Sure enough, when the tanks of the German 1st Panzer Army were put into the battlefield, the Soviet defense line began to collapse unsurprisingly, and the light weapons in their hands made it impossible for them to deal with the advanced tank units of the German army. So the entire line of defense began to falter, and everywhere there were Soviet troops who began to abandon their positions and retreat.

Soon the Germans, with machine-gun positions already deployed on the flanks, waited for their chance, and groups of Soviet soldiers began to try to cross the wide streets and escape to safer places. As soon as they appeared, they were caught off guard by the German machine guns on the side.

"Suddenly, suddenly!" a voice like a ripper suddenly sounded, and "Accardo's saw" began to reap the lives of the enemy with impunity. Tracer bullets weaved and out of the wide streets, most of them submerged into flesh, ending their short, indestructible journey.

Farther away, a Soviet sniper hiding on the roof of a house reloaded his Mosin Nagant sniper rifle once again, and then calmly pulled the trigger. The sound of his gunfire was completely muffled on the bullet-ridden battlefield, and among the German soldiers attacking on the frontal battlefield, another soldier fell clutching his chest, becoming a corpse that gradually froze.

"Find that damn sniper!" a German non-commissioned officer shouted to a few German soldiers in the distance, leaning against the rubble of a building. Everyone is looking for this hateful enemy, but it is indeed very difficult to find an enemy who is extremely well hidden in the chaotic battlefield.

On the other side, near the German battalion headquarters, the battalion artillery was assembling the 80 mm mortars they carried, and in a moment the Germans would be able to drive the Soviet garrison out of the town, and when they came to a spacious place, they would open fire and deal another fatal blow to the defeated Soviet troops.

The battlefield was littered with bullets flying sideways, and the chaos continued. The defeated Soviets paid a terrible price as they crossed the vertical streets, with dozens of Soviets falling to the streets, and their bodies being crossed by the pursuing German infantry.

The tanks rumbled along the widest streets, followed by a dense crowd of German soldiers, guns and eyes on all the windows on either side, covering the slow passage of the two steel behemoths through the dangerous town.

Behind a window, the Soviet defender with a rifle poked his head out, holding his rifle, hoping to kill the enemy who passed by. However, as soon as he showed his face, he was spotted by the vigilant Germans, and suddenly a gunshot rang out, and the Soviet soldier lay back on his back in the window, fell to the floor and closed his eyes.

A pool of blood began to gush from the back of his head, spreading rapidly across the floor. A bullet pierced his steel helmet, leaving a steaming hole in it, and the slain Soviet soldier was flanked by two women huddled together and several children.

With the commander of the 2nd Company, who was following the tank, nodded, a group of Germans rushed into the building where the Soviet soldiers had just appeared, carefully stepping on the wooden staircase, trying not to make any noise. Suddenly, a man in civilian clothes rushed out of a room, shouting Russian words with his hands raised, but he was beaten into a sieve by the Germans because of his nervousness, and the gunfire in the corridor continued for a long time before it gradually subsided.

"I've found a sniper!" a German soldier with a rifle pointed to a building in the distance with his hand overhead, and shouted to the non-commissioned officer next to him, "On the roof of that building! He's on the roof! right next to the chimney!

The non-commissioned officer took the Mauser 98K rifle in his hand and carried it in one hand, then pressed his face against the corner, revealing half of his face, and looked at the building that his men were pointing to.

There was indeed a chimney on the roof of the building, and there was obviously a strange shape next to the chimney, although it was at least 200 meters away, but the non-commissioned officer could easily identify it as a Soviet sniper with a steel helmet, like a fake sniper.

So he immediately retracted his head, after all, no one wanted to be shot in the head by an enemy while looking. Although it was a very simple way to die, after all, everyone hopes that they can live a long life, right? So the non-commissioned officer patted the soldier with a sniper rifle next to him and shouted at him: "Soviet sniper, on the roof of that house a little north!

Every German unit had a number of skilled gunners who had undergone simple sniper training and were selected to be excellent with accurate marksmanship. Although they are not capable of performing professional sniper missions, they can play part of the role of snipers when it is crucial.

