The decisive battle against the Third Reich
Chapter 670: Burning Factory
Of course, the guard company sent here will not have much effect. There are only more than a hundred people, and the combat effectiveness of the guard company is not very good.
This is related to the nature of the security company's work.
As mentioned before, combat troops focus on coordination, covering and then killing the enemy, while the mission of the guard company is to only protect the leader regardless of the entire battlefield situation.
Therefore, the troops who have been on guard duty for a long time have basically forgotten all the tactical movements and essentials.
What really works is the workers in the factory... At this time, they are all issued rifles. These rifles are usually placed in the gun room. During work breaks, there will be instructors to explain to them the maintenance and use of firearms. and shooting.
In fact, not only the workers, but almost all the people in Stalingrad were undergoing such training.
Of course, these workers cannot compare with the German army from the perspective of combat effectiveness. Their advantage is that they are familiar with the terrain and have large numbers.
This was realized after Qin Chuan and others broke into the "Red Barricade" artillery factory.
The initial attack was very smooth. The wall outside the factory was useless to the Germans. The tank "rumbled" up a few times and knocked it to the ground. After entering the factory area, it adjusted its muzzle and fired at the factory with a "boom". As soon as a shell was fired, a fire broke out in the factory.
The German soldiers rushed in through the gap in the wall, hunched over and rushed forward by the light of the fire.
Gunshots came one after another in the darkness soon, and Qin Chuan couldn't help but frown. Originally, he thought he would not encounter any resistance in the factory, but now it seemed that was not the case.
Soon Qin Chuan understood what was going on, because several German soldiers had escorted several prisoners over. These prisoners were not soldiers. They were wearing factory work clothes, but with bullet bags hanging on their bodies.
"Major!" the German soldier reported: "The workers have guns in their hands, and we encountered armed resistance from the workers!"
If this was a daytime battle, armed workers might not be able to cause so much trouble to the German army. After all, there is a considerable gap in quality between the two sides.
But this time it was night, and the Soviet workers' familiarity with the terrain took advantage of them. They came out from here and there, and shot a few shots at the Germans unexpectedly.
But of course this did not stop the German attack on the factory...the Germans were there to blow up the factory, not to capture it.
The latter requires fighting the enemy room by room, while the former only needs to find a way to destroy them, which is obviously much easier.
A group of German soldiers forced out the fuel warehouse from the workers... Most of the machines in this era used fuel instead of electricity. This was determined by the fact that most power plants still relied on hydroelectric power.
(Note: There were no nuclear power plants at this time, and hydroelectric power generation in the Soviet Union was very seasonal. It would not be able to generate electricity during the freezing period in winter)
Then, the German soldiers pushed the barrels of fuel out of the warehouse, then opened the lid and dumped it outside the factory. The underground factory buildings were also spared, and they poured barrels of fuel at the entrance. Even the entire barrel of fuel was pushed in.
At the last moment, a German soldier from the Brandenburg detachment shouted into the factory with a small loudspeaker: "Comrade workers, as long as you put down your guns and come out to surrender, we will not make it difficult for you. You can even walk out and escape from our sight." !”
The German soldier did not lie. In fact, they had little interest in these workers holding rifles. To a certain extent, they did not regard these workers as enemies, even though in principle they were no longer workers when they picked up weapons. It's a soldier.
However, no one came out.
Maybe they don't dare, maybe they are worried about their families, or maybe they don't trust the Germans... They would rather stay in the factory.
After waiting for a while, the German soldiers lit a match and threw it on the ground. The blue-red flames surged toward the factory along the path where the fuel was poured out like a rising tide, and then with a "thump" sound, a raging fire started around the factory. The fire soon spread to other factories. There were even explosions in the underground factory, causing the ground to tremble.
The fire quickly spread to high places, and there were bursts of miserable screams. From time to time, people covered in fire fell from the roof. I don't know if they ran around and fell or if they consciously hoped to end it soon. This pain.
Qin Chuan couldn't bear to look any further, waved his hand and ordered: "Withdraw!"
The troops withdrew from the factory in an orderly manner, leaving behind only a raging fire that grew stronger and stronger.
On the other side, the same thing was going on at the tractor factory, because when Qin Chuan and others walked out, they saw flames rising into the sky in the other direction.
There was even a Soviet fire truck coming to put out the fire... The fire brigade obviously hadn't received any information about the enemy and didn't know the situation. They just dispatched after seeing the fire.
At the same time, they saw the tank parked in the middle of the road and took it for granted that it was their own tank, so they didn't care at all. However, they did not expect that the tank barrel suddenly made a "boom" and the fire truck headed by it was caught in the flames. Exploded to the sky.
The fire trucks following them braked one after another, but because they were too fast and did not react quickly, they violently collided with each other, almost blocking the entire street.
But the tank didn't give up. The machine gun fired rows of bullets, and then fired a few rounds of artillery shells into the pile of cars, turning them into a pile of rubble. Then they turned around and left with satisfaction.
Lieutenant General Lopatin heard the news of the factory fire in the headquarters, and large beads of sweat broke out on his forehead.
He knew what this meant. At least part of the reason why the Germans tried to capture Stalingrad was because of the industries left here, the most important of which were the artillery factory and the tractor factory... Stalingrad can be regarded as the second line for the entire Soviet Union. , the Soviet Union needs to leave some industries on the second line to support the war on the front lines such as Moscow and Leningrad. This is somewhat similar to the Soviet Union's light industry in the Transcaucasus.
In this respect, Stalingrad is more important than Transcaucasus, because it produces tanks and artillery, and it is also a transportation center that can be easily transported to the entire front.
But now, they have been burned to ashes by the Germans.
Whether the Germans can capture Stalingrad is one thing. At least, they have now achieved part of their strategic goals.
This will even make Stalingrad's defense even worse.
"These bastards!" When Lopatin came to his senses, he punched the table and shouted: "Surround these Germans and annihilate them resolutely!"
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