The Soviet rout became out of control, and the three attack directions to North attack force were pushed back by the most elite SS armored division of the German army, which suffered heavy losses, not to mention losing about 4 meters of defensive positions in depth; The troops who tried to seize the train to the west attacked for 9 meters and were forced to stop moving forward. Then the German counterattacked as scheduled, but in the end they returned to their original starting place and lost three soldiers and 16 tanks.
The situation of the two elite Soviet infantry divisions that attacked the north was slightly better. These troops withstood the crazy attack of German troops and eventually killed 19 people. The cost was pushed forward by 1 meter-but compared with before the attack, the Soviet attempt to expand the vertical width of the Volga River was shortened by about 3 meters due to the subsequent battle.
A counterattack lasted only three hours, from the Soviet attack at 11: 00 noon to the German counterattack at 12: 00 noon until 2: 00 noon. The Soviet army lost a full seven people and lost some blocks and positions instead.
Almost 17 German soldiers were killed, including 3 Ukrainian soldiers. This loss made kuechler give up his plan to continue his assault. Once again, three brand-new Ukrainian infantry divisions replaced the front line to chat, but it was very effective and continued to play his game.
Chapter 6 7 Supplementary Troops
In the Soviet headquarters, rokossovsky listened to the German guns and smiled bitterly. He poured himself a glass of vodka, and now his suffering is his own. He knows that the Stalingrad war in his eyes has come to an end in kuechler’s counterattack this time.
The old method is not necessarily the backward method, otherwise there will not be so many people studying Sun’s art of war, which is an antique more than 2,000 years ago. It is proved that what Sun studied and summarized 2,500 years ago is worthy of repeated scrutiny even in the 21st century.
I learned something from Zeng Guofan, a stubborn old man in the Manchu government, which was in line with the status quo of the German army. It is perfectly normal that Zeng Guofan’s sentence "hard camp to fight" made the surprise attack penetrate into a bubble, and the chaotic street fighting became orderly, which lost more than half of the original street fighting power.
Kuechler transformed the German army into trench warfare, which the Germans didn’t fully adapt to. This kind of thing was played by the French for four years in the first war, and it was precisely because of this change in the nature of the battlefield that the Germans reduced their losses and felt like they were at home.
A German train near Stalingrad West Temporary Station slowly stopped to be clean and tidy, and well-dressed Ukrainian soldiers came out of the carriage. These soldiers were just recruited from Ukraine, and after a short training, they were sent to the most cruel battlefield in the world.
These Ukrainian soldiers wearing helmets and black SS uniforms just got off the train and saw a platform full of Ukrainian wounded. These wounded soldiers were all wrapped in thick bandages and screamed as they waited for the train.
After all, not everyone has the treatment to enjoy Ma Fei, an advanced painkiller. Most soldiers only use it during amputation, and during the long recovery period, they can get through these crazy and tragic times by shouting.
Less than a month after coming out of the farm or village, the young Ukrainian boys simply lined up and walked outside the train, but most of them stood in front of their legs and looked at the wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs curiously.
Without war, a person will not die. Maybe there will be robot-to-robot wars in the future, but this kind of thing has not happened before 1939. On whether the two sides cut each other in the ancient battlefield or the two sides shelled each other in modern history, there will eventually be dead people and wounded soldiers.
It is natural that wounded soldiers in such a tragic battlefield in Stalingrad are the most common, but the scenery can be seen everywhere in the field hospital, and the buried place behind the thighs can often be seen that cars full of dead bodies pass by the gate.
The proportion of Ukrainian soldiers killed here is quite large. It is said that this probability once reached half. These young recruits who are recruited from the rear to the front are generally thrown into the most dangerous battlefield by veterans. Only those who can survive will have a chance to survive the next day or the third day.
Not far away, those Ukrainian wounded soldiers were slightly injured by the Germans and doctors and nurses carried the train. All Ukrainian recruits had a look of fear on their faces. After all, they had never experienced real cruel fighting. Now it is really demoralizing to let them see what will happen in the future.
"all right! Stop looking at those soldiers! Comparatively speaking, they are lucky enough to get more land and settle down. "Taiwan encourages everyone to fight bravely. Ukrainian officers seem to have become numb and shouted to these recruits," Good queue! You will be assigned to various units later! Everyone can get paper and pens late and write to their families. "
Another Ukrainian staff officer also confirmed over and over again whether his work was completed. "Is there anyone who hasn’t made a will?" Is there anyone who has no family? Does anyone else need to make a will! Need someone to come to me! "
The whole station is in chaos. Ukrainian soldiers are pushing the platform. The gate is divided into several narrow exits. These exits can get out of one person at a time. Outside the barbed wire, there are registration offices and German officers. They will randomly add the recorded Ukrainian soldiers to the Ukrainian troops who suffered heavy losses at the front.
