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spn Chapter 444 The decisive battle in Moscow (4)

Timoshenko lowered his head. He was naturally responsible for the failure in the battle, and he still needed to bear the overall responsibility, but he had to put forward his own ideas.

"Comrade Timoshenko, I saw in your report that the Chinese offensive momentum has weakened?" Stalin suddenly asked.

"Yes, Comrade Stalin, this is what I want to report to you face to face this time." Timoshenko admitted. He guessed that someone had already made suggestions to Stalin.

"Well, General Patton's previous suggestion to me was to send an elite force to attack the Chinese right wing from the side. This can delay them to the maximum extent." [

Stalin said that this was the only condition under which the Allies were willing to send a large number of troops to participate in the fierce battle in Moscow.

"How many troops did General Patton commit?"

Timoshenko asked with great joy. When the Soviet Union was in ruins, those who were truly loyal to the Soviet Union and loyal to power must seize any foreign aid.

"400,000 men, 8 tank divisions. You only need to hold on for a few more days. General Patton will concentrate his forces and deal with the Germans with us."

Stalin was in a better mood. No matter what, the Allies were at least willing to increase their investment in the Moscow theater. Although the powerful Soviet Union was likely to never return, it was not impossible to try to improve the outcome.

As a Marshal of the Soviet Union, Timoshenko's wisdom was extraordinary. He just thought about it and understood why the Americans proposed this condition for sending troops.

With Sino-German cooperation, millions of troops besieged the Moscow theater. How long the Soviet army can delay does not depend on the number of reinforcements or whether it can wait until there is a turnaround. Instead, it depends on the "performance" of the Allied forces and the Chinese army.

At the same time, he also understood the true intention of the Allies, but when he thought about it, the Chinese were not trying to take advantage again, but he secretly thought in his heart, "Is General Patton really willing to accompany the Chinese to perform another show? This time the Germans want to

I’ve tasted the bitterness.”

Stalin took a few puffs of cigarette and continued, "The Allies guarantee that they will protect the Moscow-Leningrad Corridor to the maximum extent, and a large number of Allied Air Forces will protect the security of this corridor. Your task is to defend."

Upon seeing this, an officer behind Stalin took out a combat document and handed it to Timoshenko.

Holding this document, Timoshenko knew that it came from the Allies. It was a combat plan that had not consulted the top commanders on the field.

"Retreat fifteen kilometers..."

Seeing these simple but very significant provisions in the plan, Timoshenko knew that this time, Comrade Stalin and the Allies had made up their minds.

The difficulty of defense will be greatly reduced by actively shrinking the troops. With the concentrated heavy artillery group and a large number of anti-tank weapons, and relying on trenches and fortifications, no matter how sharp the Chinese attack is, they are likely to be afraid of heavy casualties and waver.

Of course, this is not the most critical thing. According to Timoshenko’s understanding of General Chen Jun, the leader of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, this person has a very cold-blooded side. If the expeditionary force can concentrate its forces on the attack, he believes that after the contraction and reinforcement of this line

The defense line may not be able to stop the Chinese people, although they will have to pay a lot of casualties.

However, once the Allies attack the Chinese right wing, the situation will greatly improve.

"The Chinese will get a buffer opportunity unless they are willing to pay a huge price in casualties and cooperate with the Germans at all costs to destroy us."

Timoshenko secretly thought, no one knows what the Chinese will choose in the end. It seems that paying huge casualties and quickly winning the war is the best choice, but he always keeps telling himself in his heart that the Chinese will definitely choose to take advantage of the opportunity.

Fight with the Allied forces, and delay the attack on Moscow, which is like a fortress.

In other words, the Allies actively cooperated, creating the illusion for the Chinese that "the offensive forces were insufficient and they had to divide their forces to resist the Allies."[

The two talked again, and then Timoshenko was taken to the staff headquarters, while Stalin met General Patton, who came to visit for the second time in one day.

"General Patton, I have conveyed the entire plan to Comrade Timoshenko, and he will resolutely implement the resolution of the Supreme Military Council of the Soviet Union."

Stalin said with a smile that although the Soviet Union was defeated more and more at this time, he still had absolute say in the remaining Soviet forces. This was not only him, but also the top Allied forces found it incredible.

"I am very happy to hear the result. This plan was proposed to General Eisenhower by me and was jointly signed and approved by President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill." Patton said quickly while smoking his pipe, "

Mr. Stalin, at this point in the war, I think victory or defeat is a bad outcome. The price of victory is too high, and the result of defeat is too cruel. Our greatest hope is to negotiate an armistice."

"However, Prime Minister Churchill still issued a declaration in London yesterday that the Allied forces will definitely capture Berlin." Stalin said in a slightly mocking tone. He had no good impression of Churchill.

