章 75: The Red Scourge

Yakov Sverdlov could hardly believe what he had witnessed after his soldiers returned to him battered and bloody from their failed assault against the Russo-German fortifications outside the city of Tsaritsyn.

His plan to use the fog as cover to conceal his advance so that his troops would have a fighting chance against the enemy artillery and machine guns had been seen through. Only after advancing a mere hundred meters had the enemy began to open fire upon the Red Army.

Though they made it to the Russo-German trench line and valiantly fought in close quarters combat, it was his men who suffered most previously. With more than half of what remained of his army being either wounded or killed in action during the attempted assault.