A German sergeant quickly walked to the position of a German 150mm caliber howitzer and shouted to the soldier who was wiping the artillery: "For the emergency order above, adjust the artillery immediately, aim at the area No. 22, and shoot half a base covering shooting, immediately."

"Half base? Are you talking about 24 150mm caliber howitzers in our entire artillery regiment, firing half a base?" An artillery officer stood up from the ammunition box, walked to the sergeant, took the order and verified it for a while, and immediately turned around and shouted: "The headquarters' emergency order, half a base shooting, started working! This time I finally got a good fight."

With his shouts, the German artillery troops seemed to be resurrected in an instant, and the originally quiet position was immediately lively. Some people began to adjust the parameters of the artillery according to the shooting table, while others used crowbars to pry open the ammunition box and brought out the shells inside.

The map in the hand of the artillery was a redrawn accurate map, and the coordinate parameters of each block were marked with grids. Therefore, the German artillery cover and fire were quite accurate, which was enough to cause great damage to the Soviet army during the attack.

The air defense camouflage net was carefully lifted away by the soldiers. Even now that there were very few Soviet aircraft left, German soldiers were required to strictly implement air defense regulations to avoid unnecessary losses in certain special times. The cannon barrels were too high as the soldiers kept shaking their handles, and finally pointed to the position they should be aimed at.

"Reloading is complete!" Next to the first cannon, the loader loader filled the launch and charged the medicine, reported loudly. Not far away from him, a few seconds later, the loader of the second cannon also shouted this line. One after another, the cannon was ready to fire, and the flag followed by the other was raised by the flag-speaking soldiers. A total of 24 150mm howitzers, like silent killers, were waiting for the order to launch.

"The counterattack begins!" An infantry commander on the front line looked at his watch and shouted loudly. A rafting ambushed mg42 machine gun beside him began to roar.

"The counterattack begins!" The engine had been activated and a thick stream of black smoke was sprayed out. The German tank commander put on the hatch cover above his head, and the leopard tank started to move in the ruins.

"Lock the target! I start diving! Comet 4 starts diving!" Above thousands of meters of sky, a pilot in a Stuka 2 attack aircraft confirmed to the telephone.

"Fire the cannon!" After hearing the order on the artillery position, one red flag after another was waved and knocked down, and one giant cannon after another let out its own roar.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The muzzle ejected dazzling flames, and then thick smoke surged out of the sky, as if it was a ball of violently flipping dark clouds, extending above the cannon muzzle, as if it was going to occupy the entire sky. With the violent shaking, the huge cannon body was pulled by recoil and retreated quickly. The entire position was dusty, and everyone couldn't help but squint their eyes.

After this noise, a 150mm caliber shell rotated at high speed, flew out of the rifled cannon barrel, drew a graceful arc in the sky, and flew towards the 22nd area that had been long been calibrated. The friction of the air made the surface of the shell hot.

As the air resistance continues to erode, and as the thrust formed by the gunpowder explosion gradually fades, the shell began to drop and fall, and finally crashed into the ground on the streets full of the Soviet Red Army. The fuse was activated, and the gunpowder inside was ignited and exploded. The shell completed its mission and ended its brilliant and glorious life.

Its life was very short. The countless explosion fragments formed swept across the entire explosion radius in less than a second. The ground was easily cut out huge craters, and sand, gravel and soil mixed with dense fragments to knock dozens of Su soldiers around to the ground. For a moment, the flesh and blood were blurred and the minced meat from some part of the body flew everywhere. The living Su soldiers subconsciously lie on the ground.

The second shell hit a corner of a building not far away, and the explosion brought bricks and tiles to fly dozens of meters away. The dust rose into the air. The sound of the collapse of the building made the living Soviet army feel the terror of the end of the world. This was just the beginning, because the third and fourth shells fell one after another, and the entire area was covered by German artillery fire. There were explosions everywhere, and the sky seemed to be darkening.

