Overnight, the whole of Moscow did not calm down. The Soviet counterattack lasted all night, and Manstein did not rest all night.

The battle was so motivating that it began as a battle between a German infantry regiment and a Soviet Guards division.

Subsequently, as more troops were invested on both sides, the battle turned into a major melee west of Moscow.

Four German divisions were engaged in the battle, while seven Soviet divisions were involved in the night attack.

Who would have thought that a local battle toppled the dominoes and, as if a bomb had been detonated, detonated a large-scale Moscow street battle.

Flares were fired into the sky, and the Germans even used their organ rocket launchers in the early hours of the morning to cover the area of the Soviet attack.

It was Manstein, the rocket artillery unit under the command of the commander-in-chief of the cluster, and the rank was higher than that of the army-level artillery unit.

It is not easy to mobilize such fire support on a normal day, but this night was like a feast, and they all appeared.

Yes, including German 150-mm howitzers; organ rocket artillery units; The 280 train artillery units directly under the command of the army group group joined in this artillery melee.

As if knowing their doom, the Soviet artillery was not to be outdone for the first time and began to fire back fiercely.

Between 10 o'clock in the night and 6 o'clock in the morning the next day, the two sides fired almost 10,000 shells of various types, again until dawn.

The Spark Stadium changed hands three times during the battle, and the Germans had just captured it in the afternoon, only to lose two-thirds of the stadium in the middle of the night.

Then the Germans organized a counterattack and recaptured the entire stadium overnight - this was the main reason for the high German casualties.

The Soviets also did not expect that the German army, which had always been reluctant to fight at night, really launched a fierce counterattack at night.

Originally, according to custom, the Germans often preferred to choose after dawn and use their firepower superiority to recapture lost positions.

But this time, the German army was unusual, and after being attacked by the Soviet army at night, it entered the mode of counterattack, so that this bloody night battle was fought until dawn.

By daybreak, the Germans had lost about 1,000 men, a frightening figure that Manstein had expected.

You know, the loss of a full 1,000 people in one day is equivalent to the annihilation of an infantry regiment! This loss was quite huge and could not be borne by the German army.

The loss of 1,000 men means that two infantry regiments must be withdrawn from the battle to recuperate, and if the losses are calculated, it is possible that the divisions of these two regiments will also have to withdraw from the battle to rest.

The number of Soviet soldiers killed was also quite large, almost 3,000 in the night attack - a figure that also made the Soviet military top brass very depressed, and they could not afford to lose such troops.

In the past 10 days, the Soviets have reinforced Moscow with a total of 40,000 men, but the increased defensive line and the loss of soldiers have made these reinforcements disappear in an instant.

About 20,000 men were replenished to the defensive line north of Moscow, and another 10,000 were assigned to the southern theater of operations in Moscow.

And the remaining 10,000 people were split up and replenished into the troops with heavy losses, and there were even a lot of deficiencies.

The Soviet army did not lose only 1,000 men a day, so replenishing 10,000 soldiers in 10 days could not reverse the trend of the Soviet army's combat strength becoming less and less.

Because the battle in Moscow is no longer just the battle in the west of the city - there are battles in the north and south, which makes Konev feel overstretched.

To the north of Moscow, the Germans were attacking the Dolgoprudny district, a residential area north of Moscow with a rather dense concentration of buildings.

Originally, there were not many Soviet troops stationed here, and 5,000 Soviet soldiers and 30,000 Muscovite civilian troops were temporarily conscripted to take charge of the defense here.

Obviously, these forces could not stop the German advance, so Konev added 30,000 Soviet soldiers to stabilize the defenses.

The problem was that even the addition of two new infantry divisions would not be able to stop the German advance. In the end, Konev had no choice but to mobilize another 20,000 reinforcements there, and only then did he barely stabilize the situation.

To Konev's annoyance, the Bibilevo district was now about to become a forward position for direct German attacks.

To defend Bibilevo, at least 50,000 men, or even 100,000 men, are needed - he has these troops in his hands, but with all of them engaged in longer and longer defensive lines, the reserves are gradually decreasing.

In fact, Konev and Khrushchev were bothered by other problems, such as the growing losses in street fighting.

Every time the Soviet army counterattacked, every time it insisted, it had to pay the price of countless soldiers' lives. The losses are getting bigger and bigger, which makes this kind of defensive operation more and more passive.

In 10 days, the Soviets lost about 90,000 men and received only 40,000 reinforcements, which is definitely not good news.

A little calculation shows that if 150,000 people are lost in a month, then the Soviets will lose at least 750,000 men by the time the weather is likely to become bad in November......

This calculates the sheer attrition of the defenders in the city in the face of constant reinforcements. The actual figures are actually even more staggering: the Soviets will actually lose 1.35 million troops and replenish 600,000 new soldiers.

Such a number of losses is almost equivalent to all the Soviet troops in the city being killed and replaced by new ones!

You know, both the Dolgoprudny district and the Bibilevo district are in the north of Moscow, and this is not counting the south of Moscow!

The Rokossovsky cluster retreated towards Ryazan, leaving a large defensive vacuum. The Germans took advantage of their mobility and quickly occupied and controlled these areas.

Now, Guderian's G-Cluster is eyeing the south, and although they are not ready to enter Moscow for a tough battle, the Germans may change reserves at any time to take over these forward positions.

In other words, areas such as Marino and Butovo can also become war zones at any time, requiring the investment of countless troops.

The Germans are not fools, they will definitely cut off the last connection between Moscow's pocket and the outside world. Once Moscow was encircled, the defenders of the city lost hope.

Without new reinforcements, the losses will not be replenished. After that, they will collapse due to attrition, without any suspense.

What accelerated this collapse was the fact that the ammunition hoarded in the city by the Soviet army was running out. The Soviet army, which has lost its ammunition, will become even more vulnerable.