While Marcus and his tank troops were fighting hard with the Soviet soldiers guarding the position, thousands of meters above the sky, a Stuka 2 bomber followed by one rushed down the clouds. The German army has never been in the habit of a one-on-one fair contest with its opponents, and the main effort of the entire industrial sector for twenty years is to fight an unfair modern war with the opponent.

So when the Soviet tanks were frantically tortured by the more advanced tanks of the German army, they were desperate to find that the battle they had experienced before was just the beginning of a nightmare. German bombers joined in the unfair duel and took part in the duel in a rocky way.

They dropped bombs hanging under their wings on the Soviets' positions, exploding over the Soviets' positions and blowing up the Soviet tanks that had been fighting back desperately just now into tumbling parts. The fire and smoke became the main theme here, and even Marcus had to stop his attack, allowing a few hundred meters away to be blown up by the air force guys.

After such a long war, the coordination between the German Air Force's ground attack aircraft group and its own ground forces has reached the point of perfection. They dared to drop bombs 100 meters directly in front of the infantry attack, and the shock wave of the explosion could even lift the hats of nearby German soldiers, and this skillful cooperation greatly improved the efficiency of the German troops in breaking through the position, and also reduced the casualties and losses of the German attacking troops.

After the German bombers had dropped all their bombs, Marcus ordered his troops to continue the attack, watching the wreckage of the tanks that were destroyed and exploded one after another, and which were still burning and smoking, and the German soldiers were left with the job of capturing the remaining hapless prisoners.

Soon Marcus's 502nd Battalion passed through the heavily fortified positions of the Soviet defenders and stormed northwest along the Moskva River. It wasn't until the reconnaissance team in front of them sent back the news that the Moskva River was turning ahead, that they changed the direction of their attack and launched a tentative attack to the west.

After more than two hours, Marcus's armored battalion stopped its advance on the side of a wide roadbed, and they built a concealed fortification on the roadbed nearby, and then occupied several nearby buildings. They were followed by a number of armored reconnaissance vehicles, as well as a signal corpsman on motorcycles.

Everyone stopped and started checking the map in their hands, and then everyone didn't know where they were. Unclear photographs provided by the aviation department show that they should now be northwest of Mamonovo, very close to Moscow. But the sketches of the neighborhood in their hands showed that they should still be in the Mamonovo region at this moment.

The news brought back by the scouts was even more vague, and several soldiers who had been ordered to reconnoiter came back with some information about the enemy: "The Soviets are setting up a new defensive strip not far from the other side of the roadbed, and they are shuttling back and forth between buildings, with anti-tank guns and tank reinforcements - the other side obviously has no intention of abandoning the surrounding area easily, and I even saw sappers laying mines." ”

"Scattering the reconnaissance force, I need the exact situation of my location, including the name of the place and the location on the map coordinates...... Follow-up artillery support requires us to provide precise coordinates, and if the chaos continues, we will be shelled by our own people. Marcus looked at the several maps drawn by the intelligence department, the air force, and the infantry reconnaissance unit in his hand, and after thinking about it, he gave the order to reconnoiter the nearby area.

Because of the waiting for the results of the reconnaissance, the 502nd battalion stopped the offensive here for about an hour. During this time, his unit came under fire from the Soviet side, but fortunately only 2 infantry from the grenadier regiment were wounded. Marcus waited patiently for the scouts to bring back the results, but waited until about 4 p.m.

The soldiers who had returned had finally figured out the exact location of their place, and the road that had become their line of defense was the southeastern section of the Moscow Ring Road, and the unknown river on the west side of their place was the Glaudea River. All the bridges on this river have no way to pass through a big guy like the King Tiger tank, so no matter how anxious Marcus is, he can only wait for the sappers behind him to catch up.

Inside a rocking armored car, Guderian put down the communication of the commander of the 1st Panzer Corps, and he looked into the small observation window, and through the gap he saw the various dilapidated scenes of the retreating outside.

The onslaught of the German troops along the way left behind too many ruins, and modern warfare brought not only rapid advance, but also more powerful destructive forces. The thick city walls, which had not been breached for several years before, would be destroyed in just a moment in front of the current aircraft and artillery, and they would be destroyed into ruins that could not be seen in their original appearance.

