At this time, Qi Muden was marching with his troops on a difficult march. The snow came so suddenly that even Qi Muden had little preparation for it.

But fortunately, the soldiers who came out were all soldiers of the National Defense Forces in the Northeast, so they still had a certain ability to resist the severe cold. And among the military supplies, there are also a lot of warm clothing. This allowed Qi Muden to get out of an embarrassing situation.

But the pace of the march had to slow down. The falling snowflakes almost made it impossible for them to find their way, and all the markers were buried.

Most of the men in the village were sent to the battlefield or gathered for training. All that remains in the village is the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. They simply can't afford to clear the snow from the roads.

Looking at these old people, women and children left behind, Qi Muden could only helplessly order the troops to help clear the snow from one village to another, so as not to lose contact with the outside world and cause the entire village to be unknown.

A large part of the reason why Zimuden was willing to do this was that he knew that he would not be able to catch up with the battle in Moscow. In this situation, it will take at least a month to rush over.

By then, the daylilies will be cold. And Qi Muden did not want to lead to the non-combat attrition of his troops because of the forced march. And most importantly, when they passed through these villages.

When the villagers learned that they had come to help the Soviet Union in the war, they all took out what little food they had left for them to resupply.

You're here to help us fight, and you can't go hungry......

This sentence made Qi Muden speechless. He didn't take what little food the poor villagers had. Instead, the troops were left with some provisions.

When they set out from home, the Wehrmacht carried a large amount of provisions. And during the war with the Japanese, the General Staff was worried about the current situation in the Soviet Union. A large amount of dried yak, canned beef, and field rations were ...... and so on to the front.

In consideration of the winter operations and the lack of food, the General Staff prepared a large number of compressed biscuits for this expeditionary force, and now each of these marching soldiers carried enough biscuits to eat for more than a month.

So he asked the fighters to give some of the compressed biscuits to the villagers in the Soviet villages, at least to ensure that they would not starve to death this winter.

"Commander, do we need to do this......" The chief of staff did not quite understand Qi Muden's approach. When no one was around, he whispered to Qi Muden.

Qi Muden glanced at his young chief of staff and said, "We are on the battlefield, and what we are creating is killing karma. Even if we are soldiers. Fighting for the country is still killing. It's a fact, an indisputable fact......"

"But I don't want my fighters to have the word 'kill' in their eyes and hearts." Qi Muden took a deep breath and said, "We are human. Not a killing machine. I need my fighters to know. They are people. We should have the feelings that people should have. We will be kind and sympathetic to the weak. ”

"We are holding steel knives, and that is to defend our family and country. But while holding the steel knife, let's not forget to smell the fragrance of the wild lilies that bloom on the battlefield. For we are men, not beasts......"

Zimudden was trying to keep his soldiers from thinking of themselves as beasts, and the Allies and Germans in Moscow had forced each other into beasts.

The troops on both sides were given strict orders by the commander-in-chief not to retreat even from a street corner, a living room, or even a kitchen or bathroom. The whole of Moscow was filled with the sound of gunfire and explosions.

As Eisenhower and others had predicted, early in the morning, after the snow stopped, the Germans began to send bombers out to carry out a full-scale bombing of the whole of Moscow.

"Chirp...... Boom, boom, boom, boom......" fierce explosions resounded throughout Moscow. German bombers, under the cover of fighters, carried out a full-scale bombing of the whole of Moscow.

And the Allied warplanes after clearing the snow. It also took off urgently to meet the enemy. Today's fighting is fiercer than yesterday's.

The German artillery frantically poured their own artillery fire on the whole of Moscow, and countless shells filled the whole Moscow with gunsmoke.

The air was filled with the choking smell of fireworks, and the whole of Moscow was collapsing. The bombarded and collapsed houses were burning, and around the houses were a large number of Allied troops gathering and advancing towards various positions.

The German offensive was fierce, and in the early morning they began bombing and shelling Moscow. The infantry units, with the assistance of armored units, frantically stormed the Allied lines.

A large number of PAK-38 anti-tank guns bombarded the Allied fire points, and the German Tiger tanks directly smashed through the weak fortifications to assist the infantry attack.

The two sides engaged in fierce white-knuckle battles several times, and even a large number of Soviet soldiers jumped into the crowd of German soldiers without saying a word......

