While Marshal Zhukov was busy digging traps for the German armored forces, Marshal Konev, a Soviet army commander who was almost as famous as him in history, also showed the determination to sacrifice his life for the cause of GCISM, and nailed Talvivo, which was only 18 kilometers away from the city of Volokolamsk, day and night, urging the three army groups that had been fighting for many days to deploy defense. www.biquge.info As early as last winter, hundreds of thousands of Soviets with Moscow hukou braved the bitter cold and toiled for two months on the land from Trvevo to Klin, building three defensive strips. It's all the kind of defensive zone that includes a large number of anti-tank trenches and anti-tank fire strongholds!

In less than 48 hours, more than 100,000 troops were deployed by Konev to the Trvevo defensive zone, the most advanced of the three defensive belts. Most of these troops belonged to the First Red Banner Army, which had been mobilized from the Far East, and most of the rest were drawn from the 1st and 2nd Guards Armies, and some were reinforcements from the Far East - Stalin had done his best to defend Moscow, and he had gone crazy to collect troops!

As a well-known Red Army general, Konev is not in vain, he knows very well that when he is desperately organizing defense, the Germans will not be idle, and must be mobilizing elites.

Therefore, once the fire of war is ignited again, it will inevitably be several times more violent!

The E-50A tank, which has not appeared before, will most likely show its true colors.

In order to find out the reality of the German army and see the E-50A tank, Marshal Konev ignored the obstruction of his staff and personally went to the front-line position to observe the situation in person. In any case, he had to help Zhukov find out his opponent's hole cards in time before the tank Armageddon, which would determine the fate of GCISM.

This marshal of the Soviet Union is now ready to fulfill his oath: to die for the sake of GC-ism!

In a damp and muddy observation bunker, but very close to the front line, Marshal Konev was looking through the artillery mirror to observe the battlefield where the smoke had not yet cleared. However, he soon became a little disappointed, because the tanks he was very familiar with were still in the eyepiece, the Tiger and the Grizzly assault gun!

Compared to the previous combination of tank 4 and Grizzly assault gun, it was indeed upgraded, but the E-50, which he most wanted to see, did not show up. Now the Soviet Red Army only knew that the enemy had such a new type of heavy tank in their hands.

But nothing is known about its performance, and of course it is not known whether the 122mm cannon of the JS-2 tank can penetrate it head-on?

For this question, no one in the Red Army dared to pack a ticket. Because the theoretical value of the right-angle penetration depth of the 122mm cannon of the JS-2 type at 1500 meters is 185mm homogeneous steel plate. In actual combat, this standard will certainly not be reached.

And the Soviet Union's 122mm armor-piercing projectile is not very ideal, and it would be good if the penetration depth could reach 200mm. However, the Germans now had a simple and effective way to deal with armor-piercing shells, which was to add skirts to the sides of the tank and weld an iron fence on the front. Although it can't block 100% armor-piercing bullets, the defense effect against armor-piercing bullets is still very ideal.

So hundreds of A-19 122mm cannons (that is, the main guns of the JS-2) were pushed to the front line and shoehorned into the bunker where the ZIS-3 76mm cannon was originally placed. The E-50A was ready to give the Germans a hard blow, but the target did not appear.

Konev turned back: "At what distance is the A-19 cannon ready to fire?" ”

The commander of the 1st Red Banner Army, Colonel-General Beloborodov, replied: "If the enemy's E-50 tanks are spotted, the A-19 cannon will fire at a distance of 1000 meters." If the E-50 tank is not found, half of the A-19 cannons will be hidden in the snow first, and the rest will be fired at a distance of 1500 meters. ”

Konev nodded, and didn't say anything more - he himself is a master of the use of artillery, and he has used artillery to fight many wonderful defensive battles on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

Of course, we also know that once the 76.2mm and 122mm caliber cannons are pushed into the line of fire against the German tank clusters, it is basically "farewell, Motherland" - this is the mantra of the Soviet artillery in this battle, which means that there is no return!

Basically, the ZIS-3 and A-19, two cannons and gun crews that went to the line of fire (referring to engaging enemy tanks), were disposable. 20%-30% of them will be destroyed by German artillery fire or bombardment before the first shell is fired, and most of the remaining cannons have a "lifespan" of dozens of rounds. The ZIS-3 or A-19, which were able to survive in a fiercely engaged line of fire for more than 24 hours, were either placed in reinforced concrete bunkers or were unlucky.

