I, who traveled to Chunwu, entered Stalingrad again?

This time it's not just as simple as giving out a belt. The Gray Hound Company has not only recruited a large number of recruits, but also added a machine gun and three submachine guns to each platoon, and a No. [-] assault gun will also cooperate with them Fighting, but there must be supplies before the battle, so Zaimuzao can't be happy.

The bald man above was still chanting incantations, and the audience below were getting impatient.

Veterans can hear the old-fashioned words of the pastor, it's nothing more than the Aryans are so noble and favored by the gods, the Bolsheviks are so bad and betrayed God, God will bless you and not them, so you are strengthened Hurry up.

Anyway, it is all kinds of smearing the enemy and buffing the halo for yourself. This method of deceiving ignorant people to join the Crusade as cannon fodder hundreds of years ago is okay, but it is a bit outdated to continue to do this now.

"Gathering the entire company here, I'm not afraid that a plane from the Soviet army will take us down." Someone complained in a low voice, but Captain Feiger, who was next to the pastor, glared at him and obediently lowered his head.

Fortunately, the Soviet Army's air force was completely incomparable with the German 4th Air Force at this time. The number of aircraft was only one-third of the German Army's. At least during the day, the Soviets seldom bombed.

When the mother-in-law above finally finishes reading the scriptures, the attack will also begin.

First of all, it is still a bombing cluster composed of Ju88 bombers and Stuka dive bombers. Alarms sounded everywhere in the city. According to statistics, the German army dispatched 23 sorties on the 1600rd, dropping nearly 1000 tons of bombs.

Countless incendiary bombs and bombs turned the city, which was already extremely hot due to the continuous lack of rain, into a hellish sea of ​​flames. Most of the wooden houses and buildings were reduced to ruins, leaving only a small part of the brick wall standing like a tombstone. Among the ashes, part of the asphalt road was almost melted, and there were fleeing residents everywhere.

Some bombs just hit the oil depot in the north of the city, and a huge pillar of fire shot up from the oil depot area, which could be seen clearly even from the outer positions more than 20 kilometers away.Burning gasoline and oil flowed down the Volga in a sea of ​​flames.

Under the violent bombardment, Stalingrad's telegraph and telephone communication networks were almost completely paralyzed, and both the Stalingrad Front Army and the Southeast Front Army lost contact with the outside world.

Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, the German army also launched an offensive. They could see the outline of the city of Stalingrad from the horizon and the many huge smoke columns rising above it.

This time he didn't dare to be a hero any more, he honestly followed behind that three-tus to attack, and occasionally stretched out the cover to fire a shot. Personal bravery is useless on such a grand battlefield. A good soldier Always timid most of the time, brave occasionally.

The Soviet army relied on a series of well-fortified and heavily mine-covered hills in the south to resist tenaciously. Although the outer positions had been watered several times by bombers and artillery in turn, there were still a large number of Ivans who came out of the anti-bunker holes to resist tenaciously after the shelling.

Many German officers and soldiers died on the scorching grassland, and some tank wreckage was still burning, which was left by the 24th Armored Division.

The 64th Army of the Soviet Union has many anti-tank guns. Once the gunner of each anti-tank gun is killed in battle, someone will immediately take his place and continue to shoot without retreating.

After the German offensive was blocked, they immediately called for air force and artillery cover, and then continued to advance.

After the last few remaining firepower points were also named one by one by the three soldiers who were marching together, the infantry charged towards the enemy, occupied this line of defense, and prepared to attack the next one.

In short, with the support of strong air force, the 4th Armored Army led by Huot moved forward steadily, and killed a division commander of the Soviet Army in the battle that day.

On the northern front, Paulus' troops had almost reached the Volga River, trying to separate the defenders of Stalingrad from the Soviet army in the north. The 16th Armored Division had reached the North Tractor Factory in Stalingrad, less than 3 kilometers away. Place, this factory produced quite a few t34-76s this month.Now some engineers led workers to drive unpainted tanks to the battlefield, and fought fiercely with German tanks. Some civilians were also armed to fight together, and many others were mobilized to speed up the construction of fortifications.

