1105 Last Road

Suddenly, a distinctive and huge whistling sound gradually drew closer from a distance, then passed over the heads of the German front-line infantry, and finally hit a certain street in Moscow. Then there was a burst of explosions that shook the mountains, splashing rubble and rising black smoke, which was much larger than the smoke splashed by other shells.

And with the arrival of this huge noise, the scattered artillery fire of the Soviet army completely stopped, and for the rest of the time, it seemed that the German artillery was performing like a one-man show.

The calibers of German train guns are very complicated. There are 340mm train guns seized from France, and 320mm train guns produced by the French. Of course, the most new 283mm train guns produced by Germany themselves. Among so many artillery, the best performance is of course the new artillery produced by the Germans themselves. Each artillery is enough to shock the Quartet and shake the ground.

When these train guns started to roar, the towed artillery and some old cannons in the hands of the Soviet army were not enough at all. So when a train artillery shell fell in the city of Moscow, the Soviet artillery also closed their mouths helplessly.

In the world of artillery, power is the truth, and everything depends on the range of fire and the power of the shells to determine the outcome. My caliber is larger than your caliber, and the number of my artillery is more than yours. Then I am more than you. Have a say! It is a pity that when the Soviet army had more artillery than the German army, they had to abandon these artillery because of the attack of the Stuka dive bombers.

The small-scale bombardment on a position eventually turned into a full-scale artillery contest between the F Group Army and the Moscow defenders. However, in the end, the indiscriminate bombardment ended in an overall victory for the German army, and the Soviet artillery was suppressed to no avail. There was a sound, and German artillery fire was allowed to destroy the outer positions of the Soviet army.

The sound of artillery in the distance is still rumbling. In the headquarters of Army Group F, Marshal Kluge and several of his combat staff officers are analyzing a map of Moscow. Now they may be only one kilometer away from the core position of the Soviet defense. , while the German Army Group E in the north of Moscow has begun to advance northeast of Moscow, making the appearance of completely encircling Moscow.

"General Liszt's troops are crossing the river, and they will soon be able to threaten Yaroslavl from behind. As long as Army Group E cooperates with Army Group A's armored forces to capture Vologda, there will be no need for Moscow to struggle." Ke With his hands behind his back, Luge listened to his staff analyze the current battle situation. His troops are the main force to attack Moscow, and Army Group A, as an auxiliary force, will use the infantry belonging to the Army Group to support his offensive in the north.

"General Guderian's forward troops are changing the direction of attack. They want to capture Ryazan within 30 days. After capturing there, his troops will be ordered to continue to attack eastward and threaten Gorky." Another staff officer pointed to the guide department with his finger. The movements of the German troops in the area were introduced to Kluge who said nothing.

The German army can now say that the situation is very good,

Moreover, the steady and steady situation is very good. Most of the German troops have undergone some rest and reorganization, and the g-group army and e-group army, which have suffered relatively large losses, have been replenished, and their starting positions are not far from the front line, so the distance and the consumption of logistical supplies have also been compressed. within a completely acceptable range.

Compared with another time and space, the German army is more fully prepared this time, with stronger troops, better logistics supplies, and more powerful weapons and equipment... In short, the cards in Akado's hand are very good now, at least he has some capital Let him splurge.

On the other hand, the Soviet army, because the strength of the Moscow theater was compressed into a small space, most of the two-wing defense lines did not have enough strength to defend, so the German army starting from St. approached the Ural River.

If it weren't for the poor infrastructure of this distance, and the large amount of hoarded military supplies could not be transported to the front line, General Küchler would have been able to attack further. However, because of the attack on Moscow and the increase in the activities of the air force and navy, Küchler's fuel was delayed, so his attack temporarily stalled.

Another German unit, Guderian's Group G Army, has never stopped attacking since the second Battle of Kursk started. After handing over their rear to Model's d-army, Guderian's troops attacked all the way to the northeast as if they were in no one's land. The only thing that could stop the German army was their own fatigue and waiting for supplies. class problem.

