It was 8 o'clock in the evening on December 20, 1942, which was supposed to be just an ordinary day. The people of the United States of the Star-Spangled Banner across the ocean are hurrying to attend to their own affairs, looking forward to the arrival of Christmas, the greatest festival of the year; The German High Command was also immersed in the wonderful prospect that the "Hult" cluster would join forces with the 6th Army; The top decision-makers of the Soviet Union were overjoyed at the smooth progress of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, calculating the time it would take to encircle and annihilate the German 6th Army, and calculating how to take advantage of the situation to eat the German Army Group A gathered in the South Caucasus. But all this, especially the ideas and plans of the top decision-makers of the Soviet Union, disappeared with the surprise attack and counterattack of the German Sixth Army in the Stalingrad area at 8 o'clock in the evening of December 20.

At 8 o'clock in the evening of December 20, 1942, with the sudden aerial bombardment and the high-intensity saturation attack of hundreds of 155mm large-caliber guns, the German 6th Army, with the 14th and 16th Panzer Divisions as the main attacking force, the 24th Panzer Division and the 4th Army of the 4th Panzer Army as auxiliary attack forces, with 45 Leopard tanks that can be driven and 450 Type 59 main battle tanks as the core, in a pincer attack posture, quickly advanced in the direction of the friendly "Holt" cluster, the 3rd, 29th, and 60th motorized infantry divisions, the 8th, 11th, and 51st Infantry Corps armored divisions quickly followed behind, fan-shaped, and quickly eliminated the defeated and divided former Soviet encirclement forces.

Let us go back to the moment before the start of the war, and it was not the Germans who fired the signal for the counteroffensive, but the puppet Lord Bismarck, that is, our Comrade Wang Fan. When discussing the specific time of the counteroffensive, Paulus's staff officers (at this time Paulus had already introduced Wang Fan to all the staff officers, and as a result, everyone was "thundered") was inclined to launch a counteroffensive at 4 a.m. on December 21 for three reasons: first, the night attack was easy to cause difficulties, and it was difficult to distinguish friend from foe; Second, night is not conducive to air support, and the advantage of air supremacy cannot be brought into play; Thirdly, the early morning attack is the time point when the enemy's vigilance is the lowest, and it can allow the troops to rest well for another night. Paulus was inclined to agree with this view.

However, the scene was strongly opposed by Comrade Wang Fan. Wang Fan, who was familiar with the direction of the Battle of Stalingrad, knew that the situation of the German army was most favorable on the 19th, and that the situation on the battlefield would deteriorate further after every day or even a few hours after that. The "Hoth" cluster was already at the end of its strong crossbow at this time, and its most elite 6th Panzer Division had been withdrawn at this time to deal with the Soviet Southwestern Front that broke through from the north of the Zil River. Therefore, when the time comes to the 21st, it is very likely that the two flanks of the "Hoult" cluster have been defeated, and the entire 57th Army will be exhausted, and then it will be scattered and retreated, resulting in the failure of the division or the formation of a powerful mobile group, which cannot change the situation on the battlefield. Wang Fan told the history he knew in the form of information he had discovered, emphasizing the imminent exhaustion of the "Hult" cluster and the threat of the Soviet Southwestern Front Army commander driving in. In addition, Wang Fan emphasized to the staff officers present that the strategic bombing force he had could provide night fire support, and the intelligence force he had could provide the coordinates of the artillery positions and main assembly positions of the encircled Soviet army, so a major counteroffensive that changed the course of World War II began.

As mentioned earlier, Wang Fan said that he had a strategic bombing force, but he had no troops of his own to command, and he was simply a bare-bones commander, so why did he boast about Haikou? In fact, his method is very simple, using the Pythagorean theorem in geometry. As mentioned earlier, his dimensional ring space can provide deformation up to 10 times, that is, 300 kilometers, so he set 300 kilometers as the hypotenuse length of the triangle, and set the height of 10 kilometers (10,000 meters in the air) as the side of the triangle, so that it can be obtained, He can carry out unlimited bombing at an altitude of 10,000 meters within a range of 299.8 kilometers and any place (this guy has 5 million aerial bombs in his ring, and the sustaining power is very strong) So, at 8 o'clock in the evening of December 20, with the deafening sound of aerial bombs, several artillery positions arranged by the Soviet army in Stalingrad ushered in a devastating blow, and at the same time, the assembly area of its main forces was also subjected to continuous shelling by hundreds of 155mm heavy gunsThe German assault group, consisting of more than 500 tanks, stabbed the Soviets in the chest with a dagger that was inserted into the heart.

