Chapter XIII: War

"The war you are fighting is a war of liberation, a war of justice. Let the heroism of our great ancestors inspire you in this war! Let the victory banner of the great S-Vie guide you! ”

"Stand to completely smash D-Cole!"

"Destroy D-Cole!"

"Long live our glorious Motherland!"

"Long live the freedom and independence of our Motherland!"

"Advance to victory under the banner of the great Svier!"

The review troops set off from Red Square, and the troops behind also advanced, Bafokchev waited for a full fifteen minutes, and the tank troops in front launched their tanks to advance along the road, and all the soldiers who participated in the parade saw the supreme leader of the Soviet Union with their own eyes, and Bafkyuchev was no exception, and all the troops followed the large troops in front of them to the battlefield after being inspected on Red Square, and Bafkachev's unit went to the front line of the Western Front.

From mid-October to early November, many fierce battles were fought in the Mozhaisk fortified area, because of the relatively adequate preparation and the constant arrival of reinforcements, which prompted the heroic resistance of the SL Red Army to successfully block the D Army in the areas of the Rama, Ruza, and Nala rivers. Because of the previous frontal battles, although the Soviet defense failed, it also caused heavy losses to the armored forces of the D Army, and the army's morale was greatly reduced.

It didn't take long for MSK to enter the winter, and the early arrival of this winter gave the SL people a perfect climate to fight with, the temperature was as low as minus dozens of degrees, and in this snow-covered climate, it was simply impossible to fight on a large scale, and the soft snow would not only make it difficult for the soldiers, but also make it difficult for cars and tanks. The Soviet Army's thermal insulation measures in this cold climate were better, and the timely supply of the rear made every Red Army soldier basically have a winter cotton coat, and the gun was also equipped with a cold-proof jacket and lubricating fluid. The D-Army, on the other hand, was mostly dressed in single clothes, and the tanks did not have antifreeze, and the lack of preparation for the severe cold greatly limited the pace of the advance, and the strength was greatly depleted in one attack after another, and the tanks and planes that combined with more than two thousand were destroyed in the attack, and the original plan to quickly break through to Moscow was completely bankrupt.

Now that there was buffer time, the combat effectiveness of the Red Army began to manifest itself. In fact, the reason why Army D was able to successfully use the blitzkrieg to fight MSK was mainly because the top leader did not expect Congress D to attack him, so he did not do much defense, and the guards on the border did not have the current awareness of the enemy, so Army D took the opportunity to destroy dozens of military garrisons and sixty or seventy airfields. Although the supreme leader did not anticipate this, as soon as the war in Europe began in country D, some of the generals of the Red Army began to take some actions, such as storing large quantities of grain, strategic materials and oil, and at the same time transferring some factories to safe areas far from the Ural Mountains in the east, so as to avoid the fatal blow of industrial agglomeration. Taking advantage of this respite, the Soviet army sent a large amount of arms supplies from the eastern region, and the real war had just begun, the Soviet army took the opportunity to launch a strategic counteroffensive, and the newly transferred several elite armies joined up with the Western Front. At the beginning of December, an army group first switched to a counteroffensive, the flanks of the armored clusters of the D Army were fiercely attacked by the Soviets, and the rear retreated again and again, and the next day the entire Western Front soon launched a major counteroffensive from the north and south from the D Army.

The armored units of the Red Army charged in front, Bafojiechev and his comrades followed behind the tanks and motorcycles, except for escorting the prisoners in the tanks of the D Army that were damaged by the tracks, and the soldiers of the D Army who guarded the main force of the D Army who automatically raised their guns and surrendered, the whole battle basically did not play the role of the infantry, it was completely an armored duel, and it was fought until night, the artillery fire reflected the entire night sky, making the sky as bright as day, and the counteroffensive troops kept moving forward, without stagnation at all, and kept pursuing, which can only show that the enemy has been retreating, Otherwise, the D-Army's blocking party would have slowed down or halted the large force, and Bafkyuchev's comrades were almost undamaged in the charge, and the D-Army was completely driven back to its original territory, which also shattered the myth of the invincibility of the D-Army.

In the next week or so, Bafkyuchev personally followed the large forces to regain Rogachevo, Istria, Solnechnogorsk, Klin, Kalinin, Volokolamsk, etc., Bafkyuchev's infantry brigade was stationed in Volokolamsk, in early January, the strategic counteroffensive in the west was completed, the D Army retreated two or three hundred miles, and the assault group of the D Army attacking MSK was routed.

