Chapter 491: Moscow's Offensive and Defense Begins

readx;??? In mid-September 1941, it was said that the Germans were already beginning a fierce fighting outside Moscow. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info The Germans had air superiority, and with the help of a powerful air force, the Germans bombed all targets in Moscow day and night.

At the same time, tens of thousands of artillery pieces were pouring shells on the Moscow region. Thousands of armored vehicles repeatedly swept through the Moscow area, clearing the Moscow defenders of various strongholds and defensive belts outside the city.

And the defenders of Moscow did not show weakness, although the air force was no match for the Germans in terms of quality and quantity, but as the defenders of the city, the defenders of Moscow still took advantage of it.

Because Moscow has countless anti-aircraft machine guns, and even more thousands of anti-aircraft guns. With the help of anti-aircraft fire from the ground, the Moscow Air Force and the Luftwaffe fought on par with the Luftwaffe in the skies over Moscow.

Due to the desperate interception of the Moscow Air Force, the Germans bombed Moscow very poorly. Many strategic points are under the protection of the Moscow Air Force.

At the same time, the desperate resistance of millions of defenders on the outskirts of Moscow made it impossible for the German armored forces and artillery units to form a real attack on Moscow, and the soldiers on both sides began to fight repeatedly dozens of kilometers outside Moscow.

Because the forces of both sides in this life are much larger than in the previous life, there is no one-sided situation in the defense of Moscow in this life, and the two sides are fighting like meat grinders on hundreds of kilometers of land centered on Moscow.

Soldiers on both sides are rapidly depleting at a rate of tens of thousands of casualties per day.

You must know that the total strength of the two sides in the Battle of Moscow is nearly 10 million, and even after such rapid attrition, it is enough for the two sides to fight for several months. Whoever is the first to bear the huge cost of casualties will be the first to lose.

However, such a tragic battle still made Stalin and Hitler feel distressed, you must know that these sacrificed soldiers are the elite of both sides, and the two want to put these elites into more important battles.

So only ten days after the start of the war, Germany and Russia changed their deployments in parts, both sides were actively deploying troops, and on the German side, due to the accession of Ukraine and Belarus, the Germans quickly gathered nearly a million servant troops in the occupied area to quickly reinforce the Moscow battlefield.

Ukrainians and Belarusians did not expect that they had just broken away from Russian rule and were getting along very well with the Germans, who knew that the honeymoon between the two sides had not yet passed for three months, and the Germans showed their true colors and began to drive Ukrainians and Belarusians to attack Moscow as cannon fodder.

Some regretful Ukrainians and Belarusians can now only attack Moscow, on the one hand, they have just turned their backs on Stalin, and they have to side with the Germans.

On the other hand, the Germans have fully occupied Ukraine and Belarus, and the families of these troops are under the control of the Germans, and now they don't have the courage to rebel even if they want to.

In desperation, the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army could only send a million troops together to reinforce the German army attacking Moscow.

And the Russians are not stupid, Stalin at this time showed the decisiveness of a leader, he was not discouraged by the defections in Ukraine and Belarus.

Seeing that the reinforcements to the left could not be counted on in the short term, he simply did not urge the bandits who sent him to the left to join the battle, but instead ordered the left to escort millions of young Siberian prisoners to Moscow.

With these millions of cannon fodder, Stalin believed that they would be enough to consume most of the strength of the Germans. And Xiang Zuo is also happy to be idle, and is worried that he can't find a suitable reason to delay the speed of reinforcements of hundreds of thousands of bandit troops.

Now is a good time, taking the opportunity to escort these political prisoners to delay the time for reinforcements to Moscow.

As a result, 100,000 regular bandits were ready to go, and trains bound for Moscow began to frantically transport cannon fodder to Moscow day and night.

And these millions of political prisoners were willing to fight the Germans, because they were pardoned by Stalin, and as long as they survived the battlefield, they would not only be cleared of all charges, but even their families would become truly free men.

In order for their families to return from cold Siberia to the warm south of Russia, millions of cannon fodder soldiers who knew nothing about the current chaotic world were sent to Moscow in batches.

Then these cannon fodder soldiers were issued a large number of weapons and ammunition, and directly drove their flesh and blood to the German army outside Moscow to make a decisive charge. Those who were able to charge three times in a row and retreat were directly incorporated into the regular army.

When these cannon fodder armies attacked the Germans, the regular army supervised behind them, and at the same time was responsible for the task of occupying positions and consolidating the results of the cannon fodder army when they achieved success.

The Germans were very unaccustomed to the desperate fighting style of the Russians, especially the more these cannon fodder armies fought, from the initial group charge to the later straggler line charge, and then to the later concealed charge, the fighting quality of the Russian cannon fodder army became higher and higher.

In the darkness of the night, Russian cannon fodder troops are often able to launch even more deadly surprise attacks. Because these Russian cannon fodder troops are often strapped to the end of their bodies with explosives bags strapped all over their bodies.

It can be said that every night attack by the Russian cannon fodder inflicted a large number of casualties on the German soldiers.

Although the Germans also dealt a huge blow to the Russian cannon fodder, the ratio of casualties on both sides once reached tens to one.

However, with the passage of time, the Russian cannon fodder army fought from dozens to one at the beginning, to ten to one, and even reached five to one in many local battlefields, and even closer to the casualty ratio of one to one.

In just one month, since the cannon fodder army entered the Moscow battlefield, the cannon fodder army has suffered more than 2 million casualties, but the German regular army has also suffered nearly 500,000 casualties.

The Germans were blinded by this suicidal attack of the Russians, and had to retreat thirty kilometers, and even handed over the entire battle with the Mozhko cannon fodder to the Ukrainian and Belarusian armies, who had just arrived on the battlefield.

In the eyes of the Germans, the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army are also cannon fodder armies, and it is most appropriate to use the cannon fodder army for the cannon fodder army.

Anyway, it is not their own people who died, with this million cannon fodder army to add trouble to the defenders of Moscow, their German regular army also happened to withdraw to rest and recuperate, and they must have been fighting for a month and a half, whether it is Army Group North or Army Group South, or Army Group Center in charge of the main attack on Moscow.

No matter how good the soldiers of these group armies are, the drive of flesh and blood is not iron-clad, and no one can stand a super attack for a month and a half.

And the arrival of the German cannon fodder army gave the Moscow defenders a respite.

Since they had been comrades in the trenches a few months earlier, the Russian cannon fodder army did not attack the German cannon fodder as fiercely as they did against the Germans.

And the German cannon fodder army also knew what it meant, and never took the initiative to storm the defenders of Moscow, and the cannon fodder armies on both sides only held their own positions. As a result, the Moscow battlefield suddenly fell into a rare period of tranquility, and both sides were only pretentious and did not make a big move.

But both the German military and the Russian defenders knew that the top brass on both sides were taking the opportunity to recuperate, and soon a more tragic and brutal war was about to begin.