The gunman tapped his head and adjusted the scope on his rifle. Generally speaking, German snipers prefer high-precision modified G43 semi-automatic rifles, but due to the shortage of materials, most of the sniper rifles used by grassroots infantry gunners are emergency sniper rifles modified with Mauser 98K.

After adjusting the scope, the German gunner took a deep breath, then flashed out of the corner, raised his rifle and aimed it in the general direction indicated by the non-commissioned officer. In the sniper scope, his eyes easily spotted his target, the Soviet sniper leaning against the roof of the house and firing at the Germans.

The other party obviously did not realize that he had been targeted by the enemy on the flank, and he was still aiming and shooting, hoping to prevent the German soldiers on the other side from breaking through the crumbling Soviet defenders. And as far as the war is concerned, his efforts have been very effective, at least for now, the Germans on that side have not had the courage to continue the offensive and break through the crumbling Soviet lines.

The German gunner adjusted the muzzle of the gun so that the crosshair pressed on the Soviet sniper, and he began to tremble slightly because of the nature of his muscles, and before he fired, all he had to do was to shoot the bullet in the chamber before the slight tremor turned into a violent trembling.

"Phew!" he snapped the rifle in his hand, and the bullet instantly crossed a long distance and flew to the target's location. In the scope, the German gunners saw the screams of the other man after being shot, and the whole process of rolling off the roof and finally falling off the house. He retreated behind the corner and reported his results to the non-commissioned officer behind him: "I killed him!"

Patting his men on the shoulder, the non-commissioned officer gave a thumbs up in satisfaction, and then several German infantrymen behind him rushed out of the corner of the wall at his signal, crossed the street and rushed to a building where the Soviets were still stationing. At the same moment, the German tanks also crossed the street and began to advance towards the square in the center of the town.

The Soviet defense line eventually collapsed, without anti-tank weapons, and facing the orderly cover of the German infantry, they had no way to take the two King Tiger tanks. With another machine-gun position in ambush suppressed by German fire and eventually taken out by tank guns, the Soviet defenders had to begin a full-scale retreat from the town.

They began to flee from inside the building into the wilderness behind the town, trying to hide in the woods in the distance. However, German mortar shells began to fall on the side of these defeated Soviet troops, and some Germans also began to set up machine guns behind the Soviet troops, firing fiercely at their backs.

Dozens of Soviet soldiers were hit and fell on the way to escape, while others could only stand in place and raise their hands and pray that death would not patronize them. Fortunately, the German fire spread far and wide, passing the enemy who had surrendered, and finally only a few escaped into the woods, and about 300 Soviets stationed here were killed and almost 200 were killed, and the remaining 100 surrendered their weapons and chose to surrender.

......

In the core of the German Army Group G, in an armored command vehicle that was rocking on a rough road, Guderian was looking at the map of the theater of operations in front of him. His troops were advancing north at great speed, and were now in the central part of Oryol, which was only a surprise journey away.

Because the advance was fast enough, the Soviet 1st Guards Panzer Front and the 3rd Guards Panzer Front, which had set off first, were unable to get rid of his entanglement, and these two units and some other retreating Soviet units had to leave a part of their forces and defend on the spot to stop the German pursuit.

In this way, he pursued all the way to the southern region of Moscow, and he had successfully encircled and annihilated more than 200,000 Soviet troops, although he knew that there were not many main forces of the Soviet army in the real sense, but it was already a very satisfactory result to be able to weaken the Soviet troops in the north.

"Your Excellency, the forward troops of the 1st Panzer Army have just called, they have encountered resistance from Soviet troops near Dankov in Lipetsk Oblast, and our troops have lost 47 men before they have succeeded in capturing the town defended by the enemy. The staff officer handed a telegram to Guderian and reported: "Now the troops are so large that they have been forced to stop and recuperate, and the troops are almost running out of fuel...... Oh, and there's good news, Captain Marcus of the 502nd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion has destroyed the 140th tank, and you're going to award his new medal again. ”

"Let the troops rest and recuperate. Guderian looked away from the map, nodded his head, and ordered, "We're about to encircle Moscow on three sides, and we should celebrate this well, shouldn't we?"