Chapter 206: The shock of starving to death while guarding food! Ying Zheng: Where is Stalingrad?

"Wait! Jumping out of the car?"

"They are preparing to jump out of the car!"

Canopy.

[Truck drivers stand on the running board while driving, with their bodies leaning out of the truck.]

[So that you can jump out in time if the truck starts to sink.]

I didn't expect that he was actually preparing to jump out of the car while delivering supplies to the trapped citizens.

Ancient and modern audiences.

They were all plunged into surprise.

And the sky.

[The road of life on the ice is about 30 kilometers long. ]

[In the middle part of the ice surface, a canteen, vehicle maintenance station and first aid center are also built. ]

【Although it is a road. 】

[But in reality the route often changes, and will be adjusted at any time according to the weather and battle situation. ]

[In order to protect Leningrad's lifeline, the Soviet army also built two lines of defense on the ice on the south side of the road to prevent the German army from launching an offensive on the frozen lake.]

[The southern shore of the ice lake is controlled by the German army. The ice surface of the ice lake is controlled by the Soviet army.]

[In addition to stopping the German ground forces' line of defense.]

[Anti-aircraft guns and Soviet fighter planes also guarded the sky above the ice.]

[The German army dispatched bombers to bombard the Life Road of Lake Ladoga.]

[Truck drivers need to drive carefully on the ice while being brave and making timely moves to avoid bombing.]

【In the first week of the ice transport line. 】

[The Soviet army lost more than fifty trucks]

[Drivers who transport goods on the Road of Life need to make two round trips every day.]

[One round trip during the day and one round trip at night. 】

[Driving at night is helpful to avoid German bombing. ]

[But the premise is not to turn on the headlights. ]

【Due to the particularity of driving on ice. 】

[As a result, truck drivers have to turn on their headlights despite the risk of being bombed. Otherwise, more trucks will fall into the water than those lost in the bombing! ]

[In the first month of transportation, three hundred trucks sank into the icy lake.]

The price of maintaining life is heavy.

【But the path of life is successful. 】

[The food transported along this route exceeded the minimum requirements of Leningrad.]

[In addition to delivering food, the ice roads can also be used to evacuate trapped residents and transfer the wounded. ]

[In total, more than half a million people were successfully evacuated across the ice during the winter of 1941.]

Tianmu paused his narration at this time.

The music also changed from being tense to being soothing.

However, I began to turn to Russian literature, with its unique sense of sadness.

In the background music.

There was also the distinctive ticking sound of the air raid sirens mentioned earlier.

tick.

tick.

The scene shots keep switching around the city.

People built fortresses in the city, children went to school as usual with smiles on their faces, and the elderly struggled to drag the corpses.

Then more bodies.

There were corpses everywhere.

Amid the ruins, citizens were clearing snow and collecting bodies.

In fact, many ancient people, especially those who lived in turbulent times, walked out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

They have seen many tragic scenes.

Logically speaking, the sad scenes on the sky should not shock them.

But documentaries are also artistic.

After being filmed and edited by a skilled director, those not-so-bloody scenes deeply shocked many ancient people.

Southern Song Dynasty.

Song Gaozong Zhao Gou did not care much about Leningrad at the beginning.

Zhao Gou felt that whether the city could be defended or not had nothing to do with him.

And he didn't want to learn any war experience from the city guards.

After all, these combat experiences.

In Zhao Gou's view, it was military men like Yue Fei who did it.

As the emperor, I only need to sit in the rear and manage the overall situation.

But look at it.

Zhao Gou was completely immersed in the artistic appeal of the documentary.

Seeing cities littered with corpses from bombing and famine.

Zhao Gou couldn't help but sigh, and then said:
"In fact, if we have a certain level of combat power, we can negotiate with the German army and seek a decent surrender."

“It’s also an option.”

"Since Leningrad still has the strength to defend itself, the German army cannot take it down. So after resisting, we can negotiate with them and surrender."

"At least it can allow those people who are starving to death to survive."

"Leningrad, I think you should surrender. This will be better for you."

And in the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that the citizens of Leningrad continued to work despite hunger and helped build fortifications.

I was deeply moved by them.

And applauded.

"Good! The citizens of Leningrad are great!"

