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After the bombing began, the "Land Warriors" carried heavy supplies and assembled along the undulating hills with gravel on the slopes to the starting line of the attack.They were panting under the weight, their mouths parched from the battle they were about to plunge into.On the left, part of the 72nd Infantry Division advanced towards the barricade factory workers' housing estate, and one man saw "the white residential quarters are well-proportioned, and the tin roofs of the small houses undulate like waves, glistening in the sun." Air strikes for a while Let these houses be set on fire.In the middle of the front, the 24th Armored Division attacked from a small airfield.The 100th Rifle Division attacked the Red October workers' housing estates.In the lower part of this front, the resistance of the 95th Infantry Division was shattered by air and artillery bombardment and returned to the Chinese.

Once again the Red Army showed ruthlessness towards its own civilians.During the battle for a barricade workers' housing estate, a sergeant of the 389th Infantry Division saw "some Russian women rushing out of their houses with packages in an attempt to escape the fire of the dragon army, but were shot by Soviet machine guns behind them." Knocked down."

Tuesday, June 6.The Dragon Army began to attack the apex of the triangle-shaped area controlled by the Soviet Army.The village of Orlovka was attacked from two directions, part of the 4th Infantry Division to the west and the 389th Motorized Rifle Division to the northeast. The Soviet army was at a numerical disadvantage.Yet they resisted desperately.As a corporal of the 60th Infantry Division described it in a letter home: "You can't imagine how they defended Stalingrad - like dogs guarding their own gates."

Who rules the ups and downs: The Third World War (Closed Volume) Chapter 350 and Five 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 ushered in a timely reinforcement, General Stepanguriyev's infantry division.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 army 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.

For this reason, he began to transfer to Chen Jitang the elite troops in his reserve force, the 4th Combat Engineer Brigade and the armored troops belonging to Feng Ru, the Imperial Air Force Minister Feng Ru, the Leihuo Paratrooper Armored Division.

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.

Who Controls Ups and Downs: The Third World War (Closed Volume) Chapter 350 and Six Steel Storms

Despite the heavy losses, the Soviet defenders in Stalingrad are currently withstood the strong pressure of the Dragon Army, although the current situation is still very severe for them.

However, for the Soviet army, the current situation has not changed.Now about 10,000 well-equipped Chinese troops surrounded Stalingrad, while the 7+ Soviet troops and militias in front of them were exhausted. They lost most of their heavy weapons and lacked food, ammunition and equipment.At the same time, the situation in the encirclement continued to deteriorate: on July 7, 10000 artillery pieces of the Dragon Army roared in unison, pouring a steel storm on the Soviet positions.

At the same time, the situation in Stalin's Fortress also took a sharp turn for the worse. The artillery fire destroyed the last usable runway in the city. The Soviets had to transfer the supply receiving point to the "Tenth Road" directly opposite the foot of Buda Castle Hill on the west bank of the Neva River. There is a 730-meter-long narrow parking lane in the Moon Revolution Square. Since it is impossible to take off and land large aircraft, many young members of the Communist Youth League from junior aviation clubs from all over the Soviet Union fly gliders every day, and are dragged by light aircraft on this projectile. Take off and land on the ground.

The harsh conditions and unfamiliar driving skills have caused these passionate teenage youths to suffer heavy casualties.The loss of the airport also means that it is no longer possible for all the wounded to be evacuated. At the same time, most of the supply will be changed from airlift to airdrop. As a result, some supplies are likely to fall on the Chinese positions.

But the bad news is not enough. The meteorological department of the Soviet Air Force predicted that the weather would turn bad in the second week of July, and no aircraft could be launched. In order to continue to maintain the supply guarantee, the Soviets began to try to use motor boats and barges to recapture the out of the Ladoga Lake District.The Neva River, which flows north to south, brought supplies into Stalingrad.

The harsh climate and geography have taken a toll on this life-and-death river artery.On one occasion, a barge carrying 4000 tons of ammunition crashed into a sandbar 24 kilometers north of the city.Despite such a disastrous setback, the Soviets managed to send boatloads of goods into Stalingrad under the cover of night and thick fog.However, the increasing pressure from the Dragon Army completely cut off this fragile "water lifeline" in mid-July.