"Everyone can get a box of cans! You will have a very rich dinner tonight. "A German officer’s wooden box passed by Ukrainian youths with his feet pointed." The Fuehrer gave Ukraine hope! We want the Fuhrer to fight! Overthrow Stalin’s evil rule! "
The military orchestra chatted in the distance and repeated magnificent music. Whenever a supplementary train arrived, they would play the music that had been repeated several times. A Ukrainian women’s choir played the lyrics. It was not the Fuehrer that Ukraine shed blood.
After being taken away by their respective supplementary troops, these Ukrainian youths finally felt the tense battlefield atmosphere. The German tanks on the roadside were covered with camouflage nets to prevent anti-aircraft guns, and the German large-caliber guns were constantly shelled in the fields.
They entered the material supply camp at the rear of their respective troops and then were assigned to tents. Individuals were not allowed to put them in these tents. Because these tents still needed a batch of recruits to continue to make them rest and exercise normally. They practiced around the nearby roads and visited the powerful large-caliber artillery of the German army to shell enemy positions. Before dinner, they wanted to listen to representatives from their hometown reading the happy life of their hometown. This is an ideological education with German characteristics.
"Check your weapons carefully!" The next morning, these soldiers had a sumptuous dinner composed of canned meat and vegetables and mashed potatoes. After a happy night’s sleep, Ji Du forgot the train and saw the tragic scene. At this time, they would take their rifles to the school to check whether the weapons assigned to them were qualified.
These guns have a unified number, which can be traced to the manufacturer. Once there is a problem, the production process can be traced back. After everyone checks, the workers will generally be very smooth. Because the structure of Mao Se 9k rifle is simple, the output is very large and the reliability is very high.
Then the recruits will learn their last lesson before going to the battlefield. A German grenadier explained in detail all kinds of problems that may be encountered in the battlefield. "The first point! Keep your heads as low as possible! This will ensure that the bullet will not hit your vital parts! If you can choose, I hope you will try your best to greet the bullet with your arms or backpacks, not your heads! "
As he spoke, he held out a second finger. "The second point! After being shot, try to find shelter, bodies and rubble piles, and corners! Then call the medic loudly, unless you really can’t move, try not to stop, which will make you an enemy target! "
Then he held out his third finger and continued to shout, "Stick to the wall! Listen to your commander! Get along with your comrades! Don’t smoke at night or you’ll be screened! ……”
Everyone is holding their guns and listening to the German German. They are not tired of muttering there. Ukraine translates a word and explains a word. In a farther place, a man dressed in a Vatican costume is bald, and all the recruits keep praying. He said that the prayers were not clear to everyone, but most people still followed the man’s chest with a cross.
Finally, the front-line troops were sent to get additional soldiers, and some grass-roots officers roared, "This row of people got up! Come with me! The army number is the 33rd Infantry Division of Ukraine! Don’t get confused! 33rd division! Understand? "
There are people over there who are also hysterically shouting, "You will be the heroes of the 4 th Division of Ukraine in the future! We are the most elite troops! We beat back those damn Soviets once! We have never failed! Cheer up, everyone! Say you! "
"Do you think these recruits can really consume a large number of Soviet soldiers?" A German school officer asked a fellow artillery commander behind him while shaving in front of his tent.
"Half of them will die in the front, and half of them will be injured and disabled." The artillery school made a so-called expression. "But if they don’t go, we Germans and our young people will go all out. I still hope that these Ukrainians can end this war quickly."
He glanced at the infantry school that took part in the attack yesterday and said with a smile, "I heard that your army played well yesterday. General kuechler praised you by name and said that he would give you an iron cross?"
"95 people were killed in my hands and they should get a medal," said the shaving school, looking vaguely at the Ukrainian recruits assigned to various frontline troops in the distance. "Every soldier who has experienced this hellish battle should have his own medal!"
Make up the second watch! Dragon spirit has been mended! Keep your word!
Chapter 7 Strategic Choice
"Comrade zhukov! Before making such a decision, I need you to really understand what you do and say. "Stalin stared at his confidence and said in a leisurely tone. When he spoke, his distinctive big beard trembled and looked dignified.
