Tragic? Xiaobian can only describe it as a contest between a madman and a madman, and there is probably no language in this world that can describe the tragedy, saying that you can only appreciate a corner of it.
However, since Xiaobian came in, it is impossible to write two words and go out, and you can listen to Xiaobian nagging you.
First, let's look at the background of this war.
All right! At first, the Soviet Union and Germany were friendly, and as the old saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is his friend.
In fact, before the start of World War II, as long as the eyes are not blind, everyone can guess Hitler, what does he want to do? Of course, guessing is guessing, but each country has its own little calculation, and the guy is crackling and playing happily.
It was the Soviet Union that felt that Hitler was threatening him.
Speaking of this, it is estimated that there are small partners who want to wield a machete of seventy meters and cut the editor: "They have also signed a treaty!" ”。 Don't worry, you listen to the editor to give you the following.
At that time, the Soviets called the British and the French together: "You see how busy the Germans are in Europe?" Why don't we rub the three of them together and unite to resist it? ”
Needless to say, the Frenchman has not yet crawled out of the abyss of the First World War? So the only people who talked were the British: "Of course, you carry this big head." Of course, we British people have to support and support, or we will send out two divisions first to help you wave the flag and shout? ”
The British spoke with a sincere face, as if they really took it seriously.
In fact, in the eyes of the Soviet Union at that time, to deal with Hitler, you did not have three hundred divisions, and you did not want to think about it.
So the Soviets' faces were very ugly, and the British glanced at them, which touched their chins and added: "Otherwise, I will add two more divisions, and I can't have more!" ”
"Two divisions, two more divisions, that's a lot!"
So the result is that everyone knows, and this negotiation must have collapsed.
The final result is that everyone knows that the Soviets and Germans signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", which is amazingly fast!
First of all, Hitler saw the cattiness in it, and first extended an olive branch to the Soviets, and as soon as the Soviet side agreed on the same day, the Germans set out for Moscow on the same day, and it did not take twenty days before and after the treaty to be signed.
At that time, as soon as the matter came out, the British and the French first fell to the ground in shock, and they wanted to be a melon eater to watch the Germans and Soviets fight, which could not be fought.
So everyone in the back knew.
Why? The previous war between the Soviet Union and Germany could not be escaped, and both sides who signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact knew that it was only a postponement, and should not provoke the antagonistic relations between the two sides in advance.
So when the Germans fought all over Europe, especially after the French surrendered, the Germans tore up the treaty and began to attack the Soviet Union.
Why? The Soviet side felt that they could wait another year for this war, and that they were ready for such a year.
That is to say, before the Soviet-German war, the Soviets were not ready.
So in the early days of the war, the little friends saw that the Germans were a blitzkrieg on the left and a blitzkrieg on the right, and the Soviets were wrong to fight.
Under this series of attacks, the Soviets soon lost a large part of the territory in the west. In other words, there is always a saying that there is always a space for time in strategy.
While the Germans marched all the way, the Soviets were ready in Moscow.
In December 1941, the Soviets finally withstood the German offensive, which was their first victory in the war against Germany.
But in Hitler's view, his goal was not Moscow, just appetizers, he wanted Stalingrad, which is now Volgograd.
Where is not only a railway hub, but also the largest tractor factory in the USSR, which is said to have half the production capacity of the whole of the USSR, of course, now this factory does not produce tractors, they have begun to produce tanks.
But none of this mattered, what was important was that as long as Stalingrad was taken, there would be not only Soviet grain producing areas to the west and south, but also oil and coal.
Therefore, by taking Stalingrad, the Soviet Union's confidence will be gone, but it will complement the Germans' confidence.
Thus began the Battle of Stalingrad.
Some people say that the most tragic battle for the defense of Stalingrad was in the street battles. Yes, this is true, but what I want to tell you is that the defense of Stalingrad has not yet entered the street battle, and it is already fierce on the outskirts of the city.
If nothing else, at that time, the defensive periphery was the Sixty-second Army.
At a glance at this number, it is estimated that the little friends who like World War II immediately came to the spirit, is this not Trikov's troops?
Oh, yes! It was Trikov's troops, but he was not yet Trikov's units at the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
It was a unit called General Lopatin, who Trikov was able to command because General Lopatin was beaten a bit by the Germans.
He believed that the battle for Stalingrad was a mortal end and that the Soviet Union could not win the battle.
Was he scared? No, the war was so fierce that he wouldn't believe it would last.
Every day of this Sixty-second Army, they were bombarded with between 1,000 and 1,500 German planes.
The Sixty-second Group Army said that it was the group army, but in fact it was tens of thousands of people.
Say good tank brigade, fight to the end, you don't talk about tanks, people are gone, there are three tanks left, two can't move, one also went to the repair shop.
The troops below said that it was a division, but the best situation to investigate was only a few hundred, and there were dozens of them.
It's not just tragic! Is Lopating a coward? No! He had at least survived until now, he had been beaten a little broken, and the last nerve was about to break.
So Trikov came, took over Lopatin's post, collected as many soldiers as possible from all over the place, and then fought.
In order to avoid enemy bombardment, they moved the trenches as far as possible to the edge of the German positions, and the breathing of the other could be heard on both sides.
This is no way to do it, otherwise the Germans will not be able to stand the plane.
When it came time to enter the urban war, Zhukov proposed the method of breakwater, that is, a small force occupying the ruined buildings that had been blown up.
Turning the rubble into pillboxes, the Germans were dragged into a bottomless quagmire of war.
The battlefield war eventually became the rat war described by the Germans, how is it a rat war?
It is very simple that a house is a battlefield, often one side occupies the bathroom, the other side occupies the kitchen, then their battle takes place in the living room, the living room decides the winner and loser, do you think it is over? No, there are still two bedrooms waiting to be fought over?