A week later, Huot's 4th Armored Army had broken through the frontal defense line of the 64th Army, and was about to touch the ass of the 62nd Army. In a pocket, only the crossings of the Volga can give them support.

On August 8, Stalin's favorite general, Marshal Zhukov, the hero who defended Leningrad and Moscow continuously, was ordered to go to Stalingrad as the deputy supreme commander to save the crisis.

When the battle on the front line was in full swing, a large number of new reinforcements from the Soviet Union also rushed to the vicinity of Stalingrad. On a train bound for the front line, the young soldier Vasily Zaitsev squeezed into the crowd and looked out the window. Dazed.

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Operation Blue - Stalingrad: Chapter 50 Chapter 48 Street Fighting Begins

"I am a rock, I am motionless."

The young Vasily and his grandfather hid behind a high snowdrift. After a while, a Siberian gray wolf appeared on the other side of the hillside, vigilantly observing the tied white horse on the slope.

"I'm waiting for it to get close. I only have one bullet. Aim for its eye, and put my finger lightly on the trigger..."

Grandpa teaches his grandson how to shoot in a storytelling tone.

Vasily was kind, and stuffed a mouthful of snow into his mouth according to his grandfather's method, so that he could force himself to calm down without getting hot.

The lone wolf slowly approached the white horse, but the beast's intuition made it keep looking around. It wondered why the usual dangerous two-legged beast didn't appear nearby.

"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, because I'm already a man."

Although grandpa has been encouraging him, Vasily's hands have been shaking, and the muzzle of the gun is shaking violently.

Hunger finally overcame the intuition. The lone wolf who had been driven out by the wolves hadn't had a full meal for a long time. It no longer concealed its whereabouts, and sped up from the side to prepare to pounce on its own dinner.

"Get ready, Varisi, shoot! Shoot Varisi!"

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It was not the gunshot that interrupted Vasily's memory, but the death scream of the German Stuka.The whistling sound was more frightening than the howling of wolves. This Stuka seemed to think that the train below was a good prey, so it launched a dive as usual.

However, the two carriages at the front of the Soviet train directly tore off the green canvas on it.Hidden inside are two 2mm anti-aircraft guns and several 25mm anti-aircraft machine guns!

Soon the flaming Stuka fell near the train, and the air waves generated by the explosion caused many people standing in the truck to stumble. A guy next to Vasily couldn't stand still and tore off his military coat , revealing the blue and white striped shirt inside.

"Sea soul shirt! Where did you come from??"

"No, I'm just an ordinary sailor from Sevastopol."

"Ah, Navy. I heard you killed a lot of Germans in Estonia, Leningrad, and Crimea, and land battles!"

Time passed quickly while chatting with the newly-acquainted comrades-in-arms, and the train arrived at its destination in a short while. After getting off the train, what the soldiers saw was a wide river—the Volga River, the mother river of the Russians.

The buzzing German vultures were circling over the Volga River, constantly flying at high altitude and low altitude, and swooping down from time to time to throw bombs at the transport ships in the river.The anti-aircraft guns of the Soviet army could only temporarily drive them away, and the air supremacy was completely in the hands of the German army.

Soldiers and civilians crowded together like a swarm of ants at the pier on the shore, and the passing ships kept transporting supplies and soldiers and bringing the wounded over regardless of the threats overhead.

On the other side, there is a city that is burning with smoke.That is Stalingrad.

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boom!boom!boom!

Cai Muzuo tightly covered his ears and lay down in a ruin.The constant explosions in front of him made his ears ring, and the splashes of dirt and gravel continued to scatter from the sky and hit him on the back.

"Whoever wants to say that old soldiers are afraid of guns and new soldiers are afraid of guns, I will beat him to death!"

In this kind of fire coverage situation, his tried and tested danger perception is useless, and his intuition tells him that there are crises everywhere.The only way is to pray that your bunker is strong enough and the shells go to hit others.

