The Rise of the Third Reich

While Marshal Zhukov was busy digging traps for the German armored forces, Marshal Konev, a Soviet hero who was almost as famous as him in history, also showed his determination to sacrifice his life for the cause of communism, nailing nails day and night. In Telvivo, only 18 kilometers away from the city of Volokolamsk, the three armies that had been fighting for many days were urged to deploy defenses. Fortunately, the defensive positions are all ready. As early as last winter, hundreds of thousands of Soviets with Moscow registered residence braved the severe cold and worked hard for 2 months on the land from Telvivo to Klin, building 3 defensive zone. They are all defensive zones that include a large number of anti-tank trenches and anti-tank firepower points!

In less than 48 hours, Konev deployed hundreds of thousands of troops to the Telvivo defense zone, the most advanced of the three defense zones. Most of these troops belong to the First Red Flag Army mobilized from the Far East. The rest are mostly troops drawn from the 1st Guards and 2nd Guards Army, and some are reinforcements that have just arrived from the Far East - in order to defend In Moscow, Stalin has also tried his best, searching for troops everywhere like crazy!

As a famous Red Army general, Konev is not in vain. He knows very well that while he is desperately organizing defense, the Germans will not be idle and must also be mobilizing elites.

Therefore, once the war is reignited, it will inevitably become several times more violent!

The E-50A tank, which has not appeared before, will probably reveal its true face.

In order to find out the strength of the German army and see the E-50A tank, Marshal Konev ignored the obstruction of his staff and went to the front line to observe the situation in person. No matter what, he must help Zhukov find out the opponent's trump card in time before the decisive tank battle that determines the fate of GCism begins.

The Marshal of the Soviet Union is now ready to fulfill his oath: to devote his life to communism!

In a wet and muddy observation bunker, but very close to the front, Marshal Konev was observing the battlefield where the smoke had not cleared through the artillery mirror. However, he soon felt a little disappointed, because the tanks that appeared in the eyepiece were still the tanks he was very familiar with-Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns!

Compared with the previous combination of No. 4 tank and Grizzly assault gun, it was indeed upgraded, but the E-50 he wanted to see most did not show up. Now the Soviet Red Army just knows that the enemy has such a new type of heavy tank.

But we don’t know anything about its performance. Of course, we don’t know whether the 122mm cannon of the JS-2 tank can penetrate its front?

Regarding this question, no one in the Red Army dares to guarantee it. Because the theoretical value of the right-angle penetration of the JS-2 122mm cannon at 1,500 meters is 185mm homogeneous steel plate. In actual combat, this standard will definitely not be met.

The Soviet Union's 122mm armor-piercing bullets are also not very ideal. It would be good if the penetration depth could reach 200mm. However, the Germans now have a simple and effective way to deal with armor-piercing projectiles, which is to add skirts to both sides of the tank and weld an iron fence to the front. Although it cannot block armor-piercing bullets 100%, the defensive effect against armor-piercing bullets is still very ideal.

Therefore, hundreds of A-1 cannons (the main guns of the JS-2) were pushed to the front line and forced into the bunker where the ZIS-3 76mm cannon was originally placed. He was about to hit the German E-50A hard, but the target did not appear.

Konev turned back: "At what distance is the A-19 cannon going to fire?"

General Beloborodov, commander of the Red Banner First Army, replied: "If an enemy E-50 tank is discovered, the A-19 cannon will fire at a distance of 1,000 meters. If no E-50 tank is discovered, half of the A- 19 cannons will be hidden in the snow first, and the remaining ones will fire at a distance of 1,500 meters.”

Konev nodded and said nothing more - he himself is an expert in the use of artillery, and has used artillery to fight many wonderful defensive battles on the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

Of course, we also know that once the 7-caliber cannon is pushed into the line of fire to fight against the German tank groups, it will basically be "Farewell, Motherland" - this is the mantra of the Soviet artillery in this battle, which means there is no return. !

Basically, the ZIS-3 and A-19 cannons and gun groups that are on the line of fire (referring to fighting enemy tanks) are disposable. 20%-30% of them will be destroyed by German artillery fire or bombing before the first shell is fired, and most of the remaining cannons only have a "life span" of dozens of rounds. The ZIS-3 or A-19 that can survive on the line of fire for more than 24 hours in fierce battles are either placed in reinforced concrete bunkers, or they are lucky.

