As soon as Zhukov ordered 2,000 artillery pieces north of Stalingrad to tear apart the Uranus project, the fighters of both sides in the air fought first.

Relying on the previous accumulation of technology, the Soviet Russians' fighters developed the most rapidly. New fighters such as the Yak-1, MiG-3, and Lager-3 are already comparable to the BF-109E and F models of the Germans.

British and American support provided the Russians with the most scarce materials, and even with the loss of aircraft factories in Leningrad and Moscow, as well as in the Far East and Siberia, Soviet Russia, which had stimulated the state apparatus with organization and discipline, still built thousands of fighters.

The new fighters such as the Lager-3, MiG-3, and Yak-1, which have been continuously produced and accumulated, have supported the main force of the Soviet and Russian air forces, guarding the skies of Stalingrad, and fighting with the Germans.

Although the Russians had lost more than 1,500 fighters at Stalingrad, they still managed to put together 1,223 fighters to participate in the counterattack. Among them, there are even 300 I-16 fighters sold by Umbrella.

What the Russians need more now is fighters.

Even the oldest biplanes will have rookies who have only flown for more than a dozen hours, and they will become elite in all kinds of operations with high death elimination rates in the air, not to mention these all-metal shelled I-16s.

This made the elite pilots of Soviet Russia who led these rookies on the mission breathe a sigh of relief, but the news from the front made them nervous again:

"They've got a new fighter! And a lot of fighters! They're stronger! ”

The two sides have been fighting for so long that they have gotten to know each other better.

The Russians estimated that after losing 500 planes, the Germans would not be able to muster more than 600 fighters, including transport planes and bombers, otherwise they would not have allowed the Russians to hold the skies over Stalingrad.

This is also where the confidence of the Soviet Russians after they have more than 1,000 fighters, but as soon as the fighters of the two sides come into contact, the Russians immediately find that sometimes the number does not represent everything.

Fighters such as the Yak-1, Yak-7, MiG-3 and Lager-3 can entangle and even ...... against the BF-109E F The type can also fight, but at this time, after receiving the radar signal, the German fighters who quickly meet them are BF-109G and ...... A new type of fighter based on the type.

Although the difference in appearance is not very large, these are all fighters that danced with Mustangs, Thunderbolts, and Spitfires in the late stage of World War II, and most of the planes against the Russians were Yak-3, Lag-5, Lag-7 and the like. At this time, against their little brothers, a group of German elite pilots who had honed their skills by relying on rookies on the Eastern Front were controlling them, so a one-sided aerial battle was staged.

On the Eastern Front, it was normal for the German and Soviet Russians to compare the battle losses of 1:2 and 1:3, but now that the three air battles were over, the Germans slaughtered nearly 300 Soviet Russians at the cost of losing 33 fighters made Zhukov's eyes jump when he heard it.

He had already received preliminary information that the Germans had appeared with more than 500 fighters of all kinds.

The formation of German Ju-88 bombers, escorted by more than a hundred fighters, had already begun to bombard the Soviet Russian units assembled on the east bank of the Volga.

Raspopinskai's armored forces were also attacked by the air Stuka, but the Il-2 attack group of the Russians, under the attack of a group of FW-190 fighters, could not bother to attack the German tank group.

The 1077th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, composed of a group of Russian female volunteers, had just received news that without the effective support of air fighters, their anti-aircraft artillery positions could not stop the German bomber groups hovering overhead the bombing tractor factory, and many of the newly manufactured tanks from the factory were buried in the collapsed rubble of the factory before they could leave the factory.

Even in September, when German soldiers captured half of the plant, the Stalingrad Tractor Factory was able to hold on to the remaining half of the plant, producing 200 tanks and 150 armored vehicles and driving the Germans out again. But now the Germans, apparently, did not intend to receive the plant in its entirety and directly began to drop aerial bombs on the core area of the plant.

Although it is not known that the copycat company supported 500 fighters of the Germans, including Junker transport planes and Ju-88 bombers, so that the air strength of the Germans exceeded 1,000 at once, the news that came from one after another has made Zhukov realize that the air supremacy, which has always been beneficial to Soviet Russia, is about to be taken away by the Germans.