The 16th Motorized Infantry Division was ordered to launch an attack on a street in the southern city of Stalingrad today, but the start of the attack was unfavorable. After only a few hours of departure, the Gray Hound Company was caught off guard by shelling, or the German artillery!Just now, a 150mm heavy artillery shot directly reimbursed the front half of the squad, so that the others had to flee back and hide behind the ruins and bunkers.

"It's crazy! Why did this group of retarded artillery even blow up their own people?" Many people in the Gray Hound Company yelled.

"The artillery observer should be dragged out and shot!"

Captain Feiger, the company commander, is using the phone to make emergency contact with the rear: "Call the hive, we are 2 kilometers west of No. 10 station, please stop the fire! I repeat, please stop the fire! We hit our own people! The second company said they saw machine guns Fortress? No, we didn't see anything! Everything is fine."

When the artillery fire finally stopped, the German soldiers shook off the dust and debris on their bodies and looked around, and there was a dead silence around them.It was as if the enemy had been wiped out in the shelling just now.Zaimuza and the others knew that things were not that simple, so they walked carefully on the street alternately with the help of various bunkers.

However, after the team moved forward to a T-shaped intersection, a Bobosha stretched out from the window on the ruins of a more than half-collapsed apartment next to the street, and fired at the advancing German army.Who would have thought that there were enemies upstairs in this bombed house with only one corner left?Caught off guard, the German army was immediately swept down three people.

This move seemed to send some signal. The Soviet Red Army appeared from every corner of the ruins like groundhogs asking about the smell of food, and they fled into the nearby rubble piles and bomb craters in embarrassment. inside.

Not far away, a heavy machine gun was pushed out from a window on the fifth floor of a relatively intact building, continuing to suppress anyone who dared to show their heads.

"Assault Gun! Let the Assault Gun come over and kill that machine gun!"

The communicator obeyed the order and ran back, and after a while, the No. [-] assault gun came slowly bumping all the way.

Although the indiscriminate bombing of Stalingrad by the German army caused great casualties in the early stage, it also destroyed the original traffic roads of the city. The ruins and rubble not only became the hiding places of the Soviet army, but also became tanks. A natural obstacle for armored vehicles to move forward, which is more effective than the semi-finished anti-tank trenches dug by the Soviets before.

Moreover, the Soviet army hiding in high-rise buildings can easily penetrate the weak top armor of German tanks with anti-tank guns, and the anti-tank firepower hidden in the dark is also a huge threat.The abandoned tanks on the streets in twos and threes are evidence, so the armored soldiers no longer charged forward as they did in the previous blitzkrieg.

The No. 75 assault gun struggled to climb to the corner of the street, the machine gun hitting its armor could only make a clanging sound.Then an embarrassing thing happened. Even though it had worked very hard to raise the barrel to shoot, it could still reach the fourth floor at most, and the short [-] high-explosive bombs could not pose enough threat to the reinforced concrete building.

"No, the angle of elevation is not enough!"

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Operation Blue - Stalingrad: Chapter 51 Chapter 49 Changes

The elevation angle of the No. 20 assault gun was only [-] degrees, and it was helpless against the high-level enemies. When the Soviet commander discovered this, he immediately evacuated all personnel to the top floor, and cooperated with the heavy machine gun to continuously suppress the German infantry on the street.This time the German tanks were completely for display, and the commander could only uselessly direct the crew to bombard the load-bearing walls of the building in an attempt to blow up the entire building.

However, it is impossible to do this with only three small water pipes, and it is still possible if the 150mm heavy artillery shoots directly.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

In desperation, Captain Feiger could only give the order to retreat first.The Greyhound Company's initial battle at Stalingrad ended in embarrassment leaving behind several corpses, and cheers erupted in the building after their retreat.Under the previous German offensive, such a small victory inspired the confidence of the defenders here.

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"Ah!! My feet? Where are my feet??"

"Calm down, your feet are gone!"

The company withdrew to a few relatively intact houses not far from the front line for a temporary rest.Some unlucky wounded were wailing in pain, which lowered the morale of the soldiers a lot.

