Demon Beast Forbidden Area
Stalingler (1)
The Battle of Stalingrader was a battle between the German and the Soviet Union during World War II. It lasted from July 1942 to February 1943. The Battle of Stalingrader was the turning point of the Second World War between Russia and Germany. It was also the deadliest battle in modern history, with an estimated 710,000 casualties on both sides.
At first, the German air force bombarded the city wantonly, then quickly broke through the Russian defense. In September 1942, they entered Stalinggrade, and the two sides fought for every inch of land in the city. While the German army was slowly advancing in the city, the Russian army gathered about 1.14 million troops on the east bank of the Volga River and the northwest suburbs of Stalingrador. They launched Operation Uranus and quickly broke through the defense line established by the German army.
Although the German army wanted to use air supplies and Operation Winter Storm to resolve the crisis of being surrounded and annihilated, they failed because they were repelled by the Russian army. In the end, due to the cold winter, the breeding of infectious diseases, and the lack of ammunition and food, the 90,000 German soldiers in the city eventually surrendered and were captured. This was the first large-scale defeat of Germany in the Second World War.
For hitler, there were three main reasons for the capture of stalingrade: First, this city was an important transportation center connecting the Caspian Sea and the northern part of the Soviet Union. Second, capturing it would cover the left wing of the German army that attacked the Baku oil field in the Caucasus, achieving the strategic goal of cutting off the supply of oil and paralyzing Starling. Third, the city was built by the Soviet leader Joseph. It was named after Starling, and conquering it would be ideologically successful.
The Red Army also recognized the strategic value of these targets, mobilizing all men who could afford rifles and forcing them to enter the city to defend. Although the mobility of the Russian army was very low compared to the German army, because the battle was carried out in the urban area, it was not a field battle. The German army's chariot troops and mobile mechanized tactics could not be used. The Red Army soldiers with small guns were suitable for this type of combat mode.
Based on the strategy of seizing the oil fields of the Soviet Union, hitler dispatched the southern German army group to cross the grasslands of the southern part of the Soviet Union and attack the Caucasus at full speed.
Operation Blue was launched in June 1942, and the Southern Army Group began to attack the southern part of the Soviet Union. The German offensive was very successful at first. The Russian resistance in the open steppe was weak and they retreated eastward. Their defense line collapsed several times due to the German attack. The Russian army lost 370,000 people in the Battle of Volos.
In order to deal with the German army, Starling appointed the Soviet Marshal Andre. Yeremenko was the commander of the Southwest Front Army. Herloff was in charge of defending Stallingdale. His goal was to defend Stallingdale at all costs.
The Russian army was already prepared for the German attack. The Russian army used ships to cross the city to supply food, cattle, and railway vehicles.
The 4th Air Force of the German Air Force, the most powerful air force in the world in 1942, carried out a fierce bombing of the city of Stalingrador. Thousands of tons of bombs were poured into the city, and the city of Stalingrador was soon reduced to ruins.
In order to defend, Starling sent all available troops to the east bank of the Volga River. All the ferry ships were quickly destroyed by the German Air Force, so these troops had to take barges and slowly drag them across the river. Starling also forbade the residents to evacuate from Stalingrador, believing that the presence of the residents would encourage the defenders to resist more tenaciously. Many women and children were sent to build trenches and fortifications.
On August 23rd, a large-scale strategic bombing by the German army led to a fire tornado that killed thousands of people. A large Urban area of the city of Stalingrador was burned into ruins.
The Soviet Air Force's troops deployed in Stalingradr were dispersed by the German Air Force, and from the beginning of the tight combat area, 201 fighter planes were lost. Although more than 100 planes were replenished in August, there were still only 192 available planes, of which only 57 were fighter planes. Even though the Russian army continued to send air reinforcements to Stalingrador at the end of September, they continued to suffer huge losses. The German Air Force had completely grasped the air superiority of the airspace.
Initially, the responsibility of defending Stallingdale fell on the 1077th Air Defense Regiment, which was mainly composed of young female volunteers who had not been trained to shoot ground targets. The regiment held its defensive position and attacked the advancing German tanks.
In order to defend this devastated city, the Russian army established a line of defense in residential buildings and factories. The two sides fought fiercely and desperately in the ruined city. On this battlefield, the average survival time of a newly arrived Russian soldier was less than 24 hours, while a Russian officer did not survive more than three days. " Don't take a step back " and " There's no more land behind Stalingrade " became battle slogans. Because of the stubborn resistance of the Soviets, the German army paid a huge price when they pushed into Stalingrade.
The Russian army turned multi-storey buildings, factories, warehouses, street corners, and office buildings into a house-by-house battle filled with machine guns, anti-tank rifles, mortars, mines, barbed wire, snipers, and submachine gunners. Fierce battles were carried out in every ruin, street, factory, house, basement, and stairwell. The German army called this invisible town war the rat war." They ridiculously captured the kitchen, but still fought for the living room."”
In the desperate chaos, all the battlefronts disappeared, and the German soldiers, who were used to mobile warfare, were forced to engage in difficult and rapid battles, including advancing through the destroyed residential areas, offices, basements, and apartment buildings. In some tall buildings, the roofs had been blasted through by the German Air Force earlier, so close combat could be seen through the holes in the roofs. The Russian and German forces were on the same floor, the Russian on one side and the German on the other. Both sides were shooting at each other through the holes.
The 13th Guards Infantry Division of the Red Army suffered heavy losses in the mission of recovering Mamaev Ridge and the No. 1 railway station. More than 30% of the soldiers died in the first 24 hours of the battle. Only 320 of the original 10,000 soldiers survived.
The train station changed hands 14 times in six hours. The 13th Guards Rifleman Division disappeared the following night, but the soldiers of the division also killed almost the same number of German soldiers. The battle lasted for several weeks near the huge granary. After fierce fighting, when the German army finally captured the place, they found that only 40 Russian soldiers were killed. The Russian army burned the piled food before retreating.
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