On the east side of the road, Captain Heckler and his comrades fought valiantly, repelling the first wave of enemy attacks with the assistance of rear artillery.

On the west side of the road, Soviet infantry, supported by more than a dozen T-34 tanks, had stormed the dock.

From time to time, artillery shells flew from the northeast and fell on the west side of the bridge, setting off a bloody storm among the Soviet assault troops, but they could not stop the Soviet charge.

Artillery is not omnipotent, the Soviet forward units rushed too fast, and they have become a mess with the German army, and the German artillery can only use artillery fire to suppress the follow-up units of the Soviet army.

On the docks, Lieutenant Seidel turned around and ran in an S shape back to the second floor where he had been, and in a flash he climbed into the building through the window on the first floor, stuck behind the wall next to the window, and opened fire on the enemy outside.

Behind another window, an MG42 machine-gun crew, mounted on the windowsill, was firing wildly, preventing the enemy from approaching.

In the dim sight, Lieutenant Seidel saw chaos on the battlefield, and soldiers were rushing to the docks, both the enemy and his own.

The Soviets took advantage of the cover of the night to reach them in a creeping way, and they were also caught off guard by the surprise attack of the Soviet army.

There was not much woodland on the west side of the road to provide them with cover, and the Soviets had more than a dozen T-34 tanks behind them to provide fire support, and they rushed into the German lines in a single charge.

Lieutenant Seidel and his comrades also had some anti-tank weapons in their hands, such as Iron Fist and Tank Killer Bazookas, but the Soviet formation was infantry in front and tanks in the back, and these weapons did not have enough range and could not expose themselves to the Soviet infantry to fire.

As the Soviet infantry rushed into the German lines, the Soviet artillery stopped firing one after another, so as not to accidentally injure their own people.

Without the suppression of Soviet firepower, the pressure on the German troops on and near the pier was still not relieved, and with the successful breakthrough of the Soviet infantry, the T-34 tanks behind also approached the pier, and the German troops who retreated to the pier were in danger of being driven into the river at any time.

Five or six more German soldiers retreated to the docks, relying on the second floor of Lieutenant Seidel for defense, but they were still unable to stop the Soviet approach.

In cooperation with his comrades in the building, Lieutenant Seidel killed several Soviet soldiers who rushed to the building, and suddenly stopped his movements, and he clearly saw that a T-34 tank in the distance stopped advancing, and the turret turned to the right, pointing the muzzle of the gun at the second floor where he was.

"Be careful, be hidden." Lieutenant Seidel cried out and fell to the ground.

Almost at the same time, a burst of fire erupted from the muzzle of the tank in the distance, and the shells flew in through the window where the two machine gunners next to Lieutenant Seidel were, hitting the wall behind them, exploding with a bang, and the two machine gunners screamed, instantly engulfed in black smoke.

Lieutenant Seidel lay on the ground, feeling as if something had knocked on his left calf, and the sharp pain reached his heart, and he couldn't help but shiver.

Dragging his painful left leg, Lieutenant Seidel stood up, looked out the window, and saw the tank in the distance moving again, approaching the dock.

Unable to stay still, Lieutenant Seidel turned around and ran out of the room, limping out of the back of the second floor, following the chaotic crowd on the docks to the west.

Retreating to the dock watch room on the east side of the dock near the road, Lieutenant Seidel saw a soldier with a Siemens cordless phone lying on the ground, his left hand covering his abdomen and moaning.

Lieutenant Seidel grabbed the communications soldier by the neck and dragged him behind the wall of the duty room.

The lieutenant crouched down and asked the signal corps, but received no reply, put his hand to the telecomman's nose, did not feel the presence of the air current, and Lieutenant Seidel lowered his finger in pain.

Reaching out to pick up the microphone from the cordless phone behind the communications corpsman, Lieutenant Seidel shouted into the microphone: "Warhammer, warhammer, here's the dock, here's the dock, the line has collapsed, the line has collapsed, fire at me." ”

A questioning voice came over the microphone.

"Dock, are you sure you want to do this?"

"I can't retreat anymore, shoot at me, hurry up and shoot at me." Lieutenant Seidel shouted.

"Farewell, brother."

Lieutenant Seidel put down the microphone and looked around, and in the collapse of the defensive line, the German soldiers retreated across the road and fled to the east side of the road.

If they could not stop the Russians here, they would most likely rush to the east of the road and occupy the bridgehead completely.

With his back against the wall, Lieutenant Seidel endured the sharp pain in his leg and waited for the final moment, turning his eyes to his left-hand side.