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"Hey? Hey? What did you say? Let me say more in detail! Let me say more in detail!" A Soviet army's front-line commander held the phone and shouted at a regiment commander who was fighting with the German army in anger: "What do you mean that your army was disbanded? I heard the sound of German artillery... I am reporting to the commander, hold me! No matter what method is used! Hold me!"

He hung up the phone, and a shell hit a few dozen meters away from his command center. The whole ground was shaking, and the dust in the ceiling fell down, hitting the drawings on the table, making a crackling sound. He slapdated the dust in front of him with his hand and grabbed the phone in his hand.

The German army and the ones that were shown before were not the same army. If the attack of the German army in front was like warm forty degrees of hot water, then the current German army was a bottle of 90% concentrated sulfuric acid, and the dangers of the two were not at the same level.

"Comrade Commander! My troops are being attacked by the German army! Their artillery shells hit my head like raindrops!" The division commander called the military headquarters and begged his superiors with infinite grievance: "Request support! Request artillery support and force support."

"I heard the sound of cannons! Not only the sound of cannons there, but I also heard the sound of cannons from the 2nd Division. The German army took gun medicine? Why did they suddenly become so irritable?" The commander's mood seemed not very good. This seemed to be a certain thing, because no matter who faced this situation, his mood would not be much better.

From a few minutes on, the calls he received were either requesting support or reporting how many casualties the troops had. The German artillery fire fell accurately on the head of his attacking troops, and the entire counterattack plan was seriously hindered, and some positions had even been taken back by the German army.

Of course this was not his most desperate moment. Although the Soviet commander felt that he was already very desperate at this moment, the next moment, his despair turned into complete despair as more German troops entered the battle.

German Stuka 2 bombers began to dive bomb, completely destroying the Soviet troops exposed outside. For the sake of the offensive missions, some Soviet troops had just assembled and were assaulted by these vulture-like German attack aircraft. Before the entire army could disperse, they were destroyed by machine guns and bombs to the brink of collapse.

Because the entire Stalingrad was divided into dozens of areas, the German commanders were able to accurately determine the approximate position of the Soviet army in the process of determining the target of the attack and calculating the Soviet assembly location. This allowed German aircraft and artillery to attack more accurately and coordinates had been set long ago, achieving amazing attack accuracy and density.

When the Luftwaffe joined the battle to strangle the Soviet ground forces, the Soviet army truly felt their huge advantages in firepower with the German army: facing the integrated air-ground, with aircraft bombing on the top and three-dimensional firepower covered by artillery, the Soviet army's counterattack became difficult.

The problem is that now it is not just a difficult step, but a counterattack from the German superior forces. When the Soviet army was already in chaos and defeat on the ground, the German armored troops appeared in the street battle in Stalingrad for the first time. Although these tanks did not advance rapidly, they destroyed all the Soviet tanks that appeared as assault forces.

German tanks attacked the existing positions for a short distance, and then German grenadiers occupied nearby buildings and ruins, and took back all the positions that the Soviet army had finally seized. One side of the German flag was paved to the top of the building, and the German artillery bombardment extended forward as the German army advanced.

The Soviet army's defeat became uncontrollable. In three attack directions, the troops attacking north were pushed back by the German SS Panzer Division. Not only did they suffer heavy losses, they also lost a defensive position of about 400 meters. The troops who were trying to seize the railway station in the west only attacked 900 meters and were forced to stop advancing. Then the German counterattack arrived as scheduled. In the end, they retreated back to their original departure location, but lost a total of 3,000 soldiers and 16 tanks.

The two elite Soviet infantry divisions attacking north were slightly better. These troops withstood the crazy attacks of German troops and eventually advanced 100 meters at the cost of killing 1,900 people. However, compared with the previous attack, the Soviet army attempted to expand the longitudinal width of the Volga River, which the subsequent battle was shortened by about 300 meters.

A counterattack was only three hours. The Soviet army launched an attack from 11 a.m. until 12 noon. The German army began to fight back until 2 p.m. The Soviet army gradually recovered from peace. The Soviet army lost a total of 7,000 people, and instead lost some blocks and positions.
Chapter completed!