Eight Hundred and Sixty-Seven Battle of Stalingrad

"Yes, Comrade Stalin, I can hear the artillery fire outside. The German attacking troops are very aggressive. They seem to be in a hurry." Rokossovsky said into the phone. The German army approached the city of Stalingrad one day ago, and immediately launched a fierce attack.

This was originally what the Soviets hoped to see the most. The German armored forces fought fiercely with the Soviet army in Stalingrad regardless of losses, and lost a large number of main forces...

But now things have become complicated. The German army participating in the attack is not very powerful, and there are many new numbers that no one has seen before. This is not good news for the Soviet army in the city. At least it means that 80% of the German army has replaced the elite g group army, and used a new force that doesn't know where it came from to attack.

And obviously this army is specially used to fight this kind of tragic war. Most of them are infantry, and they are equipped with a large number of old-fashioned submachine guns and Mauser rifles. Rifles, but in street fighting, the combat distance is often only tens of meters away, and the submachine gun has become a very useful weapon.

Both sides have carefully prepared their own various methods. Relying on anti-aircraft artillery positions, the Soviet army hid thousands of artillery pieces in the ruins of Stalingrad. They used these large 3∽ guns to launch artillery battles with the German artillery, regardless of losses, and wanted to exchange injuries for injuries and consume the German artillery strength.

And the German army did not avoid the artillery battle with the Soviet army as usual, but used their cannons to fight the bayonet with the Soviet army. After such a comparison, the Soviet army knew a very uncomfortable fact, that is, the last shortcoming of the German army, the quality disadvantage of artillery, no longer exists.

In terms of small-caliber artillery, after integrating the industrial production capacity of France, the performance of the German 75mm field gun has fully surpassed the Soviet 76. mm caliber artillery, and the 105 mm caliber field gun is already comparable to the 122 mm caliber howitzer that the Soviet army is proud of.

The war allowed the Soviet army to closely follow the footsteps of German tanks, shortening the gap in the main performance of the two tanks; let the United States learn from the Luftwaffe and produce advanced fighter jets that are not inferior to the Luftwaffe; so war is the best teacher, Let people progress at the fastest speed with the lessons of blood.

Of course, the students under the teacher of war are not only the allies such as the Soviet Union and the United States, but also the Axis power Germany. As for the degree of eagerness to learn and the ability to accept new things, it is precisely the student in Germany who is better and learns faster.

Therefore, the artillery advantage that the Soviet army is proud of has actually disappeared in front of the main German troops. A large number of slow-moving infantry of the German army are equipped with heavy artillery with excellent performance. The equipment in the hands of the Soviet army is even better.

Krupp is the king of artillery in the world, so in order to bear this name, Krupp has also paid dozens of times and hundreds of times of effort,

They strive for perfection in every link, use the new "automatic" assembly line to produce products with the latest technology, and finally complete the transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change through long accumulation.

The transformed German 150mm caliber heavy howitzer is roaring towards the Soviet artillery position and the buildings in the city of Stalingrad. The artillerymen mechanically push the shell into the barrel, and then push the launch charge. After fixing the breech block, Pull the fuse of the cannon and set it off with a deafening roar.

The German army did not suffer in artillery battles, and sometimes even suppressed the Soviet artillery. When the two sides fired at each other fiercely, the German Air Force's strategic bombers also brought havoc to the entire Stalingrad. The intensive bombing at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters made the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the Soviet army unable to use them powerfully, and the covering bombing of the German army caused incalculable losses to the Soviet army.

Contrary to expectations, the German army did not politely test with the Soviet army, but directly threw its troops into the brutal urban battle. In one day, the figures calculated by various departments of the Soviet army killed more than 3,000 soldiers of the German army-this number can be described as terrible.

"We have killed more than 3,000 German troops within 8 hours. The opponent's attack was very fierce. We lost two-thirds of the outer positions. The battle is still going on...I will stick to my position until the moment of victory. !” Rokossovsky’s underground headquarters was shaken by a shell and dropped a lot of dust, he squinted his eyes and assured the phone’s microphone.

