Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

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At 7 o'clock in the morning on July 27, the Dragon Army began its firepower preparations before the attack.After the artillery attack, the attack groups of the 11st and [-]th Assault Brigades of the Dragon Army Combat Engineers launched an attack, trying to rush into the Hermitage Palace from three directions, but the Soviet firepower points that were not reliably suppressed immediately sprayed Unleash fierce firepower.The soldiers of the Dragon Army were shot and fell to the ground one after another, and most of the dozen or so tanks covering the attack were also destroyed by anti-tank guns, and the first attack failed.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, 89 artillery pieces, self-propelled firearms and rocket launchers of the Dragon Army directly attacked the firepower point of the Hermitage Palace for 30 minutes. The firepower point formed by the stone blocking the doors and windows and the soldiers behind were all blown to pieces, and several large holes were blasted in the thick wall of the palace.

While the firepower of the Soviet army was being suppressed, the assault detachments of the Dragon Army re-launched the attack under the cover of more than a dozen bear assault tanks and self-exploding vehicles.They used the obstacles in the open space and the wreckage of weapons as cover to advance alternately, avoiding the frontal firepower of the Soviet army, and slowly advancing towards the palace.Finally at 14:25 the [-]nd Combat Engineer Brigade entered the Hermitage.

The intruding dragon army immediately divided into groups, and cleared the Soviet army on the first floor of the building layer by layer.The two sides engaged in fierce close combat in the room, on the stairs, and in the corridors, using almost all types of weapons, from daggers, bayonets, and grenades to heavy machine guns and flamethrowers.Automatic weapons swept like the wind, and the walls of the palace were all honeycombed.The red-eyed Chinese soldiers also used the individual bazooka that was originally a "tank killer" to deal with the Soviet infantry, and sprayed randomly at the Soviet defense troops with machine guns inside. The place hit was either a blood mist or a big hole. .

Due to the large area, after the dragon army invaded, they could only capture one place and consolidate one place, and it was impossible to do it overnight like other buildings.The Soviet army even brought in heavy machine guns that were not used in indoor battles, and swept towards the dragon army on the opposite side.The long-handled rockets that fell into the hands of the Soviet army also became a nightmare for the Long army. When the Soviet army touched one, they fired it at the Long army regardless of 21.

Inside the dimly lit palace filled with gunpowder, soldiers from both sides kept falling from the stairs or the big holes in the floor, and fell to the hard ground to die.After paying a heavy price, the Long army finally wiped out the Soviet army on the lower floors of the palace, but the Soviet army guarding the building refused to surrender and wanted to fight the enemy to the end.

At 7:27 on July 18, the balance of power began to tilt towards the Dragon Army. As more and more Soviet soldiers were killed, the resistance of the Soviet Army began to weaken.At this time, the commander of the Dragon Army, who did not want to pay a greater price at the moment of victory, summoned tanks to shoot at the floors of the palace that were still in the hands of the Soviet army.The tanks parked on the square in front of the palace opened fire immediately, and bricks and stones mixed with the bodies of Soviet soldiers flew around.

Sergeant Liu Xiangyang, a soldier of the Dragon Army from the First Assault Group of Combat Engineers, hoisted the flag of the Chinese Army and the five-clawed golden dragon flag on the dome of the main building of the Hermitage Palace.

On the evening of the 27th, the remaining people in the Prime Minister’s Office, including Zhdanov and Khozin, began to break out. The remaining Soviet troops used 5 tanks for this purpose...but after passing through the Hermitage Palace The tramway was killed, and Zhdanov died on the way out of the siege.Huo Jin and others who were scattered saw the demonstration fists of the workers sticking out of the windows when passing through the slums.This is the full might of the Soviet working class in the face of the red Bolsheviks at their doomsday.General Huo Jin became a prisoner of the Chinese.

On July 7, in some places in Stalingrad, the remaining Soviet and Dragon troops were fighting fiercely near the Summer Palace.The remainder of the division, less than a battalion, made its last organized resistance in the barricades near the Summer Palace and in the zoo bunker.By noon that day, the fighting was still not over.At 28 o'clock in the afternoon, the last Soviet tank was discarded only a few hundred meters away from the Bronze Monument to Peter I, and the last Soviet anti-tank gun was also destroyed. The Soviet tanker who lost the tank did not hesitate He quickly took up the infantry weapons and fought the final battle with the infantry.In the evening, the Soviet army here was completely annihilated, and a five-clawed golden dragon flag was planted on top of the bronze horse on the bronze monument to Peter I.

At 7 o'clock on July 28, Major General Fejuninsky told the Dragon Army that the Soviet army refused to surrender unconditionally.At this time, there were only a few places left in the city of Stalingrad, and Soviet troops were holding on to solitary barricades or buildings with a small amount of ammunition, becoming isolated islands in the black ocean.

All the artillery of the Dragon Army fired at the Soviet positions, clearly warning the Soviets that if they did not surrender, they could only kill themselves.

