The Germans were determined to win Stalingrad, from top to bottom.

Qin Chuan can understand their thoughts, after all, in principle, the German army has launched a counteroffensive from Kharkov...... In fact, it should be said that since the Battle of the Crimean Peninsula has been fought very smoothly, the Soviet army has always been annihilated by the German army in waves, even if the Soviet army's strength and equipment are several times that of the German army, which also makes the Soviet army's strength advantage in the south facing the German army is disappearing, and even the comparison of forces has reversed, that is, the total strength of the Soviet army in the south is weaker than the German army.

Of course, the Germans were more numerous than the Soviets only with the addition of the armies of the client states.

Therefore, German officers and soldiers will take it for granted...... It was not difficult to take Stalingrad, which had only 90,000 men.

But Qin Chuan was not so optimistic, because he knew that Stalingrad would become a veritable meat grinder in history, and in more than five months of continuous tug-of-war, the Soviet and German armies would suffer more than two million casualties near the city.

However, there is at least one thing that Qin Chuan thinks is beneficial to this battle...... He captured the fortress of Sevastopol and the Kerch Peninsula for the Germans on the Crimean Peninsula, freeing up the air force to reinforce Army Group South to launch an early offensive, which bought the Germans almost a month.

To put it simply, it's June, six months instead of five months before December begins.

Can this month change the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad?

Qin Chuan was not sure, because he knew that the Battle of Stalingrad was not a city from beginning to end, but the German army against the Soviet Union's two fronts: there was a Stalingrad Front in the north that was constantly delaying and attrition the German army, and there was a Southeast Front in the east that was constantly injecting fresh blood into Stalingrad through the Volga River like adding oil, and the artillery of the Southeast Front was still shelling Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga River, but the German army was helpless against these enemy artillery on the other side of the river.

Therefore, although the Germans eventually occupied 80 percent of Stalingrad, there was no guarantee that they would be able to occupy all of them in one month.

What's more, the Germans also fell into a trap that was almost unsolvable...... Since the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the fundamental reason why the German army has been able to defeat the superior Soviet army again and again with inferior troops and equipment is that the German army has good quality and rich combat experience, while the Soviet army is a recruit who has hardly fought a war, and the commander is basically blind command.

However, with the war stalemate in a tug-of-war between you and me, although the Germans still had the upper hand in this tug-of-war, a question inevitably arises:

More and more soldiers of the German army with quality and combat experience are dying on the battlefield, and they are supplemented by recruits who have basically no combat experience or even less than three months of training...... Since the Battle of Moscow, in order to quickly replenish the troops on the Eastern Front, the German army's previous training camp system has existed in name only, because the recruits no longer enter the training camp first to take on the second line or lighter tasks as before, adapt to a period of time and then enter the first line of operations, but directly from the rear to replenish the front-line troops to fight.

Because of this, the troops attacking with the Germans this time included the troops of many client states, and even Hort's 4th Panzer Army had more than a third of the Romanian army.

In other words, the quality and combat effectiveness of the German army were inevitably reduced due to the inability of personnel replenishment to keep up with attrition.

On the contrary, the Soviet army has been learning from the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness has been constantly improving.

Under the advantages of the other, the gap in combat effectiveness between the Soviet and German armies is gradually narrowing, and the German army may become more and more difficult to fight in the future.

Of course, the good news was that the Germans succeeded in taking Baku, which gradually reduced the Soviet Union's war energy. Otherwise, perhaps even Qinchuan would not be able to resist the attack of the sea of tanks after the Soviet army moved to the east to resume production.

"Major!" I don't know when Colonel Slane sat next to Qin Chuan.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan wanted to get up and salute, but was stopped by Colonel Slane.

"What do you seem to be worried about?" Colonel Slein asked, "Do you know?" Seeing you look like this is what makes me the most terrifying, because almost everything you say has come true! ”

"That's just a coincidence!" Qin Chuan replied.

"Are you worried about Stalingrad?" Colonel Slane asked.

Qin Chuan nodded: "Stalingrad is different from any city we have captured before!" ”

"Yes!" Colonel Slein nodded in agreement: "The point is that it is Stalingrad, a city named after Stalin, so it can be imagined...... Stalin will defend it like Moscow! ”

"I have a question, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "We have the experience of the defeat of the Moscow Campaign, why will the Battle of Stalingrad not be like the Moscow Campaign?" I mean, why don't they learn the lessons of failure? ”

This is what Qin Chuan has always wondered about in his modern study of German history: how similar the German defeats in the Battle of Moscow and Stalin were because of the onset of winter...... If the Battle of Moscow was the result of the Soviets' conscious efforts to clear the German army into depth and clear the walls, then why did the Battle of Stalingrad make the same mistake? At the very least, the Germans will prepare a few more sets of cotton clothes before winter comes!

But none of this happened, and the German soldiers were still frozen in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Colonel Slain couldn't help sighing, casually handed Qin Chuan half a bottle of vodka in his hand, and then looked at Stalingrad in the distance under the sunset, and replied: "Greed, Major, because of greed." All of us know that we are short of supplies, and we all know that it will not be a few months before the cold winter will come again. But...... All of them will think that they can solve the enemy with a little ammunition and win the final victory, so they would rather transport ammunition than cotton clothes to protect against the cold! ”

Hearing this, Qin Chuan understood that in fact, the Battle of Moscow should be like this...... Either cotton clothes or ammunition, the German top command chose the latter.

"I hope this time!" Colonel Slane said, "It will be different from the last time!" ”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan picked up the wine bottle and took a sip and said, "I hope it will be different!" ”

Of course, Colonel Slein didn't know that Qin Chuan actually meant ...... "I hope it's different from history."