In addition to the relatively poor survivability, the cannon in the line of fire had another insurmountable weakness - the line of defense was long, and no one knew where the enemy's tank clusters would appear? So the cannons can only be deployed in a scattered manner, and where they are really needed to develop their firepower, the number of cannons must be much smaller than the enemy's tanks.

The 1st Red Banner Army's defensive line at Trvuvo was more than thirty kilometers long, while the Germans' main breakthrough area was at most a few kilometers wide. That is, only a small part of the A-19 cannon will really come in handy. And with them, it is impossible to withstand the torrent of steel of the Germans.

The role of these A-19 cannons was only to test the depth of the E-50 tank.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Major General Marx, commander of the German 1st Panzer Division, was taken aback when the thunderous cannon rang out, and his Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns (transferred from the 4th Panzergrenadier Division to the 1st Panzer Division) were still 1,500 meters away from the Soviet forward positions.

And this cannon does not sound like ZIS-2 and ZIS-3 can be fired, but the 122mm cannon is firing!

He hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked forward, only to see that one large armored vehicle that I didn't know whether it was a "Tiger" or a "Grizzly Bear" had been set on fire. The remaining Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns reacted quickly, and after the first round of Soviet shelling, they all stopped advancing and prepared to open fire on the counterattack.

But the Soviets' 122mm guns preemptively fired the second round! On the battlefield, another Grizzly assault gun was destroyed on the spot.

However, the good fortune of the Soviet artillery ended there, when the 6 122mm cannons on the position opened fire for the third time and destroyed 2 Tiger tanks, the commander of an experienced German tank had already discovered the muzzle flame.

The turrets of a dozen Tiger tanks turned, followed by the sound of coaxial machine guns, followed by the roar of cannons. The civil artillery bunkers were blown into the sky, two A-19 122mm cannons and their crews were blown into the air, and four A-19 cannons continued to fight and fire. Perhaps due to panic, this time they did not hit any targets, but instead attracted more 88mm armor-piercing shells, all of which were blown into the sky after several rounds of artillery battles.

Seeing this scene, Konev only sighed slightly, it seems that Germany does not need to send the E-50 at all, and the defense line of the 1st Red Banner Army will be breached.

"Comrade Commander, it's dangerous here, so you'd better move first." At this time, Admiral Beloborodov said loudly to Konev, "Just leave it to our 1st Red Banner Army here, and there will be no problem in blocking the Germans for 2-3 days." ”

Konev nodded and said to Beloborodov: "Tell our comrades that although Russia is big, we have no way back, because behind it is Moscow!" ”

This slogan, first shouted by the officers and men of the 8th Guards Infantry Division, has now spread to the three fronts near Moscow, and all the officers and men of the Red Army understand its meaning.

Their Soviet Motherland, now it has reached its most dangerous moment!

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Beloborodov gave assurances to Konev when the commander of the German 4th Panzer Army, Hermann. Admiral Hoth also sat in the city of Volokolamsk to supervise the battle.

Now is also the most critical moment for the Third Reich!

Although both the Great General Staff and the Command of Army Group Center had roughly guessed the intentions of the Soviet troops, they still did not hesitate to put the biggest bet.

And he, the commander of the first-line army group, of course, could not be ambiguous, so at the military mobilization meeting last night, General Hoult also gave a rare death order to the troops: within three days, the 48th Panzer Army must attack near Link, cut off the Red October railway line, and at the same time be ready for a decisive battle with the numerically superior Soviet tank cluster!

The Soviet tank cluster must be routed at all costs!

The fate of the Third Reich, Europa, and the whole world will be decided by this tank battle.

At this moment, the General Staff of the Wehrmacht in Berlin was also a scene of extreme tension. Reich Marshal Hersmann and Reichsmarshal Schleicher, who had retired from active service, both set their beds in the Great General Staff from the evening of the 26th, and they were the first to grasp any changes at the front.

And Marshal Guderian, who was actually in command of the overall situation on the Eastern Front, was in the first war room at the moment, thinking hard about a situation map of the Moscow front. Chief of the General Staff Hersman quietly walked in. Guderian heard the knock in the door and turned his head. Seeing Hirschman with a tired face and a little dark eyes, Guderian understood that his top boss must be under tremendous pressure now, and he probably couldn't sleep for even a minute last night.

"Imperial Marshal," Guderian frowned and smiled, "the fateful moment has come!" ”