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But for the Soviet officers and soldiers standing near the position and other besieged Red Guard militia soldiers, this order was issued too late.Even so, the remaining teams are still carefully preparing for the breakout.In order to travel lightly, all heavy weapons that had run out of ammunition were destroyed.

That night, Soviet planes airdropped 6 tons of food and some medicines in Stalingrad. However, for Huo Zin, this was almost the same as not dropping the supplies. Of course, it could not change his idea of ​​breaking out.

At 22:[-], Huo Jin went to meet Zhdanov with a plan, but the other party refused to break through.He told Khozin that even if he escaped from Stalingrad, he would just jump from one "cauldron" to another "cauldron", and as the head of the party, government and army in the Stalingrad area, he could not go back and talk to Pavlov was shot like that.He'd rather be in his office for the final moments.

At this time, the fighting continued in the streets of Stalingrad.In the brutal street fighting, many wounded and militiamen were often executed by the dragon army because they did not have military uniforms, because for many soldiers who are red-eyed, according to international law, those who do not wear military uniforms but hold weapons are not protected in war .Of course, the NVD special forces of the Soviet Army also shot and killed the Dragon Army prisoners in the square in front of the Winter Palace.

At this dangerous time, most Russians were somewhat shaken, and many desperate Red Guards began to take off their uniforms and armbands and slip off the line of fire.At the Lenin Victory Stadium, Zhudanov, commander of the 8th Battalion of the [-]th Militia Division, declared to his remnants that despite the risk of being shot as deserters by NVD troops, it was better for everyone to go home, in his words: "The only thing we can do now is to let them go home, otherwise, why not let them throw stones at Chinese tanks?"

With the end of the peripheral battle, the troops of the Dragon Army began to advance in the direction of Vasilyevsky Island.Vasilievsky Island is a sandbar, surrounded by water, located between the Great Neva River and the Randville Canal. It is shaped like a huge rugby ball, with two sharp corners pointing to the northwest and southeast respectively. It is about 8 miles long. About 2 kilometers wide.It turned out that the main government agencies of Tsarist Russia, including the Imperial Office, the Capitol and the Winter Palace, were located in this area, including Khozin himself.Defending Vasilievsky Island is the 47th Infantry Division, the 18th Armored Division, a security brigade of the NVD, and some navy troops who have retreated here and the remnants of several disbanded troops. , controlled all approaches and passages through the sandbar by fire.

Since July 7, the Fourth Armored Army of the Dragon Army has surrounded Vasilievsky Island.

On July 7, the Dragon Army greatly compressed the encirclement of Vasilievsky Island, and several armies all pressed on the river bank to prepare for the forced crossing.When preparing to attack, the troops of the Dragon Army received such an order: "Don't feel sorry for the shells, and you don't need to save bullets. Mortar shells and grenades must be fired openly." Here comes the matter.Artillery guns of various calibers, from anti-tank guns to powerful fortress guns, such as the caliber Type 26 heavy howitzer, are all used for direct fire.Even various types of rocket launchers and train guns were pushed directly to the river bank under the cover of smoke and smoke, and fired salvos at the Soviet fortifications.This time, the combat characteristics of the Dragon Army's "winning by force" were fully demonstrated.

By the early morning of the 27th, thousands of Soviet soldiers and civilians had poured into the forests and swamps in northern Leningrad, and in some areas the number even exceeded that of the Chinese garrison.In order to escape as soon as possible, these exhausted survivors trudged through the snow, forests, hills, and swamps. The severely damaged Soviet Air Force also tried its best to attack. The roar of engines on the military airport continued, and some pilots even took off with wounded planes. Their purpose was only one: to cover the escape of the remaining defenders as much as possible!

