Brutal battles were fought around the town of May Day on the Red October Railway, and the area where the battle group of Tiev was located was the most intense. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With the support of tanks and assault artillery, the Germans launched two waves of infantry charges in succession. They wanted to seize the Soviet front with infantry, but the Soviet infantry, with the Kazakhs as the main force, was surprisingly tenacious, and although they paid a lot of casualties, they still repelled the attacking Germans twice with the artillery support of the 8th Guards Infantry Division.

The German commander, feeling a little pinched, finally couldn't hold back and ordered the tanks and assault guns to move on to crush the Soviet troops. And the anti-tank gun, which had been withholding fire before, suddenly became powerful!

"Phew! Bang! Woo ......"

The gunfire of some deafening anti-tank rifles rang out one after another from the positions held by the Ziev cluster. The tracks of several Grizzly assault guns that rushed to the front were suddenly broken. The huge hull slid forward for a short distance under the action of inertia, and then came to an abrupt halt and stopped in the mud.

At this moment, more than a dozen figures covered in mud suddenly jumped up in the mud in front of these "grizzly bears", and they rushed towards several "grizzly bears" whose tracks had been broken, as fast as a gust of wind.

These men had no guns in their hands, only a "red Iron Fist" that was exactly the same as the German "Iron Fist" 60 anti-tank rocket launcher. As long as they rush to within 60 meters of the "Grizzly", they will be able to destroy the frontal armor of the "Grizzly" 100mm thick and with a 40-degree inclination with the weapons in their hands!

And the Germans on those "Grizzly" assault guns also reacted quickly, the parallel machine guns on the front of the hull and the machine guns on the top of the hull fired at the same time, and the German infantry responsible for covering the assault guns also fired wildly with Mkb42, beating most of the "mud men" into "bloody men". However, Tiyev saw 2 Kazakh warriors rushing to within 30 meters of the Grizzly assault gun (the Soviet imitation of the Iron Fist 60 was not on the right at 60 meters and was only useful at 30 meters).

One of them got down on one knee, put the "red iron fist" on his shoulder, and regardless of the machine guns and carbines that were shooting at him, he pressed the fire button without hesitation. Suddenly, a small warhead slammed into a 30-ton Grizzly assault gun with flames. And at the same time as the huge and dazzling fireball rose, a bullet from an Mkb42 carbine also hit the Kazakh warrior. The Oriental, who had not left any name in later history, knelt there, staring at the assault gun he had destroyed, a smile on his lips, and then fell sharply.

At the same time, another Kazakh warrior completed the attack, and he completed the launch while standing. When the rocket was fired, he lay down with great speed, dodging the bullets that were fired at him.

When a huge fireball rose from the front of the Grizzly assault gun that he had destroyed, he climbed up with great agility, turned around and ran towards the trench where Tiev was, and miraculously survived.

However, Tiyev did not have time to praise the Kazakh warrior at all, because the German armored clusters and infantry were not blocked by several anti-tank guns, and by the time the Kazakh warrior ran back, the German infantry and combat vehicles had already rushed to the first Soviet trench.

However, several of the Grizzlies and No. 4H tanks were crushed by mines, and several vehicles were hit again by Soviet anti-tank guns, and all of them lost the ability to move on.

At this moment, 3 ZIS-3 76mm cannons and 2 SU-57 tank destroyers, which had been waiting for their chance, opened fire at the same time. The 3 immobile Grizzlies and No. 4 were hit and turned into fireballs.

The other Grizzlies and No. 4 also stopped moving as if frightened, and the No. 4H tank turned its muzzle one after another, aiming at the hiding places of the Soviet cannons and tank destroyers!

"Comrades! For the sake of the motherland, for the cause of GCISM, rush! Tiyev knew that now was the most critical moment, so he did not hesitate to give the order to charge, and jumped out of the trench with an extremely armor-piercing RPG-43 anti-tank grenade.

The grenade he used was also the first anti-tank weapon of the Soviet infantry, weighing 1.2 kg, using a shaped charge, with an effective armor-piercing thickness of 75mm, and a special canvas stabilized parachute device to ensure that the warhead touched the target first.

Under the order and leadership of Tiyev, the Kazakh fighters in the trenches also charged with Molotov cocktails, grenades or Bobosha submachine guns. Molotov cocktails with fire or RPG-43 anti-tank grenades with a "tail" (the kind of canvas umbrella that springs out of the spring) flew one after another at German tanks and assault guns. In an instant, several No. 4s and Grizzlies were smashed into fireballs.

