Suddenly, a loud and distinctively loud whistling sound approached from a distance, then over the heads of the German front-line infantry, and finally smashed into a street in Moscow. Then there was the sound of earth-shaking explosions, splashes of rubble and black smoke that was much louder than the smoke from other shells.

And with the arrival of this loud noise, the scattered artillery fire of the Soviet army also completely stopped, and the rest of the time seemed to be a one-man show of German artillery.

The caliber of German train guns is very varied, there are 340 mm train guns captured from France, there are also 320 mm train guns produced by the French, and of course, the most are the new train guns of 283 mm caliber produced by Germany itself. Among so many artillery, the best performance is, of course, the new artillery produced by the Germans themselves, each of which is enough to shock the Quartet and shake the ground.

When these train guns began to roar, the towed artillery in the hands of the Soviet army and some old cannons were completely inadequate. So when a train shell fell in Moscow, the Soviet artillery also closed their mouths helplessly.

In the world of artillery, power is the truth, everything is decided by the range of fire and the power of the shells, my caliber is larger than yours, my artillery is more than yours, then I have more say than you! Unfortunately, when the Soviet troops had more artillery than the Germans, they had to abandon these guns because of the attack of the Stuka dive bombers.

A small area of artillery bombardment on a position eventually turned into an all-out artillery battle between Army Group F and the defenders of Moscow, but in the end the indiscriminate bombardment ended in a complete victory for the Germans, and the Soviet artillery was silenced and allowed to destroy the Soviet outlying positions by German artillery fire.

The distant artillery was still rumbling, and in the headquarters of Army F, Field Marshal Kluge and several of his operational staff officers were analyzing a map of Moscow, which was now probably only a kilometer away from the core of the Soviet defenses, and the German Army Group E in the north of Moscow had begun to advance northeast of Moscow, making it look like it was going to completely encircle Moscow.

"General Liszt's troops are crossing the river and will soon be able to threaten Yaroslavl from behind. As long as Army Group E cooperates with the armored forces of Army Group A and captures Vologda, then there will be no need for Moscow to struggle. With his hands behind his back, Klug listened to his staff analyze the current state of the war. His troops were the main force in the attack on Moscow, and Army Group A, as an auxiliary force, would respond to his offensive in the north with Army Group's infantry.

"The forward forces of General Guderian are changing the direction of the offensive, they are trying to capture Ryazan within 30 days. After capturing there, his troops would be ordered to continue their attack to the east, threatening Gorky. Another staff officer pointed his finger at the movement of German troops in the area of the Guide, and introduced Klug, who was silent.

The German army can now say that the situation is very good, and it is the kind of situation that is steady and steady. Most of the German units had undergone some recuperation, the G-Army and E-Army, which had suffered heavy losses, had been replenished, and their departure positions were not too far from the front line, so the distance and the consumption of logistical supplies were also compressed into a completely bearable range.

Compared to another time and space, this time the German army was more prepared, more powerful, better logistically supplied, and more powerful in weaponry...... In short, the cards in Accardo's hand are very good now, and at least he has some capital for him to squander.

On the other hand, the Soviet army, because the forces in the Moscow theater of operations were compressed into a small space, and most of the two-wing defense line did not have enough strength to defend, so the German troops from St. Rudolph were on a rampage all the way, and the front-line troops of Army Group N were even approaching the Urals.

If it weren't for the poor infrastructure of this journey, and the large amount of hoarded military supplies could not be transported to the front line, General Qu Hillel would have been able to attack farther. However, due to the attack on Moscow and the increase in air and naval activities, the distribution of fuel was delayed, so his offensive was temporarily stalled.

Another German unit, Guderian's Army Group G, had not stopped attacking since the Second Battle of Kursk began. After handing over their rear to Modell's Army Group D, Guderian's troops attacked northeast as if they were in a no-man's land, and the only thing that could stop the Germans was their own fatigue and the problem of waiting for supplies.

After crossing Kursk, the infrastructure of the Soviet Union fell a notch in an instant, and the quality of the construction of the railway was even worse, and it could not be used in accordance with European railway standards. Most of the roads are dirt-paved paths, which are very different from the regular roads of the German army.