"Even in desperate situations, they still choose to fight hard!"

"I often wonder what will happen if the situation in Ming Dynasty continues to deteriorate."

"Will there come a day when the rebels or the Jurchens outside the Great Wall will march in with a large army and surround the capital?"

"but no matter."

"If there really comes such a day."

"The enemy launched an all-out siege on the capital."

"I hope that all the residents of the city will stand with me and defend this city and the capital of the Ming Dynasty to the death!"

Canopy.

[The residents of Leningrad suffered heavy losses in the famine.]

[In recent years, there has been a view that the Soviet government at the time was too cruel and forced the entire city's residents to fight to the death.]

[This is equivalent to sending the residents to their deaths. It is extremely inhumane and cruel.]

【So the citizens of Leningrad starved to death, not Germany, but the Soviet government. 】

[So, if the Leningrad Front chose to conditionally stop resistance, could innocent citizens be spared? ]

[It is not difficult to get the answer from Operation Order No. 1941 issued by Hitler in September 1601.]

[Hitler: After defeating the Soviet Union, Leningrad will have no objection to us. We will surround the city, bombard it and raze it to the ground.]

……

[If you want to save this city, you must gather a large force. ]

【However, due to the German attack on Moscow, the Soviet High Command could not find any reserve troops to rescue it. 】

[The defenders of Leningrad could only continue to strengthen their defenses and dig deeper and deeper trenches.]

[By November, the city's bread ration was reduced to 125 grams.]

[Not only ordinary residents were starving, Soviet soldiers were also unable to get enough food.]

[A Soviet commander decided to test how far his soldiers could walk.]

[As a result, these starving soldiers were exhausted after walking 400 meters.]

[Under this situation, Hitler was also very optimistic and arrogant and said: Leningrad has lost all hope. It is only a matter of time before it is occupied. The whole city is doomed to die of hunger.]

[During the entire November Battle of Leningrad, about 5,000 Soviet soldiers died in combat.]

The sky fell into silence for a long time.

There is no commentary, only precious photos and video materials from that time.

Fierce war scenes and many civilians emaciated by hunger.

To the ticking of the air raid sirens' metronomes.

It strikes the audience's heart bit by bit.

Modern audiences, like the ancients, watched the documentary with great interest.

【However, the entire Leningrad is still functioning. 】

[The Kirov factory, which was responsible for the production and maintenance of tanks, was only 14 kilometers away from the front line, but it never stopped working.]

[Sometimes, the KV tanks that had not yet been assembled in the workshop could also attack the enemy positions through the embrasures on the factory wall.]

[Leningrad Institute of Botany, with a wide variety of plant and crop specimens. ]

【Twenty-eight people died of starvation in the institute during the blockade.】

[But all the specimens, including several tons of rice and potato seedlings, were intact.]

Outside the sky.

Ying Zheng was shocked.

Because of the famine caused by the war, countless people starved to death, which was actually not surprising to Ying Zheng.

But when Ying Zheng saw it.

The staff of the Leningrad Botanical Institute, who were guarding tons of food, actually starved to death!
Ying Zheng was still shocked.

"There is a large amount of food in front of us, enough to sustain dozens of people for a long time."

"It can prevent every one of them from starving to death!"

"What on earth makes them have such a firm and even terrifying belief?"

"This is the kind of unwavering faith that gives a nation its words."

“Then this country will be extremely powerful.”

"If I were an enemy of Germany or other Soviet countries, I would be shocked when I found out that my enemy had such a terrible will."

"I would absolutely be horrified."

"Didn't other countries at that time, except Germany, fear the Soviet Union?"

……

In the Jin Dynasty, Sima Zhong looked at the people from the Botanical Research Institute on the sky curtain.

He starved to death while guarding the mountain of grain.

I was also deeply shocked.

Sima Zhong couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

"Why didn't the people in the Soviet research institute eat grain seeds?"

"That obviously allows them to survive!"

"Are they fools?"

"Minister Ji, can you explain this to me?"

……

And Tianmu also began the final part of the story.

[Famine continued throughout the city until late February 1942.]