Zhukov swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at Stalin’s eyes, finally crustily skin of head and explained, "Comrade Stalin, I was sent to the Far East by your special permission, and I made this plan only after you helped me personally."
He wiped his forehead with a handkerchief and then said to Stalin in a trembling voice, "The plan of transferring the main force of 25 divisions to the south is our only backhand chance now. If this plan stops the German attack again, then I think you really have to consider the worst result."
"The worst result?" Stalin seemed to ask himself and zhukov, but he didn’t wait for zhukov to tell the answer, because he dared not tell those terrible results in front of Stalin by lending him zhukov.
The worst result is to lose the war, which is unacceptable to the Soviet Union, but the most fatal result is that it is even more unacceptable to Stalin personally.
If the Soviet Union accepts defeat, it will admit that the German occupation area is very legitimate, and the whole Soviet Union will abandon its original road and go into the capitalist family-the whole country will fall into turmoil and become a poor and backward area.
Of course, Stalin’s personal field may be even more miserable. As far as the whole nation is concerned, he may be the first foreign leader to lose his territory and surrender. This crime is enough for him to bear the most despised leader in the short history of the Soviet Union.
What is even more frightening is that his political opponents who were exiled to Siberia will show him liquidation. Germany, a powerful opponent, supports the liquidation of Stalin. His other field will definitely be more miserable than losing his strength and losing his life.
"I won’t give up my hand, Comrade zhukov." Stalin looked at his hand. He was in a mixed mood because he used to be the most powerful man in this country, but now he must bear the whole country to face more powerful invaders.
"Because of that, I will be framed by traitors and shameful villains. I can’t give my life to these people to comment on your white? I am the most loyal to Comrade zhukov. "Stalin finally thought about it before saying to zhukov," Are you white? "
Zhukov: Of course, since he got the news, he had met him. Marshal voroshilov was killed in the Crimean Peninsula, and he knew that Comrade Stalin, the great Soviet leader, could not betray him in form. If he was absolutely in control and power, he could not be questioned.
"Comrade Stalin, the great leader, I know what you mean and I support your idea." zhukov immediately expressed his attitude. "I have never wavered in my loyalty to you. The current situation is very unfavorable to us, but I firmly believe that you will lead us to a decisive victory in the end."
After expressing his heartfelt wishes, he said that he wanted to win the command of the operation. "Our armored forces must be in the middle and south, and the oil reserves in hand are enough to pre-empt a battle and consume the main German forces near Stalingrad, so that we can have vitality!"
Zhukov already has a lot of detailed information in his hand. He is sure that Marshal rundstedt, the German marshal, and General Kruger, the A regiment and the F regiment don’t have much oil in their hands. These information have been repeatedly confirmed through many channels. zhukov thinks that this is not a cave.
Then he boldly came up with a way, a way that he thought was very feasible, that is, in this situation, he took the initiative to build up troops and fight a strategic decisive battle with the superior troops in the southern region first-as a result, the Soviet Union was able to choose the best countermeasures.
The Soviet Union’s current response is not a delaying tactic, hoping that the war will be delayed until its own supplementary soldiers are in place before the strategic decisive battle. However, this delaying tactic was seen through by the Germans, and Stalingrad made the strategy of rapid decisive battle.
This has created a terrible fact that once the German army has completed its strategic deployment, even if the Soviet army finally forms a military advantage, it will be able to gain a head start in future wars-what if Baku Oilfield has lost tens of millions of tanks?
Moreover, Stalingrad’s feedback proves a terrible fact, that is, the fact that the Germans have been avoiding urban street fighting is not that the Germans have maintained their own advantages in the process of fighting less, which makes the Soviet Union lose more in actual combat than expected.
Once the Soviets have lost too much in the defensive war, it is really unknown what they can do by waiting for additional soldiers. It is better to think of a better way to deal with a series of changes in the front line than to wait and die.
So zhukov drew up a bold defense plan. He decided to hand over the defense front to the recruits and infantry to form a mixed corps to hold off rundstedt and Kruger’s German A and F regiments, and then the main armored forces quickly formed an absolute advantage over the Germans in the south and south
Then hit the German G regiment and N regiment from the flank to complete the attack plan, save Stalingrad and make the German South regiment feel pressure to give up the strategic plan to attack Baku oilfield.