And in another room, Captain Feiger called all the officers to study how to launch the next attack. In just one morning, including the wounded, their company lost a whole squad of troops but failed to accomplish anything. The difficulty of street fighting surpassed theirs. However, it is impossible to retreat here. The German army set up a punishment battalion earlier than the Soviet Union...

"We can no longer foolishly walk along the middle of the road. We must check every ruin and every room before we can move forward. It is best for us to change the road and attack from the flank."

"William's small roads are full of minefields! It's not conducive to our attack. Captain, I think we should call for artillery support. It would be even better if we can get air support. It would be better to blow him up directly."

"Useless Rigel, you haven't noticed that no matter how many shells and bombs are poured, deadly bullets will continue to shoot out of these ruins? And now that we are too close, the group of hungry guys might be as busy as they were in the morning Let your own people blow it up too!"

While listening to other people's discussions, Captain Feiger wrote and drew on the simple map he made himself, and finally decided on the attack plan: the Gray Hound Company will no longer concentrate on attacking as before, with one row and two rows respectively Responsible for checking the roads on both sides one by one, the last platoon and combat engineer team followed the three-tus, approached the building under the cover of the wings and blew it up!

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"The first floor is safe."

"The second floor is safe."

Timothy Zuo held an MP40 submachine gun and followed the squad leader Sergeant Douglas to search an abandoned small building, followed by Friedheim and Verbinski with rifles.

Just as Zai Muzao was about to go up to the third floor, Douglas suddenly stopped and raised his left hand to signal others to stop. Zai Muzao raised the muzzle of his gun, but no enemy rushed out.

It wasn't until the sergeant gestured that the others discovered a thin thread tied in the middle of the top staircase. There was no doubt that this was a trap set by the Soviets, and there might be a landmine or a grenade behind it.

Instead of dismantling the trap, Sergeant Douglas told the others to retreat first, then took out a grenade and threw it away. The air wave from the explosion triggered the trap, and the debris from the explosion splashed across the floor, but unfortunately there was no Soviet defenders.

Lieutenant William divided the entire platoon into several teams to search the ruins and houses on the left side of the street.

On the street outside the house, a platoon of infantry followed the No. [-] assault gun and moved forward carefully and slowly, trying to keep the same speed as the German troops searching on both sides.

In this way, the German army slowly moved forward to the previous T-shaped corner. The German corpses left in the morning were still abandoned there, but the weapons had been taken away by the Soviets.

This time the Germans did not go forward recklessly, and threw a bunch of smoke bombs at the corner to confuse the enemy.

The Soviet army, who had no vision, fired at the smoke at first, but then stopped shooting when they realized that it was a waste of ammunition and could not hit anything. After the gunfire stopped, Lieutenant William led his troops into the small building beside him. The last unlucky guy was hit in the calf by stray bullets fired indiscriminately because of the sound. Fortunately, the comrades on the side dragged him into the bunker in time.

After the smoke dissipated, the No. [-] assault gun also fired across the street corner, attracting the attention of the building's defenders, but they moved their personnel to the top floor early, and they were not afraid of the iron bastard in front of them.

Someone tried to attack with an anti-tank gun, but there was still a distance of nearly 100 meters between the building and the excuse. At this angle, it was still difficult to penetrate its armor, and all the bullets were bounced off.

"Fire!" With an order, the German troops who successfully lurked to the building windows on both sides of the road fired at the building one after another. Several MG42 machine guns also successfully set up their positions. In turn, the defenders in the building were suppressed for a while. Only the position of the heavy machine gun in the middle of the building was blocked by the wall, and it was difficult for Lieutenant William and the others to attack it.

Taking this opportunity, the No. [-] assault gun began to advance slowly, and several combat engineers with explosives used its body as a cover, intending to approach the building.

Then something unexpected happened to both sides. The road here was already dilapidated and full of potholes because of the previous shelling. When the commander of the No. [-] assault gun climbed over a pile of rubble, he suddenly realized: Since this is an uphill, his tank The elevation angle of the gun was abruptly raised, and the muzzle happened to be not far from where the enemy's heavy machine gun was.

