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Chapter 474 The victory of Moscow

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“Just as the pear blossoms bloomed all over the world,

The soft veil floating on the river

Katyusha stood on the steep shore,

The singing sounds like the bright spring light

Katyusha stood on the steep shore,

The singing sounds like the bright spring light

The girl sang beautiful songs and she was singing the eagle on the grassland…”

On the defense line outside Moscow, Russian soldiers and officers were constantly singing the "Katyusha" that was very classic in later generations, because they had just recaptured the last defense line outside Moscow, which also meant that they had completely driven the Germans out of Moscow.

"Marson Zhukov, congratulations"

In a trench on the front line, several members of the People's Committee of the Interior congratulated Zhukov and said

Although Zhukov didn't like these guys very much, Zhukov, who knew that these people were not easy to offend, finally forced himself to show a smile.

Since Russia was much weaker than history after losing Outer Mongolia, Central Asia, Southern Russia and some parts of the Far East, Russia did not enter a counterattack at the end of 1941 as it did in history, but remained in a stalemate with Germany until May 1942

In this month, China conquered Taiwan and Thailand, and Russia successfully expelled the Germans from Moscow.

However, standing in the trenches and looking at the cheering soldiers and officers around him, Zhukov's heart was not even happy at all.

"This victory should have arrived earlier..."

Thinking of the past experiences, Zhukov's painful words in his heart

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Germany tore up the Soviet-German Treaty of Non-Aggression and dispatched 5.5 million troops to invade the Soviet Union. The German army attacked in three ways, heading north to Leningrad, middle to Moscow, and south to Kiev. The Russian army was unable to stop the German army. As a result, the German army advanced 300-600 kilometers within three weeks to late July. The German army advanced south to Kiev was only 15 to 20 kilometers away from Kiev. Stalin ordered the defending of Kiev to the death, but Zhukov insisted on giving up on Kiev. However, Zhukov insisted on giving up on Kiev.

The auxiliary withdraws the Southwest Front to the opposite bank of the Dnieper River to avoid being surrounded by the German army and preserves its strength. It is a pity that Stalin not only did not accept Zhukov's suggestion but instead removed his position as Chief of Staff. He was demoted to him as commander of the reserve front. Two months later, the Southwest Front was surrounded by the German army in Kiev. Stalin realized that Zhukov's proposal was correct, but it was too late. 700,000 Southwest Front troops were surrounded and annihilated Kiev and fell.

Because the reserve team commanded by Zhukov performed well in many subsequent battles, Zhukov was soon appointed as the commander of the Leningrad Front. On the evening of October 9, Stalin decided to merge the Western Front and the Reserve Front. On October 10, Zhukov was appointed as the commander of the reorganized Western Front.

At this time, after Germany lost China's support, because the front line was too long and the supply was insufficient, the battle was consumed too much without defensive positions and combat reserves. In addition, it had just survived the cold winter and was unable to see the hope of capturing Moscow for a long time, etc., morale had already declined a lot in terms of morale.

But this is the best opportunity for Zhukov

After all, after losing China's support, Romanian oil alone could not support the operation of Germany's war machine

On the other hand, Zhukov commanded the formed Western Front and German troops to compete for Moscow, and took back the lost city area bit by bit.

At the same time, Zhukov had thought of transferring well-equipped troops in Siberia and the Far East back to Moscow. After all, the Western Front has just been formed after all, both in training and combat effectiveness. If you insist on saying what they have, it can only be enthusiasm...

Unfortunately, Zhukov's idea was eventually rejected by Stalin.

The reason is very simple, because the top Russian officials believe that China is not trustworthy...

In the eyes of Stalin and others, the Germans are indeed hateful, but China, which has seized many Russian territories, is also untrustworthy, especially what China is best at, is stabbing the knife in the back...

During World War I, China was once an ally of Russia. However, after Russia fell into civil unrest, China continued to take the opportunity to regain lost territory such as Outer Khingan Mountains and Outer Mongolia, and also took the opportunity to cut off Central Asia and the southern Russian region of southern Volga from Russia...

It is precisely because of what China did back then that Russia does not have enough power to repel Germany.

At the same time, it is precisely because of this lesson that Stalin and others are quite worried that China will take this opportunity to take away the entire Siberia again?

You should know that in the past twenty years, the long border line has been under a considerable pressure for both China and Russia. After all, the longer the border line, the more areas need to be guarded against. In addition, the relationship between the two countries is not good, friction and even firefighting happens from time to time...

If we take this opportunity to annex the entire Siberia, it will definitely be a one-and-for-all thing for China——————————Statlin and others believe that they can never refuse this temptation.

