Vassili. Georgievich. Klochkov. Lieutenant Tiyev's political deputy battalion commander was now hunched up, eyes closed, crouching in the cold, damp muddy water, letting the bullets whizz in his ears. The Hero of the Soviet Union www.biquge.info the future, but at this time he had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and let the master in the dark decide whether to let the Germans take his life with bullets or bombs.

As a loyal GC fighter, what scared Captain Tiyev the most was not death, but watching the army of imperialism and the White Russian bandits approach the heart of the great Soviet Motherland step by step.

Now that Leningrad, the second capital of the Motherland, has fallen, and Moscow is behind him, he feels that he and the GCIST warriors of the Panfilov division have no way out.

Time passed slowly in torment, and the roar of the motors, the roar of the guns, and the explosion that drowned out all the sound were constantly repeated in the ears of Captain Tiev. I don't know how long it took, but the dizzying sounds finally subsided, and the voices of people were heard again in the trenches—shouts and screams!

Captain Tiyev knew that he was intact and apparently not injured in the air raid. When he opened his eyes, he saw a hellish scene of heavy casualties: the remains of martyrs and wailing wounded in the trenches, blood had stained the brown muddy water a dark brown or dark red.

However, Tiyev did not show any panic or discomfort, he was not a newcomer to the battlefield (he was not a Kazakh). Before joining the 8th Guards Infantry Division, he had already fought the Germans in many places, and he had long been surprised by the heavy casualties.

It can be said that the casualties inflicted by German aircraft this time were nothing in Ziyev's battlefield experience.

But he also knew that the battle had just begun!

"Comrades!" Tiyev got up from the muddy water and shouted, "Get ready to fight!" The enemy is coming, and we must defeat them, because Russia is big, we have no way back, and behind it is Moscow! Behind us, it's Moscow! ”

Although the 8th Guards Infantry Division is located more than 270 kilometers from the border of the Moscow Region, everyone knows that the battle is now for the defense of Moscow! Defend the great capital of the Soviet Fatherland.

If Moscow falls, I'm afraid the USSR will really fall!

With the shouts of Captain Tiev, the "Tiyev Battle Group", consisting of two infantry companies of the 1075th Infantry Regiment, one anti-tank destroyer platoon (with three ZIS-3 76mm cannons) and two SU-57 tank destroyers sent by the 28th Guards Tank Destroyer Brigade, immediately began to operate quickly like a war machine at full power.

At the urging of officers and political workers, many of the somewhat numb Kazakh fighters, who had been huddled in the muddy trenches for almost an hour, tormented by the seemingly endless bombardment and strafing of machine guns and machine guns, picked up a variety of weapons - Mosin-Nagant rifles, Bobosha submachine guns, DP turntable light machine guns, M1910 heavy machine guns, red Iron Fist anti-tank grenade launchers, Bazookas, PTRS and PTRD anti-tank rifles, as well as various grenades and Molotov cocktails - Walk along the same muddy traffic trenches towards the forward positions.

3 ZIS-3 76mm cannons have been hiding in a forest behind the forward positions, quietly waiting for the approach of their prey...... It was necessary to get very close to the spool-type high-speed armor-piercing projectile used in the ZIS-3 76mm cannon in order to exert its power.

This armor-piercing projectile with a carbide core and a soft shell could penetrate a homogeneous steel plate of 500mm at a right angle at a distance of 92 meters, and a homogeneous steel plate of 100mm at a right angle at a "suicide distance" of 102 meters, which could theoretically threaten the "shrinking tiger" (Tiger H-type) of the Germans.

However, in practical use, the ZIS-3 76mm cannon is basically a "disposable" weapon, and it is easy to be destroyed by the powerful artillery fire of the German army, so the loss exchange rate is very unsatisfactory, and 3 gun crews may not be able to replace 1 German tank.

Therefore, the anti-tank firepower that Tiyev could really rely on, in addition to the individual anti-tank weapons in the hands of the infantry (a bad anti-tank gun is usually not as good as an iron fist anti-tank grenade launcher), was the two SU-57 anti-tank destroyers. During the German air raid just now, they carefully hid in an inconspicuous wood, and the hull of the car was covered with camouflage.

Now, while the Germans were flying away, the motors of the two valuable SU-57 tank destroyers also began to roar, and the tracks crushed the muddy ground and drove towards the preset positions ahead. They were going to set up ambushes there, waiting for the German tanks and armored vehicles to approach.

Ziyev himself went to the front line, and by this time German tanks and assault guns had already appeared in the sight of the Soviet front.

