It was unclear to everyone that just as Zhukov and Stalin discussed the armistice negotiations, the Bryansk Front was struggling in desperate and futile ways.

After Weix led the Eastern Army Group to establish a solid encirclement around Tambov, he began to prepare to encircle and annihilate the remaining nearly 20,000 Red Army troops. However, he was not in a hurry to launch an offensive and the enemy that trapped beasts still fought was quite terrible. Forced attack would only bring unnecessary losses. He activated the method of siege.

Although Tambov has always been an important base and command center of the Bryansk Front Army, his material reserves are not large. In fact, it is impossible to have too much material allocation. The distribution of materials in all aspects of the Soviet Union has reached a precarious situation, and even the necessary materials to maintain the front line are very difficult. In this season of inconvenience, even the headquarters of the group army is extremely scarce, especially the food, which is simply too short.

The bread rations of all the Red Army officers and soldiers fell all the way, and the only few hundred horses left were slaughtered and eaten. By the 15th day of being surrounded, the black bread rations of all personnel dropped to only 15 grams. Even with such a supply level, it could only last for about a week. The city was full of hungry and dizzy Red Army officers and soldiers. Fortunately, it is not the cold winter now, otherwise it would be a very terrible thing to lose non-combat personnel under hunger and cold.

Stalin once swore that he would send effective troops to rescue Tambov. This promise was fulfilled at the beginning. After the Kirchner armored cluster attacked the Tula line and the central fronts almost collapsed, the Moscow front could no longer be transferred south. In addition to the 40,000-strong encirclement, there were three armored armies waiting to surround the surround to attack the aid. No one dared to take such a risk. If Meletskov was willing to pull out the main force of the Western Front to fight, it would be much easier to fight the situation in the German 6th Army General Staff to carry out field battles around Tambov than to attack Moscow.

Leiper, commander of the Bryansk Front, initially had hope for relief, but later waited endlessly, but in the end he could only be deeply desperate.

The telegrams he sent to the base camp from begging, hoping, demanding to complaining, complaining, denouncement, and insulting were becoming increasingly rude. Even so, the telegrams he sent every day were still mainly positively encouraged. "The base camp is mobilizing reinforcements, please continue to persevere!"

At first, Moscow tried every means to mobilize airdrop supplies, but after these clumsy transport planes and bombers were shot down in batches by German planes rushing forward, even the symbolic actions stopped. After learning about the defeat of the central front, he finally knew that reinforcements were impossible. What the base camp is doing now is nothing more than using Tambov, a abandoned son, to attract the attention of the German army and win the time to reorganize the defense line.

He also considered breaking through and tried to use the concentrated elite troops and tank troops to fight a path of blood, but no matter how he tried, the troops could not break through the iron wall outside. Moreover, what if it was protruding? The German mobile forces could easily chase them. After a few experiments, he gave up this futile effort of losing troops and losing generals.

With one-ten thousand hope, he asked the troops to build fortifications in the city and prepared to use a solid line of defense to win a glimmer of hope for himself. He originally thought that the Germans could not fight street fighting, but when the street fighting began, he took a breath again: most of the people who carried out street fighting missions were not Germans, there were Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Cossacks, almost all the troops of all ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, as well as the enemy the Russian Liberation Army, whom he was most reluctant to meet. 90% of these troops were once a member of the Red Army.

Until now, he finally understood why the Germans named this army the Oriental Army Group. This was simply a hodgepodge of Eastern national troops and a gathering place for the former Red Army and the current Red Army.

Of course, the Germans did nothing. They sent the most powerful street combat troops assault engineers and assault artillery. They held flamethrowers, stg43 assault rifles, professional sniper rifles, recoilless cannons, and swept all infantry units with fierce and fiery melee firepower.

What's even more terrible is that the Germans actually dispatched an unprecedented weapon to assault the tiger. This was originally a home equipment that Manstein stayed in Rostov to prepare for street fighting with the Red Army, but it was useless. This time he was transported to Tambov and finally found a place to use it.

When the German army found suspicious targets, they usually asked for close-range support for artillery fire to strike. It was particularly strong and concealed, and there were complex terrain to launch assault tigers. No matter how strong the fortifications were, they could not withstand a 38m heavy mortar shell. If there were any, then two!

This kind of explosion is a huge ferocious one, two, but two battalions. All of them were secretly placed by Dr. Porsche. The loud bang made during the explosion can be heard in the whole city. Although Leuter did not witness it with his own eyes, the people below him have reported to him more than once the terrible weapon of this weapon. The T-34 was hit in time by shells and would be directly knocked back into parts.

