Eight Hundred and Eighty-Four Bad Feelings
Rokossovsky now knew what the Germans were thinking. During the counterattack, his troops captured many prisoners, some were Bulgarians, some were French, and even some British. This let him know what tricks the Germans were playing this time.
The German army was not caught in real street fighting at all. It was the "Eight-Power Allied Forces" and the Soviet Union itself that were caught in street fighting. In the battle for a small military train station on the western outskirts, the two sides invested almost 10,000 troops. After the entire small station was turned into ruins, the Soviet army still failed to hold this iconic location at the westernmost end of Stalingrad.
The cruel war tortured Rokossovsky. He lost nearly 10,000 soldiers every day. If converted into troops, almost one infantry division of him was completely disabled every day, and he could not continue Combat must be withdrawn from the battlefield.
But in fact Rokossovsky chose a more iron-blooded method. He replenished these old troops with new recruits, and then continued to let these troops rest on the second line for a few days, and then threw them back to the front line and devoted themselves to the endless battle. stop consumption.
At this point in the war, Rokossovsky really realized that real urban street fighting is a double-edged sword, a self-destructive style of fighting that hurts itself before injuring the enemy, and it is also something that the Soviet troops cannot The huge consumption of fighting. At least his elite troops have been exhausted and slack in the endless battles for the city.
The question now is how many reinforcements the Soviet Union has, and whether these reinforcements can consume the miscellaneous troops that the Germans put together-this is related to whether Stalingrad can hold on for half a year, dragging Germany into a long period of time again. russian winter weather.
Of the 30 divisions that rushed over from the Far East, the 3 divisions of the vanguard had arrived in Stalingrad. Rokossovsky threw one of the elite infantry divisions into the Stalingrad battlefield without hesitation. Of course, as expected, this division failed to create miracles. In the battle for a larger block, it was almost half destroyed by a Ukrainian division of the German army.
There are no other chances to make tricks or use strategies. In the entire Stalingrad battle, the competition is not how fast the attack is, nor how elite the troops are, but how many troops the two sides are constantly investing, and how can these troops be How long was consumed by the opponent.
The German army began to use naval bombers and pilots to intercept operations along the Volga River, causing the Soviet Volga River shipping force that was non-stop day and night to operate only at night. Moreover, these Soviet ships had to disperse and hide in some hidden places upstream or downstream before the sun rose the next day, otherwise they would be destroyed on the Volga River. This made the Soviet army's efforts to replenish its troops inside Stalingrad more and more difficult, and it also led to fewer and fewer troops in Rokossovsky's hands.
"We can't go on like this. We must rush to bring some troops here. I want to launch a counterattack and take back the railway station in the west and a field hospital nearby.
"Rokossovsky pointed to the map and said to several of his army commanders: "I still have counterattack troops in my hand, but the follow-up defense troops must be prepared in advance, otherwise the entire battlefield will be repeated. "
"Comrade Commander, there is still at least one month before the armored forces are deployed for a full-scale counterattack. At this time, the combat plan is launched in advance. What should we do next?" A military commander under Rokossovsky looked at the Map frowned and asked: "This will make my army unable to carry out the next counterattack plan."
After listening to his question, Rokossovsky shook his head and sighed before answering his question: "The reason why the backhand is called the backhand is because these methods will be used in the future. Means. But if we don’t take action now, we won’t have the chance to use these backhands when that damned army commander named Küchler actually completes his deployment.”
"The Germans are really difficult to deal with. They always seem to be able to prepare in advance to fight all kinds of wars. Even the urban street fighting they have been avoiding is so good at it." Another army commander followed Luo Kosovsky sighed together.
The Soviet army was always on the passive side in the battle with the German army. The German army used a large number of snipers and special forces to participate in urban combat, and then cooperated with a large number of miscellaneous troops to assist in the attack. With the purpose of killing a large number of the Soviet army's vital forces, the hit-and-run tactics were adopted, making it difficult for the Soviet army to parry.
"The whole city is full of German snipers. If we attack and wipe out, we will have to cross a large number of German-occupied areas. This is undoubtedly the same as counterattack. And the opponent can retreat calmly, and will not engage us directly." One A military commander in charge of frontal defense said to his officers and colleagues frustratedly: "I have to re-appoint more than a dozen lieutenants and several school officers every day. This has a great impact on the morale of the entire army."
