Rokossovsky now knew what the Germans were thinking, and in the course of the counterattack, his troops took quite a few prisoners, some Bulgarians, some French, and even some British. This gave him an idea of what tricks the Germans were playing this time.

The Germans did not get bogged down in real street fighting at all, it was the "Eight-Nation Alliance" and the USSR itself that got bogged down in street fighting. After the battle for a small military train station on the western outskirts of the country, with almost 10,000 troops on both sides and the entire station in ruins, the Soviets were still unable to hold the westernmost landmark of Stalingrad.

Rokossovsky was tormented by the brutal war, he lost nearly 10,000 soldiers every day, and if converted into troops, almost one of his infantry divisions was completely crippled every day, and he could not continue to fight and had to withdraw from the battlefield.

But in fact, Rokossovsky chose a more iron-clad approach, he replenished the old troops, and then continued to let them rest on the second front for a few days, and then threw them back to the front and threw themselves into endless attrition.

At this point in the war, Rokossovsky really realized that the real urban street fighting was a double-edged sword, a self-inflicted way of fighting without injuring the enemy and hurting oneself first, and it was also a huge attrition battle that the Soviet troops could not bear. At least his elite troops, already exhausted and slackened in the endless battle for the city.

The question now is how many reinforcements the Soviets have, and whether these reinforcements will be able to consume the patchwork of troops that the Germans have put together -- and whether Stalingrad will be able to hold out for half a year, dragging Germany into the long Russian winter weather once again.

Of the 30 divisions that had rushed from the Far East, 3 divisions of the vanguard had already reached Stalingrad, and Rokossovsky threw one of the elite infantry divisions into the Stalingrad battlefield without hesitation. Of course, as expected, this division was also not able to work a miracle, and in the battle for a larger block, almost half of it was knocked out by a Ukrainian division of the German army.

There was no other opportunity to use tricks or tactics, and the battle throughout Stalingrad was not about the speed of the offensive or how elite the troops were, but how many troops were constantly invested by both sides, and how long these forces could be consumed by the other side.

The Germans began to use naval bombers and pilots to intercept operations along the Volga River, resulting in the Soviet Volga River shipping army that was constantly working day and night and could only move at night. Moreover, these Soviet ships had to disperse and hide in some hidden places upstream or downstream before the sun rose the next day, or they would be destroyed on the Volga River. This made it more and more difficult for the Soviet army to replenish troops inside Stalingrad, and it also led to the fact that Rokossovsky's troops were getting smaller and smaller.

"We can't go on like this, we have to rush some troops to this side, and I'm going to launch a counterattack and retake the railway station in the west, and a field hospital near there. Rokossovsky pointed to the map and said to several of his army commanders: "I still have counterattack troops in my hands, but the follow-up defense troops must be prepared in advance, otherwise the whole battlefield will be repeated." ”

"Comrade Commander, there is at least a month left before the armored forces are thrown into a full-scale counterattack. At this time, the battle plan is launched in advance, what should we do next?" one of Rokossovsky's corps commanders looked at the map and frowned and asked, "This will make my army unable to carry out the next counterattack plan." ”

Listening to his question, Rokossovsky shook his head and sighed before answering his question: "The reason why the back hand is called the back hand is because these means are the means to be used later. But if we don't do anything now, when that damn Army Group N commander, Qu Hillel, really completes his deployment, we won't have a chance to use these back-ups. ”

"The Germans are really tough, they always seem to be ready to fight all kinds of wars in advance, even the street battles in the cities that they have been avoiding are so good at it. Another commander sighed along with Rokossovsky.

The Soviet army was always on the passive side in the battle with the German army, and the German army used a large number of snipers and special forces to participate in urban operations, and then cooperated with a large number of miscellaneous armies to assist the attack. With the aim of killing and injuring a large number of the Soviet army's vital forces, the tactics of hitting and running were adopted, making it difficult for the Soviet army to parry.