"The 1st Panzer Corps is already attacking the Beltway line, and Marshal Modell's forces are trying to find a way to stabilize our defenses. Moscow was completely surrounded, and if Stalin was still there, he would not be able to fly even with his wings. The Chief of Staff smiled and filled in the last hole in the map, and then said to Guderian in a trance.

Guderian leaned back in his seat, and finally spoke: "As long as I win this battle, then I will be worthy of the Führer's kindness to me." Zhukov, an old adversary, doesn't know if he will find us trouble here, so we need to be careful. ”

"I heard that Schellner is going to be transferred to the Eastern Front, and Marshal Manstein is going to be transferred to the Middle East?" the chief of staff looked at the führer's confidant in front of him, who was going to be promoted to marshal sooner or later, and finally asked what was in his heart. Recently, there have been frequent troomissions in the Middle East, and it seems that Schellner, who has studied the infantry thoroughly, will be transferred to a place where he is more needed.

This general, who has been following Rommel since leading Army Group K and has been the anchor of the entire North African Army, finally has a stage to play his role this time, and his Army Group K will enter the Caucasus from Turkey, and after going around in a circle, he will exchange his position with Army Group M in his defense area.

In this way, Field Marshal Manstein, commander of Army Group M, who had a better view of the overall situation and understood the Führer's intentions, would become the commander-in-chief of the Middle East theater of operations, replacing Rommel, who had returned home from illness, to command the Middle East theater. Schellner, on the other hand, will be stationed in the Caucasus to suppress Soviet partisans operating in the mountains of the Caucasus with mountain warfare, which he is more familiar with.

"Well, this order seems to have been discussed in the wolf's den, and since Rommel left, the Middle East really needs a general who has a better view of the big picture and a better understanding of the Führer's intentions. Guderian nodded, and then smiled embarrassedly: "If I don't lose the Battle of Kursk and am now a marshal, maybe this position should be for me." ”

He is very similar to Rommel's combat style, so he is definitely the best candidate to succeed Rommel as commander-in-chief in the Middle East. It's a pity that he was promoted to marshal later than Rommel, and whether he could subdue the rebellious Army Group L was indeed a question.

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"Didn't Comrade Vatutin say that our troops had driven the Germans out of Moscow? Why could I still hear the sound of artillery in the distance? Didn't I order Vasilevsky to counterattack the Germans? Where are his troops now?" Stalin pressed his hand to the map hanging on the wall and loudly questioned the group of generals in front of him who did not know how to speak.

Ten days earlier they deceived Stalin and prevaricated the Soviet leader's questioning under all sorts of pretexts. They claimed that their troops were fighting back, claiming that the Germans had not broken through their lines. But in fact, the Germans had completely occupied Bitsa Park, and some units had even captured Vorontsov Park further north.

Now that Stalin had finally come to his senses, he had finally realized that there was a lot of water in the news he had heard these days. The sound of the lingering German artillery bombardment clearly told him the truth: the Germans were still around Moscow, and the victorious counterattacks he believed had not driven away the approaching German troops.

"S...... Comrade Stalin, our counterattack was indeed victorious, but in the process of encircling the German army, we encountered stubborn resistance from the German army, so for a time we were not able to complete the results of encircling and annihilating the German army...... That one...... The ...... couldn't be made up anymore, and the general looked helplessly at another colleague on the side.

That person obviously didn't expect that he was also pulled into such an unlucky thing, and he glared hard, hoping that the other party would not continue to look at him. However, Stalin apparently saw the sneakiness of the two men, so he slapped the table and erupted even more violently: "Tell me the truth! What are you hiding from me! Tell me quickly! Tell me clearly!"

"Comrade leader, our troops are in the process of counterattacking...... suffered losses. The general had no choice but to bite the bullet and tell the truth: "The battle near Bitsa Park is not going well, our losses are very large, I hope you can carefully consider the order to counterattack, let the troops withdraw to rest and recuperate......"

Stalin thought he had heard the truth, but these false excuses still made him furious, and he shouted loudly: "The order cannot be withdrawn! They must rely on their faith and patriotic fervor to keep their fighting spirit high! Attack, destroy the enemy around Moscow, we have more reserves! In the Far East! In Siberia! If we win, those troops will come to our aid and win!"

I will add a chapter later, and three more today.