In the southern line, Chinese and Soviet tanks formed a secret battle group to attack the German exhibition, biting their teeth and gnawing at the main forces of the southern line of the German army to defeat the attempt of the German southern theater to seize Baku oil field. zhukov believed that only in this way could the Soviet Union continue to maintain and maintain the present situation
Since waiting for additional troops is to gain military superiority, isn’t it simpler and faster to actively adjust troops to form a larger local superior force? This is zhukov’s idea that before the superior forces started the southern counterattack.
"Without Moscow, everything will be shaken by those who oppose me. If I am doomed, you will be killed with me, because in the eyes of those people, you are already my loyal hand." Stalin stared at zhukov and didn’t seem to hear his analysis of the war situation. He stated, "You can’t leave me or you will be a dead word. Do you really think it is fun to lose Moscow?"
Of course, this is not a fun thing, especially for Stalin himself. His ruling base is Moscow, and his personal prestige also depends on the control of important cities such as Moscow. Now, if one of these cities is lost casually, it will be a blow to his personal prestige.
Opposing others to make a fuss about this is not terrible. It is terrible that the Soviet Union will have cracks in its headquarters. This is what Stalin fears most. This is why he insists that the Soviet Union must defend Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.
"If Comrade Stalin loses Moscow, you will lose some of your prestige. You only need the army and we can continue to fight in the motherland, so everything can be saved." zhukov didn’t know where he got the courage to stare at Stalin. "But once we lose oil, we will lose everything. At that time, let alone a few cities, and eventually we will lose the whole Soviet Union!"
Stalin certainly knew that the present situation was in a dilemma. In private, he once regretted his exultation, but he couldn’t resist the temptation of his men to push Khrushchev and voroshilov to the front line, which led to the Polish rout. In private, he also felt that it was very ignorant to force the zhukov Winter Exhibition to fight back against the Germans. But a leader would not admit these things, and he would not easily lower his head high.
He once asked himself what the German head of state could get unexpected results every time he intervened in military affairs. And he, the great leader of the Soviet Union, always makes the ending more pessimistic every time he reaches into the military field. Unfortunately, there will be no answer to this question, right? Unless Stalin himself admits that he is not as good as that damn head of state in Germany, but this is obviously impossible
Thinking of Stalin, the head of state, seemed to think of something. He looked at zhukov and finally agreed to this attack plan. "Since you, a special military commander, think it is good to do so, I will support your plan. I hope you can win this final battle. Go and drive the Germans out of the Soviet Union!"
When he said this, his fist was clenched tightly. The Fuehrer could be good to his generals, and so could Stalin. Since Stalin and arcado of Germany were destined to be rivals, he had to give himself enough play in the last battle, just like the German generals!
Chapter 9 Hesitation
"Blare … blare …!" In the middle of the night, Moscow zhukov was awakened by a piercing alarm bell, and he hurried to the living room. The guards were also busy preparing to protect their target, zhukov, from this luxurious house.
"What’s the matter? What’s the matter? " Zhukov looked at his hand in horror. He was not frightened by the sudden alarm, but flashed several possibilities in his mind after the attack
He carefully planned a counter-attack plan, and several pieces of information proved that the Germans were short of oil. This breakthrough point of drawing up a war plan has now been passively shaken, and even he himself has questioned it. What’s worse, he will be skeptical about this information. Stalin?
How did the German bombers come? Is the German army short of fuel in the north-central theater of the Eastern Front? These problems appeared in zhukov’s mind, which made him doubt whether the information in his hand was correct or not, and he was worried that Stalin would waver in the South War plan.
Is this a way for the Germans to confuse him and stop him from going to war in the south, or is it because the Germans have enough oil to show both North and South offensive wars at the same time? Zhukov felt that his mind was at sixes and sevens, and he actually had a sense of vertigo.
In the silent night, the Soviet anti-aircraft gun positions were crazy, and the 5 mm anti-aircraft gun was fighting back desperately. All Soviet soldiers knew that behind them was their motherland’s capital, the sacred and inviolable great leader Stalin Kremlin.
One anti-aircraft artillery shell after another was hit to the sky by a slender barrel, and then the place with a set height exploded to light up the scenery around the sky. Then all Soviet anti-aircraft artillery units were horrified to see that the dense German bombers flew higher than the set explosion height of Soviet anti-aircraft artillery shells.
It seems that the Germans have no intention of dropping bombs, so most of the Soviet anti-aircraft guns pose a threat to the German bomber group. Bombs will be thrown out of the bomb bay of German planes in Moscow one after another.