While Marshal Zhukov was busy digging traps for the German armored troops, Marshal Konev, a Soviet savage who was almost as famous as him in history, also came up with his determination to sacrifice his life for the cause of Gism. He nailed Telvivo, only 18 kilometers away from Volokoramsk City, day and night, urging the three armies that had been fighting hard for many days to deploy defenses. Fortunately, the defensive positions were all ready-made. As early as last winter, hundreds of thousands of Soviets with Moscow registered household registration braved the cold and worked hard on the land from Telvivo to Klin for 2 months, and built three defensive zones. They were all the defensive zones that included a large number of anti-tank trenches and anti-tank firepower strongholds!

In less than 48 hours, more than 100,000 troops were deployed by Konev to the Telvivo defense zone at the forefront of the three defensive zones. Most of these troops belonged to the First Red Flag Army mobilized from the Far East, and the remaining troops were drawn from the First Guards and the Second Guards Army, and some were reinforcements just launched from the Far East. In order to defend Moscow, Stalin had also done his best and searched for troops everywhere like crazy!

As a famous Red Army general, Konev was not a fame. He knew very well that when he was desperately organizing defense, the Germans would not be idle, and they must be mobilizing elites.

So once the war reignites, it will inevitably become several times more violent!

The e-5oa tank that has not appeared before will most likely reveal its true appearance.

In order to find out the reality of the German army and see the e-5oa tanks, Marshal Konev went to the front line to observe the situation in person despite the obstruction of his staff. In any case, he had to help Zhukov find out his opponent's trump card in time before the decisive battle of tanks that determines the fate of G-ism begin.

The Soviet marshal was now ready to walk in a wet muddy observation bunker, but very close to the front, Marshal Konev was watching the battlefield through the gun team mirror where the smoke had not yet dissipated. However, he was soon a little disappointed, because the tank Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns that he was very familiar with were still tanks, Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns!

Compared with the previous combination of No. 4 tank and Grizzly assault gun, the e-5o he wanted to see the most did not show up. Now the Soviet Red Army only knows that the enemy has such a new type of heavy tank.

But I don’t know anything about its performance, and of course I don’t know whether the 122mm cannon of the JS-2 tank can penetrate its frontal?

No one in the Red Army dared to guarantee this question. Because the theoretical value of the JS-2 122mm cannon at a right angle of 15oo meters is 185mm homogeneous steel plate. In actual combat, it must not meet this standard.

The Soviet Union's 122mm armor-piercing bomb is not very ideal, and it would be good to have a depth of 2 om. However, the Germans now have a simple and effective way to deal with armor-piercing bombs, which is to add skirts on both sides of the tank and weld an iron fence on the front. Although it cannot block armor-piercing bombs by 100%, the defense effect of armor-piercing bombs is still very ideal.

So hundreds of A-19 122mm cannons (the main cannon of JS-2) were pushed to the front line and forced into the bunker where the zis-3 76mm cannon was originally installed. They were ready to give the German e-5oa a little, but the target did not appear.

Konev turned around: "Where is the distance that the a-19 cannon is ready to fire?"

Admiral Beloborodov, commander of the First Army of the Red Flag, replied: "If the enemy's e-5o tank is found, the A-19 cannon will fire at a distance of 1ooo meters. If there is no e-5o tank, half of the A-19 cannon will be hidden first, and the rest will fire at a distance of 15o meters."

Konev nodded, saying nothing more than that, he himself was a master of artillery use. He had used artillery on the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea to fight many wonderful defensive battles.

Of course, I also know that once the 76.2mm and 122mm caliber cannons are pushed to the line of fire to fight against the German tank cluster, it will basically be "Farewell, Motherland". This is the catchphrase of the Soviet artillery in this battle, which means that there will be no return!

Basically, the two cannons and gun groups on the line of fire (referring to fighting enemy tanks) are one-time. 2o%-% of them will be destroyed by German artillery fire or bombing before firing the first shell, and most of the remaining cannons have a "lifetime". The zis-3 or A-19 that can survive for 24 hours on the line of fierce fighting will either be placed in a reinforced concrete bunker or have luck.

