Eight Hundred and Seventy-One Verdun

Two German soldiers lay silently in the ruins, and one German soldier pointed the muzzle of the mg42 machine gun at the end of the street. The deputy shooter hid the bullet belt in his palm, and stared at the distant street with his eyes motionless.

At their feet, there is also a spare ammunition box, which contains a whole box of coiled ammunition chains, which can ensure that they can shoot crazily here, without having to worry about ammunition. As long as the opponent rushes out from the direction they want to shoot, they will be hit like a storm.

Both of them are wearing gray-green military uniforms, which are the standard German spring and autumn military uniforms. Because they crawled and rolled in the ruins of the city, their bodies were covered with dust, so at this moment, the two of them seemed to blend in with the surrounding environment. For oneness.

One of the two German soldiers wore a mesh helmet on his head, while the other had only a white army emblem on the side of his helmet. The deputy shooter also carried a Mauser 98k rifle on his back. The tactical vests on the two men showed that they were the backbone of this army and they were orthodox German infantry.

And beside them, there are a few soldiers wearing German uniforms but without bulletproof vests and other equipment. They are obviously Ukrainians and Belarusians. These people have grenades hanging in their waists and pockets in a mess. Gathered in a crater, watching the movement in all directions.

The infantry in the crater was responsible for covering the German machine gun positions on the commanding heights of the ruins. As long as the machine gun positions were there, they could calmly repel the Soviet soldiers attacking from the front. After the crater under their feet was hit by a shell, they attacked the ruins.

"I feel like someone is coming." The deputy shooter looked at the street ahead, and said to the shooter beside him: "The Soviets will never let it go so easily. They will counterattack here and try to drive us out."

"You're right, because I've seen them coming." The machine gunner pulled the trigger on the gun with his hand, and the bullets clicked into the chamber. His eyes were connected to the front sight on the machine gun, and then he naturally pressed the front sight on a Soviet who had just rushed out of the corner.

He didn't fire, but calmly pressed his finger on the trigger, and pressed his cheek against the cold body of the machine gun. The cool feeling spread to every corner of his body, making his whole body concentrate.

There is no reason to easily expose the location of a machine gun position, especially this kind of machine gun position with a wide view and an ideal location. What they have to do is to wait for the number of Soviets to reach a certain level, and then demonstrate the devastating power of the mg42 machine gun.

The second Soviet soldier rushed out of the corner, but he was hit in the chest by a bullet from a German rifle, and he fell backwards. Apparently, the German infantry in the crater beside the ruins also found their The enemy is firing desperately.

These Germans did not have many automatic weapons in their hands,

Compared with the elite German troops, they hardly have high-end equipment such as MP-44 assault rifles, and even G43s are pitifully few. Most of these cannon fodder from Ukraine and Belarus are only equipped with the Mao who 98k rifle, and the performance of this rifle is about the same as that of Mosin Nagant.

Intensive gunshots sounded, and a Soviet machine gun team began to fire at the German positions at the corner of the street. They aimed at the German troops near the crater and fired dense bullets there. A cloud of smoke rose from the side of the bomb crater, and the German recruits there were so frightened that they curled up and didn't dare to show up and fire again.

With the cover of firepower, the Soviet army naturally acted more boldly. They bent forward and ran forward, hoping to quickly close the distance between the two sides. On the other side of the street where the German troops were stationed, a window suddenly sprayed out dazzling tongues of flames. Obviously, there were not only German troops stationed in the bomb crater nearby.

A German G43 rifle over the window made a crisp sound every time it fired, which sounded very different from the sound of the Mauser rifle. With the sporadic sound of the Mauser rifle, the Soviet offensive was once again overwhelmed. The suppression continued, and the corpses of more than a dozen Soviet soldiers were lying on the street. For a while, everyone was trying to find a way to shoot each other and kill the opponent's gunman.

The Soviet machine gun on the street corner could not shoot into the windows on the same side of the street because of the angle, and the German soldiers stationed there. Therefore, the casualties of the Soviet army were very huge, and it was impossible to break through the streets blocked by the crossfire of the German army for a while.

"Tut! Thu! Thu!!" The German machine gun position above the ruins finally opened fire after the Soviet army invested a large amount of troops. The machine gunner had already pointed the muzzle of the machine gun at the Soviet machine gun team over there, and he was just waiting quietly, waiting for his chance to join the battle. Now that the opportunity came, he did not hesitate to pull the trigger under his finger.

