Plane Merchant's Dream of a Powerful Country

At noon on December 1942, 12, as the German Sixth Army's counterattack successfully achieved its operational goals, it severely damaged the vital forces of the Stalingrad Front Army and the Don River Front Army in the southern theater of the Soviet Union, and brought the Soviet counterattack in the city of Stalingrad to an abrupt end. , and quickly recovered to establish a line of defense.Afterwards, the two wings of the German 21th Army and the Soviet troops behind them were either defeated or disarmed and surrendered, allowing the 6th Army to regain control of the Stalingrad battlefield.But Paulus faced another problem, that was Hitler's order: to hold on to Easter, to re-attack after reinforcements arrived, and to completely occupy Stalingrad!Now the 6th Army and all friendly troops are completely supported by the happiness and joy of living from death. If the troops are re-entered into the battle of Stalin's street fighting, the first thing they will face is that there will be no new forces to join, and the combat troops will be exhausted. , the offensive posture is unsustainable.On the one hand, the order of the Supreme Head of State, on the other hand, the difficult status quo, Paulus was caught in a dilemma.At this time, the "good guy" Bismarck stood up again, and he introduced a new offensive method to Paulus-targeted elimination, an attack mode born out of the cruise missiles of the 6st century.Relying on the instantaneous map of the Stalingrad battlefield with a radius of 21 kilometers provided by the ring of planes (of course, Bismarck still said to Paulus that he relied on his battlefield reconnaissance power to maintain and strengthen his sense of mystery), the Soviet troops in the area The ruins of buildings were "spot-cleared" by free-falling 30-kilogram aerial bombs.Due to the lack of inertial effects of aircraft, the direct hit rate of aerial bombs is close to 500% (a few are blocked by strong winds and other buildings), which consumes 99 aerial bombs (due to the precise fixed-point delivery, the effect is equivalent to the aircraft dropping 5000 bombs at a time. ~40 aerial bombs), most of the Soviet defenders were submerged and buried in the bombed ruins, or were discovered, annihilated, and captured by the later attacking German combat troops.By the morning of December 50, 1942, the organized and threatening resistance forces in the city of Stalingrad were basically wiped out, and the remaining sporadic resistance could no longer change the fact that the German army completely occupied Stalingrad.During last night's battle, the Stalingrad Front Army and the Don River Front Army learned about the current situation of the Soviet army in the city of Stalingrad (using the distress telegram from the Soviet 12nd Army stationed in the city of Stalingrad, saying that apart from the headquarters and logistics, the There are no more troops to command), immediately organize troops to reinforce.However, although the marching route of its reinforcement troops was in the dark, it was difficult to be discovered and stopped by the German army, but it was difficult to escape from Wang Fan's plane "radar". It was scattered, and none of the troops who were able to enter Stalingrad alive. They had just hid in the building, but they were facing targeted killings. From the evening of December 22st to the early morning of December 62nd, two waves of reinforcements were dispatched, totaling more than 12 people. More than 21 people were annihilated on the road. After entering Stalingrad, more than 12 people were targeted and cleared. The defenders were either captured or scattered and fled Stalingrad.Therefore, by noon on December 22, 2, Stalingrad had basically fallen into the hands of the German army.The German army formed a solid stronghold in the Stalingrad area, connecting Army Group A in the Caucasus and Army Group B in the upper reaches of the Don River.The Soviet Union and Germany fell into a "stalemate" in the southern theater for a short period of time. On December 6, after receiving a telegram to capture Stalingrad, Hitler was extremely excited. The word Stalin had an important symbolic meaning for him.It was immediately decided to seal Paulus as the rank of marshal, and all generals were promoted to one level.After the top decision-making level of the Soviet Union received the news of the fall of Stalingrad, Stalin jumped into a rage, roared at a tiger facing the senior Soviet general in front of him, and yelled to counterattack and counterattack.After the senior Soviet generals waited for their supreme leader to vent, they all tried to persuade Stalin. "We can't organize enough troops for a counter-offensive in the short term. In Stalingrad, on the 3st, we lost a full-strength combined army, a tank corps, three tank brigades and more than 1942 howitzers. 