Up to now, Lin Wei still didn't know how many Red Army troops his Fifth SS Armored Group faced, and how many enemies there were in Moscow? The Belarusian Railway Station has been beaten beyond recognition by the armies of both sides. At least if others did not remind Lin Wei, he would never have imagined that this was originally a railway station, although it was clearly marked on the combat map. Some SS soldiers are looking for the bodies of their comrades from the battlefield so that they can be buried. After this battle, many Germans will receive death notices. But there is no way. The war between Germany and the Soviet Union is destined to not end like the war between Germany and Western Europe. Before they still have enough strength, neither Germany nor the Soviet Union will accept the fate of defeat. Even if there is hope of dying together, Stalin will try every means Drag Germany into hell.
Lin Wei and his guards searched for a long time before they found a building that looked relatively complete. As for the leaky roof and shattered glass, Lin Wei believed that this was completely surmountable. After finding a dusty table and sweeping away the dirt that was almost heavier than the table, Crawford immediately threw the map on it. From the map, the control route of the Fifth SS Panzer Army is like a funnel, starting from the northwest thrust into Moscow to control Khimki, all the way to the Garden Ring Road of the Kremlin, the closer it is to the Kremlin, The smaller the area that the SS can control, this is definitely not a good situation. At least as a confrontation situation, the current performance of the SS is still not enough.
"We should expand the width we can control. Although I have always had confidence in the SS, the distance between our north and south is too small!" Lin Wei said with some worry, "The elite army cannot only control the width so small. In our position, the enemy can concentrate huge forces to isolate us. There is an Eastern saying that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall! This is our current situation. Although there will be no problem in the short term, I believe that the ironclad Marshal Musingo will discover our loopholes, and the area around Leningrad Street must be controlled immediately!"
Although Crawford did not understand the meaning of a gentleman not standing behind a dangerous wall, he also understood what Lin Wei meant. However, the current fact is that the SS troops attacking the airport and stadium encountered difficulties, so As if to remind him, he said: "Leader, the airports and other areas we attacked have been heavily defended by the Red Army. Moreover, they are all made of solid buildings. With the Red Army troops, they have turned into super-large fortresses. Is it very expensive to capture those locations?”
Hmm... Lin Wei tightened his collar and seemed to have noticed the cool breeze pouring in from the window. He said with some incomprehension, "Why are we in a hard battle? Are there Zhukovs in those buildings? The Northern Mountain Division and the Prince Eugen Division It was because I had the order to seize Zhukov that I forcibly attacked the fortress. Did they also have this reason? Even a strong fortress can be destroyed. Although they did not have Gustav railway guns in their hands, I did not tell them not to call in the Air Force bombers, right? ? It may not be effective against these fortresses once, but if you try it several times, those buildings are not made of steel and will eventually collapse! In my opinion, Lieutenant General Konrad Hikuler and the two of them fell into a misunderstanding. I didn’t tell them to capture it!” The nagging Lin Wei was very dissatisfied with the performance of the two divisions. Logically speaking, the two divisions had already fought a lot of battles, so there should be no problem at all, at least if Paul & Hauser Under your command, this situation will not happen at all. For the first time, Lin Wei felt that he was a little dissatisfied with the group of teachers who were with Dietrich.
"Understood, leader!" Crawford, who had always made Lin Wei feel very smart, finally said. In fact, it is not to blame these people for being confused. After all, they opened up Leningrad Street, captured the Belarus Railway Station, and controlled the surrounding large targets in one day. Action is indeed a bit arduous. As long as Lieutenant General Konrad Hikul and others realize the cost of a strong attack, they will immediately adjust their attack strategies and will not make this mistake again.
After losing his temper, Lin Wei once again remembered the important things now. When he arrived in another room, the guards there had installed a high-magnification telescope. Lin Wei took pictures of the big guy and said proudly, "How is it?" ? I dismantled it from an aerospace museum in Belgium. It is older than my grandfather and is almost two hundred years old. Using it to observe the Kremlin is a piece of cake!" As he said that, Lin Wei looked carefully of observation.
"I said, why can't the Air Force still find the Kremlin? Those incompetent guys, just the golden dome of the Kremlin was painted black, they can't find the place like blind men, I really I doubt the quality of the Air Force!" Lin Wei, who kept his eyes on the Kremlin, kept applying eye drops to the Air Force.
