12:20 a.m. in the Aksai district, east of Rostov-on-Don.

The Aksai district is located at the confluence of the Aksai and Don rivers, a tributary of the right bank of the Don River, hence the name.

During the day, while Colonel Weiss and his men of the German 1st Panzer Division were fighting on both sides of the Don River, other units under the 1st Panzer Army did not lag behind.

The German 16th Panzergrenadier Division and the 13th Panzer Division, advancing in unison, did not stop to rest after overcoming the town of Novocherkassk, the last barrier northeast of Rostov, but continued to advance.

The 13th Panzer Division rushed due north and the 16th Panzergrenadier Division from the northeast along the banks of the Aksai River into the Aksai district.

After nearly three hours of fierce fighting, the vanguard of the two divisions captured about two-thirds of the Aksai district, and was forced to stop the offensive as night fell.

As night fell, the field troops temporarily stopped advancing, but provided cover for the actions of the special forces.

In a four-story building next to the Aksai River in a four-story building controlled by the German 16th Panzergrenadier Division, Captain Alex Heckler, commander of the 1st Company of the 4th Battalion of the "Blackwater" Special Reconnaissance Group, wore a black tight-fitting diving suit, leaned against the basement wall, smoking the last cigarette before departure.

Beside him, his new friend, Lieutenant Seidel of the German Navy's "DreamWorks" unit, had a cigarette in his right hand, but forgot to smoke it, and raised his head to stare at the ceiling in a daze.

After smoking the cigarette in his hand, Captain Darkler saw that the subordinates in the basement had finished changing, all of them were wearing black tight diving suits, and all of them were carrying black waterproof backpacks waiting for the departure order.

After smoking the cigarette in his hand, Captain Heckler threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with his foot, looked up at his watch, and found that it was almost twelve thirty o'clock.

"Lieutenant, let's go."

Captain Heckler's voice interrupted Lieutenant Seidel's daze, and the lieutenant nodded silently, took two puffs of the cigarette in his hand, then threw the cigarette butt to the ground, stood up with a waterproof rucksack, and followed Captain Heckler out of the basement.

Captain Heckler and Lieutenant Seidl's men walked out of the basement and other rooms, leaving the building from which they had started, crossing the riverside road, and descending the steps on the slope to a small pier on the banks of the Akse River.

Captain Heckler led the company and a platoon to move together, put on flippers, put down goggles, carried a marching backpack, carried a gun to his neck, and launched one after another.

During the war, the lights on both sides of the river were tightly controlled, and Captain Heckler and his men rose and fell in the Aksai River, occasionally showing their heads to confirm their direction.

They started upstream, and within five minutes they were swimming diagonally along the Aksai River into the Don River, and then, with the help of the Don current, they swam diagonally to the south bank of the Don River.

Twenty minutes passed, and the outline of the south bank of the Don River became clear to Captain Heckler's eyes.

On the undulating riverbank, the blackened woods stand tall by the river, like a monster that eats people, and the ruined buildings can be faintly seen standing in the woods.

These dilapidated buildings are the masterpieces left behind by the artillery regiment of the 16th Panzergrenadier Division to clear the field with fire and violence before dark.

After about two minutes, Captain Heckler was slightly relieved when he saw someone rushing out of the water and into the woods on the bank of the river, with no one exposed, let alone gunfire.

With a wave of his arms and a few quick swam strokes, Captain Darkler followed his two men to the shore and climbed into the bushes by the river, hiding himself completely in the darkness.

Taking off his fins and goggles, Captain Heckler pulled out his camouflage uniform and steel helmet from his backpack and put them on.

Carrying his assault rifle behind his back, pulling a PPK pistol from his backpack and loading it with a silencer, Captain Darkler turned around and crept through the darkness towards the dilapidated building in the woods.

The Captain's figure floated like a ghost to the side of the collapsed half of the house, listened intently for a burst of internal sounds, and then climbed into the house through the open window, and successfully occupied the house that was empty.

Soon, the captain's figure walked out of the house, into the woods to the west of the house, and along the dirt road, towards the west destination, the bridge over the river, more than 500 meters away.

The Russians did not want the Germans to occupy the bridge smoothly, so they sent sappers to plant explosives on the bridge, and once the Germans approached, they quickly blew up the bridge, which was exactly the last thing the Germans wanted.

During the daytime battle, the Soviet soldiers at the bridge seemed to think that the bridge was still at a safe distance and did not detonate the explosives until dark, which provided a valuable opportunity for Captain Heckler and his men to carry out this cross-river raid.

The scouts walked through the woods on the east side of the bridge, boldly approaching the bridge until they were close enough to be less than two hundred meters away from the bridge and encountered a complex of buildings before they had to stop.

Caught in front of Captain Hackler and his men was a riverside wharf consisting of three buildings.

During the day, when Captain Heckler took a helicopter to spy on the terrain, he had already learned of the existence of the pier, and at his insistence, the three buildings on the pier became the focus of German artillery, and were almost flattened in the heavy shelling.

Theoretically, there shouldn't be anyone in the three buildings with nothing but rubble, but Captain Heckler decided to be on the safe side and led his men around the docks through the woods on the south side of the house.

After navigating this short distance in the dark, and traversing the woods west of the pier for about a hundred meters, Captain Heckler managed to lead his men to the bridge.

Leaving the woods and burrowing into the darkness beneath the bridge deck, Captain Heckler finally relented, and the operation was halfway there.

Without Captain Heckler's orders, the men around him split up and boldly touched the junction between the bridge and the land, looking for the wires of the explosives on the bridge.

It took only four or five minutes for Captain Hackler and his men to let out a soft cheer as they found two wires on the west side of the bridge, which came out of a two-story building on the west side of the bridge and through the darkened ground to the bridge.

A scout quietly drilled out of the bottom of the bridge, clinging to the west side of the bridge, ignoring the vehicles passing on the bridge deck, touched the side of the wire, cut the two wires in turn with sapper pliers, and then quietly retracted under the bridge.

Knowing that the conductor had been cut, Captain Heckler was completely relieved and immediately carried out the next step of the plan, clearing the buildings on both sides of the bridge from the enemy, controlling the south side of the bridge, and cutting off the enemy's line of communication until the follow-up troops arrived.

As the convoy on the bridge passed, the roar of the engines faded away, and Captain Heckler was the first to burst out of the bottom of the bridge, quietly approaching the building along the cut wire, the guide line protruding.

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