Nine Hundred and Thirty-Six: The Stage I Don't Want to Leave

Küchler can be said to be the second most stressed general in the German Army recently. Apart from Guderian, who is fighting with Zhukov, he has the heaviest burden on his shoulders. The originally ample timetable for capturing Stalingrad has become urgent because of the south of Zhukov's cluster.

So he couldn't completely launch the attack step by step according to his plan, at least he had to draw out the main infantry of the n group army to support his g group army in the north before Guderian's troops collapsed.

The good news is that General Manstein has triumphantly triumphed all the way through the mountains and has approached the important town of Grozny. A large part of the heavy artillery that the m group army attacked the Crimean Peninsula was left by Manstein to the n group army as a bargaining chip for the capture of Stalingrad, which was placed on the gambling table to determine the outcome of the two countries.

And in the past few days, Küchler has not been idle. His group army has gone crazy and launched an accelerated battle for Stalingrad. At the central railway station of Stalingrad, the German army and the Soviet army fought frantically. In less than one square kilometer, 4,000 people fought repeatedly. At the worst time, the dead bodies covered the positions of both sides in the war.

When the German soldiers attacked the platform, the reinforcements from the Soviet soldiers just arrived, and the two sides fought fiercely. In just two hours of fighting, the German army killed 1,000 soldiers reads;. Of course, the train station was finally occupied by the Germans, and the ruined walls were full of dense potholes made by bullets.

The place that was originally used to hoard goods has now become a place where corpses are piled up. The blood pooled from the platform, then flowed along the platform, and finally dried up on the stone steps, which looked shocking. A group of German soldiers and a large group of Ukrainian soldiers desperately built their own fortifications. This is a habit that has been developed for more than a month, and they must be arranged in this way every time they arrive at a new place.

In the evening, everything was quiet, and then there was a cry from nowhere, and the night attack of the Soviet Red Army started on time as if it was going to work. The brutal night battle tormented the fragile will of the soldiers on both sides, and the tracer bullets were even more dazzling against the backdrop of the night.

Flares suddenly shone in the sky, and the surrounding area was immediately illuminated like daylight. Then dense gunshots came from all directions, and all moving objects exposed to the light were immediately sieved by these flying bullets.

The Soviet army invested more soldiers, and a group of Soviet Red Army shouting "Ulla" rushed out of the surrounding buildings and entangled with the German soldiers who were outnumbered. There were screams one after another, and the bloody and brutal hand-to-hand combat kicked off at the end of the battle as usual, and then as the German soldiers fell one after another, the peace that should have been gradually restored here.

Before the revived Soviets could take a breath, shells from German heavy artillery pierced the sky and flew over. Retaliation always comes so timely, so timely that it is too late for Xiang Ran to make a running movement. The huge explosion echoed in the night sky, and the flash of the shell explosion accompanied by the scattered limbs and broken arms made the night sky a thick blood red.

The whole Stalingrad battle lasted all night, and when the sun on the horizon shot its first ray, the German army was liberated from the defensive posture all night, so these dusty grenadiers They, holding their steel guns, have a warm-up exercise before breakfast.

The building saboteur's burst of rocket launchers was the prelude to this warm-up exercise. More than a dozen iron fist rockets fired continuously blasted a building guarded by the Soviets into ruins. After this round of salvo, the German offensive troops , launched their attack logically.

Leaning on the walls of the buildings on both sides of the street, bending their upper bodies, the German grenadiers, holding rifles and grenades in their hands, started their attack with small steps. The machine gun unit supporting their attack had already climbed up. On the top of the ruins in the distance, he skillfully propped up the bipod of the machine gun and pressed the ammunition belt into the barrel of the machine gun.

A Soviet soldier struggled to stand up from the ruins, and he didn't know where he was standing. He coughed and patted the dirt and dust hanging on his body, while turning his body, hoping to see some familiar scenes .

Just tens of seconds ago, he was still in a bunker near the building, waiting for the German soldiers to attack. As a result, with the shock caused by countless loud explosions, the whole building began to collapse. Find out what happened, and the bunker he hid in becomes the grave that nearly buried him alive.

