"If we were here for a tour, we wouldn't have to work so hard!" said the German company commander as a German grenadier veteran was holding his MP-44 assault rifle and firing a magazine of bullets into the opposite block. The muzzle of his gun spewed flames, and the recoil made the muzzle of the gun pulse.

On the other side of the street, a cloud of white smoke was shot around a window, into which the German grenadier's bullet went in, and one of the Soviet gunners inside fell with a bullet and hung on the lattice, his arm still shaking.

The veteran immediately retreated from the window, bypassing the rubble table, and retreating into the corridor outside the room, where he had apparently also been spotted and struck at the window where he had just emerged, and for a moment broken glass and sawdust flew everywhere, but there was no one in the room.

"Don't stand here stupidly!Follow me, get out from behind!," the German soldier reminded his companion as he ran towards the stairs, and several young Ukrainians scrambled down the stairs.

Just half an hour ago, several people they knew were finally hit by an accurate 75mm shell from the Soviet army because they were shooting in one place, and this bloody fact is still echoing in everyone's minds.

In this ruin, no one can rely on luck to survive to the end, so everyone must learn the lessons they didn't know before in order to live longer. For the soldiers of the Soviet and German armies who were constantly struggling in this ruin, the cruel and bloody days had just begun.

At the corner of the street, a German self-propelled quadruple anti-aircraft gun drove slowly in, and its surroundings were followed by dense German soldiers, who were ordered to attack this neighborhood and annihilate the nearby Soviet forces under the cover of this self-propelled quadruple 20 mm cannon.

As the team advanced, the German armored vehicle finally appeared on the street, and the dense Soviet bullets hit the bulletproof steel plate on the German anti-aircraft combat vehicle, splashing a spark. But these bullets were not able to penetrate the armor of the German army, and only left a crater mark on it.

"Straight ahead! Aim!" The commander of the air defense tank pointed to the position in front of him and shouted loudly to his subordinates, while the soldiers on the air defense tank were adjusting the position of the artillery on the tank at their fastest speed. The muzzles of the four black holes were pointed at the enemy, and everything seemed to be ready.

"Fire!" With the order of the German commander, the slaughter began, and the dense 20 mm caliber machine gun shells swept towards the Soviet positions like raindrops, and for a time the bricks and tiles were broken into pieces, and the thick brick walls were densely packed with holes by shells, and the Soviet soldiers behind these walls were shot and fell, and the screams seemed so insignificant under the roar of the machine guns.

"Forward!" The Germans who were following behind the anti-aircraft tank saw the shocking scene in front of them and gave the order to attack. Beside him, one after another, German soldiers rushed past the anti-aircraft tanks and ran in the direction of the enemy. The soldiers bent over as low as they could, carrying their rifles, as they scurried through the rubble of the city.

Despite the strong covering fire behind them, even though their numbers were very large, they still used the rules of operation repeatedly emphasized by the German instructors to regulate their tactical movements. They walked through the streets, entered the Soviet positions that were still smoking, and shot and killed the wounded Soviet soldiers who were still struggling inside.

Many of these people were Soviet ****** who had been destroyed by the Great Purge during Stalin's rule, so they hated Stalingrad, the city named after Stalin, and they were willing to help the Germans fight to avenge the death of their relatives in Siberia.

So these people attacked frantically, and under the urging of the German commanders, they frantically killed the poor Soviet soldiers. The battle raged fiercely, lasting from early morning to late evening, and the Germans paid the price of almost 9,000 men in 48 hours, finally cutting off the last of Stalingrad's outer positions from the outside of the encirclement. On March 30, Stalingrad was finally besieged in the truest sense of the word, and became an isolated city.

"They're not here for tourism! So we must hold every one of our positions! Give the aggressors a head-on blow!" a corps commander roared at several of his division commanders at the Soviet command, the Soviet troops on the periphery had lost almost half of their strength in the past two days, and now the defensive line was in full swing and in danger of collapsing at any time.

