Chapter 954: Decisive Battle (20)

Less than an hour after taking on the responsibility of defending Moscow, the German army was about to launch an attack. Rokossovsky was so sad that he had no tears left. He even envied the deceased Comrade Zhukov. At least he didn't have to face such a bad and desperate situation in person.

Sighing, Rokossovsky could only give an order helplessly. "Let the soldiers enter the position and prepare for battle!"

But there were no positions left, and even the passages leading to the ground were almost gone. When the Soviet soldiers finally returned to the ground, they were attacked fiercely by German helicopters before they had time to build fortifications.

The entire city was razed to the ground. The helicopter crew in the air had a clear view of every move on the ground. To exaggerate, they could see clearly where the stones moved.

"Tututu!"

A helicopter found several Soviet soldiers appearing in the ruins not far away, and immediately flew forward. The machine gunner controlled the 7mm heavy machine gun next to the hatch and fired at the Soviet soldiers who had just climbed up from the ground. The Soviet soldiers were beaten so badly that they couldn't even lift their heads, let alone fight back. They retreated in a panic after leaving behind several bodies. The 40mm grenade launcher on the other side of the helicopter fired more than a dozen grenades at the entrance of the passage, completely collapsing the passage.

"Comrade Commander, the enemy's firepower is too strong. Our army can't stand firm on the ground at all. Instead, many passages have been discovered by the enemy and destroyed."

"..." Rokossovsky couldn't help but wonder, the Germans destroyed these passages, did they not intend to attack the underground fortifications? Want to trap them underground?

On the ground, when the first batch of armored troops entered the city of Moscow, they were followed by ground-penetrating radar vehicles and pile drivers, excavators, bulldozers, cranes and other engineering vehicles.

After a while, one of the ground-penetrating radar vehicles suddenly slowed down and turned around nearby. "Here, about fifty meters below."

After the excavator and bulldozer cleaned up the ruins on the ground, the pile driver began to dig a hole.

The underground fortifications below were a residential area. The fierce bombardment for several days had already exhausted the last bit of energy of the people. Many people stayed in place like puppets who had lost their souls, motionless, until some of them looked up when they heard a strange sound above their heads.

"What is this sound?!"

No one could answer his question. The sound became louder and louder. Everyone looked at the concrete ceiling in astonishment and began to vibrate. Slight cracks slowly appeared, and these cracks expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and large and small pieces of gravel fell from time to time.

"It's going to crack, run!!"

Someone shouted, and under the threat of death, many people finally came to their senses and fled from here.

"What happened?" The sentry not far away noticed the commotion here and hurried over to ask about the situation.

"Comrade, it's going to collapse inside! There are big cracks on the wall! It's about to collapse." Listening to the chatter of everyone, the sentry quickly comforted everyone. "Everyone calm down, calm down first, you stay away, I'll go check the situation." Because they couldn't stand the fierce bombardment of the German army day and night, many people had mental problems. The sentry also saw several poor people who had hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, and even self-mutilation and suicide; therefore, he was not sure whether the inside was really going to collapse, or whether these people had some kind of hallucinations collectively, and he couldn't report it to his superiors rashly, so he decided to go and find out in person.

After walking forward carefully for a while, he suddenly saw a large round hole in the ceiling.

"???" The hole seemed too round, as if it was artificially chiseled. The sentry was about to walk forward to see where the hole led to, and with a loud bang, a bomb slid down from the hole and hit the ground hard.

"!!" Seeing the sudden bomb rolling down to his feet, the soldier sat on the ground with his buttocks, shaking all over as if he had epilepsy.

He wanted to escape from here, but his legs were not under his control at all. He could only stare at the bomb with sweat pouring down, waiting for the next second to explode and blow him into pieces.

But after waiting for a while, the bomb did not explode. With another loud bang, another bomb fell down and rolled to the side, but still did not explode. At this moment, the soldier found that his hands and feet could move, and hurriedly used his hands and feet to escape from here, shouting hysterically while running. "Run! Bomb! Run!"

The crowd in the distance screamed and fled in panic.

The German army on the ground threw ten bombs into the hole, and then the excavator and bulldozer filled the hole. Anyway, the whole city was in ruins, and it was very convenient to shovel a pile of rubble.

"It's about to explode, leave."

The vehicles hid far away. A few minutes later, a big bag suddenly bulged on the ground, and then quickly sank, forming a big pit.

"Keep going."

"Comrade Commander, Comrade Commander, the Germans are digging holes and stuffing bombs in them!"

Listening to the staff's somewhat incoherent report, Rokossovsky remembered the report from Smolensk before. At that time, the Germans also dug holes in the underground fortifications, stuffed a bunch of bombs in them and detonated them, constantly squeezing the underground space.

Are the Germans going to do the same thing again now?

But they have no way to deal with it.

In less than half a day, the Germans destroyed more than 100 underground fortifications. At this rate, they will really be trapped here in a few days.

Just when Rokossovsky sighed helplessly, Eisenhower came to him. "Commander Rokossovsky, the morale of our army is quite low, and there is almost no combat effectiveness. Continuing to resist will only increase casualties. So I decided..." Sighing, Eisenhower continued. "I have sent people to negotiate with the Germans."

The envoy sent by Eisenhower came to the ground with a white flag. Fortunately, he was not killed on the spot. He came all the way to a division-level command post. "I am Lieutenant Colonel Thompson, the adjutant of Commander Eisenhower. I am here on behalf of the American Expeditionary Force to negotiate with your army on the orders of Commander Eisenhower." Lieutenant Colonel Thompson tried hard to pretend to be neither humble nor arrogant, but there was no confidence in his tone.

"I am Major General Judit." The German division commander who met him returned the salute. "It seems that your army's commander Eisenhower is not so old and confused, and knows to consider the lives of his officers and soldiers. If only your country's top leaders were so wise, we wouldn't waste our ammunition." After mocking him, Major General Judit called his adjutant and asked him to contact the front-line headquarters.

After a while, the adjutant reported. "General, the commander-in-chief of the front line asked us to ask the Americans if they have any conditions first."

"Lieutenant Colonel Thompson, does your army have any conditions? Or unconditional surrender?"

"Of course not." Lieutenant Colonel Thompson shook his head quickly. "We have a few conditions, and I hope your army can accept them."