Imperial Overlord

"Maybe we should seriously consider surrendering." A general said to a few cronies beside him in a dimly lit basement.

"Keep holding on like this! We don't have any hope at all!" The Soviet general sighed as he felt the shock of being bombarded outside.

His troops originally numbered more than 50,000, but now less than 30,000 remain on the defense line.

Now his defenses were crumbling, and the Germans could at any moment overwhelm his soldiers and seize part of the city he was responsible for.

However, the order given by Voroshilov was to stand until the last soldier, and he was not allowed to retreat and re-rehabilitate his troops.

Only he and his staff, as well as all the soldiers and officers in the troops under his command, knew that they needed rest, needed ammunition replenishment, and needed new soldiers.

What makes people helpless is that no matter what kind of supplementary request he makes, Marshal Voroshilov will refuse him without hesitation: reinforcements? No! ammunition? No! Break time? Sorry, still no!

Under such circumstances, he could neither give his troops a chance to breathe nor continue to hold on to his position, which made him very desperate.

Once a person is in a state of despair, it is possible to make any decision. He feels that surrender is a way out, at least allowing his soldiers and himself to survive.

"If we can hold the existing towns, then surrender and hand over them, the Germans may give us a good deal..." His chief of staff didn't want to hold on any longer.

In fact, if it weren't for the insistence of Marshal Voroshilov, half of the soldiers and officers in this city would not be willing to continue fighting.

Food needs to be rummaged in the rubble by yourself, or to loot the things of the common people. Ammunition was already in short supply, and now there is not much left.

No one wants to fight in this situation, because the Germans are getting tougher and more adaptable to the rhythm of street fighting...

Soldiers were crowded in the dark basement, and there were civilians who had no time to retreat, as well as various valuables.

Leningrad was not a city built for war, so it was not immune to German artillery and invasion.

"Will I feel too sorry for Comrade Marshal Voroshilov by doing this?" Although he also agreed with surrender, the general was still stunned when he heard the chief of staff's choice.

This means that it is necessary to rely on selling other troops that are standing in Leningrad in exchange for their own future.

For a general, surrender is shameful enough, and it would be even more despicable if he sold his comrades in exchange for more and better interests.

"If we just surrender, we can only go to the German prisoner of war camp. If we choose to help the Germans, we can put forward a lot of conditions!"

He saw the hesitation in the eyes of his boss, the general, which made his lobbying even harder.

No one wants to go to the prisoner of war camp to endure hardship. If they can get a German promise by turning their backs on the battlefield, they may be able to wait until after the war in a more comfortable environment.

As for whether he will be unlucky because of this choice after the war, that is at least a post-war thing. After all, you have to pass the current stage before you can survive the war, right?

So, the staff officer continued to speak and persuaded the general: "I heard that if Marshal Voroshilov hadn't refused, the entire city would have surrendered long ago!"

In his desperation, he even ignored the title of comrade, because he was determined to fight for himself a chance to live.

Not all people still have the courage to resist after facing countless 381mm caliber artillery shells.

Not everyone, in the case of running out of ammunition and food, still dares to sacrifice themselves and fight to the last moment.

"The officer who sent the liaison, find a way to negotiate good terms with the Germans! We can be considered a conditional surrender, and we only hope that we can get decent treatment!" He pulled his general's sleeve and persuaded bitterly.

Unable to resist the temptation, the general nodded and finally agreed to this method: "Do it yourself, choose a reliable person to contact the German army... Be careful of confidentiality!"

"Don't worry! Comrade General!" The chief of staff was overjoyed, and quickly turned around to find his confidant and went to this war. He really didn't want to fight again for a minute...

The loud sound of the shells exploding outside the window was like a death knell, and it had already made him feel the pain of dying.

If it's possible, he doesn't want to hear the sound of shells exploding in his life, and he doesn't want to go to the battlefield to fight the German army again!

For them, this is a shameful choice, but this shameful choice, after all, is their best choice so far...

Historically, the number of German troops attacking Leningrad was not large. After being defeated once, they were basically in a state of siege, and they were unwilling to try to attack again.

What is even more interesting is that the German army tried to trap Leningrad, but could not block the transportation on the lake, so that the Soviet Union could supply supplies through the frozen lake at the most critical time.

With supplies and the failure of the Moscow Raiders, Germany has actually entered a phase of trade-offs with the Soviet Union, and it has become an impossible task to completely trap Leningrad.

In this time and space ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Germany completely took over the UK before the Barbarossa plan, and because of the UK, the Mediterranean region became a non-theater zone.

This directly makes the Balkans less troublesome, and the guerrillas in Yugoslavia cannot get supplies and arms and become vulnerable.

The German troops drawn from these places have been strengthened to the entire Soviet-German theater, so that all fronts have full reserve troops.

The more troops also enriched the choices of commanders on various fronts. At least on the northern front, Marshal Loeb received a very correct order to capture Leningrad.

In another time and space, when the German troops were unable to attack Leningrad, they also obeyed Hitler's wishes and prepared to besiege Leningrad into a dead city.

But there is a very wasteful aspect of doing so, that is, it wastes both the troops of Army Group North and the port of Leningrad.

Germany's fragile supply line was already stretched, but it was completely unable to take advantage of the Baltic Sea route, and could not effectively take advantage of the quantitative advantage of shipping.