The Stuka dive bomber slammed into the ground without mercy, followed by a terrible screech.

250 kg of bombs and 50 kg of bombs rained down on the Soviet tank columns, and a fountain of earth rose into the sky.

Ravaged by aerial bombs, the road leading to the river has become as miserable as the surface of the moon, full of craters, large and small.

More than a dozen tanks of various models were destroyed by the blast wave of the explosion and were forced to stop on the road, and the two T-34 tanks were reduced to a state of parts, and pieces of steel and flesh were scattered on the battlefield.

Seven or eight tanks panicked and plunged into the mud puddles on the south side of the road, no matter how the driver maneuvered, the tank tracks were only idling, throwing off countless black mud but unable to move forward, until the members lost patience and abandoned the car.

Sixteen Stuka dropped their bombs and then aimed at the infantry who followed, and the machine-gun shells and machine-gun bullets swept a bloody path through the truck formation, and the fragile Gass trucks were burned one after another, the wooden guardrails on the bodies burned, and wisps of black smoke emerged from the bodies, converging into thick columns of smoke in the sky.

The Soviet infantry on the truck was first swept away by the planes, and then thrown out of the car by the wolf-rushing truck, wailing and falling to the ground and falling half to death, the surviving soldiers jumped out of the car and fled, fleeing into the woods and cornfields on both sides of the road and other terrain that could provide cover.

Under the whip of the Stuka formation, the Soviet infantry and tanks successfully staged a scene of great escape on the road and in the open space on both sides.

ME-109F-5 combat reconnaissance aircraft hovered in the sky. Take in the panic of the Soviet troops on the ground. It was then sent to the rear.

It was learned that the enemy's march was interrupted by a Stuka dive bomber. Lieutenant General Hui Biqi immediately took the risk of organizing sappers to repair the pontoon bridge,

Assault boats sped across the Dnieper, sending reinforcements to the troops in the forest and bringing back the wounded.

Despite the heavy casualties of the troops on both sides of the river bank under the attack of Katyusha rockets, and the approach of the enemy's counteroffensive forces, Lieutenant General Huibich still decided to hold the bridgehead and refused to allow the troops in the forests on the opposite bank to retreat.

And that's not all. It was also necessary to take advantage of the gap in which the enemy's artillery suspended fire and continued to expand the area of the bridgehead.

In the lower reaches of the Dnieper, the sappers of the 9th Panzer Division, together with the sappers of the Guard Flag Division, who came to support, began to erect the second and third pontoon bridges one after another.

Chen Dao was not idle, and successively got in touch with the Second Air Force in the rear and the air force directly under the Polish Governor's Palace, and the new group of aircraft was rushing to the Orsha area to prevent the enemy's armored forces from approaching the river bank, and at the same time suppress the ground artillery fire of the Soviet army.

The Soviet Air Force also showed no weakness, sending waves of fighters, bombers, and attack planes to the battlefield to gain air supremacy for the ground forces. At the same time, German sappers who were building bridges on the banks of the Dnieper.

Braving Soviet artillery fire, the sappers of the 9th Panzer Division and the Guard Flag Division worked hard. The sturdy leather gloves were worn out, and the flesh of the hands was dripping with blood.

During the construction process, the first pontoon bridge built by the 9th Panzer Division was unfortunately hit again by a bomb dropped by the Soviet Air Force, and the sappers of the 9th Panzer Division were unmoved, they packed up the bodies of their comrades and continued to devote themselves to the construction without saying a word.

The anti-aircraft gunners on the shore were in a diametrically opposed mood to the sappers, and the 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns weaved a dense net of fire in the air, shooting down one after another Soviet fighters with bad intentions, and the PE-2 bomber that blew up the bridge did not escape the fate of death after the accident, and was injured in the tail by the shrapnel of the anti-aircraft shell, and staggered to the ground, bursting a huge firework.

At 2:20 p.m., with a burst of jubilant cheers, the sappers of the 9th Panzer Division took the lead in repairing the pontoon bridge, and an hour later, the other two pontoon bridges were also built.

On one of the middle of the three pontoon bridges, E-503 tanks of the 40 heavy armored battalion rushed across the Dnieper.

Behind them, countless tanks and armored vehicles lined up and drove across the Dnieper River one after another, and then threw a beautiful left hook and rushed towards the city of Dubrovno.

On the left bank of the Dnieper River, half of the city of Dubrovno, which was controlled by the Soviet army, had long been turned into a sea of fire, and Lieutenant General Huibich could not find the location of the Soviet artillery, and vented his anger on the Soviet troops in the city.

The divisional artillery regiment smashed the shells into the city as much as they could, and every target reported by the artillery observation posts that had already entered the German-controlled city was baptized by the artillerymen with tons of shells.

The Grizzly Assault Gun swayed its fat body, swaggered to the river, and fired at the Soviet troops hiding in the buildings on the other side of the river, where the 150mm grenade passed, one building after another was wiped out, and the Soviet soldiers hiding inside were either without bones or buried alive by the rubble of the collapsed buildings.

Within a few hours, all the buildings on the banks of the river in the Soviet-controlled area of Dubrovno were destroyed by German artillery fire, and the German infantry rushed to the river with assault boats and launched a charge on the other side of the river.

After the German infantry set foot in the Soviet-controlled city, in order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops, the shelling of the Soviet-controlled city stopped, and street fighting broke out.

Bullets were fired from the windows of the attic of the building, through the vents in the basement, and the German soldiers returned fire with machine guns and flamethrowers.

M24 grenades also flew into buildings with stubborn Soviet resistance in white smoke, and the angry scolding of soldiers on both sides and the wails of the wounded on the battlefield came and went.

Soon, the German soldiers noticed that the ranks of the Soviet army were mixed with fighters in civilian uniforms, and it was clear that they were city dwellers who had been drafted into the army.

Upon discovering that the citizens in civilian uniforms were not neutrals, but threatening enemies, street fighting immediately turned to barbarism.

Whether the opponent was wearing military uniform or not, the German soldiers did not distinguish between them, and eliminated them with ferocious firepower until they were sure that the opponent was on the ground and lost the threat forever.

The German soldiers, having just gained a slight advantage in the street fighting, immediately kicked an iron plate.

After the Soviets recovered from the German artillery fire, the counterattack began.

On the ground, six KV-1 tanks guided the infantry towards the river, intending to push the German infantry, who were not supported by heavy weapons, into the river.

The wind whistled again in the sky as shells fell, but it was the Soviet artillery that roared.

The German-controlled city was covered with heavy artillery fire, and the German crossing had to be terminated, and the Germans who had already crossed the river became a lone army. (To be continued.) )