"What are you doing here? Commander Ruolujev. You should stay at your headquarters with your troops now. I have no place for you here. Leave as soon as you finish speaking."
Chuikov was in a state of rage. When he opened his upper and lower lips, his mouth was filled with the smell of gunpowder, which was very offensive.
Knowing that Chuikov's personality was like this, Division Commander Ruo Ludev could not care about these trivial attitude issues. Compared with the misunderstanding he encountered, the safety of the army headquarters was his top priority at the moment.
"Comrade Commander, the 37th Guards Division is still fighting. We will abide by orders and never retreat. However, most of the commanders and soldiers in the division have sacrificed, but these are not the most critical!"
"The enemy has penetrated our defense line and the tractor factory has been lost! A considerable number of German assault detachments are penetrating in depth! My headquarters was completely blown up by the enemy's air force. More than 80% of the division's personnel were killed. I could not contact the enemy.
The scattered troops don’t know where the German assault detachment has reached now.”
"What I'm worried about is that the specific location of the Army Group Headquarters may have been exposed. You need to move immediately, Comrade Commander! It's not safe to stay here any longer. The German troops will soon come from the direction of the tractor factory. At least there are still
There are two enemy infantry divisions and one tank division deployed in the direction of the tractor factory. It is difficult for our defense forces along the way to resist. Please make a decision as soon as possible."
If the words spoken by Mr. Lu Jiefu are true, even the intense words and the anxious look on his face.
Chuikov, who was originally holding a telegram in his hand, did not even look at it at the time, but just read the text. Chuikov was stunned for a moment. When he raised his head again after a few seconds, his eyes had changed significantly.
"I say it again, Commander Ruolujev, go back and stick to your post! You should be with your troops and your soldiers instead of staying here. There is no place for you to stay here."
"The Army Headquarters has enough defensive forces. I don't need you to worry about it. You and I have our own..."
Chuikov, whose tone was firm and unquestionable, had just finished speaking. A wound on his forehead the size of a fingernail was bleeding continuously, and Master Ruolu Jiefu looked anxious. The sudden situation suddenly interrupted the conversation and a loud alarm sounded.
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boom--
The power of the sudden explosion was so huge that Commander Ruoludev and Chuikov, who were standing firmly on the ground, almost lost their balance and fell to the ground.
"Report the situation! What's going on? What happened?!"
Chuikov's loud question was answered quickly. A burst of automatic firearm gunfire rang out immediately, and together with the hasty steps of a guard soldier, he instantly ran into the combat command hall.
"Comrade Commander! The entrance to the underground tunnel of the headquarters was blasted by the enemy, and the door has been destroyed! Those fascist lackeys came in!"
Ding——
It was as if the rope tied to the big rock in his heart finally broke. Chuikov's expression immediately changed as his whole heart and body seemed to have been hit hard by the big rock.
He didn't completely turn a deaf ear to Division Commander Zoludev's warning. In fact, before Division Commander Zoludev arrived, Chuikov had already received the news that a German assault force was rapidly penetrating deep into his own side, rushing towards it as if there was a predetermined target.
News coming.
The group army headquarters that sends and receives large amounts of radio signals may have been exposed to the German field intelligence department. Chuikov expected this situation and was not surprised at all. In past battles, there were many Soviet troops deployed in the rear at the division level or above.
It was in this way that the German army took the blame for the headquarters.
The transfer and evacuation of the Army Group Headquarters is imperative, but Chuikov still has things to do that need to be completed before the evacuation and transfer.
The evacuation and transfer of the army headquarters cannot be completed in a short time. It may be a process that lasts for several hours and is in motion without being able to send out telegrams and establish effective and timely communications.
Chuikov must arrange in advance all backup combat plans for the few hours during which he cannot be contacted, and send them to each division headquarters currently in battle to arrange and deploy them in place to ensure that his orders can take into account all the worst-case scenarios and be as comprehensive as possible.
It was this process, which could take more than ten minutes to complete, that ruined Chuikov's final chance of safe evacuation.
The German assault team, like great white sharks smelling blood, overcame the guards at the entrance of the Army Headquarters and used explosives to force the door open and directly entered the underground tunnel where the 62nd Army Headquarters was located.
This German assault unit, which was temporarily composed of armored grenadiers, combat engineers, and a small number of ordinary combat troops, was quite powerful. The dozen or so German troops at the front were all veterans armed with automatic firearms. Even
There are also two assault machine gunners who are 1.9 meters tall and face upward. They hug the MG34 machine gun and merge the tripod into the front grip to launch attacks from the waist.
The powerful 7.92X57mm full-power Mauser bullet penetrated the pile of wooden furniture used as a temporary bunker, turning the 62nd Army Headquarters guard troops hiding behind into a hornet's nest on the spot and fell into a pool of blood. They were deployed in the tunnel.
The soldiers in the first half were completely wiped out by the Germans in less than one cigarette.
The Red Army soldiers who continued to pour in support from the far end of the tunnel quickly realized the strength of their opponents.
The German panzer grenadiers who charged all the way with submachine guns each carried at least seven or eight grenades, and the grenade bag stuffed with M24 drumsticks was hanging on their buttocks within easy reach.
As soon as they encountered the tenacious resistance of the Soviet army, at least three or four grenades flew towards them to cover the killing area. As soon as the grenades exploded and the smoke and dust dissipated, they immediately rushed forward with a submachine gun in their arms at a very fast attack speed.
forward.
The shocked and injured Red Army soldiers, whose faces were covered with blood, could not even pick up the weapons they had dropped. They stepped on their chests and hit their faces with a barrage of submachine guns at extremely close range, instantly beating their heads to pieces.
Fresh red crushed watermelon.
The Red Army soldiers who tried to suppress the German army with automatic firearms encountered a situation that could scare their jaws off.
The two German machine gunners who served as the pillars of firepower were not only unusually tall and strong, but their upper torsos were also covered with fully double-heavy, captured Soviet SN-42 bulletproof breastplates.
Each piece of this two-millimeter-thick forged steel plate weighs about 3.5 kilograms, which is 7 kilograms. In the Stalingrad street battles, only the most elite Soviet assault engineer units and tank infantry were qualified to equip it. It can completely resist the enemy at a distance of 100 meters.
It has strong defense against direct fire from the German MP38 and MP40 submachine guns.
Even if it is within 100 meters, the German submachine gun still cannot ensure stable penetration of this kind of chest armor, and there is even a possibility that the warhead will semi-penetrate and get stuck in the forged steel plate and exhaust the impact kinetic energy.