Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

On this day, the German army dropped a total of 30 "Grand Slam" 0 super bombs into the city of Moscow, which collapsed or directly destroyed many underground fortifications. As mentioned earlier, nearly ten million soldiers and civilians are crowded into the underground fortifications of Moscow City, just like cans of sardines. This results in a lot of casualties every time an explosion or shock affects the underground fortifications.

Just as Zhukov sighed depressedly, a staff officer hurried in to report. "Comrade Commander, there are varying degrees of riots in many areas!"

Zhukov was extremely depressed and out of breath. "What kind of riot?!" When he learned that many recruits couldn't stand the torture of artillery fire, they committed suicide by swallowing guns or suffered mental breakdowns, especially when this phenomenon was more serious among ordinary civilians, his expression turned extremely ugly.

But he had no countermeasures, because it is very common for soldiers to be afraid of shelling. On the battlefield, recruits who first entered the battlefield lacked actual combat experience and were most afraid of artillery. Even if they are hiding in strong fortifications, the sound of huge explosions will frighten them. Not to mention encountering shelling in the wild. Seeing your comrades blown to pieces will make you even more nervous and affect subsequent operations.

For example, British soldiers who participated in World War I said that the most unbearable thing in war was artillery fire. Ordinary infantrymen could only take the shells and were unable to fight back. They had no choice but to find the deepest bunker possible and hide in it until the shelling was over.

Veterans can last longer under bombardment than new recruits, who often need encouragement from veterans. Jim Woolley, a soldier of the West Yorkshire Regiment in World War I, experienced a four-hour shelling. The bunker was filled with smoke and dust caused by the explosion of artillery shells, and mud fell from the creaking wooden beams on the top of the bunker. "We had a new recruit who had not been with us very long. After a while, he started sobbing. One of us, an old guy with a son at home, squeezed in next to the young man and put his arms around him. After a while , the young man will be fine. Things like this happen all the time."

Now, Moscow has been under intense bombardment for nearly seventy hours, and it is still non-stop. Even he, the commander, can hardly stand it, let alone the soldiers and civilians below.

The staff officer glanced at the frowning commander of the American Expeditionary Force not far away and whispered. "There were also many soldiers who committed suicide by swallowing guns in the American Expeditionary Force."

Zhukov sighed helplessly and ordered. "Let the political commissars and political workers move around more. If they find soldiers with abnormal moods, encourage and comfort them." As for ordinary people, he couldn't think of any good solutions. It stands to reason that these people should have evacuated before Moscow was surrounded, but Comrade Stalin ordered that no one should leave Moscow without permission and must stay and live and die with Moscow, which resulted in this situation.

And Eisenhower was smoking the pipe in his hand one after another, inhaling and exhaling. Because of the surrender of the Far East, there were only more than 400,000 soldiers left in their expeditionary force. As a result, the 100,000 people deployed on the first line of defense in Moscow were defeated by the Romanian army. Only a few of them retreated to Moscow. The entire expeditionary force only had Just over three hundred thousand.

He cursed in his heart that damn Romania had changed from an ally in World War I to a hostile country today. What he couldn't accept even more was that Romania, who he thought was a second-rate country, had such a strong fighting power.

The reason why Romania joined the Allies during World War I was actually very simple.

Romania and Russia had always had territorial disputes, so they did not want to join the Allied Powers in fighting. Moreover, the king of Romania at the time was a German, and he naturally had a natural affinity with Germany. But Carol I did not last until World War I. His successor was Ferdinand I. Although he was also of German descent, this man was more pragmatic and did not blindly choose sides.

After the Austro-Hungarian Empire was defeated by Russia, Romania saw that an opportunity had come, so it joined the Allies and couldn't wait to declare war on Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. By catching this ride, Romania successfully joined the Allied Powers, gained huge benefits after the war, and successfully won the support of Britain and France.

Regardless of whether it was World War II in the original time and space or this time and space, pro-German factions were rampant in Romania, and Germany's incredible combat power made Romania wholeheartedly follow Germany. As for the allies in the last war? Stay somewhere cool!

And this time Germany did not treat Romania badly. The mustache of the original time and space was not kind to this little brother. At least compared to Hungary and Bulgaria, Romania was simply a stepmother. They are all small followers, but Germany forced Romania to cede a lot of territory to these two countries. For example, Northern Transylvania was ceded to Hungary, and the Southern Dobroga region was also returned to Bulgaria. Romania is about to cry. No tears, but could only bite the bullet and follow Germany.

Not only did Yanik not let them cede land, he also gave Romania a "reward" of 300 tons of more than 800 tons of gold seized from Poland to help Romania reorganize its military industry and equip all Romanian soldiers with German-style weapons.

In the face of the Romanian army, which was equipped with a lot of German weapons and whose numbers exceeded them several times, the resistance of the US military seemed so insignificant, and the defense line was easily defeated.

Facing the round-the-clock German bombardment, the morale of the soldiers hiding in the underground fortifications in Moscow was also greatly affected. If the morale had a numerical value, it would almost fall to a negative number. He had received several reports of soldiers committing suicide.

The staff officer continued to report to Zhukov. "Comrade Commander, many passages leading to the ground have been blown up or blocked."

Zhukov just nodded when he heard this. He had expected this. After all, it was a miracle that those passages could remain intact under such dense and fierce German artillery fire. But there are no more miracles in Moscow today. "Clear these passages as soon as possible. Such high-intensity shelling by the Germans cannot last too long. They may launch an attack in two days."

"yes!"

As soon as the staff officer left, Minyuk came in, sat next to Zhukov, and spoke in an inaudible voice. "Molotov defected."

"What?!" Zhukov was shocked. "Who said that?!"

"Comrade Malenkov told me personally that he slipped out of Channel 3 last night."

Zhukov's eyes were full of anger and he gritted his teeth. "These damn traitors will not end well!"

Minuk smiled bitterly and sighed. They couldn't see whether these guys would end well.