Chapter 713 Begins

When Krylov received information that the sandbank had been lost, he immediately reported it to Chuikov.

"Comrade Chuikov!" Krylov said: "The sandbank has been lost!"

Chuikov, who was looking at the map, just hummed and nodded casually. There was no sandbar in his defense area, Stalingrad, so he took it for granted that the sandbar in the defensive position of the 64th Army or the Southeast Army was lost, so he did not Didn't take it to heart... While attacking the 64th Army, the German 4th Armored Army also tried to cross the Volga River several times, but failed.

After a pause, Chuikov moved his gaze to the lower reaches of the Volga River, and then asked: "Where is it?"

Krylov pointed to a point on the map. Chuikov raised his head in surprise, with an incredible expression on his face: "Are you sure you're not mistaken, Comrade Krylov? This is a sandbank in our hinterland!"

Krylov nodded firmly: "I confirmed it, Comrade Chuikov!"

"When did it happen?" Chuikov's face turned very ugly.

"Just this morning!"

"But it's just dawn now!"

"Yes!" Krylov replied: "They took advantage of the moment of dawn to attack and then occupied the place..."

"But how did they attack?" Chuikov said: "This sandbar is almost surrounded by us. Did they fly in?"

"Comrade Chuikov!" Krylov replied with difficulty: "They did fly in. According to the reports of the surviving soldiers... the Germans have a strange aircraft that can hover in the air, and then the enemy will fly in from the hover. The parked plane slid down the rope. Although they have a small number of troops, only about two hundred people, but you know, Comrade Chuikov, what we have on the sandbank are fortification areas, engineers and artillery..."

There is no need to go into details about what happened next.

Chuikov's face turned pale. He knew what this meant. The sandbank was another Mamaev Hill. To be precise, the sandbank could serve as a more effective blockade of the central ferry and even the entire Stalingrad.

Sure enough, all kinds of information came from the staff officer in the next second:

"The central ferry was hit by the enemy's precise artillery fire and suffered heavy losses!"

"The transport fleet was bombed by the enemy and three ships were sunk!"

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After thinking for a while, Chuikov called the Southeast Front Army Headquarters.

At this time, Yeremenko, who was commanding the overall situation of the Southeast Front, was also very busy, so the staff officer handed the phone to the political commissar Khrushchev.

"I know what you want to say, Comrade Chuikov!" Khrushchev took the phone and said before Chuikov could speak: "We know the importance of the sandbar to Stalingrad. Don't worry, we will solve this problem!"

Khrushchev was very confident in this, because he learned from the Soviet survivors...not survivors to be exact, but cowards and cowards who were greedy for life and fear of death. They were a disgrace to the Soviet Union, especially since Khrushchev knew about the Germans who attacked the sandbank. When there were only two hundred people.

"You are seven times more numerous than the enemy!" Khrushchev angrily scolded the Soviet soldiers who were like drowned rats: "Even those of you who escaped back are more than the Germans. You just need to pick up Weapons and bravely charged at the Germans, they were vulnerable, but you chose to escape and let the Germans occupy the sandbar and drive a nail between us and Stalingrad!”

The furious Khrushchev ruthlessly organized all these soldiers into punishment camps.

In fact, when analyzing this issue objectively, Khrushchev’s statement and approach are unfair: it should be said that the soldiers were not at fault in this matter. The artillery did not have infantry combat training, let alone actual combat experience. They even lacked equipment. What they were fighting against were the Germans who were armed to the teeth, so there was no such thing as Khrushchev's saying, "As long as you bravely launch a charge, you can defeat the enemy." This is obviously just standing up and talking without pain.

This is more a mistake in the Soviet high-level command and intelligence... There are actually traces of the German army launching such an attack. After all, this is the Soviet Union, and Soviet people everywhere will report the situation to the Soviet army, and the German army's " "Dragon" helicopters have been training in the Don River area for more than a month. Moreover, these helicopters are still flying in the sky, making it difficult to hide them.

Therefore, the Soviet army received reports from civilians more than once that the Germans had a strange aircraft. But they have never been able to attract the attention of the Soviet military leaders... They took it for granted that it was made up by ordinary people because of fear or hope of receiving rewards.

If the top brass of the Soviet army could pay a little more attention and send some scouts and intelligence personnel to conduct reconnaissance or confirmation, then the situation might be completely different.

Of course, the Soviet military leaders will not blame themselves for the problem. They have a good excuse: "As long as the soldiers are brave enough, they can win any battle."

After Khrushchev put down the phone, he suggested to Yeremenko: "The enemy only has two hundred people. We should take advantage of their unsteady footing to drown them in our attack!"

Yeremenko certainly agreed with Khrushchev's point of view. On the one hand, this was because the Soviets' battle plans were usually simple and crude. On the other hand, Yeremenko was worried that if he continued to wait like this, not only would Stalingrad be unable to survive, but the German army would also be unable to survive. It will also use that strange aircraft to continue transporting troops to the sandbank to increase its strength.

So, without saying anything, Yelyomenko immediately dispatched two artillery regiments to bomb the sandbar, and on the other hand, he dispatched an anti-aircraft artillery regiment to block the airspace near the sandbar on the east coast.

At the same time, Yelyomenko actively organized troops and ships to prepare for landing on the sandbar.

At least one of the three steps implemented by Yelyomenko was effective... the anti-aircraft artillery regiment blocked the airspace of the sandbar.

Of course, this blockade does not mean a blockade of German fighters and bombers. Unless the anti-aircraft artillery of this era has the "proximity fuze shells" that Qin Chuan has made, it can only be said that it depends on luck to hit the high-speed flying target in the air.

The problem is that the helicopter flies too slowly, so Yelyomenko's approach prevents the German army from using helicopters to send reinforcements to the sandbar.

In fact, Qin Chuan had thought of this in advance.

After all, there is an entire Soviet front on the east coast, and the Soviets are not fools. They will definitely block the sandbar and launch a fierce attack at the first time.

Therefore, the battle is far from over for Qin Chuan and others.

It should be said that this is just the beginning!