Even if Russia wants to take revenge afterwards, it loses Siberia and is also greatly damaged by the war, Russia is not as capable as revenge on China.

Of course, Stalin didn't know that Yan Guang had actually set his sights on Australia at this time and had no time to care about Siberia. He also needed a powerful Russia to continue to attract firepower before his younger brothers became stronger...

However, no matter what, Stalin could not believe in China

After all, Stalin was also a person who had experienced that era, and had witnessed the disintegration of the once huge Russia with his own eyes, and had witnessed the role that China played in it.

From a certain perspective, Zhukov still recognizes Stalin's vigilance towards China.

After all, Zhukov knew very well that China was definitely the biggest threat to Russia, even Britain, Germany or the United States could not compare with this. After all, these countries could not completely threaten Russia, but China had the ability to swallow Russia as a whole.

But compared with these, the current situation is more important

The most important thing is that Zhukov believes in Zorg's intelligence and judgment

Before this, Sorge had already expected to plan to Barbarossa, so Zhukov believed in Sorge's intelligence that "China will not attack Russia or annex Russia"

And most importantly, although Germany is now weak, Russia, which is also much weaker than history, will not be able to expel the Russians from Moscow if it does not mobilize biological forces from Siberia...

It's a pity that Zhukov believed it, but Stalin believed it.

Fortunately, the facts quickly proved Zhukov's correctness. Although Zhukov's command was excellent, he could never expel the Germans from Moscow.

In this case, Stalin naturally thought that Zhukov was passively slacking off or had problems with command ability. Therefore, Stalin even found Huasilevsky and others, wanting to replace Zhukov, but Huasilevsky and others supported Zhukov very much, and always believed that the current situation was caused by insufficient troops...

In this case, Stalin could only admit that Zhukov was correct

Of course, this also laid the groundwork for some things that will happen in the future

In fact, Zhukov's fate was not very good in history. After the war in history, Zhukov served as the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army and the highest military chief executive of the Soviet-occupied areas. However, by April 1946, Stalin said that because Eisenhower and Montgomery had both recalled the country, he decided to call Zhukov back to China and become the executive vice-president of the People's Committee of the Soviet Union and the commander-in-chief of the Army. Sokolovsky replaced him as the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army in Germany. Some people in the West believed that this was due to Zhukov's outstanding military achievements and his own personality. After being suspicious of Stalin, he was removed from the position of commander-in-chief of the army after being criticized by the Central Military Commission for political unreliability of the party.

On June 9, 1946, Stalin signed an order to accuse Zhukov of: "I am not humble and too arrogant, and I attribute the decision to win all major battles during the war to myself." It pointed out that "Zhukov was prepared to recruit some frustrated people with hatred, and the dismissed commander was engaged in activities against the government and the Supreme Command."

Because Konev, Rokosovsky and Vasilevsky firmly refuted the claim that Zhukov had conspiracy and attempts, Stalin did not decide to arrest Zhukov because of his resolute refutation.

However, even so, Zhukov's three important positions were dismissed and expelled from the Party Central Committee and demoted. He was demoted to the Odessa Military Region as commander, and later demoted to the Ural Military Region as commander.

This situation did not end until after Stalin's death

In 1953, Zhukov participated in the arrest of Beria, so he became the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense. In February 1955, he served as the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union.

In 1957, Khrushchev had a conflict with Molotov, Burganin and others. The latter asked Khrushchev to resign at the presidium meeting. Khrushchev asked to convene a plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee Zhukov supported Khrushchev and ordered the Ministry of National Defense to use military aircraft to catch the fire of the Central Committee members to Moscow. On June 19, more than 300 Central Committee members, alternate members and inspection members held a plenary meeting. Most of the members expressed their support for Khrushchev, Malenkov, Molotov and others were removed from their posts.

However, his over-the-topness finally aroused suspicion. When Tito was invited to visit South China, his position as Minister of Defense was removed, and he was also in the position of a central political commissar and forced retirement. The same issue of the Red Star newspaper reported that he was dismissed from his post was also reported in the same issue of the Red Star newspaper. Zhukov's former subordinates and colleagues were mobilized to publicly accuse Zhukov of some generals who were rescued by Zhukov on the battlefield and also came forward to attack.

In this case, Zhukov had to propose recuperation and withdraw from the political stage from then on

After Khrushchev stepped down, Zhukov was brought up again, but the eavesdropping on him continued until the moment he passed away more than nine years later...

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Since the Germans were unable to expel them from Moscow, Stalin had to finally agree with Zhukov's proposal to transfer some elite troops from Siberia back to Moscow.

These so-called elite troops may indeed be called elite troops

Because most of these troops have participated in border conflicts with the National Defense Forces. Before they set off, they also received a considerable number of standard equipment from the National Defense Forces, and also equipped with Katyusha Equation Equipment.

