With a long hissing, a large caliber shell fell, followed by a loud bang, and dust began to spread in the air.

Germany has completely surrounded Moscow, which has become an isolated island suspended in the German ocean.

The explosion passed, and the black smoke rolled upwards and soared into the sky. As the earth shook, the exterior wall of a building began to collapse, revealing the structure inside.

Not all buildings will turn into ruins after an explosion. Many buildings will stand stubbornly and refuse to fall down.

These homes will become bunkers in ruins, becoming commanding heights and observation points that the Soviet army and the German army repeatedly compete for.

A Soviet soldier waved away the dust in front of him with his hands, then squinted his eyes and watched the situation opposite through the gap in front of him.

Every street and every building, the Soviet army and the German army have to compete repeatedly. Therefore, it is safe to have no inch of land here.

Of course, except for the occupied areas behind the German army, which are indeed safer, the German army is in steady progress, few Soviet troops can infiltrate the German defense line and make trouble.

The cracks on the wall were shaken out by shells. Using such cracks, he could not risk his head to observe the situation of the German army.

After all, it is easy to be seen and killed by German snipers when they risk their heads to observe.

If you look at it from the outside, there is only a building with a wall full of mottled bullet holes nearby, but there is a platoon of Soviet troops stationed inside.

It is precisely because there are people garrisoning here that the German army did not control this good commanding heights.

Similarly, it is precisely because this place is pretty good that the two sides fought fiercely around this commanding heights.

The first time the German army successfully occupied the place, and then the Soviet army launched a crazy counterattack, where at least 20 Germans were killed and at least 30 Soviet troops were killed.

And here is just a ruined building that has collapsed by more than half. It is not a valuable place, or even a good place.

"Today's shelling should be over, right?" A Soviet veteran came over and handed a tea cup to the soldier who was leaving for a watch.

There is still warm boiled water inside, and it is very difficult to enjoy this treatment.

Moscow has already cut off water on a large scale, and civilians have to take risks to use water to designated water supply locations. The water plant here is already in ruins, and the reservoir is already in the enemy-occupied area.

Without water supply, drinking water must be boiled before drinking. If it is not clean, it will cause diseases such as malaria, which will be more costly.

Therefore, in order to ensure its health, the Soviet army often boiled water and then drank it, but this habit wasted a lot of fuel, which made the superior command organization very dissatisfied.

Despite this, despite the dissatisfaction of superiors, the Soviet soldiers still did their own thing, which was the little comfort left in the cruel war.

"Thank you." The soldier who was on duty smiled and thanked him, then held the teacup in both hands and took a sip, and a warm current entered his chest.

"You are the fastest soldier I have ever seen. Here, you are already an old guy." The veteran found an ammunition box and sat down, then spoke.

The survival rate of the Soviet army's supplementary soldiers on the front line is so pitifully low. Any soldier who can survive several battles will be recognized by everyone.

Everyone knows that it is very difficult to survive the recruits, so they are willing to take special care of them.

It is precisely this way that the Soviet army can accumulate more and more skilled soldiers under the premise of continuous losses in replenishing soldiers.

"To be honest, if I have a choice, I don't want to stay here for a minute." The soldier drank all the water in the teacup and said with a wry smile.

The veteran nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, I am a gardener. At least 3 months ago, I was a gardener... Who would have thought that I am a soldier now?"

People fighting here rarely communicate with each other because you can't say when the friend you made will become a corpse.

The first second was that I was telling each other jokes, but the next second I could only hold the other person's arm and look for the other person's head. This was not a comfortable process.

Therefore, people here choose to remain silent and not talk to others, and they will not suffer and be sad when their comrades die in battle.

"Are you a gardener? I really didn't realize that you are really a good commander. If it weren't for you, I would have died yesterday." The soldier who was on duty was surprised and said in disbelief.

In yesterday's battle, he survived after obeying the orders, but the two self-righteous recruits were hit by bullets. So he admired the platoon leader in front of him and thought he was a good commander.

"Every day you live here, the more you know how to survive." The veteran was the commander of these Soviet soldiers, the platoon leader of the infantry platoon. After he spoke, he asked again: "Where are you? What are you doing?"

"I'm a prisoner." The sentry seemed to recall the past and spoke to the veteran: "The Labor Camp No. 49 in Siberia is the worst place I've ever been."

"The labor reformer? I heard that there are all some magistrates there. What is your crime? Conspiracy to subvert the country?" The veteran seemed to be intrigued and continued to ask.

Stalin ordered the reduction of the sentence of some inmates, and then the armed prisoners were sent to the frontline for consumption.

There are more than 200,000 such soldiers in the Soviet army, but there are not many left in the Moscow encirclement.

Some of the Soviet military prisoners from all over the world were thieves and some were political prisoners in labor camps.

There were too many political prisoners in the Soviet Union during the Stalin rule. These people have been serving sentences in Siberia and other areas, and they are willing to do anything for freedom.

"You may not believe it. My mother's cousin married a white bandit commander. I didn't know that this happened when they arrested me..." The young man smiled bitterly, and then said, "My father is a commander of the Red Army. He committed suicide because of this."

No one can tell how many people the Great Purge affected. However, in order to deal with officers in some sensitive parts, it is very common to make a clever name.
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