USSR 1941

At this time, Stalin even thought of Shulka in his mind.

"Breakout Heroes" to be exact.

This is actually quite normal. The "breakout hero" has led the surrounded troops to break out of the encirclement again and again, and now the Soviet army has hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded by the German army and they are still elite troops, so the conditioned reflex is to hope to break through and then think "Breakout Hero".

At this time, Stalin actually had plans to call Shulka, but he couldn't let go of this face.

You must know that this attack was proposed under the opposition of the vast majority of military officers, especially when Stalin excluded Zhukov, Rokossovsky and other heroes and let Timoshenko command this crucial battle ...At the same time, Zhukov and the others have a good relationship with Shulka and can even be said to be a gang.

During the period when Shulka was suspected, Zhukov and Rokossovsky did not say a lot of good things for Shulka.

Therefore, invoking Shulka almost meant that Stalin admitted his mistake to Zhukov and other officers.

This was difficult for Stalin to accept, so he had a fluke mentality, hoping that Timoshenko could command the troops to break through or even reverse this declining trend.

But the ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny.

Just a few days after Stalin hesitated, the German army completely closed the encirclement.

In the breakout battle in the next ten days, only 22,000 people will break out of the encirclement.

The final result was that the German army had 20,000 casualties in exchange for 75,000 Soviet soldiers killed and 239,000 captured.

And this is not the worst, the Soviet Union has many soldiers, and the loss of 300,000 people will not hurt the bones.

The problem is that the door is wide open from Kharkov to Stalingrad, and there are almost no soldiers to defend... Even if there are soldiers, they are remnants and weak soldiers who have retreated from the front line.

(Note: The Soviet army will use the elite for the front-line attack. Most of the second-line and defensive troops are poor in combat effectiveness and have little combat experience or even newly recruited troops. They almost give away their heads when fighting the wolf-like German army.)

So Stalingrad immediately felt the danger here.

It was the fifth day of the siege of the front-line troops, and as a shriek of anti-aircraft sirens sounded, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns rang out all around Stalingrad.

Almost at the same time,

At least fifty German bombers flew over Stalingrad under the cover of fighter jets.

Needless to say, there was a roar of bombs, and black smoke rose from Stalingrad.

Standing at the door of the basement, Shulka and Kalashnikov quietly watched the flames and black smoke rising in the distance, as well as the fire trucks speeding along the street with their screams and horns, and the crowds of the people. Screaming, crying.

The Germans did not bomb the tractor factory.

Shulka believes that this is due to the lack of German fighters and bombers. After all, they are still trying to prevent the Soviets from breaking out.

The lack of bombers forced the German army to use limited air power to invest in the most valuable targets, such as power stations, railway stations, airports, and arsenals.

And the tractor factory... Although it is also very important, it is too big, the target is not clear, and the hit rate is not high, so it has become a secondary target and ranked behind.

"You guessed it right again!" Kalashnikov put away the binoculars and sighed: "Their goal is Stalingrad, they should have listened to your ideas long ago!"

"It's useless to talk about it now, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka said: "The important thing now is supplies!"

As Shulka said, he ordered to his subordinates in the basement behind him: "Quickly, continue your work!"

The soldiers responded, and trotted out from the basement all the way back to their posts.

Cars full of supplies drove into the warehouse, and then empty cars came out from another exit.

Since the front-line troops were surrounded by the German army, Stalingrad was in a short-lived phenomenon of abundant supplies...the supplies could not be transported, and all of them were backlogged here.

It was then that Hisoy realized the foresight of Shulka's suggestion.

"Comrade Shulka!" Sisoy said, "It's unbelievable. You seem to have seen these things happen with your own eyes. Those warehouses of yours will come in handy. We have a lot of supplies and equipment that have no place to store them! "

"I'm ready!" Shulka replied. "Also, Comrade Sisoy...can I provide my troops with better equipment and more ammunition?"

"Of course, Comrade Shulka!" Sisoy replied without thinking. "There are so many of them that there is nowhere to store them. If the Germans drop a few bombs, they will be blown up! So, why not?"

This is what Shulka wants to say, instead of letting these equipment piles be blown up by the enemy, why not distribute them to soldiers?

As a result, the 82nd Infantry Regiment immediately obtained sufficient equipment and ammunition, including piles of rocket launchers, submachine guns, mortars... It can be said that you can almost get what you want.

Of course, heavy equipment like t34 tanks are not among them.

In fact, even if Hisoy is willing to give it to Shulka, he won’t take it... On the one hand, it is because tanks are difficult to control in urban warfare, and tanks without close infantry-tank coordination are almost targets. This requires long-term training to do arrived. On the other hand, the 82nd Infantry Regiment did not have crew members driving tanks at all, so even if they got a tank, it would be just a piece of scrap iron.

However, being able to reach this level has already made the soldiers dance with excitement... For a soldier, getting decent and good equipment is to give his life more protection, or a sense of psychological security. People will not like this.

As a result, submachine guns, machine guns, etc., were quickly added to the 82nd Infantry Regiment in large quantities.

Many of these soldiers wanted to replace their rifles with submachine guns, but Shulka stopped them.

Many soldiers were puzzled by this.

"Comrade Captain!" Valery asked, "Since we have so many submachine guns, and at the same time urban street fighting needs submachine guns, why don't we equip more?"

There is some truth to this statement. In urban street battles, the distance between the enemy and the enemy is often not too far. The range of the submachine gun is enough. At the same time, the submachine gun has a much faster rate of fire than the rifle, so the submachine gun does have an advantage.

But the problem lies precisely in its rate of fire, because a fast rate of fire means a fast consumption of bullets.

"Logistics, Valery!" Shulka said: "Have you calculated, if each of us has a submachine gun, how much ammunition is needed for a battle? A regiment may consume an ammunition depot in a day!"

Valery stuck out his tongue. As a newly promoted battalion commander, he really didn't think about this issue.