Somewhat surprisingly, the expected Ming army attacked again but did not arrive for a long time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info watched as fierce firefighting erupted on other fronts not far from both sides, but the grove where Lieutenant Colonel Yuri was stationed was quiet for hours. It's just that this silence is more like a kind of calm before a storm, maybe the next time the Ming army launches an attack, it will be a shocking tsunami!

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's speculation was not wrong. Because of the appearance of his small armored force, the Ming attack force directly requested strong support from their superiors. Today's sky is dark, and there is a light rain from time to time, and there is no air support from this position. However, the mighty Ming army was more than just air power.

The remnant sun is like blood, and the sunset at the junction of heaven and earth in the distance is gradually sinking in the west, and the heaven and earth are dyed a golden yellow. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri leaned out of the turret with half of his body, raised his head slightly, looked through the gap in the woods and looked at the red burning clouds in the distance, and it was almost time for dinner. According to the tradition of the Ming army, they generally did not continue to fight after dinner.

Just when Lieutenant Colonel Yuri thought that today's battle might be over, a series of orange-red signal flares suddenly rose into the air behind the Ming army's position on the opposite side!

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's eyes suddenly widened, he took a deep breath, and shouted loudly at the Russian officers and soldiers on the position, "Shelling!! ”

Almost as soon as Lieutenant Colonel Yuri roared, numerous points of light whizzed and smashed into the grove. Dense explosions and rising dust and smoke flooded the Russian positions in an instant. The trees in the grove were blown to pieces, and the flames and smoke filled the battlefield.

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who was hiding in the turret of the KV tank, felt a buzzing sound in his ears, he couldn't hear anything, and he was dizzy and wanted to vomit, and the whole person was extremely uncomfortable.

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri did not know how long the Ming artillery bombardment lasted, he was woken up by his own gunners.

"Sir! The enemy is coming! ”

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who barely regained his senses, vigorously pushed away the gunner, who was holding on to his collar and almost suffocated him, and struggled to crawl out of half of his body to check the situation on the battlefield. This look scared him a lot.

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army continued, but the intensity had completely weakened. At this time, the Russian positions were in shambles, and there were wreckage left behind after shelling everywhere. The wounded were screaming, and the dead were lying on the ground in all sorts of strange poses. And, of course, there are all sorts of body parts scattered around. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri had half an arm hanging from the turret of his tank.

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's armored unit also had a Sherman that was hit directly and exploded like a huge fireworks box, the turret was more than twenty meters away, and the tank was blazing. This is the result of the shells in the turret being detonated. The American Sherman is a powder keg with thin skin and a big filling. In addition, several tanks were damaged to varying degrees during the shelling. However, these are not the main reasons for Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's shock.

On the opposite side of the Russian position, the starting position of the Ming army had already rumbled over more than 30 No. 4 and Leopard tanks. These tanks were followed by a dozen armored vehicles and a large area of infantry under black pressure. The Ming army actually transferred all the armored troops.

Swallowing hard, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri wanted to call for air support and artillery support at this time. It's a pity that there is no support now. Although there were still a small number of planes in Moscow, none of them were for combat use, and those were transport planes that were on standby and ready to retreat with their senior officers. Moreover, as the front outside Moscow was constantly squeezed by the Ming army, and the nearest peripheral airfields were more than 200 kilometers away, it was impossible for them to break through the blockade of the Ming army's army and air to come here to support the ground operation. If there is an airplane in the sky, it must be Ming.

And artillery support. The Russians no longer had any decent artillery support. The remaining artillery in their hands was basically concealed in Moscow, ready for street fighting. The shelling on the outer front had long been cleared by the artillery and bombers of the Ming army. At most, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri was able to get some mortar support. It's just that in the current situation, what role can mortars play?

In the afternoon, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's armored troops suddenly appeared on this position and attacked the Ming army, and then looted the bodies of the Ming soldiers killed in battle. The enraged Ming army immediately mobilized a nearby armored battalion and threw it into attack.

At the same time, the Ming infantry regiment, which was responsible for attacking here, also applied for ten-minute fire support from the divisional artillery regiment. Even the traditional habit of not fighting at dinner time is ignored, and it is killed after it is ready.

"God forbid." Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who had no way out, prayed in his heart and immediately began to direct the troops to meet him, and now he only wanted to hold out until dark. The combat tradition of the Ming army is generally that they will not continue to fight after dark, as long as they can hold out until dark, then there is still hope for them. When the time comes, you can apply for reinforcements from your superiors or withdraw to the rear to rest.

