"Swoosh!"

"coax!"

With a sharp roar, a shell from nowhere landed on the side wall of a building not far away. In the huge roar and the smoke rising up, half of the building collapsed, splashing gravel and rubble hit nearby buildings with cracklings, and occasionally several of them hit the already broken window glass in front of Chu Sinan.

Chu Sinan ignored the explosion that was so close. His eyes were firmly staring at the sky not far outside the window. There, ten German bombers were galloping over in a dovetail formation, and there were more than twenty escort fighter jets outside the bomber formation.

Including this time, this is the fifth air strike launched by the Germans today. They want to razor the entire Stalingrad to the ground through this unlimited air strike! Looking at the bombs that were thrown out from the belly of the bomber, Chu Sinan thought in his heart.

Since the encirclement and annihilation battle more than ten days ago, the Germans have obviously learned from it. The troops they were advancing in three directions began to cooperate closely with each other, which made Chu Sinan, who was occupying a weak position and thus was disappointed. It is impossible to say that the German army's cautious advancement method made him unable to find a favorable opportunity for counter-assault operations.

On the first Sunday of early May, on May 3, the 41st Armored Army of the German Sixth Army advanced into Upper Yelishanka with the cooperation of two infantry divisions; the 48th Tank Army, with the cooperation of the 51st Infantry Army, successively captured two railway stations of Drovmoser and Alexander Drovka, and then advanced into the neighbouring area of ​​Gorodice; the 14th Tank Army, with the cooperation of the 8th Infantry Army, successively captured the Fenovka, Latoshenka and other areas north of Stalingrad, north of the Volga River, and the Soviet army fell in the suburbs of Stalingrad south of the Volga River, and the huge German troops officially came to the city of Stalingrad.

When the German army launched an attack on the suburbs of Stalingrad, the Soviet army's resistance on this line was quite weak. Chu Sinan ordered twice to let his troops voluntarily give up their positions and retreat to the inner circumference of Stalingrad. In Chu Sinan's view, the outskirts of Stalingrad were plains or hills with little ups and downs. Under such terrain, the German troops were extremely mechanized and occupied absolutely the initiative. They fought against them in a favorable terrain environment to the enemy. No wise general would take the subterranean strategy. It was precisely based on this that Chu Sinan ordered several times to withdraw the troops that had almost exchanged fire with the German army, and even directly retreated to the city of Stalingrad. He wanted to fight with the German army to the death in the city of Stalingrad in the ruins of this ruined building.

In order to achieve this goal, Chu Sinan not only carried out a withdrawal operation in the outer area of ​​Stalingrad, but also made a series of actions in the city of Stalingrad. First, he continued to transfer the artillery power he had in his hands. Four subordinate artillery divisions of the Stalingrad Front Army were transferred to the rear and transferred to Tchaivsky Island on the Volga River and on the island of Lones. In Chu Sinan's view, in the upcoming urban street fighting, the artillery that mainly plays a role in long-range strikes is no longer necessary to stay in the city. On the contrary, on the islands behind the city, their role can be better played. Secondly, Chu Sinan was the commander-in-chief of the Front and the Supreme Commander.

The membership of the Ministry was launched in Stalingrad City, and young people under 35 and over 16 were recruited to the army among the citizens to support the battle on the front line. Through this recruitment order, Chu Sinan received nearly 60,000 new recruits in Stalingrad. Although these recruits had no combat power and could not even have complete weapons and equipment, these were soldiers after all, and even if they could not kill the enemy, they would still be no problem to act as cannon fodder. Chu Si's last order to go south, and at the same time, it was also the order he least wanted to issue, which was to block the route between the north and south of the Volga River, and strictly prohibit any citizen from leaving his home to fleeing to the north shore.

The last order seemed a bit unkind and very cruel. It completely dragged hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Stalingrad into the abyss of war. At the same time, in order to make these citizens survive, Chu Sinan's logistics troops had to bear a huge burden. The demand for daily necessities such as food was already an astonishing number.

However, from the perspective of the overall situation of the war, Chu Sinan's decision was quite effective. Everyone knows that when soldiers fight to the death on the battlefield, they will inevitably feel fearful. No matter how rich the combat experience of the soldier is or how brave the war is, it is inevitable to be afraid of death. Especially when the enemy is too many and we are few, knowing that the victory is slim, the more likely this panic and fearful death will be. For a weak force, this pessimistic atmosphere is also very easy to spread. Once this emotion spreads, it will be a heavy blow to the morale of the entire force. At present, the Soviet troops on the Stalingrad front are facing this danger.

