As soon as the news of the outbreak of the Stuttgart uprising broke out, many people thought that it would be a fearless struggle like a moth to a fire, and some people used the miracle of the Upper Le Rhine Valley as a precedent to subjectively judge that the flames of Stuttgart were igniting a raging fire that could end the Soviet era. In any case, the attention and solidarity of the world put pressure on the Soviet leadership, and after the initial counterattack by the garrisons around Stuttgart was thwarted, they quickly transferred the 11th Mechanized Corps, which was the general reserve, from the front line on Lake Constance, and ordered this highly decorated unit to march directly down the railway line to Stuttgart.

The first rays of morning light shine through the colourful glass in the halls of Stuttgart Cathedral, creating an optical effect like a fairyland. Here, many Germans who participated in the uprising were praying with their hands folded. Faith is arguably the greatest factor that supports human behavior outside of material things, and its strength often determines the willpower and resilience of a group. Much of the Soviet Army's strength stemmed from their unwavering faith, and the Waffen-SS, whose faith in the Führer's will, was equally impressive on the battlefield, compared to the liberal Western Allied forces, who were far less resilient on the battlefield.

At the moment when the strong enemy was pressing, Lynn also came to this church, but not to seek reassurance in faith, but to use the atmosphere here to soothe the nerves that had been highly tense for several days. In the course of 60 hours, the rebels in Stuttgart and their supporters outside the city had swept away the Soviet garrison in Stuttgart and reinforced the insurrection with enemy weapons and ammunition, and more than 100,000 Stuttgart residents had joined the insurrectionists under the banner of fighting against foreign enemies and regaining freedom. In 1945, they lowered their flag without a fight; In 1948, they opened their doors to the surging Soviet troops; This time, they decided to defend their dignity and power, even at the cost of their lives.

Many of the civilians did not have the ability to take part directly in the fighting, and all they could do was help the insurgents dig fortifications, build barricades, and deliver ammunition to the front lines and evacuate the wounded to the rear during the fighting. All kinds of fortified structures in and around the city were used to minimize the Soviet artillery and tank attack, but the defensive line alone was not enough to withstand the destructive three-dimensional attack of the Soviet army.

The sound of a thud of an explosion could be heard from afar, and the large, sturdy, time-hardened religious building inevitably shuddered slightly with the ground, and wisps of dust fell from the ceiling and walls, giving the illusion that the end was near. Some of them have overcome the pessimism and cowardice of human nature with their faith and are therefore full of confidence, some of them are not very optimistic about the prospects, but they still resolutely go to the battlefield, and some of them are still gloomy, feeling at a loss and pessimistic about their future.

In the search for the meaning of life, Lynn has also experienced these radical different mentalities, and now he is more like a piece of steel that has been tempered, hardened in a furnace. He had not been in the church for long, and he felt that his tired and chaotic mind had been straightened out, and the fog that had filled the road was dissipating, and the other side of the road was not far ahead・・・・・・

As the Soviet 11th Mechanized Corps went on the offensive, the Stuttgart offensive and defensive battle, which had been interrupted for about ten hours, continued. Since the bridges over the Rhine had been blown up by the insurgents, it was extremely difficult to attack the city from the west, and the Soviets concentrated their forces on the other three sides of the city to seek a breakthrough from the beginning. For the insurgents, a full-line defense would disperse their very limited main combat forces, so Lynn's strategy was to defend the outlying positions with a large number of assault-trained "militias", with the Liberty Corps and the more combat-ready resistors maneuvering to support the entire battlefield. …,

In previous battles, the Soviet army made attempts to break through in the east, south and north of the Stuttgart city, but this time, the Soviet troops with armored clusters as the vanguard chose the relatively flat terrain south of the city. On this side, the insurgents built a complete defensive line, with 5 anti-tank guns, 11 field guns, 23 mortars, 50 machine guns and more than 1,500 rifles and submachine guns, and used the captured 3 Soviet-made T-34 tanks with damaged power as fixed fire points. The experience of defensive battles in cities such as Leningrad proved that in order to withstand the strong onslaught of the field army, the soldiers had to use every weapon, including their own flesh and blood.

