Section 533 The troops are approaching the city and going down to Moscow
On December 22, the twentieth year of the Twentieth century, the Workers' Party Germany and its allies launched a major counterattack against the Red Russia, which took the Red Russia and the Red Russian Red Army leadership by surprise. The German army quickly penetrated into the territory www.biquge.info of Red Russia with blitzkrieg tactics. The armored forces, mainly equipped by China, advanced in a pincer fashion, first isolating and then completely destroying the heavy clusters of the Red Russian army. The German Army Group North advanced towards Petersburg, Army Group South conquered Ukraine and the Caucasus Highlands, and Army Group Center advanced towards Moscow. The Red Russian defense line soon collapsed, and the dead and wounded were piled down. In early February of the 21st century, the Germans captured Smolensk, an important stronghold on the road to Moscow, but the battle for Smolensk hindered the German offensive until mid-March, effectively disintegrating the tactics of the blitzkrieg. Subsequently, Guderian's Army Group Center continued to advance towards the periphery of Moscow, but the blitzkrieg, which had lost its suddenness and speed, could not bring much surprise to Germany.
In mid-March, after capturing Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and Kiev, Ukraine, the Germans concentrated their forces on the attack on Moscow, the capital of Red Russia.
First of all, part of the forces of Army Group North and South was concentrated in Army Group Center. (Army Group North's offensive in Petersburg was contained, and it was never able to break through the defenses of the Red Russian army in the vicinity of Petersburg, so most of the armored and motorized divisions attached to Army Group were transferred to the direction of Moscow.) )
The plan for the "Typhoon" operation was mainly drawn up by the German High Command and Manstein's Army Group Center in consultation, and all plans were personally examined and approved by Führer Hess. The accuracy of the German intelligence services in the judgment of the Red Russian troops deployed directly in front of Moscow was high, but there were still imperfections. It believed that the battle sequence of the Red Russian army was as follows: seven armies of Timoshenko's Western Front were deployed at the front, and two armies of Yeremenko's Bryansk Front were deployed to the south. Nothing is known about the Red Russian Red Army units in the rear. The strength of the Western Front was estimated at seventy to one hundred divisions, which turned out to be almost the same as the actual strength. The hastily erected defensive line in the direction of the capital, Moscow, was easily ascertained from the air.
The task before Manstein was to annihilate the Red Russian army in front of him before attacking Moscow. The basic content of the German plan was to use the Smolensk-Moscow line as the base line in the center to form a pincer encirclement in two directions, and the two armies would meet in Vyazma, about 80 miles behind the Red Russian army.
Beginning in January, the Red Russian government requisitioned laborers to build fortifications on the two lines of defense west of Moscow. More than three-quarters of migrant workers are women. The former line of defense is called the Vyazma Line. Its northernmost point is about thirty miles east of Ostashkov, not far from the Valdai Mountains, passing through the area west of Vyazma, and its southernmost point is south of Kirov, with a total length of more than 200 miles. The latter line of defense, called the Mozhesk Line, was about eighty miles west of Moscow and about one hundred and sixty miles long from Volokolamsk to Tikhvin. In addition, there were four arc-shaped lines of defense west of Moscow.
At the same time, Red Russia drew troops from Central Asia and the East to defend Moscow. Since Japan and the United States had begun to fight to the death, China was going all out to the south and coveting the Australian mainland, so Marshal Zhukov of the Red Russian side mobilized a large number of troops from the Far East to consolidate the defense of the capital Moscow.
In addition, the Red Russians used tank ambush warfare, which was first proposed by Katukov and was carried out mainly near Mtsensk. Tank ambushes proved useful in real time, and Katukov bought time to consolidate the Tula line of defense and weakened Guderian's offensive south of Moscow.
According to the "Typhoon" plan, the German 2nd Panzer Group in the Bryansk direction, and the 3rd and 4th Panzer Groups 1 in the Vyazma direction, successively began the offensive. Despite the stubborn resistance of the Red Russian Red Army, the Germans broke through the defenses. The German 2nd Army broke through the lines of the Red Russian 50th Army and captured Bryansk in late March. On April 3 Orel fell. The Germans advanced along the Orel-Tula road. In the direction of Vyazma, west of Moscow, the Western Front and the Reserve Front fought hard defensive battles. On 7 April, the Germans reached the Viazima area, where most of the armies of the two fronts were encircled and put up stubborn resistance until 12-13 April. On the 13th, most of the Vyazma Group of the Red Russian Army was annihilated, and the besieged army later broke out of the encirclement, and some remained behind enemy lines to carry out guerrilla struggle. The Bryansk Front also retreated after being encircled by the battle, and on the 23rd, most of the Bryansk Group of the Red Russian Red Army was annihilated. In the Battle of Vyazma-Bryansk, the Germans captured 580,000 Red Russian Red Army troops. Of these 580,000 people, only 85,000 stood out from the German lines.
