Two Germans lay silently in the rubble, and one pointed the muzzle of the MG42 machine gun at the end of the street. The assistant shooter hid the chain in his palm, his eyes staring at the street corner in the distance.

At their feet, there is also a spare ammunition box, which is a whole box of coiled bullet chains, which can ensure that they shoot like crazy here without thinking about ammunition. As soon as the opponent rushes out of the direction where they are going to shoot, they will be hit by a storm.

Both of them were wearing gray-green military uniforms, which were standard German spring and autumn military uniforms, and because they were crawling through the ruins of the city, their bodies were covered in dust, so at this moment the two of them seemed to be one with their surroundings.

One of the two Germans wore a steel helmet with a grid on his head, while the other had only a white Army Group insignia on the side of the steel helmet. The co-shooter also carried a Mauser 98K rifle behind him, and the tactical vests on the two men indicated that they were the backbone of the unit, orthodox German infantry.

And beside them, there are a few soldiers wearing German military uniforms, but no bulletproof vests and other equipment, they are obviously Ukrainians and Belarusians, these people have grenades hanging in the pockets of their waists and clothes, gathered in a crater, observing the movement in all directions.

The infantry in the crater was responsible for covering the German machine-gun position on the commanding heights of the ruins, as long as this machine-gun position was there, then they could calmly repel the Soviet soldiers attacking from the front, and they took it with great effort until the crater under their feet was hit by a shell, and they attacked the ruins.

"I have a feeling that someone is coming. The assistant shooter looked at the street ahead and said to the shooter next to him: "The Soviets will never give up like this, they will fight back here and try to drive us out." ”

"You're right, because I've seen them coming. The machine gun shooter pulled the bolt on the gun with his hand, and the bullet clicked and loaded. His eyes connected to the front sight of the machine gun, and then naturally pressed the front sight on a Soviet man who had just burst out of the corner.

He didn't fire, just calmly pressed his finger on the trigger, his cheek pressed against the cold machine gun body, and the cool feeling spread to every corner of his body, making his whole person concentrate.

There is no reason to easily reveal the location of a machine-gun position, especially one with a wide view and a very ideally located one. What they have to do is to wait for the Soviets to reach a certain level, and then show the power of the MG42 machine gun to destroy the world.

The second Soviet soldier rushed out of the corner, but he was hit in the chest by a bullet from a German rifle, and the whole person fell backwards, apparently on the edge of the ruins, the German infantry in the crater also found their enemy, and was desperately firing.

These Germans did not have many automatic weapons in their hands, and compared to the elite German troops, they had almost no high-end equipment such as MP-44 assault rifles, and even fewer G43s. Most of these cannon fodder from Ukraine and Belarus are only equipped with Maohe 98K rifles, and the performance of this rifle is similar to that of Mosin Nagant.

Dense gunfire rang out, and a Soviet machine-gun group began firing at German positions on street corners, aiming at the Germans near the crater, firing a dense barrage of bullets there. A cloud of smoke rose from the crater, and the German recruits there were so frightened that they cowered and did not dare to open fire again.

With the cover of fire, the Soviets naturally acted more boldly, and they bent over and ran forward, hoping to quickly close the distance between the two sides. On the other side of the street where the Germans were stationed, a window suddenly erupted with a dazzling tongue of fire, and it was clear that there were not only German troops stationed in the craters nearby.

The German G43 rifle on the other side of the window fired every time it was crisp, which sounded very different from the sound of the Mauser rifle, plus the sound of fragmentary Mauser rifles, the Soviet offensive was once again suppressed, and the corpses of more than a dozen Soviet soldiers were poured on the streets, and for a while everyone was trying to find a way to shoot each other and kill each other's gunners.

The Soviet machine gun on the corner of the street could not shoot at the German soldier stationed in the window on the same side of the street because of the angle. Therefore, the casualties of the Soviet troops were very huge, and for a time it was impossible to break through the streets blocked by the German crossfire.

"Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly!" The German machine-gun positions above the ruins finally opened fire after the Soviets had invested a large number of troops. The machine gunner had already pointed the muzzle of the machine gun at the Soviet machine gun team over there, and he was just quietly waiting, waiting for his chance to join the battle. Now that the opportunity came, he did not hesitate to pull the trigger pressed by his fingers.

