The decisive battle against the Third Reich

After dark, the German soldiers laid many such "water mines" around the sandbar. They were even wise enough to lay these mines in the shallower areas of the shore... Laying them in deep water would not work, because the enemy would not step on the riverbed but swim over.

Then things were simple. These "water mines" would help the German army to be alert. The German army only needed to lay a few sentries on duty on the coastline, and then they could go to sleep with peace of mind.

Compared with the mines laid on land, the mines in the water can almost be said to be impossible to find: the mines buried in the land can be slowly tested with a bayonet, but these water mines are in the water, and the bottom of the water is full of stones, which can not be distinguished at all.

So the result is needless to say...

At one o'clock in the morning, gunshots, explosions and whistling sounds of artillery shells flying over were heard from time to time in the darkness.

Compared with other places, the special thing about the Battle of Stalingrad is that it was almost uninterrupted. Whether it was day or night, the fighting almost did not stop for 24 hours.

This is also the characteristic of urban guerrilla warfare. It has no unified front and no clear boundaries. Therefore, the enemy and us are intertwined and fight randomly. When we seize a corner, we lose a wall there, or when we occupy a room, the enemy seizes a building behind us.

However, up to now, the situation is gradually developing in the direction of the German army.

Although the German army has occupied the sandbar for only one day... one day is not a big blow to the supply of Stalingrad.

But the problem is that the news that the German army occupied the sandbar and cut off the Soviet army's supply has spread.

The German army was deliberately spread by Alexander and Paulus. This is obviously a good opportunity to boost the morale of their army. They certainly will not give up.

The Soviet army strictly blocked the news because they knew that it would inevitably cause a great blow to morale.

But news like this cannot be blocked.

This is partly because the German army would carry out propaganda on the battlefield... Holding a loud speaker and shouting to the opposite side: "Soldiers of the 62nd Army, we have occupied the sandbar and cut off your retreat. Resistance is meaningless and you are doomed to fail..."

If the German propaganda is still unreliable, then the Soviet artillery pouring shells on the sandbar is a proof.

If this doesn't mean anything, then the fact that the supply ships were always blocked by German artillery fire when they docked is even more clear to tell the Soviet army that this is a cruel fact.

Morale is a strange thing. Although it is invisible and intangible, it really exists.

It depends to a large extent on ideological work or mobilization, but it also depends on who the vast majority of soldiers believe will win in the end.

If you believe that you will win, it is easier to persist, otherwise you are more inclined to give up...because you can't change the result anyway, why waste your life to fight?

The Soviet army belonged to the latter at the beginning, but under Chuikov's call and correct tactics, the Soviet army turned to the former. On the contrary, the German army began to doubt itself because it was not adapted to urban guerrilla warfare.

But at this moment, after Qin Chuan and others occupied the sandbar and seriously threatened the logistics of Stalingrad, the whole situation changed again... Everyone believed that the German army would win and the Soviet army would fail, and even Chuikov could not change this.

So, the German army fought more and more bravely, and took two streets in one day and approached the central ferry step by step. Even in the direction of Mamayev Kurgan, the German army successfully broke into the airport defense line and engaged in fierce battles with the Soviet army...

It should be said that the Soviet army in the direction of Mamayev Kurgan was most affected by the loss of the sandbar, because after the loss of the sandbar, defending Mamayev Kurgan had become a meaningless and unnecessary battle.

Qin Chuan didn't need to care about these. What he wanted to know was when he could get another batch of reinforcements. After all, more than a hundred people defending the sandbar were still stretched in terms of manpower.

But the news was not optimistic.

"The enemy has strengthened the air defense on the river bank!" Alexander responded on the walkie-talkie: "At the same time, many suspicious people have appeared around our base. I believe they are Soviet reconnaissance personnel or intelligence personnel. As long as our helicopter takes off, they will be prepared immediately!" Qin Chuan knew the power of this trick. The Soviet army may not be able to prepare because they cannot predict the flight path of the helicopter, but there is a saying that "everything changes but remains the same", the final destination of these helicopters is the sandbar, so the Soviet army does not need to make other preparations at all... They only need to use anti-aircraft firepower to control the airspace above the sandbar. And this is very easy to do. The sandbar is only more than 300 meters away from the east bank. A few anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns can easily block this airspace from the east bank, not to mention that the helicopter needs to hover for a few minutes when rappelling... At that time, the helicopter may not be able to survive with both the people and the helicopter. So it is definitely not feasible to rappel again, and other methods must be found. "Maybe this problem can be solved in two days!" Alexander said, "Because one of our troops has already reached a position only a few dozen meters away from the Volga River!" Qin Chuan responded, but he did not dare to hold too much hope for this, because a few dozen meters is not "a little distance" for Stalingrad, because the German army's advance speed is sometimes calculated in meters or even the number of corpses. At this moment, there was a sudden explosion outside the bunker.

This explosion was obviously different from the explosion of artillery shells. It was located near the sandbar, and it was still dull and had the sound of water. It was obvious that someone had triggered a "water mine."

Qin Chuan immediately put down the phone and ran along the traffic trench to the direction of the explosion.

Kuhn and several soldiers had already arrived there first and set up guns. Qin Chuan ordered: "Flare bombs!"

"Teng!" A flare rose into the air, and the originally dark river surface was immediately illuminated with snowy white. There was a group of Soviet troops in the river using the fragments of wooden boat wreckage and dead bodies floating on the river as cover, hoping to hide from the eyes of the Germans.

But their efforts were obviously in vain.

The reason is that a bright red color has floated from the explosion site, and at the same time there is a splash under the water. It is obvious that the injured Soviet soldiers are struggling with pain.

"Mortar!" Qin Chuan ordered.

What was fired was a 50MM mortar. A row of shells immediately blew a dozen Soviet soldiers out of the water.

Seeing that they could not escape, the Soviet soldiers had no choice but to shout and jump out of the water and charge towards the German position.