"You and I promised to live and die with Stalingrad! Now, the situation in the Caucasus is very unfavorable to our army. I need you to stick to the Caucasus for 6 months, so that Zhukov and I can prepare 3 million new troops to fight back Go in combat." Stalin said on the other end of the phone: "You tell me now, are you sure you can stick to Stalingrad for more than 6 months!"

In one day, Stalingrad was surrounded on both sides. The German army's attack speed exceeded Rokossovsky's expectations. The German army launched continuous attacks regardless of losses, which also caught the Soviet army off guard. Now even Rokossovsky didn't know what the war would be like, so he was silent on the microphone.

After a long time, he opened his mouth to promise Stalin: "The great leader, Comrade Stalin, what I can assure you is that I will defend Stalingrad desperately. As for how long I can hold it, it depends on how many troops the German army is willing to give up gone."

This was his promise, and Stalin didn't say much, he just hung up the phone, appearing unwilling to talk other nonsense with Rokossovsky. The war is now in its present state, and nothing can be changed by conspiracies, tricks and good strategies. Now the competition is which of the two nations is more tenacious, and which is more able to persist until the end.

Without other tricks, if you want to win the war, you can only stuff soldiers into this huge meat grinder and keep consuming it. Whichever side's blood is shed first will be brutally eliminated, that's all.

Putting down the phone in his hand, Rokossovsky sighed, and ordered to his deputy: "Give the armored troops an offensive order, and the counterattack across the board will start now! We can't let the Germans continue to fight like this, Always try to fight back."

When he said these orders, another round of German shelling began. Facing an exposed Soviet position, the Germans used Friedrich rockets, and the dense rockets covered the area full of Soviet soldiers in an instant. area, turning it into a sea of ​​flames.

The huge launch smoke made the German rocket launch positions also shrouded in a white smoke, and the dust rolled up by the tail flame of the rocket covered the sky, as if a smoke bomb had been released. The German army fired up 200 rockets from the country of origin in just a few tens of seconds, making the Soviets truly realize what the gap in firepower is.

"This intensive artillery fire is Frederick, right?" Rokossovsky looked at the flickering lights above his head, and asked a subordinate with a wry smile. Attacked, so remember this weapon enough to harvest countless lives. There are still a few shrapnel in his body, which are fragments after the explosion of this weapon.

"Yes, Comrade General!" The subordinate nodded and replied to him: "The power of this weapon is amazing. I heard that our people are also trying to imitate it, but because there is no reference, it is only recently. new progress."

"The Germans have a stronger industrial foundation than ours, and they have developed new weapons in an endless stream. This is something that can't be helped." Rokossovsky looked at his subordinates helplessly and said, "It is estimated that the German army will die about 4,000 people now. Yes, but we have already lost almost 10,000 people, which is the result of inferior weapons and tactics."

The losses of the German army were indeed huge. While Rokossovsky gritted his teeth and endured the terrible number of casualties of the frontline troops, General Küchler also helplessly listened to his subordinates report to the N Group Army in his combat headquarters death figures. The German army had never experienced such a huge loss in a battle. Almost all of his three attacking divisions had lost their ability to attack and were forced to be replaced by new troops.

"The Soviet army's counterattack is very sharp. These infantry are not the recruits before, they are the elite Soviets." The subordinate handed the Soviet army number list that he had already learned to Küchler, and then continued: "Our army has already 4,000 soldiers have been lost, and the two army commanders on the front line called to ask whether they should continue the attack."

"Of course continue to attack! Of the 4,000 people, 2,000 are death squads made up of prisoners. In fact, we didn't lose many troops, did we?" Küchler said proudly: "Tell the two troops on the front line Commander, put Ukrainian supplementary troops into battle, within two days, my troops will press into the city of Stalingrad to fight!"

"Yes! General! I'm going to issue your combat order now." The chief of staff turned and walked out. With the issuance of one combat order after another, the German offensive not only did not slow down, but became even more frantic, and many areas appeared With the presence of the Ukrainians, the German servants, the losses of both sides are still expanding rapidly.

At sunset, Rokossovsky had to let a part of the reserve team on the east bank of the Volga cross the river to join the frontal battlefield in order to stabilize his defense line that was on the verge of collapse.