One Thousand One Hundred and Eighty Five Crossing the River

?<="">> "Boom! Boom! Boom!" A row of bullets hit the ruins, leaving a row of potholes. The Soviet soldiers behind the ruins huddled themselves, avoiding the fragments and flying stones scattered by the bullets.

A German tank advanced slowly on the streets of Moscow, and stopped in a place where it suddenly became clear. In front of it was a wide river, which was the river that crossed Moscow—the Moskva River. The river winds its way through the center of Moscow, and Moscow's Red Square is not far from the west bank of the river.

Although this location is still some distance from the river bank of the Red Square in Moscow, the German army finally approached the river in Moscow, which also marks that the German army has really entered the core of Moscow. The term "defeated like a mountain" is now used to describe the Soviet defenders in Moscow, and it cannot be more appropriate.

After putting in the last batch of reserves, the Moscow defenders of the Soviet Union had no more troops to continue to strengthen their defensive forces in a certain direction. They could only be passively beaten, and strengthened others by giving up some positions. The most direct effect of doing this is to double the speed of losing positions. The blocks that could be defended with only a few companies have to be abandoned because there are really no extra troops.<="l">

"Comrade General! The German troops are preparing assault boats on the other side of the river. It seems that they will start to cross in a while... Our machine guns are out of bullets, and there are not many grenades left." An officer crawled He came to the side of the ruins and reported the situation of the battle to the dusty General Vatutin with his helmet on.

Vatutin was loading his revolver. After hearing the report, he raised his head and squinted at his subordinates: "The remaining 150 people from the 1st Regiment of the 1st Guards Division are guarding over there. , there are only 93 people left in the 2nd Regiment, all of them are near us...the 4th Guards Division can't be contacted, the only tank of the 5th Tank Guards Division has just run out of shells...we can only do so much No, there is no way."

As the battle progressed, in fact, the entire system of the Soviet army had collapsed, and the army's logistical supplies were completely cut off. The soldiers didn't even know where to get food and bullets. In the end, even the command system of the army collapsed. Power outages and shelling completely destroyed the originally relatively complete telephone system, and the radio equipment was also faulty, and one was missing...

In the beginning, because the place is wide enough, the shelter is better, and cars and horses can also be used. At this time, due to the successive loss of positions, these means of transportation can no longer be used—everyone runs on two legs, and if they don't want to be killed by shells, they can only run on two legs.

A month ago, the Soviet defenders in the Moscow encirclement were still able to increase the strength of entire regiments near the defensive positions that were breached by the Germans, and then gradually reduced their size to one battalion by battalion, and finally to a company or even half a company... At this time, every reinforcement has even been saved to the level of a platoon, or even a squad.

And reinforcements of this scale, in the face of the tide-like attacks of the German army, are simply a drop in the bucket, and will not prevent the German army from continuing to attack at all. With the depletion of ammunition and the reduction of reinforcements, the losses of the Soviet defenders on the defensive positions are also increasing, and the defeat is getting faster and faster.

This principle is easy to understand. When there are enough bullets, the tactics can be well executed, so the defensive position can also be held longer. There is no need to retreat frequently, and there is no need to be frequently exposed to enemy firepower, and casualties will naturally be reduced. But now the situation in the Soviet Union is the opposite. They are forced to retreat continuously and lose more soldiers.

Now, on Soviet positions, soldiers in a trench come from a variety of troops and units, and a company of infantry may be reorganized from the remnants of several companies. These soldiers may have come from several combat units, some even from logistics personnel, the Moscow Self-Defense Forces, and even tax collectors and police.

Of course, there are also a large number of supplementary soldiers. The composition of these supplementary soldiers is more complicated, including female soldiers, workers, salespersons and teenage children. It is obviously unrealistic to expect these people to display the combat effectiveness of the regular army, so what is reduced is not only the number of reinforcements, but also the quality of reinforcements.

Losses have increased exponentially, even to the point where no one counts them. According to the battle diary of the German F Group Army, on June 25, Germany advanced a total of 1,300 meters on the outskirts of Moscow, killing and capturing more than 2,900 Soviet defenders; and in early August, the German army advanced one kilometer in the urban area. A total of more than 6,700 Soviet "soldiers" were killed, and many of these "soldiers" with guns did not even have military uniforms and helmets.

