Inside the underground bunker, German soldiers appeared! This matter has already been known to the top of the Moscow garrison, and they do not have a good solution.

The German attack was already unstoppable, and the city's defenses collapsed to the same extent as expected.

Once two-fifths of the city is occupied by the Germans, the rest of the city will collapse like a blowout.

This kind of collapse cannot be stopped, it is completely a phenomenon that is under the control of the troops, as well as the consumption of materials.

At such a moment of collapse, there were everywhere Soviet soldiers who fought on their own, who had no reinforcements and no effective command. can only rely on his own courage to entangle with the German army ten times and a hundred times.

Resistance from the heart is chaotic, and that's why, once a force collapses, the remnants of the army are almost slaughtered by others - they have lost their basic judgment of the battle situation, and there is no hope for them.

"Comrade General Konev, Moscow is finished...... The Germans are attacking too fast, and in a few days at most, we will be caught by them. One of the generals stood in front of Konev and said, "Take advantage of the chaos and get out of here......

Although the Germans have surrounded the whole of Moscow, Moscow is so big that if they disguise themselves, it is entirely possible that they will blend in with the civilians and fish out of the waters.

As for where exactly he would go after leaving here, the general did not think about it. However, he wanted to at least leave the German occupation zone.

"I can't get out of here...... This is where I belong. Konev smiled bitterly and said in the dimly lit basement.

Outside his office, the guards were desperately burning the relevant documents, including some troop statistics and some personnel files.

Many of the photographs of senior Soviet commanders, along with identification, were among the burned documents — Konev did not want them to be arrested, he wanted them to get out of here safely.

It's just that this hope is really very slim. At the same time as the fall of Moscow, these front-line commanders were also dying in large numbers.

Although the Soviets did not have such rigid requirements and regulations as Japanese militarist education, Stalin still signed the War Act, ordering commanders not to surrender to the German army.

Under the influence of this order, coupled with the loyalty and bravery of the Soviet high-ranks, a large number of Soviet commanders still chose to die in battle or commit suicide on their own positions.

For example, the commander of the 4th Guards Infantry Division of the Soviet Army, whose defense line had already been broken through by the Germans and was struggling desperately, as well as its political commissar and regiment commanders, committed suicide by four-fifths.

Commanders at all levels were killed, and many soldiers chose to commit suicide when they abandoned their positions, which also led to the faster collapse of the Soviet army.

Areas with a lack of troops had to be abandoned, while areas with strong troops had large numbers of soldiers committing suicide or launching suicidal counterattacks.

There was chaos everywhere, and Konev lost effective control of the city. It is also very strange to say that a few days ago Moscow's defenses were overall and effective, and today a few days later it suddenly collapsed to such a point.

"The enemy has taken control of some subway entrances, and the sappers have blown up a section of the subway and stopped their attack......," the general continued, "We can't hold out any longer here!" Comrade General! ”

"Then I can't leave, this is my grave, and a dead man can't leave his own grave!" Once again, Konev refused.

The general in front of him was about to open his mouth to persuade again, but an officer walked in outside the door and interrupted the conversation between the two people: "Comrade General! You'd better listen to this! ”

"What?" Konev frowned, then followed the officer out of his office and to the place where the radio was outside.

There, the radio was broadcasting an astonishing message that made everyone who heard it stunned, not knowing what to say.

On the radio, the Soviet announcer repeated over and over again in a sweet voice an order from Stalin.

"Great Soviet leader...... Comrade Stalin, Yu just ...... The order was given, and the promotion was ...... General Konev, who guarded Moscow, was Marshal of the Soviet Union! "Inside the radio, the sound of intermittent interference echoed throughout the underground bunker.

No one congratulated Konev, who had been promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union, and everyone looked at the gloomy face of the commander of the Moscow Guard, not knowing what to say.

Rokossovsky was posthumously promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union by Stalin, Voroshilov, Timoshenko...... From the beginning of the war in the USSR to the present, not a single marshal has become a prisoner of the German army.

Everyone knows very well what Stalin's promotion meant, and Konev himself understands it very well.

It is even less likely that he will now choose to leave, or surrender with dignity. All he could do now was be burned to ashes with the city in front of him.

"Okay, you should applaud and congratulate me or something, right? I'm now, but Marshal of the Soviet Union. Konev smiled self-deprecatingly, and then walked back to his office.

The lights inside, swaying overhead. German shells near Red Square are constantly challenging the Soviet army's already unreliable generator system.

There have been frequent power outages since a week ago, and although the reserves of gasoline and diesel are still sufficient, the failure of the machinery is still unavoidable.

"Whoa, whoa......" Everyone applauded expressionlessly, but they really couldn't say anything to congratulate.

At the most desperate time for Moscow, the distant homeland had no way to provide reinforcements, no way to send supplies, and only a promotion that was simply not needed, blocking the way for the senior commander to surrender - something that did sound tragic indeed.

In real historical time and space, Hitler also did this once under Stalingrad, but his Marshal Paulus made a disgraceful choice.

Konev was not Paulus, he had preferred to die in Moscow before. Now that he is the marshal of the USSR, it is even more unlikely that he will surrender and give up his honor.

"I don't have to bother thinking about it at all...... You see, sometimes, someone else makes a good choice for you, doesn't it? Konev looked at the general who had persuaded him to flee and joked as he looked at the general who had been stunned and had not left.

It's a pity that the general in front of him didn't smile, and Konev's own stiff face didn't squeeze out a smile......