【The situation is beginning to improve.】

【A new bread rationing system is implemented.】

[Workers can get 500 grams of bread per day, office workers 400 grams, children and other unemployed people 300 grams of bread per day.]

【At the same time, there are no more miscellaneous additives in bread. 】

[The food supply order is gradually returning to normal, and people are basically able to get their quota rations in a timely and sufficient manner.]

【On February 16, people received frozen beef and mutton for the first time.】

【The obvious improvement in food conditions has given people more hope. 】

[After winning the Battle of Moscow, the Soviet army has been trying to relieve Leningrad.]

[But in fact, in 1942, the situation on the entire Soviet-German battlefield was not much better for the Soviet Union than in 1941.]

[Being beaten everywhere! ]

[In the battles of 1942, the German army had a clear advantage on all fronts, and the Soviet army suffered heavy losses, which once again shook the morale of the entire army.]

[This also made the attempt to relieve Leningrad very difficult to accomplish.]

[It was actually impossible to break the blockade of Leningrad in the spring of 1942.]

[But the Soviet High Command clearly acted too hastily.]

[A risky order was issued to relieve Leningrad.]

[The Soviet army's siege-breaking offensive dealt a heavy blow to the German Northern Army Group.]

[However, the German army used flexible defensive tactics, causing heavy casualties to the Soviet infantry. ]

[After paying an extremely heavy price, the Second Assault Army advanced 30 kilometers forward and formed a salient.]

[The situation at this time seemed very friendly to the Soviet army, and a pincer attack was formed at one point. ]

【But Hitler strongly demanded that the Northern Army Group hold its position. 】

[At the same time, von Leeb resigned due to poor performance in the war. ]

【General Kuchler takes office on the front line. 】

[The Soviet army encountered heavy bombardment from German artillery in the woods and swamps, and their ammunition was almost exhausted.]

【After the arrival of the German reserve army, the German situation improved. 】

[The Soviet Second Shock Army was no longer able to advance and was surrounded by the German army.]

[The Second Army's combat zone is a swampy area, where defensive operations are extremely difficult.]

【The groundwater filled the entire trench.】

[Soon, hunger also began to threaten the Second Assault Army in the encirclement.]

[Hitler personally ordered the German army to send five divisions to besiege the Soviet Second Army.]

【And successfully cut off its retreat route. 】

【The Second Army could only break out at night.】

[The breakout battle was extremely brutal.]

[The Soviet commander's diary at the time wrote: "There were corpses everywhere. A 2-kilometer-wide area was razed to the ground by German artillery fire."]

[“The soldiers were lying on the ground, some were asking for water, some were mentally disturbed by the bombing, and some wounded soldiers asked to be shot in order to die quickly.”]

[“The Germans trapped us in a siege and bombarded us indiscriminately.”]

[After the battle, only 10,000 people successfully broke through, and the remaining more than 30,000 people became prisoners of the German army.]

[Among them was General Vlasov, commander of the 2nd Shock Army.]

[A few days later, Vlasov agreed to cooperate with the Third Reich and soon began to promote and build momentum for the German army.]

……

[The Soviet army failed to successfully break the siege.]

[The encirclement and counter-encirclement of Leningrad will continue.]

[And soon, the world's focus shifted to another city in the southern part of the Soviet Union named after its leader.]

【Let the world remember the name of another Soviet city. 】

【It is Stalingrad! 】

This sky video ended, and the final battle line map gave the ancient people a lot of imagination.

It can be seen that the relief offensive launched by the Soviet army in the spring of 1942 achieved certain results.

Some land was recovered.

But it was not completely successful.

The positions of both sides were intertwined.

Make the war scene even more complicated and severe.

The ancients were also nervously thinking about the follow-up of the Battle of Leningrad.

Can the Soviet Union still hold on to Leningrad in the battle of the new year?
At the same time, everyone also became very curious about the city called Stalingrad that will be discussed in the next episode.

The sky screen video is over.

But Ying Zheng still felt unsatisfied.

He spread out a map drawn by the painters.

Start looking on the map.

But after searching for a long time, Ying Zheng still couldn't figure out where Stalingrad should be.

So he asked Li Si who was standing beside him:

"Li Si, do you know where Stalingrad is? I can't find it on the map."

(End of this chapter)