Of course, not the dreaded Tiger and E-50 tanks, these two tanks also have another unexposed "Cheetah" tank destroyer (armed with 105mm L/68 guns), which are all equipment used for tank battles, not for attacking Soviet positions.

So all Tiyev and his comrades saw now was an armored cluster of Grizzly assault guns and No. 4H tanks, and infantry led by armored clusters. Probably because the roads were muddy and a large number of personnel and equipment were trapped in the mud, the attacking troops put in by the Germans now did not seem to be very large, about two dozen tanks/assault guns and three or four hundred infantry. The men and vehicles were still far away and moving slowly, and it seemed that it would be a little while before they could engage in battle.

Just when Tiyev breathed a sigh of relief, the German artillery, which was placed somewhere, opened fire.

"Boom!"

The powerful shock wave of the exploding shells that landed on the Soviet positions swept in, and Tiyev only lowered his head slightly, instead of retracting to the bottom of the trench like the Kazakh recruits who had not been on the battlefield much - the current level of shelling was nothing compared to the previous shelling that Ziyev had encountered on the Polish and Smolensk fronts.

When Tiyev heard the sound of the shells exploding, he knew that it was the German 150mm cannon firing, and it was estimated that the "Wild Bee" 150mm self-propelled gun was firing. Considering the current road conditions, the one that can be driven at the first time is this tracked self-propelled gun.

The target of the German shelling was not the Soviet trenches, but the muddy ground in front of the trenches, with the aim of detonating the mines there to clear the way for tanks/assault guns. However, Tiyev's men did not bury mines in the muddy field in front of the position, because the muddy season also had a huge impact on the logistics of the Soviet army. Tiyev's battle group did not receive enough anti-tank mines, so they could only be used at the most critical moments.

When the German self-propelled guns stopped firing, although they saw that the German tanks had approached the Soviet front, many Soviet sappers bravely rushed out of the trenches and risked their lives to lay anti-tank mines.

At the same time, there were also quite a few Red Army warriors holding the "Red Iron Fist" bazookas, crawling from the trenches to the pre-dug foxholes dozens of meters ahead. They will risk their lives there to attack the German tanks!

And they are accompanied by anti-tank rifles up to 2 meters long, and there are two main types of anti-tank rifles in the Soviet army, PTRD and PTRS. Because they are so similar, they are called "brother guns", both have a caliber of 14.5mm, and use non-streamlined tungsten core armor-piercing shells that can penetrate a 40mm homogeneous steel plate at a right angle at a distance of 300 meters. It is definitely not possible to use them against the frontal armor of the No. 4H tank and the "Grizzly" assault gun, and as for hitting periscopes and observation holes, it is basically impossible to hit.

However, this gun can be used to break the track, after breaking the track, the German tanks and assault guns will not be able to move, at this time the daredevils who are ambushed in the front foxhole will rush out and risk death to use the "red iron fist" to deal with the German tanks that cannot move. IN ADDITION, THE AMBUSHED 2 SU-57 AND 3 ZIS-3 COULD ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOOT AT THEIR SIDES.

In short, the Soviet infantry, which had been baptized by a long war, was now not without the strength to fight back in the face of the powerful German armored forces.

And the German tanks also knew that the enemy they were facing was not so easy to deal with, so they did not rush forward with their heads covered, but stopped abruptly 600 meters away from the front of the Soviet army. Because most of the Soviet anti-tank firepower was inaccurate, the threat to German tanks/assault guns at a distance of 600 meters was not very great.

Then, all the Grizzly assault guns began to roar, throwing 150mm caliber ammunition onto the Soviet positions. The No. 4H tank pointed its muzzle far ahead, and the chamber was filled with a shell-piercing shell, waiting for the ambushed Soviet tank or tank destroyer to fire to expose the target - as long as the distance was not more than 800 meters, this armor-piercing shell could even be done with the Soviet JS-2 heavy tank in one shot!

But the German commander soon found that the Soviet positions in front of them were as if no one was stationed, and they were just stiffly beaten, and no artillery fired back.

However, the Germans, who were also experienced, did not launch tanks and assault gun clusters again, but let the infantry armed with Mkb-42 automatic carbines charge.

At the same time, there were a number of German mortar and machine-gun groups, which had followed the tank/assault artillery movement, and were now also set up, covering the attacking infantry with machine-gun bullets and mortar shells.

The outpost battle for the defense of Moscow was thus unfolded between two infantry units of quite good quality!