On June 22, 1941, the German army implemented the "Barbarossa" plan, dispatching 190 divisions of 5.5 million people, 3,700 tanks, 4,900 aircraft, 47,000 cannons, and 190 battleships, divided into three army groups, from the north, center, and south to launch a surprise attack on the Soviet Union in the form of blitzkrieg, and the Soviet-German war broke out in full swing. At the end of September 1941, the German Army Group Center attacked Moscow in a big way, and the German army soon advanced to Volokolamsk, which was only two hours away from Moscow, where General Ivan Penfilov led the soldiers of the 4th Company of the 316th Infantry Division of the Soviet Infantry to hold on to the site and vowed to resist the Germans to the death.
Soviet soldiers prepare for battle
Soviet fighters fighting
On the eve of the war, the soldiers nervously built field fortifications in the snow and ice, and they all understood that behind them was Moscow, and they had no way to retreat. In order to confuse the enemy, they set up some fake artillery positions, hid the real artillery, and practiced how to eliminate enemy tanks before the war. When everything was ready, the soldiers waited quietly in the trenches for the arrival of the Germans. As soon as the large-caliber guns of the Germans roared, the warriors calmly enjoyed the grand and spectacular fireworks show, because the German artillery fire hit the pre-set fake artillery positions. Soon the fake artillery positions were destroyed, and the soldiers heard the roar of the German tank engines just after the shelling, and the German tanks appeared densely in front of the positions. The tanks followed the German infantry straight toward the position. After the Germans entered the range, the hidden anti-tank guns and light and heavy weapons opened fire together, catching the Germans by surprise, and thus repelled many German attacks after fierce battles.
Soviet anti-tank guns were firing
Soviet anti-tank guns were aiming
Although the victory was achieved temporarily, but the 4 companies of soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the counting number found that only 28 soldiers were left to fight, but they did not have the courage, taking advantage of the gap between the battles to collect ammunition, reinforcing the fortifications, waiting for the enemy's next more fierce attack, soon the German army came back, the warriors calmly responded, attacking the enemy tanks with anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns, the enemy tanks were hit one after another and started a fire, but with the brutal battle, the warriors' anti-tank heavy weapons were destroyed. The enemy tanks were still advancing, and the soldiers were not afraid, holding anti-tank grenades and Molotov cocktails in their hands to prepare for close combat, and when the enemy tanks rushed through the trenches and destroyed them from the rear, they miraculously eliminated all the tanks that broke through the defense line, and once again repelled the enemy's attack.
German tank clusters were on the offensive
German tanks were on fire
However, the casualties of the soldiers were increasing, the ammunition was basically exhausted, and it was difficult to withstand another German attack, but they did not retreat, with bayonets in their hands and shovels ready to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Soon the Germans rushed up again, the warriors hid in the trenches waiting for the Germans to approach and then prepared to rush out for hand-to-hand combat, at the moment when the Germans were about to rush through the trenches, a heavy machine gun in the flank ambush suddenly opened fire, the German infantry fell in pieces, and finally almost lost casualties, the Germans had to stop the attack and retreated, after this battle, the warriors ran out of food, but their faces were so calm and calm, they snuggled together to wait for the final fate, they were not afraid, some were just the sacred mission of defending the country. It didn't take long for more intense artillery fire to hit...
Soviet heavy machine guns were firing
Soviet anti-tank guns were firing
In the end, the battlefield was quiet, and what remained in front of these 28 warriors were 18 German tanks burning into scrap iron and countless German corpses, these 28 warriors used their lives to build a fortress to Moscow, and finally the German army was blocked outside the city of Moscow, and the Soviet Union won the victory in the defense of Moscow. History will not forget their bravery and exploits, and their spirit will always be with us.