In one of the buildings on Vilnatsky Street, the Soviet machine-gun emplacements on the second floor were facing the wide street. There was no shadow of a single person on the street that was supposed to be bustling. In a rocket-torn hole on the third floor of the house, a ruthless sniper is aiming his weapon in a direction where an enemy might be.

Every street and every ruin in the city of Moscow has been turned into a paradise for killing people with all kinds of weapons. Everyone is trying their best to set traps and lay mines, trying to kill those unwary enemies by all means.

Every plant and tree here can be fatal, and it may be just a momentary distraction, which will make people lose their lives. Bullets can come out of a corner at any time, an unexpected corner.

A German soldier ran from one side to the other side of the street with his weapon, carrying a telephone line to connect the communications of German troops in a few nearby neighborhoods. He ran as hard as he could, as the slightest hesitation slowed him down, and then he could be hit by a Soviet sniper and become a corpse lying in the middle of the road.

"Bah!" the shots rang out, but the German soldier was clearly one of the lucky ones, and the bullets bounced off the ground behind him, flying farther with the sand, and he had already passed through the most dangerous place, and ran to the safety of the other end.

"Do you see where the sniper is?" In the corner, a sergeant with a rifle asked several soldiers who were in charge of sniping missions nearby, and these soldiers who were also carrying sniper rifles listed several suspicious locations.

One soldier pointed to the suspicious building, then said, "I suspect the sniper is in the building opposite, but I didn't see the muzzle fire in the specific window, so I can't be sure." ”

This kind of thing happens almost every hour, and it will be troublesome to find a hiding place for an experienced sniper until the 21st century. In the end, it had to be detected with the help of high-tech means, but the effect still needs to be tested by time.

"There's no way, let the troops stand by, we're not good at this kind of thing, leave it to the artillery." The sergeant marked an approximate location on a pencil sketch of a few nearby neighborhoods and handed it to a soldier in an artillery observer uniform: "Give this to your commander, and in the next shelling, follow the approximate location on the map." ”

The soldier who had taken the sketch nodded, and slipped it into the leather backpack he was carrying. The Germans have been collecting suspicious targets in the vicinity and are then preparing to focus on eliminating these more dangerous structures for the next offensive. The closer they got to the center of Moscow, the more they felt the stubborn defense of the Soviet defenders, and the barricades and obstacles even hindered the advance of tanks and other heavy vehicles.

The Soviets used everything they could find to stop the Germans, from wrecked buses to all sorts of dug up wasteland. In some cases, the Soviets dug up the entire road themselves, and then used the excavated earth to build a bunker with a steep slope to prevent German tanks from advancing quickly into the city.

In the German artillery headquarters, several officers were screening the coordinates sent by the front-line troops to request the shelling, and they carefully compared some photos and maps in their hands to convert the correct position and mark it on the special artillery map with detailed coordinates.

"My God, there are so many targets, and if all these suspicious positions are covered with artillery fire, it will be no different from destroying the city of Moscow. An officer rubbed his astringent eyes and complained helplessly.

"This morning, we destroyed 30 stationary targets with 105 mm howitzers, but we heard that 12 soldiers were still hit by enemy snipers...... We were asked to attack 40 more similar targets in the afternoon, and to be honest I don't think the snipers would be waiting for our shells. Another officer took off the pins on the targets that had already been shelled and used a pin of another color to mark the targets that had not been shelled.

There were more and more target markings on the map, much to the annoyance of everyone in the command. It's not that they're too slow to attack, it's that there are just too many places where these suspicious targets can be found. Every day, hundreds of people claim to have been attacked by Soviet snipers, but it turns out that most of them have only been shot coldly.

Some stray bullets hit the soldiers, causing panic, and in the midst of such street battles, the information provided by the front-line troops is sometimes not accurate and reliable. Some units, hoping that the artillery would destroy all suspicious targets around them, would deliberately claim that Soviet snipers were firing somewhere.

