The appearance of bullets hitting the ruins is actually just a set of familiar shots for veterans who are used to seeing the battlefield. The closer you get to the city, the more buildings block the view, so battles tend to break out at close range, so the results are often very brutal.

Even if a skilled veteran encounters an opponent at close range, he will inevitably have to pay a price, not to mention that the German army has invested a large number of new soldiers, and in such a strange environment, it has launched a bloody battle with the elite Soviet infantry. Both sides wanted to capture as many of these buildings as possible, and the dense density of buildings caused chaos on the battlefield.

A German soldier kicked open a door, and the Soviets inside shot wildly at the door, and the German soldier fell to the door with several shots, blood pouring out of his body, staining the old and dusty floor.

Before the Soviet soldiers in the room could rejoice that they had taken the lead in firing and killing their opponents, two German grenades flew into the house through the doorway, and the explosion kicked up a cloud of dust that erupted from the doorway and window of the room, marking the end of a battle.

The two Soviet machine gunners collapsed by the window in a dejected manner, and before they died, they were still firing desperately, trying to stop the German advance. Several other Soviet soldiers also fell to the ground, and they died in their positions without taking a single step back.

The Germans outflanked from both flanks, cut off the rear of this Soviet unit, and then occupied the building and cleared the Soviet troops inside. In order to seize this commanding height on this block, the Germans lost more than 20 men, and the Soviets paid a heavy price of 50 annihilated.

Only across the road, in another building, German soldiers and Soviet soldiers respectively controlled one end of the corridor, they shot wildly across the corridor, the corpses of soldiers on both sides lay in every corner of the entire building, the German attack was well prepared, and finally the Soviet army ran out of ammunition, launched a desperate charge, and all died in the process of advancing.

Farther away, several German soldiers counted the bodies of the troops, and just now a red-eyed Soviet soldier rushed into the German position with an explosive bag on his back, killing at least 10 soldiers, one of whom was a real German.

It would be completely wrong to simply think that the Germans were not good at street fighting at this time. It can be said that under the guidance of Accardo, the German army at this time can be regarded as the best army in the world at street fighting. Because the German army is good at armored troops, it is not willing to fight street battles to consume troops, so it leaves people with the illusion that the German army is not good at street fighting.

In fact, strictly speaking, at this time in 1939, the world's armies were not good at street fighting. All armies, including the Soviets, did not have systematic training in street fighting, but the Soviets had more troops, and they relied on constant sacrifices to cover up the fact that they could not fight street fighting.

When the Germans were ruthless and engaged in street battles with the Soviets in the city, the two sides realized that street fighting was not the strong point of a country's army, but just a bloody attrition.

The battle had not yet been fought for 48 hours, and Rokossovsky already had two divisions in his hands that had to be withdrawn to rest. His troops lost more than 10,000 men, and almost every minute and every second, soldiers died on their positions.

All the senior Soviet generals felt that the Germans did not dare to fight too expensive street battles, but now that it happened, the Germans entered Stalingrad and frantically fought a war of attrition with the Soviet army, which was not good news for Rokossovsky, at least he found that his troops, like the German army, were not very suitable for fighting in the city.

In one day, 3 regiment commanders and 4 battalion commanders were killed by German snipers on their positions, and at least 130 artillery pieces were destroyed, including large-caliber 122-mm howitzers. The Germans methodically approached the outskirts of Stalingrad and were expected to hold the perimeter for at least one month, and the Germans would be able to smash it for three more days at most.

The elite in his hands, the two armored divisions of the 2nd Guards Front, the main defensive area was the western railway station in Stalingrad, and now the German army was still at least 3 kilometers away from there, but in order to plug the holes in other directions, 70 tanks had been withdrawn from the defensive circle of the western station.

Only 8 of these tanks can still continue to fight, and the rest have been destroyed by the German armored forces on the periphery. This rate of loss made Rokossovsky give up the counterattack and regain the position for a while, because the cost was too high, and he could only watch the position gradually eroded by the Germans.

