Chapter 1101: Moscow of Blood and Snow (8)
PS: The first chapter of the new year! I wish you all good health! Happy family! Today is New Year's Day, so let's stay at home with your parents! It is not easy to raise us to the end, and we should be grateful. If you really can't go back when you're away, then it's good to call your parents to report their safety and say hello......
After such a long period of fighting, the gap between the Germans and the Allies has gradually narrowed. Especially after the onset of winter, the Allied forces could not be replenished in time, and there was a lack of cold materials.
This resulted in a large non-combat attrition of the Allies, which was slightly better off for the Germans. The Germans were already thinking about storming Moscow, and the German General Staff was also considering the impact of winter on the fighting.
As a result, the Germans were able to get a large amount of cold supplies in advance. This made the German army much stronger than the Allies in terms of protection against the cold. Had it not been for the fact that the Germans had entered the city of Moscow, heavy firepower and bombardment were no longer as effective as positional warfare, perhaps the Allied casualties would have increased.
But even then, the Allied casualties at this stage are extremely heavy. The casualties caused by the fighting were already as high as 250,000. Instead of combat attrition, there are tens of thousands more.
This number is constantly increasing, and it would be nice if Zhukov could get those much-needed supplies to Moscow in time. If not, even holding Moscow will be extremely costly.
How exactly it should be fought, this has become the heart of all the generals of the Allied forces. Zhukov will be a week away at the earliest, and in this week, Shui does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to hold on to his original position.
Although the Allies had done their best to resist the Soviet offensive, the equipment, weather, and firepower were ...... And so on. So that they had to temporarily fall into a disadvantage.
Whether it was Montgomery or Eisenhower, the first line of the telegram sent back to their home countries was: We need support, we need a lot of support! From soldiers to materiel. Everything we need!
This is the state of affairs in Moscow now. There was blood and snow everywhere, and the white snow was no longer recognizable in its original color. The snow here is black.
Because of the smoke in Moscow. The blood here is also red because it is sprinkled all over the city.
The intensity of the fighting was such that neither side even had time or opportunity to collect the remains of those soldiers who had died in battle. The bodies of a large number of soldiers killed in battle can be seen everywhere in Moscow, and they are just thrown alive on the side of the road.
When the Germans entered Moscow in the early days, the Allies still had time to collect the remains of the soldiers for burial. But as the war dragged on, the Allies ran out of time.
Beacons everywhere. Maybe when you drag the corpse of a comrade, you'll get a deadly bullet next to it. No one dares to say how many bodies are buried in the ruins of Moscow.
There is no mention of it in the official casualty reports, but in fact there are still a large number of missing people among the Allied forces. The number of these people is in the tens of thousands. And most of these people were not captured. Most of them were buried in the snow-covered ruins......
"Comrade Zhukov, you can't go in such a hurry anymore! We now have more than 3,000 frostbitten comrades, and I am afraid that we will not reach Moscow if we continue like this. We ourselves will lose our combat effectiveness due to frostbite first! ”
Barwell looked at the Soviet soldiers who were being carried down one after another. Bowing his head, he said to Zhukov: "Now the number of people who have frostbite is increasing, and if we still rush like this, I am worried about ......"
"Even if we lose more than half of our staff, we must rush to Moscow as quickly as possible!" Zhukov blushed and handed a telegram to Barwell.
The latter took the telegram and looked at it, and closed his eyes in pain.
It was a telegram from the city of Moscow, on which Tukhachevsky described to them the tragic situation in Moscow.
More than 20% of the city area was occupied by the Germans, and 80% of the buildings were destroyed. The Allied forces suffered more than 250,000 casualties and more than 50,000 non-combat losses. More than 40,000 people are directly missing. All medicines are running out......
The artillery was almost destroyed, and anti-aircraft guns were forced to be used in sneak attacks or positional warfare. Even so. The Allies also had no way to completely contain the German offensive.
Every day, the Germans continued to contribute to the Allied positions in Moscow. The Allies, lacking cold protection and medicine, had to engage the Germans at a disadvantage......
"Comrade Barwell, do you think we can wait?! Can Moscow wait?! Zhukov's face was ugly, he did not know that such a march would lead to great non-combat attrition.
But he had no other choice, and if he did not reach Moscow as soon as possible, the situation of the entire Allied army would be even more difficult.
"Okay...... Comrade Zhukov, I will first take the troops to the front to prepare the ships......" Barwell bowed his head and laughed miserably, and said to Zhukov: "As long as the large army arrives, I can guarantee that I will get enough ships for you to enter Moscow......"
