Chapter 866

"Yes, comrade Stalin, I can hear the gunfire outside. The German troops are very aggressive. They seem to be in a hurry." Rokosovsky said to the phone. The German army came under Stalingrad a day ago and then launched a fierce attack.

This was what the Soviets most wanted to see. Regardless of the losses, the German armored forces fought fiercely with the Soviet forces in Stalingrad and lost a large number of main forces.

But now things have become more complicated. To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the German troops participating in the attack is not strong, and there are many new names that no one has seen. This is not good news for the Soviet troops in the city. At least it shows that the German army has replaced the elite G group army, and used a new army who doesn't know where to attack.

Obviously, this unit is specially used to fight this kind of fierce war. Most of them are infantry, equipped with a large number of old-fashioned submachine guns and Mauser rifles. Although submachine guns have been proved to be inferior to assault rifles in field operations, submachine guns are often only tens of meters away in street battles, so they become a very useful weapon.

Both sides carefully prepared their own means. Relying on the anti-aircraft gun position, the Soviet Army hid thousands of guns in the ruins of Stalingrad. They used these cannons to fight against the German artillery, regardless of the loss, and wanted to trade the injury for the injury, consuming the German artillery strength.

The German army did not evade the artillery battle with the Soviet army as usual, but used their artillery to fight with the Soviet army with bayonets. After such a comparison, the Soviet Army learned a very uncomfortable fact, that is, the last short board of the German army, the inferior quality of artillery, no longer exists.

In terms of small caliber artillery, after integrating the French industrial production capacity, the German 75mm caliber field artillery has fully surpassed the Soviet 76mm in performance. The 2 mm caliber artillery and the 1 O5 mm caliber field artillery are no match for the 122 mm caliber howitzer that the Soviet army is proud of.

The war made the Soviet Army catch up with the German tanks, and shortened the gap between the two tanks in the main performance; Let the United States learn from the German air force and produce an advanced fighter that is not inferior to the German air force; So the war is the best teacher, with the blood lesson let people with the fastest degree of progress.

Of course, the war teacher's students are not only allies like the Soviet Union and the United States, but also axis power Germany. In terms of the studious level and the understanding of accepting new things, it is precisely the German students who are better and learn faster.

In fact, the artillery superiority that the Soviet army is proud of has disappeared in front of the German main forces. A large number of slow-moving infantry of the German army are equipped with heavy artillery with excellent performance. These artillery are better than the Soviet army in range accuracy and power.

Krupp is the world's artillery king, so in order to bear this name, Krupp company has also paid dozens of times and hundreds of times of efforts. They keep improving in every link, using the new "automatic" assembly line to produce products with the latest technology. Finally, through long accumulation, they have completed the transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change.

After the transformation, German heavy howitzers with 15O mm caliber were roaring at the Soviet artillery positions and the buildings in Stalingrad city. The artillery mechanically pushed the shells into the gun bore, then pushed them into the charge. After fixing the bolt, they pulled the lead of the cannon and made the cannon roar deafening.

The German army did not lose money in the artillery battle, and sometimes it could even suppress the Soviet artillery. When the two sides shot each other fiercely, the German Air Force's strategic bombers also brought a catastrophe to Stalingrad. The Soviet small caliber antiaircraft guns could not be used effectively because of the dense bombing at an altitude of 8 OOo meters, while the German coverage bombing caused incalculable losses to the Soviet army.

Not quite as expected, the German army did not try to be polite to the Soviet army, but directly put their troops into the brutal city battle. Within one day, the statistics from various departments of the Soviet Army showed that more than 3ooo German soldiers had been killed, which can be described as terrible.

"We have killed more than 3ooo German troops in 8 hours. The attack of the other side is very fierce. We have lost two-thirds of our peripheral positions. The battle is still going on... I will hold my position until the moment of victory!" Rokosovsky's underground headquarters was shocked by a shell and dropped a lot of dust. He narrowed his eyes and assured the microphone of the phone.