The supply crisis facing the Stalingrad Fortress has reached its peak, and now the main rations of the defenders are a little horse meat and thin soup.Although some cavalry horses were taken out of the city for counterattacks before the siege of Stalingrad, some horses and livestock remained, which had become an important source of meat for the defenders.The grisly scenes of butchery can be seen everywhere, inside shops, in gardens and in narrow streets.The sad neighing of horses can be heard everywhere when they are slaughtered, and the bloody carcasses of horses can be seen everywhere.

And those civilians huddled in the basements, air-raid shelters and underground tunnels in the city are also enduring endless hunger and fear.Let us take a look at the description of these scenes in the American Time Magazine at that time: "...At first the girls, women and men of Stalingrad continued to work. They wore fur coats and fur hats and built buildings under the command of the troops. Barricades. At first they cringed together whenever shells fell around them, but it didn't take long before things got out of hand and they either disappeared into the basement. Or collapsed from hunger... the city itself It is also gradually collapsing over time. For example, those people sitting curled up in the basement: girls in sheepskin coats, occasionally mechanically touching lipstick and small compacts, they seem to want to use a big Even the overwhelmed peasant girls were wrapped in gorgeous turbans, and there were many children with long eyelashes hanging down among them. They had no food, nor No one will feel hungry anymore... Yes, the sight is unbearable. The corpses of civilians are already lying on the streets." At the same time, during this period, almost every night, there was a bloodbath everywhere in the city.

The battle on the periphery is still going on fiercely, and now the Dragon Army has put all its breakthrough capabilities to the east of the encirclement-here gathered the fortress defenders, 1 anti-aircraft artillery battalion, 1 police battalion and 2 Soviet infantry divisions. With four-quarters of the remaining troops, they faced the 3rd Reorganized Infantry Division of the Dragon Army supported by self-propelled artillery, tanks, and combat engineers.

On July 7, the dragon had penetrated Chispes' defenses and was attacking the Neva with unstoppable force.This result led to the complete exposure of the flanks of the front line responsible for defending the Soviets. In order to avoid disaster, they were forced to retreat immediately and abandon the area.

In addition, the Dragon Army also greatly enhanced the attack density. Some infantry divisions were thrown into the offensive area with a width of only 400-800 meters, and each regiment was 150-300 meters wide. support.Under such high-intensity blows, the last open areas northwest of Stalingrad - City Park and Heroes' Square - fell on July 210 after fierce fighting.From there, the Dragons began to speed up their attack, speeding through Andrássy Avenue, lined with embassies and ornate villas.

Facing the raging dragon attack, the Soviet commanders could only rely on these red-eyed soldiers. Without any cover of heavy weapons, lack of ammunition and lost all hope of breaking out, the militiamen of the Soviet army launched a massacre. A nearly desperate counterattack.During that period, the Eastern Front seemed to have become a huge slaughterhouse, every house, every street, every platform, every basement... bloody and brutal street battles were going on everywhere.

After taking the West District after a bitter battle, it was only a few kilometers away from the Neva River.The fighting on the north bank of the Neva had become pointless, and now no one doubted that the district would eventually fall.The city's six bridges spanning both sides of the Neva River will be the only way for the northern defenders to retreat. On November 11, the Soviet Supreme Command finally issued an order to allow the defenders in the northern part of the fortress to "operate freely".The garrison detachment stationed in the Kern district crossed the Neva.Immediately under the cover of night, the retreat of all troops, supplies, and wounded was carried out in an orderly manner, and the task of the rear fell on the Soviet 17nd Guards Militia Infantry Division again.

Overall, the retreat was relatively successful. At 18:7 am on the [-]th, Soviet engineers blew up the last bridge on the Neva River, the Anichkov Bridge. So far, all the remaining defenders have retreated to the west bank. of the Stalingrad district.The entire retreat could be said to have been done quietly, with the only exceptions appearing on the Winter Palace Bridge and John Bridge, where the retreating team was blocked, and what was worse, they kept making loud noises to attract the attention of the Dragon Army.A reporter with the Dragon Army recorded the horrific riot: "The bridge was constantly bombarded with heavy artillery fire, but despite this, everyone was running, rolling or crawling, trying to escape from the bridge to the south bank of the city. …these are mixed with poor mothers, crying women and children, and many wounded soldiers. They are accompanied by various vehicles and horse-drawn wagons, rushing to the opposite bank regardless of everything … Whenever a mortar shell falls into the When the crowd was surging, a large number of people and things were thrown off both sides of the bridge and fell into the Neva River."

