Chapter 881 - 882 Cut Constant Routes
Stalingrad was once a city of pride for the Soviets, and it was once one of the fastest rising metropolises in the Soviet Union, named after its contemporary leader, Stalin, which shows its status in the country as a whole.
But now the city has been completely reduced to a hellish ruins. And in this ruin, there are now countless soldiers on both sides, who are fighting fiercely. Every minute, if not every second, soldiers die here just to fight for the ruined city beneath their feet.
The Germans put in more than a dozen new divisions of volunteers, led by German officers and soldiers, to launch a tidal attack on the Soviet army. Bulgarians, Yugoslavs, French, British, Romanians, and Italians all fought in the city to gain freedom for themselves and their loved ones.
What's more, in fact, it is the Ukrainians and Belarusians who hate the Soviets who killed their homeland, hoping to stand up and fight for the Third Reich at this time, and avenge their dead brothers and sisters with their steel guns.
Several Ukrainian soldiers, dressed in anachronistic SS black uniforms, with steel helmets. Clumsily pushing a 75 mm infantry cannon from the French, with shells from Belgium, clumsily pushed through the ruins. The bodies of these Ukrainian soldiers are covered with dust, which has made the black military uniform unable to see its original color, and in this war environment, the dust on their bodies and the beard on their faces are insignificant things that do not need to be taken care of at all.
Little by little, they pushed the wheels of the cannon, which had been coated with rubber to reduce wear and vibration, but now they were almost worn away, leaving only the metal-clad wooden wheels. In order to reduce the use of rubber, many of the German army's equipment cut corners, and the soldiers on the front line were accustomed to it.
Compared with the German army's own field artillery, that is, the short-barreled 75 mm caliber infantry gun, the French cannon in addition to its own weight exceeded, not convenient to accompany the advance of the armored forces, other performance is much better, after more self-propelled guns were produced and began to equip the troops, the German infantry began to eliminate their own small lightweight 75 mm infantry guns, a large number of French 75 mm field guns.
The Ukrainian soldiers finally pushed the artillery over the collapsed building, pushing the cannon onto the offensive positions where the Germans were located. In front of this group of soldiers is a half-collapsed building, inside which about a dozen of the same Ukrainian soldiers are defending.
The task was very simple, under the cover of friendly fire, push this cannon out of the left corner of the building, and then directly bombard the opponent's position, drive the Soviets there out of the building they were in, and then launch an attack to occupy it. This kind of task has to be carried out several times a day, and everyone is already familiar with it, so after a little arrangement, the entire Ukrainian infantry company of the German army began to move.
The gunfire began to rage, and tracer bullets shuttled back and forth between the two buildings, the bullets hitting the thick traditional Russian building, leaving only a mottled bullet hole. Traditional Russian buildings are characterized by very small windows and thick walls to withstand the cold winter – each building is a natural blockhouse, which is extremely strong.
"Push hard!" a Ukrainian squad leader shouted encouragement to his men, shouting slogans as they pushed the heavy cannon from behind the friendly building into the street next to it. The Soviet soldiers had apparently seen the change, and the bullets began to fire in a dense manner.
A Ukrainian soldier was shot and fell, but more Ukrainian soldiers pushed the gun with their heads down, pushing it to the designated position, a shell was pushed into the bomb bay, and several artillerymen frantically shook the angle control handle of the cannon, and quickly aimed the cannon at the target to be fired.
"Fire, fire!" the Ukrainian officer, huddled behind an artillery shield with one hand on his steel helmet, shouted loudly to his subordinates, and then there was an earth-shattering loud bang, and all the gunshots in his ears disappeared, leaving only a buzzing sound.
"Boom!" As the cannon spewed out a cloud of white smoke, a huge flower formed by a huge flame immediately bloomed next to a half-collapsed building on the opposite side, a Soviet machine-gun position that constantly spewed tongues of fire. Broken bricks, floors, and chandeliers all fell downward, and smoke billowed several stories high.
The Soviet heavy machine gun, which was still firing wildly just now, broke apart and rolled down from the rubble on the second floor, and fell to the concrete floor with a crisp sound. With this machine-gun position destroyed by the Germans with a single shot, the Soviet troops in this building were left without reliable firepower pillars.
