not be lost, right?"

"The great leader Comrade Stalin! No!" Konev, who was promoted to commander with his chin raised, answered neatly.

"I am going to prepare for a grand military parade on Red Square in Moscow to cheer up the morale of the troops!" Stalin looked at Konev and ordered.

Konev frowned slightly and persuaded: "If the Luftwaffe comes to interfere with the trouble, there may be danger..."

Konev has heard of the passiveness of the Air Force. Although there are still thousands of fighter jets deployed around Moscow, air supremacy has been lost.

Most of the planes that took off were unable to return. Although the pilots of the Air Force were brave, they could hardly bear the losses.

In this case, if the military parade is rashly carried out, the bombing of the Luftwaffe will have a bad impact, and expanding it will make morale more negative.

"Comrade Konev! Although the air force is the same as you said, I think that the Germans have not yet attacked Moscow, so there is no need to worry about this." Stalin said disapprovingly.

There are a large number of anti-aircraft artillery around Moscow. Although most of them are small caliber, these artillery seem very deterrent after all.

Since the war started, the German army has not carried out any air strikes against Berlin until now.

No matter what it is, this shows that the Luftwaffe is unwilling to bomb Moscow rashly.

In fact, Stalin guessed part of it correctly, because Gorin and the fake head of state Li Le, neither of them was willing to take the risk of bombing Moscow.

On the one hand, it is because the anti-aircraft guns near Moscow are indeed a bit tricky, and bombing against Moscow is prone to losses of excellent and valuable air force pilots.

On the other hand, the German bombers have always been insufficient, and the support for the front line is a bit short of effort, not to mention that the troops have been drawn to bomb the remote enemy rear cities.

"Try to use the new weapons and equipment you can use as much as possible! These are all indispensable equipment in war. Use them to destroy the Germans as much as possible!" Stalin handed a document to Konev and signaled the other party to take a look.

Konev looked at the document and was shocked again: almost another division's weapons and equipment were sent to the front line, and his troops had a lot of wealth...
Chapter completed!