Chapter 520: The Battle of Stalingrad
June 1942 was a month that shocked the world, and at the beginning of the month, the Battle of Midway took place between Japan and the United States in the South Pacific. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info.dt
In the Battle of Midway, the Japanese Navy was defeated by the U.S. Air Force, sinking four aircraft carriers. It was also from this war that future naval warfare became the domain of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft.
But this life is different, in this life, with the intelligence support of Nanzao Yunzi, the Midway Navy and Air Force were once again attacked by the Japanese army, but because the Midway Navy also received the intelligence support of the Huaxing Group, the Japanese Navy and the US Navy fought again at Midway.
Midway is both a naval base for the US Pacific Fleet and an air base for the United States, so the Japanese Navy was attacked by nearly 300 fighters from the Midway Air Force Base during a major battle with the US Navy, and in the end, all four aircraft carriers participating in the war were sunk by the US military.
The Midway Naval Base was also seriously damaged by a sneak attack by the Japanese Navy's carrier-based aircraft due to the intelligence support of Nanzo Yunzi. The entire Midway base was destroyed, two US aircraft carriers were sunk, more than a dozen ships were heavily damaged, and hundreds of aircraft were destroyed.
In a short period of time, both Japan and the United States suffered huge losses in their naval strength in the Pacific region, and both sides had to stop their naval offensives at the same time.
If the naval battle between Japan and the United States at Midway Island brought a great shock to the people of the world, then the battle of Stalingrad brought an incomparably huge shock to the people of the world.
In mid-June, the Battle of Stalingrad officially began, and the Germans began to besiege Stalingrad with a full 3,000 aircraft, more than 3,000 tanks and armored vehicles, 10,000 artillery pieces of various types, and a 5 million army of various client states.
The war began to heat up, and Hitler was anxious to occupy Stalingrad in a short period of time in order to completely break the resistance of the Russians.
As a result, millions of multinational cannon fodder troops were forcibly driven into a decisive charge towards Stalingrad. In less than ten days, the entire perimeter of Stalingrad was breached, and at the cost of a million cannon fodder troops were killed.
However, the huge casualties did not stop Hitler from continuing to attack the Russian army, and as a more advanced cannon fodder army, Ukrainian and Belarusian troops were driven to the forefront of the war.
After several days of fierce fighting, the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army finally opened a huge gap in the north of Stalingrad, so the Russian troops on the periphery of Stalingrad retreated to the city to prepare for more tragic street battles with the German army.
However, due to the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian army and the Belarusian army is not strong, after a few days of street fighting, the German army did not achieve too good results.
So Hitler gave an order, and millions of German elites with strong combat effectiveness began to directly participate in street fighting. With the entry of the German elite, the fighting at Stalingrad became more intense, and the casualties increased day by day.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and wounded every day on both sides, and for a whole month, the Germans finally captured a quarter of the city north of Stalingrad after paying hundreds of thousands of casualties of the elite and hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder troops.
From that day on, however, it was difficult for the Germans to advance, because the Russian army had received huge reinforcements again, and millions of short-trained political prisoners in the Far East finally launched an offensive from southern Stalingrad and began to join the fight against the German invasion.
Although the military literacy of these political prisoners is not high, the consciousness of these political prisoners is quite high when it comes to resisting the goal of foreign invasion.
It's just that although these political prisoners are numerous, they are extremely short of heavy weapons, even if these political prisoners are already desperate, but Hitler only sent hundreds of thousands of German elites to block these three million Russian troops dozens of kilometers south of Stalingrad.
The Russian army in the city with a strong force and the spirit of not afraid of death, launched counterattacks again and again, although the German soldiers are more elite, but in the city with many buildings, the complex and changeable buildings make up for the weakness of the Russian army.
Although the political prisoner army did not break the encirclement of the German army, it was driven out of the city again by the Russian army within a month by virtue of its cooperation with the Russian army inside and outside, and after counterattacks again and again at any cost.
At this time, it had entered August of the 42nd year, and Stalingrad ushered in the rainy season once in a decade, affected by bad weather in Russia, the non-combat attrition of the German and German armies was very serious, and the number of personnel who lost their combat effectiveness in the German ** team alone reached hundreds of thousands.
It was also heartbreaking that Hitler's team suffered such heavy losses, and in order to be able to fight the Battle of Stalingrad, Hitler once again extended his claws to Ukraine and Belarus.
A conscription order led to the enlistment of Ukrainian and Belarusian youths over the age of 15, and as a result, the number of Ukrainian and Belarusian cannon fodder troops reached 3 million in a short period of time.
Just to arm these three million people, the weapons and equipment that the German logistics department had stored for many years were emptied. As soon as Hitler finished arming the cannon fodder army, he sent it to various battlefields in Stalingrad.
With the addition of these millions of fresh troops, the Germans finally made a full-scale invasion of Stalingrad, and the whole city was full of battlefields of life and death.
The cannon fodder army of the eye country entered the city, and the prisoner army outside the city was not to be outdone, with the cooperation of the Russian army in the city, and under the succession of the prisoner army who were not afraid of sacrifice, there were also millions of prisoner troops who had to rush into the city.
So a battle between the Russian prisoner army and the German cannon fodder army was again staged in Stalingrad. The fighting quality of both sides was not strong, but the scene was still tragic, and the whole of Stalingrad was also the largest meat grinder in history, and tens of thousands of soldiers fell in the ruins of Stalingrad every day.
The whole of Stalingrad was a battlefield, from the sky to the underground, from the streets to the countryside, there were bunkers, and everywhere there were gunshots and explosions.
After another month of fighting, the cannon fodder army and the prisoner army each suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties. Stalingrad was no longer capable of disposing of the corpses.
In order to prevent the corpses from decomposing and affecting the warring armies on both sides, the Russian and German armies actually set up separate corpse collection teams, and the two sides also reached a tacit agreement that when the corpse collection team came to collect their respective corpses, the soldiers on both sides were not allowed to shoot and kill.
In order to ensure that they have a place to bury after death, the soldiers on both sides actually strictly enforce this iron law.
Two months passed, and the Battle of Tarlingrad became more and more anxious, and both Stalin and Hitler became a little anxious.
Stalin urged Li Tie many times, so that Li Tie must immediately send a million bandit troops to reinforce according to the agreement between the two sides. And Hitler also changed his tactics, and he gathered the cannon fodder army together to form a powerful cannon fodder army offensive group. All cannon fodder armies were used intensively, ready to attack continuously from the east of Stalingrad at any cost.
The other German armies were to attack from the other three sides, and Hitler mobilized all his tanks and artillery to prepare for a general attack.
At the end of October 42, the early winter in Stalingrad was already very cold, and the Russian soldiers who lacked clothes and clothing were still sticking to every ruin.
Outside the eastern city of Stalingrad, the commander-in-chief of the cannon fodder army, also the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Putin, has just held secret talks with the commander-in-chief of Belarus.
When Commander-in-Chief Putin sent the Commander-in-Chief of Belarus out of the headquarters, he watched, there are two more days before the time for the general offensive, and for the future of Ukraine, the day after tomorrow will be the last battle of the Ukrainian army in Stalingrad.