"Fight back! Fight back!"

The Soviet defenders knew something was wrong, regardless of the danger, they probed and fired at the Germans, and even sent a small team to launch a counter-charge with the intention of blowing up the No.

After twisting and adjusting the position repeatedly, the No. [-] assault gun finally aimed its barrel at the heavy machine gun, and after it was wiped out with a single shot, the combat engineers and German troops behind it took advantage of the momentum to launch an assault, and finally succeeded in capturing it. A large number of explosives were buried under the building, and the overall situation was settled.

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"Hands up! Hurry up!" Cai Muzuo and others escorted a dozen Soviet prisoners of war out of the building. This building seemed to be an office building where a certain department was located, and it was extremely solidly built.The previous explosion only destroyed half of the building, but the others were stunned, which made Zai Muzao and the others heave a sigh of relief.

But as far as the result is concerned, they even paid the price of more than 10 casualties with the support of a tank on this day, but they only occupied a government building guarded by a platoon and pushed the German front forward More than 200 meters, that's all.

Not only them, but almost all the German army fell into a bitter battle. Even if they won, they usually won one or two strongholds after paying a huge price.The original war zone situation map in kilometers has become a city plan in meters, and the vast front has become narrow streets and houses.Every ruin, every window, every corner, even every sewer has become a battlefield.

Everyone realized that the days of breaking through the tens of kilometers of the Soviet army's front in one day were gone forever, and the situation had changed.

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Operation Blue - Stalingrad: Chapter 52 Chapter 50 Embracing the Enemy

In the first ten days of September, Huot led the 9th Armored Army to successfully separate the 4nd Army and the 62th Army of the Soviet Army, and retreated the 64th Army to the south.A small part of the German army even reached the Volga River in the southern suburbs of the city, but the small-scale offensive against the city was not smooth.

In the north of the city, the 6th Army commanded by Paulus finally ended its fight with the Soviet army in the suburbs and was regrouping its troops.

自7月以来第6集团损失将近4万多人，从顿河到伏尔加河的路上淌满了德国人的鲜血，但它依旧是拥有21个师、总兵力超过30万人的强大军团。

Even though Zhukov and others continued to attack Paulus's northern flank on the Don River in an attempt to hold back the 6th Army, Paulus was still able to gather more than 10 troops from 10 divisions to attack Stalingrad.

The 62nd Army and the 64th Army add up to only 9 people. The 62nd Army nominally has 12 divisions and 7 independent brigades. However, these divisions have suffered heavy losses in continuous operations. The weakest 229th Infantry Division has only 192 There are 87 guns, no heavy machine guns and no artillery, not even a normal infantry company in the German army.

The 244th Division with the strongest combat effectiveness has only 3685 people. Some internal affairs troops are enough, but they lack combat experience and heavy weapons.

Now the important task of guarding Stalingrad has completely come to the 62nd Group. However, not every commander has the courage and awareness to die for the country. A Soviet writer went to the Stalingrad Front Army Command to seek refuge. When I woke up one day, I found that the entire headquarters was gone. It turned out that the commander-in-chief Yemimenko and the political commissar Khrushchev led their men across the Volga River overnight.

The bosses all ran away, and Lopatin, the commander of the 62nd Army, who was in charge of the main defensive task, was beaten to the point of despair. He bluntly said that Stalingrad was over and could not be defended, so this important task was taken over by Lieutenant General Cuikov who rushed over.

When Chuikov entered Stalingrad on the 12th, there were wounded people carried out from the craters and ruins everywhere in his eyes. Obviously, many casualties were still caused by German air strikes and shelling.Even the headquarters of the 62nd Army Group on Mamayev Hill was constantly being bombarded. The dust in the eye makes people worry that the fundus of the eyes will be blown down after a while.

Cuikov had expected all this. He specially studied a strategy to limit the German artillery fire, and called it "embracing the enemy". When he gave the order to the troops the next day, the German army immediately launched The first major attack on Stalingrad.