Frunze was ordered to do so at the critical moment, and took action quickly after receiving Stalin's authorization. He first issued an order to release detainees and reform-through-labor prisoners, and released Vasily Konstantinovich Bluukher, who had been imprisoned before.

He was released and appointed as his deputy. With the release of these personnel, Frunze also had a large number of qualified officers with combat experience. He reinstated all these officers to their posts and distributed them to various units.

Go in.

From this point of view, Frunze has done a good job. You must know that due to the previous purges within the party and the consumption of the war, there is now a serious shortage of qualified commanders and combatants in the Red Army. Frunze simply cannot trust to hand over combat tasks to those who only

In his view, the current Moscow troops are far inferior to the elite Red Army they commanded before, but as long as they are supplemented by a large number of qualified commanders, these troops can still have a certain combat effectiveness.

If Frunze is given some time, half a year or more, it shouldn't be difficult to train an elite Red Army on this basis. But the reality is cruel after all. It is only five days after the Battle of Vyazniki.

In a short time, the Sino-Russian coalition forces in the east made a comeback and attacked the city of Moscow in one fell swoop.

At this time, Frunze had just barely made preliminary troop adjustments. Except for a small number of elite troops, a large number of newly formed troops had not had time to train. Under this situation, he could only dispatch the troops in his hands and start

The brutal and arduous defense of Moscow began.

Frunze's command level was not comparable to that of Dzerzhinsky, who only flattered Stalin and engaged in conspiracy. Frunze, who had fought with the Chinese many times, knew very well the gap between the two sides. In order to defend Moscow, he was in Moscow

Multiple lines of defense were carefully constructed outside the city to gain time by resisting section by section. At the same time, the training and reorganization of various units within the city were accelerated.

In addition, after Frunze took over the military industry, it immediately required all military industries to work overtime to produce all types of weapons, especially landmines, anti-tank artillery, etc., in order to suppress the Chinese armored forces and infantry attacks, and at the same time step up the German

The 77mm anti-aircraft gun manufactured in 1914 was used as a sample to manufacture anti-aircraft guns belonging to the Red Army, which were used to fight against Chinese aircraft.

On July 13, the Battle of Moscow officially started. Elektrostadt is a satellite city located in the east of Moscow, blocking the main road to Moscow. Frunze built the first line of defense against Moscow here.

This time he gave up his defensive tactics and instead placed most of his troops outside the city, relying on the terrain to use landmines and easily portable combat artillery to carry out counterattacks with the Chinese and Russian coalition forces.

The fighting resumed. The troops in Elektrostal city used their successful experience in guarding Serov to engage in street fighting with the Chinese and Russian coalition forces. The fighting was fierce in many places on the entire battlefield. From July 13, Elektrostal has been

It was not until July 20 that it was completely occupied by the enemy. The defeated Red Army retreated alternately to the Losino-Petrovsky-Old Kupavna defense line under the cover of follow-up troops.

Although the battle of Elektrostal was short and the Red Army lost nearly 100,000 troops, Frunze believed that this loss was worth it. The battle of Elektrostal bought Moscow a week.

, Frunze used this week to reorganize the Red Army in Moscow and conduct short-term training for them, thereby improving the combat effectiveness of the troops and increasing their certainty of achieving final victory.

The Chinese and Russian coalition forces occupied Elektrostal, and the entire army continued to attack westward. However, due to Elektrostal's tenacious resistance, the losses of the Chinese and Russian coalition forces were not small. Among them, the Chinese army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, and the Russian army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties.

Imperial government troops, People's Liberation Army and Reform-through-Labor Army troops were injured

More than 27,000 people were killed. Although this number is not large compared with the Red Army. The loss ratio between the two sides was only 1:3, but for the highest command of the Chinese Army, both Lu Jianzhang and Cao Kun felt that they were facing

A very difficult opponent to deal with.

On July 20, the day Elektrostal was captured, the battle continued on the Losino-Petrovsky-Old Kupavna defense line. As Elektrostal was

Frunze gained a week and laid dense minefields on the Losino-Petrovsky-Old Kupavna defense line. At the same time, the front line was also equipped with a batch of newly produced combat anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns.

, these brought great trouble to the attacking Chinese and Russian troops.

In order to clear the way for the attack, the armored forces of the Chinese Army did not attack rashly. Instead, the Air Force dispatched a large number of bombers and fighter jets to conduct air strikes against the enemy. During the air attack, the Chinese Air Force once again used napalm, but this time

The effect of the return was not as good as the first time. Frunze, which had already figured out the Chinese equipment, made preparations in advance. Although it still suffered a lot of losses in the air raid, these losses did not reach the level of the entire battlefield.

Unbearable point.

Moreover, Frunze not only defended but did not attack. While doing a good job in defense, he also sent out a large number of small troops to constantly harass and sabotage the rear of the Sino-Russian coalition forces. Due to carelessness, part of the logistics was destroyed by the Red Army.

, causing considerable losses. In order to prevent such incidents from continuing to occur, the attacking Chinese and Russian coalition forces had to detach part of their forces to sweep the rear to ensure logistical security.

Frunze continued to repeat its old tricks in this war and adopted the method of fighting in rounds. This method is to equip some troops and bring them to the front line to fight, and then replace them with another part of the troops, and then continue to equip the troops and send them back and forth.

Frontline combat. Although this method was cruel, it did make the combat effectiveness of Frunze's troops become stronger day by day. By August 3, the Chinese and Russian coalition forces finally reached Leutov, but as they got closer to Moscow,

The more intense the Red Army's resistance became, the greater the casualties suffered by the attacking troops.

"This Frunze is really a tough guy!" Lu Jianzhang, the general headquarters of the Chinese Army, sighed helplessly. Although the troops have arrived in Moscow these days, the casualties of the troops have gradually increased with the development of the war.

This gave Lu Jianzhang a headache.

The same is true for Cao Kun. Cao Kun, who made a big appearance in the Battle of Vyazniki, originally wanted to attack Moscow in one go and establish immortal achievements, but the continuous fighting these days also made him feel that occupying Moscow is not that easy.

Although it is summer now, summer in Russia is extremely short. Russia will gradually enter winter in October. Once the war continues, it will bring great crisis to the troops.

"Brother Langzhai, is there any reply from the capital? It will be too difficult to fight this war like this. The Soviet Union is a bunch of lunatics. I heard from the troops on the front line that now even half-old men and children are...

We have been sent out to fight with us. How can we keep going like this? Moscow is a city with a population of several million. If we add the nearly 10 million people in the western part of Moscow, if we continue to fight like this, we will not be able to survive at all.

It’s not enough to cope with.”

"You think I'm not in a hurry? I'm more anxious than you!" Lu Jianzhang took off his hat and scratched his head, with a depressed look on his face. Cao Kun was right, the Soviet Union was indeed a bunch of lunatics, and this war has reached this level.

Most people would have collapsed a long time ago, but somehow the Soviet Union worked harder and harder, and the battle for the front line became more and more fierce.

"Tell me, can the capital city agree to our request?" Cao Kun couldn't help but ask again.

Lu Jianzhang thought for a while, shook his head and said: "It's difficult... I have asked about this before, but it was rejected by the General Staff and the headquarters. After all, Moscow is an extremely important city for Russia. Once napalm is used here,

The consequences of the bombing are really too serious. Moreover, now that we are a Sino-Russian coalition, we still have hundreds of thousands of old troops here. Even if we are willing to use them, they will never agree."

"Fuck his grandma! Burn it, burn it, why the fuck do you care so much!" Cao Kun cursed, but he also knew how serious the consequences would be if Moscow was burned. Although his nickname is Cao

Three fools, but he is not stupid at all, and he is very shrewd. If a person like him was really a fool, he would not be able to climb to the position he is today.

"Urgent message from the General Staff!"

At this moment, the voice of the director of the telecommunications room sounded at the door. Lu Jianzhang and Cao Kun stood up immediately and quickly let him in.

As soon as they entered the door, Lu Jianzhang couldn't wait to grab the telegram, because this telegram was probably a reply to their request to use napalm bombs in Moscow, but when he looked down, he was stunned, and his face suddenly became weird.

"What did the telegram say?" Seeing his appearance, Cao Kun curiously took the telegram from his hand and looked at it carefully, but as soon as he took a look, his eyes widened with a puzzled expression.

The content of the telegram is very simple, even to the point of being extremely simple, because the whole telegram only has one word, and this word is actually "wait". The General Staff and the headquarters sent such a word, what does it mean? Wait? What are you waiting for?

?Could it be that domestic

Are there more troops coming? This is unlikely. Both Lu Jianzhang and Cao Kun are high-ranking officials in the army and the top generals of the general headquarters. If there is a reinforcement plan, they would have known about it, but if it were not reinforcements, then

And what does it mean?

In order to understand the meaning of this telegram, Lu Jianzhang immediately asked the director of the telecommunications office to send a call back to ask if he thought the wrong content was sent from the capital. But more than an hour later, another telegram came back. This telegram was the same as the previous one.

One is as simple as one, but with one more word, two words - "wait". This reply made the two of them even more confused. They looked at each other and couldn't figure out what was going on.

After all, it didn’t take long to uncover the mystery. On August 8, this very auspicious day for the Chinese people had just arrived, and a piece of news reached the ears of Lu Jianzhang and others. Only then did they understand what was going on in the capital.
Chapter completed!