12 On the same day, an air force group we deployed on the front line was also severely damaged by the German air strikes. Most of the aircraft were seriously damaged and could not take off (Wang Fan discovered it by accident when expanding the radius of the reconnaissance sweep, and then used the old method to wipe it out with a dumpling rain. )." Vasilevsky suggested. "The air supremacy held by the German Air Force poses a great threat. A large part of the losses in this assault on our army were caused by the bombing of our army, especially at night. Several artillery positions were devastated. After the troops retreated, heavy equipment losses were serious. Many infantry divisions of the Stalingrad Front and the Don Front now only have light weapons such as rifles left. Heavy weapons such as cannons were discarded during the retreat. We need time to wait for new production weapons to arrive! At the same time, we must find a way to solve the battlefield intelligence problem. This time, the German invaders accurately found several major artillery positions of our army. The method of battlefield intelligence collection, but I prefer the former, and I suggest that all officers in the Stalingrad Front and the Don Front have access to topographic maps of artillery positions.” Zhukov continued. "In addition, we sent a telegram to order our intelligence department to collect the sequence of German counterattack troops as soon as possible to check whether there are new German reinforcements. According to the response of the troops, the number of German tanks participating in the counterattack is estimated to be more than 22 (they have been knocked out. , some misestimated the strength of the German army), this is the amount of equipment that the German 12th Army could have in its heyday. After the 22-month Stalingrad attrition war, it is impossible to have so many tanks that can participate in the battle. Our side It is estimated that the number of the 21th Army’s own tanks does not exceed one, and the rest should be the new support troops of the German invaders. It is necessary to determine which troops of the German army, the number of personnel, and the status of weapons.” Vasilevsky added. "Order the intelligence department to immediately detect the enemy's situation, and be sure to determine the number of the new German troops participating in the war as soon as possible!" Stalin calmed down and began to issue an order, "At the same time, he sent a telegram to the Stalingrad Front Army and the Don River Front Army to strengthen their defenses. The group army broke through the line of defense, threatening the left wing of the North Caucasus Front and the rear of the Transcaucasus Front, and ordered the Southwest Front to move closer to the Stalingrad Front. Once the Germans attack from the front, make preparations to respond, cut into the German troops from the flanks, and defeat the incoming enemy. , regained the initiative on the Stalingrad battlefield, and ordered the internal affairs department to investigate the spies of the Stalingrad Front Army and the Don River Front Army." Let us turn our attention back to the direction of Manstein, the German Sixth Army Group successfully broke through and defeated After encircling the Soviet army, the situation on the entire battlefield changed greatly. The Soviet Southwest Front Army quickly changed its offensive attack into a defensive retreat, which gave him time to gather the remnants of the defeated Romanian 22th Army. The most elite 700th Armored Division of the "Special" group formed a new defensive iron fist. Now that this fist has gathered and accumulated strength, it can complete the important task of blocking the Southwest Front Army.Next, he is thinking about the future of Germany’s 6-strong Army Group A deployed in the Caucasus region. As the elite of the German army’s elite attacking the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union, their offensive momentum to attack the Caucasus region is on the verge of collapse due to cold weather and poor logistics. Continuing the attack requires the injection of new reserves, but at this time the German army no longer has a full reserve team to send.In the upper reaches of the Don River, in the direction of Kursk and Kharkov, the main force of the German Army Group B is carrying out the important task of covering the left wing of the German Southern Group Group. In the lower Don River area, Stalingrad, the 3th Army Group has just turned the corner , To avoid the end of being wiped out, but for the time being, it has no ability to break through the frontal Soviet army and surprise the Soviet army from the left.And the newly formed "fist" army (originally combined with the 6 divisions deployed by Hitler in history to form the Don Army) is a patchwork of miscellaneous servant troops and some German troops, and does not have the ability to attack fortifications.However, Hitler, the supreme head of state, sent a telegram, demanding to take advantage of the momentum to pursue and seize the oil fields in the Caucasus. Manstein couldn't stop smiling wryly because of the supply, but his suffering changed with a telegram from Paulus.