"The whole city was full of German snipers, and if we attacked and cleared, we would have to cross a large number of German-occupied areas, which was no different from a counterattack. And the other side can retreat calmly and not engage us head-on at all. A corps commander in charge of frontal defense said to his commander and colleagues in frustration: "I have to reappoint a dozen lieutenants and a few colonels every day, and this has a great impact on the morale of the entire army." ”

There were not one or two complaints about the German snipers, and if Rokossovsky could handle it, he would have figured it out a long time ago. But now it turned out that when he inspected the front-line defenses again, one of his assistants was shot by a German sniper 400 meters away and died. And as the commander himself, Rokossovsky could only bury his subordinates, and then cancel all trips to the front.

These German snipers were everywhere, they easily killed the Soviet troops hundreds of meters away, and then calmly left. Accardo had been training the German army's sniper units since before 1922, and now it was finally paying off, and the Germans now had the best sniper units in the world, and they were at least a decade ahead of their opponents in overall strength.

It is not that the Soviet army did not think of using its own snipers to kill the other side -- but they discovered an unavoidable fact in actual combat, that is, the German snipers had to overwhelm the Soviet army in both quantity and quality, and that is, they fought each other for losses, and the Soviet army was also the one who suffered losses.

After successfully hunting and killing more than a dozen German snipers, the Soviet sniper unit was strangled by the combined efforts of the German special forces and snipers, and the final result of the two sides was 17 to 35, and the Soviet sniper losses more than doubled the German losses.

"Along the banks of the river began a counterattack on both flanks, increasing the longitudinal width of the Volga that we controlled. In this way, we will be able to hide more transports to make up for the loss of our inability to transport troops during the day. Rokossovsky thought for a moment and said: "As for the enemy's snipers, we can only ignore them for the time being. Wait two years, and our snipers will be trained in actual combat, and then it will be time to fight to the death!"

Recently, the Luftwaffe has been raging everywhere on the Volga, destroying a large number of ships used by the Soviet army for transport. A large pile of supplies waiting to be transported across the Volga could only be hidden on the other side of the river, and tens of thousands of recruits could only remain on the east bank of the Volga for the time being, unable to enter Stalingrad to fight for Rokossovsky.

The dive bombing of those planes from the German Navy over the Volga was extremely accurate, and the strategic bombing of the Luftwaffe also made it extremely difficult for the Soviets to supplement their efforts in the direction of Stalingrad. Many railways were destroyed, and the Germans, because they would not cross the Volga River in a short time, began a large-scale bombardment of railways and communication nodes this time.

The long-range bombing advantage of the butcher bombers was brought into full play, and the Soviet troops were patronized by this kind of German four-engine strategic bombers hundreds of kilometers behind the defensive line, and the entire Soviet army was in chaos in the depths, and it became a very difficult thing to reinforce Stalingrad.

In this case, as a commander, Rokossovsky can only help his subordinates imagine a better future. Isn't there a saying that when a person is unhappy, he either likes to imagine the future, or he likes to recall the past.

Now Rokossovsky is either reminiscing about the past or painting a pie for the future - he knows that his life is not satisfactory, but there is nothing he can do to change it. As the supreme commander of Stalingrad, he had not many options but to be reduced to ruins with the city.

When the German army advanced slowly with superior firepower and played the iron-clad tactics of the old man Zeng Guofan decades ago, the Soviet army really did not have many means to turn the tide of the war, and they could only use more of their own troops to hit the iron walls of the German army and buy more time for their destruction. And for the Soviet Union, what is most lacking now seems to be time.

"Let's fight back to the north with the Guards' armored forces. After Rokossovsky strengthened his confidence, he pointed to the map and began to assign tasks: "On the frontal defense line in the west, the new infantry on top will start a battle for the western railway station, and it is necessary to hit the small station and hold the position!"

He walked to the other side of the map, pointed down with his hand, and ordered: "The two newly arrived divisions are responsible for attacking southward and capturing as many suburban positions as possible, and whether we can expand the scale of night transport depends on this battle." ”

After waiting for his men to come out of the somewhat dimly lit basement, Rokossovsky put his hands over his face and exhaled a deep breath. Only he knew how much pressure was on his shoulders, and now the whole battle of Stalingrad was out of his grip and was going in a direction he never thought possible.

The feeling of losing control was really bad, at least Rokossovsky himself had a premonition that the Soviets might lose - for him, perhaps this was the most devastating thing -

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