Compared with international news, the Chinese Empire's citizens paid more attention to domestic news. The whole world was overthrown, but they didn't care at all. Perhaps they felt indignant when the people of a certain country were massacred, but soon they heard that when a certain domestic ABC stock market was in full swing, they threw away their indignation just now.

It is precisely because of this mentality that the people of the Chinese Empire have always refused to participate in the war. They are afraid that their energy will be brought into the world war by the government, so that they will not have the energy to pay attention to their careers and lives.

Josen's anti-submarine destroyer fleet was ambushed. As a result, four destroyers were lost again, while Sturgeon escaped the enemy's sonar lockdown amid the chaotic explosion and quickly returned to the submarine base of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the UK.

After arriving at the submarine base, the senior executives of the Chinese Empire attached great importance to this matter. They immediately sent an expert team to investigate the situation where the Sturgeon was locked by the enemy, and finally found that it was because several sound insulation tiles on the submarine's shell fell off. Only then did they feel relieved.

The anti-submarine warfare carried out by the United States-German Fleet at the Barents Sea failed. Although their newly developed anti-submarine rockets were commendable, they failed to realize the plan to force the submarines of the Chinese Empire out of the sea, which forced Germany to continue to bear huge losses on the route.

Hitler met with Roosevelt again to discuss countermeasures. Roosevelt believed that it was better to endure temporarily. Because war on the Chinese Empire is now in time, the United States and Germany's allies are still unable to fight against the submarine warfare and do not have the ability to counter the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire. It is better to continue to pretend that they are unaware and develop a solution that can be dealt with as soon as possible.

Hitler agreed to Roosevelt's suggestion, but in order to defeat the Soviet Union as soon as possible, Hitler asked the United States to send an expeditionary force to the Soviet Union to participate in the war, because Hitler really looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Spanish, Italian and Finnish troops.

Roosevelt also agreed to this and decided to send a US expeditionary force to Europe to assist the German army in destroying the Soviet Union as soon as possible. However, Roosevelt also had the conditions, that is, to obtain Germany's advanced military equipment and technology in missiles, jets, submarines, No. 5 tanks, ultimate battleships, etc.

For Hitler, nothing was greater than the occupation of the Soviet Union at this time. The United States was far away in the Americas and had no conflict of interest with Germany and was an ally. Therefore, Hitler agreed to Roosevelt's conditions. In return, Roosevelt said that he would once again supply Germany with a batch of oil and industrial products.

The United States-Germany Anti-Submarine Fleet shot itself in the foot, which was a shame. Also in the direction of Stalingrad, the Allies were setback again.

On September 28, the Supreme Soviet Command decided to rename the Stalingrad Front Army as the Don Front Army, with the commander being Lieutenant General Rokosovsky; the Southeast Front Army was renamed the Stalingrad Front Army, with the commander being General Yelemenko; the 1st Guard Army was expanded into the Southwest Front Army, with the commander Lieutenant General Vaduddin, General Zhukov and Chief of Staff General Vasilevsky were ordered to secretly formulate a counterattack plan.

During the whole month of October, Stalingrad had been engaged in fierce street fighting. The German army fought from house to house, looking for a way out from the ruins on the ground and underground, so it was also nicknamed "the war between rats" by the Chinese Empire TV station. It even joked that "even if the German army occupied the kitchen, it still needed to fight with the Soviet army in the living room."

For Stalin, this city named after himself must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the German army. He personally ordered General Yerheimko to defend the city under any circumstances. Every house, as long as there are Soviet soldiers, even if there are only one person, will become an unbreakable fortress for the enemy.

For Hitler, Stalingrad's spiritual value exceeded its strategic value and had to be captured. When the new Chief of Staff General Zeitzler carefully pointed out to him that the long Don's front on the northern wing of the 6th Army Group was in danger, he suggested that the 6th Army Group be withdrawn to the Don's River Qu area.

But Hitler replied sternly: "Where the German soldiers go, they must guard wherever they go!"

After three months of bloody battles until early November, the German army finally slowly advanced to the banks of the Volga River and occupied 80% of the entire city, dividing the remaining Soviet troops into two narrow pockets. However, whenever the Soviet Red Army reached night, the Imperial Chinese Air Force secretly helped the battle.

The powerful night attack aircraft group of the Chinese Empire caused huge casualties to the German army every time, while the Soviet army quickly regained the place that was strategyed by the German army during the day at night, which made the German army unable to completely occupy Stalingrad.

In addition, the Volga River began to freeze, causing the Soviet Union to no longer transport supplies to the defenders in the city through ships. Despite this, the battles near the Mamayev Heights and the battles in the factory areas in the northern city were still very fierce. Among them, the battles between the Red November factories, tractor factories and barricade factories were known to the whole world. While Soviet soldiers were engaged in gunfights with the German army, workers in the factory repaired damaged tanks and other weapons on the side, and sometimes even repaired weapons directly on the battlefield. The tanks were driven by factory workers volunteers. These tanks often drove directly from the arsenal production line to the battle front, and there was no time to paint and install shooting scopes.

On November 11, the German army launched a strong attack on the front 5 kilometers wide with 5 infantry divisions, 2 armored divisions and 2 engineer battalions, with a highly dense battle formation.

Within one day, the Soviet and German armies fought extremely fiercely to fight for every inch of land and every house, with heavy casualties on both sides. Although the German army rushed to the bank of the Volga River south of the barricade factory, the troops were exhausted and their offensive was at the end of their strength. Paulus was forced to stop the attack the next day and repair the troops. The Soviet army suffered losses as serious, and the two divisions of the 62nd Army lost 75% of their troops.

From July to November, the German army lost about 700,000 people, more than 1,000 tanks, more than 2,000 artillery and more than 1,400 aircraft in the battles between the Don River, Volga River and Stalingrad.

The Supreme Soviet Command began to prepare for a large counterattack since the end of September. Zhukov, who was responsible for the overall strategy of the Stalingrad region, began to secretly gather troops on Stalingrad. By mid-November, the Soviet army, including three fronts and 10 armies, 1 tank army, 4 air force army and several ** army, tank army and brigade, a total of 143 divisions and 100,000 people, 15,500 artillery and mortars, 1,463 tanks and attack artillery, and 1,350 aircraft.
Chapter completed!