On the evening of July 7, the Dragon Army finally wiped out the remnants of the Hermitage Palace.

At around four o'clock in the morning on July 7, Senior Colonel Zakatsev, deputy commander of the Stalingrad city defense, came to the headquarters of General Chen Jitang of the Dragon Army and told the other party that Major General Fejuninsky had committed suicide, and then issued an order to the Stalingrad city defense force. Order to cease resistance immediately.

At 30 o'clock on the 15th, the Stalingrad city defense forces all put down their weapons, and the Stalingrad street fighting and the entire battle officially ended.The former capital of the empire and the cradle of the Russian revolution officially fell into the hands of the Chinese from this day on.

On the same day, the defender of Stalingrad, Konstantin Zhukov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff, arrived after days of arduous journey.

Zhukov's car had just driven to the Kremlin.The captain of the Stalin Guard greeted him and informed him: "The Supreme Commander is ill and is working in his residence."

Stalin had a cold and his complexion was bad. He received Zhukov coldly, then walked to the map and asked slowly, "Have you heard? Stalingrad was captured by that little guy."

"En!" Zhukov nodded slightly, and he said to Stalin with a complicated expression: "Leader, it is my shame that Stalingrad is occupied by the Chinese. I hope to lead the troops to recover Stalingrad, the holy place of our party, immediately! "

"No!" Stalin waved his hand slightly, "The current situation is very dangerous for us, and it's not just a city of Stalingrad. What's more, Stalingrad only came out after a bloody battle. Lost. They locked one of the most powerful strategic groups of the Chinese there for three months. So this campaign has its positive side.”

Zhukov was slightly relieved when he heard Stalin's words.Stalin did not blame himself for his loss of Stalingrad.

"Konstantinovich, do you think the Chinese will transfer troops from Leningrad to the south in the near future?"

"I think it's very possible." Zhukov quickly replied: "The enemy suffered heavy losses in Stalingrad, but their armored forces did not suffer much. There are a large number of armored units, but the designation is only the Fourth Panzer Army, and their tanks and motorized units have been transferred from the Stalingrad area to somewhere in the central direction. Therefore, it is possible for the enemy in the Stalingrad area to move south.”

"Where do you think Guangxu will use the tanks and motorized troops transferred from the Stalingrad area?"

"Obviously. For direction, of course, after replenishing personnel and repairing weapons. But with the current weather and the adjustment of the dragon army, they need at least two weeks."

After a moment of silence, Stalin pointed to the Vyazmazhekov area on the map and said to Zhukov: "You see, the situation here is very serious. I cannot get detailed reports about the real situation from the Western Front and the Reserve Front. Since we do not know the location and disposition of the enemy's attack, as well as the state of our army, we cannot make any resolutions. Now please go to the General Staff to find out the situation there in detail, and call me at any time, I will wait waiting for your news."

Farewell to the Supreme Commander, Zhukov quickly went to the Chief of General Staff Shaposhnikov and reported to him in detail the situation in the Stalingrad area.

Leaving Shaposhnikov, Zhukov drove directly to the headquarters of the Western Front.On the way, Zhukov first studied the situation on the front line and the actions of the enemy and us in detail. When he arrived at the headquarters of the Western Front Army, it was already night.The watchman reported that all leadership was meeting at the Commander.The commander's room was a little dim with candles lit.Sitting at the table were Konev, Sokolovsky, Bulganin, and Marankin, and everyone looked extremely tired.

"I am entrusted by the Supreme Commander to understand the situation, and I have to report to him directly by phone from here." Zhukov quickly ordered after entering the venue.

Lieutenant General Malankin, the Chief of Operations of the Front Army, introduced some of the latest situation. After listening to the other party's introduction, Zhukov quickly called Stalin and reported to Stalin the situation on the Western Front.

"The main danger now is that the covering force of the Mozhaisk defense line is weak, so the enemy's armored tank soldiers may suddenly appear nearby. We should try to draw troops from other places as soon as possible to strengthen the Mozhaisk defense line."

Stalin asked loudly: "Where are the 19th and 20th armies of the Western Front and the group commanded by Bolkin?"

Zhukov quickly replied: "It is encircled in the west and southwest of Vyazma, because Chen Jitang's armored forces have appeared in Orel, east of Vyazma. Their armored group is moving along the Orel map. La highway is advancing towards Tula. In addition, Li Zongren's armored forces have also crossed Rhekov and are advancing from Klin to Kalinin. It is estimated that they are encircling the defenders of Vyazma in a deep way."

"What are you going to do?" Now I'm going to Budyonny, I need to get real information, in addition, I have to personally command the troops. Zhukov said quickly, "Do you know where the headquarters of the Reserve Front is?" "

Zhukov continued: "I'll look for it somewhere in the Maloyaroslavets region."

"Okay, you go to Budyonny and call me immediately from him." Speaking here, Stalin hung up the phone coldly.

(End of this chapter)