The decisive battle against the Third Reich

After the soldiers had eaten and drank enough, they lay down in the "quilts" next to the stove and fell asleep... The so-called "quilts" were coats taken from the Soviets, most of which were stripped from the Soviets who were killed. Many of them are made of real animal fur, so their thermal insulation performance is much better than that of the German army.

It was a pity that these coats could not be worn on the body, because it would be easy for someone to accidentally kill them, so they were put in the cellar and used as bedding.

At this time, there was a sudden burst of bombing outside.

At first, Qinchuan didn't want to pay attention, thinking that this was just a routine bombing by the Soviet army. The German soldiers in Holm were already used to this.

After a while, Qin Chuan realized that this bombing was a little unusual... The bombing lasted for a long time and was concentrated around the Lovaj River defense line.

Qin Chuan immediately jumped up from his "bed", and the soldiers realized this almost at the same time. They jumped up one by one and prepared nervously.

"We're finally going to attack!" Kuhn said.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied while stuffing two grenades into his belt: "I think they are admitting that their 'blockade' against us has failed!"

"Uh-huh!" Kuhn nodded in agreement.

"So!" Qin Chuan continued: "I seem to have made a mistake!"

"Wrong?" Werner looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

"We should pretend that their 'blockade' is effective!" Qin Chuan replied: "Then they will continue to wait until we collapse, but now..."

Kuhn couldn't help but laugh: "You have too high demands on yourself, Captain!"

"It's better if they come up earlier!" Werner clapped his hand with the Bobosha submachine gun: "I've always wanted to know how they can break through the Lovaj River defense line!"

"There is no line of defense that cannot be broken through, Werner!" the baker continued.

Facts have proved that what the baker said was right. When the sound of artillery stopped and the soldiers entered the position along the communication trench that had been devastated by artillery shells, they saw several engineering vehicles driving out from the direction of the Soviet army...

These engineering vehicles can be seen at a glance. Seven of them are armored bulldozers, which are obviously used to shovel snow. They only need to keep shoveling the snow below the defense line of the Lovaj River, and then use the snow to shovel the snow to a height of more than five meters. The piles were piled into a slope. If a layer of soil or fur or something was spread on the surface of this slope, soldiers could walk directly on it.

There are also eight bridge erecting vehicles. The chassis of the tank is below, and a slope more than two meters wide is supported by steel on the top... Obviously, this slope can directly provide a bridge for soldiers or tanks as long as it is driven below the defense line. Passage across the Lovati River defense line.

"Wow!" Werner said: "They did find a way!"

Before he finished speaking, the Soviet troops rushed up with a roar, and with them were carriages... At first, Qin Chuan didn't understand what these carriages were for, until they turned the carriages around, and on the sleigh behind them Mark machine guns appeared in front of the German army, and then a hail of bullets rained down on the German positions.

This move is indeed good. The suppression of the Mark machine gun and the mortar made the German troops on the defense line almost unable to raise their heads, and the Soviet army could charge and build bridges on the defense line... As you can imagine, as the As time goes by, more and more slopes will be erected on the Lovaj River, and then Soviet tanks and soldiers will continuously charge towards the Lovaj River defense line from any point.

"Fire!" Gerhard ordered loudly.

The German defensive battle started at that moment. The bullets flew towards the Soviet troops below with a "swishing" sound, knocking down the Soviet troops rushing towards the Lovaj River one by one.

However, the Soviet army ignored this sacrifice and continued to rush up along the two bridges and a relatively gentle defense line in the middle.

The goal of the Soviet army is very clear... to use human lives to cover the engineering troops to set up slopes on the Lovaj River defense line. As long as there are enough slopes, the impact they will have on the German defense line will be greater.

A bridge erecting vehicle hit the east bank of the Lovaj River. The height of the bridge was obviously calculated, and the bridge deck was about half a meter higher than the east bank.

This height can be said to be just right, because if it exceeds too much, it will be difficult for personnel and tanks to get off the bridge deck.

If it happens to be flush with the east bank, the German machine guns can easily block the entire bridge deck.

But now, most of the machine gunner's bullets are blocked by the bridge deck, and the same is true for the rocket launcher's firing range.

This surprised Qin Chuan, because most of the Soviet people were careless in character. They would rush forward mindlessly, and they could also assemble a nearly perfect tank out of rough parts, but they never did. Pay attention to fine details, just like most of their tanks are not equipped with communication equipment.

But now, the Soviet commander in front of him obviously took this into consideration.

What Qinchuan didn't know was that Matevitch even conducted two drills for this attack... He led his troops to build a river on a highland thirteen kilometers away from Holm, similar to the one on the Lovaj River. line of defense, and then let the troops conduct offensive and defensive drills there, so they gained some experience.

"We don't have much chance!" Matevich said to Petrolev while holding a telescope and looking at the battle on the battlefield.

"I don't understand, Comrade Commissar!" Petnolev replied: "We have an absolute advantage!"

"Maybe!" Matevich replied: "But you haven't studied their battle cases!"

"You mean..."

"I transferred the combat experience of the German 1st Infantry Regiment from the British, Comrade Petronolev!" Matevich raised his head in the direction of the smokey battlefield: "They were in Africa and Sicily. , using "tunnel tactics" to defeat the British and Americans who had an absolute advantage several times with inferior forces, there was nothing they could do!"

Petronolev laughed: "That's because the British and Americans are timid!"

"Maybe!" Matevich replied: "But maybe it's because we have an unusual opponent!"

After a pause, Matevich said to himself: "I have a hunch that if we can't defeat Holm within a few days, they will probably find a way to deal with it!"

Matevitch put down the telescope and continued: "By then, we will have to use another method to attack Holm!"

"Put it down, comrade political commissar!" Petnolev said: "Looking at the current situation, their defense line will become history in a few hours!"