Not only the police division thought so, but all the troops did not want to fall behind in the final mission of attacking the Kremlin! Even General Felix Stanel first concentrated his targets on the last stronghold of the Soviets in the west of the city, which was defended by a militia battalion and anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the Soviet army. Especially that anti-aircraft gun battalion. If it doesn't go smoothly. Then the losses caused by these anti-aircraft guns to our own air force will be very heavy. The Viking division, which has been consolidating the Khimki area, has never been able to clear out the Red Army strongholds there, but now is a good opportunity, and General Felix Stanel does not want to waste any more time.
The attack was launched simultaneously with the police division's attack on the National Theatre. First came the artillery fire coverage. Although the 105MM and 75MM mountain cannons are not very strong. But at this time they did provide strong support to the soldiers of the Viking Division. Next up was the German Stuka bomber. These black gods of death braved the Soviet artillery fire to accurately drop bombs weighing 50KG-100KG in the opponent's defense zone. Accompanied by huge ones. Gray clouds rose, and the Soviet perimeter defenses were blown to pieces in an instant, causing chaos. The German paratroopers took advantage of the chaos and launched an attack, using submachine guns and grenades. Engineer shovels and flamethrowers can be flexibly inserted into various houses. Go around behind the defense line established by the Soviets and hit the opponent hard, or use fixed-point blasting and flamethrowers to clear the way. Along with this tactic, the blockhouses and bunkers set up by the Soviets before the war were dismantled one after another.
It will definitely take a few days to clean up the remaining Red Army troops. This will be a critical period for whether the garrison holding the Kremlin can escape. Until now, Lin Wei can only pin his hopes on the Kremlin. The garrison commander, Major General Spiridonov, was so excited that he would not choose to break out. However, Lin Wei knew that this was almost impossible. But even so, the SS had to consolidate its position first before continuing the attack. Take a bite of rice. Eat, you can't rush it.
Major General Spiridonov fully cooperated with Lin Wei's ideas at this time. Not only did he not take any action to break out, he even showed an obvious look of holding on, which made Lin Wei put down the huge stone in his heart. In fact, if Major General Spiridonov had considered his own troops, he would never have made such a decision, but out of loyalty to his commitment, and Stalin's strict order. Forced Major General Spiridonov to fight to the death with the Germans in this world-famous palace. He didn't want to do it, but he had no choice.
Just when Lin Wei was struggling to guess what Major General Spiridonov was thinking, the sky had darkened, and the SS soldiers who had been fighting for a day began to defend cautiously. After all, under normal circumstances, no one would want to fight at night. Conduct combat. Although the SS is now surrounded by 1.5 million Red Army troops, the situation is not so dangerous that they have to open one eye while sleeping. There are still 2 million soldiers from Army Group Center oppressing the Soviet Red Army positions on the periphery. Unless the top leader of the Soviet Red Army gets hot, the situation of the SS is still safe now. What these soldiers don't know is that their leader has been thinking hard about how to make Stalin's head get hot.
In some large strongholds that are still controlled by Red Army soldiers, the Red Army soldiers inside are strictly protected by SS soldiers. In order to prevent the Red Army soldiers inside from breaking out, huge searchlights are facing the doors of the buildings. Party members wearing cotton coats The guardsmen took turns to rest, leaving no chance for the enemy to take advantage of the situation.
The time it took to clean up the small group of troops in western Moscow was much beyond Lin Wei's expectations. He killed a series of SS troops of the main force of the Soviet Red Army, including the Dzerzhinsky Division, in a head-to-head encounter. However, these stragglers were not dealt with. It took a lot of brainpower, and human creativity was greatly improved during the war. Soon, the street fighting experience that the SS once considered rich encountered challenges again. Red Army soldiers operating in single-digit units fought urban guerrilla warfare with SS soldiers inside the city. Frightened by the power of the German army, the population of Moscow's urban area dropped to only one-fifth of its pre-war level, and a large number of residents fled Moscow. Now that residents have fled, the empty houses have become hiding places for these defeated Red Army soldiers, and the number of hiding places is even greater than the number of Red Army soldiers.
The SS was troubled by the attack by a small group of Red Army troops, but although they were exhausted, they steadily gained the upper hand. After all, there was no reason why the regular army, which was at least not too corrupt, could not defeat the guerrillas. Compared with the battle in Moscow, the battle in the peripheral Central Army Group was obviously much more technical. October 27th at noon. The 25th Motorized Corps, under the command of their commander Panzer-General von Zenberg, once again sent out an assault group and launched several tentative attacks on Maloyaroslavets. They tried to bypass Maloyaroslavets. In the direction of Borovsk, they encountered a tenacious blockage from the Moscow Internal Affairs Troops. The name of this unit is the Taman Division. In Beria's Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Taman Division has the same name as the Dzerzhinsky Division. They are both the most elite troops in the Soviet Union.
