Seven Hundred and Ninety-Four Immortal

Anti-aircraft guns fired wildly at the sky, and these artillerymen were using their best efforts to defend their own hometown. These soldiers desperately shake the roulette that controls the direction of the anti-aircraft guns, hoping to make these weapons fire more deadly shells.

A German bomber fell to the ground with a long smoke, broke its wide wings in mid-air, and then burst into a huge flame on a hillside. No one on the plane survived, not even the charred corpses. Couldn't find one.

But farther away, on the German bomber that had already flown over the anti-aircraft artillery position, the bombardier was using his own eyes to aim at the important attack target that had been marked on the map through the precise horizontal bombing device. The bomb controller, and then the bombs hanging inside the belly, fell down one by one relying on gravity.

One after another, the heavy bombs fell according to a not-so-precise parabola. The wind speed and slight bumps made these bombs change their downward trajectory until they landed on the target. Then there was a huge explosion, the air wave kicked up dust, the vibration destroyed the structure of the building, the shock wave tore everything in the way of diffusion, the flames of the explosion swallowed all life, and a terrible explosion was completed in an instant.

The huge explosion that was completed in an instant caused a 7-storey building in Stalingrad to collapse instantly. Steel bars and stones flew everywhere. The civilians who had not had time to hide in the air-raid shelter watched in horror as the first bomb fell What a horrible scene in a peaceful city.

Soon they knew that this was just the beginning of a disaster, because there were not one, not two, but thousands of bombs falling from the sky. More than 500 planes flew over the city overwhelmingly, and at least 10,000 bombs were dropped on the streets and buildings of the city.

Like other bombings targeting cities and fortresses, the Germans used to mix high-explosive aerial bombs with a small amount of napalm bombs to improve the actual effect of their bombing, so the entire city not only had to face the devastation of shock waves and vibrations , and to contend with unquenchable fires, and dreadful smoke.

But now we can’t think about the long-term, and the effect of the incendiary bomb has not been reflected. The picture presented to all the people of Stalingrad now is an explosion that is cruel enough to suffocate, an explosion that is so powerful that it makes people desperate, and it is so terrifying Crash explosion.

A building began to shake and collapse under the huge shock wave damage, and dust began to spread around, pouring out of windows and door openings. Then the tall roof began to fall down, and the tiles and some metal frames on it fell to the surrounding streets. Finally, an outer wall collapsed, but the inner structure was twisted and stubbornly refused to fall.

Everything here is made up in an instant, everything here goes from beauty to death, and now there are only corpses left here and there on the streets that were originally flat, only huge bomb craters and spreading panic remain.

on the other side of the city,

As the Soviet Union's heavy industrial city that was under the most attention, it is now a piece of scorched earth. Another factory that the German army was unable to destroy due to the lack of long-range bombers in time and space has now been easily destroyed. To restore the previous output, it may have to wait Last year was a long time.

One after another, butcher bombers flew over the city and dropped countless bombs on their target areas. The station was destroyed by bombs, and the railway passing through the city was broken into pieces of scrap iron. The front of the locomotive fell off the rails due to the huge impact and fell to the other side of the station platform.

Beside a burning residential house, the stomach of a scorched rag doll has been split open, and the blackened cotton inside trembles with the breeze. The building not far away was still burning with raging fire, and the carriage overturned not far away, and the goods on the cart were scattered all over the place.

No one has time to take care of those goods, because their houses have disappeared from the earth, and no one will take care of those houses, because their relatives have also disappeared from the earth, and no one will pay tribute to those relatives, because the next In a second, they themselves disappeared from the earth.

It may take a hundred years or more to build a huge city, but it seems that it takes less than a month to destroy the city. When the German army bombed London, it turned that beautiful city into ruins. Today, more than a year later, the ruins are still being removed and rebuilding is slow. Therefore, German pilots have a lot of experience to turn a bustling city into rubble and graveyard.

In the hidden underground fortification in the suburbs, Rokossovsky looked at the unrecognizable Stalingrad with a telescope. He seemed to be able to feel Stalin's anger when he heard the news. Now he could only smile wryly, and then Reluctantly, he ordered the troops to prepare for rescue work after the bombing.

