Then the 21st Armored Division tried several times to open the passage from the airport to Mamayevgang again, but failed... At this time, the Soviet army already knew the importance of Mamayevgang, and at the same time they knew that if the German army attacked Mamayevgang, it would inevitably happen that the situation before, that was, the German army blocked the central ferry with artillery fire, so the Soviet army built several lines of defense at the airport and organized a large amount of artillery fire to blockade.

This time the German army had no choice.

The German army was able to easily attack the airport before because the Soviet army was not prepared for artillery fire and did not concentrate here. At this time, the Soviet army formed a defense line at the airport to connect the buildings, and at the same time concentrated the artillery fire in the direction of the airport... Then the open terrain of the airport became an obstacle to German tanks.

Because Soviet artillery observers could see German tanks from a distance from high buildings, and before they even entered the airport, they would be covered by Soviet artillery fire.

At the same time, the Soviet army used the buildings and ruins of several streets between the school and the airport to carry out "needle tactics" and "guerrilla tactics" against the 21st Armored Division.

This approach should be said to be correct. Cui Kov accurately judged that although it is difficult for an army like the 21st Armored Division to compete with it in conventional warfare, it is not the case in unconventional warfare. Although the German army is still superior in casualties, it is much better than before, almost 10 to 1. Moreover, most of the two divisions Cui Kov devoted to the airport are new recruits armed by the people.

Qin Chuan also has no good solution to this situation.

Sometimes Qin Chuan wondered if the battle in history was too cruel and too hard, so fate did not want Qin Chuan to win the battle so easily.

However, compared to this, Qin Chuan believed that he was the commander of the Soviet army, that is, Cui Kov, a terrible opponent. Because not to mention the others, "personal tactics" and "urban guerrilla warfare" are two good tactics, and they are even much stronger than the Moscow defense battle commanded by Zhukov... The reason why the Moscow defense battle is so famous is more because of the strategic significance of this victory, and the victory of the Battle of Stalingrad is an embodiment of Cui Kov's command art.

Of course, there are also Zhukov's contributions.

Qin Chuan was lying in the corner and smoking a cigarette while thinking about these issues. He believed that if the situation of the war continued to develop like this, the German army would still be likely to win.

The reason is as mentioned before. Qin Chuan did everything for the German army, such as buying time, taking down Baku so that the German army would not start a war on two fronts, and burning the artillery factory and the tractor factory, etc., all of which should affect the final result of the battle.

After all, in history, the German army even captured a few factories in the main urban area, which were only the northern industrial zone, but failed to take them down.

The question is how much price the 21st Armored Division will pay if it continues like this, how many casualties will it be, and will it be among these casualties?!

More importantly... Even if the German army finally took Stalingrad, can we guarantee that we will not be surrounded by the Soviet army? You should know that when the Don and Volga rivers are frozen in winter, the fragile wings of the German army defended by the servants will be exposed.

From this perspective, the German army needed to capture Stalingrad faster and then transfer its troops back to the left and right to defend themselves in order to consolidate their results.

Qin Chuan didn't dare to think too much, because no one could guarantee that he could be absolutely safe or surely win on the battlefield, even himself.

"I'm very frustrated, are you?" Colonel Slain stood in front of Qin Chuan.

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

He patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder, sat beside Qin Chuan and asked him for a cigarette. After lit it, he raised his head and vomited smoke.

"You should get used to this!" said Colonel Slain.

"What?" Qin Chuan didn't understand Colonel Slein's words.

"I mean failure!" Colonel Slain said: "This is the battlefield, and this is normal! Although this failure is not because of your fault!"

"Yes, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "I know!"

"Do you know?" Colonel Slain continued: "Although I know this, I am a little uncomfortable now!"

"Oh, why?"

"Because you have hardly failed before!" said Colonel Slain. "This makes me unaware of what failure feels like!"

Qin Chuan thought about it and found that as Colonel Slain said, the 1st Infantry Regiment and even the 21st Armored Division could always win after he made a suggestion.

But then again, I am very happy to know the development and key points of the battle, so it is normal to always win a battle!

But this normality seems to be abnormal in the eyes of others, so this failure is also a good thing.

"Major!" At this time, the communication soldier walked forward and saluted Qin Chuan: "General asked you to go to the command center!"

Qin Chuan and Colonel Slein looked at each other, and both of them were surprised because this time they directly called Qin Chuan instead of Colonel Slein.

But what surprised the two even more was still behind. They thought the "general" mentioned by the correspondent soldier was Major General Streck, but unexpectedly it was General Paulus.

Paulus's command is located on the west bank of the Don River, which is a town opposite Karachi, and is more than 100 kilometers away from Stalingrad.

This is not to say that Paulus is timid, but that there are two fronts in the battle of Stalingrad, one is the northern defense line and the other is the Stalingrad front. Paulus must ensure that the command of these two fronts is wise to stay on the west bank of the Don River.

However, this would take some trouble to Qin Chuan to meet Paulus: he first had to take a car to the airport more than ten kilometers away, and then take a Junker transport plane to the west bank of the Don River... This was still the case when Paulus arranged a transport plane for Qin Chuan. If he followed the regular route, he had to take a car to Karachi first, then take a boat from Karachi across the river, and then take a car from Karachi to the command center.

Although this is only more than 100 kilometers, it is impossible to do it after counting the waiting time in the middle of the journey.

From this we can also imagine how bad the German army's logistics from Berlin to Stalingrad was, especially in which there were several big rivers in the Soviet Union, and the bridges were either not available or were blown up by the Soviet Union, so the German army's transportation had to be loaded and unloaded repeatedly.

Of course, these do not require Qin Chuan's care.
Chapter completed!