Captain Vasily Georgievich Klochkov Tiev is now curled up, his eyes closed, and squatted in the cold and wet mud, allowing bullets to whistle in his ears. The future Soviet heroes have no choice but to leave the will and let the master in the dark decide whether to let the German bullets or bombs take his life away.

As a loyal G-speaking warrior, what scared Captain Tiev the most was not death, but watched the imperialist and the army of the Belarusian bandits approaching step by step towards the heart of the great Soviet motherland.

Now Leningrad, the second capital of the motherland, has fallen, and Moscow is behind him. He feels that he and the G-speaking warriors of Panfilov's army have no way out.

Time passed slowly in the torture, the roar of the plane motor, the roar of guns and the explosions that overwhelmed all the sounds, kept singing in Captain Diev's ears. I don't know how long it took, all these dizzy sounds finally subsided, and people's shouts and screams sounded again in the trenches!

Captain Tyev knew that he was intact and obviously was not injured in the air raid just now. He opened his eyes and saw a hellish scene with heavy casualties: the remains of martyrs and wailing wounded people could be seen everywhere in the trenches, and the blood had dyed the brown mud and water into dark brown or dark red colors.

However, Tyev did not show any panic or discomfort. He was not a battlefield and he was not a Kazakh. Before joining the 8th Infantry Division of the Guards, he had already fought with the German army in many places, and had long been accustomed to the scene of heavy casualties.

It can be said that the casualties caused by German aircraft this time are nothing in Tiev's battlefield experience.

But he also knew that the battle had just begun!

"Comrades!" Tyev stood up from the mud and shouted loudly, "Prepare for battle! The enemy is coming, we must defeat them, because although Russia is big, we have no way out, and behind us is Moscow! Behind us is Moscow!"

Although the 8th Infantry Division of the Guards is still more than 27 kilometers away from the border of Moscow Prefecture, everyone knows that the current battle is to defend Moscow! The great capital of the Soviet motherland.

If Moscow falls, the Soviet Union will probably really perish!

With Captain Tyev's shouting, the "Tyev Battle Group" composed of two infantry companies of the 1075th Infantry Regiment, an anti-tank destroyer platoon, which had three zis-3 76mm cannons and two su-57 tank destroyers sent by the 28th Tank Destroyer Brigade, immediately became like a war machine with full power, running quickly.

Under the urging of officers and political workers, many of the Kazakh soldiers curled up in mud-water trenches for almost an hour, tortured by endless bombings and machine guns and machine guns, and fired by machine guns. They picked up all kinds of weapons, including the Mosin-Nagan rifle, the sand submachine gun, the dp large turntable light machine gun, the m191o heavy machine gun, the red iron fist anti-tank grenade, the bazooka rocket launcher, the PT and PTTRD anti-tank rifle and various grenades. The incendiary bottles walked along the same muddy traffic trenches toward the front positions.

The three zis-3 76mm cannons have been hidden in a forest behind the frontier positions, quietly waiting for the prey to approach... They must be very close, and the spool-type high-armor-piercing projectiles used by the zis-3 76mm cannon can only exert their power.

This armor-piercing bullet with a carbide core and soft shell can penetrate 92mm homogeneous steel plate at right angles at 5oo meters, and can penetrate 1o2mm homogeneous steel plate at right angles at 1oo meters' "suicide distance" and can theoretically threaten the Germans' "shrinking tiger" tiger-type H-type.

However, in actual use, the zis-3 76mm cannon is basically a "one-time" weapon, and is easily destroyed by the powerful German artillery fire, so the loss exchange rate is not ideal, and three gun groups may not be able to be replaced by 1 German tank.

Therefore, the anti-tank firepower that Tiev can really rely on is, except for the individual anti-tank weapon in the hands of infantry, a bad anti-tank gun is usually not as good as an iron fist anti-tank grenade, which is the two Su-57 anti-tank destroyers. When the German air strike just now, they were carefully hiding in an inconspicuous forest, and the bodies of the vehicles were covered with camouflage.

Now, taking advantage of the German planes flying away, the motors of these two precious Su-57 tank destroyers also began to roar, and the tracks crushed the muddy land and drove towards the preset positions ahead. They will set up an ambush there, waiting for the German tanks and armored vehicles to approach.

