The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1186

“Restrain the troops, control the size of the troops entering the city, immediately eliminate the remaining enemies in the city, crack down on robbery, theft and other crimes, and do not disturb the people!”

After Manstein sent a telegram to Guderian, he personally set off by plane to Moscow, the capital of the Russian bear.

At this time, it was not yet July, and the German army completed this military operation three months earlier than expected.

Although Stalingrad in the south had not yet been captured, General Bock’s Northern Army Group had already occupied Leningrad, and two of the three most important cities of the Russian bear were already in the hands of the German army.

When the troops of the Central Army Group arrived in Moscow, took over Guderian’s mission, and completed the change of defense with the Southern Army Group, Guderian could take his First Army south to attack the last and strongest fortress of the Russian bear in the southwest!

“Don’t worry, Moscow is the capital of the Russian Bear. There will definitely be a big celebration after taking it, so I won’t let those guys take advantage of the opportunity to destroy this city from my hands!”

Guderian knew the priorities, and they captured Moscow without too much fierce fighting, which made the city relatively well preserved.

In this case, there is a high probability that the head of Mainz will set off for Moscow to hold a grand military parade here, just like the one in the Gaul capital of Eiffel Tower.

As the first major country defeated by the Third Reich, the victory in the Gallic Campaign was of great significance to the empire, so the head of state was so gracious and went to Eiffel Tower City in person to participate in the victory parade.

And this time, the status of the Russian Bear is even higher than that of Gaul!

If Gaul was the first European power defeated by the Third Reich, then the Russian Bear is very likely to be the last. The European powers that fell to the Third Reich!

After killing the bear, the empire will no longer have such large-scale military operations in the future.

Next, the world may return to a certain degree of peace.

Of course, pacifying Europe does not mean the complete end of the war. The war in the Far East has not ended yet. The remnants of the British Empire are still fighting stubbornly. Even Starlin, who fled to the east of the Urals, will not give up resistance easily!

Therefore, after the large-scale war is over, a series of small-scale battles will probably become more frequent. In addition to Europe and North America, other parts of the world may very likely enter into turmoil because of this!

However, Europeans themselves don’t pay much attention to these things!

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On the streets of Moscow, three days have passed since the German army occupied this place.

Within three days, German soldiers patrolled the streets to clear out the hiding militants and the remaining Soviet soldiers.

After the clearing, the militants in the city and their hidden weapons were basically cleared out.

However, because the head of Mainz has revealed that he will come to Moscow to attend the military parade, the military still dare not be careless. They plan to continue to increase their efforts to try to clear out all the weapons hidden in the city, so as not to threaten the safety of the head of state!

So, the German army began to post notices and publish advertisements on the streets, warning those who hold weapons to hand over their hidden weapons before the specified time limit.

If the weapons are not handed in within the specified time limit, once the inventory work begins, those who are found to have hidden weapons will be severely punished.

This notice caused panic among the bear people. They were afraid of being implicated, so everyone took out the weapons hidden in their homes.

They did not dare to send the weapons to the location designated by the German army, so they simply threw them on the street outside.

The next morning, after daybreak, a very spectacular scene appeared on the streets of Moscow.

A large number of weapons of various models, including Soviet, American, British, and German equipment, appeared on the streets.

Not only that, German soldiers even found some antiques from hundreds of years ago among these weapons – matchlock guns!

This thing can be regarded as a cultural relic, right?

There are actually people who hide this kind of weapon. Are they planning to use matchlock guns to fight the German army to the death?

In just three days, the residents of Moscow handed in more than 500,000 weapons and more than 15 million bullets.

Both of these figures exceeded their previous large-scale cleanup gains.

As a result, the German military was very angry.

“It seems like these guys won’t cry until they see the coffin!”

“We had previously cleared out nearly 400,000 guns and more than 1 million rounds of bullets, and we thought there were no remaining weapons in the city. But now it seems that we were too optimistic!”

“Yes, there are more than 500,000 firearms, including more than a dozen sniper rifles. If these weapons are left outside, they will pose a huge threat to the head of state!”

“I think these may not be the limit of privately-owned weapons by the people. This time, some timid people were afraid of being found out, so they took the initiative to hand in their weapons.

But we don’t know how many of these people account for the total population of Moscow!”

“I agree with General Bock’s opinion. I think that at least more than half of the people did not honestly hand over the weapons they had hidden, but hid them even deeper!”

“After all, in their eyes, we are invaders and their enemies, so they will be extremely wary of us. In this case, the feeling of having a gun in hand is completely different from that of not having a gun in hand!”

General Reichenau, another commander of the Northern Army Group, echoed.

Both veteran generals advocated the use of thunderous means to conduct a thorough search of Moscow and thoroughly clear out the firearms hidden by the people!

“And if we do this, we can show our determination, let them feel our strength, and provide an example for dealing with other bear cities in the future, so that the bears in other regions will know how powerful we are. In that case, our work will be much easier!”

Manstein nodded, then looked at the others and asked,”How about it, do you have any other opinions?”

No one raised their hands. It seemed that everyone agreed with this approach.

“If more than half of the residents of Moscow really have hidden guns, we can’t arrest them all!”

Manstein thought for a while and said,”In this way, the Central Army Group will mobilize three armies into the city, ready to suppress the people’s resistance at any time. In addition, the dragnet investigation work will be carried out in different areas. The front areas can be searched more carefully and the punishment will be more severe. In this way, the residents who have not been searched yet can feel our determination, and they will hand in their weapons by themselves!”