Chapter 1831 The Cruelty of Urban Street Fighting (Monthly Ticket Request!!

Chapter 1831 The cruelty of urban street fighting (please vote!!! Please subscribe!! Please recommend!!!)

This is how city offensive and defensive battles work. Once the enemy takes root in the city, the gap will only get bigger and bigger. Unless... the defending side is willing to pay huge casualties and fight the enemy in every piece of land and every building in the city. It is possible to drive the enemy out of the city.

The most typical one is the Battle of Stalingrad! Stalingrad's pre-war population was 400,000. It is home to an important river port, as well as many important war and civilian industries. Because the city was named after Soviet leader Stalin, Hitler particularly liked to capture the city as a personal blow to the Soviet leader. Stalin also placed great emphasis on controlling the city to prevent Hitler from seizing the city that bore his name. Despite Stalingrad's great military significance, the two leaders' psychological importance to the city elevated it to a level of importance that surpassed even that of the capital Moscow. Both armies were willing to pay to have it, and it transcended military value and entered squarely into the realm of obsession.

Initially, the Germans made great progress in conquering the city. The Nazis attacked the city and its defenders with aircraft, tanks, artillery, mortars and other heavy weapons. By early September 1942, the German army was still making progress, but the pace of advance had slowed significantly. As a result of the indiscriminate bombing, the city and its buildings were reduced to a vast heap of rubble. The Russians took advantage of the destroyed buildings and began to adopt defensive tactics; ironically, the buildings gave them an advantage.

However, by November, the German army's ruthless offensive almost drove the Soviet army to the Volga River. Here both sides suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the barbarity of both sides on this line exceeded all boundaries of human behavior. In battle, right and wrong, morality and honor no longer exist. The battle actually turns into a savage struggle for survival. In 2001, one of Gates's Hollywood movie enemies featured a dueling German and Russian sniper. Snipers have become one of the most formidable opponents on both sides. Because of their ability to shoot at long range, soldiers never felt they were safe and were often shot in places they thought they were safe.

One particularly good Russian sniper, Anatoly Chechov, said that for the first time in his life, "I felt terrible that I had killed a man."

But after learning for a while how the German army killed many of his compatriots, Chechov said in an interview during the battle: "I began to fire on them mercilessly. I became a savage, I killed them, I Hate them."

As Michael Jones describes in an excellent book, on September 14, 1942, the Soviet Army survived the German onslaught. The Germans advanced almost to the Volga River, only 200 yards from their objective. The Russians were on the verge of defeat. Because the Luftwaffe had air superiority, any reinforcements or supplies near the Volga during daylight hours would be suicidal. But the commander of the Soviet Thirteenth Division believed that the Soviet defenders close to the river would not be able to hold out until dusk; so he ordered his troops to cross the river anyway, believing that the two sides would be bounded by the river.

General Alexander Rodisev led his troops onto barges and sailed to the other side of the river. According to eyewitness accounts, the ship was hit by a German bomb before reaching the other side. Most of the people on board were killed, but miraculously, he himself survived. Most people on board were not so lucky. Several witnesses described the scene.

Alexander Albert, one of the few Soviet defenders still on the river side. He described the scene as the Thirteenth Division approached the shore. "We were lying on the ground. Everything was on fire," he said. "The ships were being bombed and shelled. I saw a big barge full of soldiers with their coats, grenades, shovels, ammunition, machine guns - It sank right before my eyes."

Another witness described a similar horrific scene: "There was a ball of fire, then black smoke enveloped the ferry, and an explosion was heard, followed by a scream... The ship was moving, and there was an explosion on the upper deck. The fire broke out and the force of the explosion shook the Volga. When it was all over - the smoke had cleared - there was nothing but waves on the ferry. This scene solidified our blood."

As Michael Jones pointed out, the Reds shouldn't be able to hold this line. He wrote: "The Germans occupied the high ground on the embankment and brought overwhelming firepower against the advancing Russians. It seemed impossible that they would succeed - but they did." In the heat of the battle, Luo General Disev's men recaptured a key structure from the Germans and secured the crossing.

German survivor Helmut Waltz described the dehumanizing effect the house-to-house fighting had on him in Stalingrad. Waltz was facing a Russian building when he came face to face with an enemy soldier. He said he raised his weapon to fire, but suddenly, "I saw little stars coming out of my eyes. I touched my face with my left hand and a spurt of blood spurted out and teeth flew out of my mouth."

"It's all over now," he thought, hoping that the Russian soldiers would take him out, but one of his comrades came to his aid and "broke the head of the Russian who hit me. Even though he was wearing a steel helmet. That It was a tearing sound that I can still hear today."

But Walz's fears of this day weren't over yet. As his friend bandaged his wound, Volz raised his head and tried to warn his friend that another Russian fighter was behind him. But it was too late. Gunfire rang out and his comrade's helmet "flew through the air, and then I looked at him and I saw how he had been hit in the head, how the head was split." It was the first time I had ever seen a brain. . In the middle is water. No blood, just water. He was looking at me when he died, standing on the dirt with his wounds. "

In the six months of the Battle of Stalingrad, scenes like the 13th Guards Division and Volz were repeated a thousand times. During my twenty-one-year military career, I participated in many high-intensity battles and also participated in counter-guerrilla warfare. However, I admit unequivocally that I cannot understand, or even imagine, what real hell was like during the Battle of Stalingrad. It's frightening how callous and callous they can become when stripped of their humanity.

The highlight of the city attack and defense battle is the cruelty. You must make up your mind to exchange your life for a building that used to look ordinary. Even if it is just a public toilet, you have to sacrifice it and even a public toilet cannot fit in it. number to capture him.