Because of the war in Great Britain, the Germans needed to face the super-powerful British and American air forces on the Western Front, so that a large number of fighters and pilots on the Eastern Front were transferred to the Western Front, which also caused damage to the air power on the Eastern Front, even if it was over Stalingrad, the Luftwaffe could only control half of it at most. More battles on both sides were in the ruins of the ground of Stalingrad.

And now, the Germans want to occupy more of the say in the sky.

The loss of air supremacy means passivity on the battlefield, which directly affects the battle on the ground. However, from the very beginning of this counterattack, Zhukov first sensed a hint of passivity.

In this counterattack, Zhukov, who believed in artillery doctrine, gathered the cannons he could collect, forming the largest number of artillery positions in history.

However, this artillery group, which Zhukov was proud of, did not destroy the artillery positions of the Germans, but was seized by the Germans to expose the artillery positions and suppressed them again and again, and many positions were in a passive situation.

Naturally, he did not know that the Germans had invested more than 12,000 cannons in this counterattack, and the number of heavy artillery pieces had increased significantly by relying on the continuous supply of sub-bases, which was not inferior to the more than 15,000 large and small artillery pieces of the Soviet Russians, and even had stronger firepower.

In the first three days of the war, the entire ground battlefield was dominated by artillery units of both sides, which were evenly matched.

When the smoke cleared slightly, the Russian army on the south side of the Don River was accompanied by groups of armored troops to first burst out of the smoke screen, crossed a series of craters and trenches, and rushed towards the German ** team in Gluboki.

For this campaign, the Russians specially beat the Turks in the Caucasus with a counterattack, and after they were greatly injured and did not dare to attack easily, they secretly transferred a large army near the Caucasus and also joined the battle to encircle and annihilate the German army of Stalingrad.

The main forces of the Soviet Russian army in the entire southwest were concentrated here, in an attempt to eliminate the hidden danger of the Germans going south in one fell swoop.

The 1.9 million troops invested successively were the confidence of the Soviet Russians, attacking from the east bank of the Volga River, the north and the south of the Don River, and strangling the Germans between the Don River and the Volga River.

But the German steel armored units pouring out from places such as Gluboki and Kotelnikovo were like reefs, blocking the counterattack of the Soviet Russian army.

The smoke and dust dragged by the T-34 tank slowly fell in the setting sun, and all that remained was the lonely figure of steel wreckage in the background of rumbling artillery.

The sharpest steel spearhead of the Russians was also bent in front of the opposite herd of tigers and leopards.

The Panther tank was originally a more refined interpretation of the T-34 by the Germans, especially since the main Panther equipped by the Germans was an improved Type A on the basis of the D-type. Whether it is the absolute quality assurance of the products produced at the base, or the fact that the Germans have enough time to improve the quality in this time and space, the Panthers with many mechanical failures are far from being able to withstand the T-34A and B models.

Even if the Russians sent a large number of ...... Even the IS-1 Stalin 1 tank, which appeared in advance to deal with the Tiger and Par assault of the Chinese, made its debut in this campaign, but the German King Tiger tank, everything was still unsolved.

Especially when the total number of tanks in this battle of the Germans reached more than 1,200, far more than the 675 in history, and the number of Soviets and Russians was not much inferior, the final victory flag after the collision of the entire steel armor had fallen to the Germans.

Except for the KV-2, which could hold out for a longer time with its thick skin and dry flesh, 30 Stalin Type 1 tanks faced the King Tiger for the first time and were directly defeated.

The Soviet Russian tank units were also defeated against German tanks.

The Russians lost more than 500 tanks in three days.

After playing a 1-6 battle loss ratio, the German tanks continued to advance, cutting into the Soviet Russian army and tearing through the defensive lines.

"Defeat them, and we will win the Caucasus." The good news from the battlefield of nearly 1,000 square kilometers made Paulus also start to frown, and quickly threw more elite troops in his hands into the Soviet and Russian fronts, which were full of loopholes. Even if Zhukov kept sending cannon fodder to fill it, he couldn't make up for it.

Although he didn't know that the Germans had already gotten the news and changed the guard against 300,000 elite German descendants, he had already understood that the Germans on the other side were no longer a rabble dominated by miscellaneous subordinate troops.

Now that a large-scale counterattack battle has begun, Zhukov can no longer take it back at this time, and can only hold out to the end at this time.

"Intensify your defense, fight to the death, and defend Stalingrad to the death!" He decisively shifted his focus to defense again, and then talked about looking for opportunities to counter-attack......