The dragon army immediately launched a large-scale round-up. This time it was like a large-scale hunting activity. For most of the dragon army soldiers, this could no longer be called a battle.Within a few days they managed to block most of the breakout route and patrolled around Stalingrad in half-track armored personnel carriers and tanks, issuing passes to those who surrendered.Soviet soldiers and militiamen who broke out from the siege fell into traps and were captured. Most of the captured people were shot immediately because they were not required to wear Soviet military uniforms.So a lot of people are being treated as guerrillas and local resistance.The bodies of these people were then thrown into the burial pit.

On July 7, the Imperial Expeditionary Force Command sent a telegram to Beijing: "Your Majesty, our army has completely controlled the city of Stalingrad yesterday, July 27, after several days of bloody battles. In three months, we wiped out the Stalingrad Front Army, including the 7th, 26nd, 4th, 52th, 55nd, 59th, 42th, 67nd, and 20th Army of the Red Army, the 2rd and 10th Groups of the Air Force, About 3 enemy troops destroyed and captured more than 6 tanks, 270000 artillery pieces, and 3000 aircraft. Basically wiped out the strength of the Soviet army in the north. Long live the empire, long live the emperor! Pu Yin, July 1578. "

However, although Pu Yin's telegram was sent, the gunfire in Stalingrad still did not end, and the Soviet army was still guarding the last place in Stalingrad-the Winter Palace.

The Winter Palace was first built in 1754 and completed in 1762. It is the greatest monument of Russian Baroque architectural art in the middle of the 18th century. It was destroyed by a fire in 1837 and rebuilt in 1838-1839.Designed by renowned architect Rastrelli.The Winter Palace is a blue and white building, three stories high, about 230 meters long, 140 meters wide, and 22 meters high, in a closed rectangular shape.Originally, the Winter Palace had 1050 rooms, 7 stairs, 1886 doors and 45 windows.

The four sides of the Winter Palace have their own characteristics, but the interior design and decoration style are strictly unified.On the side facing the palace square, the center is slightly protruding, with three arched iron gates, and there are statues of Atlas giants at the entrance.There are two rows of colonnades around the palace, which are magnificent.The palace is gorgeously decorated, and many halls are decorated with Russian gemstones, malachite, jasper, and agate products. For example, the Peacock Hall has more than 2 pieces of malachite, and the parquet floor is made of precious wood.Behind the throne in the Throne Hall (also known as George Hall), there is a map inlaid with 4.5 colored stones.

The Alexander Column of the Winter Palace was built in 1830-1839 to commemorate the great achievement of Alexander I who led the Russian army to defeat Napoleon's army.The entire Winter Palace includes five buildings: the Winter Palace, the Hermitage, the Old Hermitage, the Hermitage Theatre, and the New Hermitage.

At this time, the supreme commander of Stalingrad, Zhdanov, was there, enjoying the last supper. At this time, the 30th and 150st infantry divisions and three combat engineer brigades of the 171th Dragon Army Rifle Corps began The battle to capture the fortress began.

The first place they attacked was the Hermitage Palace.

The Hermitage Palace is located in the northeast corner of the Winter Palace, near the Petrograd Gate. It is a domed building that has become an empty behemoth due to repeated bombings.A ring of defenses was set up around the Hermitage Palace.There is an open small square on the west side of the palace, and trenches and traffic trenches have been dug on the north, northwest and south sides, and some trenches are filled with water.All the doors and windows of the palace were blocked with bricks.Only small launch holes and observation holes were left, and high walls and parapets were built in front of the main entrances and exits.There are about 1200-1800 remnants of the Soviet army in the palace (mainly composed of Soviet Red Army infantry, pilots, cadets, sailors and NDV troops, etc.), the main body is part of the Stalingrad Garrison Brigade of NDV and the 128th Infantry Division The rest of the defense.

