USSR 1941

Major Erich finally ordered the attack reluctantly.

There are many things on the battlefield that you can't help yourself, and many times you just know that you can't do it.

Otherwise, there will definitely be another voice: "How will you know if you can overcome it if you don't try it?"

The German tactics were the same as before, the assault guns were fired in front to cover the soldiers behind to follow up.

There is no doubt that these assault guns were destroyed by rocket launchers one after another after approaching the Soviet defense line, and then they became real "wreckage", or bunkers to cover the German attack.

The German attack seemed to be going smoothly. Although they lost a dozen assault guns, they at least succeeded in "laying" a series of bunkers on the position as before, and there were even more bunkers than yesterday.

In the next second, the German infantry charged the Soviet defense line under the command of Major Erich.

The Soviets did not countercharge, they waited in the trenches for the Germans to rush up.

100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters...

Suddenly fierce gunshots rang out, and dense bullets poured out from the wreckage of the Soviet tanks. A rain of bullets knocked down, broke up, and shattered the German assault formation like a torrent, like a torrent hitting the enemy. After hitting the reef and bursting into waves, there is nothing left.

If anything, it was corpses lying on the ground.

At this time, Major Erich suddenly realized that they used the sacrificial assault guns to build "bunkers" in front of the positions, in fact setting up obstacles for themselves.

Before that, because the Soviet army did not have tank wreckage as cover, the German army could use mortars, grenades, etc. behind the tank wreckage to fully suppress the Soviet army's lower field fortifications with insufficient cover and defense, so the German army could easily enter the Soviet Union. The army finally took the line of defense in the trenches.

However, after the Soviet army moved the tank wreckage into the defense line and modified it, the advantage of the enemy and the enemy reversed.

The German mortars and grenades could not threaten the enemy in the wreckage of the tank at all.

However, the machine gunners in the tank wreckage can safely use machine guns to block the way forward for the German army.

These roads are even predictable, which is the open space between the assault guns in front of the position.

That is,

The bunkers made up of those assault guns divided the German assault formation into pieces, and the Soviet army only needed to use machine guns to block these areas with block fire.

"Mortar cover!" Major Erich ordered loudly: "Blow up those tank bunkers!"

The German army called the tank wreckage placed by the Soviet army in front of the positions "tank bunkers", which is indeed very vivid, because its function is actually a bunker.

However, if it is a bunker in the conventional sense, on the one hand, it is time-consuming to build and requires materials. This is unimaginable for Stalingrad, where the supply line is already in a semi-blocked state.

On the other hand, the Soviet army usually did not build bunkers on reverse slopes.

Before that, the Soviet army thought it was a stupid way to build the bunker on the reverse slope... The enemy charged to the high ground in front of the high ground. Of course, the bunker should be built on the front slope, so that it can not only hit the enemy but also condescend and have a wide view. Machine guns It can control a large area in front of it.

Build bunkers on reverse slopes?

Don't be ridiculous, can it hit the enemy? If the enemy hits the reverse slope and is already condescending, can these bunkers still play a role?

But the reality of the battlefield is often the opposite of imagination.

The fact is that in the absence of air supremacy, all the fortifications built on the positive slope are actually targets for enemy artillery or aircraft... If one shell cannot be blown up, two shells will be fired.

And the fortifications of the reverse slope can really play a role.

But of course.

The Soviet Union never thought that it would lose air supremacy on the battlefield.

I never thought that the fortifications on the positive slope would be so vulnerable.

Not to mention that the enemy could hit Stalingrad and hit Mamayev Gang.

All this leads to almost zero solid permanent fortifications on the reverse slope of the Mamayev Kurgan.

Until now, when the wreckage of the tank was placed there, it immediately became a steel fortress with strong defense, and the defense line became a steel defense line.

"Grenade cover!" Major Erich shouted in a hoarse voice.

From this point, it can be seen that Major Erich has certain combat experience. What he called at this time was not a mortar but a grenade.

Although the lethality of mortars is much greater than that of grenades, after all, it takes time to launch and it is difficult to scale up.

As for grenades, almost every soldier carries a few of them, and throwing a few of them can explode in front of the position.

If a charge is launched under the cover of the aftermath of the explosion and the smoke it arouses, it is very likely to be strangled with the enemy, so the "tank bunker" will also lose its effect.

This was also a plan of Major Erich when he launched the charge.

After receiving the order, the German officers ordered the soldiers one by one:

"Grenade!"

"Grenade!"

...

A grenade came back from the direction of the German army.

Before this, because of the condescending reason, there would be a situation where the German grenade could be thrown to the Soviet defense line, but the Soviet grenade could not be thrown and could not threaten the German army. Therefore, the grenade throwing distance of 50 meters was fatal to the Soviet army. .

But not now.

A line of defense composed of Soviet tank wreckage was more than ten meters in front of the trench, which happened to prevent German grenades from being thrown into the Soviet trench.

Major Erich actually knew this, he had observed it through the telescope before that.

Therefore, he did not hope that a row of grenades could blow up the Soviet defense line.

Major Erich hoped that the smoke from the grenade would cover the infantry charge.

So the next second, the German infantry yelled and rushed up with bayonets.

But soon, Major Erich found that his expectations were shattered... because at this moment, the Soviet army also threw rows of grenades towards the front of the position.

What the German grenade can do is blow up a cloud of smoke in front of the position, while the Soviet grenade blows up the charging German soldiers into smoke.

Then, bullets from machine guns and submachine guns poured into the smoke again, and from time to time, rocket launchers suddenly emerged from the trenches, and then fired an anti-infantry rocket into the smoke with a "chirp".

Soon, the German charge was strangled in the smoke amidst screams.

Occasionally, a few German soldiers could emerge from the smoke. Their faces were pitch black, rags were hung on their bodies, and they were holding rifles with bayonets in their hands. They rushed towards the Soviet trenches with blood dripping and roaring loudly...

These soldiers are very brave, but this kind of out-of-scale charge cannot cause an impact on the Soviet army at all.

They were either knocked down on the way to the charge, or they were knocked down by the Soviet army with gun butts or fists as soon as they rushed into the trench.