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    Before the war began, no one could have imagined that the siege of Moscow that began in March 1944 would turn into the largest siege in human history, with the most brutal fighting conditions, the largest number of troops invested by both sides, and the largest number of casualties.  Battle of the city.

    Beginning in March 1944, more than four million troops from both sides of the enemy were fighting fiercely outside Moscow. Countless heroic scenes took place here, countless national heroes emerged from here, and countless soldiers and civilians fell under the gun.  of dead souls.

    In less than a year from March 1944 to February 1945, the German and Japanese Allied forces suffered more than 900,000 casualties outside Moscow, including 600,000 German casualties and 300 Japanese casualties.  Thousands of people.

    The Soviet Red Army and civilians who defended the city of Moscow suffered even more heavy casualties. More than half of the more than two million Soviet Red Army soldiers were killed or injured in less than a year.

    Children as young as seven or eight years old, as old as seventy or eighty years old, countless Moscow civilians participated in the battle to defend the city in this battle. These civilians without much combat skills and tactical literacy used their tenacity to defend their homes.  He threw himself into this tragic battle without hesitation. Within a year, nearly half of the casualties were among the poor.

    But even so, despite their ferocious offensive, the German-Japanese coalition failed to penetrate the core area of ??Moscow, which is the strategic key point on the periphery of Moscow. It also changed hands many times during repeated battles between the two sides.

    The war has reached this point, completely beyond the expectations of both the offensive and defensive sides. This battle has gradually lost its strategic significance, and has become an outlet for the most ferocious beastiality deep in the hearts of simple human beings.

    The position of the 13th Armored Division of the German East Group is adjacent to the position of Japanese friendly forces. Werner and Paul are two ordinary soldiers of the 13th Armored Division. Tonight, it is their turn to be on duty at the outermost sentry post.

    Because there was their own friendly army position opposite, and there were a large number of troops in the battle area with the Soviet Union in the front, so there was no particularly tense atmosphere at their post. The two of them were huddled in the biting cold wind that made people shiver.  While chatting about their love histories, they chatted about their love histories. After all, on Valentine's Day, these soldiers, even if they were on the battlefield and didn't know when their lives would end, couldn't help but reminisce.  Reminiscent of the happy and romantic times in the past peaceful years.

    Just when Paul was laughing that Warner didn't even dare to hold hands and kiss his first love, the two heard a rumble coming from the ground east of their outpost.  It seemed that the earth in the east was beginning to shake. The two of them were thinking, they didn't receive any notification from their superiors today. Is there a big battle operation going on tonight among the Japanese friendly forces?  How come there is such a big noise?  No wonder our superiors have told us to be wary of Japanese military movements these days. Is there really anything abnormal?

    Just when the two were about to pick up the outpost phone and report the abnormal situation to the division headquarters, two hidden figures suddenly appeared behind them. Then, two sharp daggers pierced the two men respectively.  The two German sentries were just recalling their respective love histories and seemed a little excited.

    At 11 o'clock in the evening on February 14, 1945, Moscow time, the Japanese Far East Expeditionary Force, which participated in the siege of Moscow City. After a year of fighting, with 700,000 remaining troops, suddenly attacked the troops responsible for the attack on the southern line of Moscow City.  More than half a million German troops launched a fierce attack.

    Before the battle started, the Japanese special operations forces successfully eliminated the German forward sentries, making the battle very sudden.  Although their superiors had warned the German troops on the front line to beware of the abnormal actions of the Japanese army, the German troops on the front line had never thought that the Japanese friendly troops who had been cooperating with them to attack the city during the day would suddenly attack them tonight.

    Therefore, this sudden attack by the Japanese army was catastrophic and devastating to the German army. Moreover, at the same time, the last more than 400,000 armored troops gathered by the Soviet Union in the northern region also began to attack from the northwest flank of the German army.  A fierce attack was launched against the German army. On the same night, one million Soviet remnants in Moscow suddenly launched a counterattack against the German army in front.

    Such a powerful and sudden attack made it impossible for the more than 800,000 German troops concentrated to the south and west of Moscow to react and organize an effective counterattack. The Soviet and Japanese coalition forces were suddenly blinded. The 800,000-strong army  In a hurry, he began to change from an offensive posture to a defensive posture.

    Five days before the Soviet-Japanese coalition launched a surprise counterattack, it caused more than 200,000 casualties to the German army.  When the German army initially stabilized its position and began to enter and defend its position, the remaining German troops of less than 600,000 were already surrounded by more than one million Soviet and Japanese allied forces.

    When Hitler heard the news, he almost fainted. Many days ago, members of the Eastern Mysterious Organization had warned him that the Japanese and Soviet Far East Expeditionary Forces mightSuddenly rebelled.

    However, Hitler was busy on the Italian front at the time.  Although the East Group was notified to strengthen monitoring of the Japanese army, it did not put the mysterious organization's suggestion in the most important position.

