Chapter 677: Grid Tactics

"Considering that you have used this tactic before!" Major General Wittelsheim asked: "So I want to know if you have any method to deal with this tactic?"

Colonel Slaine couldn't help but turn his attention to Qin Chuan, because Qin Chuan came up with this tactic.

Qin Chuan shook his head slightly and replied: "Sorry General, I don't think there is a good way to deal with this tactic!"

"Isn't there a good way?" Major General Wittelsheim heard the implication of this statement.

"If there is any way, it can only be said to be a stupid way!"

"Tell me about it!" Major General Wittelsheim said: "Whether it is a smart method or a stupid method, as long as it is useful, it is a good method!"

"We can divide it into small grids!" Qin Chuan pointed at the map and said, "Then designate a certain unit to be responsible for which small grid!"

"Xiaoge?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan answered, casually picked up a pencil and drew a few lines horizontally and vertically on the map, and said, "Just like this, divide them into small pieces and weave them into small pieces. Serial number, arrange a platoon or a company to be responsible for the attack or defense of a certain small area! "

Major General Wittelsheim couldn't help but said "Oh", then nodded and said: "It is indeed a useful method, Major. This will greatly reduce the difficulty of command and reduce confusion. We have indeed encountered many similar situations in the battle. With such a problem, soldiers and officers were rushing around the city, running wherever there were enemies, and the result was chaos as they were moved around by the enemy! "

"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded: "The enemy took advantage of this to attack everywhere. He fired a few shots from the east to divert our attention and troops to the east. As a result, the Soviets emerged from the west again. !”

"Yes!" Major General Wittelsheim agreed: "If we use the 'grid tactics' you call, and each grid has troops stationed and cannot be mobilized by the enemy, then no matter where the Soviets come out, They will be discovered and blocked as soon as possible!”

"Especially..." Colonel Slain said: "If you do this, you can let the people in each grid carefully search the area where they are, or be alert to places where the Soviets may come out and prepare defenses. Then the Soviets can There’s no chance to take advantage of it!”

Of course Qinchuan knew this, because this was actually the "net and suppression" tactic used by China in the Vietnam War in history, and the tunnel warfare used by the Soviet army in Stalingrad was very similar to the tunnels used by the Vietnamese army.

"So..." Then Westerheim asked doubtfully: "Major, this is a good tactic, why do you say it is a stupid method?"

"First of all, it needs more troops!" Qin Chuan said.

Westerheim nodded. Every small grid requires troops to defend. Of course, this requires a lot of troops, and this is precisely the shortcoming of the German army.

"Secondly, the difficulties we face are far more than these!" Qin Chuan replied: "And it is foreseeable that we will encounter more and more difficulties in the future. It is likely that they cannot be solved by one or two tactics!"

Major General Westerheim sighed, he had already realized this.

Perhaps due to the lack of troops due to the use of this "lattice tactic", or the 6th Army realizing that it might be difficult for them to take Stalingrad alone, the 21st Armored Division was dispatched as a reserve the next day. the battlefield.

It was early in the morning when the 21st Armored Division entered the city. The 60th Motorized Rifle Division, located on the right wing of the 14th Armored Corps, suffered heavy casualties in the Soviet army's large-scale counterattack last night and needed to rest and recuperate. The 21st Armored Division went up to replace their defense area.

Although the sky looked clear from the outside that day, when I walked into the city of Stalingrad, I felt a dark chill... This was not a psychological effect, but the battle in Stalingrad day and night. The smoke and dust, coupled with the dense buildings blocking the sun, caused the temperature difference between the inside and outside to differ by several degrees.

Along the way, there were houses that had been blown to pieces or burned black. The ground was either dead bodies or ruins. From time to time, there were several explosions of artillery shells overhead, as if they were making a mockery of the soldiers. warn.

After walking only a few hundred meters, the tank was blocked by a pile of ruins. A group of engineers were trying to clear a path through it. One of the engineers, whose face was darkened by gunpowder smoke, shouted to Qin Chuan: "Major, if you If you don’t want to help, you’ll have to take another route two miles away!”

Eberhard was a little dissatisfied: "Why didn't you clean up this garbage earlier?!"

"Oh, sir!" the engineer captain replied: "Half an hour ago it was a house. Do you mean we demolished it beforehand?"

Before he finished speaking, an artillery shell exploded with a "boom" more than 200 meters away. A cloud of dust and building debris fell from the sky with a "whoosh" of wind, making Qinchuan's steel helmet "clang, clang, clang". .

"Sir!" the engineer captain coughed a few times in the dust and said, "If we continue to discuss this topic, the other section of the road may have the same fate!"

Qin Chuan understood what this meant, nodded and said to the soldiers behind him: "Go and help!"

The soldiers had no choice but to carry their weapons on their shoulders and rush forward to clear the rubble.

This is one of the difficulties in the Battle of Stalingrad... Stalingrad is an important industrial, commercial and trade center of the Soviet Union, and it is also conveniently located on the Volga and Don rivers for transportation. These superior conditions make the city very densely populated.

The result of dense population is that there are many buildings, which are bombarded by the artillery fire of both the German army and the Soviet Union... The ruins of collapsed houses seriously hinder the mobility of tanks.

However, this is just the beginning. 80% of the buildings in Stalingrad in history were blown down. It can be said that the whole city will become a pile of wreckage and ruins.

From this perspective, battlefields like Stalingrad are not suitable for tank warfare, at least not for tank warfare in this era. On the other hand, the German army cannot do without tanks... Because the German army always pays attention to coordination in combat, and tanks are also needed to attack the buildings where Soviets are stationed.

In the end, it took half an hour for the soldiers to successfully clear a road, and then the tanks made a "rumble" sound again and drove forward.

A team of wounded were carried down by the stretcher team, bleeding all the way, and the screams that came one after another seemed to tell Qin Chuan not to go forward.

But Qin Chuan and the soldiers had no choice but to follow the tanks step by step.

There were more and more corpses on the roadside, some from the German army and some from the Soviet army. They were piled up randomly on the roadside. Some of them had already gone bad and were smelly, with flies flying around them.

So Qin Chuan knew that the defense line was not far away.