Shulka guessed correctly, Moscow also entered a state of pre-war martial law.
This happened mainly a week ago when the Soviet government made an important wartime decision to evacuate some party and government agencies, diplomatic missions, a large number of factories, enterprises, machinery and more than 1 million workers from Moscow.
This should be said to be a normal phenomenon, because at this time Moscow had been bombed by German aircraft groups, and Moscow needed to move its industries to the rear to allow them to continue production.
On the other hand, if Moscow falls, even the machinery and workers for producing firearms and tanks will not fall into the hands of the enemy and be used for their own purposes...
France is the best counterexample in this regard. France's surrender 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, if these people have evacuated, does it mean that Moscow is going to be doomed? Is this where the Germans are going to fight if the army plans to abandon Moscow?
Then, just like what happened in Kiev, an atmosphere of apocalyptic terror spread throughout the city, with shops being looted and various crimes taking place.
Then naturally, the National Defense Committee declared: "Martial law in Moscow! All spies, spies and enemies who incite civil unrest will be executed on the spot! Call on the people of the capital to defend Moscow at all costs!"
So, just like what Shulka and others saw on the train, the streets were almost empty.
It wasn't until the train entered the station that we saw the crowds of people... those were all waiting for the train to leave Moscow.
Shulka waited for the soldiers to get off the train, and they crowded onto the train in large and small groups. They were shouting, arguing, and cursing... It was a mess, and Shulka and his party were 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 that the factory needs, or other people that the motherland needs to protect!"
"Yes, Comrade Deputy Instructor!" the actor replied.
But as soon as he turned around, the actor whispered to Shulka: "Look at them, are they really all workers and engineers that the motherland needs?"
Shulka understood what the actors meant. Some of them did not look like workers.
But this is of course not what Shulka and others discussed.
"Comrade company commander!" the actor asked again: "What's going on between you and the deputy instructor? You used to..."
"Well, it's a long story, Okunev!" Shulka replied: "The deputy instructor saved me!"
"Saved you?" The actor was frightened by Shulka's words, but he seemed to have guessed something quickly, so he stopped asking further questions.
After walking out of the train station, cars were waiting outside. Troops got on the cars in platoons in order, and then the cars started up with a "boom" and drove forward.
The car had no headlights, and because it was under martial law, it was deserted as soon as it left the train station, except for a few sentries who stood in front of the sandbag bunker and saluted the convoy.
At this time, the piercing air-raid siren sounded. Shurka's first reaction was to order the soldiers to get out of the car and take cover. But the driver was obviously experienced in this. He was the first to remind him: "Don't be nervous, comrade! That's from the west.
Air raid siren, some distance away from us!"
Sure enough, after a while, the familiar whistle of German aerial bombs sounded in the distance, followed by explosions. Searchlight beams like laser weapons shot out from the ground, followed by anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons. Occasionally,
You can also see the burst of fire in the sky... It must be that several German fighter planes have been destroyed.
What puzzled Shulka was that in the bright light, Shulka could vaguely see densely packed airships in the sky, huge and clumsy ones stuck in the air.
"Are we still using airships?" Shulka asked doubtfully.
Those things only existed during the First World War. Although some people still use them now, they are mostly used for reconnaissance and artillery comparison, that is, to put artillery observers in the sky to correct ballistic trajectories.
"What?" The driver looked up at 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..."
Then Shulka understood that this would prevent German bombers from carrying out accurate low-altitude bombings, otherwise the Kremlin would have been in ruins long ago.
The convoy drove left and right on the empty street for more than an hour, and finally drove into a military camp.
Then the order came down: "Go to the munitions office in company units to collect supplies!"
The soldiers received a set of brand-new equipment. Indeed, everything was new from top to bottom, including the armed belts and helmets.
Then another command followed: "Clean yourself up!"
The so-called cleaning up means taking a bath in a public bathhouse... It is 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 quickly, move quickly!"
Following waves of urging, the soldiers all stripped naked and stood under the faucet.
Shulka thought that the hot water would be released, and he was about to relax and prepare to welcome it... Unexpectedly, he was hit by a biting coldness, which almost made Shulka scream.
You must know that September in Moscow has already begun to get cold, and now it is a night with lower temperatures. The sudden cold water made Shulka take several breaths of air and shiver.
The other soldiers were not much better, so some people started to complain:
"Is this the capital, Moscow? A capital without hot water?"
"They won't have to evacuate the water-heating workers as well!"
"But we have to resist the enemy's attack here!"
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But these complaints were quickly suppressed by the order: "Shut your mouths! Do you want hot water? The sparks will make the Germans drop bombs on our heads, and then you will be 'hot' enough."
Got it!"
This was indeed true, so the soldiers stopped complaining.
And even this cold water bath only has a time limit of 3 minutes, and then the next batch comes.
Quickly putting on his military uniform, buckling his armed belt and picking up his rifle, Shulka felt much more at ease.
"So!" Shulka raised the rifle in his hand and asked the deputy instructor beside him: "Do you know why you prepared this?"
If it is just for combat, there is no need for all the equipment to be new. The weapons may still make sense, but wearing brand-new military uniforms to the battlefield is simply a waste.
"You'll know tomorrow!" the deputy instructor said, "I must emphasize to them again that they are 'breakout heroes'!"