"About 1,000 people were burned to death, and this number was estimated. We did not expect that the Germans' new weapons would be put into battle." A Soviet commander lowered his head and reported to Konev.

Konev frowned, listening to the news compiled from the outside, he kept thinking about how long he could use the troops in his hands to hold on Moscow.

In fact, there was not even 300,000 troops he could fight. The troops outside Moscow were dispersed and annihilated. The rest of them retreated to further Gorky and other areas, and they could not count on them at all.

The soldiers in Moscow City were already desperate at this moment. Although there were 600,000 or even more troops, almost half of them had no combat power.

These soldiers have no combat experience, do not have enough weapons and ammunition. Some so-called established regiments may be defeated by a battalion of the German army.

What's even more terrible is that he had to use such troops to block holes and station important defense lines, which doubled the difficulty of his command.

I don’t know when the troops in my hands will have problems, and such a battle is the most difficult to command.

As the saying goes, he is not afraid of opponents like gods, but only teammates like pigs. This is what he says about the current situation. Konev has to deal with not only the German army, but also the chaos in his own troops.

The Germans have occupied the reservoirs and water plants outside Moscow in the north, and the power plants have been lost.

Most of the remaining power plants have been blown up, and now the power supply in the city has basically stopped.

The battle for the Spark Stadium ended in the complete failure of the Soviet army, and Konev no longer wanted to invest in the battle for the outer ruins of Moscow.

The situation in the south is better because the German army has not yet taken the initiative to attack the Central Army Group there, which is adjusting the garrison troops, so they have not attacked yet.

But Konev knew that this meant that if the attack of German troops in the south began, it would be even more violent.

"Before we lost that controlled area, we investigated some of the bodies. Many people were suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen, and the number of people burned to death could not be counted..." the officer continued.

He saw the tragic situation with his own eyes, which was simply a mess. There were also traces of shells on the back of the soldiers being burned by flames, which was also confirmed by witnesses.

Those poor people who saw the sea of ​​fire with their own eyes are now mentally broken. They do not want to participate in the battle, and problems may occur at any time.

Although Konev cared about the losses of thousands of people, he cared more about how many weapons of destruction were from the Germans, or how easy it was to manufacture.

If this weapon is used on a large scale in Moscow, its defense line will be very easy to break down.

Frequently throwing such incendiary bombs in the city of Moscow will make his soldiers lose their courage and will also make the areas he control more easily compressed.

This is not good news, because once the area controlled by the troops is compressed, his command and dispatch will lose its effect, and a one-sided collapse will occur, and the entire urban area will fall rapidly and uncontrollably.

"Comrade General, if we do not popularize the characteristics of this weapon, after the German army uses this weapon in the city, the soldiers will panic and cause defeat." The officer said.

Concealing the enemy's new weapons is a very dangerous thing. Although it is easy to affect morale when telling the advanced performance of the opponent's weapons, if grassroots soldiers are allowed to contact the enemy's new weapons without preparation, it will not only affect morale.

Panic will spread rapidly on the front line troops and then collapse the defense line. Therefore, hiding the enemy's new weapons is much more dangerous than popularizing the performance of the opponent's weapons.

If this kind of weapon is difficult to manufacture, the number will definitely not be large. In that case, he will still have the confidence to hold on to the impact of this weapon.

But if the production of such weapons is very easy, the situation on the battlefield may change due to this weapon.

This change would make all his previous preparations futile, and the Battle of Moscow could be ended by the Germans within a few weeks.

"Let the comrades who have seen that scene have popularized all the soldiers... notify the civilians to do a good job in fire prevention." Konev thought about it, but there was no good way, so he could only treat this new German weapon in the most common way.

He was always unwilling to admit that the civilians holding weapons who assisted in defense were "troops", so he always used such troops to do some auxiliary work.

Even transporting ammunition would rather leave it to supplementary soldiers than to these civilians.

In fact, these civilians are indeed not considered any army. They often launch counterattacks alone under the command of a group of madmen under Khrushchev, wasting their lives and ammunition.

These civilians would assemble hundreds of people and then suddenly launch a counter-charge against the German army in a certain place. Although there are very few examples of regaining neighborhoods or positions, they would still insist on doing such a profitable thing.

What made Konev dissatisfied was that Khrushchev often approved the allocation of ammunition for such brainless idiotic behavior, and often wasted precious artillery support in vain.

The Soviet artillery was really used less and less. A large number of artillery was destroyed by the German army on the periphery of the city and transferred to the artillery in the city, and was unable to concentrate on using it due to the shooting range and angle problems.

What's even more terrible is that the artillery deployed in the streets and parks were destroyed by the increasingly rampant carpet bombing of the German army, which made the problem of insufficient Soviet artillery worse.

The reality is that Konev's regular army often cannot wait for his artillery fire support, so he instructed many artillery commanders to ignore the task of supporting civilian armed forces.

"Boom!" An explosion sounded from afar. As soon as you heard it, you knew it was the German 150mm run-off bullet gun that was looking for trouble.

The distant sound made people feel annoying. It must be that the German army's new round of attacks began to encircle Moscow for a few hours, and the German army was trying to compress the Soviet army's living space.

Obviously, their efforts worked very well. The Soviet army lost two blocks within two hours, and the encirclement of Moscow became smaller.
Chapter completed!