USSR 1941

The battle continues.

Shulka sat in the trench with the medics bandaging his left rib wound... which was cut by the enemy's bayonet in hand-to-hand combat.

This is the result of Shuerka dodging in time, otherwise there would be an extra hole in Shuerka's stomach.

And one more hole almost means death on this battlefield.

This is not only because it is difficult to come back alive from such a battlefield after being injured, but also because the medical level in the Soviet Union at this time is backward and the conditions are poor, and it is not easy to get out alive after treatment in the rear hospital.

Therefore, sometimes life is so strange that just a few minutes of distance can determine life and death.

Until then, Shulka had no time to look at the Volga behind.

It was also not calm there. One after another, fishing boats and cargo ships were sending people and supplies from the east coast to Stalingrad. Many supplies and people were even transferred to the direction of Mamayev Post just after disembarking.

The German fighter jets and bombers swooped down from the sky wave after wave, blowing several ships into fireballs from time to time.

Of course, the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns of the Soviet army were also roaring non-stop, and occasionally a few planes fell from the sky with black smoke and strange howls.

Raising the binoculars and looking around, Shulka learned more about why Mamayev Hill is so important.

The course of the Volga River in Stalingrad is quite special. There are two long strip islands in the middle of the river at the upper and lower reaches of the Volga River... The current of the Volga River is gentle, and there is a lot of sand deposited in the middle of the river. An island is formed in the center.

These two elongated islands almost shielded the river transportation between Stalingrad and the east coast.

To be exact, there is no shielding, but it will cause a lot of trouble for the river transportation.

If the east coast wants to transport materials or personnel to Stalingrad through the small island, it must go through a small island transfer process.

That is, the process of transporting the river to the island on the east bank, maneuvering the island to the other side, and transporting it to Stalingrad by river.

This will obviously consume a lot of manpower and material resources, because it will increase the process of several times of delivery and unloading.

More importantly, fishing boats and cargo ships will be forced to concentrate in narrow river channels,

It is easy to be bombed by enemy aircraft.

Only in the middle of Stalingrad, that is, between the two long islands, there is a gap about 25 kilometers long. Through this gap, materials from the east bank can be transported to Stalingrad by river at one time.

And Mamayev Hill is located in the middle of this gap, facing this important river channel condescendingly.

Therefore, once Mamayev Konk is occupied by the Germans, it will not only be a matter of blocking the port, but the entire Stalingrad transportation... At that time, the Germans will not even need to bomb with planes, they will only need to be in Mamayev Fugang set up a few cannons, and was able to blow up the transport ships one by one to the bottom of the river.

"Okay, Comrade Captain!" The health worker confessed after dressing up: "I don't think you should go to the battlefield anymore, at least not for the next few days, otherwise the wound may rupture. You know, the current weather is very easy to get infected!"

Shulka nodded.

But he thought in his heart that this was not up to him to decide, and no one on Mamayev Post would worry about the issue of "infection".

"How's the situation?" Major Mikhailevich asked, running up to Shulka.

"No big problem!" Shulka replied while struggling to put on his military uniform.

At this moment, Shulka noticed a "rumbling" motor sound from above, the sound was low, like a rolling thunder.

Shulka was startled, and then understood what was going on.

"Tanks, the enemy is bringing up tanks!" Shulka said.

"Tank?" Major Mikhailvich couldn't help being startled, he listened carefully, then his face changed drastically, and he immediately ordered: "Tank, prepare the bazooka!"

"Bazooka!"

"Turn up the bazooka!"

...

While the soldiers were busy, the sound of the tank's motor became more and more obvious, and soon the tank appeared above everyone's heads.

The first is that a gun barrel emerges from the position on the top of the mountain, getting longer and longer. Then there is the tank track, which emerges from the first half, making a rattling sound, as if it is about to drive to the sky.

Then it fell heavily with a "teng", and the entire tank body was exposed in front of everyone in an instant.

To be precise, it is not a tank, but an assault gun, the "No. 3" assault gun, which can be seen from its lack of rotating turret.

But of course, the Soviet army at this time will uniformly define it as a tank.

The Germans were right here in choosing to use assault guns instead of tanks.

Because the combat effectiveness of the tank on the uneven high ground will be greatly restricted... If the tank body is high on one side and low on the other, the rotation of the turret will not be on the same plane as the target, which will cause great difficulty in aiming.

Therefore, tanks can basically use machine guns on high ground, and they are also heading machine guns. If the artillery wants to hit the target, it basically depends on luck or purely to scare the enemy.

Since this is the case, there is not much difference in using the cheaper "No. 3" assault gun, which can only be used with machine guns anyway.

This is exactly what the German army did. After the assault gun moved forward for a certain distance, its heading machine gun spewed out flames in a "da da da" direction, and at the same time fired while advancing, and the shell hit two kilometers with a "boom". outside the place.

"Bazooka ready!" cried Major Mikhailevich.

After waiting for a while, Major Mikhailevich ordered loudly: "Let go!"

With a scream of "whoosh", several rockets flew towards the assault gun... Two of them hit the target, and the assault gun immediately emitted a cloud of black smoke, but it continued to move forward due to inertia A distance approached to a distance of about 70 meters.

The German army did not stop the attack of the assault gun because of this, and then another one, and another... one after another emerged from the other side of the hilltop position.

"What are they doing?" Akimovich asked suspiciously, "They should know that we have bazookas!"

"Of course they know!" said Shulka, "but they don't care about that!"

"Why don't they care?" Akimovich asked puzzled, "Those are tanks, and they are driving those tanks up to die!"

"You think they brought those tanks up to kill them?" Shulka shook his head and replied, "No, Comrade Akimovich. I don't remember which lesson it was..."

"Lesson Nine!" Akimovich reminded.

"Okay, Lesson 9!" Shulka said: "You have to grasp the enemy's psychology, or understand the enemy's intentions, which is very important, otherwise you don't know where the focus is!"