As a result, the amphibious landing ships were commissioned only at night, and the entire process was kept strictly secret.

Confidentiality work is mainly the management of transportation routes and the starting and ending points.

From the warehouses of supplies on the east bank, to the sandbanks in the middle of the Volga, and finally to the storage warehouses in Stalingrad, all personnel were placed under martial law and protection.

This unit was the 33rd Guards Rifle Division...... The 33rd Guards Infantry Division was a direct subordinate unit of the 62nd Army, and every soldier was a well-known veteran, and anyone who had disappeared or left the unit without justifying it would be expelled from the unit.

Needless to say, that's why.

In actual combat, the Soviet army found that there were many soldiers who disappeared inexplicably, and then returned soldiers, in fact, it was not as simple as getting lost, getting separated, and then finding the troops.

In fact, some of them were captured by the Germans, and then they were left with evidence and handles, and then released to collect intelligence and carry out espionage activities for the German army.

During the war, it was difficult for the troops, even the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Army, to find out which of these people who returned to the troops afterwards had been taken prisoner and which were indeed just separated...... This was caused by the disorganized management of the Soviet army and the lack of identification, which was often just a soldier's badge that could easily be lost during the battle.

Therefore, the only way to ensure that a unit is free of spies is to kick out all the soldiers who have been separated and put them into another unit with a lower level of secrecy.

It's simple, crude, but effective.

For example, now, when the 62nd Army wants to keep it secret, there are still troops available...... The 33rd Guards Rifle Division was responsible for the secrecy of the new transport lines throughout Stalingrad.

The reason why it is said to be whole is because Golikov and Shulka, after consultation, opened two supply lines in Stalingrad.

Each of these two supply lines was carried out by 100 amphibious landing ships, which were divided into two lines, the northern and southern halves of Stalingrad, which were responsible for the supply of the northern half of the industrial zone and the southern half of the residential area.

The reason for this distribution is to make the supply more efficient.

There are factories in the northern half of the industrial area that can produce ammunition, so there is a greater shortage of food and ammunition.

The southern half of the residential area has a certain amount of food reserves, and there are bread workshops and the like, but ammunition needs to be transported from outside, so ammunition is even more scarce.

If only one transportation line is established, it will inevitably lead to the situation where supplies will be transported to the north or south, and then the supplies will be transported between the north and the south by secondary transportation.

On the contrary, after the establishment of the two transportation lines, although there are still more than 200 amphibious landing ships, they can be tilted according to the different needs and conditions of the north and south, so the efficiency of transporting supplies in place at one time has increased.

As I said before, Stalingrad at this time needed to make a careful calculation to grasp every bit of interest and opportunity.

As a result of the secrecy work, the soldiers stationed in Stalingrad found that the supply situation seemed to have improved, such as a noticeable increase in the ammunition of the front-line combat units, but strangely the Germans continued to bomb the Stalingrad transport lines around the clock.

There hasn't been much improvement in food for the time being.

This is not because the volume of transport is not enough to increase food rations.

In fact, more than 200 amphibious transport ships shuttled back and forth between the east and west coasts throughout the night, bringing supplies, not to mention completely changing the supply embarrassment, and appropriately increasing rations could still be done.

This also fully shows that the transportation effect of the amphibious landing ship is good, and its transportation efficiency can even be said to be seriously underestimated.

Even when the Germans were not blockaded, large transport ships would still have such a transportation process: the materials had to be transported by car from the warehouses on the east coast to the east coast ports, then loaded on ships at the east coast ports, then transported to the west coast ports, unloaded, and finally transported by car to the warehouses or in all directions.

Transporting supplies on an amphibious transport ship is different, these processes can be omitted, it is directly loaded from the East Coast warehouse, and then transported directly to the West Bank target warehouse in one go.

Of course, in order to minimize the time to cross the Volga, the Soviet troops set up temporary storage points on both banks.

In other words, although the volume of amphibious transport ships is not large, most of them are the size of lifeboats, but the actual transportation efficiency is very considerable.

However, in order to be able to carry out strategic deception against the enemy, that is, to convince the Germans that the supply situation at Stalingrad was getting worse and worse, the soldiers' rations were not only not improving, but getting worse.

This, of course, was also the result of Shulka's discussions with Golikov.

"Our soldiers will inevitably be captured by the enemy!" "The Germans will know from them about our supplies, and if they know that our soldiers' rations have improved, they may be suspicious of our supplies," Shulka said. Otherwise, if the soldiers' rations get worse and worse, they will think that the current blockade is correct, and at the same time think that they can completely strangle them in the city and continue or even strengthen the blockade if they only need to work harder! ”

"So ...... ammunition"

"The impact of ammunition is too great!" Shulka replied: "Reducing ammunition may have the goal of deceiving the enemy, or even better, but it will increase the casualties of our troops, and I don't think it's worth it." And, we can find a good reason...... The supply of ammunition is due to the fact that we have increased the production of the factory area! ”

"That's right!" Golikov nodded: "Actually, we did!" ”

At this time, Major Akimovich handed two loaves of bread to the two men and said: "I suppose this strategic deception does not apply to us!" ”

"Of course!" Shulka unceremoniously took the bread and stuffed it into his mouth.

He was so hungry that he was a little dizzy when he walked, and he didn't want to continue tossing himself like this...... It wasn't until I was starved that I realized that other difficulties were nothing compared to hunger.

As the saying goes, "a full man doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry", and it is difficult for people who have not been hungry to understand the feeling of being so hungry that they are so hungry that they are weak.

As soon as it was dark, all the transport tasks stopped.

In fact, for fear of being discovered by the Germans, the transport mission was stopped half an hour before dawn, and the transport, regardless of whether the transport ship was on the east or west coast at this time, or in transit, had to return to the nearest concentration point and hide itself.

(Note: The 33rd Guards Infantry Division set up three concentration points, which were the starting point, the end point, and the sandbar in the middle of the river.) ）

As the German bombers "rumbled" into the sky, the Soviet army's deception plan during the day was also activated.