Tyev himself personally went to the front line, and at this time the German tanks and assault artillery had already appeared in the sight of the Soviet front.

Of course, it is not the terrifying Tiger tank and e-5o tank. There is another unexposed "Cheetah" tank destroyer equipped with 1o5mml68 artillery, both of which are used for tank battles, not for attacking Soviet positions.

So what Diev and his comrades saw now were armored clusters composed of "Grizzly" assault guns and No. 4 H tanks, as well as infantry led by armored clusters. Perhaps because the road was muddy and a large number of personnel and equipment were trapped in the mud, the German army now did not seem to have many offensive troops, about twenty tank assault guns and three or four hundred infantrymen. These personnel and vehicles were still far away and were moving very slowly. It seemed that they would take a while to fight.

Just when Diyev breathed a little relieved, the German cannons that were placed there were fires.

"Bang!"

The powerful shock wave formed by shells that fell on Soviet positions and exploded swept over. Tyev just lowered his head slightly, instead of retracting back to the bottom of the trenches like those Kazakh recruits who had never been on the battlefield very much. The shelling of this level is simply a pediatric compared to the shelling that Tyev encountered on the Polish front and Smolensk front before.

When Tiev heard the sound of the shell explosion, he knew that it was the German 15m cannon firing. It was probably the "Wild Bee" 15m self-propelled artillery. Considering the current road conditions, the tracked self-propelled artillery could be launched as soon as possible.

The target of the German artillery was not the Soviet trenches, but the muddy ground in front of the trenches, with the purpose of detonating the mines there to clear the road for tank assault artillery. However, Tyev's subordinates did not lay mines in the muddy ground in front of the position, because the mud season also had a huge impact on the Soviet army's logistics. Tyev's battle group did not receive enough anti-tank mines, so they could only be used at the most critical moments.

When the German self-propelled artillery stopped firing, although the German tanks were approaching the frontier of the Soviet army, many Soviet engineers bravely rushed out of the trenches and risked their lives to lay anti-tank mines.

At the same time, there were many Red Army warriors holding the "red iron fist" rocket launcher crawling from the trenches to pre-digated foxholes dozens of meters ahead. They would risk their lives to attack German tanks there!

Cooperating with them are anti-tank rifles that are up to 2 meters long. There are two types of Soviet anti-tank rifles, ptrd and pt. Because they are very similar, they are called "brother guns". The caliber is 14.5mm, and they use non-streamlined tungsten core armor-piercing shells. They can penetrate 4m homogeneous steel plates at right angles at a distance of 0 meters. It is definitely not possible to use them to deal with the front armor of No. 4 H tanks and the "Grizzly" assault guns. As for periscopes and observation holes, they are basically unable to hit.

However, this gun can be used to cut the track. After breaking the track, the German tanks and assault guns will not move. At this time, the suicide squadrons who ambushed in the fox pit in front will rush out and risk their lives to use the "red iron fist" to deal with the German tanks that cannot move. In addition, the two ambushed su-57s and three zis-3s can also take the opportunity to shoot on their sides.

In short, the Soviet infantry, which had been baptized by a long war, is no longer unable to fight back against the powerful German armored troops.

The German tanks also knew that the enemy they were facing was not so easy to deal with, so they did not keep rushing forward with their heads covering their heads, but stopped abruptly at the front of the Soviet army. Because most of the Soviet anti-tank firepower was inadequate, the threat to German tank assault artillery was not very big at 60 meters.

Then, all the "Grizzly" assault guns began to roar and shot 15m-caliber ammunition onto the Soviet army's positions. The No. 4 H tank pointed the muzzle far ahead, and the gun bore a shell-out armor-piercing bomb. Just waiting for the ambush Soviet tank or tank destroyer to open fire and expose the target. The distance was only 80 meters. This shell-piercing armor-piercing bomb could be handled by the Soviet army's js-2 heavy tank!

But the German commander soon appeared. The Soviet positions in front seemed to be no one to guard them, but they were beaten up with no artillery fire.

However, the German army, which was also experienced, did not move tanks and assault guns clusters, but instead let the infantry holding the mkb-42 automatic carbine charge.

At the same time, there were some German mortar teams and machine gun teams, following the tank assault artillery movement, and now they are set up to cover the attacking infantry with machine gun bullets and mortar shells.
Chapter completed!