However, there were still many German tanks that successfully fired indestructible shell-piercing shells, one SU-57 that was being transferred was blown up on the spot, and all three ZIS-3 cannons were destroyed.

At the same time, all the machine guns on the No. 4 tank and Grizzly assault guns roared, killing the Soviet troops who rushed out of the trenches.

The German infantry, who were accompanied by tanks and assault guns, followed suit, firing a string of tongues of fire with their powerful Mkb-42 carbines. Soon Ziyev and his comrades were pressed back into the trenches.

However, instead of giving the order to retreat, Tiyev once again shouted: "Russia is big, but there is nowhere to retreat: behind it is Moscow!" slogan.

A fierce battle ensued in the trenches held by the Tiyev cluster. Grenades and Molotov cocktails flew out of the trenches, the warheads of the "Red Iron Fist" also flew towards the German steel chariots with fireworks from time to time, and even some of the most loyal GC fighters hid in the trenches with cluster grenades, waiting for the German tanks to run over and pull the grenades, and die with the German tanks!

However, the difference in strength between the two sides was very large, the German side lost mainly vehicles, and the people in the vehicles may not all be killed (most of the vehicles can be repaired), while the Red Army side was a real sacrifice. As the Red Army soldiers fell under the guns and guns of the Germans, they could no longer stop the German tanks and infantry from breaking through their first and second trenches.

And the infantry melee battle that ensued, which was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet army. This is because most of the German infantry is armed with the powerful Mkb42 carbine, an automatic musket that fires intermediate rounds, similar to the famous AK-47 in history. The Soviet infantry, on the other hand, still used Mosin-Nagant rifles and Bobosha assault rifles.

By the time the battle dragged on to 23 April, close to noon, the last 28 men of the troops under the command of Captain Tiyev were squeezed into a grove of trees at the edge of the defensive line. After refusing the persuasion of the traitors (the White Army personnel who fought with the Germans), these 28 GCIST fighters put up a final resistance and died heroically that afternoon!

On April 23, the same fierce fighting continued around the town of Wuyi, which was held by the 8th Guards Infantry Division. The commander of the 1076th Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Ferstov, and the political deputy battalion commander of the 1077th Regiment, Captain Pavlov, also led hundreds of GC warriors from Kazakhstan to fulfill their oath to the Red Banner in the bloody battle of the day, just like Tiyev, and all of them died heroically in the battle on the outskirts of May Day!

The heroic sacrifices of Heroes of the Soviet Union such as Tiyev, Ferstov, Pavlov (all three of whom were posthumously awarded Heroes of the Soviet Union shortly after) are not without significance.

As a result of their heroic fighting, the 8th and 9th Divisions of the Wehrmacht Panzergrenadiers, which were responsible for the attack, lost 122 armored vehicles in one day's battle, of which 38 were completely destroyed, and the number of casualties and missing officers and soldiers was as high as 1,500!

When the command of Army Group North and the General Staff of the German Army Group received the casualty and loss figures reported by the two grenadier divisions, they were all taken aback - although the Germans "released water" in the attack on the town of Wuyi, such losses were completely unexpected by them!

However, on the night of April 23, it was not only the Germans who were surprised, but also the Soviet Red Army High Command.

They were not surprised by the bravery and tenacity of their Red Army soldiers, but by the indiscriminate bombardment of the Luftwaffe on April 22 and 23.

Of course, the Soviet Red Army was not bombed by German planes, in fact, since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the German planes have dropped countless bombs on the heads of the Soviet people, and the Soviets have long been accustomed to bombing.

But this time the Luftwaffe bombed the Kalinin-Tver battlefield and the northern part of the Moscow region by surprise to Stalin, Zhukov, Pavlov and others.

Beginning during the day on April 22, the Luftwaffe suddenly launched air strikes on Soviet-controlled roads and transport hubs on the Kalinin-Tver battlefield with unprecedented intensity.

The Do-217M bomber, with a bomb load of up to 4 tons, and the Ju188 (a reduced version of the Ju288) bomber with a bomb load of 3 tons, made a frantic sortie, and flew at least 3,000 sorties in two days, dropping tens of thousands of tons of bombs, many of which were butterfly bombs that were detonated with a delay in time.

As a result, the roads leading to Moscow from Kuvshinovo, Torzhok, Likuslavl and Andreyapol were all blown up to the surface of the moon.

In addition, more than a dozen very important bridges were destroyed by German remotely guided bombs.

So the retreat of mechanized troops, which was planned by the Soviet high command, is now very difficult to carry out.

The large Soviet troops on the northern front could not be withdrawn!