After listening to Malenkov's words, Xu Rui said: "Comrade Malenkov, then I will wait for your good news. As soon as your equipment and personnel arrive, my troops will immediately go into attack."
The conversation between Xu Rui and Malenkov was very harmonious. Malenkov tried his best to meet Xu Rui's request. This made Xu Rui's impression of Malenkov change a lot. He felt that although Malenkov was smooth, he was also a treacherous person.
People who do practical things.
Xu Rui suddenly remembered something that a certain philosopher said. Some seemingly sinister villains are also capable people, while many honest people are useless. This sentence should be perfectly suitable for Malenkov.
Xu Rui and Malenkov ended the meeting harmoniously, and the two walked out of Zhukov's office together. Afterwards, Malenkov told Zhukov that follow-up reinforcements would be arriving soon, and Zhukov must persist and wait.
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After Malenkov left, Xu Rui said to Zhukov: "Comrade Zhukov, with our current strength, we are not enough to launch a new attack on the Germans. Therefore, we have to be patient for the time being and wait for the reinforcements and supplies promised by Comrade Malenkov."
We will launch an attack after arriving."
Upon hearing this, Zhukov knew that he couldn't do anything, so he had no choice but to agree with Xu Rui's opinion.
Xu Rui said: "Everything has pros and cons. If our army does not attack, then the German army may attack. The troops on the front line must guard against possible attacks by the Germans, especially the attacks by the German armored forces. There are many front lines
Use combat artillery and rocket launchers."
Zhukov said: "After several attacks, the German armored forces have almost suffered losses. Is it necessary to guard against attacks by the armored forces?"
Xu Rui said: "It's better to be cautious. If German armored reinforcements arrive and launch a frontal attack, without anti-armor weapons, we will suffer a big loss."
Just as rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns were unleashed on the Soviet troops, a storm was brewing within the German army.
The origin of this storm was that 800 tanks were transported to the Moscow front line.
For the German army, this is a batch of materials of great strategic value. Eight hundred tanks will be enough to change the entire situation in Moscow.
After von Kluge received the supplement of this batch of tanks, he decided to launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet army in Moscow, advancing from north to south, trying to capture Moscow in one fell swoop! The most important thing was to recapture the Western Front occupied by the Soviets.
position.
Von Kluge decided to hand over some of these tanks to the 6th Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, and the 6th Army would carry out the task of attacking Moscow.
After receiving the order, Paulus of the 6th Army immediately stepped up preparations for war, preparing to capture Moscow's western front in one fell swoop.
However, Paulus felt a little uneasy at this time. From 1935, Paulus began to serve as Chief of Staff. He was one of the main planners of the Barbarossa Plan. After the death of General Reichenau, he was appointed as the First Chief of Staff.
Commander-in-chief of the 6th Army Group.
Paulus had severe mysophobia. Even during the most intense period of the war, he had to change several sets of underwear every day. Paulus was more like a scientist than a general. He failed to become a general like Reichenau.
A hero in the minds of soldiers, people often compared him with Reichenau, which annoyed him very much.
After replenishment, the German 6th Army has approximately 270,000 troops, 3,400 artillery pieces and mortars, 350 tanks, and 1,100 aircraft. The Soviet Army on the Western Front in Moscow has the 1st Assault
The Group Army, the 16th Group Army, and some other affiliated units have a total strength of about 300,000 people, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, and the Moscow Soviet aviation force has about 1,000 aircraft and more than 100 tanks.
From a quantitative point of view, the German army still has a certain advantage, but since all the troops are scattered on the front line, this advantage is of little significance and is not obvious. Moreover, the follow-up personnel and equipment of the Soviet army are not being transported to Moscow, making
The strength of the Soviet army is growing every day, and the gap in strength between the two sides is getting smaller and smaller.
Paulus decided to launch a fierce attack on Moscow from the west. More than 200,000 German troops were ready for battle, preparing to capture the Soviet positions on the western front in one fell swoop and reconnect the northern and southern German fronts.
Paulus hoped that through this battle, he would change his impression in the minds of others and become a figure like Reichenau that everyone would regard as a hero.
After a day of preparation, the German 6th Army launched a fierce attack on western Moscow from the north and south.
The German army used infantry-tank coordination tactics and launched a tidal wave of attacks toward the west of Moscow. Paulus's 6th Army was indeed powerful in combat, and the thunder tactics were extremely sharp. The infantry continued to attack under the cover of tanks.