Lieutenant Colonel Yuri commanded three KVs to the middle of the position, while the other T34s and Shermans were distributed on either side of the KV. The KV with thick skin and flesh is difficult to penetrate, and even the L71 long-barreled 88 mm caliber gun equipped with the Ming Leopard tank is difficult to penetrate the front armor of the KV. At a distance, of course.

Russian troops on the defensive line began to fire heavily. At this time, there is no need to save ammunition. The machine guns on the tanks and the machine guns and rifles in the trenches were all desperately pouring ammunition at the Ming attacking troops, trying to repel the Ming attack. It's a pity that the strong Ming army is so easy to deal with?

The Ming army has more than twice as many tanks as the Russian army, and these armored units are basically veterans who have been fighting on the battlefield for a long time. They used short stops to fire at a rapid pace while advancing rapidly. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri constantly commanded his tank group to change positions and confront the Ming army. But the huge disparity in strength became more and more evident as the forces of the two sides got closer and closer.

After the distance between the two sides entered 800 meters, the main gun of the Leopard was already able to directly threaten the KV of the Russian army. And after the distance between the two sides entered five hundred meters, the No. 4 tank of the Ming army was able to pose a threat to the KV. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's armored troops, despite their best efforts, were destroyed one by one. By the time the Ming army entered the grove, only Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's own car was left on the Russian position.

And Lieutenant Colonel Yuri's car was also hit three times and has lost its combat effectiveness. The machine gun and a lot of equipment were already out of service, and one of the tracks was broken. The driver was killed, the communicator and gunner were wounded. The infantry on the Russian positions also suffered heavy losses, and there were not a few living people still resisting as far as the past could see.

Looking at the vanished sunset in the distance again, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri smiled miserably. He knew that the Ming army would not let them go today.

"Come on! Come on! Kill it! Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, whose face had become hideous, grabbed his submachine gun, jumped off the tank, rolled into the trenches, and fired fiercely at the Ming troops, who were already very close. After running out of magazines, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri threw away the submachine gun in his hand and ran through the trench with his waist hunched to an ammunition dump. A cluster grenade was quickly made.

"God forbid, please let me go home." Lieutenant Colonel Yuri, who was lying in the trench, kissed the cross he was hanging on and the family photo in his wallet. Listening to the roar of the engine getting closer and closer, there was calm on my face.

Suddenly looking up, he saw a huge black shadow hanging overhead, and Lieutenant Colonel Yuri pulled the fuse of the grenade with great force.

Such battles have taken place in many positions outside Moscow. The Russian army fought extremely tenaciously, and many positions changed hands several times, and the Ming army needed to pay a huge price to occupy them. Many Russian troops on the positions really fought to the death after receiving the order not to retreat, and all of them died on the positions.

The Russians fought valiantly and tenaciously, but their enemies were too strong.

The Ming army was like a 10,000-ton hydraulic press crushing the positions of the Russian army and crushing the resistance of the Russian army in any situation. Resolutely advancing towards the city of Moscow.

By the time of October 12, the Ming army had basically cleared the outer positions of the Moscow defenders and advanced the battle line to the ring road in the city of Moscow. The Ming troops at the front could already clearly see the Kremlin on the Borovitsky hill in the center of Moscow. The silhouette of the tall and majestic tower of the Savior is clearly visible.

In the operations to clean up the periphery, the Ming army killed, wounded, and captured more than 200,000 Russian officers and men, destroyed and captured more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles of various types, and more than 400 artillery pieces of various types. However, in terms of time, it is still slower than the battle plan prescribed by Zhang Cheng.

On 15 October, Zhang Cheng personally flew from the headquarters of Army Group Central in Kazan to the front line in Moscow to supervise the battle. The final combat deadline he set for the front-line combat units in Moscow was November 1. In other words, he demanded that the troops besieging Moscow by the Ming army must occupy Moscow, a huge city with a large number of defenders, within half a month.

The order from Zhang Cheng must be carried out. The front-line commanders proposed a long-term encirclement plan to reduce troop casualties, but Zhang Cheng vetoed it. Of course, Zhang Cheng did not cherish the lives of officers and soldiers, but he did not have time. Rather than wasting time on the Americans to develop an atomic bomb and then die in an irresistible battle under nuclear weapons, it is better to fight desperately now to break the enemy's resistance.

With the strong combat ability of the Ming army, when they began to fight desperately regardless of casualties, there was no army in this world that could resist it. Unless it's the Ming army itself.

When the Ming army issued an ultimatum to the defenders of Moscow demanding that they surrender unconditionally and avoid the city falling into flames. The million-strong Ming army, consisting of two artillery divisions, seven armored divisions, and forty-five infantry divisions with a large number of auxiliary troops, launched a fierce attack on the massive city. (To be continued.) )