There are not one or two complaints about German snipers. If Rokossovsky could handle it, he would have figured out a way to deal with it. But the result now is that when he inspected the front-line defense system again, one of his assistants was shot by a German sniper 400 meters away, and eventually died. As the commander himself, all Rokossovsky could do was to bury his subordinates and then cancel all trips to the front.
These German snipers are everywhere, they easily killed the Soviet army hundreds of meters away, and then left calmly. Akado had been training the German sniper unit before 1922, and now he finally got the rewards he deserved. The German army now has the highest-quality sniper unit in the world, and its overall strength is at least ten years ahead of its opponents.
It’s not that the Soviet army never thought of using their own snipers to kill the opponent—but they discovered an unavoidable fact in actual combat, that is, the German snipers outnumbered the Soviet army in terms of both quantity and quality. Even if they fight each other for losses, the Soviet army is also the one that suffers.
After successfully hunting and killing more than a dozen German snipers, the Soviet sniper unit was strangled by the German special forces and snipers. In the end, the result of the two sides was 17 to 35. The Soviet sniper lost more than More than double the German losses.
"Start a counterattack along the river bank to the two wings, increasing the longitudinal width of the Volga River we control. Only in this way can we hide more transport ships to make up for the losses caused by our inability to transport troops during the day." Rokossovsky thought Want to say: "As for the enemy's snipers, we can only bite the bullet and ignore them for the time being. Wait for two years, our snipers will be trained in actual combat, and then it will be time to fight to the death!"
Recently the Luftwaffe has been raging everywhere on the Volga River, destroying a large number of ships used by the Soviet army for transportation. A large pile of materials waiting to be transported across the Volga River can only be hidden on the other side of the river, and tens of thousands of recruits can only temporarily stay on the east bank of the Volga River, unable to enter Stalingrad to fight for Rokossovsky.
The dive-bombing of the Volga by those planes from the German Navy was extremely accurate, and the strategic bombing of the Luftwaffe also made it extremely difficult for the Soviet army to supplement the efforts of the Stalingrad direction. Many railways were destroyed, and because the German army would not cross the Volga River to fight in a short period of time, this time it began a large-scale bombing of railways and transportation nodes.
The long-range bombing advantage of the butcher bomber was brought into full play. The Soviet army was visited by this German four-engine strategic bomber hundreds of kilometers behind the defense line. The entire Soviet army was in chaos. A very difficult thing.
In this case, as a commander, Rokossovsky can only help his subordinates imagine a better future. Isn’t there a good saying that when a person is unhappy, he either likes to imagine the future or recalls the past.
The current Rokossovsky is either recalling the past by himself, or he is drawing a pie for the future-he knows that his life is not satisfactory, but he has no way to change anything. As the supreme commander of Stalingrad, he didn't have much choice but to fall into ruins along with the city.
With the German army slowly advancing with superior firepower, and playing with the tactics of the iron wall encircled by the old man Zeng Guofan decades ago, the Soviet army really didn't have many means to turn the tide of the battle. They could only use more of their own troops to hit those The iron walls of the German army bought more time for their own destruction. As far as the Soviet Union is concerned, what is most lacking now seems to be time.
"The armored units of the Guards will launch a counterattack to the north." After strengthening his confidence, Rokossovsky pointed to the map and began to assign tasks: "On the frontal defense line in the west, the new infantry on the top will launch the counterattack. For the competition for the West Railway Station, we must fight to the small station and hold our ground!"
He walked to the other side of the map, pointed down with his hand, and ordered: "The two new reinforcements are responsible for attacking south and capturing as many suburban positions as possible. Whether we can expand the scale of night transportation depends on this." There's a battle."
After waiting for his subordinates to walk out of the slightly dark basement, Rokossovsky covered his face with his hands and let out a deep breath. Only he knows how much pressure is on his shoulders, and now the entire Stalingrad battle has escaped his control, and is developing in a direction he never thought of.
The feeling of losing control is really bad, at least Rokossovsky himself has a premonition that the Soviet army may fail-for him, perhaps this is the most devastating thing.
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