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At 7 o'clock in the morning on July 27, the Dragon Army began its firepower preparations before the attack.After the artillery attack, the attack groups of the 11st and [-]th Assault Brigades of the Dragon Army Combat Engineers launched an attack, trying to rush into the Hermitage Palace from three directions, but the Soviet firepower points that were not reliably suppressed immediately sprayed Unleash fierce firepower.The soldiers of the Dragon Army were shot and fell to the ground one after another, and most of the dozen or so tanks covering the attack were also destroyed by anti-tank guns, and the first attack failed.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, 89 artillery pieces, self-propelled firearms and rocket launchers of the Dragon Army directly attacked the exposed firepower points of the Hermitage Palace for 30 minutes. The walls of the Hermitage Palace suddenly became riddled with holes. The firepower point formed by bricks and stones blocking the doors and windows, as well as the soldiers behind were blown to pieces, and several large holes were blasted into the thick walls of the palace.

While the firepower of the Soviet army was being suppressed, the assault detachments of the Dragon Army re-launched the attack under the cover of more than a dozen bear assault tanks and self-exploding vehicles.They used the obstacles in the open space and the wreckage of weapons as cover to advance alternately, avoiding the frontal firepower of the Soviet army, and slowly advancing towards the palace.Finally at 14:25 the [-]nd Combat Engineer Brigade entered the Hermitage.

The intruding dragon army immediately divided into groups, and cleared the Soviet army on the first floor of the building layer by layer.The two sides engaged in fierce close combat in the room, on the stairs, and in the corridors, using almost all types of weapons, from daggers, bayonets, and grenades to heavy machine guns and flamethrowers.Automatic weapons swept like the wind, and the walls of the palace were all honeycombed.The red-eyed Chinese soldiers also used the individual bazooka that was originally a "tank killer" to deal with the Soviet infantry, and sprayed randomly at the Soviet defense troops with machine guns inside. The place hit was either a blood mist or a big hole. .

Due to the large area, after the dragon army invaded, they could only capture one place and consolidate one place, and it was impossible to do it overnight like other buildings.The Soviet army even brought in heavy machine guns that were not used in indoor battles, and swept towards the dragon army on the opposite side.The long-handled rockets that fell into the hands of the Soviet army also became a nightmare for the Long army. When the Soviet army touched one, they fired it at the Long army regardless of 21.

Inside the dimly lit palace filled with gunpowder, soldiers from both sides kept falling from the stairs or the big holes in the floor, and fell to the hard ground to die.After paying a heavy price, the Long army finally wiped out the Soviet army on the lower floors of the palace, but the Soviet army guarding the building refused to surrender and wanted to fight the enemy to the end.

At 7:27 on July 18, the balance of power began to tilt towards the Dragon Army. As more and more Soviet soldiers were killed, the resistance of the Soviet Army began to weaken.At this time, the commander of the Dragon Army, who did not want to pay a greater price at the moment of victory, summoned tanks to shoot at the floors of the palace that were still in the hands of the Soviet army.The tanks parked on the square in front of the palace opened fire immediately, and bricks and stones mixed with the bodies of Soviet soldiers flew around.

Sergeant Liu Xiangyang, a soldier of the Dragon Army from the First Assault Group of Combat Engineers, hoisted the flag of the Chinese Army and the five-clawed golden dragon flag on the dome of the main building of the Hermitage Palace.

On the evening of the 27th, the remaining people in the Prime Minister's Office, including Zhdanov and Khozin, began to break out. The remaining Soviet troops used 5 tanks for this purpose. .But he was killed while passing the tram tracks near the Hermitage Palace, and Zhdanov died on the way out of the siege.Huo Jin and others who were scattered saw the demonstration fists of the workers sticking out of the windows when passing through the slums.This is the full might of the Soviet working class in the face of the red Bolsheviks at their doomsday.General Huo Jin became a prisoner of the Chinese.

