The battlefield gradually fell silent, and the smoke gradually dissipated, leaving only a few burned tanks on the bridge deck still in flames, which looked very dazzling in the dark night.

"How's it going?" Major Gavrilov asked nervously.

"I don't know, Comrade Gavrilov!" Major Zahakavich put away his binoculars and replied: "They do look destroyed!" ”

This sentence has two meanings:

One is that the camouflage of Soviet tanks is very similar.

The other is that the sleeper tanks seem to have been destroyed.

In fact, there was a situation where a tank that was supposed to carry out a hidden mission rushed to the front in the confusion and was destroyed by an anti-tank gun...... Destroyed by anti-tank guns, which meant that the striker rushed into a range of a hundred meters.

This can be said to be a success, but the price paid is also very heavy: nine Soviet tanks were destroyed on the bridge deck, knowing that these are T34s, which are in short supply to the Soviet army and can walk sideways in front of German armored forces. (Note: "sideways" here is just a description)

After hesitating, Major Zahakavich poked his head out again and raised his binoculars to observe for a moment, then retracted his head and said: "The good news is that the tank wreckage did not block the bridge deck, which means that the road is clear!" ”

"Now, it's time to act!" Major Gavrilov.

Major Zahakavich nodded and said to the communications officer beside him: "Inform the second battalion, attack!" ”

"Attack!"

At the sound of the order, the 2nd Tank Battalion, located at the "No. 2" bridge, launched an attack, and the battle began again.

Colonel Finn, on the other side of the river, immediately contacted the command of the armored train.

"Another bridge has been attacked, what are you waiting for?"

"Colonel!" Major Michael sensed something was wrong: "Why don't they attack both bridges at the same time?" It's going to make it difficult for us to juggle both ends of the ......."

This may be a loophole in Shulka's plan, or it can be said to be a doubt.

However, Colonel Fein did not suspect anything, and he yelled on the phone: "How can I know what those Ivan think? Maybe you should ask with the artillery on the armored train! ”

In desperation, Major Michael ordered the armored train to move towards another bridge.

A few minutes later, Major Michael, with suspicion, was in the armored train observing another position through a periscope.

This look is even more strange for Major Michael...... The enemy tanks in front of them did not seem to be in a hurry to attack, and until now only two tanks had driven onto the bridge deck, and the distance between the front and rear was still wide.

"Major, the 'seventh' carriage is ready!"

The "seventh" carriage was an anti-aircraft gun platform, which the gunner was reporting to Major Michael, that is, ready to fire at any time.

"Fire!" Major Michael ordered.

"Boom!" Two cannon shots rang out, and the tank at the forefront was destroyed.

The anti-aircraft guns were facing the bridge deck, they were long and straight, and it was two guns hitting one target, and it was not difficult to hit.

But Major Michael soon realized that he had been deceived, for at that moment a strange roar sounded from the other side, and he turned his periscope in the direction from which the sound came, and saw bright lines cutting through the darkness from the north bank of the Volga River to the south bank.

Major Michael immediately threw away the periscope in his hand, grabbed the microphone, and shouted: "Quick, go back immediately!" ”

But it was too late to wake up......

"Bridge No. 1".

In the unique whistling sound of the "Katyusha" rocket artillery, the dense rockets crossed the lurking troops and smashed fiercely on the enemy's bridgehead defense line, and the entire bridgehead defense line was suddenly wrapped in a cloud of flames and smoke, like a volcanic eruption, and like a burning gasoline barrel, and some rockets smashed on the bridge and there were bursts of vibration.

Then, three red flares rose into the air, and the sound of the tank's motor "rumbled".

If the Germans could see this, they would be surprised...... The tanks with "bullet holes" and even black smoke actually started one by one, and the soldiers with bloody faces also got up from the ground, this is simply a force from hell.

But the Germans did not see this, because in front of them was a wall of fire that had been blown out by rockets, and the wall of fire, that is, their bridgehead defense, had been shattered in an instant, and there was no shadow to be found.

After more than ten seconds, the bombing finally stopped, but the aftermath of the explosion was still "booming" in the ears of the German soldiers.

Colonel Finn jumped out of the trench and waved at the German soldiers, shouting something, but the German soldiers could not hear anything...... The violent explosion made them temporarily deaf.

Colonel Finn was no exception, but he knew what was going on.

Although he didn't know what tricks the enemy was playing at this time, he knew that there was a gap in the defense of the bridgehead at this time...... The armored train was diverted, the bridgehead line was blown into the sky, and he, who had combat experience, of course, knew that he had to fill this gap as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the Germans were of excellent quality, and they reacted quickly and rushed forward with their weapons and anti-tank guns, and they almost spontaneously organized another line of defense, because a considerable part of them did not hear Colonel Finn's orders.

But they were too late.

A huge figure suddenly appeared in the darkness and smoke, and the German soldiers, who had just regained a little hearing, immediately heard a "rumble" sound, but it was not the sound of artillery but the sound of tank motors.

"T34, it's T34!" Colonel Fein looked at these tanks that had rushed to the bridgehead line before the Germans in astonishment, and he didn't understand what was going on with his mouth open for a long time.

"How do they do it?"

"How can you cross the Volga bridge in such a short time?"

……

These questions lingered in Colonel Finn's mind, and there was nothing he could do but think about them, and he could only watch as the tanks fired bullets that knocked the onrushing German soldiers to the ground.

Then, when Colonel Fein saw a "bullet hole" in the armor of the tank in the bright light of flares, it suddenly dawned on him: these tanks, as well as the Russian soldiers who followed the tanks, who had never left the Volga bridge, were right under their noses, and he himself turned the armored train in the other direction.

Watch as your men fall in pieces under the fire of enemy tank machine guns, watch more and more tanks and the enemy rush up in the dark, and watch the follow-up troops of the enemy on the other side of the river also attack......

Colonel Finn suddenly had a feeling of despair.

The next second, he raised his pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger.