As soon as Krylov received information about the loss of the sandbank, he immediately reported it to Chuikov.

"Comrade Chuikov!" Krylov said: "The sandbar is lost! ”

Chuikov, who was looking at the map, just hummed and nodded casually, his defense area, that is, Stalingrad, did not have a sandbar at all, so he took it for granted that the sandbar in the defensive part of the 64th Army or the Southeastern Army was lost, so he didn't pay attention to it...... The German 4th Panzer Army, while attacking the 64th Army, made several unsuccessful attempts to cross the Volga.

After a pause, Chuikov turned his gaze to the lower reaches of the Volga and asked: "Where is it?" ”

Krylov pointed to a point on the map, and Chuikov raised his head in surprise with an incredulous expression on his face: "Are you sure you are not mistaken, Comrade Krylov?" It's a sandbar in our hinterland! ”

Krylov nodded with certainty: "I have confirmed, Comrade Chuikov!" ”

"When did it happen?" Chuikov's face became very ugly.

"Just this morning!"

"But it's just dawn!"

"Yes!" Krylov replied: "They just attacked at the moment of dawn and then took ...... there"

"But how do they attack?" "This sandbar is almost surrounded by us, did they fly into it?" ”

"Comrade Chuikov!" Krylov replied with difficulty: "They did fly in, according to the surviving soldiers...... The Germans had a strange kind of plane, they could hover in the air, and then the enemy would slide down the rope from the hovering plane. Although they did not have many troops, only two hundred, but you know, Comrade Chuikov, we are fortified areas, sappers and artillery on the sandbank......"

I don't need to go into details.

Chuikov's face was pale, he knew what that meant, the sandbar was another Mamayev post, to be exact, a sandbar that could play a more effective blockade of the central ferry port and even the whole of Stalingrad.

Sure enough, in the next second, all kinds of information came from the staff officer:

"The central ferry was hit by the enemy's precision artillery fire and suffered heavy losses!"

"The convoy was bombed by the enemy, three ships were sunk!"

……

After thinking about it, Chuikov called the command of the Southeastern Front.

At this time, Yeremenko, who commanded the overall situation of the South-Eastern Front, was also busy, so the staff officer handed over the call to the political commissar Khrushchev.

"I know what you want to say, Comrade Chuikov!" Khrushchev took the phone and did not wait for Chuikov to speak, but preemptively said: "We know the importance of the sandbar for Stalingrad, you can rest assured, we will solve this problem!" ”

Khrushchev was confident in this, because he was a survivor of the Soviet army...... Not survivors exactly, but cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death, cowards, the shame of the USSR, especially when Khrushchev knew that the Germans who attacked the sandbar were only two hundred.

"You are seven times outnumbered by the enemy!" Khrushchev angrily scolded the Soviet soldiers who were like chickens in soup: "Even you who have fled back are more than the Germans, you just need to take up arms and bravely charge at the Germans, they will be vulnerable, but you have chosen to flee and let the Germans occupy the sandbar and lay a nail between us and Stalingrad!" ”

Enraged, Khrushchev mercilessly put all these soldiers into the punishment camp.

In fact, when analyzing this issue objectively, Khrushchev's statement and approach are unfair: it should be said that the soldiers are not much wrong in this matter, the artillery has no infantry training, let alone actual combat experience, and they are not even equipped enough, but they are fighting against the German army armed to the teeth, so there is no such thing as Khrushchev said, "As long as you bravely launch a charge, you can defeat the enemy", which is obviously standing and talking without backache.

This was more of a mistake on the part of the Soviet Union's top command and intelligence...... After all, this is in the Soviet Union, and there are Soviet civilians everywhere who will report the situation to the Soviet army, and the German "Dragon" helicopters have been trained in the Don River for more than a month, and these helicopters are still flying in the sky, and it is difficult to hide.

So, on more than one occasion, the Soviets received reports from the civilian population that the Germans had a strange plane. But it has not been able to attract the attention of the top brass of the Soviet army...... They take it for granted that the people are making it up because they are afraid or want to be rewarded.

If the Soviet military top brass had paid a little attention and sent some scouts and intelligence officers to reconnoiter or confirm, then the situation might have been completely different.

Of course, the Soviet top brass would not blame themselves for the problem, and they had a good excuse that "as long as the soldiers are brave enough, they can win any battle."

As soon as Khrushchev put down the phone, he suggested to Yeremenko: "The enemy is only two hundred men, and we should take advantage of the fact that they are not on the ground to drown them in our offensive!" ”

Yeremenko certainly agreed with Khrushchev, partly because the Soviets' battle plans were usually simple and crude, and partly because Yeremenko was worried that if he continued to wait like this, not only would Stalingrad not survive, but the Germans would use that strange plane to continue to transport troops to the sandbar to increase their strength.

So, without saying a word, Yeremenko immediately transferred two artillery regiments to bombard the sandbar, and on the other hand, an antiaircraft artillery regiment was deployed to block the airspace on the east bank near the sandbar.

At the same time, Yeremenko actively organized troops and ships to prepare for the landing on the sandbar.

At least one of these three steps implemented by Yeremenko is effective...... Anti-aircraft artillery regiments blockaded the airspace over the sandbar.

Of course, this blockade does not mean a blockade of German fighters and bombers, and unless the anti-aircraft artillery of this era has the kind of "proximity fuse shells" that Qin Chuan has put out, it can only be said that it can be said that it depends on luck to hit targets flying at high speed in the air.

The problem was that the helicopters were flying too slowly, so Yeremenko's approach made it impossible for the Germans to use helicopters to send reinforcements to the sandbank.

In fact, Qin Chuan had already thought of this in advance.

After all, on the east bank was a whole front of the Soviets, and at the same time the Soviets were not fools, they would certainly blockade the sandbar and launch a fierce attack at the first opportunity.

Therefore, the battle was far from stopping for Qin Chuan and the others.

It should be said that this is just the beginning!