The Moskva River is a river that runs through the city of Moscow, dividing the city into almost two parts. This river was originally the most important line of defense of the Soviet army against the German army, but now this line of defense has almost been crossed by the German army.

The Germans had already erected two pontoon bridges over the Moskva River on different sections of the river through tanks and cars, and in many places had completely crossed the river and completed the battle to cross the river. Because the Soviets did not have enough means to counterattack, they could only watch the Germans cross this important defensive line, waiting for the Germans to launch a fatal blow on Red Square.

"Let the engineer unit push the 'building demolition' up, I suspect the Soviet snipers are in that direction!" a front-line German commander put down his binoculars, pointed to a half-collapsed building not far away, and ordered his men next to him: "Clear the place, and then seize the neighborhood." ”

When the subordinate behind him heard the order, he held the steel helmet above his head and ran out of the trench quickly. This trench was dug by the Soviets, destroying the nearby streets and stopping the advance of German cars, but it was soon used by German infantry, after all, it was much safer to cross the road in the trench than in other places.

"Push the 'demolition' up and destroy the high ground over there! the infantry of the 1st Company and 2nd Platoon will cover your movements...... See where it is? Yes! It's the collapsed building over there! Okay, let's do it once we know the mission! Hurry up!" As soon as the battle order was delivered, the German soldiers began to get busy.

Not all German troops were highly mechanized, at least during the urban assault, the infantry that was rotated to replace the battle were old-fashioned infantry who were not equipped with much modern mechanical equipment. They relied on manpower and animal power to drag their artillery and other heavy equipment in the ruins, and even used dogs to pull captured heavy machine guns, and there was no trace of modern German troops at all.

However, it would be a mistake to underestimate these experienced combat units, who did not have many elite weapons in their hands, not because they were not elite enough, but because Germany's industrial production capacity could not equip every German unit with enough tanks and armored vehicles.

"Machine gun covers the left flank! Snipers pay attention to the commanding heights of the right flank! After getting around that wall, adjust the angle and open fire...... Got it?" ordered the officer in charge of the seven-barreled infantry lightly towed rocket launcher, loudly commanding his soldiers.

The soldiers were priing open the ammunition boxes loaded behind the wagons parked on the side of the road, unscrewing the fuses of the rockets one by one and stuffing them into the rocket launcher tubes. It was simple and powerful, and the German infantry always liked to use it to open up the situation during the siege of the city.

After loading, the group of sappers with rifles on their backs nodded their heads to signal that they were ready, and then the infantry lifted the open recoil support that had been fixed behind the rocket launcher, and pushed the two wheels forward quickly: "One-two! hey! one-two!"

With the shouting, the MLRS was quickly pushed to the designated position, and the German machine guns were constantly firing on the side, and after a pause of a few seconds, the group of sappers pushed this terrible weapon to the firing position in the rain of bullets.

"Fire!" Covering both ears with his hands, the nearby soldiers avoided the range of the rocket launcher's tail flame, and many of them even lay on their stomachs, fearing that they would be affected by the aftermath of this weapon. The soldier in charge of firing pressed the detonating device of the launch, and one rocket after another, spewing huge white smoke and rushing towards the wreckage of the high-rise building suspected of containing Soviet snipers.

"For the Führer! Forward!" Seeing the huge smoke from the explosion, hearing the gunfire of the Soviet counterattack that had stopped, I don't know where a German commander gave a loud order to attack, and the German soldiers hiding in the ruins carried their weapons, got up and hunched over, and launched a new round of charge in the direction to be occupied.

"Long live Führer Accardo, Rudolph!" a German flag fluttered in the crowd, and hundreds of German soldiers shouted slogans, rushed through the streets, climbed the ruins, and rushed farther away. The Soviet counterattack was suppressed by machine guns, but the sniper's bullet passed through the chests of the German soldiers and hit the steps by the side of the road, leaving an inconspicuous trace.

