Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1260 Anxious Stalingrad
6月5日。第24装甲师全部，第389步兵师和第100击兵师的大部向红色十月金属工厂和街垒武器工厂展开进攻。

"This factory area is completely destroyed, messy and chaotic." A sniper described this huge industrial area in this way.Almost all the windows and the roof had been destroyed by the bombing, and the rusted machinery was twisted in strange shapes. "The first group of comrades-in-arms fell, and more and more people were calling for health soldiers. The firepower became more and more intensive, but it seemed to come not only from the front, but from both the front and back." Soviet artillery and mortars also caused huge damage. Casualties, because a large amount of rubble was mixed in the flying shrapnel.

The next day, in order to speed up the attack on the Red October factory area, Commander-in-Chief Pu Yin ordered the 94th Army Division and the 14th Armored Division to go north from the south of the city.

On the Soviet side, the 55th Army, which was in a difficult situation, also welcomed reinforcements in a timely manner, the infantry division of General Stepan Guriyev.The division went into action directly on the right flank of the Red October factory, strengthening the defenses there.Another cutting-edge division also began to cross the river. Colonel Gurdiyev's 308th Army Division was the second mainly Siberian unit on the Stalingrad battlefield.But these reinforcements only made up for the losses already suffered.

Soon, Zhukov encountered an unexpected danger.The 12th Rifle Division of the Dragon Army penetrated through the gully on the right flank of the 3rd Guards Militia Division of the Red Army.These guard militiamen resisted fiercely, ambushing the enemy at close range with submachine guns and grenades.However, at night, a large group of dragon infantry climbed the main drainpipe in the Crudo gully and reached the banks of the Grand Canal.They turned south and attacked the rear of Rodimtsev's division.This attack coincided with another breakthrough by the Right Winged Dragon Army.Rodimtsev reacted quickly. He ordered all the troops in his hands not to prepare, and immediately went into counterattack, and the battle situation was finally stabilized.

Soon, the Dragon Army attacked the oil tanks above the headquarters of the Soviet 54th Regiment Army.These tanks are not actually empty.The bombs or shelling of the Dragon Army directly hit the target and ignited the fire.Burning oil trickled down the hillside.

"Where are you?" Zhukov in the Smolny Palace kept calling and asking, and finally got an answer: "We are in the place where the thickest smoke and flames are concentrated."

June 6.At 11 a.m. China time, the Sixth Army launched an offensive on the narrow front, and the Fourth Air Force of the Imperial Air Force dispatched all Lanxiang fighters to cooperate with the attack.

"The sky is full of planes," wrote a soldier of the 389th Infantry Division who was waiting to attack. "Every anti-aircraft gun is firing, bombs are roaring, planes are being hit and crashed. We are in our trenches. Looking at the big drama in front of me with complicated emotions."

"The intensity of the battle was beyond people's imagination," wrote a Soviet officer who participated in the battle. "The people in the communication trenches staggered and stumbled, as if they were on a large ship tossed in a storm."

The words of the political commissars are obviously more poetic. "These days, the gloomy sky of Stalingrad is unforgettable for everyone who sees it. The black clouds are overwhelming, the danger is everywhere, and the dark red flames go straight to Xiaohan."

Fighting first broke out southwest of the tractor.At noon, part of the 14th Panzer Corps advanced from north to south.Zhukov did not hesitate to put his most important tank unit, the 84th Tank Brigade, into battle to resist the onslaught of the three infantry divisions of the Dragon Army led by the 14th Armored Division.

"It was a terrible and exhausting battle," wrote an officer of the 14th Panzer Corps. It was battle. Tanks climbed up the mounds of ruins and tiles, carefully walked through the ruins of the factory, and fired at close range within digital range. Many tanks crushed enemy mines, and some were shaken to death. Some of them exploded and burst into flames. The shells hit the iron equipment on the factory floor, sparks scattered like raindrops, and they were clearly visible in the smoke."

The perseverance of the Soviet soldiers is incredible, but the attacking edge of the Dragon Army is still unstoppable.On the morning of the first day, the Dragon Army tanks broke through, cutting off the link between Zholudev's 37th Guards Corps and the 112th Infantry Division.General Zholudev was buried in his bunker by debris from the explosion, and soldiers dug him out and sent him to Army Group Command.Others took up the weapons of their fallen comrades and continued to fight.The disgraced Dragon Army tanks turned to the right and burst into the huge shed of the tractor factory. They looked like prehistoric monsters, spraying machine gun fire all around, and their tracks rattled over the large pieces of glass that fell from the skylight. .In this close combat, there are simply no clear lines of battle.