The consumption of ammunition made the managers of the German logistics department even more crazy, because of excessive tension and various reasons, the soldiers on the front line often overconsumed the ammunition in their hands. Hand grenades and rockets are the most consumed types of ammunition: the Germans often kick open the door and throw a grenade directly into it, which is the most direct and effective way to deal with unusual noises or suspicious rooms, and rockets are consumed faster, the main reason is that they are one of the few good things in the hands of front-line troops that can tear down walls.

In a place like this, where danger can happen everywhere, keeping all positions under your own surveillance is a very reassuring method. As a result, German soldiers often used valuable anti-tank rockets to destroy structures and break through debris that obstructed their view.

While artillery commanders were complaining about the sheer number of targets coming from the front lines, the weapons stockpiles for logistical supplies were bustling with activity. Soldiers from various companies and battalions took away the bullets and grenades that had just been unloaded, and most of the items did not even stay in the hands of the logistics units for more than a day.

In addition to ammunition, there are all sorts of things that need to be distributed: cigarettes, chocolate candy, soap, matches, insoles, socks, needlework, spices, compressed biscuits, and cans and alcohol block warmers. There were millions of German troops besieging Moscow, and the amount of these things consumed every day was staggering - tens of thousands of pieces of stationery were consumed every day for these soldiers to write letters, and there were four carriages on the special train for transporting the wounded every day.

Such a large army needs to bathe and drink fresh water every day, so much that it is a headache, and the German army has also set up a special water source emergency support force for this purpose, dozens of pumping machines and purifiers are constantly running, in order to let the rear troops can live a normal life. Hundreds of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep procured from Ukraine, Belarus and other regions were slaughtered on the front line in order to give the remnants of the soldiers who had been evacuated from the front line a delicious meal.

If you count the tons of shells that enter the city of Moscow every day, then the statistics of these logistical supplies and the liquidation of these supplies are enough to make people collapse. This does not include the consumption of shells and ammunition in the event of a major military operation, such as the assault on Bitsa Park. More than 17,000 German soldiers waited on the platforms of several railway stations and in the stations where they were dispensed, doing the work of ordinary porters.

They carried the shells from the train to the car, and then to the artillery, and they were the logistics company of the million-dollar German army that surrounded Moscow, sorting all sorts of things and sending them to the front that stretched for hundreds of kilometers. These soldiers were unfortunate because they had been soldiers for a year and had not fired a single shot in these war-torn years, and they were fortunate because many of the soldiers who fought with them had died and they were unscathed.

"The logistics troops brought us artillery shells, so that the brothers who were eating lunch moved a little faster, and in the afternoon we had to hit a lot of targets, and we had to wait an hour for dinner. "I heard the sound of a car outside the door, and it didn't take much thought to know that the shells had been delivered. After the artillery commander gave the command, he pressed his face to the artillery mirror, observing the smoke-emitting distant targets.

Soon, a cheerful shelling began, and the German 105 mm howitzers roared again, sending shell after shell at buildings in the distance. The sound of the brick walls cracking and collapsing could be heard clearly from several streets away, and the black smoke from the explosion obscured the sky and made everyone desperate.

With the loud sound of one explosion after another, the battle for the assault on Vorontsov Park began. The Germans crossed the dangerous sniper alert zone on Lenin Avenue and threw 1,000 soldiers into the green park inside the small city in one fell swoop. The battle unfolded behind dense woods and benches along the paths, and soldiers on both sides once again experienced the most field-like feeling of urban street fighting.

Bullets cut through the branches, sending the dense leaves flying far away. Soldiers fought the enemy in trenches and barbed wire defenses, just like the battlefields of World War I. Someone fell here, shot through his heart, lungs, and chest. Blood seeped into the dirt, turning the park's man-made creeks in color.

The bridge over the creek became a key point of contention between the two sides, and the Germans finally took the 4-meter-long "bridge" full of corpses of soldiers on both sides with cross-covering fire from 3 machine guns and finally brought in a King Tiger tank.