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Chapter 18 The Last Moment Approaches

The dark clouds above the Kremlin are still shrouded, but after reaching a cooperation agreement with Gilnilova, Chu Sinan's personal freedom has been greatly restored. Over the past period, he has been able to walk out of his residence and walk around the Kremlin. Although he still cannot walk out of the warning area in the palace, this situation is incomparable to the past.

Unlike Chu Sinan's leisurely, the situation in the Kremlin has been deteriorating in recent days. Beria, who intends to seize power, has officially torn apart with Stalin and becomes as powerful as fire. The two have spoken harshly in public many times. Two days ago, Beria once again proposed to convene a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the combat meeting of the Supreme Command. For his suggestions, except for only some participants expressing their reservations, the others agreed without exception. The emergence of this situation immediately attracted Stalin's angry counterattack. He immediately stated that since there are important decisions to be made, they cannot be limited to the *** of the Standing Committee, but should be expanded in democracy. The enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee should be held, and representatives of the branch of the party organization in various places should be invited to discuss with each other.

Beria would naturally object to Stalin's proposal to change the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to the enlarged meeting of the Politburo, and his reasons were very sufficient. It is wartime, and it is not realistic to convene the enlarged meeting of the Politburo. Not to mention anything else, it would be difficult to convene the party representatives distributed everywhere. After a dispute, Stalin carried out Konev and announced that the general, who is currently the commander of the 19th Army, would mobilize military aircraft to various places to convene party representatives. Stalin's announcement immediately made Beria stop and also surprised Vorosilov, who had his own plans. Who knows how important it is to command the military power in the suburbs of Moscow at this critical moment. As the Minister of Defense, Vorosilov did not know that the person he directly commanded had changed directions, and this person had a great impact on the overall situation at this critical moment.

In order to eliminate this hidden danger, Belia and Vorosilov directly summoned Konev after the meeting, but were rejected by the other party. Konev even refused to enter Moscow by the excuse that the people in the army are unstable and the commander cannot leave the camp. This blatant confrontation angered Vorosilov. He even directly ordered the removal of Konev's positions, but this order did not take effect. Konev's reason was very sufficient. Now it is wartime, if you want to remove a senior general like him, you must have an order issued by Supreme Commander Stalin himself, otherwise he has the right to refuse to execute it.

Konev's confrontation made Belia and his people panicked, and they had already premonitioned that things were not good. Especially Belia, who learned from the information he obtained from his subordinates that during this period, the 19th Army controlled by Konev had frequent dispatches, especially the number of military aircraft dispatched significantly. What does this mean? Belia knew very well that Konev firmly stood on Stalin's side. He was acting as a "transport captain" and brought party representatives distributed in various places to Moscow in batches. Belia is really a little panicked now. He even went to Chu Sinan's residence in the Kremlin several times to ask for advice from this young Chinese man who seemed to have magical premonition ability, but the other party's vague words left him with nothing.

Chu Sinan was also worried during this period, but his concern was not in the Kremlin, but outside the palace, on the front line with blood flowing. With the addition of Gilnilova and the relaxation of vigilance, Chu Sinan could learn more about the situation of the battle ahead. In his opinion, the sudden clouds rising in the Kremlin obviously had affected the army fighting in front.

The Supreme Command suddenly decided to convene an enlarged meeting of the Politburo at this time, and the arguments about the inside story of the Tukhachevsky case circulating in various aspects made the leaders of the army and the army group that were commanding the battle on the front line realize something. Based on the differences in attitudes towards this case, these generals and officials were also different at this time. Some were frightened, some were anxious, some were anxious, some were expecting, and some were waiting for an opportunity to act. However, no matter how different the mentality was, the direct takeover was the same, that was, the commanders of the direct combat troops of all fronts were absent-minded. The change in mentality was reflected in combat command, that was, the disorder of tactics and the stagnation of attack.

The chaos on the Soviet front created an opportunity for the German army, which had just suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Bryansk. After the Battle of Bryansk, the commander of the German Central Cluster, Boke, in order to prevent the Soviet army from pursuing and breaking through his middle front, had to use his reserve team in advance. However, in terms of military strength alone, the German army in the middle was at a disadvantage at this time. Opposite them was a Soviet army cluster with a total of seven armies. If the Soviet army in the middle could

If you decisively cut into the depth of the German battlefield, the Northern German army, which had just completed the assault operation, would become quite dangerous. Especially the "Northern" Army Group and the Fourth Tank Cluster that were approaching the city of Leningrad, would face the Soviet offensive from the rear. Faced with such an unfavorable situation, Marshal Leb, the commander of the German "Northern" Cluster, even decided to give up his initial combat plan and retreat his troops to the Gulf of Finland and the front line of Lake Chud in order to prepare for strategic defense.

The German Command was puzzled and surprised at the same time, the Soviet army, which had just won a huge victory, suddenly stopped at this critical moment and began to repair it inexplicably. At the beginning, the decision-makers of the German army even suspected that this was a trap set by the Soviet army, so they were full of doubts about the next decision-making. However, the war madman Hitler did not care about so much, and he thought it was an excellent opportunity for the German army. Therefore, he opposed the opposition and urgently ordered the "Southern" army group led by Marshal Goldstedt to send troops north to fight with the "Central" cluster.
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