The decisive battle against the Third Reich

After walking out of the "Werewolf" bunkers, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems we succeeded, right?" Alexander asked.

"I think so!" Paulus replied: "We should persuade the Führer to shrink the defense line!"

As he said this, Paulus glanced at Qin Chuan and then climbed into the jeep.

Alexander excitedly invited Qin Chuan to board another jeep and said: "That's great, Major. I didn't expect you to use Baku to convince the head of state. The general and I are trying to prove that we can't hold Stalingrad. Now It’s so stupid to find that… because that could even be considered a sign of weakness and passivity!”

"I'm just telling the truth!" Qin Chuan said, "I believe that the Head of State will make the right judgment!"

Alexander couldn't help but said "Oh", and then nodded as if he understood something: "That's right, in the end, the head of state needs to make the decision!"

Needless to say what this means, there may still be bugs installed by Hitler on the jeeps. After all, these jeeps and even the planes were arranged by Hitler. This is why Paulus was unwilling to say anything more just now.

"Of course!" Qin Chuan continued: "The head of state is not like that fool Goering who only says 'I can'!"

Then Alexander and Qin Chuan couldn't help laughing.

Perhaps Göring, the Reich Marshal, is not something that Qinchuan, the Major, can insult, but in fact, Qinchuan is telling Hitler that they do not know that there is a bug in the car, because if they knew, they would not say this to the Reich Marshal. Disrespectful words.

On the other hand, Qin Chuan is doing what he wants.

Because at this time, Goering had actually gradually fallen out of favor, because he made wrong judgments time and time again... Goering threatened at Dunkirk that the British and French forces could be wiped out with the air force alone. Hitler believed him. At the same time, in order to preserve precious armored forces, the attack was ordered to stop. As a result, more than 300,000 Allied troops fled back to the UK.

Later, he threatened that Britain could surrender through air force bombing, but in the end it obviously failed.

The most outrageous thing is that during the Battle of Stalingrad, they repeatedly ensured that the Air Force could provide sufficient supplies for the 6th Army, but the result was exactly the opposite.

Since then, Goering lost Hitler's trust and was marginalized politically and in power. Goering was no longer allowed to attend military meetings... In fact, Goering would repeatedly ensure that the Air Force could guarantee the logistics of the 6th Army, which was a big deal. Part of the reason was to perform meritorious service and reverse the situation, but it backfired. Another failure allowed Hitler to completely relegate him to the sidelines.

Of course, nothing related to Stalingrad happened. In this regard, Qin Chuan still helped Goering, but Goering didn't know this and even secretly resented Qin Chuan for depriving him of his excellent opportunity. An opportunity to perform.

Hitler couldn't help laughing when he heard Qin Chuan calling Goering a fool. He said to his staff several times: "A very interesting major! He is also very talented!"

In fact, not to mention the jeeps entering and exiting the "Werewolf", even the phones in the headquarters of senior officials are equipped with bugs. This is already a "secret" that no one reveals, that is, everyone knows it, but they pretend not to. Even though he knew it, he didn't dismantle it because he was worried that dismantling it would arouse Hitler's suspicion and cause unnecessary trouble to himself.

Therefore, Paulus and others paid attention to their words and deeds along the way. It was not until they returned to Karachi and walked into Paulus's lounge that they really relaxed.

"Well done, Major!" Paulus said: "You can say that you saved the entire 6th Army!"

"This is what I should do, general!" Qin Chuan replied: "In fact, if I don't do this, I may have to leave my life here!"

"Impossible!" Alexander laughed: "You are the 'Legendary Sergeant'!"

"Now!" said Paulus, "I am truly sorry!"

"What's the regret?" Qin Chuan asked.

Paulus handed Qin Chuan a glass of wine and said, "Do you remember that I asked you to join my staff group?"

"Of course!" Qin Chuan replied: "I refused!"

"Yes!" Paulus replied: "I didn't feel sorry at the time, thinking that there was no shortage of people in my staff who could play tricks, but now..."

Paulus shrugged his shoulders: "I can only say... Major, if you can't stay in the First Infantry Regiment at any time, the 6th Army welcomes you at any time. Although I know that this situation is impossible!"

"Of course, General!" Alexander said: "Who would refuse the 'Legendary Sergeant', then he must be a fool!"

"I was that fool!" answered Paulus.

Several people couldn't help laughing.

Hitler did not change his mind, and the order to retreat came soon after a few days. At this time, Paulus and others finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then commanded the troops to enter the retreat procedure step by step... They had to evacuate before the river froze, otherwise By the time the Soviet Union was ready and launched an attack, it might have been too late.

There is, of course, a difference between a prepared retreat and a retreat pursued by Soviet troops.

First of all, the supplies transported from the rear are no longer ammunition...retreat does not require too much ammunition, but is replaced by mines, explosives, etc.

It was the engineers who retreated to do the main work.

The engineers buried mines and explosives everywhere, from front to back, and buried them behind the trenches under the cover of the front infantry. They buried them until there was only one passage left. The infantry withdrew from the passage to the second line of defense, filled the passage, and then buried it.

Needless to say, Stalingrad was demolished and blasted. All usable equipment was dismantled and transported. Those that could not be used or were inconvenient to transport were blown up. Stalingrad was originally in ruins. Completely reduced to ruins.

The Germans are very creative when it comes to dismantling railway tracks. They have a giant open-shaped underhook similar to that used by a crane behind the locomotive. This underhook is suspended in mid-air when driving. When a certain section of track needs to be dismantled, it can be used Put down the undercarriage... Then the locomotive was running in front, and the undercarriage at the rear was dragging between the sleepers. There was a "crackling" sound, and the sleepers were broken into two parts from the middle. After a while, the entire railway track was in a mess.

And that's not all.

Engineers will follow closely to dismantle sections of rails and transport them away... Steel at this time is in short supply, especially high-quality steel that can be used as rails.

Then, explosives will be buried on railways, and explosives will be buried on highway bridges, tunnels, etc. for blasting, even the roadbed will not be spared.

In short, nothing useful was left to the Soviets.