"Major!" General Streck couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan in confusion: "What do you mean... should we attack Stalingrad at this time?"

The other officers had similar expressions on their faces, because what Qin Chuan said was a bit unrealistic.

"So that's it!" Qin Chuan nodded.

"But our supplies and troops..." General Streck spread his hands.

"General!" Qin Chuan said: "I think the Soviets were also in trouble at this time! I mean the Soviet army in Stalingrad!"

"I agree with this!" General Streck replied: "But fighting at the same time between the two lines will make it difficult for us to deal with the beginning and end, and at the same time it will increase the potential risks of our army in a series!"

General Streck is right.

The risks of fighting on two fronts, such as one day if the ammunition or troops cannot keep up, they will be defeated by the Soviets with one counterattack, and all the previous results will be burned.

In other words, the current German style of fighting is quite conservative.

Of course, they would make such a choice because they didn't know the difficulty of attacking Stalingrad, and they thought that a few days later would not have much impact.

But in fact, it was precisely these few days that the Southeast Front sent 50,000 troops and a large number of supplies to Stalingrad. It was these forces and supplies that allowed Stalingrad to improve the defense of the northern industrial zones... These industrial zones did not fall into the hands of the German army until the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, and they produced tanks and artillery almost constantly.

Needless to say, the Germans attacked Stalingrad with all their might and blocked the Volga River from the air with fighter jets, the losses of Soviet troops were basically the same as the reinforcements they received, so the tug-of-war in the city was almost endlessly extended, just like the trench war in World War I.

"General!" Qin Chuan replied: "I want to say that the strategic significance of the Soviets' offense on the northern defense line was originally to surround our army in the eastern part of Tkoluban and contact Stalingrad. So...why are they now attacking at any cost?"

Strek was stunned when he heard this. He had never thought about this problem.

"I think they are compressing our living space!" said Colonel Okinbridge. "In the end, I still want to contact Stalingrad!"

This makes some sense. If the Soviet army could advance every day, it would continue to compress the defense depth of the German army east of Kotluban, one day the German army would not be under pressure to withdraw from this area by itself, so Stalingrad would be connected with the Stalingrad Front.

"No!" Qin Chuan said: "What they are more important is to consume our supplies and delay our troops in delaying our attack on Stalingrad. In other words, it is to buy time for Stalingrad to replenish troops and supplies, and to build Stalingrad's fortifications to prepare for the battle!"

The officers nodded when they heard this, because these were all happening on the battlefield... The German army was dragged on the northern defense line and could not launch an attack on Stalingrad, while the Southeast Front was urgently sending reinforcements to Stalingrad.

"But!" General Streck said: "Major, even if we know this, we can do nothing, right?"

"I don't think so, general!" Qin Chuan replied: "Although we do not have enough troops to launch a full-scale attack on Stalingrad, we can fight a local battle! A battle that does not require too much military strength!"

"You mean..."

"I mean, we can use one or two regiments to boldly penetrate Stalingrad when the Soviets are short of troops!" Qin Chuan replied.

"You are crazy, Major!" General Streck said: "Even if Stalingrad is insufficient, they have 90,000 people. One or two regiments will be surrounded by them when they are interspersed. What's more, what's the point of doing this? Will you occupy Stalingrad?"

"General!" Qin Chuan walked to the map and pointed to the northern area of ​​Stalingrad and said: "The significance lies in the northern industrial zone of Stalingrad, where there are tractor factories, artillery factories, chemical factories, etc. It can be foreseen that these factories will play a powerful role in the near future, that is, when we have the ability to attack Stalingrad. And, they are obviously the focus of the Soviet defense!"

Upon hearing this, General Streck stopped talking.

Qin Chuan was right, the Soviet Union's economy was a planned economy. The characteristic of the planned economy was that things like factories were uniformly planned by the state, which would make their distribution very regular and densely arranged without being scattered like Western European countries.

The industrial area of ​​Stalingrad is located in the north of the main city of Stalingrad. There are four large factories along the Volga River from north to south: the "Derzhinsky" tractor factory, the "Red Barrier" artillery factory, the "Red October" metallurgical factory and the "Lazur" chemical factory.

There are also some small factories, such as meat and bread factories, all distributed in this area. To the west of each factory, the dormitories where these factory employees live are named after "Barrick New Village" and "Red October New Village".

Obviously, this industrial area is one of the lifelines of Stalingrad... In addition to being able to transport supplies from the other side of the Volga River, these factories can also be supplemented to a certain extent.

Among them, especially the tractor factory, it actually produces tanks for the Soviet army. If heavy equipment such as tanks are transported from the Volga River, it will greatly increase the transportation difficulties and affect the transportation volume.

"So, Major!" said General Streck: "You mean, we're interspersed in and captured these factories and then blow up their machines or factories?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded: "If we do this, then Stalingrad will have much less supplies, which will greatly reduce the difficulty of our offense!"

"Why can't we destroy them with artillery or bombers?" asked Colonel Albridge.

"No!" General Strek shook his head and said, "These factories in Stalingrad have good air defense and anti-aircraft artillery protection. A considerable number of their factories are built underground. Otherwise, our Air Force would have blown them up long ago!"
Chapter completed!