"Ahem! Ahem!" He squinted his eyes, trying to find his former comrades-in-arms and everything he was familiar with from the floating dust. But he was doomed to be disappointed, except for some furniture that had been buried for the most part, he could only find the arms of his comrades or the exposed boots or rifles among the rubble at his feet.

The gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated, and he finally saw clearly where he was. The Soviet soldier, who was estimated to be only 18 years old, raised his head in despair and looked in the direction where he needed to shoot for defense.

There, a German grenadier who was also only ten years old straightened himself up, holding a G43 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, and a pair of cold and ruthless eyes reads; on the brim of the cold steel helmet.

The corner of the young Soviet soldier's mouth twitched, as if trying to force a smile, but in the end he failed because the person opposite him didn't seem to be in the mood to see him smile—the German grenadier who was also young He pressed the trigger with his finger, and a bullet accurately pierced the Soviet Red Army's head.

Without struggling or hesitating, the Soviet soldier fell back neatly when his head exploded, and then fell on the uneven rubble, twisting into a strange shape with the terrain. From this moment on, there is no difference between him and the ruins. After a few hours, he will be buried by the collapsed bricks and tiles around him, or covered with a thick layer of dust.

Getting closer to the heart of Stalingrad, the Germans found more and more to be thankful for. For example, soldiers of the 14th Infantry Army found 0 tons of potatoes and other grains hidden by the Soviets in the basement of an unknown small block. Because of the 20 tons of unexpected joy, the soldiers on the front line enjoyed their first extra meal on the front line.

As the commander-in-chief of the Stalingrad attack, General Küchler has issued a military order to Akado. The general vowed that if he could not take the half-occupied city within 15 days, he would resign as commander of Army Group N and enter Stalingrad himself with a Mauser rifle.

It's a pity that after 2 full days, his troops lost 20,000 people and only fought 2 blocks. The battle seemed to have no end in sight, but it was obvious that Küchler did not give up. He was dispatching troops and trying his best to fulfill his oath to the head of state or the entire empire.

Of course, it is not enough to complete the task by taking an oath. Guan Yu made an oath in front of Huarong Road, but in the end he still took his words as fart. Leaving aside the distant examples, the most recent example is Rokossovsky who swore to defend Stalingrad.

In his dilapidated, dim... basement, Rokossovsky's pale face had a hint of despondency. Don't ask why so many poor people who stick to the city have an indissoluble relationship with the basement. Hitler in another time and space, Churchill Khrushchev and Rokossovsky in this time and space are all at the last moment Being in the basement is no coincidence. Because in a city full of ruins, it is difficult to find a place that is safer than a reinforced basement.

The defender of Stalingrad (so talkative) who ordered Stalingrad to live and die with Stalingrad must be full of expectations for Zhukov to arrive in time. He really doesn't have many reserves in his hands now. While consuming the German army, Rokossovsky is also consuming thousands of troops in his hands.

At the beginning, he could still calmly compare with Küchler who had more patience and reserves, but he lost half of Stalingrad after fighting hard, which made him very uneasy . As a result, the two sides invested in repeated battles, and the losses of the Soviet Union rose linearly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

German snipers and special teams are much more powerful in urban street fighting than the Soviets imagined. A small team of a dozen people can often deal with hundreds of Soviet soldiers and almost retreat completely. Killing 17 soldiers in a special unit like the German Army, Rokossovsky killed more than 900 people.

Now, the forward position of the German army is really only a little more than a kilometer away from his headquarters. This is really a bit of a sad parting for Rokossovsky, who was once considered the number one figure in the Soviet military. the taste of.

He really doesn't want to leave this stage, he wants to stand in the center of the stage and interpret his role, whether important or marginal, he must have a role in this recast world order.

"Send another telegram to Marshal Zhukov, and tell him that I will try my best to hold on until the last second." Rokossovsky glanced at the adjutant who was also not very good-looking because he had not seen the sun for a long time, and said.