USSR 1941

Shulka divided the plan into two steps.

Major Akimovich was responsible for the suppression of German radar.

Major Akimovich was in charge of intelligence collection when he was the staff officer of the group army, and it can be said that it was just right to perform this task.

The reason is that collecting intelligence originally required placing eyeliners, spies, and even organizing guerrillas behind enemy lines.

Suppressing the German radar obviously cannot be achieved through regular combat... If the Soviet regular army can penetrate the German defense line and accurately attack its interior, it means that the Soviet army can defeat the German army at any time, which is obviously impossible.

On the other hand, as Akimovich said, the German army is likely to use vehicle-mounted radars that can be transferred at any time, so it is impossible and unrealistic to use regular troops to break through the German defense line and raid.

In this regard, Shulka let Major Akimovich do it, because he has no resources, and more importantly, Shulka has a dispensable attitude towards suppressing the German radar...can destroy the German ground Radar is the best, if it can't be destroyed then it doesn't matter, Shulka doesn't hold out much hope for it.

Shulka has mainly focused on building the pontoon.

It is not difficult to build a pontoon bridge. First, seal the oil barrels in large quantities.

This work is simple and easy, because the oil drum itself has a sealing cover, and it is only necessary to fix the sealing cover on the fuel tank.

The difficulty is that it cannot be welded with electric welding... It is easy to cause problems with electric welding of oil barrels, because there is often a small amount of gasoline left in the oil barrel, which evaporates gaseous gasoline and mixes with air, as long as there is a little spark, it may be ignited and explode.

The solution is to use glue to stick the oil drum cover instead of electric welding.

Then tie the board to the fuel tank and it's done.

In fact the work was done by the river, because the fuel tanks, boarded up, were not easy to transport.

As a result, truckloads of fuel tanks, glue, planks, wires, ropes and other tools were transported to the Volga River.

The people of Stalingrad were also organized... Most of them were workers who hadn't had time to evacuate, and of course there were soldiers who were temporarily transferred.

Then throw it directly into the water after making it on site.

Wooden planks and iron barrels are still heavy and inconvenient to carry on the shore.

Throwing it into the water is a small raft floating on the water, and it can be easily dragged to the destination by dragging it with a rope. Some people even connect a few more such small rafts on the shore, and then a few people jump Go up and row it like a boat with an oar to the end of the wooden bridge to splice.

One of the reasons for this is the gentle flow of the Volga River... It has a total length of 3,692 kilometers and a drop of only 190 meters.

Because the water flow is gentle, so many and such long sandbars are formed in the middle of the river. Of course, this also brings convenience to the construction of floating bridges.

Another reason for the fast construction is that there is a sandbar in the center.

This was originally a disadvantage for Stalingrad's transportation. Because of these sandbars, the transport ships on the east bank can only go to the west bank through a narrow channel, and it is precisely because of these sandbars that the fake amphibious landing ships cannot cross.

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For the "Floating Bridge Project", these sandbars are definitely an advantage.

Because it enables the pontoon bridge to be erected simultaneously from four base points: one on the east and west banks, and two on the sandbar.

In other words, its construction speed is at least twice as fast.

So, in just two hours, five pontoon bridges were built on the Volga River... Building a pontoon bridge is somewhat similar to digging a tunnel. Concentrating all the hands in one place and building a pontoon bridge at the same time often does not speed up much. If the hands are separated Carried out simultaneously, as many pontoons as possible can be erected in the shortest possible time.

When the first pontoon bridge was joined, the good news immediately reached the headquarters of the 82nd Infantry Regiment who was commanding and coordinating the distribution on the shore.

"Bridge No. 3 is closed!" Andrianka, who was on the phone, excitedly reported to Major Mikhailvich.

"Great!" Major Mikhailvich ordered: "Start transporting immediately!"

At this time, the German army adopted a "surprise attack" strategy in order to save ammunition, so they knew nothing about the Soviet army's plan to build a pontoon bridge in the dark.

It wasn't until an hour later that Fred discovered the problem when he commanded a brigade of fighter planes to carry out a surprise attack with the cooperation of the reconnaissance plane.

"Colonel!" The pilot reported to Colonel Fred in surprise: "They built several pontoon bridges on the river!"

"How many? How could there be several?" Colonel Fred asked back, "It's only three hours before dark!"

What Colonel Fred meant was that the enemy had only been out of sight of the German army for a few hours, and how many pontoon bridges could be built within these few hours... This speed was like dragging the built pontoon bridges directly onto the Volga River.

"I'm sure I'm not mistaken, Colonel!" The pilot insisted: "There are indeed several pontoon bridges, and they have even used these pontoon bridges for transportation. I saw that there seemed to be people on it..."

The reason for using "appears" is that it is difficult to see clearly from the plane looking down and with the light of the flares.

"You ask what to do?" Fred replied a little angrily: "Do you have other options besides destroying them?!"

"Yes, Colonel!"

As a result, the flares lit up over the pontoon bridge one by one, like fireworks blooming in a festival.

In addition to providing sight for fighter jets to dive, these flares also indicate the position of targets for other fighter jets.

As a result, fighter planes quickly came from all directions, and then swooped down amidst bursts of ear-piercing screams.

This time, the pilots realized they had brought the wrong ammunition.

When dealing with amphibious landing ships before, machine guns and machine guns are obviously more useful, because a shuttle bullet can easily penetrate the hull and damage the engine or something else to cause it to malfunction.

But now, a shuttle of bullets hit the floating bridge like a stone bull entering the sea, and there was no movement at all.

If anything, soldiers lining up on the pontoon bridge to transport supplies were hit by a barrage of bullets and fell into the river.

However, this is obviously not what the German pilots wanted.

At the same time, the Soviet army didn't care about these casualties, especially since most of these personnel came from the east coast.

The bomber dived down to the pontoon to drop bombs, but because the pontoon was not big, it was very difficult to hit the target.

What's even more amazing is that even if it was blown into several pieces by bombers, the sections of rafts that had been prepared on the river will soon flow down the river to fill up the gaps, just like a long snake that can heal itself Shipping resumed shortly thereafter.

When the pilot reported all this to Fred, Fred immediately reported to Paulus: "We are in trouble, General!"