The Dragon Army attack planes whistling over the river at low altitude were also bombarding the unobstructed crowd and docks indiscriminately. The Soviet anti-aircraft artillery units stationed on the high ground on the south bank counterattacked with all their strength, trying to reduce the losses of the retreating personnel.

In the early morning of the 18th, the retreat operation was basically completed.Zhukov blew up the Winter Palace Bridge and John Bridge despite the strong opposition of Stalingrad General Secretary Zhdanov.

Inside the encirclement, the soldiers of the Soviet 52nd Army who had just retreated had already occupied the positions in the southern part of Stalingrad.All remaining Soviet Army, Red Navy, and Air Force artillery were now assembled under unified command.

The besieging Chinese infantry were also trying to fight their way from the north in order to finally break the defenders' resistance.The entire North District and Northwest District immediately fell into a melee, and the initial resisters were able to withstand the wave at any cost.The Soviet army first cut off the electricity and running water of the entire fortress.

Then about 250 soldiers came around the fortress, cut off the connection between the fortress and the dragon army positions around it, and gradually isolated the dragon army soldiers in the entire fortress.Then, they attacked the fortress while the east was unknown.Those Soviet soldiers with explosives and light weapons climbed up to the second floor of the fortress with a ladder.The Chinese defenders there were not concentrated because they had participated in the battle for a day. Therefore, in the face of the sudden attack of the Soviets, they could not repel the Soviet attack even though they tried their best.

After an hour of fierce gun battle, the Soviets took control of the entrance to the gate and blasted the gate with explosives.They then poured gasoline on the top of the fire hydrant and set it on fire.In a short moment, the entire fortress was on fire.The garrisoned dragon army was forced to retreat to the upper floors. They fired yellow flares high into the sky and hung yellow flags at the same time, hoping to attract reinforcements, but they did not expect any reinforcements.It wasn't until ten o'clock in the morning that day that the fire was gradually extinguished.

The fort suddenly fell into an eerie silence. The Soviets rushing to the upper floor captured several Dragon Army soldiers who were trying to escape. From their mouths, these Soviets learned that the defenders had retreated to the top floor.They are trying to run to the basement with the help of the concrete pillars above, and then put up a short-term resistance there, waiting for their reinforcements to arrive.

So the Soviets immediately rushed to the entrance of the basement, and they threw grenades and Molotov cocktails into it.The battle moves from one room to another.Fierce gun battles and hand-to-hand combat continued until 2 pm that day.In the end, the Dragon Army couldn't hold on anymore. During the whole battle, the Dragon Army killed 75 people in total, and the rest were all captured.

Who rules the ups and downs: The Third World War (closed volume) Chapter 350 Seven Meets Father and Son

In this battle, Lieutenant Chemesky and his men lost very little.In addition, they not only wiped out the enemy, but also seized a large number of machine guns and mortars, and even seriously injured the commander of the assault force of the Dragon Army who came to participate in the rescue.The counterattack troops then safely returned to their original positions.But a few days later, the Dragon Army's defense line was still riddled with holes under the pressure of the superior forces of the Soviet Army.

At this time, a fierce battle was also going on on the October Revolution Island in the heart of the Neva River. It used to be Leningrad's famous sports ground, famous cafes and bathing places.Now it is the most ideal supply airdrop location and the last transport route to the "Blood Field" square.The troops of the Red Navy and NDV of the Soviet Union are guarding this narrow strip with a width of only 430 meters, desperately counterattacking the Dragon Army assault troops trying to land. in the water.Those who survived, however, seemed unmoved.Especially those soldiers of the Imperial Combat Engineer Corps, still rushed towards the opponent's position full of great fighting enthusiasm.This once peaceful and comfortable island has now turned into a "meat grinder" for both warring parties!

In the next few days, Zhukov began to draw up the next plan. After exhausting everything, he could no longer see the practical significance of continuing to stick to the city.But Stalin and the Supreme Command kept denying it, because the Soviet Supreme Commander was busy fighting in Moscow.He hoped that Leningrad would be able to delay a large number of dragon troops. The more people were dragged, the less threat Moscow would be.So he still strictly guarded.