A King Tiger tank was slowly moving forward through the dense woods, its broad tracks tumbling forward under the wheels, crushing the verdant meadows and scraping the twigs and young leaves of the bushes. Another King Tiger tank not far behind it was also moving forward at a slow pace, smashing through a tiny tree with a crunching sound.

The battle for Moscow has been going on for a month, and this result is not only due to the heroic tenacity of the Soviet defenders, but also to the repair and waiting of the German army. Everyone was waiting for the moment when the encirclement would be completed, and this moment finally arrived yesterday, June 30.

So just in July, several German armies encircling Moscow launched a large-scale offensive against Moscow, and the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield lasted from the early morning when the sun rose until the afternoon. Shells whistled over the roofs, explosions shook the shattered glass of the building, gunfire was everywhere, and the air raid sirens had not stopped since they sounded.

Klug's Army Group F continued its offensive southwest of the city of Moscow, and his SS 5th Panzer Division fought fiercely with a regiment of Soviet Panzer units for Bicha Park. In this rare field of Moscow, both sides invested as much of their armor as possible, so this small area became a famous chariot cemetery.

Seven King Tiger tanks and 14 Tiger tanks, as well as 30 Leopard tanks and assault guns, were destroyed in this huge park, while the Soviets left a full 90 armored vehicles of various models and more than 2,000 soldiers here. A high ground in a park was littered with destroyed armoured vehicles from both sides, which eventually led to more tanks being unable to find a way to continue the offensive and being forced to fight with infantry.

The soldiers leaned against the wreckage of the armored vehicles that had burned and exploded and cooled down and fired at each other, and then next to the corpses of these steel monsters, the corpses of the fallen soldiers were stacked again. Vatutin personally ordered not to give up an inch of the park, so when the Germans finally climbed the heights, thinking they had occupied the park, the Soviets threw in a whole armored regiment for a frantic counterattack.

Thirty Stuka 2 bombers from Army Group dropped all their bombs on the streets around Vitsa Park to stop Soviet soldiers from reinforcing the park, but in the end more than 1,000 Soviet troops rushed into the park, making the battle bloodier and more frenzied.

The battle unfolded in the woods, and the soldiers of both sides even engaged in a local bayonet hand-to-hand battle. One German infantry regiment was eventually replaced due to too many losses, and then another infantry regiment was pushed up. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the second regiment could no longer hold out and had to continue the battle from the top of the third regiment.

General Karikov of the 82nd Army even had to personally move his headquarters forward to the trade union street to encourage his soldiers to continue fighting in such a "palm-slapped" place in the form of supervising the battle. Within a few hours, the Germans had lost more than 800 casualties, and the Soviets, including subsequent reinforcements, had already lost more than 2,900 dead here.

This park is like a bloody mouth devouring the lives of soldiers on both sides, and it is still devouring until this moment - two King Tiger tanks drove into the defensive zone of the Soviet troops from the side, and the machine guns of the Soviet defenders suddenly rang out, and the bullets hit the armor of the two King Tiger tanks, making a sound like fried beans.

The German infantrymen who were following behind the two tanks suddenly fell to their stomachs, and in a panic, the Germans set up their machine gun positions and began to fire incessantly into the dense woods. A German soldier with his rifle stooped over the bushes from behind a bench-built fortification, a field of bullet-beaten leaves and twigs behind him.

"Company commander! The radio said that in three minutes there will be a covered artillery bombardment of this place! The coordinates have been handed in!" He ran and held on to his steel helmet, and finally jumped into a large pit formed by a shell, and the action of the flying shovel brought up a cloud of dust. Their infantry company, which had 111 men when it was first replenished, now had less than 80 left.

"Ceasefire! stop shooting!" shouted the company commander to the infantry platoon that was firing on the other side of the crater, and the men on the other side apparently heard the order and shouted in German farther away, and soon the Germans stopped attacking, and the Soviets apparently realized that something bad was coming, and also stopped shooting.

