At this time, Stalin even thought of Shulka.

"Breakout Heroes" to be exact.

This is actually very normal, the "breakthrough hero" has led the encircled troops to break out of the encirclement again and again, and now the Soviet army has hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded by the German army and are still elite troops, so the conditioned reflex is to hope for a breakthrough and then think of the "breakthrough hero".

At this time, Stalin actually had plans to call Shulka, but he couldn't let go of this face.

You must know that this attack was proposed under the opposition of the vast majority of officers, especially Stalin who excluded Zhukov, Rokossovsky and other heroes and left Timoshenko in command of this crucial battle...... At the same time, Zhukov and others had a good relationship with Shulka, and it could even be said that they were in a group.

During this time when Shulka was suspected, Zhukov and Rokossovsky did not say a lot of good things for Shulka.

Therefore, the invocation of Shulka almost meant that Stalin confessed his mistake to Zhukov and other officers.

This was difficult for Stalin to accept, so he held on to a fluke mentality, hoping that Timoshenko would command the troops to break through or even change this decline.

But the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.

Within a few days of Stalin's hesitation, the Germans completely closed the encirclement.

In the next 10 days of breakout, only 22,000 people stood out.

The end result was that the Germans traded 20,000 casualties for 75,000 Soviet casualties and 239,000 prisoners.

And that's not the worst, the Soviets had a lot of soldiers, and the loss of 300,000 people was not enough to break the bones.

The problem is that the gateway from Kharkov to Stalingrad is wide open and there are almost no troops to defend...... Even if there are soldiers, they are remnants and weak soldiers who have retreated from the front line.

(Note: The Soviet army used the elite for the front-line offensive, and most of the second-line and defensive units were poorly combat-effective, had little combat experience, or even had just been drafted, and they were almost a head-off when they fought against the wolf-like German army)

So Stalingrad immediately felt the danger here.

It was the fifth day of the encirclement of the front-line troops, and with a sharp air defense siren, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns sounded right around Stalingrad.

Almost simultaneously, at least fifty German bombers, under the cover of fighters, flew over Stalingrad.

Then, needless to say, there was a bomb whistle, and black smoke rose from Stalingrad.

Shulka and Kalashnikov stood at the door of the basement, silently watching the flames and black smoke rising in the distance, the fire trucks scurrying along the street with their screeching whistles, and the screams and cries of the people.

The Germans did not bomb the tractor plant.

Shulka believed that this was due to the lack of German fighters and bombers, after all, they were still trying to prevent the Soviet army from breaking through.

The lack of bombers forced the Germans to devote their limited air power to the most valuable targets, such as power stations, railway stations, airfields, arsenals, etc.

And the tractor plant ...... While it's just as important, it's just too big, and the target isn't clear and the hit rate isn't high, so it's a secondary target.

"You've guessed it right again!" Kalashnikov put away his binoculars and exclaimed: "Their goal is Stalingrad, they should have listened to your thoughts a long time ago!" ”

"Now it's useless to say this, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka said: "What matters now is supplies! ”

With that, Shulka ordered his subordinates in the basement behind him: "Move quickly, continue your work!" ”

The soldiers answered, trotting out of the basement and back to their posts.

Cars laden with supplies drove into the warehouse, and then empty cars came out of another exit.

Ever since the front-line troops were surrounded by the Germans, Stalingrad was in a brief period of abundance...... The supplies can't be transported, and all of them are backlogged here.

It was then that Sisoy realized the prescient nature of Shulka's original advice.

"Comrade Shulka!" "It's hard to believe that you've seen these things happen, your warehouses are coming in handy, we have a lot of supplies and equipment that we don't have anywhere to store," Sisoy said. ”

"I'm ready!" Shulka replied: "Also, Comrade Sisoy...... Can I provide my troops with better equipment and more ammunition? ”

"Of course, Comrade Shulka!" Sisoy replied without thinking: "There are so many of them that there is no place to store them, and if the Germans drop a few bombs, they will blow them up into the sky!" So, why not? ”

This is also what Shulka wanted to say, instead of having these pieces of equipment piled up there and blown up by the enemy, why not distribute them to the soldiers?

As a result, the 82nd Infantry Regiment was immediately provided with sufficient equipment and ammunition, including mountains of rocket launchers, submachine guns, and mortars...... You can almost say that you want what you want.

Of course, such heavy equipment as the T34 tank is not among them.

In fact, even if Sisoy was willing to give Shulka a ...... On the one hand, it is because tanks are difficult to control in urban warfare, and tanks are almost a target without close infantry and tank coordination, which requires a long period of training to do. On the other hand, the 82nd Infantry Regiment did not have a crew to drive the tank at all, so even if it got the tank, it was just a piece of scrap metal.

But to this extent, the soldiers were already dancing with excitement...... For a soldier, being able to get good equipment is to give his life more security, or a little more psychological security, and no one will not like this.

As a result, submachine guns, machine guns, etc., were soon replenished into the 82nd Infantry Regiment in large quantities.

Many of these soldiers tried to replace their rifles with submachine guns, but Shulka stopped them.

Many soldiers were puzzled by this.

"Comrade Captain!" Valery asked: "Since we have so many submachine guns, and at the same time we need submachine guns for urban street fighting, why not equip them more?" ”

There is some truth in this, urban street battles are often not too far from the enemy, the range of the submachine gun is sufficient, and the rate of fire of the submachine gun is much faster than that of the rifle, so the submachine gun is indeed more advantageous.

But the problem is precisely the rate of fire, because a fast rate of fire means a fast bullet consumption.

"Logistics, Valery!" Shulka said: "Have you calculated how much ammunition we need to fight a battle if we have a submachine gun each?" A regiment may consume an ammunition depot in a day! ”

Valery stuck out his tongue, as a newly promoted battalion commander, he really didn't think about this problem.