At the same time that the Battle of Midway began, the largest battle on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Battle of Moscow, officially began.

Stalin had declared Moscow a front-line city, ready for a never-ending strategic decisive battle with the German troops.

For this strategic decisive battle, he made full use of the time that two old marshals: Budyonny and Voroshilov bought him.

Soldiers recruited from the hinterland of the Soviet Union were transported to Moscow by hundreds, if not thousands, where they were gathered and reorganized into divisional combat units.

How many more soldiers are there in a month near Moscow? According to the statistics of the USSR itself, a whole 170 army!

Yes, this figure is not an exaggeration at all, you must know that in real history, the Third Reich, which was in decline, was able to gather an army of 1 million people in the Battle of Berlin.

At this time, the Soviet Union was far from being weakened, so Stalin still had countless resources at his disposal.

Soviet soldiers desperately concentrated on Moscow, and if you count the main forces already stationed there, the total number of Soviet troops exceeded 2 million.

Stalin was not Budyonny, he was not Timoshenko, the city he had to hold onto, the support and supplies he could get, were incomparable to anyone.

There are probably more than 500,000 old and infirm, digging various fortifications around Moscow, which has become a large construction site, just like the historical Kursk.

If there are no large anti-tank weapons, then fill them up with primitive anti-tank rifles. If there are no tanks and armored vehicles, then use rifles and bayonets!

It seems that the 2 million Soviet soldiers are outnumbered, but most of them are improvised light infantry. These soldiers are just "soldiers", and the units formed are only light infantry divisions.

Because the losses in the previous battles were so heavy that the tens of thousands of cannons accumulated by the Soviet army painstakingly became trophies of the Germans.

In this case, the Soviet troops guarding Moscow did not have much artillery support to enjoy.

The only thing that pleased Stalin was that the latest weapons produced from factories in Kalinin and other places were concentrated in Moscow.

He has more than 400 T-34 tanks that have just been produced, and more than 150 KV-1 tanks.

Add to this the thousands of light tanks like the T-26, and Stalin's armored forces did not look weak. He distributed these tanks and formed three Guards tank divisions.

On the other hand, he appointed two commanders to command the Battle of Moscow, one named Rokossovsky and the other Konev.

These two men, together with Zhukov, were the formidable commanders of the Soviet troika, and at this moment they took over the command of Moscow's defense.

It was these two commanders who helped Khrushchev to reorganize the army near Moscow into the 1st Guards Front and the 2nd Guards Front.

Mixing well-trained troops with newly trained recruits and continuing to train at the garrison was a ploy to rapidly swell the Soviet army near Moscow.

Although these troops are still not comparable to the elite German army, it is unlikely that something will collapse at the touch of a button.

Rokossovsky was responsible for the defense outside the city, and Konev was responsible for security inside the city. Moscow is under martial law at this moment, and the whole city is dead.

"Comrade Stalin, the great leader! In accordance with your order, part of the government offices has retreated to Chelyabinsk...... "Konev, standing in front of Stalin, opened his mouth to report on the latest developments in the defense of the city.

About 100,000 people were ordered to retreat to Chelyabinsk, and countless classified documents were destroyed or loaded onto special trains and transported to distant cities.

Stalin's office was still very clean and tidy, and this was because there were special people to help him clean it.

Hearing this, Stalin put down the report in his hand about the suicide of Budyonny, the loss of Smolensk and looked at his commander.

He spoke slowly, asking in a tone that didn't know whether it was inquiry or confirmation, "Moscow won't be lost, will it?" ”

"Comrade Stalin, the great leader! No! With his chin held high, Konev, who had been unusually promoted to commander, replied cleanly.

"I'm going to prepare a grand military parade on Red Square in Moscow to boost the morale of the troops!" Stalin looked at Konev and commanded.

Konev frowned imperceptibly, and said persuadly: "If the Luftwaffe comes to interfere and make trouble, maybe it will be dangerous......"

The passivity on the side of the Air Force, Konev has heard of it. Although thousands of fighter jets are still deployed around Moscow, air supremacy has been lost.

Most of the planes that took off could not return home, and the pilots of the Air Force, although heroic, were almost unable to bear the losses.

In this case, if the parade were to be carried out rashly, the bombing of the Luftwaffe would have a bad effect, and the expansion would make morale even more negative.

"Comrade Konev! Although the air force is the same as you said, I don't think the Germans have attacked Moscow so far, so there is no need to worry about it. Stalin said with some disapproval.

There is a large number of anti-aircraft artillery pieces around Moscow, although most of them are small-caliber, but after all, these guns look very deterrent.

The Germans have not carried out any air raids against Berlin since the beginning of the war.

Whatever the reason, this shows that the Luftwaffe was not willing to bomb Moscow rashly.

In fact, Stalin guessed part of it, because Goering also had a fake Führer, Li Le, and neither of them was willing to risk the bombing of Moscow.

On the one hand, because the anti-aircraft guns near Moscow are indeed a bit tricky, and the bombing of Moscow is prone to the loss of excellent and valuable air force pilots.

On the other hand, the German army has not had enough bombers, and it is somewhat stretched to support the front line, not to mention the deployment of troops to bomb distant enemy rear cities.

"Try to make good use of the new weapons and equipment you have at hand! These are all indispensable equipment for war, use them to destroy as many Germans as possible! Stalin handed Konev a document and motioned for him to look at it.

Konev glanced at the documents and was shocked again: almost one more division of weapons and equipment had been sent to the front, and his troops had a lot more money......

What amazed him even more was that Stalin once again ordered all teenagers over the age of 15 in Moscow and nearby cities to be conscripted into the army, including women and the elderly!