The GD Infantry Regiment, having completed the Karachev Forest blockade, chose to continue its march to the east and embarked on the road to Orel. In the city of Orel, Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group was already waiting there. During the days when the GD Infantry Regiment was resting in Orel, Guderian awarded the members of the GD Infantry Regiment a cross of honor, a symbol of honor, for their bravery in previous battles. The commander of the 6th Company, Lieutenant Kubier, was awarded the Kingdeutsche Cross, Ensign Philbinger and Dr. Hartger of the 3rd Battalion were awarded the Iron Cross of the 1st Degree, and a number of officers and enlisted men received certificates of honor.
Not long after the GD Infantry Regiment was immersed in the joyful atmosphere of being rewarded, it received another order to continue its departure. It was raining heavily, the road to Moscow was already muddy, and the German supply lines were littered with abandoned vehicles, including those with burned motors, overheated engines, and broken bearings, all of which spoke of the severity and intensity of the war. The Germans hoped that the weather would change, and that even frost would be better than the mud it was now, and at least the road would be harder for them to move on. Because by this time they were getting closer and closer to Moscow, and more resolute tasks awaited them ahead.
The GD Infantry Regiment advanced all the way east along the Oryol-Mtsensk road and arrived at the intended assembly point on the morning of the 24th. In addition, Moder's 3rd Panzer Division also arrived, and according to the instructions of the superiors, the two units were to strike in tandem at the Soviet heights northeast of Mtsensk. The battle soon began, the GD Infantry Regiment played the role of the main attack, the 3rd Battalion attacked on the far left of the entire unit, and the 10th and 11th companies in the front were hit by heavy Soviet artillery fire, and for a while they could not take half a step forward, and could only wait for the opportunity to seek cover to avoid the enemy's edge. The 9th Company, which had been pressed, retreated to the vicinity of a railroad embankment and began to attack the left side of the Soviet position in a roundabout way.
At the other end of the line, the 1st Battalion was also suppressed by heavy Soviet fire and had to start using similar roundabout attack tactics. Time passed slowly, and the Germans finally found an opportunity to break through on the left and right flanks, and gradually drove the Soviet troops out of the positions on the left and right flanks of the high ground. The Soviet troops, trapped in the middle of the high ground, began to disorganize in the face of the German troops swarming on both sides. With the arrival of the last German charge, the Soviets finally abandoned their last bastion on the heights. The German soldiers who rushed to the Soviet positions began to clean up the battlefield, using their rifles to deal with the Soviet soldiers who could not escape from the trenches in time, this way was simply mad, but this was the real war.
At this time, several Stuka dive bombers flew in the distance, they must have come to support the German front-line soldiers, but sometimes the air force fighters will also accidentally injure their own people because of the inaccurate timing, and this time it will obviously be the case again. It was planned that these Stuka had come to sweep the entire battlefield, but by this time there were no Soviet soldiers on the positions, and in their place were the newly victorious GD Infantry Regiment. At this time, someone around him began to fire flashbangs and smoke grenades into the air, waving clothes and hats to alert Stuka's pilots. The pilots were clearly not aware of this, and Stuka continued to fly in here one after another.
Seeing that these Stukas were about to fly overhead, the plane suddenly changed direction and circled, did the pilots recognize their troops? The soldiers of the GD Infantry Regiment waved frantically to the sky, and a miracle really happened, the captain who took the lead took the lead in pulling up the nose of the plane and no longer did low-altitude flight, and the wingman who followed followed also made the same action. The crisis has finally passed, and it would be a great loss for these war-battered ace troops to die at the hands of their own people. The Stuka then flew forward, and after obtaining the exact location of the Soviet target, they dropped several bombshells on them. At this point, Colonel Holrenne gave the order to move on, and the mushroom cloud from the explosion pointed them in the direction of the last barrier to Moscow, the city of Tula.