"Just as the Soviet Union announced that it would drive the Chinese out of the Far East, and the U.S. government announced that it would regain control of the Pacific Ocean, what the people want to see is always a big pie." General Patton also said in a self-deprecating tone. "

I am the supreme commander of the theater. I am currently responsible for commanding 1.5 million Allied troops to attack from the direction of the Netherlands, 2 million Allied troops to attack from the direction of Northern Europe to the hinterland of Europe, and 600,000 people to assist you in defending the Moscow-Leningrad corridor. This is what we are doing in

During the six-month preparation period for the campaign and several years of transporting troops to Europe during the European War, we mobilized a total of 4 million Allied troops.

However, the outcome of the war was still not smooth, and it was a long way from reaching Berlin, and we even had to worry all the time that the Soviet Union would be eaten whole."

"Yes, it is difficult for us to see any hope of victory. The Nazi army still has more than 10 million troops, and the Chinese have already arrived." Stalin must admit that although he always claimed that the great Soviet Union would definitely win.

General Patton touched his pipe, changed the cigarette, lit it again, blew out a string of smoke rings, and said, "A wise general proposed a very strategic and far-sighted plan to the top Allied forces. I have already read this plan."

Plan, and ready to sign my name, I suggest Comrade Stalin take a look."

"Huh? What kind of strategic foresight can make General Patton praise him?"

Stalin took the document solemnly handed over by General Patton, but his expression changed as soon as he took a look at it. Even though he was the supreme commander of the Soviet Union, he couldn't help but be shocked by this plan.

"Everything is for the purpose of armistice negotiations...abandon Moscow and hand it over to the Chinese in exchange for concessions from the Chinese...concentrate forces to solve the Germans' eastern front...let the Chinese and Germans border..."

This is definitely a huge plan, and it is also very strategically foresighted. However, when it comes to giving up Moscow and handing it over to the Chinese, Stalin's face turned pale.

"Mr. Stalin, don't worry, the plan is still here, we can talk about it slowly..."

General Patton did not mention how serious the current situation was or what the general situation of World War II was. He just smiled casually, as if he did not notice Stalin's change of face.

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On April 15, 1947, 500,000 Allied troops led by eight tank divisions suddenly marched southward and traveled 150 kilometers from Leningrad to the Moscow theater.

The reinforcements did not enter Moscow, but instead launched an offensive posture on the northern defense line of the Moscow theater to confront the Chinese right-wing offensive front.

The Allies suddenly joined in heavy troops, supplemented by a large number of tanks and air forces. There were only three armies on the right wing of the expeditionary force, and the strength suddenly became tense.

Based on this unexpected situation, Chen Jun decisively ordered to suspend the attack on the center to tear through the Moscow city defense line, and instead mobilized troops to gather on the right wing, with 500,000 British and American Allied troops and more than 600,000 Soviet troops, a total of more than 1.1 million people.

Confrontation between the Allies.

The battle was fierce on the first day. The expeditionary force's right-wing troops were frustrated in their attack and turned to defense. With the support of a tank group in the center who turned their arrows, they finally withstood the sudden Allied counterattack.

What some generals of the expeditionary force did not understand was that the expeditionary force had obtained intelligence when the Allied forces moved, but Chen Jun did not deal with it immediately. He neither accelerated the breakthrough of the Soviet Union's northern defense line in the Moscow theater nor stabilized the defense.

, immediately retreated as soon as the battle started, and did not start a new confrontation with the Allies until reinforcements from the center came up.[

Compared with the offensive disadvantage of the Chinese ** team, the German ** team is unstoppable.

When the German army achieved its most glorious results, it once invaded 25 kilometers from Moscow city. Although it was eventually repelled, the German army was greatly encouraged.

After receiving such good news, Hitler even believed that Moscow would be captured within a week.

At the base camp military meeting, Hitler told many senior German generals that the Chinese had provided great help and that China and Germany were strategic friends. It was precisely because the Chinese Army's attack east of Moscow greatly restricted the Soviet troops in the Moscow theater.

, which created the conditions for the German army to achieve a breakthrough victory.

At the meeting, Hitler resolutely rejected the suggestions of several generals to slow down the offensive and let the Chinese take on larger and heavier offensive tasks. He believed that when the Soviet military strength was greatly restricted and the situation in the Moscow theater was unprecedentedly good,

We should concentrate our forces to capture Moscow.

Hitler's idea was not bad. At this time, Germany and even the whole of Europe needed an unprecedented victory to inspire them.

When the Allied forces sent troops to attack the Chinese right wing and found a serious confrontation, and a fierce offensive and defensive battle broke out, Hitler did not take it seriously.

"They shamefully want to defeat the Chinese army first and use the more elite allied forces to hold back China's brother troops. No matter what their intentions are, my generals, you have always complained to me about the Soviet Union

The Chinese have too many troops in Moscow, and their city is too advantageous. But now, no matter what, the Chinese have held back the Soviets for us. You will attack Moscow with sufficient troops, and I will mobilize new troops for you.

No matter what the Americans, Soviets, and British think, and the Chinese may also think, I just want a brilliant victory, a brilliant victory that must be achieved by Nazi Europe under the leadership of Germany."
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