"Commander, there is Ryazan in front."

Major General Wei Yinglai, chief of staff of the 41st Group Army, said to a lieutenant general next to him, who was none other than the commander of the 36th Group Army, Lieutenant General Chen Jiheng of the Imperial Army.

Chen Jiheng, Han nationality, 54 years old, a native of Guangxi, was once a subordinate of Lu Rongting, and Lu Rongting led his troops to join the militia in the Yunnan-Guizhou secret talks led by Zhang Shusheng that year. After the reorganization of the troops, he was brave in combat and good at learning, and soon became a grassroots officer of the militia regiment. Although he joined halfway, he grew up quickly, first as a company commander of the militia regiment, and then as a battalion commander of the garrison, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he did not have much hope of promotion, but he caught up with the great expansion of the empire-army, from deputy division commander all the way to division commander, and finally became the commander of the 41st Army.

This person can be regarded as a man with outstanding military achievements, and has unusually rich experience in actual combat command, although the highest talent is the commander level of the group army, but he can also rank in the middle and upper ranks among the ten group army commanders in the empire, especially in terms of stability and fortitude, and he has performed well, and the expeditionary force attacked the southwest defense line of Moscow, and the 41st Army was one of the left wing troops, responsible for taking Ryazan, which was 130 kilometers away from Moscow.

"Once we take it, we will be only 130 kilometers from Moscow. The small Ryazan, nearly 300,000 Soviet troops are stationed, and this piece of meat is now eaten by our two group armies, depending on whose actions are fast. ”

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Chen Jiheng took off his military coat with his backhand, the temperature in Moscow in April was not warm, but very cold.

"Report, the armored forces are ready, the artillery units are ready."

From time to time, a staff officer stepped forward quickly to report.

Chen Jiheng nodded, but he saw an armored car stop not far away, it was Zhou Yuan, the commander of the 44th Group Army.

"Commander Chen, this is all ready, old rules, let's fight." Zhou Yuan said with a smile, unlike Chen Jiheng, Zhou Yuan is a general who was really born in the Kuomintang, and he can be promoted to the commander of the group army, which shows that this person is also extraordinary.

Chen Jiheng nodded, saying that it was an old rule, but in fact, it was to concentrate the firepower and armored troops of the two group armies and cooperate with each other to fight.

The 41st Army and the 44th Army are not armored armies, and the tanks of a group army add up to only about the size of a tank division, but the tanks of the two group armies are used intensively, and they have the size of almost two tank divisions, which is already very considerable, although it is not as advanced and numerous as the tanks of the armored group army, and the firepower is strong and the combat capability is strong, but it is still very useful for attacking fortifications.

"How long will it take for the main force of the Air Force to arrive?"

At this time, there were actually fighter planes fighting in the sky all the time, and the planes of the Soviet army and the planes of the Reich never stopped from beginning to end, and even from time to time there were fish that slipped through the net and dived down and were blown up by the powerful anti-aircraft fire of the group army. The anti-aircraft guns of the Reich were not comparable to the junk guns of the Soviet army, and according to the reorganized equipment, the headquarters of the army group even had a battalion of low-altitude anti-aircraft missiles as the ultimate means of defense.

"Commander, the main force of the Air Force still has 5 minutes." The staff officer checked it and reported.

"Well, Commander Zhou, we will launch an attack on time in 5 minutes and take Ryazan."

Chen Jiheng said confidently that the offensive capability of the two imperial armies was very strong. The regular army of the empire has always been known for its fierce firepower and well-trained, and the regular army has very high combat skills, which can be called elite soldiers in a hundred battles.

Although the expeditionary force is an expeditionary operation, its firepower is actually very strong, a large number of vehicles and vehicles pull artillery, with a considerable number of self-propelled guns, a group army can almost twice as much firepower as the Soviet army. Although the Soviet army also believed in artillery doctrine, by this time the war had reached this point, it was already sorry for the name of the Soviet army, which was once famous for artillery.

It was relatively easy for two armies with more than 200,000 people to attack Ryazan, which was defended by 300,000 Soviet troops. However, when the battle is difficult to fight, what we look at is the result of success or failure, and when the battle is easy to fight, it is natural to see who performs better, and since the 41st Group Army and the 44th Group Army have formed the offensive front line of the left flank, there is also great competition in addition to cooperation.

As for the city of Ryazan, there were only more than 300,000 Soviet troops to defend it, not that Timoshenko was unwilling to send more troops and divide more troops, but it was that the offensive momentum of the imperial armored forces in the center and right flank was too fierce, and he had the posture of hitting all the way to the city of Moscow, so he had to gather heavy troops to defend the center and right flank.