On July 7, in some places in Stalingrad, the remaining Soviet and Dragon troops were fighting fiercely near the Summer Palace.The remainder of the division, less than a battalion, made its last organized resistance in the barricades near the Summer Palace and in the zoo bunker.By noon that day, the fighting was still not over.At 28 o'clock in the afternoon, the last Soviet tank was discarded only a few hundred meters away from the Bronze Monument to Peter I, and the last Soviet anti-tank gun was also destroyed. The Soviet tanker who lost the tank did not hesitate He quickly took up the infantry weapons and fought the final battle with the infantry.In the evening, the Soviet army here was completely annihilated, and a five-clawed golden dragon flag was planted on top of the bronze horse on the bronze monument to Peter I.

At 7 o'clock on July 28, Major General Fejuninsky told the Dragon Army that the Soviet army refused to surrender unconditionally.At this time, there were only a few places left in the city of Stalingrad, and Soviet troops were holding on to solitary barricades or buildings with a small amount of ammunition, becoming isolated islands in the black ocean.

All the artillery of the Dragon Army fired at the Soviet positions, clearly warning the Soviets that if they did not surrender, they could only kill themselves.

On the evening of July 7, the Dragon Army finally wiped out the remnants of the Hermitage Palace.

At around four o'clock in the morning on July 7, Senior Colonel Zakatsev, deputy commander of the Stalingrad city defense, came to the headquarters of General Chen Jitang of the Dragon Army and told the other party that Major General Fejuninsky had committed suicide, and then issued an order to the Stalingrad city defense force. Order to cease resistance immediately.

At 30 o'clock on the 15th, the Stalingrad city defense forces all put down their weapons, and the Stalingrad street fighting and the entire battle officially ended.The former capital of the Russian Empire and the cradle of the Russian Revolution officially fell into the hands of the Chinese from this day.

On the same day, the defender of Stalingrad, Konstantin Zhukov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff, arrived in Moscow after days of arduous journey.

Zhukov's car had just driven to the Kremlin.The captain of the Stalin Guard greeted him and informed him: "The Supreme Commander is ill and is working in his residence."

Stalin had a cold and his complexion was bad. He received Zhukov coldly, then walked to the map and asked slowly, "Have you heard? Stalingrad was captured by that little guy."

"En!" Zhukov nodded slightly, and he said to Stalin with a complicated expression: "Leader, it is my shame that Stalingrad is occupied by the Chinese. I hope to lead the troops to recover Stalingrad, the holy place of our party, immediately! "

"No!" Stalin waved his hand slightly, "The current situation is very dangerous for us, and it's not just a city of Stalingrad. What's more, Stalingrad only came out after a bloody battle. Lost. They locked one of the most powerful strategic groups of the Chinese there for three months. So this campaign has its positive side.”

Zhukov was slightly relieved when he heard Stalin's words.Stalin did not blame himself for his loss of Stalingrad.

"Konstantinovich, do you think the Chinese will transfer troops from Leningrad to the south in the near future?"

"I think it's very possible." Zhukov quickly replied: "The enemy suffered heavy losses in Stalingrad, but their armored forces did not suffer much. There are a large number of armored units, but the designation is only the Fourth Panzer Army, and their tanks and motorized units have been transferred from the Stalingrad area to somewhere in the central direction. Therefore, it is possible for the enemy in the Stalingrad area to move south.”

"Where do you think Guangxu will use the tanks and motorized troops transferred from the Stalingrad area?"

"Obviously. In the direction of Moscow, of course, after replenishing personnel and repairing weapons. But with the current weather and the adjustment of the dragon army, they need at least two weeks."

After a moment of silence, Stalin pointed to the Vyazma-Zhekov area on the map and said to Zhukov: "You see, the situation here is very serious. I cannot get detailed reports about the real situation from the Western Front and the Reserve Front. .Because we don't know the location and deployment of the enemy's attack, as well as the situation of our army, we can't make any decisions. Now please go to the General Staff to find out the situation there in detail, and call me anytime, I will Waiting for your news."

Farewell to the Supreme Commander, Zhukov quickly went to the Chief of General Staff Shaposhnikov and reported to him in detail the situation in the Stalingrad area.