After crossing Kursk, the infrastructure construction of the Soviet Union dropped to a new level in an instant. The quality of the railway construction was even worse, and it was not compatible with European railway standards. Most of the roads are trails paved with gray soil, which are very different from the regular roads standard by the German army.

These problems hindered the advance of the German army, and their effect was much greater than that of the defeated Soviet defense forces. These improvised Soviet troops had no way to stop the G Group Army at all. They could only watch German tanks drive past them, and then surrounded them in the barren mountains, tortured and then captured by the German infantry who came up.

The streets and alleys were filled with Soviet soldiers captured by the German army. These poor soldiers, who were starved of food, held their heads in their hands and walked slowly and listlessly on the road. From time to time they had to be pushed to the side of the road to make way for the roaring German trucks, armored personnel carriers and tanks.

Compared with the fight for every inch of land on the frontal battlefield of Moscow, the counterattack in these areas is like child's play. The German troops easily occupied a large amount of land, and the huge pincer offensive surrounding Moscow began to slowly close behind the Moscow side.

"The frontal attack cannot be stopped. If necessary, 3 infantry divisions will go up to replace the exhausted troops!" Klug finally gave the order to continue the attack after hearing that friendly forces in other directions were about to encircle Moscow: "Let the frontline troops maintain the attack rhythm."

Then he pointed to a thick stack of documents on his desk, and said to his subordinates: "This is the tactical document used by Army Group n when it attacked St. Rudolph. It includes troop losses and results... You study it thoroughly for me, I have the cheek to ask for it from Küchler."

"Yes! Marshal!" Everyone nodded quickly, and a few anxious people had already picked up a stack and began to read it carefully. An excellent tradition of human civilization is to be good at summarizing. Since ignorance of the future is doomed, people frantically sum up experience and lessons, trying to reduce the cost of exploring the unknown future.

Sometimes summing up experience makes people go further, and sometimes sticking to the rules makes people stagnate. The summary of the Tang Dynasty by the Song and Ming dynasties finally made these two dynasties suppressed by force and unable to resist foreign humiliation; and Japan’s experience and lessons in naval warfare are still affecting their joint fleet... But people are still summing up the past , in order to better face the future.

At this moment, the German army is also summing up. They summed up every detail of the street battle in St. Rudolf, that is, Stalingrad, so that they can reduce their various losses during the battle in Moscow.

Don't underestimate these reports and documents. If possible, the United States may be willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy these things. Every sentence here has the potential to save hundreds of lives at a certain moment, and every lesson here may have been paid for by the death of hundreds of soldiers.

The current German army can be said to be the army with the most experience in urban street fighting in the world. They have fought all the way to the present, have captured countless enemy cities, and have seen various urban street fighting situations. Although this kind of fighting still makes them feel uncomfortable, they have to admit that they are indeed the most street fighting soldiers in the world now.

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In Vatutin's headquarters, the Soviet commander of the Moscow city defense had just put down the phone in his hand. The Kremlin had just been hit by German long-range artillery. The outer walls of the palace collapsed due to the violent explosion.

"Comrade Stalin asked whether the enemy's attack has been stopped." Vatutin put down the phone, and smiled wryly at his assistant: "They didn't attack at all... they were only bombarding symbolically."

After speaking, he moved his eyes to the map, looked at the vast territory behind Moscow, and said in a sad voice: "Do people still need to call in? As long as we wait for half a month, we will be completely surrounded... At that time, you don’t need to go to the city to fight us in the streets, you can starve us to death here.”

"General! It's not an option for us to just wait here to die! The 720th Division and the 655th Division..." The staff officer next to him muttered in a low voice, seeing Vatutin's expression in the middle of the sentence Not very good, so he closed his mouth.

The 720th Division and the 655th Division are both garrison troops behind Moscow. Originally, they were supposed to be the defense forces behind Moscow. Even if they were surrounded by the German army, they should stick to their positions. But these two divisions continued to retreat as the German encirclement approached, and retreated to the outside of the Moscow encirclement first-according to military law, this was Hong Guoguo's escape.

"Don't talk about it, we have only one way to go now, and that is to die here, as the last Soviet people in existence, to die here!" Vatutin gritted his teeth and said fiercely.