USSR 1941

Shulka was right in guessing that Moscow had also entered a pre-war state of martial law.

This is mainly because the Soviet government made an important wartime decision a week ago to withdraw some party and government agencies, diplomatic missions, and a large number of factories, enterprises, machinery, and more than 1 million workers and residents from Moscow.

This should be said to be a normal phenomenon, because Moscow has been bombed by the German fleet at this time, and Moscow needs to withdraw its industries to the rear to allow them to continue production.

On the other hand, if Moscow falls, even the machinery and workers for the production of guns and tanks will not fall into the hands of the enemy and be used by them...

France is the best example of this. The surrender of France actually provided the German army with a complete system of industry and a large amount of manpower, injecting fresh blood into the German war machine.

The problem is that these actions will cause panic in Moscow.

Because everyone will be thinking, these people have withdrawn, does it mean that Moscow is going to be finished? The army intends to abandon Moscow The Germans are going to fight here?

Then, just like what happened in Kyiv, the whole city spread the horror of the doomsday, and the shops were looted and all kinds of crimes rushed to the front.

Then, quite naturally, the National Defense Council announced: "Moscow is under martial law! All spies, spies and enemies who incite civil strife are executed! Call on the people of the capital to defend Moscow at all costs!"

So, like what Shulka and others saw on the train, it was almost empty.

I didn't see the crowds until after the train came in...they were all waiting for the train and getting out of Moscow.

Shulka waited for the soldiers to get off the train, and they squeezed into the train with big and small bags, shouting, arguing, cursing... It was a mess, and Shulka and his party squeezed out from among them.

"These cowards!" The actor looked at them and spat on the ground contemptuously.

"Don't say that, Comrade Okunev!" said the deputy instructor: "They are workers and engineers needed by the factory, or other people who need to be protected by the motherland!"

"Yes, Comrade Deputy Instructor!" The actor replied.

But when he turned around, the actor whispered to Shulka: "Look at them, are they really workers and engineers that the motherland needs?"

Shulka understood the meaning of the actor's words, and indeed some people did not look like workers.

But this is of course not what Shulka and others are discussing.

"Comrade company commander!" The actor asked again: "What's going on with you and the deputy instructor, you've been..."

"Well, it's a long story, Okunev!" Shulka replied: "The assistant instructor saved me!"

"Saved you?" The actor was frightened by Shulka's words, but he seemed to guess something quickly, so he stopped asking.

Walking out of the train station, cars were waiting outside. The troops drove one by one in platoons, and then the cars started with a "boom" and drove forward.

The car did not have driving lights, and because of the state of martial law, there was no one at the train station as soon as it drove out, except for a few sentries who stood in front of the sandbag bunker and saluted the convoy.

At this time, the piercing air defense siren sounded, and Shulka's first reaction was to order the soldiers to get out of the car to cover, but the driver obviously had experience in this, and he took the first step to remind: "Don't be nervous, comrade! That's from the west." Air defense sirens, some distance away from us!"

Sure enough, after a while, the familiar whistle of German aviation bombs sounded in the distance, followed by explosions. A series of searchlight beams like laser weapons were shot from the ground toward the sky, and then anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns rang out in groups, and occasionally the flames bursting out of the sky could be seen... It must be that several German fighter planes were destroyed.

What puzzled Shurka was that in the bright light, Shurka vaguely saw airships densely distributed in the sky, huge and clumsy stagnant in the air.

"Are we still using airships?" Shulka asked suspiciously.

Those things only existed during the First World War. Although they are still used by some people, they are mostly used for reconnaissance and comparison.

It is also to put the artillery observer into the sky to correct the trajectory.

"What?" The driver looked up into the sky, then said "Oh", and replied, "Those airships are used for air defense!"

"Air defense?" Shulka didn't know what this had to do with air defense.

"Yes!" The driver explained: "There are steel cables between them. If the enemy plane descends and hits these steel cables..."

So Shulka understood that this would make it impossible for German bombers to carry out low-altitude and accurate bombing, otherwise the Kremlin would have been in ruins long ago.

The convoy turned left and right on the empty street for more than an hour, and finally drove into a military camp.

Then the order came down: "Use the company as a unit to receive supplies from the quartermaster!"

The soldiers received a brand-new set of equipment, indeed everything was new, from top to bottom, including armed belts and helmets.

Then another command followed: "Clean yourself up!"

The so-called cleaning means taking a bath in the public bath... It was a long, narrow and cold room with green paint on the walls, and a long row of faucets on one side of the room from left to right.

"Move fast, move fast!"

With a burst of urging, the soldiers all stripped off and stood under the faucet.

Shulka thought it would be hot water, and was relaxing to welcome it... Unexpectedly, there was a biting cold, which almost made Shuerka scream.

You must know that September in Moscow has already started to get cold, and now it is a night with a low temperature. The sudden cold water made Shulka take a few breaths and shiver a few times.

The other soldiers were not much better, so some people began to complain:

"Is this the capital, Moscow? A capital without hot water?"

"They won't evacuate the workers who boil the water!"

"But we are here to resist the enemy's attack!"

...

But these complaints were quickly suppressed by the order: "Shut up! Do you want hot water? The sparks will make the Germans drop bombs on us, and you will be 'hot' enough!"

This made sense, so the soldiers stopped complaining.

And even this cold water bath is only for 3 minutes, and then the next batch.

Putting on the military uniform quickly, then buckling the armed belt and picking up the rifle, Shulka felt much calmer.

"Then!" Shulka raised his rifle and asked the assistant instructor beside him, "Do you know why this is prepared?"

If it's just for combat, there's no need for a whole set of equipment to be new. Weapons might make sense, but wearing brand new uniforms on the battlefield is simply a waste.

"Tomorrow you will know!" The assistant instructor said, "I must emphasize to them again that it is a 'breakout hero'!"

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