Leaving Shaposhnikov, Zhukov drove directly to the headquarters of the Western Front.On the way, Zhukov first studied the situation on the front line and the actions of the enemy and us in detail. When he arrived at the headquarters of the Western Front Army, it was already night.The watchman reported that all leadership was meeting at the Commander.The commander's room was a little dim with candles lit.Sitting at the table were Konev, Sokolovsky, Bulganin, and Marankin, and everyone looked extremely tired.

"I am entrusted by the Supreme Commander to understand the situation, and I have to report to him directly by phone from here." Zhukov quickly ordered after entering the venue.

Lieutenant General Malankin, the Chief of Operations of the Front Army, introduced some of the latest situation. After listening to the other party's introduction, Zhukov quickly called Stalin and reported to Stalin the situation on the Western Front.

"The main danger now is that the covering force of the Mozhaisk defense line is weak, so the enemy's armored tank soldiers may suddenly appear near Moscow. We should try to transfer troops from other places as soon as possible to strengthen the Mozhaisk defense line."

Stalin asked loudly: "Where are the 19th and 20th armies of the Western Front and the group commanded by Bolkin?"

Zhukov quickly replied: "It is encircled in the west and southwest of Vyazma, because Chen Jitang's armored forces have appeared in Orel, east of Vyazma. Their armored group is along the Orel- —The Tula road is advancing towards Tula. In addition, Li Zongren's armored forces have also crossed Rhekov and are advancing from Klin to Kalinin. It is estimated that they are encircling the defenders of Vyazma in a deep way."

"What are you going to do?" Now I'm going to Budyonny, I need to get real information, in addition, I have to personally command the troops. Zhukov said quickly, "Do you know where the headquarters of the Reserve Front is?" "

Zhukov continued: "I'll look for it somewhere in the Maloyaroslavets region."

"Okay, you go to Budyonny and call me immediately from him." Speaking here, Stalin hung up the phone coldly.

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In front of the increasingly approaching dragon army, the atmosphere in Moscow became more and more tense.Just as the Dragon Army stormed the Mozhaisk line of defense, the Soviet government had decided to withdraw part of the party and government agencies and diplomatic missions to Kuibyshev.The diplomatic corps of various countries was notified by Molotov - he will organize the daily work of the government in Kuibyshev.In the middle of the night, Vasily, the head of the secret police, also called a special meeting on Stalin's order, and conveyed the following instructions from Stalin: "All those who defend Moscow with material resources must retreat, all food in the stores will be distributed to the citizens, and nothing will be kept. Next, don’t leave a piece of bread to the Chinese.”

In the next week, the Soviets began a difficult migration.They moved 200 large light and heavy industrial factories eastward from Moscow, 50 skilled workers, engineering technicians and scientific research personnel, as well as a large number of institutions, theaters, museums, and the huge Moscow has almost become an empty city.At the railway station, there are huge crowds of people, causing an unprecedented traffic jam.

At the same time, Vasily also received a secret instruction from Stalin that once the Chinese approached Moscow, all factories, warehouses, institutions and electrical equipment in the city that could not be moved must be blown up, a total of 41119 targets.Even Stalin's own dacha and the Kremlin were planted with mines and explosives.Only the bakery and cold storage, which were built for the needs of the front line, have been preserved.

From the windows of the Soviet party and government organs, layers of "black snow" fell, which were the ashes of documents that were hastily burned by the staff before the evacuation.In the famous Lubikayan prison, people from the Soviet NKVD are busy executing prisoners.Other very important prisoners were taken to Kuibyshev for execution.These prisoners include the former assistant chief of general staff, Air Force Lieutenant General Smushkovich, and Air Force Lieutenant General Rechakov of the National Defense Appointment Committee.They, as well as Merezkov, the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union, were arrested on espionage charges after the Sino-Soviet war began.