Once either side cannot accept such cruelty, it is equivalent to losing the battle. And this includes civilian casualties!

The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. Judging from the number of casualties alone, the battle was also the bloodiest battle in modern history. The casualties on both sides were estimated to be more than two million, and the number of people participating in the battle was also higher than in history. There are many other battles in the world, and they are famous for the casualties caused by both sides ignoring the differences between military and civilians.

On September 14, 1942, the German army broke into the urban area from the north of the city and launched a fierce street battle with the Soviet 62nd Army. The two sides fought repeatedly street by street, building by building, and house by house. Stalingrad was turned into a rubble field, and 80% of the city's residential areas were destroyed. In the city full of rubble and ruins, the Soviet 62nd Army resisted tenaciously. Fierce gun battles took place in every street, every building, and every factory in the city. The number of casualties among the German troops who entered the city continued to increase. Although the German army carried out frequent bombings on the east bank of the Volga River, the Soviet Red Army still received continuous supplies and support from there. The average survival time of the Red Army soldiers who had just rushed to the city was no more than 24 hours, and the average survival time of the officers was only about three days.

A total of one million people died on both sides in this battle, including Soviets, Romanians, Hungarians, and Germans. The German Sixth Army had 260,000 people, 91,000 of whom were besieged, and only 5,000 returned to Germany alive after the war. At the most intense stage of the battle, both sides invested more than 2 million troops, 2,000 tanks, more than 2,300 aircraft, and 25,000 artillery and mortars.

In the two months of September and October 1942, only five Soviet infantry divisions crossed the river for reinforcements, while the German army invested no less than 27 infantry divisions and 19 armored brigades as reinforcements. Its first-line divisions often suffered 70% casualties, with only 30 to 40 people left in a company. The number of German troops deployed in Stalingrad increased from the initial twenty-five divisions to fifty-one divisions.

From July to November 1942, the German army lost a total of 700,000 officers and soldiers, more than 1,000 tanks, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, and more than 1,400 aircraft.

This war was cruel, almost a victory heaped with blood. Although the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad was good, its process was horrifically bloody. Any war is not a matter of a few commanders strategizing. It must be built by living lives. Under the leadership of Hitler, Nazi Germany successively conquered several smaller countries. However, facing the vast Soviet Union, the German offensive proved difficult. The German attack on Stalingrad can be compared to the Japanese attack on Nanjing. Both of them massacred the people to the point of dehumanization. The fall of Stalingrad was not the end of the battle, but the beginning of another tragic counterattack. Faced with the loss of many defensive positions, the Soviet Army Group still did not give up the last chance to resist. They still resisted and fought for each other in the urban area, building by building. This is the famous street fighting. The urban area was burned into ruins by the war. It was in these ruins that the Soviet army avoided enemy artillery fire and fought bravely to kill the enemy. Under the strong resistance of Commander Chuikov, this war, which was very important to both Stalin and Hitler, was finally won.

Of course, the Little Overlord doesn't have so many people to sacrifice. Millions of people died in one city... The entire Little Overlord doesn't need the Egyptian army to continue attacking, and they can fall apart... Come on, their total population has just exceeded 10 million, even if If the population structure is healthy and millions of young adults burp, the society will directly lack an entire generation. By then, only the elderly, women and children will be left in the entire society, and adult men will basically be dead.

Here we have encountered the little overlord’s Achilles’ heel, the population is too small!

And to be honest, this nation is very cruel to others, but not to its own people...not to its own people. They inherently lack a belief. Maybe I am so good at business that I am very concerned about gains and losses and have to weigh everything, but there are some things that I cannot be so smart about, especially when it comes to collective interests.

So after the Egyptian army's follow-up troops began to enter the city, Xiaobawang couldn't hold on.

Let's not talk about the Egyptian army first, but for now, those Egyptian soldiers who are so powerful really don't care about sacrifice.

This is the holy city!

The importance of the holy city is self-evident to every Muslim.

These soldiers who have fallen into a fanatical atmosphere don't care about sacrifice at all, and they even think that dying in the holy city is an honor. Now the entire Egyptian army has fallen into a frenzy, and countless young people are shouting loudly in the streets and alleys, asking the people to support the front line. This fanatical atmosphere will not last long, but the problem is that in a short period of time, it is enough to make the people of the whole country subconsciously ignore many things.

For example, food prices are getting more and more expensive, the government has stopped subsidizing pancakes (it really can't subsidize anymore, there is no money), domestic inflation is high, and imports and exports are restricted.

These difficulties have been suppressed in the current situation of rapid progress.

No one will say a bad word about the government, a bit like the early stage of the Falklands War, even if the situation in Argentina is already very bad, but under the national carnival, all contradictions automatically and consciously disappear.

Facing such an Egyptian army, the little bully did not see the need for sacrifice.

Nor did he have such determination.

So he soon approached the United States again, hoping that the United States could personally mediate... Of course, he did not want to start a war.

They hoped to use diplomatic means to get a better result.

They originally thought that they could admit that the war was lost, but Egypt must return to the position before the war started, and there were also a lot of additional conditions... The Americans did not take this to negotiate with Egypt at all... It would be a miracle if others would agree to such idiotic conditions.

The United States helped to refuse. If they wanted to negotiate, they had to be more realistic. You might as well let Egypt surrender directly. It was just a verbal surrender, and they didn't have to pay anything.

Well, the little bully really thought so. They really hoped that the United States would negotiate according to this, and it would be best to let Egypt and the United States break down the talks and directly drag the United States into the water.

But it was obviously useless. There was no way. The little bully could only grind a little bit. In short, he just wanted to take advantage and didn't want to pay.

Then the holy city started fighting directly!

A large number of Egyptian troops entered the city directly and began to attack in all directions from the occupied area!