However, at this time, the Soviet army quickly adjusted after the initial chaos. Since a large number of anti-tanks were ready to withdraw in advance, the Soviet infantry was no longer vulnerable even when faced with German tanks.
Instead of attacking, we have enough capital to fight.
The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, with repeated battles surrounding every block, every street, and every house.
Second Lieutenant Pavlov led a platoon of soldiers to guard a building. Due to the very important location of the building, the Germans had launched more than ten attacks, but they were repelled by Pavlov and his soldiers.
Pavlov was a warrior from Siberia. In appearance, Pavlov had some Mongoloid features. If he hadn't had white skin, one would have thought he was a yellow man.
In fact, Pavlov has Mongolian ancestry. His ancestor was a general of the Mongolian Golden Horde more than 200 years ago. However, after countless generations of mixed blood, he reached Pavlov's age.
I have become a white man.
However, Pavlov still retained the brave and fierce character of his Mongolian ancestors in his bones. Pavlov was given the task of guarding this building, so he kept guarding it here and refused to retreat. After several hours
In the battle, Pavlov and his men had repelled seven German attacks.
Pavlov counted the number of people in the building. Counting himself, there were now twenty-eight people left. The weapons included nine submachine guns, seventeen Mosin Nagant rifles, one heavy machine gun, and one
There were still a lot of pistols and bullets. Pavlov believed that with the weapons in his hands, he would be able to resist the Germans for another four or five hours without any problem.
At this time, Pavlov took out the vodka and took a sip. The vodka did not taste too strong, but it had a strong stamina. When Pavlov took a sip of the wine, he felt warm and comfortable in his stomach.
, drove away the chill all over.
"Lieutenant Pavlov, let me have a drink too." A soldier came over and said.
Pavlov handed the flask to the soldier and said: "Save your drink, this is all that is left."
The soldier only took a small sip and returned the wine to Pavlov.
"It's really good wine," said the soldier.
Pavlov said: "This wine was brewed by my family. It has been left in the ground for ten years before it has this taste."
"Good wine that has been stored for ten years?"
Several soldiers looked at the wine jug in Pavlov's hand. Pavlov put the wine jug in his arms and said: "That's all. I'll see how you perform in a while. Whoever fights well will win."
To whom to drink?"
"Second Lieutenant, the Germans are on their way," a voice said.
Pavlov quickly looked outside the building, and sure enough, dozens of German soldiers armed with Mauser 98 rifles and MP40 submachine guns were rapidly advancing towards the building.
"Ready to fight!"
Pavlov shouted, and then the soldiers returned to their combat posts and used the existing fortifications to exchange fire with the Germans.
Half an hour later, the German attack was repelled again. Pavlov put down the Mosin-Nagant rifle in his hand and looked behind him. In the attack just now, two more soldiers were killed. However,
The Germans left more than twenty corpses in front of the building.
"Alexei, how many Germans have you killed?" Pavlov asked the only sniper under his command, and the sniper said: "I killed six people."
"Well done, Alexei, come on, take a few sips!" Pavlov took out the wine bottle and handed it to Alexei's hand.
Alexei smiled, took two big gulps of wine, and burped comfortably.
"Anton, I did a good job. As a new recruit, I killed two German soldiers in the first battle. You can definitely become an excellent sniper. Alexey, let Anton take a sip too.
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"Okay." Alexei threw the wine bottle to Anton.
Anton happily took the flask and stood up to drink.
"Pa!" A crisp gunshot sounded, and a stream of red flowers burst out from Anton's temple.
"Sniper!" Pavlov yelled.
"boom!"
A soldier standing in front of the window was shot in the head again.
Pavlov said: "Don't even look up, be careful, there are German snipers on the other side!"
Alexei quickly moved his sniper position, and then came to a blind spot for shooting from the opposite side, looking for traces of the opponent's snipers. After a long while, Alexei finally discovered something unusual in the rubble pile opposite, and Alexei fired his gun.
I kept observing with my scope, and finally discovered that there was a black muzzle in the middle of the pile of rubble. It was indeed a German sniper.
Alexey quickly climbed the stairs, and then climbed all the way to the top of the building. From a commanding height, here, his sight was finally no longer disturbed and he caught the traces of German snipers.
At this time, Alexey saw that the German sniper below was about to make a move. Obviously, he had discovered him. Alexey jumped in between the German snipers and fired instantly, shooting the German sniper in the head with one shot...