As for Ryazan, naturally he can't give up, and if he doesn't let go, that is, he is waiting for the imperial army to fight over and outflank him, so more than 300,000 people seem to be cannon fodder, but they will also play the role of cannon fodder and delay the attack of the empire-army.

Five minutes passed quickly, and the order to attack was quickly given.

"Boom ......"

There was a gust of wind blowing on the artillery positions of the two armies, and artillery of all calibers, tank guns, and self-propelled guns all fired at the targets marked by Ryazan on the opposite side.

The sky was full of flying shells for a while.

The artillery of the two armies is still not too much in terms of numbers, but after changing the equipment according to the surname, the firing speed and accuracy are somewhat stronger than the ordinary artillery in service.

The artillery force composed of the two group armies can already be regarded as an artillery group, and Ryazan on the opposite side was suddenly overwhelmed by a burst of explosive fire, and the explosion thunder came and went, showing the power of the explosion.

The tanks opened fire as they moved, and almost as a dense crowd of Chinese planes appeared in the sky, the tank units of the two armies launched a charge.

Hundreds of tanks charging at full speed is still very spectacular, just imagine, a five-six meters long, more than two meters wide behemoth steel giant, at the same time there are hundreds, that is a battle-level tank group.

In the eyes of the Soviet troops on the opposite side, the tanks of the Chinese can only be described as covering the mountains, and in the field of vision, you can see all tanks the size of ants, which are rapidly moving towards themselves, flashing many fires from time to time, but it is the tanks shooting.

The artillery and tanks cooperated, and the artillery kept firing until the extended firing, and the tank group never stopped charging, and the infantry units followed by the tank units were only a little behind.

The planes that frantically rushed to the positions of the Soviet troops in Ryazan in the sky were frantically rushing towards the artillery positions of the Soviet troops, after all, the artillery positions of the attacking side were moving and changing, but the artillery positions of the defending side were sitting on the ground waiting for death.

The battle between the two armies, with a total of more than 500,000 men on both sides, was already at the level of battles that often broke out between the Soviet Union and Germany.

When the Soviet army faced this kind of battle with the Germans, it often either concentrated superior forces to fight a fierce battle, or relied on fortresses and cities to defend hard, and the worst thing was to be surrounded and quickly annihilated.

In the face of the powerful German army, the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army was actually relatively average, and the battle loss ratio between the enemy and us was also very eye-catching.

In the war against the Empire, the Soviet army was defeated repeatedly, and almost none of them won a commendable victory.

At the moment, the situation is not much better.

The ruined city of Ryazan, which had long since become a ruined city in the protracted war, was quickly broken through by tank troops outside the city, and the imperial army soon broke into the city.

The Soviet army was facing a dead end in its operations, with its units having low combat effectiveness, backward weaponry and equipment, and lack of air power, and artillery and armored units unable to play a decisive role in determining the superiority of the surname. In this way, the Soviet army, which can only hold on, will be quickly broken through the defensive line once it encounters a very strong attack, and then it will be divided and surrounded, and even develop to the level of street fighting.

After 1 hour of fighting, it was easy, and the two armies, the 41st Army and the 44th Army, in addition to the tank troops, each had two divisions rushing into the city.

Four infantry divisions, two improvised tank divisions, and six divisions in size began to fight street battles in Ryazan and the retreating Soviet troops into the city.

A squad belonging to the 41st Regiment of the 244th Division of the 3rd Group Army followed behind a tank company, 12 soldiers, 3 tanks, and formed a street fighting group.

Wu Xinhui is an ordinary soldier and a bazooka player.

As soon as the tank company entered the street, it was found that it was a mess, littered with collapsed construction debris and several storey buildings that had collapsed or dilapidated.

When the tank company encountered a place that could not be passed, in addition to bombarding with artillery, it must also use explosives packs, but the well-trained combat team cooperated more tacitly, and Wu Xinhui also served as a blaster, and just placed the explosives bag under a small half-section of the building, and when he returned to the tank company, the explosives bag was detonated.

With a loud bang~, the half of the building was blown away, and the combat squad hiding behind the tank did not suffer any damage, and the tank company continued to advance.

"Bang! Dadada......"

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the combat group met the Soviet troops in ambush.

"Enemy attack!"

Combat groups quickly hid behind thick-skinned tanks, and the Soviet troops, who were desperately short of anti-tank weapons, often had the most effective anti-tank weapons being mines and flat-fire guns.