In fact, the Soviet Union was very well prepared for this air strike. From the moment these terrifying bombers crossed the actual line of control between the two armies, the Soviet Union began to prepare for this air strike. There is no way to imagine how daunting this devastation really was.

"In terms of firefighting, how many people can be dispatched to help, as many as possible, especially on the factory side. I heard that there are still many unfinished T-34 tanks inside?" Rokossovsky said from the direction of the observation port. Looking back, he asked the original officer in Stalingrad.

"There are still about 30 unpainted T-34 tanks in the factory, but it's hard to say how many are left now." An officer in the field of war equipment replied: "There are still some cannons, not many , but... the howitzers with a caliber of 122 have very good performance."

"When reporting, all should be dealt with as destroyed." Rokossovsky ordered softly: "Detain all remaining weapons and report as destroyed. Recruit division, I want to arm two more armored divisions before the Germans arrive, is there any problem?"

"Comrade General, this...isn't that good? We..." An old general retorted.

But his words were immediately interrupted by Rokossovsky, and he interrupted very fiercely: "Pull it out, and deal with it according to the military law for treason... When it was reported, it was said that he was heroic when the enemy plane attacked. At that time, he rescued the factory supplies, and was finally hit by a bomb and died."

"This!...You!...!" Before the old general could speak, he was dragged out of the bunker by two expressionless Soviet soldiers.

Rokossovsky watched the man being dragged out, and then slowly said: "The Germans are approaching here. As the commander in chief of the southern front to replace Timoshenko, I don't have time to spend with you guys. Now I have the final say here, understand?"

"Yes! Comrade General!" Everyone stood at attention and saluted, expressing their position.

When Rokossovsky saw this unprecedented bombing, he really realized how heavy the burden was on his shoulders. When he attacked Liszt in the central region, he did not face the huge air superiority of the German army head-on. Using the snowfall, his troops almost fought on a plane, and achieved a fairly reluctant record.

Now the weather is improving little by little, the snowfall is not continuous, and the ground troops he faces have changed from the infantry-based Liszt Group E Army to the most elite G Group Army of the German Army, and their combat effectiveness is obviously not at the same level. . So he felt the danger in front of him, and had to use strong means to strengthen the strength in his hands.

Not to mention a tank, a cannon, even a shell or even a bullet, we must try our best to fight for it. Relying on the 400,000 troops in the Caucasus region in his hands, plus the 100,000 elite infantry who retreated from Kharkov, and the surviving 2nd Guards Armored Front Army, what he wants to defend is what the entire Soviet Union cannot lose Oil resources.

"Send the news back to Moscow and report that Stalingrad...was bombed by German bombers." Rokossovsky glanced at the burning and destroying city in the distance, and said, "And to Comrade Stalin I swear, I, Rokossovsky, will live and die with Stalingrad!"

Moscow, inside the Kremlin, Stalin was frowning as he read the urgent telegram that had just been sent. He has already read the content in it once, and now he is reading the text that annoys him for the second time. In the end, he crumpled the telegram into a ball and smashed it hard on the soft carpet.

"There is Stalingrad! There is a city named after me! The Germans are provoking my dignity! They are teasing me!" Sweeping things like this to the ground: "Damn Accador? Rudolph! You and I will never die! If I don't burn Berlin to the ground, the war will never end! Ever!"

"Great leader, Comrade Stalin!" An aide softly reminded the furious Stalin: "The bombing of Stalingrad certainly made the entire Soviet angry, but now is not the time for us to be angry. What we need to do is to strengthen important political forces such as Moscow and Leningrad. Air defense in the center..."

Stalin stopped blustering, the question was indeed the first thing that had to be dealt with now. The frontal Soviet army is planning to give up some defense areas. Once the German army occupies there, important political, cultural and economic centers such as Moscow and Leningrad will be within the attack range of the German long-range bombers or even medium-range bombers. .

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5 And more, soldiers of the empire, the empire is great because of you!