Chapter 343 Interspersed

Shulka and the others didn't know this, they only knew to attack along the river, and it was surprisingly smooth, and they hit the Volga River Bridge more than half an hour later.

The Volga River Bridge was once bombed by the Soviet army, and more than half of the bridge deck collapsed, but the river was not frozen at that time, so there were no shadows of ruins in the river channel... The collapsed section of the bridge deck has sunk to the bottom of the river .

The Germans built a line of defense here.

This was completely expected by Shulka.

Because on the one hand, the German army responded quickly, and on the other hand, the broken bridge was covered by piers and remaining bridge decks, and these things were quite strong, able to withstand Soviet artillery fire and even aerial bombs, especially Those bridge arches are a natural bunker after a few sandbags are erected.

This is exactly what the Germans did, and they even hoisted several anti-tank guns into the bridge arches and prepared them.

In addition, in front of the broken bridge, there is a line of defense composed of pontoon bridges.

Of course, this was not built by the German army, but was built by the German army to pass cars after the bridge was blown up, but as the river froze, these pontoon bridges were also frozen.

This is a perfect line of defense for the German army. There is condescending firepower on the broken bridge, and there are natural anti-tank trenches made of pontoon bridges on the river... Unless the Soviet army blows it up, the "Matilda" The ability to climb heights cannot cross the pontoon bridge in front of you.

Kubil intends to block the Soviet army here, because he thinks this is the time when "enough is enough".

So he immediately hung up the phone and reported to Marshal Luge.

"Your Excellency Marshal!" Kubiler said nervously, "The Russians penetrated into our defense!"

"What do you mean?" Marshal Luge asked suspiciously: "You told me not long ago that you can block their attack!"

"They found a loophole in our line of defense, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Kubile said, "The river channel, the river channel has always been a weak point of our defense... It was a river before that, and it was still half-frozen not long ago, so we couldn't get on it. Deploy troops, but it is now completely frozen, it is now a flat road, almost without any obstacles and obstacles, and the Russian tank troops are attacking along it!"

Marshal Luge couldn't help being startled when he heard this, and then turned his gaze to the map. After looking at it for a while, he said in shock: "Block them, General! You must block them no matter what, otherwise the Fourth Tank Army will be finished!"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Kubil replied, "That's exactly what I did!"

After hanging up the phone,

There was a faint smile on the corner of Kubiler's mouth that others could hardly detect.

Everything was under his control, Kubil was very satisfied with the result.

First of all, he believed that the defense line of the Volga River Bridge could block the Russian attack, because it was actually surrounded on three sides. If the Russian army dared to attack the bridge, it would soon be surrounded by the river.

Of course, Kubil would not eat up the Russian army so quickly.

Secondly, he believed that with such a threat, the Fourth Tank Army and even the Supreme Command would be shaken.

Kubiler was right.

Marshal Luge reported the news to Hitler as soon as he put down the phone.

After Hitler received the information, he walked up and down in front of his desk in a hurry, and then ordered: "Order the air force to be ready, and attack this Russian army as soon as the sky is bright, and they must be wiped out!"

This may indeed be a solution. Although the German Air Force is no longer dominant at this time, the Soviet Air Force cannot guard the sky over the 1st Guards Tank Brigade 24/7.

At the same time, there was nothing in the sky above the river without any cover. The German Air Force only needed to concentrate its forces to launch a sudden attack, and it was still possible to repel the Russian army or cause it to suffer heavy losses.

However, what Hitler and Kubiler did not expect was that the Soviet army suddenly changed its marching direction.

That is to say, the first brigade of guard tanks came ashore, and launched a thunderous offensive towards the houses on the east side of the river.

In fact, this is normal. No one is so stupid as to know that there is a trap ahead and continue to jump into it. This is actually the strategy of the German "Blitzkrieg".

The same is true of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade at this time.

The east side of the river is the defensive weakness of the German army, and the main city of Tver is on the west bank of the river.

There are few buildings on the east bank and most of them are dilapidated and unsuitable for defense. The German army will naturally concentrate its forces on the west bank.

At this time, the sky was just dim, and the tank drove out of the river with the sound of "rumbling" motors, and then covered the infantry and broke into the houses...

As I said before, there are few buildings on the east bank and they are generally low, and a considerable part of them are wooden houses.

These were not much of a threat to the 1st Guards Tank Brigade. The tanks opened fire on the houses from a hundred meters away, and only heard a burst of "booming" cannons, and those houses were blown up and down.

Although the "Matilda" lacks firepower, it is more than enough to attack wooden houses with it.

In addition, "Matilda" has another advantage. It has many load wheels and its speed is slow... Although slow speed is a disadvantage, everything has two sides. The disadvantage can also be an advantage.

For example, the touching speed of "Matilda" makes its body very stable when it is driving, so it still has a certain accuracy when firing while driving.

This also makes it the only tank other than the Sherman that can fire on the move.

So, along the way, the houses were first blown up with tank guns, and then the bazooka, and the closer the distance was, the grenades were thrown into the windows. When the Soviet army saw those houses, there were only bloody ones left inside. dead bodies or struggling wounded.

Of course, if the building has not been blown down, the infantry will occupy it and temporarily defend it.

They didn't want the Germans to suddenly attack the tank units from the side.

Shulka saw almost no living Germans along the way. He only saw soldiers on both sides rushing in with submachine guns after throwing a grenade into the building.

Gunshots and screams followed, with the occasional plea for mercy in German.

But begging for mercy couldn't get the mercy of the Soviet army, and then there was no doubt that there were a few more gunshots... At this time, the Soviet army was interspersed, which meant that they could not take prisoners.

The Luftwaffe just flew over the battlefield at this time, but they turned around and couldn't find the target... The news they got was that the enemy was on the river, but the river was empty at this time.

Although the pilots were quickly informed that the Soviet army had entered the residential area, they could do nothing because they could not tell friend from foe.

At this time, the Soviet fighter planes that had been waiting in the sky suddenly swooped down, and another fierce air battle kicked off in the sky.