"Have the guards who followed me to the Kremlin draw maps immediately to guide the air force!" Lin Wei put down his telescope and ordered. Among those who had followed Lin Wei to the Soviet Union, many of them had collected maps of the terrain of Moscow. Intelligence, but the SS people couldn't reach here a few days ago. So we can only continue to play soy sauce. Now that the SS has approached the Garden Ring Road, they can naturally be put to use.
Lin Wei glanced outside and said, "It is no longer realistic to start attacking the Kremlin today! Starting tomorrow, we will fight Stalin's Guards. I think Beria's internal affairs troops have given you It left a deep impression, don’t be careless tomorrow!”
"Hey, Hit? Le!" Although the number of people was small, the determination contained in them was self-evident.
"Very good!" Lin Wei was very satisfied with his guards, but after looking outside, his eyes became cold again. The weather was getting colder and colder. He didn't know how his troops would be able to survive when Russia's winter war came. Can't get through it.
In the evening, Lin Wei received a telegram from Marshal Bock that all preparations for Army Group Center had been completed and the Battle of Moscow was ready. In particular, the four armored armies have alleviated the shortage of tanks and fuel to the greatest extent. It is entirely possible to carry out sudden advances from the north and south, so that Orekhov can encircle the three Soviet front armies in Moscow.
Marshal Bock's telegram made Lin Wei very confused, because according to the agreement between Lin Wei and Marshal Bock, when Army Group Center launched the attack, the Fifth SS Armored Group Army should have already captured the Kremlin. But now the SS's actions are obviously a step slower, and they have not captured the heart of the red empire, the Kremlin. After thinking for a long time, Lin Wei called back, "I agree with the offensive of Army Group Center. The SS troops have arrived at the Kremlin. Together, we will carry out a devastating blow to the enemy forces around Moscow. I think the attack is The time is initially set at October 23rd!"
On the evening of October 22, Marshal Bock sent a telegram to the commanders of the four armored armies. The general attack time was set for tomorrow. Guderian and General Hoth also seized the time to make final preparations. Field Marshal Kruger's Fourth Army is responsible for the frontal attack; on its left is Hoth's Third Armored Army and Hepner's Fourth Armored Army, whose mission is to encircle Moscow from the north and west respectively; on the right is Gudry. An's Second Armored Army surrounded Moscow from the south. The First Armored Group cooperated with Guderian and fought in a roundabout way.
The German army launched a full-line offensive in a semicircular position surrounding Moscow for two hundred miles. However, Kruger's Fourth Army, which was responsible for the frontal attack, encountered strong resistance from the Soviet army. Since Zhukov used all his elite troops in this direction, the Fourth Army's assault did not progress quickly from the beginning. He put all the troops that could be mobilized into the battle. According to what he said: "When the last battalion is committed, the outcome may be decided." But when Bao Ke thought that the Soviet division had been completely wiped out, When the Soviet reserve force was also exhausted, more and more elite Soviet Siberian divisions continued to appear in front of him. Despite Marshal Bock's desperate efforts, every step forward by the Fourth Army was extremely difficult.
To the south, Guderian commanded the Second Armored Group to advance slowly, trying to bypass Tula, which had been unable to be conquered for a long time, and go back to Moscow. Seventeen thousand cannons around Moscow also roared at the same time, all of which showed that the German army was prepared to deal with the Soviet Red Army at once and end the war.
The tank regiment of the 19th German Armored Division rushed into the Soviet defense zone at the forefront, because most of their tanks were Panzer IV tanks. soon. They broke into an unknown small village on the left side of the Soviet position. Fighting with Soviet troops. A tank commander of the 19th Armored Division described it this way.
Twenty minutes of fierce shelling was our opening salvo. A total of sixteen companies of artillery units participated in this shelling. The area within a range of 400 meters on both sides of the road became the main target of this shelling. Raindrop-like shells hit On the heads of the Soviets, because, we are all men. The roads on both sides of the highway were life-eating swamps for the Russians. After the shelling ended, our motorized infantry began to sweep into the jungle. A Soviet artillery unit suddenly fired at the advancing soldiers. Lieutenant Safink, who participated in the operation, immediately alerted us. So I immediately stepped on my friends to the bottom, and the rumble of the tank tracks mixed with the impact of the exploding shells. The nearest artillery positions had emerged. Kunis, the body-slinger, selected his target within seconds. Several rounds of high-explosive bombs hit the position, scaring the Russians into running around.