Rokossovsky's reinforcements had just arrived nearby, and the divisions, which had been annihilated by the Germans with large numbers of infantry, were now given orders to retreat to the designated areas, awaiting reorganization and replenishment. However, they had already lost more troops and weapons than their German opponents who had been replaced.

"But Comrade Commander, our soldiers have lost too much, they have used snipers extensively during the attack, and they have also used armored vehicles nearby to support the attack, and our pressure is too great. A division commander explained while wiping the sweat from his head.

His words resonated with everyone, after all, the German offensive was not something that they could stop as infantry units, and in the face of the combined attack of German bombers and artillery, most of the Soviet positions became vulnerable, and the German offensive regardless of losses, some of the positions in the city of Stalingrad had fallen into the hands of the Germans.

While the soldiers on the front line were saying these words, Rokossovsky was also listening to his assistants report on these problems: "The Germans are not as bad at urban warfare as we think, they are good at using the ruined terrain, and they frequently change the numbers of the attacking units, and these units are summing up their combat experience in actual combat, and they are becoming more and more difficult. ”

And another thing also made Rokossovsky a little restless, that is, the German army had broken into the city of Stalingrad from the southwest, although it only captured two blocks, but this really touched the fragile nerves of the Soviet high-level, they expected that the peripheral positions could block the German army for a long time, but they did not expect that the German army only fought for two days to basically clear the perimeter of Stalingrad.

The Germans, who were temporarily very well supplied, carried out several rounds of frantic bombardment of Stalingrad, and a large number of Soviet heavy weapons were destroyed, and Rokossovsky had to transfer troops on the east bank of the Volga River to participate in the defense of the city.

However, after all, the capacity of the ships on the Volga River was limited, and the German planes were still blocking the transportation of Soviet ships -- in this case, he could only transport one regiment across the river and throw one regiment into the battlefield, and time was always waiting for no one, so he tried to choose the intermittent period of the German offensive and go up to the front line to replenish these scattered troops.

"The total number of enemies destroyed reported by our army is 11,700 people. The assistant lowered his head, looked at a set of data, and said to his superior: "Do you want to send this to Moscow alone? This may be the largest number of opponents annihilated by our army in consecutive battles." ”

Hearing this suggestion, Rokossovsky fell silent. He didn't know exactly how many enemies his troops had annihilated, but as far as he knew, there were probably only about 7,000 that had been formally verified. Of course, the loss of the Soviet army's strength was not 6,000 as claimed to the outside world, but a full 18,500 people.

Because the German army used a large number of recruits, the Soviet army was able to basically achieve two for one, this exchange ratio can be said to be the highest record in the entire Soviet-German battlefield, before the German army even played a terrible battle loss ratio of 1 for 32 on some local battlefields.

"Tell the truth about this situation in the direction of Moscow! Otherwise, Comrade Stalin would still think that we have no pressure at all here!" Rokossovsky finally gave up his intention to show his merits, in which case the most important thing was to get support for the difficulty of reacting, and everything else was just to make trouble for himself.

"Yes! The assistant nodded, then walked back with the information in his hand. In this underground bunker, there is no need to care about the almost endless shelling of the German large-caliber artillery, but it can really be said that it is dark, and only dim electric lights can be relied on to maintain the lighting all day long.

Every shell that falls nearby makes the lights tremble, and it is easy for people to become irritable in the flickering environment. Only in the evening did Rokossovsky go out for a walk and see the Volga transport hub, which had been changed beyond recognition.

It has been thriving for hundreds of years, and in the past, it was rarely attacked by war. People lived and worked here until 1939, which is this year. Two days earlier, the city had been bombarded by the enemy, and the air strikes, although devastating, did not completely turn the city into ruins, but the shelling was more accurate and targeted than the air strikes, and from that time on, the city began to be destroyed.

"Will I go to destruction with this city?" Rokossovsky asked himself, and then he sneered, denying his sentimentality: "I will not easily admit defeat! No matter who the other side is, I will hold out until the last moment! Adjutant! Give an order! Order the reserves of 4 divisions to enter a counteroffensive and recapture our lost positions! I want to make the Germans understand the fact that the battle of Stalingrad has only just begun!"