ps: This chapter was a bit difficult to write, and it’s about to end...

"Great victory! Great victory! Our National Defense Forces Expeditionary Force General Qimudeng's troops in the Soviet Union completely wiped out the Japanese pirates against the Soviet Expeditionary Force. The Japanese general Gen Sugiyama committed suicide! More than 20,000 enemies were wiped out and 80,000 were captured! Great victory! Great victory..."

Chinese newsboys screamed excitedly on the street again. Every time there is a big victory, newspapers sell out very quickly. They believe it will be the same this time.

Sure enough, as soon as the voice of "Great Victory" was shouted, countless people flocked to the newsboy. They couldn't wait to take out their money, took the newspapers one after another from the hands of the newsboy, and read them eagerly.

At this time, on the street, whether they were old people, women, middle-aged men working or shop owners, they all did the same thing - buying newspapers.

"Hahaha... we won again! We won again! Hahaha..." Laughter rang out from the crowd, and then the laughter turned into cheers!

People seemed to have forgotten for a moment that they had to go to work, go to school, or take care of business. Everyone stood on the street together and cheered.

"Long live China! Long live the National Defense Forces!!" Cheers rang out one after another, triggering bursts of responses. After a while, everyone seemed to remember what they should do. They were holding newspapers and reading the handwriting repeatedly.

While rushing towards your school, business or shop.

"Old lady! Two extra dishes today! We win again, little Japan has been completely defeated by us!" The fat grocery store owner laughed loudly, threw the newspaper on the table and shouted.

"Additional dishes! Extra dishes tonight! Let Lao Zhou come over too. Let us two have a good drink! Hahaha..."

The cheers from the capital naturally reached the conference room of the coalition government, and Lin Sen and others couldn't help but smile bitterly when they heard it. Everyone was celebrating their victory, but the old foxes in the coalition government had a headache.

"I didn't expect the Japanese to be ruthless. More than 100,000 people were thrown away at the drop of a hat..." Lin Sen sighed, knowing that what Qi Muden did was not wrong.

The Japanese are going to fight to the death. If they don't use ruthless measures, the losses of the National Defense Forces themselves will increase. It is better to beat these gangsters to death and settle the matter.

Of course, this means that the expeditionary force now has no reason not to go to Moscow for support. Moreover, the number of Japanese prisoners has also been reduced. According to the earliest deductions by the coalition government and the National Defense Forces General Staff, at least 100,000 Japanese soldiers could be captured.

But now, the expeditionary force has only captured more than 80,000 Japanese soldiers. It is really far from the estimate of these old foxes of the coalition government.

That's a total of 20,000 people! They can build many kilometers of railways, and by the way, they can dig reservoirs in several cities and counties. It's so few. Naturally, these big guys feel uncomfortable.

"This is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is that our expeditionary force has dealt with the Japanese. What excuse can we use to not go to Moscow..." Minister of Commerce Yang Yuting also sighed. It was so easy for Mr. Gun to find the Japanese.

Excuse.

As a result, it was gone in the blink of an eye. This Japanese, named Yang Yuting, seemed to be very poor. There were more than 100,000 people, so he didn't feel bad at all if he lost them.

"We are not worried about Moscow. The German train guns have arrived. According to the news from Lei Daxiang, the war situation is now extremely unfavorable to the Allies. By the time we get there, Moscow will probably be beaten..."

Lin Sen and others held their chins and thought about it for a while. The Allies had been attacking the German positions some time ago, and they had suffered a lot of losses. Now the Germans brought the train guns, and also transported a large number of mace-type heavy bombs.

The Allies couldn't stop it.

"It will take at least a week to clean up the battlefield. It will take at least half a month for Qimudeng's current position to rush to Moscow. And counting the logistics and supplies, what happened along the way..."

Su Zongzhe, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces, calculated on his fingers that even if he arrived in Moscow, it would definitely be after October.

Since October, the entire Soviet Union has gradually entered a long winter. The temperature during the day is better, about ten degrees below zero and above zero.

Once it enters the night, the temperature will drop to more than ten degrees below zero. And if it starts to snow at this time, the temperature will only continue to drop. And it will be difficult to stop the heavy snow.

