Although Lu Jianzhang temporarily retreated his troops to Vyazniki in the east, it was also a good move. Vyazniki leaned against Nizniki and curbed the important road leading to Moscow in the Volga region. He could attack and defend, firmly blocked the Soviet Red Army's offensive route, and responded to Nizniki Novgorod and stood invincible.

After obtaining reinforcements from the three fronts of Fulongzhi, Stalin couldn't wait to launch a counterattack on Viazniki's Central Regiment. Fulongzhi opposed this order. In his opinion, although the situation in Moscow improved, the enemy took the initiative to retreat, and his strength was particularly strong. Moreover, as the enemy retreated to Viazniki, the strength of obtaining air force support was greater than before. What's more, the Chinese also had a strong armored force. To the west of Viazniki was a large plain area, which was extremely suitable for tank activities. Reckless counterattack would bring great losses.

In addition, there is a bigger problem, that is, with the increase in the Moscow garrison troops, the number of troops in the Moscow region is now nearly 2 million. So many troops, especially the newly formed Red Army, are far from enough in terms of equipment and training. These troops look huge, but their combat effectiveness is not even half of the previous Red Army. In addition, the troops lack a large number of middle and lower-level officers, which leads to inconvenience in command and even out of command during combat.

What's more, Moscow has added so many troops at once, and its logistics is also a huge problem. In recent years, the Soviets have suffered natural disasters and have severely insufficient food. Even the supply of food and daily necessities in the capital Moscow has adopted a restricted distribution method. Now, this distribution ratio has been compressed to the extreme. Each Moscow citizen can't even have enough food for his children. But even in this way, the troops' supplies are still seriously insufficient. Although the Supreme Soviet has seized the time to mobilize food from all over the place, the drop in the bucket is still unable to meet the demand.

The most important thing in war is logistics. As a senior general of the Red Army and an excellent military strategist, Fu Longzhi knew this very well. He suggested to Stalin that there was no need to make a meaningless counterattack at this time, but should take this opportunity to train the troops and further improve the defense of Moscow, thinking that the next battle is ready.

Fu Longzhi's suggestion was rejected by Stalin. In Stalin's view, no problem is more important than a real victory. As long as the counterattack is successful, it can greatly encourage the morale of all military and civilians, which is very important for the final victory of the war. Stalin believes that as long as the Soviets maintain a spirit of unity, the Red Army armed with Bolshevikism cannot be defeated, and victory will eventually belong to the Soviets and the Red Army.

Of course, Stalin also considered the logistics issues. At Derzhinsky's suggestion, Stalin agreed to send grain collection teams to all places to collect necessary food for Moscow. Derzhinsky did not disappoint Stalin's high hopes and achieved great results soon after sending the grain collection team. Trucks after trucks of grain were transported to Moscow from all places, giving Stalin a firm confidence in counterattack.

Derzhinsky's contribution made him a higher position in Stalin's heart and more trusted by Stalin. As for Fu Longzhi, he did not return to help as soon as possible, and after rushing to Moscow with his troops, he kept talking about the enemy's strength in front of Stalin. He not only opposed Stalin's counterattack plan, but also kept talking about logistics and training. This made Stalin particularly disgusted.

Although, for political purposes, Stalin awarded the rank of Marshal Fulongzhi and the title of Soviet hero, in the subsequent counterattack, Stalin almost threw Fulongzhi aside and deprived him of the right to command the troops. This right was handed over to Comrade Derzhi, who performed well in the defense of Moscow and had a firm political stance.

Derrens was basically a very fond of merit. In the battle to defend Moscow, he waited for Fu Longzhi to return to help, and successfully completed the task. Then, his grain collection team robbed the food rations of people from all over the world in the name of revolution like bandits, winning Stalin's favor. Now, Stalin has been awarded the rank of marshal by Stalin, and replaced Fu Longzhi, who is much older and more prestige by him, which has greatly expanded Derrensky's heart. In his opinion, he held so many powerful soldiers, especially the three elite front forces, and it was easy to repel the Chinese who had retreated to Vyazniki.

To this end, Derzhinsky found a helping force to create a counterattack plan. This combat plan basically understood Comrade Stalin's fast, fierce and resolute thoughts, and was soon recognized by Comrade Stalin. A few days later, Derzhinsky gathered 800,000 troops and started this vigorous counterattack with a thunderous momentum, and attacked Vladimir in one breath from one breath from Vladimir to Vazniki.

Facing the fierce Soviet Red Army, Lu Jianzhang's army was not panicked. After retreating to Viazniki, they quickly built a defense line and waited for the arrival of the enemy. Although in terms of military strength, the Red Army troops were almost four times that of the Central Army, the outcome of the war was not entirely due to the number of troops. Moreover, the elite Central Army relied on the defense line not only not to take a step back, but instead fought vividly.

From the beginning of the counterattack, the Soviet Red Army was bleeding. Under the three-dimensional defense of the Vyazniki defense line, the attacking troops suffered heavy losses. On the first day, a cavalry army of the Red Army, who was responsible for the main attack mission, was almost completely destroyed under the troops of the Central ** regiment. Just when Derrensky, who was frustrated in the attack, sent three infantry divisions and a cavalry division just now, the Chinese armored troops and air force suddenly appeared, and they failed to repel another attack from the Red Army without much effort.

This is still the mercy of Lu Jianzhang, otherwise it would be possible to eat these four troops in one breath. But for the sake of the situation, Lu Jianzhang's defense is still conservative, mainly to attract the enemy's attention and create conditions for subsequent troops to move.

From June 30 to July 5, in less than a week, the 800,000 counterattack troops organized by the Soviet Red Army made no progress in front of the Chinese. In the six consecutive days of battle, the Red Army lost about 70,000 troops, and the losses of the Chinese were almost one-tenth of that of the Red Army. Such a huge gap made Derrensky, who was commanding the battle, almost caught the enemy crazy.

When accepting the mission, Derzhinsky patted his chest and assured Stalin that he had gained nothing until the counterattack. With the huge casualties, even the Chinese's position could not be broken through. As time passed day by day, Derzhinsky was like an ant on a hot pan and was extremely anxious.

"Pull all the cannons up and bomb them hard! Today we must break through the enemy's position, and no one is allowed to take a step back!" Derrensky, who was ruthless, looked red and took out his trick - the Supervisor Team. About a regiment of Supervisors set up machine guns behind the attacking troops. As long as they found that there were troops retreating, they would shoot ruthlessly at their own people without hesitation.

In this way, the commanders who served as the offensive also took the initiative. Anyway, they would die if they were moving forward, and they would die if they were retreating. At this moment, they had a desperate situation. On July 6th, the battle situation was unprecedentedly fierce. An attacking force immediately rushed forward and repeatedly rushed to the Chinese positions.

At around 4 pm, Derrensky at the command center finally waited for good news. After a hard fight, the Red Army soldiers finally opened the gap and broke into the Chinese positions.
Chapter completed!