On this day, 84 years ago, September 30, 1941 (August 10, 1941 in the lunar calendar), the Battle of Defense of Moscow began. In the autumn of the Soviet Union, the roads were muddy, which brought great difficulties to the German motorized troops. After the "Blitz" plan collapsed, the German army was forced to shorten the front line in an attempt to concentrate its forces and quickly capture Moscow. Moscow is the capital of the Soviet Union, the national political, economic, military and cultural center, and a railway transportation hub. It is of extremely important strategic significance. Hitler believed that once Moscow was captured, he could defeat the main force of the Soviet army and achieve the goal of ending the war against the Soviet Union. On September 30, the German army launched a large-scale offensive codenamed "Typhoon" against Moscow in an attempt to capture it within ten days. The German army invested 74 and a half divisions, 1.8 million people, 1,700 tanks, 1,390 aircraft, and more than 14,000 artillery and mortars. The Germans gathered their best troops. The Soviet army had a total of 95 divisions, 1.25 million people, 990 tanks, 677 aircraft, and 7,600 cannons and mortars. Hitler threatened to review his fascist troops on Red Square in Moscow. On October 2, the German army broke through the Soviet line from the middle. Within two weeks from mid-October, the German Army Group Center completed three large enclosures, two near Bryansk and the other west of Vyazma. In these three encirclement operations, the Germans captured a total of 663,000 Russians. Faced with this critical moment, the Soviet Army quickly organized a line of defense in Mozhiysk, about eighty kilometers west of Moscow, to prevent the German army from advancing. On October 10, Stalin appointed General Zhukov as commander of the Western and Reserve Front Forces. Zhukov quickly rebuilt four army groups to defend Morzhiysk. In mid-October, fierce fighting broke out in all important areas leading to Moscow in the north, west and south. On October 15, some Soviet government agencies and foreign envoys moved to Kubyshev. Stalin stayed in Moscow and personally directed the defense. On October 19, the National Defense Council declared martial law in Moscow and called on the people of the capital to defend Moscow to the death. Within three days, the city organized 25 worker battalions, 120,000-strong militia divisions, and 169 street fighting groups. Four hundred and fifty thousand people participated in building fortifications, three-quarters of whom were women. With the support of military and civilians in the capital and across the country, the soldiers and civilians on the front line bravely fought against the enemy and fought bloody battles. By the end of October, the German army was stopped on the line west of Kalinin-Turkinovo-Volokramsk-Dorokhovo-Narro-Forminsk-Serpukhov-Tashin. Hitler's plan to occupy Moscow in October fell apart. On November 7, 1941, while the Soviet Army bravely defended Moscow, the military parade was still held on Red Square. Stalin delivered an inspiring speech to the military and civilians across the country: "Our cause is just, and victory must belong to us! "On November 15, the Germans launched a second crazy attack on Moscow. On November 23, the Germans occupied Klin, and on the 27th, they occupied Istra, only 24 kilometers away from Moscow. Moscow is within range of German artillery, and German military binoculars can almost see the top of the Kremlin. At this critical moment, the Moscow military and civilians defended the capital to the death. The Soviet 316th Infantry Division (Later renamed the 8th Guards Division of Panfilov), demonstrating the fearless revolutionary heroism of the Soviet army, it continued to fight for four hours on the Dubosekovo main road that blocked German tanks from leading to Moscow, destroying eighteen enemy tanks. In order to defend Moscow, all the heroes sacrificed their lives. From November 16 to December 5, the German army lost 155,000 officers and soldiers and 777 tanks, but Moscow stood firm. At the beginning of December, the temperature in Moscow had dropped to minus 20 to 30 degrees. The German army had no cotton-padded clothes, the motors of planes and tanks could not be started, and the optical speculum on the tanks lost its function. As for the Soviet Army, they were used to living in cold zones and wore cotton clothes, leather boots and earmuffs. Britain and the United States alone transported 1.5 million pairs of military boots and 10,500 tons of boot leather to the Soviet Union in accordance with the Moscow Protocol. Seven million pairs of military boots were subsequently shipped. On December 6, the Soviet army launched a major counterattack from the south and north of Moscow. At the beginning of 1942, the Soviet Army defeated the German army attacking Moscow, killing 168,000 people, driving the German army 100 to 250 kilometers away from Moscow, and achieving the victory in the Defense of Moscow. During the entire winter battle on the German-Soviet battlefield in 1941, the German army was defeated by 50 divisions, and the army suffered more than 830,000 casualties. The German defeat in the Battle of Moscow marked the complete bankruptcy of Hitler's Blitz. This was the first major defeat of the German army in World War II. The victory of the Soviet army greatly inspired the confidence of the Soviet people and the people around the world in winning the anti-fascist war. This is Georgy Zhukov, the most famous general of the Soviet Army in World War II. The German reinforcements headed for the front line. The Soviet reinforcements headed for the outskirts of Moscow and Moscow. Each division of the German infantry was reduced by one-third. On September 30, 1941, the Defense of Moscow Photo Album (1) On November 7, 1941, a traditional military parade was held on Red Square. After participating in the military parade, Soviet soldiers immediately headed for the front line and defended their country under the call of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the cold weather, women picked up shovels and built a 100-mile trench outside Moscow. The 1st Guards Cavalry Corps commanded by General Belov penetrated deep into enemy lines. In half a year, it created many heroic deeds, killed countless enemies, and finally successfully broke out of the encirclement. Photo Album of the Defense of Moscow (2) In the early morning of December 6, the Red Army artillery fired countless artillery shells at the beginning of the Moscow counterattack. What made the German invaders most shudder was this rocket launcher affectionately called "Katyusha" by Red Army officers and soldiers. The gun has a range of 4 miles and is extremely lethal when fired. In the process of the major counterattack, the newly developed T-34 tank of the Soviet Union played an important role. Guderian's tank army was beaten to pieces in the battle and fled westward in a sorry state. On December 5 and 6, the Soviet army launched a historic counterattack outside Moscow. At the foot of Moscow, the German army wrote the first chapter of defeat. "Siberian"