However, the laying of mines is very troublesome, and the unobstructed open zone is easy to be broken by the vehicle-mounted demining rockets carried by the combat group, and in the obstacle zone, it is easy to be detonated by shelling or explosives packets. As for anti-tank guns, flat-firing guns, anti-tank rockets have less success.

The image imaging system on the tank's vehicle can easily lock on to the nearby attackers, and as for the Soviet troops hiding in the ruined buildings, in addition to being bombarded by tanks, they will encounter rocket artillery.

"Three o'clock, that window on the left side of the third floor."

Sure enough, the observer shouted loudly, and at the same time made a tactical gesture, Wu Xinhui took a deep breath, and then after the tactical reflector looked at the position, he suddenly emerged from behind the tank, and the bazooka aimed at the window on the left of the third floor, and pulled the trigger.

Woo ~ A rocket flew into the window with a tail flame, and after a violent explosion, the Soviet snipers in ambush there did not move.

Three tanks also used tank guns and machine guns, cleared several targets, well-trained groups, easily took out an ambush of the Soviet army, the Soviet army even some could not come to their senses, the previous way of fighting against the Germans was unpleasant, but now it does not work when encountering the Chinese.

The Chinese's tank guns are very flexible, they capture targets quickly and accurately, and the Chinese's weapons and equipment are much stronger than the German army, and the rocket launchers are a large number of equipment, and what individual grenade launchers are such melee weapons, individual smoke bombs, individual cloud burst rocket launchers, these things are really very good to use.

"Put off the smoke bomb and move on."

A soldier took out a smoke grenade gun in the shape of a large pistol and pulled it continuously towards the side of the road ahead, and soon, several large clouds of smoke blocked a 50-meter section of the road, and the tank company and infantry squad passed quickly.

The next day, shortly after the sun rose, the whole of Ryazan had been basically divided, and the rest was naturally to clean up the battlefield, solve the small encirclement of Soviet troops, destroy them or capture them.

At the same time, in addition to the fierce air battles, the attacks on the left and right flanks achieved very good results, and the two armed armies personally commanded by Chen's army in the center were even more powerful to tear apart the Soviet army's defense line again and again, and it was difficult for Timoshenko to stop the Chinese offensive even if he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

……

-- Seven days later

The Chinese Expeditionary Force, having advanced the front to a point just over thirty kilometers from Moscow, finally met with fierce resistance, and a part of the core of the Moscow theater of operations was finally exposed to the guns of the Chinese army.

Although this distance is not comparable to the distance between the German army and Moscow, which was held by the Soviets only a few kilometers before the start of the battle, after all, the German army was often able to attack Moscow at that time and then be beaten back, and it was in this stalemate.

While the Chinese army was advancing only thirty kilometers from Moscow and the offensive had slowed down significantly, the Germans were extremely ferocious, having entered the city of Moscow for a full seven kilometers, and had gained a firm foothold and were engaged in a very fierce secession battle with the Soviet army. One wants to stand firm, the other wants to regain the lost city.

At this time, Leningrad, 160 kilometers from Moscow, Stalin had already arrived here, and compared to Moscow, which was already in dire straits, Leningrad, which was garrisoned by Allied troops, was much safer since it was completely re-contested.

The commander of the Moscow theater of operations, Timoshenko, arrived in Leningrad by helicopter in the darkness of the night and was urgently summoned by Stalin. Speaking of which, this helicopter is still an American cargo, although it is not as good as the helicopter of the Chinese, but the surname can be quite good.

"Comrade Timoshenko, if you fail again, their tank armored army will storm Moscow."

Stalin glared angrily at Timoshenko, who had suffered heavy losses in the Moscow theater of operations in the course of seven days, and had surrounded or wiped out as many as 2 million Soviet troops in total.

General Patton of the Allied forces even gave him 'advice', of course, more commanding, which gave Stalin a sense of desperation and drove him even more insane.

Once Moscow was lost, what was left of the USSR? How much is left of the momentum of the Allies?

As a result, troops continued to move from Leningrad to the Moscow theater of operations, equipment and supplies were also continuously transported over, and the Allied air forces were even fighting the Chinese and German air forces in the skies over Moscow day and night, but the situation was still very deteriorating.

"We need more support, Comrade Stalin, it's not that we didn't do our best, it's that the enemy is too strong. If the Allies do not support it, the outcome will be very unpredictable......"

However, what Stalin said next made Timoshenko a little dumbfounded.

(To be continued)