June 10, Eastern Front Battlefield.

Operation Uranus has entered its fifth day, but the vigor of the battle has not diminished much.

The Sixth and Eighth Corps of the Chinese Western Expeditionary Army surrounded Stalingrad from three directions: north, south, and east. In the encirclement were the elites of Paulus's Sixth Army and some servants, with a total number of nearly 400,000 people.

The Volga River is completely under the control of the Chinese army, and Turtsovka Orvka and other places north of Stalin have also been captured by the Sixth Army.

The Sixth Corps is less than 30 kilometers away from the core city of Stalingrad. With such a short distance, if the Chinese army uses all its strength, it can reach the city in one day.

Paulus still had another way to retreat, which was to go west and cross the Don River to join Manstein's 11th Army while the Allied encirclement had not yet completely closed.

Only in this way can the safety of the 6th Army be guaranteed.

However, Mustache personally came to Kiev, Kharkov and other frontline places to direct operations. The Third Reich High Command did not allow the 6th Army to retreat and demanded that Stalingrad be defended.

In this great competition of national strength, Mustache will never allow his soldiers to show the slightest hint of retreating in front of the enemy.

The outcome of the decisive battle in the South affects the entire Eastern Front battlefield and the future of the Third Reich.

Mustache personally went to the front line and asked the soldiers of the Third Reich to stick to the defense line and drag the enemy to death on this stretching front.

Chiang Kai-shek's armored group liberated a large area on the east bank of the Don River, but was never able to get close to the core city of Rostov.

Based on the battlefield situation, the Western Expeditionary Army Headquarters decided not to allow the armored group army to cross the Don River for the time being and to go deep alone.

The future combat mission of the Armored Group is to hold on to the east bank of the Don River. If Paulus's 6th Army wants to escape, then let the torrent of steel crush them.

All operations of China's Western Expedition were carried out around the central city of Stalingrad.

On the plush bear side.

The Don River Front was still attacking Manstein's 11th Army. The two sides fought bloody battles in many areas on the west bank of the Don River. The fighting was back and forth, and the winner could not be determined for the time being.

Manstein was a famous general of the Third Reich. Although the Don River Front had certain advantages, it could not break through the enemy's defense line in a short time.

Guderian's Second Armored Group, supported by Army Group Center, fought against Mao Xiong's Third Tank Army in the plains north of Kharkov and east of Kursk.

Mao Xiong has the support of Air Force fighter planes, and even Guderian, one of the founders of lightning tactics, cannot exert the power of the steel torrent.

One of the most critical factors in winning a blitzkrieg, air superiority, has been lost.

Guderian was unable to charge forward desperately and was timid in fighting, and his victorious tactics were gradually fading away.

The enemy had control of the air and had absolute air superiority. Although Guderian came to coordinate Army Group South, he needed to pay attention to the situation in the air at all times and could not advance 50 kilometers in a day.

There was an encounter between the Second Armored Group Army and Mao Xiong's Third Tank Army on June 8. Guderian used flexible tactics, and the Panther tanks and Tiger tanks cooperated with each other. In the battle between the two sides, which totaled more than 2,000 tanks.

Proficient on the battlefield.

The improved T34/85 tank can pose a threat as a tank of the Third Reich. In the first half hour of the encounter, the battle loss ratio between the enemy and ourselves was about 1:3.

But when air power joined the battlefield, this battle loss ratio was instantly reversed.

Under the cover of the air force of Army Group Center, the somewhat embarrassed Guderian was able to lead the armored group out of the battlefield.

The Chinese army joined the Eastern Front battlefield and brought a variety of new equipment. Its impact is long-term and will not change in a short period of time.

On the battlefield, the operational thinking of both the enemy and ourselves needs to change accordingly. If we remain stubborn and maintain the previous strategies and tactics, failure will be inevitable.

The Third Tank Army successfully intercepted Manstein's Second Armored Army. Although the price paid was a bit high, it was within the acceptable range of the Mao Xiong Supreme Command, so they did not ask the Chinese Armored Army to support them.

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This is the Great Patriotic War, and the "guests" cannot be allowed to take the initiative in the war.

Like the Third Reich, Lao Maozi also felt the power and uniqueness of the Chinese army.

While directing the frontline troops to counterattack, the Supreme Command is also stepping up efforts to restore industry in Moscow, Kirov and other places.

The national industry suffered heavy losses in the enemy's bombing, and now even China has surpassed itself, which the Supreme Command cannot accept.

Under the mobilization of the Supreme Command, a vigorous industrial revival movement was launched in Mao Xiong's rear area.

Fat Russian aunts, retired veterans with missing arms and legs, and energetic teenagers all flocked to the factory to clear the ruins and repair the machines...

Many people's relatives and friends died in the Great Patriotic War, but they turned their grief into strength. Men, women, old and children organized themselves spontaneously and devoted themselves to the recovery of production in all walks of life.

This is a very resilient nation!

South of Stalingrad, North Caucasus.

The Southern Front commanded by General Malinovsky, General Chuikov and others attacked from the coast of the Caspian Sea. Five days after the start of Operation Uranus, they successfully attacked the regional core city of Grozny.

General Chuikov commanded three armies to storm Grozny, but the enemy's 17th Army resisted tenaciously.

The 17th Army has multiple mountain divisions under its jurisdiction, and the Mountain Divisions of the Third Reich are notoriously elite.

These mountain divisions fought tenaciously and made great contributions in the attack on the North Caucasus oil fields a year ago.

Now switching from offense to defense, their defensive capabilities are also extremely powerful.

General Chuikov sacrificed nearly 30,000 Red Army soldiers, but was still unable to capture Grozny.

Grozny is the capital of Chechnya, which means terrible in Russian. Since the establishment of the city, this place has not developed steadily.

Since Grozny means scary, it will not be easy for Chuikov to take over this city.

The Southern Front suffered its first major setback since the start of Operation Uranus.

While the southern region launched a massive counterattack, wars also broke out in the central and northern regions.

Mustache's estimate was correct. Mao Xiong did not have sufficient supplies to support such a long front and such a large-scale decisive battle.

After June 10, Red Army units in all aspects encountered obstacles to varying degrees.

The attack was not as fierce as the initial attack on Operation Uranus, but the intensity remained unabated.

Mao Xiong's headquarters has long considered the problem of insufficient supplies. Since the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army soldiers have not fought many battles with sufficient supplies.

If there is no artillery support, then human lives will be used to fill it. In short, everything is to defeat the fascists.
Chapter completed!