In addition to the poor survivability, the cannons placed on the fire line have an insurmountable weakness. The defense line is long. No one knows where the enemy's tank cluster will appear? Therefore, cannons can only be deployed in a dispersed manner. Where they really need to raise firepower, the number of cannons must be much smaller than that of the enemy's tanks.

The Red Flag 1st Army's defense line in Telvivo is more than 30 kilometers long, while the Germans' main breakthrough area is at most a few kilometers wide. In other words, only a small number of A-19 cannons will come in handy. And they cannot withstand the Germans' torrent of steel.

The function of these A-19 cannons is only to test the depth of the e-5o tank.

"Boom boom boom..."

When the thunderous sound of cannons sounded, Major General Marx, the commander of the German 1st Armored Division, was shocked. His tiger tanks and grizzly assault guns (which were transferred from the 4th Armored Grenadier Division to the 1st Armored Division) were 150 meters away from the Soviet frontier positions.

Moreover, the sound of the cannon does not sound like it can be fired by zis-2 and zis-3, but a 122mm cannon is firing!

He quickly raised his telescope and looked forward, and saw a large armored vehicle that was not known to be a "Tiger" or a "Grizzly Bear" that had been fired. The remaining Tiger tanks and Grizzly Assault Cannons responded quickly, and after the first round of shelling of the Soviet army, they stopped moving forward one after another and prepared to fire and counterattack.

However, the Soviets' 122mm cannon fired the second round first! On the battlefield, another Grizzly assault gun was destroyed on the spot.

However, the good luck of the Soviet artillery ended here. When six 122mm cannons on the position opened fire for the third time and destroyed two Tiger tanks, the experienced German tanks had already appeared in muzzle flames.

The turrets of more than a dozen Tiger tanks turned, then the coaxial machine guns fired, followed by the roar of cannons. The civil-built artillery bunker was blown into the sky, two A-19 122mm cannons and their guns were all blown into the air, and four A-19 cannons continued to fight and continue to fire. Perhaps because of panic, they did not hit any target this time, but instead attracted more 88mm armor-piercing bombs, which were all blown into the sky after several rounds of artillery battles.

Seeing this scene, Konev just sighed slightly. It seemed that Germany would not have to send out the e-5o at all, and the defense line of the 1st Red Flag Army would be broken.

"Comrade Commander, it's dangerous here, so you'd better move first." General Beloborodov said loudly to Konev, "Just leave it to our Red Flag 1st Army. There's no problem with blocking the Germans for 2-3 days."

Konev nodded and said to Beloborodov: "Tell me, although Russia is big, we have no way out, because Moscow is behind it!"

This slogan, which was first shouted by the officers and soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division of the Guards, has now spread to the three fronts near Moscow. All the Red Army soldiers understand the meaning.

Their Soviet motherland has now reached its most dangerous moment!

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When Beloborodov made a promise to Konev, General Herman Hot, commander of the 4th Armored Army of Germany, also took charge of the battle in Volokolamsk.

Now is also the most critical moment for the Third German Empire!

Although the General Staff and the Central Army Group Command had roughly guessed the Soviet army's plans, they still put the biggest bet without hesitation.

Of course, he, the commander of the army on the front line, could not be ambiguous, so at the military mobilization meeting last night, General Hot rarely issued a death order to the troops: within three days, the 48th Armored Army must attack near Link, cut off the Red October railway line, and at the same time, be prepared to fight the Soviet tank cluster that has the advantage in numbers!

The Soviet tank cluster must be defeated at all costs!

The fate of the Third German Empire, Europa 6, and even the entire world will be decided by this tank battle.

At this moment, the German Wehrmacht General Staff, far away in Berlin, was also in extreme tension. The Marshal of the Hesman Empire and the Marshal of the Defence Minister Schletcher, who had retired from active service, placed the beds in the General Staff in the evening of the 26th. They immediately grasped any changes in the front line.

In fact, Marshal Guderian, who was commanding the overall situation of the Eastern Front, was currently in the first combat room, thinking hard at a map of the Moscow front. Chief of Staff Hessman quietly walked in. Guderian heard the sound at the door and turned his head. Seeing Hessman with exhausted face and a little dark circle, Guderian understood that his immediate boss must have been under tremendous pressure now, and he might not be able to sleep for a minute last night.
Chapter completed!