This is a bit empty, let's talk about the actual situation.
It is said that there is a granary south of the city, and the Thirty-fifth Division of the Soviet Guards Infantry is stationed here.
To what extent did the two sides end up fighting? The Soviets were above the granary, and they found that the bottom was occupied by the Germans, so after a fierce battle, the Germans were beaten out.
But before they could catch their breath, they found that the driven Germans had climbed up to the top of the granary.
What to do? You can do it! Then fight.
Zhukov asked how the situation was in the granary, and the division commander Dubyansky did not know how to answer: "Report that General Zhukov's battle situation is constantly changing!" ”
Well, as long as the granary is not lost.
Don't talk about this, a water tower, even a ruined wall, occupied by the Germans during the day and returned to the Soviets at night.
If the two sides fight together, first the machine gun strafing, the submachine gun follows, the bullet is exhausted, the bayonet is stabbed, the bayonet is stabbed, and the grenade is directly pulled.
The distance between the two sides is not calculated by tens of meters, but by several meters, and in the end, it can only be described by separating a few corpses.
The speed of the Germans' advance cannot be calculated in kilometers, only in a few meters.
Let me give you an example.
On November 11, the Germans launched their last offensive, when they only had to advance another four hundred meters, and the Germans would push the Soviets completely to the Volga River.
But it was these four hundred meters that the soldiers on both sides killed the red eye.
The battle lasted for four days and four nights, and the four-hundred-meter-wide combat area did not make any progress, but was covered with a layer of corpses.
After the war, the bodies of 140,000 Germans were buried on the outskirts of Stalingrad alone.
In the defense of Stalingrad, all those who could go to the battlefield went.
There was an old man named Savilieva, who, according to recollections, was only four years old at the time, and her father went first to Moscow and then to Stalingrad.
The last time my father came home, she left a message that she still remembers: "We are going to stay here and die in our city!" ”
After that, she never saw her father again. While her two-year-old brother died of disease in the war, she left the house a month later with her mother and grandmother, whose home was quickly blown to pieces.
The three men had brought only a bag of potatoes and some belongings, hiding in a ravine.
Now in this valley, if someone digs, they can dig out a crypt blocked by a door panel.
And the potatoes they brought out were eaten for a week, and they had no fire, so they had to wait for the incendiary bombs to fall, and then they ran to the fire lit by the incendiary bombs and cooked the potatoes to eat.
But the delicacy was only a week, and for the next three months, the three of them had to fish out the clay by the river to eat.
When the war was over, when she was seventy-two years old, she learned that her father had actually died on the volga river, and was later buried in a collective cemetery.
And this collective cemetery, in fact, is very close to Savilieva's residence, and her father has always been around.
Okay, let's move on
Why? Let's not say anything else, let's just say that Trikov's troops are only three days away from counterattacking, and there are only about two hundred people left under him.
Faced with this situation, Trikov said: "There is the Volga River in front of me, and whoever wants to go can go now, but I want to stay!" ”
As a result, none of them left, and they had to continue to fight.
Speaking of this, Xiaobian remembered some propaganda in the West, saying that there were many overseers in the Soviet Red Army, and it was because of these overseers that the Soviet Union held up.
Pull it down! It was France that invented the Overseer, but what was the result? France surrendered without much effort.
There is no such thing at all, to say the real thing, the battle is extremely fierce, and there are also mental breakdowns that are beaten.
Trikov had encountered a regimental commander who wanted to abandon his army and run, only to be bumped by Trikov and punched by Trikov.
The regimental commander did not recognize Trikov at that time, so he fought with Trikov, and finally the regimental commander was knocked unconscious by Trikov, and when Trikov got up, he took a box of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to the soldier: "When you wake up, give it to him!" ”
It's as simple as that, it was said by Trikov's grandson.
As a soldier, Trikov was very respected, when Stalin entertained senior generals, he just touched the general's cup, and when Trikov came, Stalin drank three cups in a row.
That's how heroes should be.
Let's go back to the previous topic and say that the Soviets were so brave, and this nerve was not interrupted by the brutal battle.
In fact, the political commissar here played a key role, and if nothing else, when the troops need to charge, they are always the first.
In this war, you don't have to say the political commissar, and the sacrifice rate of the Communists is also high, because every time there is a battle, either the political commissar or the Communists rush to the forefront.
But if we look at another statistic, you know the Soviet attitude towards this war.
From August to October 1942, the losses of the front-line troops were enormous, but the number of official Party members surged, from more than 28,500 to more than 53,500.
It has to be said that the existence of political commissars and Communists is the spiritual pillar of the Soviet Red Army, but what can make the Soviet Red Army survive is not only political commissars and Communists, but also hatred.
The Burning and Looting of the Germans ignited the anger of almost every Soviet, women and children were hung from trees, etc., and the result was that every Soviet was eager to kill more Germans.
Sniper Anatoly. Chekov said that the first time he killed the first person, his heart was terrible, because he actually killed people.
But he soon replied, because he thought of the pictures of his compatriots being bullied, and finally Chekov came to a conclusion: "I hate them!" ”
yes! This hatred is also the reason for supporting the Soviet Red Army.
The two sides are glued, and this hatred has been unable to be resolved in the Soviet-German battlefield.
In fact, when we entered the all-out counteroffensive later, you can understand why the Soviets on the Eastern Front still advanced so quickly in the face of 80% of the German troops.
When the Soviets were still sixty kilometers away from Berlin, the Allies were still nearly five hundred kilometers away from Berlin, and there was a hill and a river to cross in between.
When attacking Berlin, the Americans can not fight, but the Soviets can not not fight, victory is in sight, there is no reason not to fight.