Although it is impossible to accurately reflect the actual losses of the Soviet defenders at that time only by relying on the battle statistics of the German army, even Marshal Kluge admitted in his memoirs that when the German army was fighting in Moscow, there were incidents of killing civilians and taking credit. Behavior. However, because the Soviet Union really does not have any records of combat losses, it can only rely on German records to make conjectures.

Soon, the German engineers prepared their troops for the forced crossing. The assault boat was carried by the German soldiers and rushed to the river bank. The machine guns and rockets on the opposite bank hit the Soviet positions as if they didn't need money. On the other hand, the Soviet Union, because of the limited amount of ammunition, has been unable to make any decent counterattacks.

Because of this, the forced crossing went on smoothly. The German army first used a "bulldozer" temporarily modified by a tractor to push some sand and stones into the Moscow River, and then the German infantry who rushed across the opposite bank carried out a small-scale attack on the river embankment. During the blasting operation, the smooth and sloping embankment was blasted into a path with edges and corners, which is very convenient for the follow-up troops to climb<="l">.

"Their soil work is really too fast, and they seem to cooperate so skillfully, it's like a drill." Vatutin watched the German army build a pontoon bridge in front of his eyes through a gap in the wall, and said with emotion, About ten meters away to his left, a Soviet light machine gun finally couldn't help roaring, and swept the few remaining bullets towards the position where the German army erected the pontoon bridge.

However, after only a few seconds, the German mg-42 machine gun responded to the firing Soviet machine gun. The bullets hit the Soviet positions with a dense sound, and the stray bullets scattered everywhere made everyone dare not look out. The head went to fire and shoot. But this is just the beginning, and soon a German 60mm mortar hit the shell where the light machine gun was just now. The huge explosion set off billowing smoke, which made Watu ten meters away Kyoto had to hide in the bunker with his head in his hands.

"Medical soldiers! Someone is injured! Someone is injured!" Just as the gunpowder smoke from the shells passed, the shouts of the Soviet defenders came. Most of the trenches were administrative staff and logistics officers of the command headquarters. Not sure about the current situation.

"Shut up! Where do you go to find medical soldiers? Even if there are medical soldiers, there will be no medicines!" A veteran yelled in the trench with a weapon in his hand. At this time, no one questioned his unruly behavior. Leo: "See if his injury is fatal. If it is fatal, just wait for death. If the wound is not serious, he may be able to survive if he bandages it quickly."

Looking at the bleeding comrade under his feet, the front army officer who was in charge of the phone didn't know how to judge whether the injury was serious or not. So when the other party's yelling came, he could only pull out the handkerchief in his pocket, and helped another telephone operator to suppress the wound of the unlucky guy on the ground.

Vatutin once again fixed his eyes on the tiny crack in the wall, through which he saw that in this short period of time, the German engineers had docked several small boats side by side and nailed them together. Iron bolts were laid and the upper rails and planks were laid. A bridging tank drove slowly down the slope on the opposite bank, and lifted the raised iron bridge into the air.

Because of the lack of heavy weapons, the Soviet defenders could only watch. They could neither open fire to expose their positions, nor rush to disrupt the deployment of the German troops. Those German troops who had crossed the river earlier had already established defensive positions on the embankment. , and the position where the Soviet defenders were hiding was only separated by a road, less than 50 meters away.

If Vatutin had more troops in his hands, he might order a counterattack to retake the beachhead, and take this opportunity to inflict huge losses on the Germans. But now he has no way to mobilize even a company of soldiers, let alone repel the wolf-like German grenadiers on the German beachhead.

The shouting in the ear has calmed down. It seems that the unlucky guy who was hit by the shrapnel of the mortar shell failed to hold on and died in the trench. As time passed, the second German bridging tank had already driven onto the pontoon bridge, and put down the second iron bridge in the direction of the riverside where the Soviet defenders were stationed.

A pontoon bridge was erected in a short period of time, and the German soldiers crossing the river here immediately launched an attack on the Soviet positions. The battle suddenly became fierce, and hand-to-hand combat was launched in many positions. Hundreds of German soldiers crossed the pontoon bridge under the cover of armored vehicles, and soon poured into the Soviet positions.

"Long live Führer Akado? Rudolf!" With shouts like waves, the German soldiers were getting closer and closer to Vatutin.

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