Two hundred meters, a fierce battle was fought between the light mortars of both sides.

Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the two countries were friendly countries, and many of the Soviet equipment came from Germany, such as the Mauser pistol, the 1930 anti-tank gun, the development of tanks, and so on.

So the two armies can find similarities in some aspects, such as the fact that the infantry on both sides is heavily armed with light mortars.

This is when these mortars come into play, shells explode in front of the position, and the battlefield is quickly blown up with blood and smoke.

However, the German mortars were soon suppressed by the Soviets, mainly because the Soviets had a large number of tanks, and their armor could not only block these shells, but their tank guns and machine guns could also suppress the Germans.

One hundred meters.

The Soviet soldiers approached the German line under the cover of tanks, and the Germans on the river bank had some advantages in the high bottom, although not high, only about 1.5 meters, but this advantage was enough for the Germans to throw anti-tank grenades and smash them on the Soviet tanks...... THE GERMAN ANTI-TANK GRENADE COULD PENETRATE 150MM OF ARMOR, SO EVEN IF THE MATILDA TANK HAD INCREASED ITS ARMOR, IT STILL COULD NOT WITHSTAND ITS BLOWS.

Shulka even saw that several Germans had already grabbed anti-tank grenades in their hands and were ready to throw.

This time, though, they didn't.

Because the Soviet tanks stopped when they were driving seventy meters.

This was precisely outside the range of German anti-tank grenades...... The German anti-tank grenade weighed about 2.6 kilograms, although it was not very heavy, but in order to ensure that its warhead could touch the target armor and explode instantly, a parachute-like tail had to be added to its rear.

Obviously, this tail will increase the resistance of the grenade in the air.

This makes the range of this anti-tank grenade very limited, usually only about 20 meters, and a strong soldier can barely throw it 30 meters.

However, the Soviet tank stopped seventy meters away, which immediately dumbfounded the Germans...... If they wanted to attack these tanks, they would have to climb out of the battlefield and rush forward, which obviously didn't work.

However, the Germans were not worried, because they thought that if the Soviets were going to attack, they would have to drive tanks sooner or later.

But they soon realized that this was wrong.

Because at this moment, Soviet soldiers with bazookas on their shoulders suddenly burst out from behind the tanks, and they aimed at the German fortifications under the cover of tanks and snipers, and then pulled the trigger......

With a shrill whistling, the rockets flew towards the German positions with trails of wake.

Then there was an explosion, and the German positions were instantly blown into gaps.

As mentioned before, mortars and howitzers are actually very difficult to deal with such strong fortifications.

On the one hand, their ballistic bending accuracy is not high, and on the other hand, the Soviet army at this time has difficulty in supplying and there are not so many shells...... If there are enough shells, blowing them back and forth several times will achieve the same effect.

Although the bazooka is not very accurate, it can be fired at close range and has a straight trajectory, which greatly improves accuracy.

As a result, after a "boom" sound, the German army's solid defense line frozen together with gravel and earth was quickly blown out of the gaps...... In fact, many of them were melted, and the high-temperature, high-pressure metal jets from the bazooka could easily penetrate the trenches and kill the Germans hiding behind them.

The German defense line immediately heard a miserable scream like a pig, and it would definitely not be a good feeling to be penetrated by the high-temperature metal jet, not to mention that the hit part was directly pierced, and the surrounding flesh and internal organs were only afraid that they would be cooked in an instant.

But that's just the beginning.

Then the bazooka shooters fired another round of rockets...... This time it was an anti-infantry rocket.

This rocket is very simple to make, it is only necessary to change the conical hollow charge of the anti-tank warhead into explosives and steel balls, so it does not even need to be developed, and it takes only two days to produce a batch.

These bazookas penetrated the German trenches through gaps in the defensive line.

Needless to say, the steel balls exploded in the German trenches and shot everywhere...... The trenches were smooth and hard frozen in the low temperatures, and Shulka could almost imagine the steel balls bouncing off the trenches and hitting the Germans in all directions.

Then another round of rockets, and amid the screams of the Germans, a group of Soviet riflemen rushed up and threw a volley of grenades into the trenches.

As soon as the explosion sounded, the Soviet soldiers shouted and charged the German lines.

The battle was almost one-sided, and the Germans never knew that the Soviet army still had this way of fighting, especially when they thought that the protagonist of this Soviet attack should be the tank, and all attention was focused on the tank, but they did not expect that the main force of their attack was the infantry.

When Shulka rushed forward, he saw groups of wounded German soldiers surrendering at the gunpoint of the Soviets, many of them with steel balls embedded in their bodies, faces, and even eyes.

One of the eyeballs was knocked out, the connected nerves hung out of his face, and he wailed loudly and screamed in German.

Although he didn't understand, Shulka knew he wasn't begging for mercy.

On the contrary, he hoped that the Soviets would do him a favor to end his suffering.

Shulka stepped forward, pulled out a pistol and pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger, and the Germans fell to the ground after a blood spike burst out of their heads.

So sometimes killing is not a form of cruelty, but a form of mercy.

The German line of defense on the river bank was immediately breached.

But this did not mean that Tver was occupied by the Soviets, because the Germans had already transferred an infantry division to garrison Tver.

It is possible to succeed if the Germans are taken by surprise, but it is obviously unwise to engage the Germans in street battles without the cover of tanks.

On the other hand, it took time for the Soviets to get their tanks up the riverbed and cross the obstacles in front of the position, especially the speed of the "Matilda", which took more than 20 minutes to drive from the riverbank defense line to the city of Tver in just a few miles.

This gave the Germans time to prepare, and they set up firing points in their houses in the city to prepare for street battles with the Soviets.

However, it is clear that the Germans were not prepared for street fighting from the beginning to the end...... This was dictated by the strategy of the German offensive.

Therefore, for the Germans, the loss of Tver was only a matter of time, and the Soviets could take Tver even with artillery fire and tank stacks.

As a result, a conundrum was in front of Kubil:

It's time to retreat, otherwise...... As soon as Tver was lost, the German troops attacking in the north were immediately in danger of being surrounded.