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A rapid ringing of the phone woke up Vice President Truman from his deep sleep. He reached out and pulled open the bedside lamp on one side, and saw that the alarm clock on the bedside table was not yet one o'clock in the morning. He couldn't help but feel a little in his heart. It must be something urgent to call at this time. He hurriedly picked up the phone and heard an urgent voice coming from the other end of the phone. "Mr. Vice President, the German army has launched an offensive on the Eastern Front!"

"!!" Truman's sleepiness disappeared without a trace in an instant, and he hurriedly got out of bed, got dressed and came to the war conference room. "How's the battle going?"

Like the Soviet leaders, the American leaders also expected that the German army would launch an attack in these days.

Commander Arnold shook his head solemnly. "It's very pessimistic. The number of fighter planes sent by the German army far exceeds that of the Soviet fighter planes, and the performance of the German fighter planes is much higher. The Soviet fighter planes are basically unable to parry." In fact, these are no secrets. Integrate Europe and master Africa. Germany is not inferior to the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of resources, and its production capacity has steadily surpassed the Soviet Union and the United States. As for the performance of fighter aircraft, since the Spanish Civil War, the performance of various weapons of the German army has been ahead of others, even the United States is far behind.

In less than an hour, they received news that Moscow's air power had been wiped out.

Everyone was really surprised. Isn't this too exaggerated? ! In less than an hour, Moscow completely lost its air supremacy? !

"The Germans bombed all the airports around Moscow. More than a thousand Soviet fighter planes were destroyed on the ground before they could take off! Not a single one survived!"

"The intelligence capabilities of the Germans are really terrible." Those military airports should have been built secretly, but the Germans found them all without missing a beat. What secrets can there be in the face of such intelligence capabilities? Vice President Truman glanced at the ceiling subconsciously. Since Washington was bombed, these senior officials have been hiding in the underground fortifications of a military base on the outskirts of Washington. However, the Germans obviously knew their hiding place and would come and throw a few bombs to scare them from time to time. Although this place is tens of meters deep underground, who knows if the Germans will develop a bomb that can penetrate dozens of meters underground and kill them all?

"..." Truman shook his head hastily to drive these unlucky thoughts out of his mind.

"Maybe it was Beria who handed this information to the Germans." Although Beria could not be called "below one person and above ten thousand people" before, as Stalin's number one confidant, he wanted to get this information. Information doesn't seem to be difficult. "I'm afraid the Germans have a clear grasp of the Soviet defense deployment." At this point, Marshall rubbed his temples with a headache. The Germans can master the Soviet defense deployment, but can their own defense deployment be kept secret? Maybe the progress of the "Atlantic Defense Line" and "Pacific Defense Line" they are building are being communicated to the Germans simultaneously. It would be useless if the Germans took advantage of these two lines of defense and became another "Maginot Line". But we cannot give up building these two lines of defense because of this, which is really embarrassing.

"Moscow will be more passive if it loses its air supremacy." Take artillery as an example. Although we don't know how many cannons have been gathered in Moscow, these cannons will certainly not dare to fire easily after losing their air supremacy; once the artillery positions are exposed, the German bombers/attack aircraft groups will These artillery positions will be blown into the sky immediately.

"But then the Germans will concentrate on dealing with the Soviet Union and won't bomb us again in a short time, right?"

Commander Arnold shook his head. "It's hard to say." Of course they hope that the Germans will focus all their energy on Moscow and let the United States live in peace for a few days. But it is obvious that Moscow is no longer "worthy" of attracting all the energy of the German army. "The German bomber formations will be here in the next two days." The German bombings have continued these days, bombing every two or three days. Most of the industrial cities in the northeastern United States have been reduced to ashes.

"..." The atmosphere in the conference room was a bit heavy. Of course, the atmosphere here has not been relaxed at all since the war broke out.

The atmosphere at the Moscow frontline command center was equally heavy.

Zhukov no longer cares whether it was Beria, the traitor, who betrayed the deployment of the frontline airport. Now that his own air force has been completely wiped out, the frontline soldiers will not receive aircraft reinforcements in the next battle; of course, even if there are reinforcements It won't be too powerful either.

Commander Novikov, who had become a polished commander and had nothing to do, suddenly thought of a terrible thing. "Comrade Zhukov, that traitor in Beria betrayed our airport deployment, those artillery positions..." As mentioned before, under Stalin's order, the weapons factories transformed almost all the guns they could find into self-propelled artillery. However, not all cannons can be modified. For example, cannons with a caliber of 152 mm or above. If these bulky guys are modified into self-propelled artillery, there will be almost no mobility at all. It is better not to modify them.

And there are many such large-caliber artillery in the Soviet Union, such as M1931 (B-4) 203 mm caliber heavy artillery, M1939 (Br-17) 210 mm caliber heavy artillery, M1939 (Br-18) 305 mm caliber heavy artillery, M1939 (Br-5 ) heavy mortars, etc.; there are several artillery positions deployed around Moscow.

Upon hearing Novikov's words, Zhukov's expression suddenly changed, but before he had time to react, the bad news came that his own artillery position was attacked by a formation of German attack aircraft.

"Damn it!" Zhukov sat weakly on the chair. "Next it's time for the German ground troops to attack!" Although they deployed a huge mine array in front of the defense line, I guess the Germans already have this information, right?

Sure enough, the German ground forces were not in a hurry to attack, and the bombers and attack aircraft groups in the sky began to drop dense bombs on the first line of defense.

Most of these were cloudburst bombs. The working mechanism of landmines relies on pressure triggering to detonate. When a mine-clearing cloud bomb is dropped over a minefield, the huge air pressure generated by the explosion of the cloud bomb can be used to trigger a mine explosion, which can quickly clear mines on the battlefield.

However, the defenders on the defensive line had already hid in the underground fortifications. Because they had suffered a lot of losses before, the Soviet army also figured out how to deal with German napalm bombs and cloud bombs.

The dense bombs hit the front of the Soviet position several times. In addition to landmines, all kinds of barbed wire, wooden piles, anti-tank cones and other obstacles were also blown away. There were almost no decent obstacles visible at the front of the Soviet position. There are large and small craters everywhere.