    Because Hitler never expected that his Japanese allies, who had cooperated with him for many years, would betray him overnight. Moreover, from a strategic perspective, after the Japanese army betrayed him, it would face attacks from China in the east and Germany in the west.  When two powerful forces attack, we cannot expect the Soviet Union, a country in danger, to provide him with protection.

    Who knows, seven days later, the Japanese army suddenly turned against the enemy and dealt a fatal blow to the German army.

    The 80-strong German army was able to initially stabilize its position five days later because Guderian, the commander of the Eastern Group, had deliberately contracted in the past few days after receiving Hitler's order to monitor Japanese actions and beware of possible Japanese rebellion.  established a position and took certain precautionary measures.

    Moreover, Guderian even ignored Hitler's order not to stop the attack on Moscow. On the one hand, he dispatched more than 300,000 German troops from the direction of Stalingrad and began to march northward. On the other hand, he mobilized 400,000 German second-line reserve troops from the direction of Minsk, Belarus.  , began to advance rapidly towards Soviet Moscow. It was Guderian's decisive action that allowed the German Moscow siege troops to avoid the end of the entire army.

    Eight days later, the German troops from the direction of Minsk first arrived at the front line in Moscow. At this time, the Moscow area had truly become a hell on earth, with countless troops from both sides fighting on the battlefield.

    After initially stabilizing their position, the German siege force in Moscow showed extremely excellent tactical qualities and tenacious will. After receiving Guderian's order to stand firm and wait for reinforcements, this force did not completely disorganize its position. Instead, it used  The Soviet-Japanese coalition forces had the opportunity to clear the battlefield and stabilize the defense line in time.

    And in some areas, they launched multiple small counterattacks against the Japanese offensive troops, gradually stabilizing their position with offensive and defensive methods. When the German Minsk Front arrived on the outside of the battlefield on February 22, they participated in the siege of Moscow.  Despite the sudden attack, the 800,000-strong Dafen coalition still retained 500,000 troops.

    Moreover, it also has strong defense penetration capabilities. According to Guderian's order, at the same time that the German troops from Minsk arrived on the battlefield, the Moscow siege German troops began to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese positions in the southeast direction.  Instead of breaking out from the southwest defense line originally expected by the Soviet-Japanese coalition forces and joining the German forces in Minsk.

    With the fierce attack of the German army, the Japanese army, which wanted to preserve its strength, was of course difficult to resolve and fight with the powerful German army. In the face of the surging German army, Terauchi Juichi finally ordered his troops to avoid the frontal attack of the German army and only attack and kill the German army from the flanks.  .

    In this way, nearly 500,000 German troops tore a crack through the encirclement of 700,000 Japanese troops, broke out to the southeast, and inflicted heavy trauma on the Japanese troops.

    The Japanese army, which was chasing after the German army in an attempt to gain some advantage, was violently attacked by 300,000 German troops swooping over from the direction of Stalingrad in the Lazan area of ??the Soviet Union.

    At the same time, the more than 400,000 German siege troops who had been retreating all the way began to stop retreating and began to bite the Japanese Soviet Far East Expeditionary Force. Although this bite did not kill the Japanese army, it also made Shouichi Terauchi heartbroken for a long time.

    Because, in the nearly ten days after the Japanese and German troops launched the raid, they lost less than 100,000 people in total. However, under the joint counterattack of the German Stalingrad Front Army and the Moscow Siege Force, they were all killed in one fell swoop.  He has an army of 200,000.  Moreover, other troops of their own also suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army had to switch to a defensive posture on the spot.

    A few days later, when the Soviet Red Army rushed to the battlefield, the German troops that had bitten the Japanese army had already walked away, retreated far away from the battlefield, and began to retreat to the southern Soviet Union to echo the German Ukrainian Front.

    At the same time when these two parts of the German army retreated, Guderian ordered the German Minsk Front to make small-scale contact with the Soviet army and complete the task of covering the retreat of the German Moscow siege troops, and immediately retreat to the direction of Belarus, and in March  On the fourth day, all 400,000 troops retreated back to Belarus.

    Since then, the siege of Moscow by the German and Japanese forces and the siege of Moscow by the Soviet Union, after an extremely brutal year of confrontation, ended in an almost farce manner that surprised everyone.

    The successful rebellion of the Japanese army became the main factor in ending this battle. At the same time, it also brought the Soviet Union to its final collapse.

    The entire offensive and defensive battle in Moscow lasted for a full year. The offensive and defensive sides each mobilized more than two million troops, and ultimately suffered more than one million casualties each. Among them, the Japanese army participated in the offensive of both warring parties. During more than a year of fighting, from  More than one millionThe army had grown to more than 300,000 people after the battle, of which less than 200,000 were combat-effective.  With constant replenishment, the German army was reduced from the original 1.3 million troops to more than 400,000 people who finally retreated back to the Stalingrad area.

    And the Soviet army suffered heavy losses. Of the more than two million troops involved in defending the city, less than 900,000 people were left at the end of the battle. Moscow civilians also suffered more than one million casualties in this battle.
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