Episode 63 Stalingrad Clashes

On October 15, German tanks advanced to the banks of the Volga, and it was not until the German vanguard entered the city of Stalingrad that the White Russian troops began to withdraw from the city to the east bank. Several German reconnaissance units collided directly with the White Russian troops on the streets, between buildings, and between the ruins, and there were several skirmishes.

The Germans were not informed that there were still White Russian troops in the city. Since the uniforms of the Russian army and the Soviet army are more similar, and it sounds like Russian is spoken on the other side, the Germans mistook the Russian army for the Soviet army. The Germans misunderstood, but the Russians did not misunderstand and would not mistake the Germans for some other troops. But the Russian army doesn't care about this, once it is attacked by the Germans by mistake, it immediately returns fire, unceremoniously. In this way, many misunderstandings that could have been cleared up immediately turned into skirmishes.

In addition to misunderstandings, the German and Russian armies were deeply hostile to each other. On the side of the German army, under the long-term propaganda and education, the Slavs were considered an inferior race and were to be exterminated like bugs. Moreover, in this crusade, Hitler's instructions to the army were to use the opportunity of the war to eliminate the Slavs as much as possible. Therefore, in the eyes of the German army, White Russia and Red Russia were all Russians, all Slavic inferior races, but slightly better than the Jews.

On the side of the Russian army, most of them were former Soviet officers and soldiers who had surrendered, and they saw with their own eyes how the Germans burned, killed and looted in their homeland. Therefore, they are full of hatred for the Germans, and once the German side provokes a conflict first, the Russian side is immediately unambiguous, and mortars and machine guns are beckoned together, and they have the strength to fight to the death.

The Germans couldn't take it anymore and called in tanks and half-tracks, and the infantry, with submachine guns and flamethrowers, rushed up behind with cats on their heels. The Russian army is not a vegetarian, and even used the radio to call the heavy artillery on the other side of the Volga River, and there was a loud bombardment, several German tanks and half-tracks were reimbursed, and dozens of German soldiers were killed and wounded.

The Germans, on the other hand, were attacking troops, and it was only the vanguard that entered Stalingrad, and there were no artillery positions behind them, so they could not engage in-for-tat artillery battles. So the Germans called a dive bomber. Several Stukas screamed and pounced, and the bombs fell on the Russian-controlled neighborhood, causing heavy casualties to the Russians.

Fighting was already raging in Stalingrad.

And the Ming fighters circling over the Volga River, alerting, had already reported the situation to their superiors. The commander of the Ming Army's combat aviation regiment stationed at the western tip of Kazakhstan briefly judged the situation, and with a hot brain, he directly ordered the Ming fighters to meet the battle.

As a result, the Ming fighter pushed the control stick, and the four planes rolled over and dived down in turn, each biting a German bomber and pressing the machine gun button.

In an instant, four Stuka dive bombers dragged a long smoke and planted them separately.

Although there were only a handful of planes on both sides - the Ming army was only a four-plane formation, and the Germans were only a squadron of dive bombers, only 12 planes, but the meaning has changed qualitatively. The conflict escalated, from the German-Russian conflict, directly to the German-Ming conflict.

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At the same time as the fighting, news of the conflict in Stalingrad was constantly reported quickly within the system of the German and Ming armies. The Germans reacted faster, and only reported to the army group level, and the order came down. The commander of the Second Army was Guderian, and this theater of operations was under his command. Guderian didn't say a word, and directly ordered on the phone that the German troops should withdraw from Stalingrad and be stationed 10 kilometers west of the city, and there should be no clashes with the Ming army and the Russian army. At the same time, relying on the favor of Hitler, he did not report level by level, but set aside the commanders and chiefs of staff of the army groups above, and directly asked for a telephone call from Berlin to find the Führer.

The Ming army knew the news quickly, but it reacted slowly, because it involved horizontal communication between the Ming and Russian armies. The advisers of the Ming army had already reported the situation to the advisory department of the Ming army stationed in Chelyabinsk, and the "chief adviser" was also taken aback, and hurriedly rushed to the headquarters of the Russian army in Chelyabinsk with an interpreter, ordering the Russian troops in Stalingrad to cease fire and withdraw to the east bank of the Volga River. At the same time, report to Nanjing.

As a result, after the conflict at Stalingrad lasted more than three hours, the two sides retreated one after another and disengaged from each other. Both countries then summoned each other's ambassadors to clarify each other and apologize to each other for the misunderstanding. Both sides agreed that communication and understanding should be strengthened in the future to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents.

This incident did not cause any stir in Germany. All news was tightly blocked, all media outlets were ordered not to report on it, so people didn't know about it. But in Daming, it has become a lot of news. Several major newspapers were out of the news, and two broadcasters were on the air almost simultaneously.

The next day, newspapers in many countries also carried news about the incident. The countries already felt that the "honeymoon period" of the Ming-Russian bloc and Germany would not be very long, because there was a common enemy - the Soviet Union. Now that this common enemy is about to perish, the spheres of influence of the two major groups are just colliding head-on, and in the future they will certainly be confrontational or even hostile. The Stalingrad conflict is like a sign that the cooperation between Mingda and Germany has collapsed for several years, and the era of mutual hostility has arrived.

The Russian army withdrew from Stalingrad and withdrew to the border with Kazakhstan under the noses of the Germans. West of the Kazakh border was Germany's sphere of influence, and it was "occupied" by the Russian army for nearly a month, during which it received more than one million Soviet officers and soldiers, as well as millions of Soviet civilians who fled. 90% of the citizens of Stalingrad have fled to the side of the Russian army. When the Germans reoccupied Stalingrad, they found it almost empty. Moreover, the banks were emptied, all the industrial machinery was dismantled, and important factories, railways, and dock facilities were blown up. - This look is not destroyed by bombs and shells in battle, but specially equipped with **.

Although Hitler and Shen Rongxuan were both in harmony in their telegrams to each other, the hostile behavior of the two sides was immediately revealed. As soon as the Germans occupied all of Ukraine, they built fortifications on the border. At the same time, fortifications were being built on the west bank of the Volga, more than a hundred kilometers behind the border, presumably using the Volga as a second line of defense.

And the Ming side is not ambiguous. The Ming sent a large number of engineering troops, as well as experienced fortress troops, to various important places along the Ural Mountains to guide the Russians in the construction of mountain fortifications. Under the guidance of the Ming army, Kazakhstan also conscripted tens of thousands of laborers to build fortifications along the border line.

At the outpost on the top of the Ural Mountains, the Ming army adviser pointed to the mountains stretching to the west and bluntly told the Russian officers and soldiers next to him:

"That's your hometown, now occupied by the Germans. In the future, your goal is to recapture it. And this mountain defense line is the strongest and will make you invincible. ”

On October 29, the Germans captured Leningrad. On November 5, the Germans captured Moscow. Stalin and Molotov and several others disappeared. No one knew where they had fled. Arrest warrants for Stalin were issued throughout the German-occupied territories, and a large number of Gestapo flew in from Berlin to search for Stalin.

The news of Stalin's disappearance was also immediately learned by the Ming side. Nanjing also sent a large number of agents to Chelyabinsk and Kazakhstan, waiting for the net. If Stalin had fled to the east and had escaped the German manhunt, it would have been possible to run into the net of the Ming army.

Moscow at the beginning of November was already covered in snow. The sickle and hammer flag, which has been flying here for 22 years, has finally been lowered. However, a swastika flag was raised again.

On November 5, 1939, the Soviet Union fell. A new pattern has taken shape in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.