At the same time as the 6th Army counterattacked, it also telegraphed Marshal Manstein and the "Hoth" cluster troops, and Marshal Manstein, who received the telegram, strictly ordered the "Hult" cluster to gather all the forces that could be assembled to launch a charge, and be sure to join forces with the 6th Group breakout force to save the 6th Army and other units.

The whole night of December 20 was cold and cruel, and the attacking units of the 6th Army poured out their fear, loneliness, and despair for many days in the artillery fire and killing, and the two sides that killed the red eyes even had a local white-knuckle battle (in order to distinguish the attacking sides, each of the 6th Army wrapped a white towel around his right arm, and told the "Hoth" cluster troops to be friendly in the area, if the opposing "Hoth" group did not have a white towel, when they could not distinguish friend from foe, they shouted German loudly, so as to prevent cannibalism during the meeting). At 11:20 p.m. on the 20th, the 6th Army assault tank cluster broke through the Soviet defense line and successfully joined forces with the "Hoth" cluster.

After the successful rendezvous, according to the advance plan, the assault cluster was divided into two, each with more than 200 tanks as the core, and attacked the Soviet besieging troops from the back and flanks, striving to crush the enemy's vital forces and prevent the enemy from encircling the "rendezvous corridor" again. Behind the tank assault group, the 3rd, 29th, and 60th motorized infantry divisions followed up in coordination, while the 8th, 11th, and 51st infantry corps immediately cleared the remnants of the "division corridor", and the 44th, 71st, 76th, 79th, 94th, and 100th remaining besieged German units launched or supported or dired the attack according to the terrain. By the early morning of December 21, the 6th Army successfully defeated the Soviet encirclement army of about 350,000 by concentrating the superior tank group forces, interspersed and disrupted the entire Soviet position, so that the Soviet army officers could not find soldiers and soldiers could not find generals, and the encirclement was completely broken. By noon on the 21st, the entire Stalingrad counteroffensive was basically over. According to preliminary statistics, more than 50,000 Soviet troops were annihilated and about 70,000 Soviet troops were captured (all of them were scattered small units, and after being disrupted by the counterattack, the retreat was chaotic, and they failed to jump out of the division corridor area, and in the next 2 days, they successively laid down their arms and gave up resistance due to the exhaustion of ammunition. ）

At noon on December 21, 1942, the German High Command and Field Marshal Manstein received the news that the Sixth Army had successfully broken through the encirclement and inflicted heavy losses on the besieging forces of the Soviet Union, the Stalingrad Front and the Don Front. After receiving the battle report of the 6th Army Corps, Manstein was overjoyed, and telegraphed the 6th Army to ask for details of the fuel and fuel of the 6th Army, and ordered it and the "Hoth" group to strictly guard against the Soviet counterattack and to protect the left flank of the German Army Group A. If the Soviets counterattacked (Manstein, because he did not know about Wang Fan's existence, he always had the impression that Paulus only had 30-40 tanks and was short of fuel, and that the success of the attack was lucky to account for a large part), if necessary, he could stand and retreat to Kotelnivkosky.

Thus, on December 21, 1942, the first major change made by Wang Fan's passage through this plane took place. Later scholars estimated that the reversal of the Battle of Stalingrad still gave the Germans a strategic advantage on the Soviet-German battlefield, although this advantage became increasingly difficult to maintain with the German army's logistical constraints and lack of reserves. However, this battle annihilated the living forces of the Stalingrad Front and the Don Front in the southern theater of the Soviet Union, prompted the attack of the Soviet Southwestern Front to stop dumbly for fear of going deep alone, and retracted the salient produced by the attack backwards, which greatly reduced the pressure on Manstein, so that he did not have to retreat all the time, and exchanged space for time (of course, it turned out that Manstein did this in history in order to consume the Soviet offensive momentum, lengthen its logistics supply line, and find a suitable place and time for attack). It is possible to calmly gather the scattered troops and regroup their forces. Overall, the reversal of the Battle of Stalingrad bought Germany about half a year more (the Soviet Union needed to rebuild its forces). Of course, this counterattack only solved the problem of encirclement and saved the 6th Army from the end of destruction, but it still did not change the fact that Stalingrad was not completely occupied, and at this time, the Soviet army still occupied part of Stalingrad.

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