Zhukov nodded, knowing that his partner could not stand a large amount of non-combat attrition. But in this case, I have to accept it.
Yes, he could only choose to leave. Go to the river first to help the follow-up troops prepare their boats.
As for how to enter Moscow, Zhukov and the General Staff had already calculated it. The current temperature has not yet reached the point where the rivers of Moscow freeze.
So, Zhukov and they could have entered Moscow by ship at night. But this is premised on the fact that they have enough ships to transport these supplies.
Moreover, this kind of operation can only be carried out at night, and once it is daylight, their whereabouts are in danger of being exposed. And if they are found by the Germans, there is no doubt that the Germans will encircle them.
With an army of 80,000 people, it is not too much to say less. If the Germans were determined to annihilate them, the 80,000-strong troops would be difficult to resist.
In Moscow today, the Allied and German armies have amassed more than three million troops. It's just 80,000 people, and it's a drop in the bucket.
At this time, the German field hospital outside Moscow was visiting the wounded German soldiers in the hospital. The Allies were bleeding from the head, and the Germans were actually not feeling well.
The Allied night raids, especially those of the Soviet troops, caused great damage to the German army. This even led to the fact that the Germans now did not even dare to light a fire at night.
For fear of exposing himself, he attracted grenades and mortar shells from the Soviet army. In the darkness you can barely tell where these are coming from, and an explosion is enough to bury all the soldiers who are warming up next to the fire.
The German troops lying here were all wounded in this way in the early days of entering Moscow.
"Don't worry, you'll soon be able to return to Germany for a temporary recuperation. When you're recovered, we'll have a chance to fight together! ”
Rundstein constantly comforted the German soldiers. These were German soldiers who were not forced to amputate, and although they were wounded, they only needed to recuperate and still be able to continue fighting.
The disabled German soldiers had been sent to the rear to recuperate after the operation. Having lost their combat capability, they would be sent back to Germany and placed to work in factories.
"We will win in the end, because we are German!" At the end of his visit to the German soldiers, Rundstein used this sentence as a summary of his visit.
While he was visiting the German soldiers, the guns in Moscow were still roaring. Under the orders of Rundstein and Bock, the Germans began to storm the Allied strongholds regardless of casualties.
While shrinking their positions, the Allies continued to use explosives and mines to cause large-scale casualties to the Germans.
In the snow, Lei Daxiang and his team quietly lurked. He couldn't remember exactly how many people he had killed. Or rather, he couldn't calculate how many people he and his squad had killed.
Ever since the Germans invaded Moscow, Commando A18 received orders from the General Staff. Let them assist the Allies in their defenses and do their best to kill and wound the Germans.
The Wehrmacht General Staff conducted several exercises on the situation in Moscow, but the results were not encouraging. A large number of Soviet prisoners of war captured by the Germans were sent to the mines to open mines.
The other part was to clear the snow from the railroad under the coercion of bayonets.
This allowed the German columns to move towards Moscow one by one. And the Soviet side, although it is also trying, does not have such convenience as the German army.
As a result of the war, the Soviet Union had turned a large amount of labor into active force. Most of the people who remained in the village were old, weak, sick and disabled, and these people simply could not support the large-scale cleaning work.
In desperation, Kalinin had no choice but to shut down some of the factories and devote manpower to clearing the snow on the roads. There was no way, if there were no roads, all the supplies supported by the Allied forces could not be delivered.
At that time, the situation in the Soviet Union will be even more troublesome. The situation was exacerbated by the fact that the Soviet Union had little food reserves, and that it was necessary to support the battlefield and put most of its labor on active duty.
"Bang!" The sniper puppy killed an exposed German sniper from a distance, and then quickly slid down from the sniper position and crawled forward stealthily.
"Da Da Da ......" As soon as the puppy slid down, he heard the roar of light gunfire constantly ringing behind him. The snow had just been swept away from his hiding place.
"The puppy is doing well, this is already the one hundred and thirty-ninth." Lei Daxiang nodded with satisfaction, the puppy has grown up very quickly, and even surpassed him as a master in some aspects.
"Quick~ set up a mine, let's retreat to the next ruin." Lei Daxiang observed the formation of the German army, and said to the commandos around him: "Go around, don't be exposed!" Fast! ”
At the end of the day, the commandos in concealment slid out of their hiding spots like loaches. They then quietly retreated, while several of the warriors in the back of the temple bundled grenades and explosives together and buried them in the corner of a ruined wall.
At the same time, a thin wire blocked the path of the ruins. After quickly setting it all in, they evacuated with the assault team...... (To be continued......)