In the end, General Streck agreed to Qin Chuan's plan.

In fact, this was not agreed by General Streck, but a decision made by Paulus, Hort and others after reporting it to General Rommel.

Paulus had actually seen the purpose of the Soviet army's attack on the northern defense line, but he had no force and insufficient supply, and the air force could not take into account the northern defense line and blockade the Volga River, so he could only watch the Soviet reinforcements pouring into Stalingrad from the Volga River.

Just as Paulus was worried about this, Rommel walked into Paulus's command center in high spirits.

"General!" said Rommel: "Let me guess, I think you must be worried about Stalingrad!"

"General Rommel!" Paulus replied angrily: "If you are here to laugh at me, then you have succeeded!"

In some ways, Hort's 4th Armored Army and Paulus' 6th Army are still in a competitive relationship... Hort once wanted to take Stalingrad alone with the 4th Armored Army, and did not give up this idea until their armored troops were blocked by the 64th Army of the Soviet Army in the south.

Similarly, Paulus hoped to take Stalingrad while the 4th Armored Army was blocked.

"No!" Rommel handed Paulus a document and said, "On the contrary, General. I am here to solve your problems!"

Paulus looked at Rommel in confusion, and then opened the document half-believingly.

Before he could see it for a long time, he looked at Rommel in surprise, and then he turned it over carefully.

After a long time, Paulus nodded slightly and said, "Good plan, General Rommel, bold and novel, and more importantly, hit the enemy's key points. No wonder others would call you the 'Desert Fox'. Now it seems... your ability is not just in the desert..."

"No, General!" Rommel replied with a smile: "Although I would love to hear these praises from you for me, but... this is not my plan!"

"Hot?" Paulus was surprised to hear this: "As far as I know, Hoot is not a person who dares to take such risks!"

"You are right, General!" Rommel replied: "In fact, it was done by my subordinates!"

"Subor?" Paulus couldn't believe it.

"I think you must have heard of the 'Legend Sergeant'!" Rommel replied.

Paulus couldn't help but say "oh" and nodded.

If you have never heard of it before, then the two recent events have made Paulus no longer unfamiliar with this "legendary". One was to take Baku, and the other was to intersperse Karachi to open up the situation for the 6th Army.

Of course, these are not the credit of the "Legendary Sergeant", but it is said that they were all successful under the "Legendary Sergeant" plan.

Paulus looked through the plan again, then nodded and said, "I should meet this 'Legendary' if I have the chance!"

"You mean, have you agreed to this plan?" Rommel asked.

"Of course!" Paulus nodded, "Why not? I will order my troops to cooperate with them!"

So the plan called "Red Barrier" was decided.

The reason why it is called the "Red Barrier" plan is that the main target of this plan is the two Soviet factories... the "Red Barrier" artillery factory and the "Derzhinsky" tractor factory.

That night, the Soviet army once again organized an attack on the northern German defense line.

This is a common tactic used by the Soviet army, and it launched an attack on the German defense line almost uninterrupted during the day and night.

The reason is that it goes without saying why, and the German soldiers are not given any rest time.

This can be said to have hit the key point of the German army. The 6th Army itself had to form a northern defense line while surrounding Stalingrad, so it was seriously insufficient, so it could not take a turn for the attack like the Soviet army. It could only take a quick time to rest during the battle. In addition, they fought from Kharkov all the way to this place, and they were all seriously overdrawn and exhausted.

In this regard, Major General Wittersheim, the commander of the 14th Armored Army, used the word "Jirji can be dangerous" to describe the northern defense line. This does not mean that the northern defense line is in danger, but that it is difficult for German soldiers to continue to maintain the defense line.

But from another perspective, this is actually Major General Witsheim has added his subjective consciousness in strategy... From a strategic perspective, a considerable number of people know that they should launch an attack on Stalingrad as soon as possible, but because of the difficulties of the northern defense line, Major General Witsheim himself is also under such dangers and pressures on the northern defense line, so he subjectively tends to defend the northern defense line without making an objective judgment.

That night, the Soviet army's attack on the German defense line was particularly fierce, with artillery fire pouring into the German defense line in pieces, and from time to time there were terrifying roars of rocket launchers, and the fires near the German defense line were raging.

Captain Utwenke, who was stationed on the outer defense line, was the commander of the 98th Infantry Division of the 62nd Army of the Soviet Red Army.

But it is said that the division commander can only be considered a battalion commander, because the 98th Infantry Division had suffered heavy casualties in the previous battle in Karachi, with only 465 people left in one division with more than 10,000 people. This is also one of the reasons why the captain Ut Literature was able to become a division commander.

"Comrade Captain!" After a subordinate was awakened by the sound of cannons, he asked Utwenko with some hesitation: "I heard that the Stalingrad Front's attack was not very smooth, is it true?"

Utt Literature answered confidently: "Listen to the sound of cannons, we have beaten the Germans to no avail!"

Ute Wenke said it beautifully, but it was another matter in his heart, because just yesterday, he saw with his own eyes the 16th Tank Army being annihilated on a state-owned farm.

Of course, you cannot say these despicable words on the front line, so Utre added: "It won't take long to go through the German defense line to reinforce us. The German invaders are destined to fail, and they will not have a good end! Look, they have not launched an attack on Stalingrad until now. Do you think the Germans are kind-hearted? No, they just don't have enough troops and ammunition! So, cheer up and we will be able to drive the Germans out soon!"

The soldiers couldn't help but nodded repeatedly as they heard this. At least one of the things was true, that is, the Germans have not launched an attack on Stalingrad until now.

At this time, a dense sound of gunfire suddenly sounded in the direction of the state-owned farm, tracer bullets drew bright lines in the air, and there was also a faint "rumble" sound of tank motors.

"It's T34!" Utwenko was a tank soldier and could easily distinguish the enemy and our tanks from the sound of the engine. So Utwenko immediately made a judgment: "It's our people, they broke through the German defense line and fought here!"
Chapter completed!