Chapter 344: Broken Bridge
During this time, there were fewer updates due to school matters and personal personal matters, and now it has finally come to an end, and tomorrow will begin to resume normal three watches.
*********
Soon, under the cover of fighter planes, the Soviets again went around the river and advanced along the ice...... There are no obstacles in the river and the river is flat, so it is safer for troops to advance here.
Kubil couldn't help but be stunned after hearing the intelligence that the Russian troops had come ashore, and then a few drops of cold sweat quickly broke out of his forehead.
German generals may be good at "blitzkrieg", but they are usually not good at defending "blitzkrieg".
In fact, the "blitzkrieg" can be said to be unguardable. Because it always needles look for enemy weaknesses to break through.
If you want to defend against "blitzkrieg" it seems that there are only two options:
The first is to have a fast mobile force, which is faster than the enemy, so that it can stop the enemy in front of it, entangle it, and then surround it.
Of course, the Germans had such mobile units, especially since the enemy was armed with "Matilda" tanks.
But it's a pity that Tver is obviously too late to tune from somewhere else.
The other way is to keep everything airtight, and the Germans obviously did not have such preparations, and certainly did not have so many troops.
That's when Kubil realized that things weren't as simple as he thought.
"General!" The adjutant suggested: "We should bring in the 6th Panzer Division!" ”
The 6th Panzer Division had been deployed by Kubil on the second line ten miles from Tver...... On the one hand, this is because the Russian army has appeared with new equipment that can deal with tanks, and Kubil easily does not dare to put armored troops into battle, and on the other hand, because it is difficult for street fighting tanks to play a role, especially the mobility of German tanks cannot be played at all.
"No!" Kubil shook his head: "Even the transfer of the 6th Panzer Division will not help, they will either be exposed under the enemy's aircraft, or they will be destroyed by their new equipment!" ”
At this time, the Luftwaffe was no longer dominant, which made the Germans very passive, although the Soviet pilots did not have high bombing skills, but they had a numerical advantage...... This also frightened the German armored forces.
"But we have no other troops to stop them, General!" The adjutant said anxiously: "Shall we just let them run rampant within our line of defense until they have fired all the bullets?" ”
After thinking about it, Kubil said: "Tver Bridge, Shalot, their goal is Tver Bridge, immediately send someone to defend it!" ”
"Yes!" The adjutant answered, and immediately passed on the order.
Kubil was right, the target of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade was indeed the Tver Bridge.
The reason is simple, although the Tver Bridge has been blown up, the newly built railway of the Germans is only two hundred meters away from the Tver Bridge, and there is a road five hundred meters away on the other side.
In other words, if the Tver bridge is occupied, it will be possible to condescendingly control the railways and roads with artillery, that is, to block the German transport line to the 4th Tank Army in the northeast.
Therefore, although Tver was already short of troops at this time, the Germans still transferred two infantry to rush to the Tver bridge.
As before, the Germans deployed their forces on the ruined body and sides of the Tver Bridge, and if the enemy attacked the bridge, they would be attacked from three sides, as they were facing the Volga Bridge.
However, once again, things were unexpected by the Germans.
While the Germans were guarding the bridge and waiting for the Soviets to arrive, the Soviet tanks left the river again and went ashore, and then "rumbled" along the road to attack the front of the bridge.
As a result, all the firepower deployed in the tunnels on the side of the bridge was ineffective, and the Germans still had to rely on simple buildings and sandbag fortifications to withstand the Soviet tanks.
Such is the benefit of tank units, which can choose their own direction of attack at will.
Of course, this direction of attack was beneficial to the Soviet troops and to the detriment of the Germans.
This is also the "theory of offensive superiority" of the German army...... Feng Shui takes turns, and the Soviet army, which is the main attacker, will certainly not give up this advantage.
Shulka led his troops to advance behind the tanks.
The Germans panicked and fell into chaos.
This is normal, because this is not only a problem of miscalculation of the German army, but also a problem of their improper firepower and troop allocation...... The first of the two battalions of the Germans was unable to rush in for reinforcements on the opposite bank, and most of the anti-tank guns were laid out in the bridge holes and became scrap metal.
That is, the Germans could only block the Soviet offensive with anti-tank grenades, explosive packs, etc.
The Germans did exactly that, and although they knew that there was no possibility of victory in the battle due to the disparity in strength between the enemy and the enemy, they still did not retreat or flee.
Maybe it's because they know the importance of the Tver Bridge, or maybe it's an order from their superiors...... In any case, they raised their weapons in the snow and organized assault teams to charge at the Soviet tanks with explosives.
But this is clearly just in vain.
Several Matilda tanks stopped, adjusted their muzzles slightly, and then with a few "booms", they blew up the German sandbag fortifications into the sky, and the Germans hiding behind the sandbags, they were thrown into the air and fell, and even fell under the bridge.
Several German soldiers cautiously leapt between craters with anti-tank grenades.
Compared with explosive packs and cluster grenades, anti-tank grenades still pose a certain threat to tanks, after all, they still have a throw distance of more than 20 meters.
Therefore, if the Soviets did not find them hiding in the crater and the tanks were moving forward at the same time, it was likely that the Germans would have succeeded.
But at this time, all the Soviet soldiers were veterans, especially those subordinates who followed Shulka from Brest to fight here, and they had already grown into the elite of the army in the past six months of fighting.
Therefore, there was no need for Shulka to give an order, and they consciously divided into several squads and crossed the tank to meet them...... At this time, of course, you can no longer hide behind the tank's armor, the crater is a dead end for the tank's firepower, and continuing to advance will only end up being blown up by an anti-tank grenade.
That is, the tank is powerless about it.
But the infantry solves this problem very simply, they only need to lock on to a crater, then the cat waist closes, and when they get close to the target, they pull off a grenade and throw it......
Anti-tank grenades can only be thrown twenty meters, and grenades can be thrown fifty meters, so this is simply insolvable, and the Germans have only passively beaten it.
Some fast-moving Germans would jump out of the grenade as soon as it was thrown into the crater, hoping to escape the grenade's blast range.
However, there were several "Bobosha" submachine guns waiting for him outside, and only to hear the sound of "da-da-da" gunshots, the German anti-tank teams were annihilated in the snow one by one.
Then the tanks drove over the German bridgehead and onto the bridge deck.
Although the bridge was blown up in the middle, as soon as the tanks drove onto the bridge deck, it was tantamount to setting up a battery on a high place, and the surrounding German troops were only passively beaten.