During the six days of fighting that began on June 6, the Chinese Air Force carried out wave after wave of air strikes on the Neva Ferry and Soviet troops.

Even so, Chinese air force pilots began to harbor the same doubts as ground troops that the defenders of Stalingrad were truly invincible.

"I can't understand," wrote a Chinese military officer in a letter home, "how can people survive in such a hellish environment? In the ruins of factories, caves and basements, the Russians are as stable as mountains."

While Tang Shengzhi's troops made a breakthrough against the Kirov factory, the Long Army also began to make breakthroughs in other directions.

June 6.The Dragon Army finally made a decisive breakthrough. They occupied Lenin Square and captured the "Victory Bridge" leading to Kirov Island in one fell swoop by raiding, where the famous Leningrad Zoo, Museum and Planetarium were located.

The Red Army responded quickly, where Zhukov dispatched his reserve force, the 211th Infantry Division, to plug the gap.That night, they concentrated the three infantry regiments in their hands and began to counterattack the positions controlled by the Dragon Army.But it was quickly repelled by the dragon army.But the loss of the dragon army was also extremely huge.

"The high walls of the factory, the assembly line, and the entire large building collapsed under the indiscriminate bombing," Tang Shengzhi wrote to a friend, "but the enemy is still there, and takes advantage of the new ruins. Strengthen their defensive positions. Some battalions of the Dragon Army have only 50 people left, and they send the corpses of their comrades to bury at night. It is inevitable that the troops will start to ridicule the higher command."

Faced with the losses encountered by Long Jun, Pu Yin believed that this was an inevitable setback.The cruelty and uncertainty of urban street fighting is the most troublesome.Although he had a decisive advantage, the Soviets used the city's solid defenses to enable him to support for a long time.In order to completely reverse this trend, he must launch a more violent attack.

To this end, he began to transfer to Chen Jitang the elite troops in his reserve force, the 4th Combat Engineer Brigade and the Thunderfire Paratrooper Armored Division, an armored unit under Feng Ru, the Minister of the Air Force Empire.

Chen Jitang, who received reinforcements, made a comeback, ready to launch a fierce counterattack.First of all, he needs to stick to the defensive positions of the Dragon Army on the Kirov Islands side, including the beachheads including the Kirov Cultural Rest Park.

On this day, when most of the Dragon Army soldiers were hurrying to rest, on the way to the southern part of Kirov Island, the Leihuo Armored Battlegroup first encountered stubborn resistance from the Red Army's position in Telokbalink, China. With the support of self-propelled artillery, the tanks quickly destroyed them one by one.

Facing the overwhelming attack of the Dragon Army troops, the situation in the Kirov Island area was once very critical: at noon, the Dragon Army's armored reconnaissance troops penetrated through the Kirov Island Mountains and entered the quiet castle area.The Soviet police force on the outer perimeter first issued an alarm, and the Soviet soldiers in the Kirov Island area suddenly seemed to be in a hurry. They were a group of untrained students studying at Stalingrad University near the Janos Hospital on the island. Organized in haste, they miraculously stopped the dragon's initial tentative attack in a fierce melee.

After receiving an emergency order, the 10th Cavalry Division of the Soviet Red Army stationed 8 kilometers west of the Neva River immediately abandoned their original defensive position and rushed to the battlefield on Kirov Island.Within a few hours, they drove across the bridge over the Neva River in trucks and took positions in the Kirov Island district.These swift changes prompted escalating skirmishes as both sides threw more and more soldiers into the bloody battle.

The initial battle broke out between adjacent houses, hills and avenues. Both sides fought for the upper hand as much as possible. Since there were not enough troops to launch a surprise battle like the one outside Stalingrad, the dragon army could only fight inch by inch. The Soviet army tried its best to barely stop the Dragon Army's attempt to occupy the important highlands of the entire Kirov Island area, and to keep the other Soviet troops deployed in the lowlands of Pest on the east bank of the Neva River from being attacked by the enemy.

The "continuous offensive" of the Dragon Army broke up many ordinary families, and they captured many Stalingrad residents who were purchasing Christmas food outside the city.When residents of the inner region of Stalingrad received calls from their relatives or friends in the western region of Kirov Island through the still functioning telephone lines, they were all shocked when they learned that the area had been occupied. The "terrible Chinamen" had surrounded and stormed the city.The Soviet soldiers who were urgently assembled were surprised to see that many civilians desperately asked for a ride, trying to return to Stalingrad, which was dying. A Soviet military mail truck picked up a young woman. Shopping for food on December Island, when the truck approached Kirov Island at dusk, the woman witnessed an ominous omen. She saw the artillery fire that lit up the entire sky, which indicated that the Chinese were gone. Far.

(End of this chapter)