What makes people hate the most is that the Germans are very restrained in using this weapon of mass destruction, and have no intention of pushing forward regardless of everything. They just sweep some peripheral positions and show their majesty to the Red Army with their strength. The ones that block the entire city are everywhere, burning incendiary bombs, they flow, bringing endless flames to every ruin and fortification, like flowing hell fire! After each German army attacked with incendiary bombs, there was always a disgusting fragrance in the air!

However, today Leiper seemed to smell another scented and pungent smell. He firmly believed that there was nothing wrong with his nose and accurately identified it in the smell of gunpowder, burning smell, gun smoke, and rotten smell.

"What does that taste like."

"It was the Germans who used the field kitchen to seduce our soldiers..." The eyes of the front military political commissar Susaikov had completely sunken. His cheekbones were protruding on his face and his body was not bloody at all. He had to take a breath after saying a few words, or he picked up the water cup and drank water hard, as if he wanted to use this method to conceal the feeling of hunger that was coming.

"Oh..." Leiper nodded and understood. He knew very well what the field kitchen was. This trick was tried and tested many times during the Civil War. Unexpectedly, the opponent used this move again now, which seemed to be an "old revolution".

“How many more did you run yesterday?”

"O multiple... there is also a lieutenant colonel." Susaikov said in a low voice, "According to your instructions, the troops did not chase them too far, and it was also a meaning to fire a gun."

"As long as you don't take away the weapons."

The siege was longer and longer. Under the Russian People's Liberation Army's radio offensive and kitchen offensive, desperate soldiers secretly fled every day. At first, the Political Department and Blue Hat tried to catch people, but when they realized that they were caught and were going to be executed on the spot, the deserters simply fought out a bloody way and turned over. The internal affairs forces rely on prestige and methods to stop the soldiers who took risks. Moreover, they were a minority in the Bryansk Front Army, and they were powerless to face their superiors with an ambiguous attitude.

Susaikov asked, "Do you think we still have hope?"

Leuter did not answer the question positively, but said, "Why don't you take a plane?"

"Didn't you leave?"

"I can't let go of these children... they all suffer such misfortune because of my incompetence."

"Why am I not?" Susaikov sighed, "Besides, do you think I can escape the Ministry of Internal Affairs when I return to Moscow? Bagramiyan has returned to Moscow and is under investigation. He still has Zhukov to protect him. Maybe he can pass the test if he loses his skin. We... only the fool Sakharov thinks he can escape by chance."

The Sakharov mentioned to the two was the chief of staff of the Bryansk Front Army. He secretly took a plane away from the encirclement two days ago. There were also a group of middle and senior officers accompanying him. However, Stalin called for the commander and political commissar of the front army to go, and they gave up the opportunity to escape the encirclement on the grounds that the troops were important.

The two of them were halfway through their words, and someone came in and attached themselves to Leuter's ear and whispered a few words. The latter raised his eyebrows and said, "Bring it in."

"Comrade Commander, Comrade Political Commissar." The visitor was first removed from the black cloth on his eyes, and then saluted Leipzig and Susaikov after adapting to the surrounding light. "I am the negotiator Kononov."

"I know you, you are the number one strong general under Vlasov. You are very good at fighting and treason. Many soldiers from the prisoner-of-war camp joined the puppet army after listening to your propaganda."

"Comrade Commander, I learned this from you."

"And with me?"

Kononov nodded: "I heard that you were once a colonel of the Tsarist army, and then you were loyal to the Bolsheviks and were not reused until after suppressing the sailor's rebellion."

Susaikov frowned, and Leipzig shook his head and said, "That's different. Whether it's the Tsar or Lenin, we are all Russians, and we are our own people."

"We can have a good talk about this."

"You are not qualified to talk to me. You are the commander of the division, and I am the commander of the front army."

"Who do you think is qualified to talk to you."

"Who is the supreme commander of your army?"

"The commander of the Eastern Army Group is Marshal Weix."

"Okay, go and change Weix."

"This is impossible." Kononov smiled bitterly, "Don't make things difficult for me."

"Haha, this fully shows that you are just a German dog..." Leiper said with a laugh, "Well, Germans are afraid of death, are there Russians who are not afraid of death?"

"What do you mean?"

"Let Vlasov come, because he has been the deputy commander of the Front Army, I think he is barely qualified to talk to me."
Chapter completed!