Facing such a strong opponent. Panzer General von Zenberg was unmoved. He soon increased his offensive strength to the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division. Among them, the armored division is a motorized division. In just half an hour, the German motorized tanks passed through the Red Army positions that were heavily mined, in order to expand their victory. Marshal Bock put the troops of the 19th Armored Division under his direct control into the battle. And taking advantage of the favorable conditions caused by the short-term cold wave causing the ground to freeze, they quickly moved forward. On October 26th. The German army finally captured Borovsk in one fell swoop. The powerful search battalion of its leading troops has rushed to the Lashi River more than fifty kilometers away from the front of Moscow.
In the Kaluga area, the German troops who had been dormant there also took action. Cooperate with Schwarzenberg's offense. This time, the commander here suddenly discovered a great opportunity. Faced with this opportunity, he did not hesitate to send out the troops he could. The forces of the 12th Army and the 13th Army broke through the resistance of the 6th Guards Division of the Soviet base camp reserve and the machine gun unit in the garrison area, and occupied Kaluga in one fell swoop on the 27th. thereafter. The Germans advanced rapidly towards Tarussa. and captured Maloyaroslavets.
General von Zenberg created a huge crisis for the Soviets. Not only did they approach Moscow, but they also threatened the metro line connecting Moscow to the southern Tula region. At this time, Tula was being fiercely attacked by Gudri's Armored Group, the most elite German army. If this railway line is cut, then Tula. This most important arms industry city in the southern Soviet Union will be destroyed, and in this way, the entire southern barrier of Moscow will suddenly collapse. Guderian's Second Armored Group and Hott's Third Armored Army would have no problem reaching the gates of Moscow, which would be extremely fatal to the Russians.
However, Marshal Timoshenko seemed to notice this. Order Rokorosovsky's troops, who were almost crippled some time ago, to move quickly. Then Stalin's almost endless reserves were transferred there. Soon Rokorosovsky and the reserves saved the situation. In the Narofominsk district where Schwarzenberg's 57th Motorized Corps was directed. Rokorosovsky was reinforced by a total of four divisions from the Soviet Far East and the Soviet Inland Military District. The 33rd Army, supported by the 17th Tank Brigade and the 7th Mechanized Brigade, blocked the Germans. On the way to the ground, the Forty-ninth Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Zakharkin also began to tenaciously block Kruger's moves with the cooperation of the Forty-third Army Group. The soldiers of the Central Army Group soon discovered that a large number of people appeared in front of them. Non-Russian troops from the heart of the Soviet Union. Many of them have Asian faces, and some simply cannot speak Russian.
The resistance of the Soviet Red Army at the southern end of Mozhaysk is becoming increasingly tenacious. So much so that the daily battles became extremely cruel. The soldiers and officers on the front line had a deep understanding of this. The 35th Infantry Division of the Fifth Army in the southernmost part of the Fourth Army was attacked by the Red Army. The battle lasted until the 28th. There were only thirty men left in each infantry company of the 19th Armored Division deployed by Marshal Bock. In addition, the briefly frozen roads became very muddy as the weather warmed up at night. This brought great trouble to the advancement of the Fourth Army of Army Group Center. The soldiers stepped on the thick mud and continued to advance. By accident, their feet had already stepped out, and their boots got stuck in the mud and remained motionless.
Due to the desperate resistance of the Soviets, the offensive of Army Group Center temporarily came to a halt, but in the end the deadlock was not broken. The fighting began on the 25th. Within three days, the 33rd, 43rd, and 49th Soviet Army Groups were already close to the Nala River and Serpukhov at the northern end of the Mozhaisk defense line. Tarusa. Alexin blocked the German attack in one line.
To the northwest is General Hoth's Third Armored Army. The Third Armored Army still maintains contact with the SS Viking Division in Khimki. The hub of contact is the Hermann Goering Paratrooper Armor, which is part of the Air Force's combat order. Division, it seems that General Hoth's task is not very heavy, because although it seems from the map that the connection between the Third Armored Group Army and the SS can be easily cut off, the Third Armored Group is now indeed the most likely to be the entire Central Army Group. Where breakthroughs are made.