Of course, there are many advantages to this kind of defensive position, but it is not conducive to counterattack, because Timoshenko never thought about counterattacking at all, and Timoshenge means that I will hold Stalingrad to the death, uncle, and see what tricks you German have. %%%.. It is also impossible for the German Army Group South to take Stalingrad, which is defended by more than 600,000 people, in a short period of time, and of course Li Mo will not be stupid enough to use people to fight Stalingrad, that is the most stupid approach, and Li Mo will certainly not do such a thing.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

The escort assault group has a total of eleven armored divisions, almost 1,700 tanks, and other vehicles, the momentum of the earth-shattering power is enough to shock everything, the ground is a torrent of steel, and the air is escorted by countless aircraft, after this period of air strangulation, the Soviet planes in Stalingrad are basically reimbursed, and the Soviet and German planes are really incomparable, and they can fight 1; 5 is very good, in the entire battle for air supremacy in Stalingrad, Germany was shot down only more than sixty planes, while the Soviet Union lost almost three hundred planes, almost 1:6 battle losses, and now the Soviet planes in Stalingrad are basically exhausted.

However, Li Mo still sent an aviation division to escort his escort corps, and these eleven armored divisions were Li Mo's lifeblood, so they could not suffer any huge losses, otherwise the Southern Army Group would be in danger.

At the Stalingrad command, Timoshenko was staring intently at the sand table with a pipe in his mouth, and now the war situation was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet Union. Every day there was unfavorable news coming from the Soviet front, not that it was broken through by the Germans here, but that it was surrounded by German troops, and that the entire Soviet Union was in extreme tension and fear.

Fortunately, however, there were several good news, the first of which was that the Soviet Union had finally signed the "Soviet-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact" with Japan, and now the Soviet Union did not have to worry about fighting on both sides, and more than 2 million troops deployed in the Far East were being transported by rail day and night, and in a month at most, these troops would arrive near Moscow, and in addition, the young people from all over the Soviet Union were also stepping up their reorganization. As long as the USSR could hold Germany back for two or three months. The entire Soviet Union will have about fifteen million troops, and at the same time about fifteen million reservists, and as for guns and ammunition, it will be really difficult in a short time.

The second piece of good news was that the United States had agreed to the Soviet Union's request for Lend-Lease. This time the United States seems to have suddenly become very generous. Grant the Soviet Union $10 billion in arms lease applications directly. These American fires will be shipped from the western region of the United States, directly through the Bering Strait to the Far East of the Soviet Union, and part of it will be transported by the Far Eastern Railway. The ice-free port of Murmansk in the Soviet Union could also take over a large number of Lend-Lease arms. As long as these arms were in hand, Timoshenko believed that the Soviet Union's 15 million troops would soon be armed, and with such a huge military force, Timoshenko did not believe that the Germans could destroy the Soviet Union.

The third good news was sent by the Anglo-French alliance on its own initiative, they actually sent weapons to the Soviet Union free of charge, no matter what the purpose of Britain and France, the Soviet Union did not refuse to come, and received as much as they sent, and even opened their mouths to ask, don't think that the Soviet Union does not understand the purpose of Britain and France, Stalin is a thief!

As the only three marshals of the Soviet Union, Stalin of course informed him of these confidential information, and according to Timoshenko's analysis of these circumstances, a world anti-German alliance was about to be formed, or an alliance of anti-European countries was about to be formed, and the four major countries of Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union would abandon their differences in political systems and forcibly bring together under German pressure.

"Report to Comrade Marshal Timoshenko: According to reports from the front, the German Army Group South suddenly concentrated more than a dozen panzer divisions, and a large number of trucks and planes, and attacked our upper reaches."

"Oh, you quickly mark the route of the German attack on the map, and at the same time send a large number of scouts to figure out the specific strategy of the Germans."

The intelligence officer who reported the situation hurriedly marked the general direction of the German advance on the map with several staff officers, and then contacted the reconnaissance force.

"Comrade Vatutin, what do you think?"

"Comrade Marshal, we still don't understand what the strategic purpose of the Germans is, all their troops are basically armored divisions, even if I want to send troops to block it, I'm afraid there is no way, especially if we lose air supremacy.

I judge that there may be two purposes for this German attack, the first is that the Germans want to completely cut off our land communication line to Moscow, and it is simply impossible for the Germans to realize this strategy, and on the side of the Stalingrad city on the Volga River, there are more than 200,000 of our troops to arrange perfect ring fortifications, and if the Germans really want to do this, they can only suffer heavy losses.

The second scenario is that the Germans want to attack along the Volga River, and then take a detour to the back of Moscow, even if the Germans have more than a dozen armored divisions, there is no way for them to supply, so this should not be true. ”

In fact, Timoshenko also fought defensive battles, and there was no outstanding place in offensive warfare, and now Vatutin's analysis made Timoshenko decide that it is the king to preserve the living forces and resolutely hold Stalingrad now. In fact, Timoshenko's idea is not a big mistake, his own infantry and garbage tanks go to fight a field battle with the advanced tanks of the German devils, then there is absolutely no hope of victory, how much the German Army Group South is looking forward to the Soviet army going out of the city for a decisive battle!

Steiner commanded the torrent of steel to roll away, there was no defense of the Soviet army along the way, the whole assault group took a day, rushed to the crossing of the Volga River, Steiner quickly arranged his armored troops into a huge semi-circular defensive position, established a solid crossing, and then the boat bridge troops began to build bridges.

Because Li Mo had enough troops to draw on the bridge, Steiner erected four pontoon bridges, and Vincent was the first to let his armored vehicles cross the river to establish a defensive position on the opposite bank, and the Soviet Union had lost the possibility of blocking Vincent's armored assault group. Then the Soviet Union went there to find so many armored units in the encirclement and assault Vincent, the Soviet Union did not, most of the Soviet armored forces were transferred to Baku and Moscow, and there was basically no armored force in the rear.

Although there were four pontoon bridges at the crossing, it took Vincent's men a day and a night to get all the vehicles and personnel to the other side of the Volga, and as soon as Vincent had crossed the river, Steiner ordered the pontoon bridges to be removed, and then returned to the distance between Rostov and Stalingrad with seven armored divisions. (To be continued.) )

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