USSR 1941

Taking advantage of the aftermath of the grenade explosion, the Soviet infantry launched an attack... This was not a small difficulty, because the water depth was about two meters at this time, and the gates of the buildings, stairs and the like were all underwater, so the Soviet soldiers could only attack There are only a few corridors, windows, and gaps made by shells.

This is of course very dangerous, even if a grenade has been thrown into the building just now to shock and kill the German army... The quality of the 29th Panzergrenadier of the German army is not ordinary, they know that this is the most dangerous and critical time , because keeping the gap is easy to defend and difficult to attack, otherwise it will be a big trouble to let the enemy get in.

So, even if they were dizzy from the shock of the grenade, they still forced themselves to raise the rifle and aim the muzzle at the gap.

But the first people to go in were not people, but backpacks and flashlights.

This is what Shulka told them to do.

"If you want, of course you can jump in to meet the enemy's bullets!" Shulka said: "But I suggest you better use your backpack first!"

Sure enough, as soon as the backpack was thrown into it, there were several gunshots... The German soldiers were in a state of being bombarded by grenades and on high alert. At the same time, the visibility in the building was not high, so if a black shadow came in, the German soldiers would subconsciously Pull the trigger.

Only then did the Soviet soldiers jump in.

The German army is equipped with a bolt-type Mauser rifle. Although this rifle has a long range and high accuracy, its rate of fire is very slow. It was too late when they found out that they were fooled and wanted to reload and prepare for shooting... Most of the Soviet soldiers who attacked in the first batch were equipped with Bobosha charges. After they stood firm or jumped in and rolled, they immediately Just raise the gun and pull the trigger to pour out rows of bullets, shooting those you see and those you don't see until you run out of bullets in the magazine.

At this time, several Soviet soldiers jumped into the building through the gap, so the German soldiers had to choose between being annihilated or surrendering.

When the Soviet army competed with the German army for buildings one after another, Major General Ellen was fidgeting in one of the buildings.

At this time, he almost lost contact with his subordinates... Except for a radio station snatched by the division headquarters, the rest of the radio stations were all left in the water, and even this radio station was flooded and malfunctioned.

Not to mention the telephone, even if it still works, no one can talk in the water.

Therefore, Major General Ellen could only transmit information by means of mutual semaphore between buildings.

But this method of transmitting information is not reliable.

On the one hand, it is very slow, on the other hand, if a building is attacked by the enemy, it cannot even make a semaphore... The Russian army usually arranges one or two snipers on the amphibious landing ship. Snipe and kill those targets who dare to wave their flags at a distance.

Therefore, the only troops that Major General Ellen can directly and effectively command are less than one battalion in a nearby building.

In fact, this can also see the quality of the German 29th Panzergrenadier Division from the side.

If it was other troops, their morale was low due to flooding, their intelligence was unknown and no one was in command, and they were attacked fiercely by the enemy, they might have already swarmed and fled.

However, the remnants of the 29th Panzergrenadier Division still unswervingly carried out the last order issued by Ellen to "stick to the building where they are."

This is a wise move, as escape is next to impossible in such conditions.

"The radio station has been repaired, General!" The communications soldier who was fiddling with the radio at this time reported to Major General Ellen happily.

Major General Ellen rushed forward in one step, and said to the signal soldier: "Quickly, send a report to Marshal Manstein immediately: We are flooded and attacked by the enemy, requesting reinforcements! Requesting reinforcements!"

In fact, there is no need for Major General Ellen to send a report at all. Manstein, who is attacking Karachi with all his strength, already knew this twenty minutes ago.

He got the information from the Air Force.

At first, the Air Force didn't know what was going on. They only knew that the direction of Surovikino was suddenly bombarded on a large scale and lost contact with it. Then, there were suddenly many Russian planes in the sky... The correct order should be to communicate with Surovikino first. Lovikino lost contact as it was flooded in front and shelled in the rear.

Therefore, although Manstein knew that there was a situation in the direction of Surovikino, he did not know what happened there.

At the beginning, Manstein did not take the Russian attack in the direction of Surovikino to heart.

He even said to the adjutant amusedly while looking at Surovikino's artillery fire with the binoculars: "Obviously, the Russians are anxious by us, and they want to outflank our rear!"

The adjutants and staff officers couldn't help laughing.

Everyone does not think that the Russian army can do this. It was the 29th Panzergrenadier Division. divisions, two of which were German infantry divisions, one Romanian division and one Italian division.

This force is stationed in the vital parts of Surovikino and there are a considerable number of 88MM anti-aircraft guns. The German army does not seem to need to worry about this.

Therefore, everyone is as optimistic as Manstein, thinking that this is just a random attack by the Russian army after jumping over the wall... It is no wonder that they think so, because the Russian army has many "previous records" like this.

But when the air battle broke out at dawn, Manstein felt something was wrong.

"The Russians actually concentrated their air power at Surovikino?" Manstein said while looking at the map: "And they are still competing with our army for air supremacy?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Marshal!" the adjutant replied: "General Winkler said that the enemy has at least one aviation division, and they are all fighter planes!"

"It's not surprising, is it?" a staff officer interjected: "As the Marshal said, the Russians are in a hurry. They are trying to break through Surovikino and force us to retreat!"

This statement seems to make sense. At this time, Karachi has been surrounded by the Te Don Army and is about to fall. The Russian army seems to have only one way to rescue Karachi: pretending to encircle the Te Don Army to make it mess up. For example Send troops to reinforce Surovikino to reduce the pressure on Karachi. It is best if the Don Army is frightened and retreats immediately to avoid being surrounded.

This is why Manstein has always insisted not to send reinforcements to Surovikino.

Therefore, on the battlefield, there is always false and real, real and false, and it seems reasonable to think in any direction, so people caught in it can't see clearly and understand, even Manstein is no exception.

Manstein shook his head and said, "No, the Russians never use their air force as bait!"