But none of this could stop the Germans from continuing their offensive as they captured building after building, using grenades, flamethrowers and even submachine guns to drive the Soviet defenders out of rooms of all shapes, gunfire echoing everywhere and shouts of orders to attack.

"There was a very solid building ahead, it had not been damaged much by the shelling, and most of the rooms were still intact...... We tried firing two shots at the building, but the 75mm tank guns didn't destroy the building's supporting structure. It had only collapsed some of the outer walls, and you could see that the walls were really thick...... "One of the armored soldiers said as he handed the map to his superior, then pointed to where he was in trouble.

He pointed to the other side of the street, and then continued: "There may be an anti-tank gun here, which should be 76 mm caliber, which is not a huge threat, but I am worried that there are other heavy weapons, because that building seems to be a central part of the Soviet defenses." ”

Comparing the map in his hand, the commander of this tank company and his deputy discussed for two seconds before he spoke: "From the analysis of the map, this may be the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviets...... The location is very consistent, but you also know that the accuracy of the map in our hands is really a headache. ”

"How valuable is the map drawn by the spy department with reference to the tourist guide?" the tank commander, who had just retired from the front line, laughed at himself, and then pointed to the sides of the road in the distance, and the infantrymen who had already begun to prepare for battle said, "It seems that the only way to do this is to let them see what kind of place it is." ”

The sound of machine guns soon intensified, and when the German infantry tried to approach the building, which was as thick as a pillbox, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Soviet Red Army, which was probably the headquarters of an infantry corps, and the Soviets responsible for defending it were relatively well stocked with ammunition and morale, and they clearly had no intention of giving up the place, and there were soldiers shooting out of almost every window.

The armored troops were still discussing how to bypass the building and continue their attack along the street, when the infantry commander shouted the order to open fire, and then the explosion of rockets reached everyone's ears, and the vibration could be clearly felt even from a building.

"Hell, what are they doing with a bunker in the middle of the city?" Soon, the supreme commander of the infantry, a battalion commander, led several of his officers to the temporary headquarters of the armored unit, and after greeting them, several people began to complain, and brought up the somewhat desperate wall.

"If the artillery can't provide support, I think we can only rely on the infantry to storm it......" A company commander was obviously apprehensive about the building, after all, such a sturdy building, relying on the lives of soldiers, I don't know how many people would have to die to occupy it.

"If we can confirm this landmark, I think we will be able to correct our exact location in Moscow once again. The company commander of the tank unit looked at his gray-faced infantry counterparts and asked.

The battalion commander nodded, pointed to the blocked building with only one corner left, and said to the armored troops around him: "Confirmed, this is the building of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, so it is built so strongly." ”

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He picked up a cut apple with a fork, stuffed the tender and juicy flesh into his mouth and chewed it twice, pulled out the napkin on his chest, wiped the corner of his mouth, and threw the napkin on the white tablecloth. The commander of Army Group A, Rundstedt, turned his head sideways and looked at the officers who had walked into his headquarters, waiting for the other side to report on the results of the German army in the battle that had begun.

After all, he was a veritable field marshal in the Wehrmacht, the second field marshal after Brauchitsch in terms of gold content, and if he could not eat fresh fruit at the front, it would be a real failure of the German logistics department. The marshal's lunch was specially arranged by special personnel, and sometimes the head of the state would even personally visit it to show his affection for a certain marshal.

"Marshal! The front-line troops have just received news that they have arrived at the building of the Soviet Foreign Ministry and are attacking there...... If we simply calculate the straight-line distance, our line head troops are less than 2.5 kilometers away from the Kremlin. General Kreuzer called to ask if he wanted to launch a storm and take the Foreign Office building before dinner. ”

Without an immediate answer, Rundstedt was munching on an apple in his mouth, and the quiet office was bright and spacious, and even a portrait of Accardor had been hung, as well as a huge flag of the Third Reich. After all, it was about 5 kilometers from the real front line, and his troops were closer to Stalin than to him.