After the gunfire on both sides stopped, it took only a dozen seconds for the first shell to land on the park's position near Balaclava Street, and the mud and grass were lifted up by a huge wave of air, carrying all sorts of debris into the sky, and then falling with the explosion of other shells.

The 75mm infantry gun, as a regimental-level support artillery, reflected the value of its existence in a battle of this scale, and the falling shells accurately blew up a Soviet heavy machine gun bunker that was still firing in the sky, and some Soviet soldiers who had nowhere to hide were also hit by the incoming artillery fire, crying and crying to the ground, letting their blood flow unstoppably.

As the Germans continued to advance, a river blocked their way to attack, the bridge had been blown up by the Soviets, and the German tanks had to make a roundabout way to both ends of the river. Across the river, soldiers on both sides fired at each other, and bullets flew across the river to each other's positions, taking the lives of the enemy or leaving a hole in the bunker.

The turning point of the battle took place on the battlefield outside the park, when another line of German troops attacked fiercely north along Union Street, and they finally advanced their forward position to the intersection of Union Street and Obruchev Street. There they confronted the Soviet forces across the street.

Two blocks away, in Bitsa Park, the Soviet Red Army units, whose flanks were threatened, finally abandoned their defensive positions that had been holding out for a whole day under German fire. Crying bitterly, they left the places they were defending, leaving them to the two King Tiger tanks that were protecting the slow advance of the infantry.

"Yes! Our troops have deployed a new line of defense in Bitsa Park and Balaklava Street, and the Soviets have not counterattacked! If you wish, Your Excellency General, you can pull 150 mm howitzers directly under the military headquarters to us and shell the Kremlin more accurately. "A German division commander had set up his provisional headquarters near the newly captured heights and reported to General Karikov the latest results, and his unit had replaced another infantry division with heavy losses, and now they were the closest troops to the Kremlin, but between him and the Kremlin, there were countless Soviet defenders.

However, Karikov did not stop his attack, and at this time his other two infantry divisions were crossing the Vostriyakovo cemetery and attacking north along Vernadsky Street. They fought to the death with the Soviets in a concert hall, where a makeshift assault team stormed and annihilated the Soviets and the 32 bandmates who had resisted with them.

At about 4 p.m., the Germans had achieved a promising victory on Vilnatsky Street and Trade Union Street, sandwiched between the famous Lenin Street, where the Soviet defenders were finally forced to abandon their defensive positions and retreat to Vorontsov Park to set up new defensive positions.

It was not an easy day for the Soviet troops guarding Moscow. After losing the "Ring Road Line", an important defensive position on the periphery, they also lost the more important Obruchev-Balaklava Street defense to the Germans.

Of course, Vatutin needed to deal with not only the German Army F, but also the rear area of Moscow, where the infantry of Army A crossed the Moscow Canal and, after a whole day of fighting, captured the northernmost part of Moscow in the "Sunday Cultural Park", the front of a King Tiger tank at the forefront of the 13th SS Panzer Division under Marshal Rundstedt, only 700 meters away from the Levobeleg railway station.

"I now finally understand the difficulties faced by General Rokossovsky...... The fighting qualities of these German soldiers in street battles were not much worse than they were in field battles. It's not that they're not good at street fighting, it's just that they are better at fighting in the field. After reading the report in his hand on the changes in the situation on the battlefield in a few hours, Vatutin put down the heavy stack of papers with some depression.

He lost more positions on this day than he had lost in the past ten days. Now he realized that the seemingly fierce attacks of the German army a few days ago were in fact just warm-up exercises, and when the storm came, he could not even parry a thunderous blow from the German army. He had hoped to hold these elaborate defensive positions until August, but on the first day of July, he threw them to the German troops on the opposite side.

"Comrade Stalin called and asked about the state of the war at our front...... He asked if the park was held and when the German offensive would stop. Vatutin's chief of staff had his hands behind his back, and his face was as pale as if his mother had died. The message confronted him with something he felt like he was simply a sinner in the country, and that he should immediately pull out his pistol and smash his own head.