The dense gunfire sounded quickly, and the Soviet troops fell one by one on the way to charge.

Urban combat is much more difficult and complicated than field combat, because there are places to hide everywhere in the city, such as a residual brick wall, a wreckage of a tank, or even a pile of cement or bricks.

But in this regard, the Germans obviously have more advantages because they have a rocket launcher... A rocket came over with a roar, and a brick wall collapsed, burying the Soviet soldiers hidden behind them on the spot.

Another rocket passed by, and the exploded steel balls made the Soviet army hiding behind the ruins scream.

However, the Soviet army continued to charge regardless of casualties. This was the characteristic of the Soviet army's attack... This was not entirely due to Order No. 227. Another reason was that the communication equipment was backward and backward. The Chinese Volunteer Army also had such defects in the Korean battlefield: the battalion, which was not equipped with a radio station at the first level, and the telephone line could not be led to the front during the charge, so when it was released, it often couldn't even collect it if it wanted to collect it.

A part of the Soviet army crossed the ruins and rushed to the German defense line, but a barbed wire fence that blocked them quickly made them desperate... The German soldiers used a method to set up barbed wire fences, which made the Soviet army unable to find these barbed wire fences in the distance, so they were not prepared.

Some Soviet troops did not even find them in the dark, but were immediately thorned by the inverted hooks and spikes on the barbed wire mesh.

A row of grenades were thrown over, and the Soviet army was quickly dealt with, and the Soviet army's charge was also hit, leaving only the sound of cannons and the screams of some wounded people on the position.

That night, the Soviet army organized five charges in total, but each charge was easily beaten back by the German army. After huge casualties, the Soviet army could not move forward... To be precise, they pushed forward some distance and occupied several buildings, but those were voluntarily abandoned by the German army.

The next morning, the German army launched a counterattack as soon as the sky was dawn.

Perhaps because last night's crushing defeat caused a blow to the Soviet army's strength and morale, the German counterattack the next day actually advanced 500 meters deep into the Soviet army.

This alarmed Cui Kefu, who was commanding on the second line.

"How many people did we lose yesterday?" Cui Kefu asked.

"More than 11,000 people!" Krelov answered a big number.

The reason why he was unable to confirm was because he did not know whether there were soldiers who escaped or hid somewhere... Although the series of politics implemented by Cui Koff had increased the morale of the Soviet army to a considerable extent, under such pressure, some soldiers could not be stopped from drifting.

Cui Kefu couldn't help but remain silent.

He had organized all his forces in Stalingrad, including militias composed of 50,000 civilians, 75,000 were added to the 62nd Army to fight like soldiers, and there were also a large number of women, old men were mobilized to serve as transport, nurses, telephone operators or radio operators, and even children aged thirteen to sixteen were armed to join the combat forces.

But if more than 10,000 casualties are killed or killed every day, how many days will these people resist?

After thinking about it, Cuikov sent a telegram to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, a member of the Military Commission of the Southeast Front: "Comrade Khrushchev, if such a battle lasts for a few more days, my army will be wiped out. Our reserve team has been exhausted again. There are urgent needs for 2 to 3 new divisions here!"

Khrushchev called back without thinking: "You will get the troops you want, Comrade Cuikov, all you need to consider...just how to defend the line of defense!"

Khrushchev did not lie. In the next twenty days, Rikhrushchev organized six fully equipped new infantry divisions to cross the Volga River to reinforce Stalingrad. These troops were fully rested, including two of them, the guard infantry divisions with strong combat effectiveness.

But the arrival of reinforcements did not make Cui Koff feel relaxed.

On the contrary, the situation is still very serious.

Trikov stared at a hand-painted plan of Stalingrad city in front of him in his command.

This map is ten feet tall and six feet wide.

The reason it was hand-painted was that before that, the Soviet Union had no combat map with meters proportions at all... No one would have thought that someone would have fought Stalingrad, and no one would have thought that the enemy and the enemy would have to fight for a street corner, block or even a wall in Stalingrad.

Therefore, it was not until the German army surrounded Stalingrad and the Soviet army was determined to defend the city that this detailed painting had a map of each building and street in Stalingrad.

However, the city is no longer like a map drawing, because it has fallen into a sea of ​​fire and is full of ruins.

"Comrade Cuikov!" Krelov brought a bowl of millet porridge for Cuikov.

Cui Kefu shook his head in distress, took the millet porridge and put it on the table next to him, saying, "The Germans have thought of an authentic way to deal with it, Comrade Krelov!"

Krelov nodded.

This is obvious, and last night's battle illustrates that.

"The Germans are very smart!" Krelov replied: "It's not easy to deal with!"

"It's some of them!" Cui Kefu corrected.

"What?"

"The First Infantry Regiment participating in the Battle of Holm is also in the team attacking Stalingrad!" Cuikov said: "If they can think of authentic defense in Holm, of course they can think of authentic methods!"

Krelov couldn't help but say "Oh", which was something he didn't expect, and he couldn't help but admire Cuikov's careful thoughts.

"Before this!" Cui Kefu said: "If the enemy hit two hundred meters in the daytime, we can hit two hundred meters or even three hundred meters at night, so the battle situation will be in a stalemate, both sides pushing around in the ruins. But now..."

Trekov pointed to the map on the wall and said, "We cannot fight back at night, but the Germans can use air force to hit 500 meters during the day. If this continues, Stalingrad will be fully occupied by them. Or even if it is not occupied, we will lose the space needed for defense!"

Cui Kefu was right. The defense depth was only five kilometers in total. Even if the German army had not taken up an inch of land, it would only take ten days to reach the Volga River in 500 meters a day.

Of course, this is not occupation, but a division of Stalingrad into several pieces that cannot be connected with each other.
Chapter completed!