The saw-like roar characteristic of the German machine gun sounded, and the tracer bullets exposed the machine gun position and solved the problem of firing deviation correction for the machine gunner. It didn't take a few rounds for a rain of bullets from German machine guns to sweep through the Soviet machine gun teams, sending them with a cloud of white dust and smoke.

It was the bullet that had passed through the body, and the rubble and other things that had burst out on the surrounding road, accompanied by the splatters of blood and the screams of the Soviets, made for a very gorgeous picture. The picture shows Soviet soldiers on their backs, sparks and distorted faces everywhere.

With the familiar and frightening sound of tearing linen, German machine-gun bullets densely pressed on the Soviet positions, and there were Soviet soldiers who were hit everywhere, and corpses that had fallen to the ground everywhere. The Soviet machine-gun team was beaten into a sieve in an instant, and even the machine gun was hit by bullets in several potholes.

The Soviet infantry, who had been suppressed by German fire on the side of the street, saw a German machine-gun position hidden at the top of the ruins opposite them suddenly open fire, and they watched in horror as tracer bullets flew towards the machine-gun positions covering them, and then turned it into a bloody hell.

These Soviet soldiers already knew that their attack had failed, and now the question for them became how to retreat safely, and no one knew if they would be lucky enough to retreat to the corner of departure.

Generally speaking, when there are jackals in front of you and tigers and leopards in the back, it is necessary for people to rely on intuition to deal with them. Because in this case, there is often no time for careful analysis and planning, and can only rely on temporary and instantaneous reactions. And the Soviet troops, who were suppressed in front of the German positions, also made their choice at this moment, and these people immediately turned their direction and rushed towards the place of departure.

Charging is also death, retreating is also death, for these Soviet troops, now their fate is no longer in their own hands, they need to rely on their last remaining luck, as well as the pity of the enemy and their own people.

The Germans had no mercy, and their frantic shooting at the routed Soviet infantry seemed to vent the pain of being suppressed to suffocation just now. Bullets hit the backs of the retreating Soviets, knocking them to the ground as if they were cutting wheat.

Rather unfortunately, it is clear that today the Soviets did not show mercy to their comrades, and instead of covering the retreating soldiers, they allowed the Germans to slaughter their comrades incessantly - many Soviet political workers suggested that the retreating soldiers should be shot, but this proposal was ultimately rejected by Rokossovsky. But he couldn't stop his men from executing retreating soldiers in disguise, such as today, without covering retreating troops.

This led to the fact that on the second day of the official start of the street fighting at Stalingrad, the Soviet losses on the edge of the city remained high, and there was a relatively wide firing environment where the German firepower could be used to the extreme. The Soviet casualties were so frightening that they lost almost 10,000 people in one day.

Such huge losses were partly due to the Soviet army's artificial obstruction of the retreat, and on the other hand, the Soviet army's insistence on counterattacking and repeatedly fighting for positions with the Germans. Stalingrad was only that big in total, and if it was to retreat, the city would not be large enough to last for half a year.

In short, for one reason or another, after the Soviet army got three divisions of reserves into Stalingrad, it launched a frantic counterattack against the German army, although most of the counterattacks were repulsed by the German army, but a part of the Soviet army did repel the attacking German army, and once pushed the battlefield to the outskirts of Stalingrad.

On this day, the Germans lost 2 blocks in their hands, and almost lost part of the city in their hands to the Soviet army. After paying the price of more than 50,000 killed, both sides found themselves in positions that were almost the same as they had been two days earlier.

The senior German generals who lived through the First World War looked at the data in front of them and thought of the damned name Verdun, where the German and French lost more than 700,000 people on their positions, but neither was able to move forward. And because of such heavy casualties, that battle was called the Verdun meat grinder by historians.

Now they seem to have seen the scene again, a pain that the entire German Army does not want to recall. Now again, for the first time since the beginning of the war, the Germans had lost more than 10,000 casualties, but they were not able to move forward.

But even with such huge losses, the Germans still did not change the attack plan they had made a month earlier. On the last day of March, the Germans and the counterattacking Soviets launched an offensive, and the Battle of Stalingrad continued boringly in the form of casualty figures.