The time finally came to the early morning of August 6, 1936. At this moment, above the center of Moscow, the capital of the USSR, a fireball suddenly rose 1,000 times brighter than the sun! On the vast front line outside the Soviet capital, millions of soldiers armed to the teeth on both sides clenched their weapons in their hands, huddled in their trenches or bulletproof fortifications, waiting for the assault to begin. Germans and Chinese from afar. It seems that he is accustomed to fighting under the huge power of nuclear fission bombs, and if he doesn't have this murderous weapon in his hand at any time, he probably won't even fight an ordinary battle, right? The Soviets, with the most desperate mood in history, and the bitter hatred of China and Germany, the two imperialist countries that were about to destroy the Soviet Union and Russia, nervously waited for the enemy's surprise attack, or...... It's a nuclear bomb! In fact, each and every one of them was so scared to death that they wanted to flee from the trenches immediately, but behind them was Moscow! Or Moscow, which is really hit by nuclear bombs! In some ways, the risks of staying in Moscow are even greater than being on the front lines of war.

As the flames of the nuclear explosion gradually dimmed, countless flares rose almost simultaneously on a front, hundreds of kilometers long. The colors are varied, but the symbolic meaning is roughly the same, that is, to give the order to open fire to the Chinese and German artillery groups in the rear. Some time ago, frequent outpost battles and exploratory attacks have already found out the general situation of the Soviet army's first-line fortifications. There are hundreds of meters of barbed wire and deer fences, and there are dense minefields. Tens of millions of anti-tank or anti-infantry mines were laid, as well as anti-tank trenches at least ten meters wide and up to three meters deep. The trench fortifications behind the anti-tank trenches were all deep and long. All of them had bomb shelters several meters underground, and unless nuclear bombs exploded directly above them, they would not cause damage to the Soviet officers and soldiers hiding in these bomb shelters. Behind the first trench, there were also numerous anti-tank fire strongholds that had been built into ring fortifications. And some towns that were only above the Soviet defense line were even built into strong fortresses. In order to tear through this impregnable defensive line, China and Germany prepared what may be the most powerful artillery fire ever built.

At 2:15 a.m. on August 2, 15 minutes after Moscow's first nuclear explosion (it looks like Moscow will have many more to come). The artillery groups of China and Germany have finally begun to roar!

The entire front began to bloom with countless orange fires, large and small. This was followed by an earth-shattering explosion, and looking down from the German artillery observation planes in the air, the scene was still extremely spectacular. On the fronts of Moscow for hundreds of kilometers to the east, south, and west, it was as if a raging river of magma had appeared. However, the Soviet officers and men, who had experienced the terrible scene of the collapse of the heavens and the earth caused by the nuclear explosion just now, did not take the roar of more than 20,000 cannons of the Chinese and German armies at the same time too seriously -- their bomb-sheltering fortifications were all able to resist nuclear bombs a little, so what was an ordinary shell? What really bothered the Soviet officers at the front was not the shells that kept falling on their positions. But the communication and command system of the Soviet army is completely paralyzed again! The reason why it is used again. This is because this has happened many times, and almost every time a nuclear bomb attack occurs, the power and communication lines in the area near the nuclear explosion are burned down in large quantities, and it is extremely difficult to repair.

Without telephone and telegraph communications, the troops scattered several hundred kilometers of defense line could not be effectively commanded, and even the Soviet artillery behind the battle line could hardly effectively return fire -- although the Soviet army already had some ways to meet them, such as replacing telegraph and telephone with signal soldiers on horseback. But it's not very flexible after all.

So 30 minutes after the start of the Sino-German shelling, the Soviet artillery counterattack still did not begin.

Wu Shi and his group army group chief of staff, Lieutenant General Wu Qiwei, stood on the top of a small hill. Use your binoculars to look at the tumbling firelight in front of you. The Western Army Group of China, commanded by the two men, has advanced more than 300 kilometers westward in the past 10 days, and has now reached Noginsk, which is less than 60 kilometers from Moscow's Red Square. So I had the privilege of witnessing the spectacular scene of a nuclear bomb exploding on the heads of the people of Moscow!

They had just been wearing radiation glasses and had stood on this high ground to watch the spectacular scene of the nuclear bomb exploding. Both of them were stunned by the fireball that was more dazzling than 1,000 suns, and their mouths were half open, like two fools, for a long time, and now they just reacted. And now they all admire the Soviet Red Army a little, under the blow of such terrible weapons, they are still insisting on resistance! What a stubborn revolutionary will!

