Eight Hundred and Eighty Six Grid Game

A German sergeant walked quickly to the position of a German 150mm caliber howitzer, and shouted to the soldiers who were cleaning the artillery: "Urgent order from above, adjust the artillery immediately, aim at area 22, and fire halfway." base coverage shot, immediately.|”

"Half a base? You mean that our entire artillery regiment has 24 150mm caliber howitzers, firing half a base?" An artillery officer stood up from the ammunition box, walked to the sergeant, and took the order to verify. After a while, he immediately turned around and shouted: "The headquarters' emergency order, half a base shooting, let's start working! This time I can finally fight well."

With his shouts, the German artillery unit seemed to be revived in an instant, and the originally quiet position immediately became very lively. Some people began to adjust the parameters of the artillery according to the shooting table, while others used a crowbar to pry open the ammunition box and moved out one by one the shells inside.

The map in the artilleryman's hand is a redrawn accurate map, on which the coordinate parameters of each block are marked with grids. Therefore, the German artillery coverage shooting is quite accurate, enough to cause very huge damage to the attacking Soviet army.

The air defense camouflage net was carefully removed by the soldiers. Even now that there are few Soviet aircraft left, German soldiers are required to strictly implement the air defense regulations to avoid unnecessary losses at certain special times. As the soldiers kept shaking the handles, the barrels of the cannons got too high bit by bit, and finally pointed to where they should be aimed.

"Loading is complete!" Next to the first artillery, the loader reported loudly after loading the propellant charge. Not far from him, after a few seconds, the loader of the second cannon also shouted this line. One after another, the cannons were ready for salvo, and the flags one after the other were raised by the messengers. A total of 24 150mm caliber howitzers, like silent killers, were waiting for the order to fire.

"The counterattack begins!" An infantry commander on the front line looked at his watch and shouted loudly. Beside him, an ambush mg42 machine gun began to roar.

"The counterattack begins!" The engine has been started, and a thick black smoke is sprayed out. The commander of the German tank force closed the hatch above his head, and the Panther tank started to move among the ruins.

"Lock on the target! I'm starting to dive! Comet 4 is starting to dive!" Several kilometers above the sky, the pilot in a Stuka 2 attack aircraft confirmed into the communicator.

"Fire!" On the artillery position, after hearing the order, small red flags were waved down one after another, and one after another the giant cannons let out their own roars.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Dazzling flames spewed out from the muzzle of the cannon, and then thick smoke billowed out of the sky, like a mass of violently churning dark clouds, expanding and extending above the muzzle of the cannon, as if to occupy the entire sky . With the violent shaking, the huge artillery body was pulled by the recoil,

Quickly retreating, the entire field was filled with dust, and everyone couldn't help squinting their eyes.

After the noise, a 150mm caliber shell rotated at high speed, flew out of the gun barrel covered with rifles, drew a beautiful arc in the sky, and flew towards the 22 area that had been calibrated long ago. The friction of the air heats up the surface of the shell.

With the continuous erosion of air resistance and the gradual loss of thrust formed by the explosion of gunpowder, the shell began to drop in height, began to fall, and finally hit the ground on the street full of Soviet Red Army, the fuze was activated, the gunpowder inside was ignited and exploded Come on, the cannonball has completed its mission and ended its splendid life.

Its life is very short, and it took less than a second for the countless explosion fragments it formed to sweep across the entire explosion radius. The ground was easily cut out of a huge crater, and the dense fragments mixed with sand, gravel and soil knocked dozens of people around. The Soviet soldiers were knocked down to the ground, and for a while, their flesh and blood were bloody. Some parts of their bodies flew everywhere, and the living Soviet soldiers all subconsciously fell to the ground.

The second shell hit a corner of a building not far away. The explosion sent bricks and tiles flying tens of meters away, dust rose into the air, and the sound of the building collapsing made the living Soviet soldiers feel the horror of the end of the world—this It was just the beginning, because the third and fourth shells fell one after another, the entire area was covered by German artillery fire, there were explosions everywhere, and the sky seemed to darken.

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"Hello? Hello? What did you say? Tell me more in detail! Tell me in more detail!" A Soviet frontline commander held a phone and shouted angrily at a regiment commander who was fighting the German army: "What do you mean your troops have been dispersed? I heard the sound of the German guns...I'm reporting to Comrade Commander, hold it up for me! No matter what method you use! Hold it up for me!"

