"It's hard to find an effective way to deal with this tactic!" Qin Chuan replied.

Qin Chuan didn't lie, he knew that this was the famous urban guerrilla tactic, making the enemy feel like he was punching out but not hitting the mud.

Urban guerrilla warfare is not very different from jungle guerrilla warfare, the difference is that the former is in the ruins of the city, while the latter is in the jungle.

If there were any tactics that could deal well with guerrilla warfare, then the great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union would not have been mired in Vietnam and Afghanistan in modern times.

Of course, if the enemy is a veteran of guerrilla warfare, that's a different story.

For example, in the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam, the Chinese army used guerrilla warfare against guerrilla warfare and special operations against special operations.

However......

Not to mention that the German army was more suited to fighting regular warfare than guerrilla warfare, even if the German army, with its high quality, adapted itself to this new tactic of fighting guerrilla warfare with the Soviet army, it would have been a long war with heavy casualties.

However, the German army in Stalingrad could not afford to spend or wait, because when winter came, it did not even need to enter winter, but only when the temperature dropped in October, the German army would have a decline in combat effectiveness due to the lack of cold equipment.

(Note: The average temperature in Stalingrad in October is 4-12 degrees, and in November the temperature begins to freeze when the temperature reaches minus zero.)

"Uh-huh!" Listening to Qin Chuan's words, Major General Wittsheim spread his hands disapprovingly and said, "Major, you said that last time, but in the end you still found a way to deal with it, although you call it a 'stupid method'!" ”

Qin Chuan could only smile bitterly.

What Major General Wietersheim didn't know was that the last time Qin Chuan called the "lattice tactic" a stupid method, part of the reason was that he knew that this tactic would not solve Stalingrad's problems, and he also knew that the battle at Stalingrad would translate into this war of attrition.

It's a bit like World War I.

In the First World War, because there were no tanks, the enemy and the enemy only had to dig trenches, lay barbed wire and mines in front of the trenches, and then set up machine guns in the trenches and artillery on the second line......

Such a line of defense can almost be said to be invincible, as long as there is enough ammunition, no matter how many people come up, they will become corpses.

As a result, it evolved into a stalemate trench warfare, in which both sides were digging trenches and then stalemate and attrition.

The emergence of tanks broke this deadlock, but such a deadlock still existed in special terrain such as highlands and cities where it was difficult for tanks to maneuver.

In other words, a large part of the reason why Stalingrad became a meat grinder was the stalemate of World War I.

Now, it is easier said than done to break this deadlock.

"Maybe we can use cannons!" Seeing that Qin Chuan didn't speak, Colonel Slane suggested: "If we use artillery fire to blow up the enemy-controlled area into ruins, the Soviets will have no place to hide!" ”

"Maybe that's the way!" Major General Wietsheim nodded.

"Do we have that many shells?" General Stryk asked.

"Maybe we have!" Major General Wietersheim replied: "It has nothing to do with you......"

Saying that, Major General Wietsheim pointed to the Caucasus on the map and said: "You have seized the Caucasus, and Marshal Manstein has resumed the production of the arsenal in Transcaucasia, especially artillery and shells, which we can bring by rail." In addition......"

After a pause, Major General Wiethesheim continued: "We still have 'Dora'!" ”

The officers couldn't help but look sideways when they heard this.

Of course, Qin Chuan knew what "Dora" was, and it referred to the German army's giant artillery unit.

"This might work!" General Stryk nodded, "You know, they can destroy bunkers at a depth of 100 feet, which means they can blow up or collapse the tunnels of the Soviets!" ”

"Yes!" Colonel Slane said, "If the Soviets had no tunnels, they wouldn't be able to burrow around us like rats!" ”

"Major, what do you think?" Seeing that Qin Chuan didn't speak, Witesheim asked, "I want to know your opinion!" ”

"With all due respect, General!" Qin Chuan replied: "I don't think these giant cannons are useful, although they do pose a threat to the Soviets' bunkers, and even blow up Stalingrad to ruins!" ”

"Why?" Wittsheim couldn't help but ask.

"The question is......" Qin Chuan asked rhetorically, "After we bombed Stalingrad into ruins, will this tactic of the Soviets not be able to be implemented?" They can still fight us in the ruins, but against us...... In front of the craters and ruins blasted by the huge artillery, the tank could not move forward or maneuver! ”

This is not Qinchuan's alarmism, but the fact that the German army did use giant artillery units when they attacked Stalingrad in history.

It was Manstein who threw in the artillery because of his victory in the attack on the Sevastopol fortress, so Hitler transferred him to Stalingrad to continue the bombardment of Soviet-controlled territory.

But the result was not ideal, because, as Qin Chuan said, it was basically impossible to destroy the enemy with artillery fire and destroy all the underground fortifications...... In particular, there were only a few dozen shells from the cannonballs, and it was of very limited use against the dense tunnels. The side effect of this was that the large areas of ruins and artillery affected the mobility of the German army itself.

Hearing this, Major General Wietsheim and other officers couldn't help but be silent.

After a moment's hesitation, Major General Wiethesheim said: "If we don't have any other way, why not try?" ”

Qin Chuan couldn't refute this, after all, it was impossible to say that there was a war, and more importantly, Wittsheim and the others didn't know history like Qin Chuan, so it was understandable that they would want to try.

Therefore, when the two sides of Stalingrad were fighting between the Soviet Union and Germany, and the plan for the assembly of the German artillery units began.

But the build-up of the artillery force was not as easy as imagined.

Another name for the "Dora" cannon is the "Heavy Gustav", which was the heaviest artillery gun of World War II, with a caliber of 31.5 inches.

For a cannon like this, it would take 60 train cars just to disassemble and transport it. The operation, protection and maintenance of this artillery requires 4,120 personnel, and the launch control and operation alone requires a major general, a major and 1,500 soldiers.

To make matters worse, it would take a month to install the cannon.

And the German officers didn't seem to realize that time was the most important thing for them.

Or it can also be said to be a kind of helplessness, helplessness in urban guerrilla warfare like Chuikov.

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