If all the citizens in Stalingrad City are transferred at this time and the city becomes an empty city, then the soldiers who still stick to it will become a truly lonely army. At least, these soldiers will feel this way from the bottom of their hearts. At that time, what will they rely on to reject their fear? On the other hand, blocking the citizens of Stalingrad into the city will create a feeling in the hearts of the soldiers, that is, their battles have backings, and their sacrifices are witnessed by the people behind them. Being injured? Don't be afraid, there are hundreds of thousands of citizens behind them, and they will take good care of themselves. Sacrifice? Don't be afraid, they sacrificed to protect these hundreds of thousands of citizens, and their sacrifices are obvious to all. Therefore, the existence of citizens is also a very important aspect to boosting the morale of soldiers, and Chu Sinan's decision was made based on this point.

As for whether citizens staying in the city will cause a large number of casualties due to German bombings and artillery attacks, and even cruel street fighting. This is not within Chu Sinan's consideration at present. Now he has only two issues to consider, one is to ensure the morale of the troops, and the other is how to resist the German attack. If it is more despicable, Chu Sinan even hopes that the citizens in the city will suffer more casualties, so that there will be at least two benefits. First, save logistics supplies, and second, by reporting on the number of casualties of citizens, soldiers can be motivated in another aspect.

"Is this practice too inhumane and too cruel?" As a reporter from the United States, Biatrisa asked Chu Sinan about this, and her Japanese reporter also recorded Chu Sinan's answer to this question.

"As long as it is a war, people will die. From the moment the war was launched, humanity has become irrelevant in front of guns and blood. It is ridiculous to talk about humanity in front of war. All our decisions and arrangements are not based on humanity. We only have one center. There is only one goal, that is, to win. For this, we can do whatever we can, and we can be without any scruples..."

"Today, every citizen in Stalingrad should be aware of it. Now it is time for them to contribute to this war. The decision I made may cause them to lose tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. However, as long as we win, we can prevent the further advancement of the German army and prevent the war from extending further to our rear. If we talk about humanity today and allow the German army to seize our Stalingrad on this basis, then in the future, we will pay hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives for this. I do not think this is the so-called humanity...

"The military, military, civilian, and the so-called military, are the military connected to the people, and the civilians are connected to the army. In peacetime, we soldiers can pay several or even dozens of lives to save an ordinary citizen. In peacetime, ordinary people are dominant in the country, and soldiers must sacrifice for their interests. But once the war comes, when facing the entire country, the survival and future of the entire nation are seriously threatened, our soldiers are dominant in the entire country and can solve the backbone of the nation. Facing the invaders with live ammunition, ten unarmed ordinary people are absolutely no match for a formally trained soldier, soldier and ordinary people. If the two are compared in the face of war, they must never measure their strength and role by simple numbers..."

Regarding Chu Sinan's answer and his views on "humanity" and "military" and "military and civilians", Biatrisa gave an evaluation in her diary, that is, "In the difficult stage of the Battle of Stalingrad, I could not feel a pressure in the "Red God of War," which was a chilling pressure. Anyone could see that the legendary unbeaten general's extreme desire for victory. I even believe that if the massacre of Stalingrad's citizens could bring victory to this general, he would do it without hesitation. To a certain extent, I cannot tell the difference between him and those German Nazis. ￣￣ In addition to the national position, he might be closer to those people in dealing with war."

These diaries and a series of war photos of Biyatrisa were compiled and compiled into a book called "Professional Soldiers in My Eyes" after the war ended. Once the book was published in the United States, it caused an uproar. With this memoir similar to news reports, Biyatrisa won two awards in Pulitzer literature and journalism photography in 1945.

The book is extremely popular among Western countries, but it was listed as a banned book by the member states of the Warsaw Pact at that time, thus excluding it from the border. The reason is that this book contains a lot of slander and slandering the Soviet anti-fascist heroes, which is the most solid manifestation of the evil intentions of Western capitalist countries, etc. It is said that Chu Sinan had read this book himself at that time, and he himself praised it. As he said at the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, there is no need to ban it. The author's description is very real and objective. When he read it, it seems that he has returned to the arduous period of war.

War is difficult, and when you are surrounded by the enemy, you have to face frequent air bombings when you resist the enemy's ground attack all day long. Such a war is undoubtedly the most difficult place.

Perhaps for Chu Sinan, the enemy's attack on the ground was not terrible, and what was really threatening was the continuous air raids. When the most were the most, the Germans could carry out twelve large-scale bombings on the urban area of ​​Stalingrad in one day. For the citizens of Stalingrad, the air raid alarms they heard never stopped.

“Where is our plane?”

Perhaps this is the most important issue for the Soviet soldiers stationed in Stalingrad and the ordinary citizens stranded here.

