Major Erich finally reluctantly ordered the attack.

There are many things on the battlefield that you can't help but do, and many times you do it knowing that you can't do it.

Otherwise, there will be another voice: "How do you know if you can conquer it without trying?" ”

The tactics of the Germans were the same as before, with assault guns fired at the front to cover the follow-up of the soldiers in the rear.

There is no doubt that these assault guns were destroyed one by one by rocket launchers after they approached the Soviet lines, and then they became real "wreckage", or bunkers to cover the German offensive.

The German offensive looked going well, and although they lost a dozen assault guns, they at least succeeded in "digging" a series of bunkers on the position, and at the same time there were even more bunkers than yesterday.

In the next second, the German infantry launched a charge against the Soviet line by relying on bunkers under the order 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 gunfire rang out, and dense bullets poured out of the wreckage of Soviet tanks, and a rain of bullets knocked down, scattered, and shattered the German army's stormtrooping formation like a tide, like a torrent crashing into a reef, bursting out of waves and then nothing.

If anything, it was a corpse lying on the ground.

At this time, Major Erich suddenly realized that they had built "bunkers" in front of the positions with sacrificial assault guns, which were actually obstacles for themselves.

Prior to this, because the Soviet army did not have tank wreckage as cover, the German army could use mortars, grenades and other ground fortifications to comprehensively suppress the Soviet army's lower, covered, and insufficient defense behind the tank wreckage, so it was easy for the German army to enter the Soviet trenches and finally take the defensive line.

However, after the Soviets moved the wreckage of the tank into the line of defense and modified it, the advantage of friend and foe reversed.

German mortars, grenades simply could not threaten the enemy in the wreckage of tanks.

However, the machine gunners in the wreckage of the tank could safely block the way of the German advance with machine guns.

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

In other words, the bunkers formed by those assault guns divided the German charging formation into pieces, and the Soviets only needed to blockade these areas with machine guns.

"Mortar cover!" Major Erich shouted the order: "Blow up those 'tank bunkers'!" ”

The Germans called the wreckage of the Soviets' tanks in front of the positions "tank bunkers", which is indeed very figurative, because its function is actually a bunker.

However, in the conventional sense of the word, the construction of a bunker was time-consuming and required materials, which was unimaginable for Stalingrad, whose supply lines were already semi-blocked.

On the other hand, it was the Soviets who did not usually build pillboxes on anticlines.

Before that, the Soviets thought it was a clumsy thing to build the bunker on the anticline...... When the enemy charges in front of the high ground, the pillbox should of course be built on a positive slope, so that not only can it hit the enemy, but also have a condescending view, and the machine gun can control a large area in front of it.

Build a bunker on an anticline?

Don't be funny, can you hit the enemy? If the enemy hits the anti-slope and is already condescending, will these pillboxes still work?

But the reality of the battlefield is often the opposite of what is imagined.

The fact is that in the absence of air supremacy, all fortifications built on the positive slope are in fact targets for enemy artillery or aircraft...... If one shell can't be blown up, come with two.

And the fortifications of the anticline are what really work.

But of course.

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

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

I didn't expect the enemy to be able to hit Stalingrad and Mamayev Gang.

All this led to almost zero strong permanent fortifications on the anticline of the Mamayev Heights.

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

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

From this it can be seen that Major Erich has some combat experience, and he is shouting not mortars but grenades at this time.

Although mortars are much more lethal than grenades, they take time to fire and are difficult to scale.

Almost every soldier carried a few grenades, and throwing a few in a row could explode in front of the position.

A charge under the cover of the aftermath of such an explosion and the smoke it stirred up would have a high probability of strangling with the enemy, and the "tank bunkers" would be useless.

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

After receiving the order, the German officers gave orders to the soldiers one by one:

"Grenades!"

"Grenades!"

……

Grenades returned from the direction of the Germans.

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

But that's not the case today.

The wreckage of Soviet tanks formed a line of defense more than ten meters in front of the trenches, which just made it impossible for German grenades to be thrown into the Soviet trenches.

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

Therefore, he did not hope that a volley of grenades would blow up the Soviet lines.

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

So in the next second, the German infantry shouted and rushed forward with bayonets.

But soon, Major Erich found his expectations dashed...... Because at this moment, the Soviets also threw rows of grenades in front of the position.

All the German grenades could do was to blow up a cloud of smoke in front of the position, while the Soviet grenades blew up the charging German soldiers into smoke.

Then, machine gun and submachine gun bullets poured into the smoke again, and from time to time, bazookas 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 smoke amid a scream.

Occasionally, a few German soldiers burst out of the smoke, their faces black, their bodies hung with rags, their bayonet rifles in their hands, bloodied and roaring loudly and rushing towards the Soviet trenches......

These soldiers were brave, but this inscale charge simply could not inflict an impact on the Soviet troops.

They were either knocked down in the way of the charge, or they were knocked to the ground by the Soviets with the butts of their guns or fists and feet as soon as they rushed into the trenches.