"Considering you've used this tactic before!" Major General Wiethesheim asked: "So I wonder, do you have a way to deal with this tactic?" ”

Colonel Slane couldn't help but set his eyes on Qin Chuan, because this tactic was Qin Chuan's idea.

Qin Chuan shook his head slightly and replied, "Sorry general, I don't think there is a good way to deal with this tactic!" ”

"There's no good way?" Major General Wiethesheim heard the words.

"If there's a way, it's stupid!"

"Tell me about it!" Major General Wiethesheim said: "It doesn't matter if it's a clever way or a stupid method, as long as it's useful, it's a good way!" ”

"We can divide it into little grids!" Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said, "Then designate a certain unit to be responsible for which subgrid!" ”

"Ge-chan?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied, picked up a pencil and drew a few lines horizontally and vertically on the map, and said: "Just like this, divide them into small pieces, and number these small pieces, and arrange a platoon or a company to be responsible for the attack or defense of a small piece!" ”

Major General Witsheim couldn't help but let out an "oh", then nodded and said, "It is indeed a useful method, Major, which will greatly reduce the difficulty of command and reduce confusion." We did encounter many problems like this in the battle, where soldiers and officers ran from city to city, running wherever there was an enemy, only to be transferred by the enemy to chaos in the midst of this! ”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded: "The enemy also took advantage of this to attack everywhere, firing a few shots from the east to divert our attention and forces to the east, and as a result, the Soviets came out from the west again!" ”

"Yes!" Major General Wietersheim agreed: "If we use what you call the 'lattice tactic', where each cell is garrisoned and not subject to enemy movements, then wherever the Soviets come out of it will be detected and stopped at the first time!" ”

"In particular......," said Colonel Slain, "if you do this, you can make the men of each grid carefully search their area, or be alert to the places where the Soviets might get out and defend themselves, and the Soviets will have no chance!" ”

Of course, Qin Chuan knew this, because this was actually the tactic of "dragnet clearance" used by China in the Vietnam War in history, and the tunnel warfare used by the Soviet army in Stalingrad was very similar to the tunnel used by the Vietnamese army.

"Then ......" and Westheim asked in confusion, "Major, this is a good tactic, why do you call it a stupid method?" ”

"First of all, it needs more troops!" Qin Chuan said.

Westheim nodded, each small grid needs troops to defend, which of course will not require less troops, and this is precisely the lack of the German army.

"Secondly, we face far more difficulties than that!" Qin Chuan replied: "And it is foreseeable that there will be more and more difficulties encountered in the future, and it is likely that it cannot be solved by one or two tactics!" ”

Major General Westheim sighed, he already knew this.

Perhaps because of the lack of troops due to this "lattice tactic", or perhaps because the 6th Army realized that it might be difficult for them to take Stalingrad on their own, the 21st Panzer Division was sent into reserve the next day.

It was early in the morning when the 21st Panzer Division entered the city, and the 60th Motorized Infantry Division, which was on the right flank of the 14th Panzer Army, suffered heavy casualties in the large-scale Soviet counteroffensive last night and needed to rest, and the 21st Panzer Division went up to replace their defense area.

Although the sky was clear from the outside, I felt a gloomy chill when I walked into the city of Stalingrad...... This was not a psychological effect, but the battle of Stalingrad day and night, the city was full of smoke and dust, and there were dense buildings blocking the sunlight, and the temperature difference between the inside and outside was several degrees.

The road was littered with mutilated or blackened houses, dead bodies or ruins on the ground, and the occasional explosion of shells overhead, as if to warn the soldiers.

After only a few hundred meters of walking, the tank was blocked by a piece of rubble, and a team of sappers was trying to clear a way from it, and one of the sapper captains, whose face was blackened by gunsmoke, shouted at Qin Chuan: "Major, if you don't plan to help, you can only bypass another road two miles away!" ”

Eberhard was a little dissatisfied: "Why didn't you clean up this garbage earlier?!" ”

"Oh, sir!" The engineer captain replied: "Half an hour ago it was still a house, do you mean we demolished it beforehand?" ”

Before the words fell, a "boom" and a shell exploded more than 200 meters away, and a piece of dust and debris of the building fell from the sky with a "whooshing" wind, hitting Qin Chuan's steel helmet "sonorously and sonorously".

"Sir!" The engineer captain coughed a few times in the dust and said, "If we continue to discuss this topic, another part of the road may have the same fate!" ”

Qin Chuan understood what he meant, nodded and said to the soldiers behind him, "Go and help!" ”

The soldiers had no choice but to carry their weapons on their shoulders and rush up to clear the rubble.

This is one of the difficulties of the Battle of Stalingrad...... Stalingrad was an important center of industry, commerce and trade in the Soviet Union, and it also sat on the Volga and Don rivers, which made the city very densely populated.

As a result of the dense population, there were many buildings, which were bombarded over and over again by German and Soviet artillery fire...... The rubble of the collapsed houses seriously hampered the maneuvering of the tanks.

However, this was only the beginning, as 80% of the buildings of Stalingrad were blown down, and the entire city was reduced to wreckage and ruins.

In this respect, battlefields like Stalingrad are not actually suitable for tank combat, at least not for tank combat in this era. On the other hand, the Germans could not do without tanks for their operations...... Because the Germans always fought in coordination, they also needed tanks to attack the buildings where the Soviets were stationed.

In the end, it took half an hour for the soldiers to clear a road, and then the tank again "rumbled" and drove forward.

A team of wounded people were carried down by the stretcher team, dripping blood all the way, and the screams one after another seemed to tell Qin Chuan not to go any further.

But Qin Chuan and the soldiers had no choice but to follow the tank step by step.

There were more and more corpses on the roadside, both German and Soviet, and they were piled up on the side of the road, some of them had deteriorated and smelled, and flies flew around them.

So Qin Chuan knew that the line of defense was not far away.