The decisive battle against the Third Reich

To a certain extent, what Petronolev said is correct, because the situation is now developing against the German army... Everything happened too fast, or the Soviet army's preparations for this attack And the confidentiality work was done very well. The German army never expected that the Soviet army would attack the Lovaj River defense line in this way of engineering bridges.

In other words, the German army was caught off guard by the Soviet army.

The most important thing is the threat from those engineering vehicles... So some people say that in offensive and defensive battles, engineering vehicles sometimes pose a greater threat than tanks.

The German army wanted to blow up the engineering vehicle with grenades, but the bridge erecting vehicle below was supported by the tank chassis, and the upper layer was a steel frame structure that was wide and strong enough to allow dozens of tons of tanks to drive on it (Note: T34 tank 32 tons), grenades pose no threat to it at all.

Several soldiers threw grenades onto the engineering vehicle, which only caused the bridge deck to shake.

Some German soldiers dropped the explosive packages, but the explosive packages had delayed fuses and were quickly thrown away by the Soviet soldiers who were lying on the bridge and following the engineering vehicles.

There are also German soldiers who want to blow it up with a rocket launcher, but the rocket launcher shooter at a high altitude cannot hit the main body of the engineering vehicle at that angle. The most it can do is to make a few holes on the bridge deck with its metal jet, and this pair Enemies don't even have an impact at all.

Soviet soldiers surged up from behind the defense lines in droves.

Since the Lovaj defense line is only about 20 meters away from the drop line... this is due to previous defense needs. From this position, German soldiers can easily throw grenades, explosive packs and other explosives to the drop line to prevent the Soviet troops from climbing.

But now this distance has become the fatal weakness of the German army: once the Soviet army climbed up, it was only about 20 meters away from the German army. What was even worse was that in this situation, the Soviet army could throw grenades but the German army could not... The German army threw grenades Unless it is exactly about twenty meters, if it is a little further, it will slide down the slope behind the drop line and will not pose a threat to the current Soviet army.

What's worse is that Soviet tanks are "rumbling" on the bridge and are about to drive up at any time.

"Anti-tank gun!" Qin Chuan shouted.

The gun crew immediately pulled out the only anti-tank gun. They started working on the machine without thinking, just like they had done in countless drills before. The No. 1 and No. 2 gunners fixed the gun wheels, and the No. 3 and No. 4 gunners The gunner separated the frame, and the aimer lowered the barrel to a horizontal position to adjust the range. The loader opened the breech and breech, and several transporters moved boxes of shells out from the cellar and lined them up next to the anti-tank gun.

A sergeant shouted an order: "Directly ahead, with a range of one hundred meters, tanks... fire!"

A T34 tank just "rumbled" up from the bridge, exposing its weakest abdomen to the anti-tank gun. So with a "boom", a big hole was blown out of the tank's abdomen, and the tank looked like It trembled like a frightened giant beast and then stopped.

Anti-tank guns or rocket launchers are effective at attacking tanks at this time. Even after destroying the enemy tank, they will block a certain slope so that subsequent troops cannot attack.

The problem was that there were too many Soviets, and they were like ants pressing continuously from the defense line towards the German defense line. They threw grenades at the German army, or charged while holding the Bobosha submachine gun in their hands and fired wildly. Then more than a dozen Soviet fighter planes joined the battle group in the air and bombarded the German positions indiscriminately.

"Captain!" Gerhard shouted at Qinchuan while shooting at the enemy with a pistol: "We can't stop it, retreat!"

"No, we can't retreat!" Qin Chuan replied.

Because Gerhard has no experience, he must not retreat in this situation, that is, when the distance between the enemy and ourselves is only a few dozen meters, otherwise the group of wolf-like Soviet troops will immediately catch up from behind and kill everyone. All German troops were wiped out.

"Then what else can we do?" Gerhard asked.

Qin Chuan responded loudly without any further hesitation: "Counterattack!"

"What?" Gerhard didn't hear clearly, or maybe he couldn't believe what he heard.

"Counterattack!" Qin Chuan ordered: "Only by launching a counterattack and knocking them down can we survive. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Captain!" Then Gerhard stopped hesitating and shouted an order: "Everyone, move forward and charge!"

"Come on!"

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The German soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the Soviet army. They didn't even have time to draw their bayonets. It was a sudden and random charge.

But the facts proved that Qin Chuan was right.

In this case, the German army had no advantage at all, and was even at a disadvantage because of the grenade problem.

According to common sense, the German army should try to avoid hand-to-hand combat with the Soviet army. This is not only because the German army has few troops, but also because the Soviet army is accustomed to fighting in the snow. Especially the Soviet Northwestern Front troops they faced were transferred from the coldest Siberia. In addition, the quality of the German army is generally better than that of the Soviet army... Many soldiers of the Soviet army were directly converted from ordinary people, and many of them did not even need to pick up the rifles from the hands of their comrades who died in the front to fight.

Therefore, hand-to-hand combat is obviously not cost-effective for the German army.

But there are exceptions to everything.

The first is that hand-to-hand combat is unavoidable under such circumstances.

Secondly, the Soviet army had aircraft in the air, tanks on the ground, and Maxim machine guns and mortars in the distance to suppress them. But the German army had nothing... If there was anything, it was a few captured tanks hiding in the ruins, but because they had no air superiority, these tanks did not dare to show up at all (they would not be blown up by Soviet artillery fire when they showed up) To destroy it is to be chased and killed by its fighter planes).

In this case, taking the initiative to initiate hand-to-hand combat is a good choice, because the Soviet planes, tanks and Marks will not be able to play a role if the two armies are mixed together, especially when the Soviet army is still at a low level and the German army is at a high level. , especially the slippery snow underfoot...

"Charge!" Qin Chuan shouted and rushed forward with his rifle, following the troops.

The Soviet soldiers in front of them obviously did not expect that the Germans would take the initiative to greet them. They seemed to have just finished shooting their own bullets and were at a loss as to how to face them... As mentioned before, the quality of Soviet soldiers was generally poor. Lack the ability to react quickly in times of crisis.

Qin Chuan rushed forward as fast as he could, then picked up the butt of his gun and hit the Soviet soldier hard on the chest, transferring all the momentum to him.