Chu Sinan can give an answer to this question. As a large front, it is impossible for Stalingrad to be without an air force. In fact, Chu Sinan has not only an air force, but also two entire divisions. At this time, these two air force were placed in Gornaya, north of Stalingrad. It only took half an hour for the two air force to take off from there to reach the sky above Stalingrad.

However, although these two air teams are in division-level division-level, the aircraft they assembled really made Chu Sinan feel depressed. As early as when he arrived at the Stalingrad front, Chu Sinan had carefully learned about the situation of these two air teams and understood it. He clearly realized that if the fight against German air forces was really launched over Stalingrad, the two air teams would be wiped out in a very short time.

Among these two air teams, in addition to being equipped with a small number of ground ￣￣ to be precise, more than a dozen Na-2 attackers (commonly known as the "I" series) can also get land and take action. The others are backward models that should have been eliminated long ago, such as n-15 and n-, which were defeated by the German me-109 on the Spanish battlefield. Even if they were put on the battlefield at this time, they could only act as cannon fodder at most.

Of course, in addition to the performance gap of fighter jets, the quality of pilots is also a crucial aspect. Chu Sinan will never forget that in the history of World War II that he is familiar with, nearly 100 super ace pilots shot down hundreds of enemy aircraft in the German army, and the Soviet pilots were incomparable to these people in terms of flight skills, flight experience and flight time.

When the aircraft performance and pilot quality are all behind, Chu Sinan does not think that sending his own air team can play any role at this time. Since that is the case, it is better to hide them temporarily and wait for a favorable opportunity to hurt the other party.

Without the interference of the Soviet aviation team, the German air force was obviously becoming more and more rampant, especially after Chu Sinan retreated the anti-aircraft artillery troops to the island, German aircraft frequently visited the sky above Stalingrad. Their indiscriminate bombing not only caused major casualties to the Soviet soldiers, but also injured countless urban civilians. In this way, a situation originally expected by Chu Sinan gradually emerged, that is, the soldiers' indignation gradually accumulates, especially the air force that has been put on the rear, and their letters of request were almost sent to the front command center one after another. As the commanders of the two aviation divisions, Lieutenant Colonel Bordrixin and Colonel Volkov were even more uncomfortable. Chu Sinan had reason to believe that these two guys were probably already complaining about him.

Seeing this indignation in the army growing, and the soldiers, especially the air force, were about to fight, and the desire for war was out of control, Chu Sinan understood in his heart that maybe it was time to start an air battle aimed at cheering up his momentum.

"Swoosh!"

"coax!"

Amid a series of roars, Chu Sinan's mind was pulled back to his eyes. He looked out the window and saw that at the end of the street facing the window, a four-story building was quickly collapsed in the smoke and dust rising from the sky. A Gas military vehicle, which was originally parked on one side of the street, was buried in a very short time by the falling bricks and stones.

"General, this place is too dangerous," a staff officer's voice sounded behind Chu Sinan, full of anxiety and fear, "You might as well move to the air-raid shelter as soon as possible."

Chu Sinan did not speak or look back, and his eyes remained outside the window. At this time, on the street outside the window, a group of Su soldiers carrying guns and stretchers were running by hurriedly, and not far from them, another group of rescue teams carrying a large number of wounded soldiers were turning from the corner of the street. Although it was far apart, Chu Sinan still felt that he could occasionally see an expression on the faces of these soldiers.

"General..." The staff officer behind him looked at the German bomber group that was gradually approaching outside the window, and couldn't help but speak again.

"Have you prepared everything I asked you to prepare before?" Chu Sinan turned around and asked loudly without waiting for the other party to finish his words.

"Before?" the staff officer was stunned at first, and then suddenly realized, and he hurriedly said, "Everything is ready, our radio broadcast is also ready, and it can be played to the entire city of Stalingrad at any time."

"Can every soldier of mine listen?" Chu Sinan nodded and continued to ask.

"It's definitely heard," the staff officer replied without hesitation. "The several communications units are well prepared."

"That's good," Chu Sinan nodded, and then smiled, "Call me immediately, two comrades Bordrihin and Volkov to prepare their troops. In forty minutes, I will see our fighter jets over Stalingrad, and in an hour, I will ask their bombers to drop bombs on the German positions!"

"Ah?!" The staff officer was stunned again, but he quickly replied excitedly, "Yes, General, I will convey your order immediately!"

"Remember, tell me Bordrihin and Volkov," Chu Sinan added, "use everything they can do in their hands. This time, no matter what the price is paid, I want my soldiers to see one thing, that is, the downed German fighter jets!"
Chapter completed!