"Attack! Machine gun cover!" shouted a German commander in command of the Ukrainian soldiers, and with his shout, the Ukrainian soldiers began to jump out of their bunkers without hesitation, carrying their rifles, and rushing to the Soviet positions opposite.
This moment is the moment of revenge, and they have to do two things before they go to war, one is to read aloud the letters from their families who live happily ever after they have been assigned to the fields, and the other is to collectively look back on the miserable life they lived during the years of Soviet rule. Now the time has come for them to take revenge, and they only need to kill all the Soviets to give the whole of Ukraine a better future.
The MG42 machine gun began to fire wildly, and the sound of tearing linen was so clear on the battlefield at all times. Every time this sound began to roar, it meant that many Soviet soldiers died, and it meant that the horn of the German offensive was sounded.
On the street, which was not wide, Ukrainian soldiers rushed from this building to the opposite building. From time to time, someone was shot and fell, and from time to time someone was hit into a hornet's nest by a bullet from the opposite side. However, they managed to rush over a short distance and into the building where the Soviets were stationed.
Leaning outside the window, a Ukrainian soldier carrying his Mauser rifle fired a shot inside, and the Soviet soldier inside who tried to get out of the door was shot in the back and lay on the door. More soldiers entered the building through the broken and collapsed walls, and after a dozen Soviet soldiers were killed, a German officer had a huge flag hung on the roof of the building.
Ukrainian soldiers have been on this battlefield for a full 20 days, and for such a long time, those soldiers who could not adapt were eliminated by the brutal fighting and died in the corner of the ruins here. The rest of them have become accustomed to everything around them, and like the Germans, they are now able to fight well and almost never make mistakes.
Seizing the time, the Germans set up improvised machine-gun positions in a low, hidden place, and after reserving the skirmish trenches for departure, most of the infantry were scattered around the building, leaving scouts on the commanding heights. A three-dimensional defensive position was thus completed, quietly waiting for a possible counterattack by the Soviets.
Unlike the history of another time and space, the German army fought more methodically in the street battle of Stalingrad this time, and the N Army in the hands of Qu Hiller was obviously more suitable for street fighting than the 6th Army in Paulus's hands - the German army in the hands of Accardo was much stronger than the German army in the hands of Hitler, so now Qu Hillel was at ease, and Paulus was taking care of one or the other.
Quchell sketched Stalingrad into dozens of small squares, all of which he mapped on the map, with the squares next to the front line represented danger zones in red, the areas separated by red grids in blue indicating the possibility of Soviet infiltration, and the areas that had been occupied for more than five days without Soviet troops appearing in green – these squares were relatively safe.
The red and blue lattice, the German army organized several layers of defense with heavy troops, ensuring that the Soviets could not penetrate the green lattice, allowing the German army to bloom behind the back. Then in the green grid, the German special forces repeatedly combed to ensure the absolute security of these areas.
This style of play made the German army advance very slowly, but almost step by step, and so far the Soviets have not recaptured the green grid, which is a proof of the success of Quchelel's tactics. Resolutely following this set of tactics, it would take only three months for Küchler to drive the Soviets out of Stalingrad, which Rokossovsky did not want to see.
"It's obvious. From his headquarters on the outskirts of Stalingrad, Quchler said to his men: "My opponent Rokossovsky will not be so willingly defeated, I am waiting for his counterattack, which will surely come." ”
What he didn't know was that the good-looking underground bunker command he was in now was actually Rokossovsky's front-line command two months ago, where Rokossovsky personally commanded the battle for the railway bridge, and as a result, the Germans finally captured the railway bridge unbelievably in that battle, and Rokossovsky could only be defeated.
"Reports from the air force that their bombing of the routes on both sides of the Volga River was very bad, and the pilots were not trained to attack sea targets, and the accuracy of bombing was very low, which also led to the Soviets easily completing eighty percent of the transportation of personnel and materials. The chief of staff said helplessly to Qu Hilel: "They say that these days there are at least 3 divisions of Soviet troops using the Volga route into Stalingrad. ”