These problems hindered the German advance, and their effect was much greater than that of the defeated Soviet defenders. These improvised Soviet troops had no way to stop Army Group G, they could only watch as German tanks drove past them, then surrounded them in the barren mountains, tortured and captured by the German infantry who caught up.

The streets and alleys were filled with Soviet soldiers captured by the Germans, and these poor soldiers who had no food to eat walked listlessly and slowly along the road with their heads in their hands. From time to time they had to be driven to the sides of the road to make way for whizzing German trucks, armoured personnel carriers and tanks.

Compared to Moscow's frontal battles, counterattacks in these areas are child's play. The German troops easily occupied a large amount of land, and the huge pincer offensive encircling Moscow began to slowly close behind the Moscow flank.

"The frontal attack cannot be stopped, if necessary, change 3 infantry divisions to go up and replace the tired troops!" Klug finally gave the order to continue the attack after hearing that the friendly forces in other directions were about to encircle Moscow: "Let the front-line troops maintain the rhythm of the attack." ”

Then he pointed to the thick stack of materials on his desk, and said to his men: "This is the tactical information used by Army Group N during the attack on St. Rudolph. Including troop losses and records of battle results...... You have studied it thoroughly, but I have the cheekiness to ask for it from Quchelel. ”

"Yes, Marshal!" all of them nodded hurriedly, and a few anxious people had already picked up a stack and read it carefully. One of the fine traditions of human civilization is to be good at summing up, since ignorance of the future is doomed, people are crazy to sum up lessons and lessons, trying to reduce the cost of exploration for the unknown future.

Sometimes summing up experience makes people go further, and sometimes sticking to the rules makes people complacent. The Song and Ming dynasties summed up the Tang dynasty, which ultimately left the two dynasties unable to defend themselves against foreign humiliation, and the lessons of Japan's naval warfare continue to influence their combined fleets to this day...... But people are still taking stock of the past in order to better face the future.

And at this moment, the Germans are also summing up, they are summing up every detail of the street battle in St. Rudolph, that is, Stalingrad, so that they can reduce their various losses in the time of the battle of Moscow.

Don't underestimate the reports and documents, and if it could, the United States might be willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy these things. Every word here has the potential to save hundreds of lives at a given moment, and every lesson here may come at the cost of hundreds of soldiers.

The current German army can be said to be the most experienced army in urban street fighting in the world, and they have fought all the way to the present, and have captured countless enemy cities and seen all kinds of urban street fighting. Although this kind of fighting still makes them feel uncomfortable, they have to admit that they are indeed the best soldiers in the world to fight in the street.

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In Vatutin's headquarters, the Soviet commander of the Moscow city defense had just put down his phone, and the Kremlin had just been hit by German long-range artillery, which dug several craters in Red Square, and a section of the Kremlin's outer wall collapsed due to a violent explosion.

"Comrade Stalin asked whether the enemy's offensive had been stopped. Vatutin put down the phone and smiled bitterly to his assistant beside him: "They didn't attack at all...... It's just a symbolic shelling. ”

After speaking, his eyes moved to the map, looked at the vast territory behind Moscow, and said in a wailing voice: "Do people still need to come in? As long as we wait for half a month, we will be completely surrounded...... At that time, we don't have to go into the city to fight in the streets, and we will starve to death here. ”

"General, it's not a way for us to wait here for death!" the 720th and 655th Divisions ......," the staff officer beside him muttered in a low voice, and when he saw that Vatutin's face was not very good, he closed his mouth.

The 720th and 655th Divisions were both garrisons in the rear of Moscow, and they were supposed to be the forces that defended the rear of Moscow, even if they were surrounded by German troops, they should have held their positions. However, these two divisions continued to retreat as the German encirclement approached, and retreated to the outside of the Moscow encirclement first--according to military law, this was Hongguoguo's escape.

"Don't say it, there is only one way to go now, and that is to die here, as the last Soviet people to exist, die here!" Vatutin gritted his teeth and said fiercely.