The Modesen chemical plant in Stuttgart's southern district was one of the fulcrums of the insurgents' defense line in this urban area, and it is also a microcosm of the rise and fall of the German chemical industry in recent years. In the later part of the war, the Allied blockade and bombing made it difficult for the Modsen Chemical Plant to continue normal production, so the plant had to reduce the equipment and workers to the surrounding villages and towns for "underground production", so that some of the equipment was not looted by the Allies and handed over to the Soviets, and an important material basis was retained for the re-operation of the factory. By the end of 1946, the Mordsen chemical plant, like many factories in Germany, had begun to produce military products for the Allies, and the former prosperity was briefly restored, but the Soviet victory completely destroyed this illusion, and their ruthless requisition turned the Stuttgart factory into an empty shell with only walls and buildings. Due to its proximity to the main road into the city and the railway line that runs through the city, the sturdy buildings could also be exploited by the repressors, and the Soviet occupation forces planned to demolish the entire plant, but soon discovered that the small amount of explosives could not be done against the buildings on the site, which were designed with chemical explosions in mind, and converted it into a security post and a stockpile for military supplies. On the night of the uprising, an underground resistance group of workers was able to eliminate the Soviet garrison with their familiarity with the topography of the factory, and the captured war materiel would play a huge role in the battle that followed.

For such a seemingly solid target as the Morderson chemical plant, the Soviet air force unequivocally carried out a series of bombardments, bombs dropped by bombers and attack aircraft to collapse most of the walls, except for two particularly well-constructed warehouses, the rest of the plant collapsed to varying degrees, and the defenders had already suffered heavy losses before the face-to-face battle began, and the Soviet commander threw in an armored regiment and twice the number of mechanized infantry in the first attack in this area. For civilians who have never experienced a regular battlefield, the screams of those rocket launchers and self-propelled guns alone are enough to overwhelm them with terror, the billowing dust raised by the tanks during their rapid advance brings a strong visual impact and shock, coupled with the constant circling and strafing of Soviet fighters overhead, the battle situation makes it feel that the insurgents have been defeated before the battle, and the collapse of the battle line is not at all suspenseful.

When the tank group rushed to a distance of only a few tens of meters from the factory wall, the defenders had not yet shown serious resistance, and the Soviet mechanized infantry attacking in combat vehicles had always followed in the attack queue, some vehicles had slowed down, and the soldiers dismounted and quickly unfolded, ready to sweep away the remnants of the enemy after the tanks took control of the plant. Seeing the battle unfold smoothly, the Soviet battlefield commander may have been brewing the rhetoric to report to his superiors, and when the first T34 ran over the collapsed factory wall, several Molotov cocktails suddenly flew out of the remaining warehouses and factories, and they landed on the tank and the surrounding area and burst into flames. The T34 that bore the brunt of the attack turned into a fireball in the blink of an eye, and the soldiers fighting in the tank suddenly turned into burning men, and then several other T34s that crossed the wall also suffered the same blow. …,

Unlike being hit by anti-tank munitions, these tanks were not immediately paralyzed, they could still move and fire, but in a few moments, they lost power one after another, and the tank crew could not resist the smoke and flames and escaped from the tank cabin, becoming a target for the defenders to shoot at close range.

The loss of a few tanks could not stop the determination of the Soviets to capture the stronghold, and the follow-up tanks did not slow down at all, they inexorably crossed the wall into the factory area, opened heavy fire on the building windows with artillery and machine guns, and the infantry fighting in the tanks also got out of the car early, relying on the wreckage of the wall to fire at the defenders in the factory area. When the tanks that entered the factory area continued to move forward and approached the warehouse, more Molotov cocktails, anti-tank grenades, and cartridge explosives flew out of the trenches and individual pits near the warehouse, and the violent explosion was no less than the sound of the Soviet army's fire preparation, and those improvised smoke agents were also ignited at this time, and a large amount of gray and white smoke quickly enveloped the factory area, and the Soviet tanks and infantry suddenly lost their shooting targets, and the insurgents hidden in all corners increased their fire output with their familiarity with the terrain. The dense sound of gunfire and explosions coming from the smoke zone interfered, at least psychologically, with the rhythm of the offensive of the Soviet officers and soldiers.

Smoke continued to fill the Mordsen chemical plant, and in other parts of the line, the insurgents used similar tactics to delay the Soviet offensive and buy as much time as possible for the arrival of their mobile forces. Lynn's regular troops, limited in strength and poorly equipped, were truly worthy of the skill and iron will of the soldiers, who rushed to the front with anti-tank rocket launchers, anti-tank guns captured from the Soviets, and even two intact ones captured from the Soviet garrison in Stuttgart for mobile combat. However, in addition to overcoming the obstacles of spatial distance and road conditions, they also had to be very careful with Soviet fighters that could dive down and drop bombs at any time.