Chapter 1102: Moscow of Blood and Snow (9)
"Boom!!" With a loud bang, the area where they evacuated had just thunder exploded suddenly. // Welcome to read //. A squad of the German army rushed forward was directly overturned in the explosion.
But most people were not dead, they were simply injured by splashed gravel and cement blocks.
"Hurry! Carry down!!" The German company commander ordered with a pale face, and then the machine gun began to shoot with a "da da da..."
A group of German soldiers crawled forward and carefully carried the German soldiers injured by the bomb down. After seeing the soldiers being carried down, the company commander breathed a sigh of relief.
Except for the two who were unlucky and died by a stone in the head, the rest survived. And all the heads and tails were all just smashes and scratches.
"Remove and take them to the field hospital!" The company commander said in a deep voice: "The others continue to attack with me!"
"Yes!" The German army reacted quickly, and in a few seconds, the company commander spread out on the position. After confirming that there were no more similar explosives on the position, the German army began to enter the ruins and build the position.
The Soviet army on the periphery slowly surrounded and began to lurk in the ruins waiting for an opportunity to attack these German troops. However, after the German army was attacked too much by the Allied forces, they became very cautious.
After they stationed on the position, the first thing they did was to call the artillery fire in the rear to bombard the ruins with coordinates. When they saw the Germans take out the radio station with the army, the Allies could only sigh and leave.
We fought each other twice, and we almost knew each other well. The Germans took out the radio station and the Allied soldiers knew clearly what they wanted to do.
There is no doubt that these Germans are about to call for bombing.
"Chirp...boom!boom!boom..." Sure enough, the Allied soldiers evacuated the ruins in just a short while, raindrop-like shells landed on the ruins around these positions.
The dust and snow on the ruins were blown away in the sky, and the German army stopped bombarding until almost all the ruins were bombarded. The Allies could only watch the German shelling from a distance and hide in other ruins with no choice.
The head-on battles have caused too much casualties. Allied units have already ordered that they should not fight against the German army during the day unless they are in charge of the situation.
The Allies' real fierce attacks were at night. During the day, they would calculate the German position parameters. At night, they would use light mortars to bombard the German positions.
Then launch a strong attack on the positions and grab the positions that were lost during the day with one go.
Of course, this also fails. But in general, the losses are much smaller than the daytime attack on the German positions.
The Germans occupying the positions were not easy. On the one hand, they needed to use the remaining broken eaves and walls in the ruins to build positions, and on the other hand, they had to be wary of not being sniped by Allied snipers.
Allied snipers have always been the biggest heart disease of the German army. Although the casualties caused by these snipers are not large, they have caused too much psychological pressure on German soldiers.
Many times, even if the German offensive troops occupy the ruins, they will become timid. There are too many Allied snipers. They will snipe the Germans from any location at any time.
"Bang!" A German soldier who was building fortifications with cement blocks was directly penetrated by a 7.62mm-caliber bullet. His whole head exploded like a rotten watermelon.
The moment he was hit by a bullet, the German soldier threw himself on the ground like a wooden stake. Without even screaming, the German soldier was already dead.
"Dadada..." The German light machine gun suddenly opened fire in the direction of the bullet. A broken wall in the distance was immediately blown and snow flew.
The other German soldiers quickly fell to the ground as the gunshots were fired, and then crawled into the temporary position.
"These damn Slavic pigs! Can't they fight us upright?!" The German company commander furiously on his position and cursed.
But he had no choice but to the current situation. After shooting, the Allied snipers would directly withdraw from the sniper position at that time, whether they hit or missed.
Then change the place and harass the Germans. Unless there are special snipers, the Germans often cannot find the locations of these Allied snipers.
When the German machine guns swept over, the Allied snipers had already evacuated their positions.
Only a few Germans had the opportunity to kill an Allied sniper with machine guns, and most of them evacuated the sniper positions before the Germans fired.
"... Although we have gained some advantages in the attack in the city, the casualties have not decreased. The Allies have caused great casualties to our army by using snipers, night attacks, blasts, etc...."