Once November enters, the entire Moscow will be covered with thick snow until March of the following year. In peacetime, this will at best cause travel inconvenience, but in war, this will cause difficulties for both logistics and front combat troops.

is fatal.

"We have to delay the time until November. If Moscow has not been occupied by then, then we will help..." Lin Sen smiled and said: "If they have been occupied by then, then we will

There is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices..."

Japan's threat to China has been completely eliminated. Unless they can obtain huge resource support, they can only retreat to their homeland and be unable to move.

Without Japan's restraint, the flexibility of the coalition government has greatly increased. There was once a worry that Japan and Germany, which had gained the upper hand, would attack China from the Soviet Union, North Korea, and the southeastern coast.

But now this worry has become unnecessary. Japan has lost its biggest support. If they desperately launch such an attack, they will only use up their last vestige of energy to defend their homeland.

And in that situation, Japan would become a piece of meat on the chopping board for China to slaughter.

Although the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula now reserves a certain amount of weapons and ammunition, these weapons and ammunition are not enough to support Japan in a large-scale war.

In fact, this is also the reason why they cower behind the Korean front and dare not act rashly. They know better than anyone else that they are not suitable for war now. Because if they fail, complete destruction will be waiting for them.

The coalition government and the National Defense Forces would have launched a war on the Korean Peninsula long ago if they had not considered that a forceful attack would cause unnecessary heavy casualties to their own side.

"Before the end of this month, we must capture these positions! Before the end of October, we must capture Moscow!!" At the combat meeting, General Fedor von Bock said solemnly to the generals below.

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"There is not much time left for us, and there is not much time left for Germany! We only have two months. Once winter enters, all our advantages will disappear!"

"Now, the head of state has given us four of the train guns we need most. And the head of state has also given us the 'Mace' heavy rocket-propelled bomb. If we have not won the position, then it will be a blow to Germany and the entire country.

Crime of the Wehrmacht!”

"At five o'clock tomorrow morning, we will launch a full-scale attack on the Allied forces!" Bock glanced at Lundstedt beside him, and seeing the latter nodded, he said solemnly: "The specific combat plan is as follows..."

The Allies did not know that the German army opposite their position had obtained the weapons they needed most, and their offensive plan would begin the next day.

Allied generals such as Eisenhower, Montgomery and Patton were studying countermeasures in the headquarters all night at this time. The German train gun was the biggest threat to the Allies. It had a range of tens of kilometers and its huge power made all positions in it

Everything in front of me turned into paper.

"If it really doesn't work, we can only retreat into the city of Moscow and use the complex terrain in the city to carry out street fighting against the Germans!" Tukhachevsky put out the cigarette butt in a can, which was a simple ashtray.

"After these months of preparation, Comrade Trotsky has built Moscow into a strong fortress. We have all visited it. I believe everyone has a certain understanding of Moscow now..."

Eisenhower, Montgomery and others nodded. After several months of preparation, Trotsky had indeed built the entire Moscow into an extremely strong fortress.

The most important thing is that the various alleys throughout Moscow are intricately connected. If the German army enters Moscow, their powerful firepower will be difficult to use.

Because the two sides are too close, if you are not careful, your own troops may be killed by your own artillery fire.

The complex terrain will also give the Allies more opportunities to counterattack. They can even use this to kill the German forces on a large scale.

If the German troops continue to stay in Moscow, they will only face increasing casualties. And if they withdraw from Moscow, they will soon enter the long winter and lose their last chance to capture Moscow before at least March next year.

Even if it gets warmer next year, if they want to make a comeback, the muddy roads in the spring will greatly delay their actions. As long as they continue to cause casualties to the German army, the German army will eventually have to choose to withdraw from the Soviet Union.

"I don't agree with us withdrawing into Moscow now. After all, it's not that time yet. I think we should continue to hold on to the position for a while." Montgomery said to the crowd: "The longer the time is delayed, the worse it will be for the German army.

The worse it is."

"If we can hold on until the end of October, the German army may even retreat from Moscow. Even if not, we should try to withdraw from the current position in late October. Moscow in winter will be a nightmare for them. Unless they have a brain problem.

Otherwise, I would not have chosen to attack Moscow at that time..."

