Thus, the Battle of Stalingrad ended with the cheers of German soldiers.

The Soviets withdrew from Stalingrad on their own initiative, and Chuikov's headquarters, including Chuikov's headquarters, arrived on the east bank that night by armored boats.

The battle lasted more than three months, which was shorter than the historical Battle of Stalingrad, and of course the casualties were much smaller, including the battle in the direction of the Don River, that is, the casualties of the northern defense line, the German army suffered about 200,000 casualties, and the Soviet casualties were much larger, roughly estimated at 500,000 people.

The Soviets entered the retreat process that night, including the Soviet 64th Army, which was facing off the German 4th Panzer Army downstream.

Fishing boats crossed the Volga River, taking Soviet soldiers back and forth to cross the river, or giving them a pair of life jackets to swim across the river on their own.

The Germans also seemed to be exhausted, and did not pursue the Soviets when they knew that they were retreating, or it could be said that preventing them from crossing the river would cause these soldiers to fight back to defend Stalingrad...... They preferred the battlefield to be elsewhere than in places like Stalingrad to engage in urban guerrilla warfare to which they could not adapt.

Of course, the central crossing was still under German artillery blockade.

But it doesn't really make a lot of sense...... The central ferry port was a wharf used by the Soviet army for loading and unloading large quantities of military supplies, and the blockade of it prevented Stalin from receiving large quantities of supplies quickly. And if the Soviet soldiers wanted to withdraw from Stalingrad, they didn't need a ferry at all, and any temporary ferry could easily do it.

At three o'clock in the morning, Alexander called Qin Chuan excitedly: "We did it, we occupied the central ferry, we won!" ”

A cheer rang out around Qin Chuan in an instant, and then this cheer soon spread throughout the entire sandbank.

As soon as the Germans occupied the central ferry, they sent a team to the sandbank to change guards with Qin Chuan and others, and the assault team returned to Stalingrad an hour later.

Waiting for Qin Chuan and the others there was a pair of tired but admired and grateful eyes...... Under the propaganda of Paulus and Alexander, all the Germans knew that the capture of the sandbar by the commandos became the key to this victory.

So along the way, German soldiers shook hands and hugged the commandos, and at the same time kept saying:

"Thank you! We couldn't have won without you! ”

"You saved our lives!"

"Yes, I always thought that this battle would go on like this, until we all die here, and you and we are saved from death!"

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Then the Germans gave the commandos the highest treatment, they put the commandos in cars, ordered a road to be cleared and safed, and even sent a company to follow the convoy until they sent the commandos out of Stalingrad and into the base of the 21st Army.

General Stryk and Colonel Slein personally welcomed Qin Chuan and the others at the entrance of the base.

Colonel Slain shook hands with Qin Chuan and said with a smile: "Major, you don't know how many times I have protested with them, the First Legion can't do without you, but they always refused my reprimand on the grounds of secret missions, and at one point I wondered if they kidnapped you!" ”

General Stryk also nodded and said, "Apparently General Rommel knew about it, because he once told me that it was a military secret...... General Rommel also said, 'God, the 21st Panzer Division would not have fought without the legendary sergeant', and I have to admit that it was, and it seemed that your morale had been greatly affected in the months since you left, until I heard that you suddenly fell from the sky and took the sandbar and turned the tide of the war! ”

"So, it's called a helicopter, isn't it?" Colonel Slane asked with interest.

"Yes, Colonel!"

"If we can, we'll talk about this helicopter in more detail another day!" Colonel Slane said, "Now, I think you need to rest!" ”

Qin Chuan and the others really need to rest, and the continuous high-intensity combat for several days and nights will exhaust people, even Qin Chuan's elite soldiers are no exception, they can survive only because of a little ...... They want to live.

In fact, it's okay on the battlefield, my nerves are tightened, and my focus is completely on finding enemies and saving myself, and sometimes I don't feel tired. But now that I'm relaxed, I feel like I don't have the strength to lift my gun.

Colonel Slane had already prepared a clean quilt and bed for Qin Chuan and the others, as well as some food, although the food for these people was only some canned food and black bread, but everyone knew that these were very rare on the battlefield, especially Stalingrad.

This is how the victor deserves, and there is only one way to gain respect here: to defeat the enemy.

Qin Chuan didn't touch the food, because they didn't actually lack food on the sandbank, and the Soviets had stored a lot of black bread in the warehouse...... As mentioned before, these black breads are infused with fine mineral powder, which makes people less hungry and even constipated, so that they don't have much appetite for food now.

So he put his rifle aside, took off his helmet, and collapsed on the bed to relax and feel the long-lost feeling of rest, even if there was a burst of artillery in the distance from time to time.

What kind of impact will the victory of the Battle of Stalingrad have on the Eastern Front?

Qin Chuan didn't know.

For the Germans, the capture of Stalingrad did not make sense to block its main communication routes, because the Soviet Baku oil fields had already been taken before that. If there was any significance, it was the completion of the two lines of defense of the German Southern Front against the Soviet Union, namely the Don and Volga lines...... Stalingrad was the intersection of these two lines of defense, and at the same time an important city in the gap.

In this respect, the capture of Stalingrad still makes sense.

But in the same way, the Soviets completed their defensive lines against the Germans on the Don and Volga rivers.

After that, how should the Germans attack?

From this gap more than a hundred kilometers wide in Cott Luban? Or did you cross the Don and Volga to fight?

Obviously neither is suitable.

Because Qin Chuan knew that the Soviet army would focus on defending the gap in Kortluban, and at the same time, crossing the river was a difficult problem, even worse...... Qin Chuan believed that the Soviets were still planning a counteroffensive, because too many parts of the German army were defended by the army of the client state.

It didn't take long for Qin Chuan to fall asleep in a daze.