Chapter 932: Decisive Battle (2)

Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!

A quick phone call woke up Vice President Truman who was sleeping soundly. He reached out and turned on the bedside lamp on one side, and saw that the alarm clock on the bedside table was less than 1 a.m. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous. The call at this time must be an urgent matter. He hurriedly picked up the receiver and heard an anxious voice from the other end of the phone. "Mr. Vice President, the German army has launched an attack on the Eastern Front!"

"!!" Truman's sleepiness disappeared instantly, and he hurriedly got out of bed, put on his clothes and went to the combat meeting room. "How is the war situation?"

Like the Soviet high-level officials, the US high-level officials also expected that the German army would launch an attack in the next few days.

Commander Arnold shook his head with a serious expression. "It's not optimistic. The number of fighter planes sent by the German army far exceeds that of the Soviet army, and the performance of the German fighter planes is much higher. The Soviet fighter planes basically have no ability to resist." In fact, these are no longer secrets. Germany, which has integrated Europe and mastered Africa, is not inferior to the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of resources, and its production capacity has steadily crushed the Soviet Union and the United States. As for the performance of fighter planes, since the Spanish Civil War, the performance of various weapons of the German army has always been ahead of others, even the United States is far behind.

In just less than an hour, they received the news that the Moscow air force was completely wiped out.

Everyone was really shocked. This is too exaggerated, right? ! In less than an hour, Moscow completely lost air superiority? !

"The Germans bombed all the airports around Moscow. More than a thousand Soviet fighter planes were destroyed on the ground before they could take off! Not a single one survived!"

"The Germans' intelligence capabilities are really terrible." Those military airports should have been built in secret, and the Germans actually found them all without missing a single one. What secrets can there be in the face of such intelligence capabilities? Vice President Truman subconsciously glanced at the ceiling. Since Washington was bombed, these senior officials have been hiding in the underground fortifications of a military base outside Washington, but the Germans obviously knew where they were hiding and came to throw a few bombs to scare them from time to time. Although this place is dozens of meters underground, who knows if the Germans will make a bomb that can drill dozens of meters underground and wipe them all out?

"..." Truman hurriedly shook his head and drove these unlucky thoughts out of his mind.

"Maybe Beria gave this information to the Germans." Although Beria was not "second to none" before, as Stalin's top confidant, it didn't seem difficult to get this information. "I'm afraid the Germans have already mastered the Soviets' defense deployment." At this point, Marshall rubbed his temples with a headache. The Germans can master the Soviets' defense deployment, so can their own defense deployment be kept secret? Maybe the progress of the "Atlantic Defense Line" and "Pacific Defense Line" they are building is being transmitted to the Germans at the same time. If these two defense lines are built and the Germans take advantage of the loopholes and become another "Maginot Line", it would be a shame. But we can't give up building these two lines of defense, which is really embarrassing.

"Moscow will be more passive if it loses air superiority." Take the artillery for example. Although it is not known how many artillery Moscow has gathered, these artillery will certainly not dare to fire easily after losing air superiority; once the artillery positions are exposed, the German bombers/attack aircraft will immediately blow up these artillery positions.

"But in this way, the Germans will concentrate on dealing with the Soviet Union and will not bomb us again in a short time, right?"

Commander Arnold shook his head. "It's hard to say." They certainly hope that the Germans will focus all their energy on Moscow and let the United States live a peaceful life for a few days. But it is obvious that Moscow is no longer "worthy" of attracting all the energy of the German army. "The German bomber formation will visit in the next two days." These days, the German bombing has been continuing, and they come to bomb every two or three days. Most of the industrial cities in the northeastern United States have been reduced to ashes.

"..." The atmosphere in the conference room was a bit heavy. Of course, the atmosphere here has never been relaxed since the outbreak of the war.

The atmosphere in the Moscow frontline command center was also extremely heavy.

Zhukov no longer cared whether Beria, the traitor, had betrayed the deployment of the frontline airport. Now that his own air force had been completely wiped out, the frontline soldiers would not receive aircraft reinforcements in the next battle; of course, even if there were reinforcements, they would not be very effective.

Novikov, the commander of the Air Force, who had nothing to do, suddenly thought of a terrible thing. "Comrade Zhukov, Beria, the traitor, betrayed our airport deployment, those artillery positions..." As mentioned earlier, under Stalin's order, the weapons factories converted almost all the guns they could find into self-propelled artillery. However, not all cannons can be converted, such as cannons with a caliber of more than 152 mm. If these bulky guys are also converted into self-propelled artillery, there is almost no mobility, so it is better not to change them.

Moreover, the Soviet Union had a lot of such large-caliber artillery, such as the M1931 (B-4) 203mm caliber heavy artillery, the M1939 (Br-17) 210mm caliber heavy artillery, the M1939 (Br-18) 305mm caliber heavy artillery, the M1939 (Br-5) heavy mortar, etc.; there were several artillery positions deployed around Moscow.

Zhukov's face suddenly changed when he heard Novikov's words, but before he could react, he received the bad news that his artillery position was attacked by a German attack aircraft formation.

"Damn it!" Zhukov sat weakly on the chair. "It's time for the German ground forces to attack next!" Although they laid a huge minefield in front of the defense line, I think the Germans have already mastered this information, right?

Sure enough, the German ground forces did not rush to attack. The bombers and attack aircraft in the sky began to drop dense bombs on the first line of defense.

Most of them were fuel-air explosives. The working mechanism of mines is to rely on pressure triggering to detonate. When the mine-clearing fuel-air explosives are dropped over the minefield, the huge air pressure generated by the explosion of the fuel-air explosives can be used to trigger the mine explosion, which has the effect of quickly clearing mines on the battlefield.

However, the defenders on the defense line had already hidden in the underground fortifications. Because they had suffered a lot of losses before, the Soviet army also figured out how to deal with the German napalm bombs and fuel-air explosives.

Dense bombs hit the front of the Soviet positions several times. In addition to mines, various obstacles such as barbed wire, wooden stakes, anti-tank cones, etc. were all blown away. There were almost no decent obstacles on the front of the Soviet positions, and there were bomb craters of various sizes everywhere.