Although equipment may not be equal to combat effectiveness, at least as regular soldiers, they are much stronger than the reserve team of the Western Front...

It is precisely because of this new force that Zhukov finally expelled the Germans from Moscow

However, after expelling the Germans from Moscow, Zhukov was not able to pursue them.

The reason is very simple. In the long war in the past, Russia has lost too much. In a short period of time, Russia cannot mobilize enough power. Of course, this is also related to China's sudden interruption of support for certain key projects.

But this is not surprising. After all, for Yan Guang, the more tragic the Russians and Germans fought, the better the more they sacrificed their lives.

If the war ended early, it wouldn't be his wish

On the other hand, Yan Guang also needs to focus the eyes of Westerners on the European battlefield for a long time, so that he can take advantage of this opportunity to bring Australia into his arms.

After all, no matter what, Australia is also a great continent. If there are no special circumstances, Britain and the United States will never be able to sit idly by and watch China annex...

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Although Zhukov wanted to take advantage of the victory, because China interrupted the supply of many supplies and Russia also paid considerable losses in the process of expelling the Germans from Moscow. Therefore, after expelling the Germans from Moscow, Zhukov had to interrupt the idea and reorganize the remaining troops to restore their combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

At the same time, Zhukov also personally ran to Stalin and asked Stalin to negotiate with China and restore some key projects as soon as possible, so that the battle against the Germans could be launched as soon as possible

Yan Guang on the other side was also happy to wear skin with the Russians...

At the same time, the resurrection of the Germans who were driven out of Moscow and Taiwan also became the headlines in the world newspapers at that time.

Of course, for Western countries such as Britain and the United States, the victory of the Moscow Battle is definitely much more important than Taiwan's victory. After all, Moscow's importance is definitely far more important than Taiwan, and no one can deny this.

Therefore, in major newspapers, the front pages are almost all reported by Moscow, while the news from Taiwan can only be ranked second.

However, for the Japanese, the news of Taiwan’s fall is the first version

Although Taiwan is now unable to compare with the Nanyang Islands and Australia that Japan has seized, for the Japanese, Taiwan is one of the two colonies they first obtained.

In Taiwan, the Japanese have been operating for many years and they also have deep feelings for this place. Therefore, when the news of Taiwan's fall is back to Japan, it is like a bolt from the blue to the Japanese.

Of course, this is just for ordinary Japanese people. For Japanese senior officials, Taiwan’s fall was expected. Therefore, although they felt very distressed after Taiwan’s fall, their eyes turned to the seized automatic rifle...

Many army generals have high evaluations of this weapon. Of course, many army generals think that this weapon is too wasteful of bullets, and some think that the most important thing is the spirit of the Bushido...

However, the evaluation is confusing, one of the evaluations is quite unified, that is, this is a weapon that cannot be used in Japan.

The reason is very simple. Although the magazine of this weapon looks like 30 rounds, and it can be used to use a drum or extended magazine, the degree of bullet consumption of this weapon is also very fast...

As a country with very few copper mines, at least not enough for 800 million people, in order to solve the bullet problem, the departments under the National Defense Forces finally created very practical steel shell bullets after nearly twenty years of research.

It has to be admitted that the copper shell bullet is indeed better than the steel shell, but due to the lack of copper resources, China cannot use too many bullets. The reason is very simple, because at this time China had six or seven million troops, but the domestic copper mines could not provide bullets that could supply six or seven million troops.

Especially now, it is still a war period, and the shooting training in daily life is already very tense. In the war period, the consumption of ammunition will only increase compared to that in peacetime.

Of course, China can also import copper mines from countries such as Chile. After all, the copper mines in these countries are very rich, and they have been conducting transactions with China in this area for more than 20 years. In the past ten years, China has even acquired a lot of copper mines in Chile.

The problem is that it is a war period and the copper mines in Chile cannot be transported to China...

So, steel-shell bullets appeared. After all, China's iron ore resources are relatively abundant. Copper-shell bullets are not good, and steel-shell bullets are still fine.

But it doesn't mean that Japan can do it too

After all, both copper or iron ore resources are the same poverty...

However, it is precisely because of this that Hideki Tojo and others have seen the truth that this automatic weapon is not suitable for Japan. Of course, despite this, there are still many Japanese generals who appreciate this weapon very much.

But appreciation is more important than appreciation, and the others are...

"Since we can't use it, let's give it to the Germans..."

"Then, come back with some weapons we can use."

In this case, the rifle floated over and came to Germany, and at this time the Germans had been waiting in the port for a long time and to be continued)
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