While attacking a row of houses, the Germans once again sacrificed their weapons of destruction, the infantry MLRS, which the soldiers laughingly called the building demolition machine. More than a dozen rockets destroyed the crumbling building and sent the Soviet defenders inside into the sky.

A large number of German troops entered the ruins, set up defensive positions on them, and the Soviets tentatively counterattacked, and after dropping a dozen corpses, the battle was briefly halted, and both sides were trying to organize their troops for the more brutal battle that followed.

"The neighborhoods have changed a lot, and our map is a bit outdated. Among the rubble, an officer in a dusty raincoat and a steel helmet squinted at a map in his hand, drawn by a spy a year and a half ago and compared with the Stalingrad Tourist Guide issued at the time. But now it seems that Stalingrad has changed a lot in more than a year.

"Yes! If we look at the map, we should still be on the outskirts of Stalingrad now. A non-commissioned officer from the company next to him held his steel helmet in one hand and pressed the other hand on the map against the compass to confirm his current position.

"Report this to the battalion headquarters! We have to find a suitable map so that we can provide accurate coordinates, otherwise the artillerymen will injure their own people by mistake. As he spoke, the officer collected the map in his hand, and he instructed the signal soldier with the radio on his back: "Inform the 2nd Company that will follow behind, and ask them to search the nearby rooms to see if they can find something useful, and focus on some maps! I can't find a reference to attack." ”

Another group of Germans also encountered similar problems as they advanced, and at the corner of a street, they encountered a well-placed barricade by the Soviets, and the battle lasted for almost half an hour, and the Germans were still unable to move forward. They couldn't call for artillery support because they couldn't tell where they were.

"This map must be remarked! It is better to have a map of the captured Soviet troops to refer to!" said one of the German soldiers to his men. He had just called for artillery support, and the shell had landed at least a block away, and he knew that the map in his hand should not be a reference for artillery support.

"Damn! Aren't we on the left side of the reference building? What's wrong with that? Is it the artilleryman's own problem? Oh my God!" the bullet hit the wall and sent a cloud of white smoke, and one of the non-commissioned officers huddled together in fright shouted loudly.

Any map is drawn by people, especially the map of warfare, which is often secretly drawn by spy personnel with strong professional knowledge. As a result, some maps are not very accurate, as it is impossible for spies to set up professional drawing tools on the streets.

This is also a secondary reason why the farther back the war goes, the more difficult it becomes: because the maps of the border areas are thoroughly penetrated, they are often more accurate, and the closer they are to the enemy's hinterland, the more difficult the map is to draw, so that the maps in the hands of the soldiers have lost their proper role.

"We found a guidebook next to a fruit shop with a simple map on it to see if it could be used!" said a platoon commander who rushed over with his big findings, leaning against the wall of the building where he was hiding, gasping for air.

Taking the map from his hand, the company commander frowned, his dirty fingers slicing across the equally dirty atlas and pressing them to their approximate position: "We are now on the outskirts of Stalingrad, which is a full circle larger than we expected. ”

He looked up and shouted at the side of the street: "Ruslan! Come! We need you to see this map in Russian! Hell! Shoot to cover Ruslan! Fire! Fire!"

"Suddenly, suddenly!" The Germans who received the order shot frantically from the corner of the street, and some of them even poked out the muzzle of their guns through the window, and for a while the bullets flew sideways, and the Soviet fire on the opposite side was obviously suppressed.

A soldier in a German uniform but without a tactical vest ran across the road with his Mauser 98K rifle, his back shot in a straight line of white smoke. The last few steps of this soldier named Ruslan were completed directly by flying, and he fell to the ground and fell to the ground, and was hurriedly helped up by the Germans on this side.

"Ruslan reports to you! The young soldier saluted, panting. Although his German was stumbling, he spoke it well on the whole, and he had obviously been trained.

"You're Ukrainian, look at this map. The company commander handed him the travel brochure in his hand and scolded: "Hell, we're not here to travel." ”