The scene soon changed again, Bafokjiechev who was sleeping suddenly heard an explosion on the defense line of the town, Bafokjiechev and his comrades immediately took their weapons and began to attack, on the city wall, there were constantly flares flying into the sky, illuminating the attacking troops of the D army sprinting below, Bafokjiechev shot desperately downward, every time the gun rang out, Bafokjiechev firmly believed that he had knocked down an enemy, it was this belief that made him persevere, and his comrades around him fell one by one, and half of the city walls were blown up. The D army below has almost attacked the city gate, dozens of heavy machine guns on the city wall will ruthlessly pour bullets on the charging German army, the artillery battalion in the city does not care where the enemy is, it manipulates the giant cannon to fire shells outside the city, near dawn, the reinforcements from other garrisons arrived, the tank troops drove directly out of the city gate to meet the D army, the fierce battle lasted for a whole night, Bafokjiechev alone fired more than 200 bullets, when Bafojiechev realized that the battle was over, the bullet casing had buried his calf, The heavy machine gun side was even more uncomfortable, the sub-machine gunner kept filling empty shells on the ground with hemp bags and throwing them down into the city, and now the shell casings of a Maxim machine gun less than a meter away from Bafkachev were still piled up more than half a meter high. Looking at the city wall again, there are the corpses of the D Army everywhere, the main battle tank emitting black smoke, and the soldiers of the D Army who are only half of their bodies after being hit by heavy machine guns. This is just a small attacking force of the D Army, the big army has not yet arrived, if the big force arrives, thousands of tanks form a powerful firepower network, which can directly cover the entire city with artillery fire, and the advance of the steel torrent cannot be defended in this small city at all.

In February 1942, when reinforcements from Western Europe arrived of Army D, the defensive situation of the Red Army deteriorated, and Bafkyuchev's unit, on the orders of the Red Army High Command, withdrew its troops fighting on the outer front and again moved to the defensive. Bafkusev returned to the MSK in a transport vehicle, a kind of defense in large depth was arranged outside the MSK, which is a collective strategic defense, equivalent to guerrilla warfare on the frontal battlefield, using the available space to block and disrupt the advancing enemy troops, and the assault group, diversion group, reserve and firepower group in the corps are divided into divisions to effectively smash the attack of the army group of country D. A large number of bunkers and pillboxes were set up, layers of defense, a vast minefield was established outside the defense line, and a part of the D Army could be consumed before the D Army arrived at the defense line, in exchange for a certain amount of movement time, Bafokjiechev was still behind the battle line, because of his excellent performance in the defensive battle in Volokolamsk, Bafokjiechev was promoted to corporal, Bafokjiechev commanded the delivery of shells to the cannonball, because the target of the giant cannon was too large, so the shells did not dare to be placed in clusters, and could only be distributed everywhere, The threat of the artillery position was greater than the heavy machine-gun line ahead, and it was easy to target, so Bafkyuchev was in charge of the management of the shells.

In March, the Red Army and the D Army suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties on each other, and there was a shortage of personnel on the front front, so Bafucechev came to the front with his own team, and the front line was full of blood, and there was no condition to transport the corpses and bury them elsewhere, so they could only pile up the corpses and burn them to avoid the plague as much as possible. The heavy weapons on the front line were almost blown up, only the new grenades were brought in from the rear, and Bafkyuchev remembered that there was a game in the village where a balance board was placed on a stone, and the children raced with each other to use a lever to project a stone with a marker, in short, a stone tied to a leaf or something was placed on one end of the board, and then a child at the other end suddenly pressed the board with both hands to make the stone fly out. Sometimes, they also use this method to make birds' nests. Bafokjiechev had an idea on the battlefield and came up with a way to throw bombs, cluster grenades together, make a simple bomb, and then throw them through a balancer, which can form a kind of bomb power, the shrapnel of the grenade can fly out of a farther range because of the rapid fission, and this kind of cluster grenade can greatly consume the infantry of the D Army on the battlefield. Bafokjiechev took off the steel helmet of a comrade's corpse, fixed a few grenades in it, and then found the parts of the blown up cannon and the bracket of the howitzer to form a simple catapult, Bafkjiechev put the steel helmet in a relatively shallow small container composed of the howitzer bracket, and then found a large stone, and smashed it on the other end, the steel helmet was thrown out quickly, the steel helmet flew half a mile, Bafokjiechev saw from the telescope that the steel helmet just fell in a D Army squad hiding behind the tank, The entire squad was swept away by a wave of new tricks on this old weapon. At the call of Bafokchev, more than 300 of these improvised throwers were made on the front line, and countless steel helmets fell from the sky, many exploded in mid-air, and the steel helmets were blown into small pieces and then flew into the crowd below. This weapon caused thousands of casualties to the D-Army, one of which happened to fall into the tank through a hole in the tank, directly destroying a tank, and more than a dozen D-Army tanks were damaged in different ways, and Bafoktochev was promoted by another rank.