Flesh and blood are not enough to describe Moscow now, even hell......

"We are fighting house by house, house by house, and our advance cannot be described in kilometers right now. It can't even be described in meters. Perhaps, it would be more appropriate to use decimeters......"

"A lot of times we can hear each other's breath with the enemy, even if they are separated from us by a wall. Even if we occupy the kitchen, there will still be a fight in the living room. Even though we grabbed the living room, in the toilet, in the attic, in the basement...... and so on, we still need to fight ......"

"It's no longer a city, it's a murderous stove...... The streets here can no longer be counted in meters, and I think it would be more appropriate for us to count them in terms of corpses......"

"There was a fierce and frantic battle between the two sides for every house, workshop, water tower, railway embankment, and even for a wall, a basement, and every pile of rubble. This level of intensity of fighting, in my opinion, is unprecedented. Perhaps, there will be no more ...... in the future."

This is the record of the officers of the German army who survived after this battle. These valuable documents were later preserved in German museums. At the same time, they handed over part of the originals to the Soviet Union as a way of paying tribute to the Soviet soldiers who died in that war.

"After the day is over, it's time for us to attack. The Germans were afraid of the night, and we used the night to take away the points lost during the day. In the evening, we have to do the counting and sorting work to see how many people died and how many survived.

Why do you have to do this job? Because the next day there will be a new assignment, and a limited number of munitions will be allocated. My subordinates report to me, and I have to report to my superiors......"

"At that time in a house, the second floor was Soviet troops, the first floor was German troops, and all possible weapons were used. Street fighting is characterized by no continuous enemy or foe, all the houses have been bombed, we are fighting in the ruins, everything that can be used, steel, coal, iron, has to be used.

We can't tell where the enemy is and where our own people are. You don't know where a shot will come from. When he suddenly encounters an enemy, he often smashes the opponent with the butt of his gun......"

"I didn't have a phone at all to command my own fighters, the command point I was in, there was no roof, the house was divided into two halves, I commanded here, and the other half of the same house was already German. If the Germans threw a grenade, we would all be killed......"

These are from the Soviet army's description of the Battle of Moscow. The cruelty and bloodshed of the battlefield are vividly expressed between the lines.

An infantry regiment, from the beginning of the German assault on Moscow to the first day after the snowfall, lost 37 officers and 1200 soldiers. The infantry regiment's division had been reduced by 3,800 men by the time reinforcements arrived on 27 September......

By the time they reached their destination where they needed support, 70% of the 35th Division, which had fought there first, had already lost ...... His division commander, Graskov, had been killed in battle, and the military coat he was wearing was riddled with bullets.

Divisional commanders like Glaskov who died in battle were many in the Allied forces, or rather, in the Soviet army. Every day, large numbers of corpses are hastily buried in inconspicuous areas controlled by the Soviet army.

There are not even tombstones in these places, not even any markings. He was buried in such a hurry. The living continue to fight. Disabled soldiers are in bomb shelters helping to reload magazines.

The battle continues, the fighting continues. The German bombing was forced to stop after a week. The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and even in the afternoon it began to fall in the afternoon during the last bombardment.

In order to avoid danger, Rundstein and Bock had to stop the bombing after discussion. The Allied fighters, which could not be replenished, were almost lost in the war of attrition between the two sides.

German artillery fire and bombardment destroyed more than 80% of Moscow's residential buildings. At the cost of more than 5,000 casualties per day, the Allies stubbornly kept the Germans out of the core of Moscow.

As the battle deepened, the Germans began to send their heavy artillery units into the occupied areas and began to bombard those Allied garrisons.

However, this has had limited effect. After fully considering the combat situation, the Allied command divided the large force into small units and carried food boxes into the waste to fight in hiding.

Every ruin occupied by the Germans is likely to contain Allied soldiers.

During the day, the Germans seized positions. And at night the Allies will launch a strong attack. Taking advantage of the disadvantage that the Germans had no line of sight for the time being and could not carry out artillery support, they launched a counteroffensive.

And often the positions that the Germans had just occupied during the day would return to the Allies at night......

A station that can be fought over and over again seventeen times. A street corner, occupied by the Germans during the day, and taken back by the Allies at night. A house, even if it is blown into ruins, the two sides are still frantically grabbing every inch of land in the ruins...... (To be continued......)

ps: War is a bloody battle......