After a while, Wu Shicai put down the binoculars and said loudly to Wu Qiwei: "Qingyun, I didn't expect the nuclear bomb to be so terrible!" Thankfully, we had this weapon in the first place! Otherwise, I really don't know if our soldiers can withstand such a blow? The rumbling sound of cannon almost drowned out his voice. But Wu Qiwei still understood what he meant, and replied with a wry smile: "Duke Yu, I think the question is not whether the soldiers can bear it, but whether the people can bear it...... The nuclear bomb that exploded just now was dropped on the center of Moscow, killing at least 100,000 people! Who else could afford such a price, except for the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik state? ”

Wu Shi frowned and muttered, "More than 100,000 people...... It's so brutal, most of them are unarmed civilians! But what could Trotsky do? We simply refuse to give the Russian nation an acceptable way out, and they will only fight to the end...... However, as long as the nuclear bombs continue to be dropped, there will always be Red Army generals who are willing to put an end to the suffering of the Russian nation sooner. He paused for a moment, and then said, "Qingyun, did the leaflets persuading you surrender use cannons to shoot out?" ”

"It's been played, but I'm afraid I won't get any response today."

"Don't worry, you'll always get a response!" Wu Shiyi waved his hand and took the lead down the hill: "Let's go, go to the front and see how the armored troops and panzergrenadiers are prepared, although there are already nuclear fission bombs, but it doesn't mean that we can rely on nuclear bombs to fight the world, otherwise we wouldn't have to bring millions of brothers all the way from the east of the Ural Mountains!" ”

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Just as the shelling began, Army Group Western of the Chinese Army, located on the battlefield east of Moscow, also began to prepare for a ground offensive. As tanks, tank destroyers, self-propelled guns, armored vehicles, and trucks with camouflage nets drove out of their concealed areas, a large number of infantry began to assemble at the whistle of the officers, and from a high vantage point to the west, the front of the battle line as wide as 100 kilometers was full of officers and soldiers and vehicles of the Chinese attacking troops.

When Wu Shi and Wu Qiwei arrived at the command post of the 2nd Panzer Group Army, Senior General Liao Lei, commander of the group army, was making final deployment adjustments with the division commanders and chiefs of staff of several armored divisions and panzergrenadier divisions who were responsible for taking the lead. On a huge map, a long red line was drawn along the Red Army City, Losino-Petrovsky, Kupavna, Elektrougli, Raminskoye, and other important towns east of Moscow -- this was the first line of defense that the Soviet army had laid out east of Moscow. Seeing Wu Shi come in, Liao Lei rushed to give a military salute, and then pointed to the red line and said: "Chief Wu, look here, their defense line is placed on the Great Plains, and it can be said that there is no danger to defend, but in yesterday's tentative attack, we found that they have a large number of anti-tank guns, machine guns and infantry, especially the anti-tank grenade launchers in the hands of the Soviet infantry can pose a great threat to our Black Panther tanks and Cheetah tank destroyers in close combat." This time, I'm afraid it's going to be an unprecedented tough battle. ”

Speaking of this Cheetah tank destroyer, it is actually a product of Germany's export of technology to China, but it is not officially produced and manufactured by the two countries. It is that several heavy industry cartels in Germany participated in the bidding for a new generation of tanks (tank destroyers) in China and Germany at the same time, among which the 40-ton tank chassis of the MAN company was favored by the armies of China and Germany at the same time, and as a result, China Heavy Industry and the MAN company were united. The Cheetah tank destroyer with a total combat weight of up to 45.5 tons was developed with this chassis, equipped with an 88mm tank gun of 71 times the caliber, and even at a distance of 2,000 meters, tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells can penetrate 153mm of homogeneous steel plates. On the basis of this tank chassis, the German company MAN independently developed a Panther tank with the same combat weight and a 75mm main gun of 70 times the caliber. Both armoured combat vehicles were produced in both China and Germany, although production in China was low, and by the end of July 1936, less than 500 Panthers and more than 700 Cheetah tank destroyers had been produced. Germany's output is several times more, so much so that the German army's armored forces have regarded the Panther tank and Cheetah Tanji as the main models, unlike the Chinese armored forces, which have only one battalion of Panthers/Cheetahs per division, and hold them in the palm of their hands like a baby, for fear of being damaged. Therefore, in the past, they did not dare to use these black panthers and cheetahs to attack the Soviet positions, but only let them bombard the opponent's fire points with their main guns at a distance of 1,000 to 1,500 meters, acting as self-propelled guns. And this time, Wu Shi ordered Liao Lei to use the precious Black Panther/Cheetah to make a surprise attack, in order to break through the Soviet defense line in one fell swoop! (To be continued......)