Throwing down the submachine gun in his hand, Lieutenant Seidel bent down, crawled on the ground with his hands and feet, and soon climbed a distance of more than twenty meters, rolled over, rolled off the cement platform of the pier, and fell into the river below.

No sooner had he rolled into the water than a string of bullets landed on the ground where he had jumped into the water.

Waving his arms, Lieutenant Seidel swam to a speedboat floating on the water, reached out and grabbed the hull of the yacht, swinging his legs in an effort to keep his body afloat.

Four or five T-34 tanks drove up to the pier one after another, supporting the infantry to rush to the bridgehead, and in the field outside the dock, the rest of the T-34 tanks also turned their heads and launched a centripetal assault on the bridgehead.

At the moment of crisis, the whistling of rockets sounded again, dragging black smoke and tail flames, and 150 mm rockets fell along with 150 mm high-explosive shells, and the flames from the explosion instantly flooded everything on the pier.

In the explosion, blood and flesh flew on the dock, and the bodies of the charging Soviet infantrymen were torn apart by shrapnel along with the bodies of the German soldiers on the pier.

One T-34 tank was hit by a rocket on the roof of the turret and exploded, while the rest of the tanks were wounded by a dense barrage of shells and rockets and paralyzed on the pier.

Raindrops of shells fell one after another, and the Soviet infantry and tanks that were still charging violently were instantly engulfed.

Lieutenant Seidel hid in the water, leaning as much as he could against the wall of the dock next to him, allowing the shadows to cover his body.

A cannonball landed on the water in the distance, setting off a huge white column of water, wave after wave, slapping at him, causing his body to crash against the wall of the dock around him.

God forbid, don't let a shell fall on you, Lieutenant Seidel prayed incessantly.

Where the lieutenant could not see, the artillery bombardment he called for not only destroyed the enemy in the charge, but also stabilized the line of defense that was about to collapse in time, so that the Soviet offensive stopped at the docks and roads.

Taking advantage of the precious opportunity when the Soviet army was suppressed by artillery fire, the German troops on the east side of the road adjusted their forces in time to deploy along the road.

After making contact with the artillery behind them, the artillery fire extended from the pier to the west, and the Germans on the east side of the road took advantage of the situation to launch a counteroffensive.

In the German artillery fire, the most severely hit was still the Soviet infantry, losing the cover of the infantry, the isolated T-34 tank became a live target for the German infantry, besieged by the iron fist and the "tank killer" anti-tank rocket launcher, and was destroyed on the battlefield one after another.

Before you know it, the eastern sky is white, the roar is small to large, and a helicopter formation flies in from the northeast to join the battle.

Eight FI-382 "Black Hawk" helicopters hovered over the battlefield, machine gun bullets and rockets fell, mercilessly pursuing the fleeing Soviet troops in the wilderness, completely crushing the Soviet counteroffensive forces.

Sensing the sound of the shells exploding far away, Lieutenant Seidel boldly let go of his hand, clinging to the concrete wall of the pier, swimming all the way in the darkness, swimming to the steps of the pier, climbing the steps, and looking at the pier.

Seeing the figures wearing M35 steel helmets and camouflage uniforms running across the docks, running to the west and south, and helicopters hovering in the sky in the distance, Lieutenant Seidel was completely relieved, stepped up the steps, and limped up the dock.

He had just walked up to the dock and was about to find a health guard to show him the wound on his leg, when Lieutenant Seidel suddenly squinted his eyes and looked at the sky to the south.

In the southern sky, four black dots, small to large, quickly rushed towards the bridge.

Il-2, it's Il-2, Lieutenant Seidel hurriedly turned around, trying to find a place to hide.

On the dock, others also noticed the approach of four Il-2 attack planes and immediately panicked.

The four Il-2s quickly approached the bridge, and at the same time lowered their altitude, ignoring the bullets fired from the German machine guns on the ground, and went straight to the bridge.

At the critical moment, the dexterous figure of the ME-109 fighter fell from the sky and swooped down on the low-altitude Il-2 attack aircraft.

In a split second, a row of bullet holes appeared above the fuselage of the two Il-2 attack planes, and they plunged headlong into the building complex on the north side of the bridge and crashed, and the two surviving Il-2 attack planes were attacked and hurriedly dropped bombs. Two bombs grazed the bridge and fell into the Don River, setting off a tall column of water.

Dropping the bombs, the two Il-2 attack planes hurriedly turned around and fled the way they came.

Lieutenant Seidel took the battle that had just taken place.

The Russians reacted quickly and even wanted to blow up the bridge, but fortunately our air force was not slow to react.

At this time, a health soldier ran up to him, stared at his leg and asked, "Lieutenant, I think you need my help." ”

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