General Sodenstern, Chief of Staff of the German Southern Army Group, said in a deep voice to Lundstein: "The loss is too great, and it takes a huge price to defend the positions we have captured..."
"The Allies never stopped stuttering us, and in order to avoid being covered by our artillery fire, they always launched attacks on our positions at night. They were in the dark and we were in the light, which made us very passive..."
Lieutenant General Grevenberg, Chief of Staff of the German Central Army Group, Lieutenant General Brenneck, and others were all in the command center. The Northern Army Group had gathered in Moscow.
But Marshal William Ritter von Leb, the commander of the Northern Army Group, did not launch an attack immediately, but came to learn about the situation with his chief of staff first.
Moscow was already in a mess, with ruins and smoke everywhere. The snow almost covered the entire Moscow, and the German and Allied troops fought like wild animals.
"The situation is bad, but I wonder if there is any way to reduce the losses so that we can win the Battle of Moscow?!" Marshal Leb asked with a wry smile, shook his head.
"We are also looking for a way, but for now, we have no other way except the war of attrition..." Lundstey's face looked ugly and he said in a low voice.
"We almost all the Moscow have been flattened, and all the buildings that should be destroyed or not have been destroyed have been turned into ruins. I don't understand what these damn Slavs are still resisting?! I can't see what else they can do except cause their own greater casualties..."
"The Slavs may be very crowded, so they can withstand such casualties..." Marshal Leb sighed and said, "In the early days of Barbarossa, we captured more than three million Soviet troops. But in the blink of an eye, they formed more than one million troops..."
"According to the news from Berlin, they are even forming troops in the rear. There are nearly half a million people now, and they are ready to go to Moscow to fight us..."
Marshal Bock and Marshal Lundstey changed their expressions when they heard this. Are these Slavs crazy?! Do they really plan to kill all the people in the country before stopping?!
"They may be crazy, but I know we have to accompany them to crazy." Loeb said with a wry smile: "Or, we give in. Or, we will accompany them to crazy. We have no other choice..."
Loeb seemed very unwilling to give up, but he could do nothing. Now the Soviet Union is no longer in the early days of the war, and they have stabilized their positions and started to gradually fight against the German attack.
Although a large number of soldiers were captured, a large number of weapons and materials were seized in the early stage, the Soviets survived with the support of their allies. At the same time, the United States and Britain also sent their troops to the Soviet Union to assist in the war.
"If it weren't for the damn Americans, we would have defeated Moscow long ago!" Bock said hatefully: "These damn Americans, they provided a large number of weapons and supplies to the Soviets, and even sent hundreds of thousands of troops to come..."
Such complaints were useless, and Bock himself knew it. But he couldn't help but say that after attacking for several months, the progress he made was to only take over a part of the city.
Since becoming a general, Bock has not suffered such humiliation. Whether it was the battles of the Low Countries or the Battle of France, the German army always fought in one go and defeated the other side in an instant.
But these damn, difficult Slavs were able to support and even fight back after losing so much. They forced the Germans to consume in Moscow City.
This is undoubtedly a huge shame for the German generals.
"The Head of State requires us to take Moscow and capture or kill Trotsky. This is the best way to solve the current crisis..." Lundstey said to the two commanders and three chiefs of staff: "I also think this is the best way to solve the current crisis. As long as Trotsky is killed or captured, the Soviet Union will be in a struggle for strength."
"We can calmly defeat their army before they decide the outcome." Lundstead paused and said: "Even if they were not trapped in the power struggle, at least they would temporarily fall into chaos due to the lack of the supreme leader. This would also be a huge blow to the morale of the Soviet army, which would help us conquer the Soviet Union..."
"But where are we going to capture Trotsky now?! We didn't even occupy Moscow, we couldn't find the Allied headquarters..." Bock smiled helplessly.
The German army seemed extremely helpless about the current battle situation. The heavy firepower was used to send limited use, and the Allies that broke it into pieces made them proud lose their advantage in the firepower they were proud of.
The city is filled with allies like ground rats, lurking everywhere, and they always launch unexpected attacks. These attacks are not big, but they are frequent and determined.
Chapter completed!