Montgomery's statement is also very reasonable. After all, the longer it delays on the current position, the more beneficial it will be for the Allies. Even if the German army can be delayed until winter, then the German army may not retreat without a fight.

"General, I admit that what you said is indeed very reasonable. But we need to consider that the German train guns will do a lot of damage to our position. Our position cannot resist the German shelling at all. If we stay on the position and continue

If the battle is not successful, our casualties will continue to increase..."

Eisenhower put forward his point of view worriedly. Why didn't he know the benefits of sticking to the position?! But the German train guns were a huge threat to the Allies.

Under this kind of artillery, the Allied positions were simply unable to counterattack.

"The train guns we produced are already on their way, but it will take time to get here..." Patton interjected with a wry smile.

Unlike World War II in history, the U.S. military immediately put the development of this giant artillery on the agenda after experiencing the pain of train guns.

The United States has already had experience in building giant artillery. In 1895, between March and April, at the end of the American Civil War, during the offensive and defensive battle in Richmond, the capital of the Southern Confederacy, the Northern Army loaded a 320mm-caliber giant cast-iron mortar on Achieved quite good results on the reinforced railway vehicles.

This is also the ancestor of train guns. Of course, until later, the United States rarely manufactured this type of artillery. There are many reasons for this. The biggest reason is that this kind of artillery is difficult to transport and is basically unavailable to the United States.

In the entire America, no one can pose a threat to the United States. Making train guns is a waste. If it is a foreign war, then large-caliber artillery on battleships is more practical than train guns.

Of course, the United States will not completely give up its defense of the mainland, but most of the ones they deploy on the mainland are coastal defense artillery or fixed large-caliber artillery. For the United States, train guns are really of little use unless there is a civil war.

But now the U.S. military has chosen to fight in the vast territory of the Soviet Union, not in the United Kingdom as it did historically. So they are forced to manufacture this kind of train gun that is not very needed for their own country.

The purpose is to ensure that the frontline firepower of our own army will not be weaker than that of the German army. However, train guns are not easy to manufacture. Secondly, transporting them from the United States to the Soviet Union is a huge project, whether by land or sea.

Therefore, even though the German train guns have arrived, the US train guns are still on the way.

After Eisenhower and Montgomery finished speaking, the conference room fell into a long silence. Everyone was smoking and no one expressed their opinions.

Obviously, what Montgomery said is correct. If you want the German army to retreat, the longer you can hold on to this position, the better. But Eisenhower was also right.

The huge power of the train gun will pose a great threat to the Allied forces. If it persists on the position, it is likely to cause huge casualties to the Allied forces.

"Where are the National Defense Forces' expeditionary forces now?!" After a moment of silence, Montgomery asked Eisenhower. The latter smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"General, please don't take their chances. They have just annihilated the Japanese Expeditionary Force, and it will take time to clean up the battlefield and make repairs. Besides, their current position means that even if they successfully arrive in Moscow, it will take at least half a month..."

The Soviet Union at this time was different from that in history. Their railway system was not as developed as it had been in history. This resulted in many areas that could only be walked and could not be transported by train.

"Half a month..." Montgomery smiled bitterly. The day lilies were cold in half a month. If the Germans used train guns, Montgomery could only maintain confidence for a week.

As for the casualties, he didn't dare to think about it at all. Because as long as he thought about the terrifying power of the train gun, he didn't think many people could survive on the position.

"General Montgomery, General Eisenhower. Now gather your troops and withdraw to Moscow!" Tukhachevsky said to the two of them after being silent for a long time.

"This war is our war. To be more precise, it is a Soviet war." Tukhachevsky's face flushed: "If we don't defend Moscow, then who will defend Moscow?!

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"You will retreat to Moscow first, and we will take over the position." Tukhachevsky paused, looked at the surprised Montgomery and others, and said: "Don't worry. The Soviet soldiers are least afraid of the enemy.

Death. Especially for the purpose of defending your hometown!"

"If this is the case, your casualties will be huge..." Eisenhower hesitated and said to Tukhachevsky. Tukhachevsky grinned.

"War will cause casualties. Where can there be a war that does not cause casualties?! If this is our destination, then we are willing to accept it..."
To be continued...