But in fact, the German army is also at the end of its strength, 57% of the heavy equipment has been damaged or unusable, and the German infantry units are increasingly taking on the leading role of the attack. In the face of the emerging Russian T34 medium tanks and KV heavy tanks, the German army can only rely on the "Howling Eagle" and "Whirlwind" to offset the opponent's armor advantage, and the newly formed Ukrainian Liberation Army and the expeditionary forces of Romania, Italy and other countries have been driven to the back for rectification operations, lest these pig teammates cannot withstand the Russian army's onslaught and affect the German army itself.
In mid-April, when the German Army Group Center ended its encirclement of the Red Russians on the Vyazma front, Zhukov sent a new group of troops to Moscow. At this time, the summer rainy season begins; The muddy road was an inconvenience for both armies, as it hindered the German offensive and the defense of the Red Russians, and many combat vehicles on both sides were stuck in the mud, and some of them needed to be pulled out by tanks.
The Mozhaisk defensive line became the main area of resistance for Moscow close to the ground, and the Red Russian High Command took various emergency measures to defend the capital. On October 9, the 21st year of the Taichu Dynasty, the command of the Mozhaisk Line received 5 newly formed machine-gun battalions, 10 anti-tank artillery regiments and 5 tank brigades, which were reorganized into the 5th Army under the command of General Lelyuschenko.
In order to improve the command of the army, on April 27, the Western Front and the Reserve Front were combined into the new Western Front, with General Zhukov as commander. On the same day, at Zhukov's suggestion, the 22nd, 29th, 30th, and 31st armies of the right flank of the Western Front, which were covering Moscow in the north-western direction, were organized into the Kalinin Front, with Colonel-General Konev as commander, and the command organs of the Front were rebuilt on the basis of the original headquarters of the 10th Army.
After Zhukov was instructed, he began to build a new line of defense on the Volokolamsk-Mozhaisk-Lesser Yaroslavets-Kaluga line, as well as to form the second echelon and the reserve of the Front. And tried by all means to transfer 14 infantry divisions, 16 tank brigades, and more than 40 artillery regiments, and quickly rebuilt the 5th, 16th, 43rd, and 49th group armies, but the total strength was still only more than 90,000 people. He also paid special attention to sending generals with rich combat experience to the main directions of Moscow. Of these, Rokossovsky's 16th Army went to Volokolamsk, Lelyushchenko's 5th Army was in Mozhaisk, Yefiremov's 33rd Army was in the Narofominsk direction, the 43rd Army was in Lesser Yaroslavets, and the 49th Army was on the defensive in Kaluga, etc.
The citizens of Moscow were also mobilized. In three days, 25 workers' battalions, 120,000 militia divisions, 169 street fighting squads, and 600,000 men were mobilized to build three fortifications around the city of Moscow, of which three-quarters were women. By the end of October, women and children alone had built 700 kilometres of anti-tank trenches, excavated more than 3 million cubic metres of earth and built more than 3,800 temporary and stationary firing points. The city of Moscow, which was in a state of defense, was tightly sealed off by barricades, barricades, and fortifications, and as a result, there was an acute shortage of food.
In mid-May - early June, in a number of fierce battles in the Mozhaisk defensive area, the Red Russian army put up stubborn resistance to the superior forces of the German army, stopping it in the areas of the Rama, Ruza, and Nara rivers. The two sides are in a stalemate in this half-moon zone, and the two sides fight from the ground to the sky, suffering heavy losses while holding out a hope, an obsession with victory and destruction.
Moscow at this time evacuated many government offices and the most important enterprises. On 20 May, the National Defense Council imposed martial law in Moscow and its vicinity. The authorities ordered residents to build fortifications in the streets, even near the Kremlin, and to form new militia divisions to prepare the city for street fighting.
On May 23, the remaining units of the Bryansk Front under the command of General Yeremenko* broke through the encirclement, but the tank group assembled in the central cluster under the command of Guderian continued to pursue and on the 29th approached Tula, an important military-industrial city on the left flank of Moscow. Due to the insistence of the Red Army fighters of the 50th Army and the Tula militia, the Germans were never able to break through the Tula Line, which significantly lengthened the right flank of the German army, which made it impossible to fight with sufficient tactical density in the middle of the front. By the beginning of June, the Red Russian Red Army in Moscow was replenished with another 100,000 men, 300 tanks, 2,000 artillery pieces. Of course, Lao Maozi didn't realize that this was almost the last batch of large-scale equipment support they received in the entire war. The Red Russian army strengthened the Western Front with reserves and replenishment, and the Bryansk Front was withdrawn at the same time. The various armies were ordered to hold the occupied areas and prevent the Germans from making a detour to Moscow from the northwest and southwest.
Nearly 45% of the German army and 67% of the equipment were concentrated in the fortified area 30-70 kilometers from Moscow, but the lack of heavy equipment and the elongation of supply lines made it impossible for the Germans to support a large-scale blitzkrieg, and the war almost fell into the Western Front in 1915 in the mud and sun of summer. In the face of individual anti-tank equipment on both sides, no one is willing to let the armored troops fight with the infantry, the engineer shovel and submachine gun have become the protagonists of the battlefield, in the face of the crazy old Maozi, from the German private to the Führer Hess are already helpless, the only thing they can do is to pray for God's favor, and God's role can of course only be played by the distant Chinese democratic empire.