The saw-like roar unique to the German machine gun rang out. While the tracer bullets exposed the position of the machine gun, it also solved the problem of shooting deviation correction for the machine gunner. It didn't take a few bullets for the bullets from the German machine guns to hit the Soviet machine gun team, blowing a cloud of white dust around them.

That was after the bullet passed through the human body, the gravel and other things burst out on the surrounding road, accompanied by blood splashing and the screams of the Soviets, forming a very gorgeous picture. In the picture, the Soviet soldiers are turned on their backs, with sparks everywhere and distorted faces.

With the familiar and frightening sound of tearing linen, the German machine gun bullets pressed densely on the Soviet positions, and there were Soviet soldiers who were hit everywhere, and corpses fell on the ground everywhere. The Soviet army's machine gun team was smashed into a sieve in an instant, and even the machine gun was hit with several potholes by bullets.

The Soviet infantry who had been suppressed by the German firepower on the side of the street saw a German machine gun position hidden on the top of the ruins opposite them suddenly open fire. They watched in horror as the tracer bullets flew towards the machine gun position covering them, and then smashed it into a piece of blood. Flying hell.

These Soviet soldiers already knew that their attack failed this time. For them, the question now becomes how to retreat safely. No one knows whether they can retreat to the corner with luck.

Generally speaking, when there are jackals and tigers and leopards in front, people need to rely on intuition to deal with it. Because in this case, there is often no time to analyze and plan carefully, and can only rely on temporary and instantaneous reactions. The Soviet troops who were suppressed in front of the German positions also made their choice at this moment. These people immediately turned their direction and ran towards the place where they came out.

Charging is also death, and retreat is also death. For these Soviet troops, their fate is no longer in their own hands. They need to rely on their remaining luck, as well as the pity of the enemy and their own people.

The German army would have no mercy. They fired wildly at the defeated Soviet infantry, as if venting the pain of being suppressed to suffocation just now. The bullets hit the backs of these retreating Soviet troops, knocking them to the ground like cutting wheat.

Quite unfortunately, it is obvious that the Soviet army did not show mercy to their comrades today. They did not cover the retreating soldiers, but let the German army keep slaughtering their companions-many Soviet political workers suggested that the retreating soldiers should be shot Soldiers, this proposal was ultimately rejected by Rokossovsky. But he couldn't prevent his subordinates from executing the retreating soldiers in disguise, such as not covering the retreating troops like today.

This led to the fact that on the second day of the official start of the Stalingrad street fighting, the losses of the Soviet army on the edge of the city remained high. There is a relatively wide shooting environment here, and the firepower of the German army can be exerted to the extreme. The casualties of the Soviet army were therefore frighteningly large, and almost 10,000 people were killed in one day.

On the one hand, such a huge loss was due to the artificial obstruction of the Soviet army on the retreat, and on the other hand, it was also because the Soviet army insisted on counterattacking and repeatedly competed with the German army for positions. Stalingrad is only that big in total. If you blindly retreat, the area of ​​​​the city is not enough to last for half a year.

In short, for various reasons, the Soviet army launched a frantic counterattack against the German army after getting the reserve team of three divisions into Stalingrad. Although most of the counterattacks were repelled by the German army, some Soviet troops It did repel the attacking German army and once pushed the battlefield to the outskirts of Stalingrad.

On this day, the German army lost the 2 blocks it controlled in its hands, and almost lost the part of the city in its hand to the Soviet army. After the two sides paid a total price of more than 50,000 deaths, they found that the positions they controlled were almost the same as two days ago.

The senior German generals who experienced the First World War looked at the data in front of them, and they all came up with the damn place name Verdun in their minds, where the German and French troops killed more than 10,000 people on the battlefield, but who None were able to move forward. And that battle was called the Verdun Meat Grinder by historians because of such heavy casualties.

Now they seem to have seen the scene of the year again, which was a pain that the entire German Army did not want to recall. Now this kind of thing has appeared again. Since the start of the war, the German army has killed more than 10,000 people for the first time, but it has not been able to move forward.

But even with such a huge loss, the German army still did not change the offensive plan they made a month ago. On the last day of March, the German army launched a confrontation with the counterattacking Soviet army, and the Battle of Stalingrad continued boringly in the form of casualties.

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