He hung up the phone, and a shell hit his headquarters tens of meters away. The whole ground was shaking, and the dust from the ceiling fell spatteringly, hitting the blueprints on the table, making crackling noises. He fanned the dust in front of him with his hand, and grabbed the phone in his hand again.

The German army and the previous ones are not an army at all. If the previous German attack is like lukewarm 40-degree hot water, then the current German army is a bottle of 90% concentrated sulfuric acid. The degree of danger between the two It's not a level thing at all.

"Comrade Commander! My troops are being heavily attacked by the German army! Their shells are raining down on my head!" The division commander called the military headquarters, begging his superiors infinitely wronged: "Request support! Request artillery support and military support."

"I heard the sound of artillery! It's not just the sound of artillery from your side, I also heard the sound of artillery from the 2nd Division. Did the German army eat gunpowder? Why did they become so irritable all of a sudden?" the commander said. It doesn't sound like the mood is very good-this seems to be a certain thing, because no matter who faces this situation, his mood will not be much better.

From a few minutes on, the calls he received were either asking for support or reporting the number of casualties in the troops. The artillery fire of the German army fell precisely on the top of his attacking troops, and the entire counterattack plan was seriously hindered, and even some positions had been recaptured by the German army.

Of course, this is not his most desperate moment. Although the Soviet commander now feels that he is very desperate at this moment-but at the next moment, his despair becomes completely desperate as more German troops go into battle. of despair.

A German Stuka 2 bomber began to dive and bomb, completely destroying the exposed Soviet troops. Some Soviet troops had just assembled for the subsequent offensive mission, and were attacked by these vulture-like German attack planes. Before the entire army could disperse, they were destroyed by machine guns and bombs to the brink of collapse.

Because the entire Stalingrad was divided into dozens of areas, the German commander could accurately determine the approximate location of the Soviet army in the process of determining the attack target and estimating the Soviet army's assembly point. This allowed the German aircraft and artillery to attack the coordinates that had been set earlier with more precision, achieving astonishing attack accuracy and density.

When the Luftwaffe joined the battle to strangle the Soviet ground forces, the Soviets really felt the huge advantage they had over the Germans in terms of firepower: Facing the air and the ground, there were planes bombing above and German artillery covering the three-dimensional firepower below. , the Soviet counterattack became difficult.

The problem is that now it is not only difficult to move forward, but also to face the counterattack of the superior forces of the German army - when the Soviet army on the ground has begun to be chaotic and routed, the German armored forces appeared for the first time in the street fighting in Stalingrad , Although these tanks did not advance rapidly, they destroyed all the Soviet tanks that appeared as an assault force.

The German tanks advanced a short distance on the existing positions, and then the German grenadiers occupied the nearby buildings and ruins, and took back all the positions that the Soviets had finally taken. German flags were laid one after another on the top of the building, and the German artillery bombardment extended forward as the German army advanced.

The defeat of the Soviet army became uncontrollable. In the three attack directions, the troops attacking north were pushed back by the most elite SS armored division of the German army. Not to mention the heavy losses, they also lost about 400 meters in depth. Defensive position; the troops trying to capture the railway station to the west were forced to stop advancing only 900 meters forward, and then the German counterattack came as expected, and finally they retreated to the original starting point, but lost a full 3000 soldiers and 16 tanks.

The situation of the two elite Soviet infantry divisions attacking north was slightly better. These troops withstood the frenzied attack of the German troops and finally advanced 100 meters at the cost of 1,900 people killed-but compared with before the offensive In fact, the longitudinal width of the Volga River that the Soviet army attempted to expand was shortened by about 300 meters because of the ensuing battle.

A counterattack, just three hours. From 11:00 in the morning, the Soviet army launched an offensive, and at 12:00 noon, the German army began to counterattack, until 2:00 pm, all fronts gradually returned to calm—the Soviet army lost a full 7,000 people, but lost some blocks and positions.

Almost 1,700 German soldiers were killed, including 300 Ukrainian soldiers. This loss made Küchler give up his plan to continue the assault, and once again replaced the three brand new Ukrainian infantry divisions on the front line, continuing to play his grid game boringly but very effectively.