978 City of Blood and Fire
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Compared with singing and dancing, it is almost impossible to see that Berlin, Germany, is in a state of war, and Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, is in a rain of bullets at this moment.
The sound of intense machine-gun fire, like the endless noise of the next-door neighbor's renovation, makes people linger.
On the street, behind a burning Soviet T-26 tank, a Soviet DP-28 machine gun was spewing flames from the barricades, and it was constantly strafing.
Every street here has to be fought over and over again, and every room here is filled with dead men from both sides.
After a brief weakening of the offensive for a few days, the German troops once again piled up the ** of the attack, leaving the defending Soviet troops in a passive position.
This time, the focus of the German attack was on the city of Moscow, near a very important railway station. This railway station is the famous Kievskaya railway station.
Spreading out the map of Moscow, the Moskva River winds around the city in two curves that resemble the S-shape on Superman's chest.
The Kievskaya railway station is within a curve, and it is close to the German-controlled zone.
As long as this railway station is captured and all the surrounding areas are controlled, then the German army can be regarded as completely dividing the Soviet positions on the west bank of the Moscow River into two.
It is precisely because of this that the Soviet army is not willing to give up this railway station, hoping to turn this railway station into an impregnable fortress.
The battle between the two sides was very fierce, the Germans invested almost 50,000 men, and the Soviet defense force was almost 70,000.
Seeing this number, the numerical advantage of the Soviet army seems to be less obvious, which is actually very understandable, after all, Moscow, which is encircled, has actually begun to overstretch its troops.
The German army could be supplied by rail, and a steady stream of new recruits could be transported to replenish the troops, but the Soviet army in the encirclement could not do this.
In fact, if the German army could encircle Stalingrad in the real historical time and space and prevent the Soviet army from replenishing fresh blood through river ferrying, Stalingrad may not have become a scar that makes the German army bleed continuously.
Having cut off the replenishment, even Moscow, which has hundreds of thousands of troops, is now beginning to look weak.
Konev is also worried about this weak state, and unlike Khrushchev, he still believes that he can hold on to Moscow, but he has come to a conclusion through sound analysis and calculation.
According to his calculations, from the beginning of the Soviet-German war to the present, the German army has lost about 1 million troops, which is an estimate of the number of dead and seriously wounded.
If he can once again hold back more than 1 million German troops in the Moscow defensive battle, then the German army will inevitably be insufficient in other areas.
Because according to his estimates, the German army had only 5 million men at most, and now almost two-thirds of them were unable to participate in the battle.
Was his calculation right? In fact, part of it is true, that is, the German army did lose 1 million people, which is only a lot more.
But on the other hand, he also seriously underestimated the mobilization capacity of the German army, and equally seriously underestimated the German army's war readiness.
Although the Germans had a loss of 1 million, the additional forces had made up for this loss, while also providing an additional 200,000 additional increments.
Similarly, the production of weapons and equipment in the German army, as well as the degree of mechanization of troops, completely exceeded Konev's imagination. The future war will certainly surpass Konev's imagination.
The battle for the Kiev railway station was beyond Konev's estimates and judgment from the very beginning. The German army invested 30,000 troops from Belarus and other countries, which consumed the Soviet army's spirit and ammunition.
Three or four German soldiers, armed with their weapons, weaved through the ruins, advancing in a hail of bullets before swooping down behind a bunker to dodge the bullets that came at them.
The bullet hit the edge of the bunker, sending a cloud of white smoke, and the German soldiers, straightening the steel helmets above their heads, pointed loudly at their commander in the distance, and shouted: "An anti-tank gun!" Behind the ruins! ”
In the direction they pointed, behind a piece of ruins, Soviet artillerymen, operating an anti-tank gun, opened fierce fire on the Germans in the distance.
The intensity of the battle was beyond imagination, with tracer bullets weaving back and forth between the ruins controlled by both sides, drawing a death zone.
The corpses of soldiers on both sides were littered everywhere in this death zone, some of them still warm, and some of them were as cold as stones.
"Iron Fist!" When the commander heard the report, he immediately gave his orders loudly.
The two soldiers with iron fists and bazookas beside him nodded, and then leaned out of their bodies in the hail of bullets.
Keeping on their knees, they carried bazookas and aimed at the ruins in the distance, then pressed the switch almost simultaneously.
"Boom! Rumble! The muffled sound of two rocket launches came out almost simultaneously, and then the two rockets dragged long white smoke and rushed towards the target in the distance.
Although the trajectory looks a little shaky, at a distance of about 70 meters, the shooting accuracy of the Iron Fist Bazooka is still guaranteed.
So, two rockets hit the ruins one after the other, exploding there, kicking off two plumes of smoke.
For the German army, it was actually very simple at times, because they had many advanced weapons that were ahead of their time.
For example, the bazooka, which was very common in later generations, was only available to the German army at this moment, and the Bazooka of the American army had not yet been born at this moment.
Moreover, the Germans also had self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which were "artifacts" that could destroy bunkers and cover infantry in street fighting. Apparently this thing is terrible and can give the Soviet army a headache.
In addition, the German army often used tanks to carry out infantry and tank coordinated operations, and from time to time used assault guns and other weapons to cover to reduce their own casualties, of course, it was much more clever than the Soviet army.
For example, the bazooka, which was very common in later generations, was only available to the German army at this moment, and the Bazooka of the American army had not yet been born at this moment.
Moreover, the Germans also had self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which were "artifacts" that could destroy bunkers and cover infantry in street fighting. Apparently this thing is terrible and can give the Soviet army a headache.
In addition, the German army often used tanks to carry out infantry and tank coordinated operations, and from time to time used assault guns and other weapons to cover to reduce their own casualties, of course, it was much more clever than the Soviet army.
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