In addition to poor survivability, the cannons placed on the firing line also have an insurmountable weakness - the defense line is long, and no one knows where the enemy tank cluster will appear? Therefore, cannons can only be deployed dispersedly, and where their firepower is really needed, the number of cannons must be much less than the enemy's tanks.

The 1st Red Flag Army's defense line in Telvivo is more than 30 kilometers long, while the Germans' main breakthrough area is only a few kilometers wide at most. In other words, only a small number of A-19 cannons will actually be used. And relying on them, it is impossible to withstand the German steel torrent.

The purpose of these A-19 cannons is just to test the depth of the E-50 tank.

"Boom boom boom..."

When the thunderous sound of artillery sounded, Major General Marx, commander of the German 1st Armored Division, was immediately startled. His Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns (which were transferred from the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division) were assigned to The 1st Armored Division) was still 1,500 meters away from the Soviet forward position.

And the sound of the gunfire didn't sound like it could be fired by ZIS-2 and ZIS-3, but the 122mm cannon was firing!

He quickly raised his telescope and looked forward, only to see that a large armored vehicle, whether it was a "Tiger" or a "Grizzly", had been set on fire. The remaining Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns responded quickly. After the first round of Soviet shelling, they stopped advancing and prepared to fire back.

But the Soviet 122mm gun 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 the cannon on the position fired for the third time and destroyed two Tiger tanks, the experienced German tank commander already discovered the muzzle flash.

The turrets of more than a dozen Tiger tanks rotated, then coaxial machine guns fired, followed by the roar of cannons. The civil artillery bunker was blown into the sky. Two A-1 cannons and their gun crews were all blown into the air. Four A-19 cannons continued to fight and fire. Perhaps because of panic, they did not hit any targets this time. Instead, they attracted more 88mm armor-piercing bullets, and after several rounds of artillery battles, they were all blown into the sky.

Seeing this scene, Konev just sighed slightly. It seemed that Germany did not need to send out the E-50 at all, and the defense line of the Red Flag 1st Army would be breached.

"Comrade Commander, it's dangerous here. You'd better move first." General Beloborodov said loudly to Konev at this time, "Just leave this place to our Red Flag 1st Army. Block the Germans 2-3 There’s no problem with that.”

Konev nodded and said to Beloborodov: "Tell comrades, although Russia is big, we have no way to retreat, because behind us is Moscow!"

This slogan, first shouted by the officers and soldiers of the 8th Guards Infantry Division, has now spread throughout the three front armies near Moscow, and all the Red Army officers and soldiers understand its meaning.

Their Soviet motherland has now reached its most dangerous moment!

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When Beloborodov made the guarantee to Konev, General Hermann Hoth, commander of the German 4th Armored Army, also arrived in Volokolamsk to supervise the battle.

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

Although the General Staff and the Central Army Group Headquarters roughly guessed the Soviet army's plan, they still made the biggest bet without hesitation.

Of course, he, the front-line group army commander, cannot be vague, so at the military mobilization meeting last night, General Huot also issued a rare order to the troops: Within three days, the 48th Armored Corps must Attack near Link, cut off the Red October Railway line, and at the same time be prepared for a decisive battle with the numerically superior Soviet tank group!

The Soviet tank cluster must be defeated at all costs!

The fate of the German Third Reich, the Europa continent, and even the entire world will be decided in this tank battle.

At this moment, far away in Berlin, inside the General Staff of the German Wehrmacht, there was also an extremely tense scene. Starting from the evening of the 26th, Imperial Marshal Hessmann and Imperial Marshal Schleicher, the Minister of Defense who had retired from active service, had set up their beds in the General Staff Headquarters. They would grasp any changes on the front line immediately.

Marshal Guderian, who was actually commanding the overall situation on the Eastern Front, was currently in the first operations room, thinking hard about a picture of the situation on the Moscow front. Chief of General Staff Hessmann walked in quietly. Guderian heard the sound at the door and turned his head. Seeing Hessmann with a tired face and dark circles under his eyes, Guderian understood that his immediate boss must be under tremendous pressure now. He probably couldn't sleep for even a minute last night.

"Marshal of the Empire," Guderian frowned and smiled, "The moment of destiny has arrived!"