The Germans were determined to win against Stalingrad, and this was the case from top to bottom.

Qin Chuan could understand their idea. After all, in principle, the German army has been fighting very smoothly since the Kharkov launched a counterattack... In fact, it should be said that the Soviet army has been fighting very smoothly since the Battle of Krim Peninsula. The Soviet army was always annihilated by the German army one after another, even if the Soviet army's strength and equipment were several times that of the German army. This also caused the Soviet army's strength advantage in the south to face the German army, and even had a reversal in terms of troop strength comparison, that is, the Soviet army's total strength in the south was weaker than that of the German army.

Of course, the German army was more than the Soviet army when the army was added to the vassal state.

Therefore, the German officers and soldiers took it for granted that... it was not difficult to capture Stalingrad, which had only 90,000 people.

But Qin Chuan was not that optimistic because he knew that Stalingrad would become a veritable meat grinder in history. In more than five consecutive months of tug-of-war, the Soviet and German armies would suffer more than 2 million casualties near the city.

But at least one thing is that Qin Chuan believes it is beneficial to this battle... He captured the Sevastopol Fortress and the Kerch Peninsula for the German army on the Crim Peninsula, allowing the Air Force to free up his hands to reinforce the Southern Army Group to launch an attack in advance, which won nearly a month for the German army.

Simply put, it is June, and there are six months instead of five months before December enters the cold winter.

Can this month change the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad?

Qin Chuan was not sure, because he knew that the battle of Stalingrad was not a city from beginning to end, but the German army was attacking two Soviet fronts: in the north, there was a Stalingrad front that was constantly delaying and consuming the German army, and in the east, there was a Southeast Front that continuously injected fresh blood into Stalingrad through the Volga River like adding fuel. Among them, the artillery of the Southeast Front was still shelling Stalingrad at the other end of the Volga River, while the German army had no choice but to these enemy artillery on the other side of the river.

Therefore, although the German army occupied 80% of the area in Stalingrad in the end, it was not guaranteed to occupy all areas in one month.

What's more, the German army fell into a trap that was almost unsolvable... Since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the fundamental reason why the German army was able to defeat the superior Soviet army with inferior forces and equipment again and again was that the German army had good quality and rich combat experience, but the Soviet army was a new recruit who had almost never fought a war and the commander was basically blindly commanding.

However, as the war situation is stalemate in the tug-of-war, although the German army still prevails, a problem will inevitably arise:

More and more German soldiers with quality and combat experience died on the battlefield, and the recruits who were basically without combat experience or even trained for less than three months... Since the Battle of Moscow, in order to quickly replenish soldiers on the Eastern Front, the German army's previous training camp system has been in name only, because the recruits no longer enter the training camp first or lighter tasks like before to adapt to the second or lighter tasks before entering the front line to fight, but instead directly add the front line troops from the rear to fight.

It is also because of this that the troops attacked with the German army this time were many troops from the vassal states, and even Hot's 4th Armored Army had more than one-third of the Romanian army.

In other words, since personnel supplementation cannot keep up with the loss, the quality and combat effectiveness of the German army are inevitably reduced.

On the contrary, the Soviet army was learned from the battlefield, but their combat effectiveness was constantly improving.

As one goes up and down, the gap in combat effectiveness between the Soviet and German armies is gradually narrowing, and the German army may become more and more difficult in the future.

Of course, it is fortunate that the German army successfully captured Baku, which greatly reduced the Soviet war energy. Otherwise, even Qinchuan might not be able to resist the attack of the Soviet sea of ​​tanks after the Soviet army moved to the east after the resumption of production.

"Major!" I don't know when Colonel Slain sat next to Qin Chuan.

"Colin!" Qin Chuan thought of getting up and saluted, but was stopped by Colonel Slein.

"What do you seem to be worried about?" Colonel Slain asked, "Do you know? Seeing your expression is the most terrifying thing that makes me scary, because almost everything you say has come true!"

"That's just a coincidence!" Qin Chuan replied.

"Are you worried about Stalingrad?" asked Colonel Slein.

Qin Chuan nodded: "Stalingrad, it is different from any city we have captured before!"

"Yes!" Colonel Slein nodded in agreement: "The point is that it is Stalingrad, a city named after Stalin, so you can imagine... Stalin will defend it like Moscow!"

"I have a question, colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "With our experience of the defeat of the Moscow Battle, why is the Battle of Stalingrad not like the Battle of Moscow? I mean, why don't they learn from the lessons of failure?"

This is what Qin Chuan has always been puzzled when studying German history in modern times: how similar is Germany's defeat in Moscow and Stalin's Battle, both because of the arrival of winter... If the Battle of Moscow was because the Soviets consciously introduced the German army into depth and carried out a solid wall to clear the fields, why did the Battle of Stalingrad make the same mistake? At least, the Germans will prepare more sets of cotton coats before winter comes!

But none of these happened, and the German soldiers were still frozen in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Colonel Slein couldn't help but sigh, handed Qin Chuan half a bottle of vodka in his hand, and then looked at Stalingrad in the distance in the afterglow of the sunset, and replied: "Greed, Major, because of greed. We all know that we are inadequate supplies, and we all know that the cold winter will come again in a few months. But... all of them will think: or a little ammunition can solve the enemy and achieve the final victory, so we would rather transport ammunition than cotton coats to keep the cold!"

Qin Chuan understood that when he heard this, he actually felt that this was the case in the Battle of Moscow... it was either cotton coats or ammunition, and the German senior commander chose the latter.

"I hope this time!" said Colonel Slain: "It will be different from last time!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan picked up the bottle and took a sip, and said, "I hope it will be different!"
Chapter completed!