"You and I promised to live and die with Stalingrad! Now, the Caucasus war situation is very unfavorable to our army. I need you to stick to the Caucasus for six months, so that Zhukov and I can prepare three million new troops to fight back. " Stalin said on the other end of the phone, "now tell me, are you sure you will stick to Stalingrad for six months?"

In one day, Stalingrad had been surrounded by two sides. The German army's attack passed rokosovsky's expectation. The German army's continuous attack, regardless of the loss, caught the Soviet Army off guard. Now even rokosovsky didn't know what the war would be like, so he held the microphone and was silent.

After a long time, he assured Stalin: "Comrade Stalin, the great leader, all I can promise you is that I will fight to defend Stalingrad. As for how long I can defend Stalingrad, it depends on how many troops the German army is willing to defend."

This is his promise. Stalin didn't say much. He just hung up the phone and didn't want to talk to rokosovsky about other nonsense. Now that the war has been fought like this, there is nothing that can be changed by intrigue and good tactics. What we are competing for now is which of the two nations is more tenacious and which of them is more able to persist to the end. Without other tricks, if you want to win the war, you have to put soldiers into this huge meat grinder and consume them constantly. Which side's blood dries first, which side is cruelly out, that's all. Put down the phone in his hand, rokosovsky sighed and said to his deputy, "give the order to the armored forces to attack, fight back all the way, now! We can't let the Germans go on fighting like this. We have to fight back. " When he said these orders, a new round of German shelling began. Facing an exposed Soviet position, the German army used Frederick rockets. The dense rockets immediately covered the area full of Soviet soldiers and turned it into a sea of fire. The huge smoke made the German rocket positions shrouded in white smoke. The dust rolled up by the tail flame of the rocket blocked the sky, as if it had released a smoke bomb. In a short period of several tens of seconds, the German army fired up 2oo rockets from the producing countries, which made the Soviet people really realize what is the difference in firepower“ Is that Frederick, the heavy artillery fire Looking at the flickering light above his head, rokosovsky asked one of his men with a wry smile, who had participated in the front-line combat and had been suddenly attacked by the German fire arrow guns, so he remembered this weapon which could harvest countless lives. There are still several fragments in his body, which are the fragments after the explosion of this weapon“ Yes, Comrade General The hand nodded to him and replied, "the power of this weapon is amazing. I heard that our people are trying to imitate it, but we have no reference. We have made new progress recently."“ The German industrial base is stronger than ours, and new weapons are emerging one after another. There is nothing we can do about it. " Rokosovsky helplessly looked at his men and said: "the German army is estimated to have killed about 4ooo people, but we have lost almost 1ooooo people. This is the result of the inferior weapon tactics." The loss of the German army is really huge. While rokosovsky is biting his teeth and enduring the terrible number of casualties of the front-line troops, general trohiler is also helpless to listen to his subordinates report the number of deaths of the N group army in his own headquarters. The German army had never lost so much in a battle. Almost all of its three offensive divisions had lost their offensive ability and were forced to be replaced by new troops“ The Soviet counterattack was very sharp. These infantry were not the recruits before, they were all the elite of the Soviet people. " He handed the Soviet number list to trohiler, and then continued: "our army has lost 4ooo soldiers. Two commanders on the front line called to ask if they want to continue the attack."“ Of course, keep attacking! Among the 4ooo, 2ooo are death squads made up of prisoners. In fact, we don't lose much troops, do we? " "Tell the two commanders on the front line to put the Ukrainian reinforcements into battle. In two days, my troops will be forced into the city of Stalingrad to fight," he said“ Yes! general! I'm going to give you the order to fight. " The chief of staff turned and went out. With the issuance of battle orders one after another, the German offensive not only did not slow down, but became more frenzied. In many areas, the figure of the German servant Ukrainians appeared, and the losses of both sides were still expanding. At sunset, rokosovsky had to let a part of the reserves on the East Bank of the Volga River cross the river to join the frontal battlefield to stabilize his nearly collapsed defense line