On the other side, Yeremenko did not know that the Germans had already received reinforcements, and the next day as soon as it was dark, a new attack was launched on the sandbank.

Theoretically, the Soviets would have an advantage attacking at night than during the day.

Because at least the Soviets didn't have to worry about harassment from the Luftwaffe overhead.

But this is only a theoretical statement, the fact is that the quality and organizational skills of the Soviet army are very poor, especially the construction of pontoon bridges, Yeremenko believes that he cannot organize such an offensive, or it can be said that if he organizes such an offensive at night, he is afraid that the losses will be greater than the losses of an attack launched by enemy fighters during the day, so Yeremenko gave up such an idea.

It can be said to be right or wrong.

It is correct to say that it is because the Soviet army does have such a problem, and Yeremenko is self-aware. Moreover, from the point of view of scaring Remenko, he thought that the next day he was sure enough to take the sandbar, so he was not in a hurry to attack at night.

It is wrong to say that it is because it was precisely on this night that the Germans received reinforcements and supplies through oil barrels.

As a result, when the Soviets launched their attack the next day, they were shocked to find that the Germans were much more firepower than they had been yesterday, even though the Soviets had already committed air force to fight with the Luftwaffe for air supremacy over the sandbank, or harassment.

"Comrade Yeremenko!" Major General Yefimkov, who was in charge of the offensive, reported to Yeremenko: "The Germans are not as vulnerable as we think, their firepower is even greater than yesterday!" ”

"What do you mean?" Yeremenko asked rhetorically.

"I mean...... The Germans probably got reinforcements! Yefimkov replied that it was his intuition on the battlefield.

"Then you tell me, Comrade Yefimkov!" Yeremenko asked rhetorically: "How did the Germans get reinforcements?" ”

"I don't know!" Yefimkov replied: "But it is obvious, they have almost filled all the gaps in firepower, and the bullets are very dense, yesterday we were able to attack the barbed wire, today we were crushed on the near beach!" ”

"That's just your imagination, Comrade Yefimkov!" Yeremenko roared: "The Germans are besieged by us on the sandbar and will not be able to get reinforcements at all, they will only fight less and less!" Keep on the offensive, understand? Don't give them a respite! ”

"Yes, Comrade Yeremenko!" Yefimkov replied helplessly.

After hanging up the phone, Yeremenko shook his head and complained: "They always imagine the enemy to be too strong!" ”

Khrushchev agreed, saying: "It seems that we have to send a commissar to supervise the war!" ”

Obviously, both Yeremenko and Khrushchev believed that the Germans could not be reinforced, so Soviet victory was in sight, at least in the sandbar...... The Germans only had 200 men in total, and even if they were to grind down with casualties, they would be able to wipe out the 200 men on the sandbank.

But this was not the case, and the fighting lasted from the early hours of the morning until nightfall, and the Soviets made no progress except for piles of corpses left on the river.

On the other hand, the dispatch from Stalingrad was constantly flying to the headquarters of the South-Eastern Front.

"We're running out of ammunition!" "The soldiers at the front have not been given food and ammunition for several days, and I cannot inform them that we are no longer provided with these," Chuikov reported! ”

"Hold on for a few more hours!" Khrushchev replied: "We are about to take the sandbar!" ”

Khrushchev was right, the South-Eastern Front continued its offensive on the sandbar that night, and Khrushchev and Yeremenko were convinced that the Germans were holding on to the death, and that if they had to attack a little longer, the Germans would soon collapse due to lack of ammunition or troops.

Until the offensive continued into the second half of the night, a message came from the front......

"Comrade Yeremenko!" Yefimkov reported to Yeremenko: "I believe that the Germans received reinforcements, there are many more Germans in the sandbar than we thought!" ”

"Comrade Yefimkov!" Yeremenko was so angry that he shouted through the microphone: "I said that they only have two hundred, and now there are even less than a hundred, and if you can't complete the task, I will send another force to replace you......"

"Comrade Yeremenko!" Yefimkov interrupted Yeremenko: "We have found evidence that they have received reinforcements!" ”

"Evidence?" Yeremenko asked suspiciously.

"Yes, Comrade Yeremenko!" Yefimkov replied: "We picked up twenty oil drums in the river during the attack, they were tied together with ropes, most of them contained ammunition, ammunition for the Germans, and several oil drums still contained Germans!" ”

Apparently, these oil drums unfortunately flowed into the valley between the sandbar and the east bank, and were captured by the attacking Soviet troops.

"What do you mean by that?" Yeremenko asked.

"I mean...... The Germans were using the Volga to get supplies! Yefimkov replied: "I interrogated the captured prisoners, and they said that they were from Reynolds, that is...... The Germans put down the oil drums from Reynolds and scooped them up on the sandbar. This has been since last night, and so far they have received five batches of supplies, which have added at least five hundred men to them, as well as a large amount of ammunition! ”

Hearing this, Yeremenko couldn't help but be stunned.

He knew what this meant, if before that two hundred Germans could bring so much trouble to the Soviet army, then after replenishing five hundred people, there would be more than six hundred, and in addition to ammunition, would the Soviets still be able to capture the sandbar?

Khrushchev, who was next to him, also heard the content of the call, and he was stunned for a moment and said: "I will immediately send someone upstream to intercept it!" ”

"It's too late!" Yeremenko shook his head: "The Germans have already got what they need, six hundred, plus those supplies, and the ammunition we have in the warehouse...... They can defend for at least a week! ”

Yeremenko was right that Qin Chuan's firepower allocation for the newly joined German soldiers was to equip them with Bobosha submachine guns and turntable machine guns as much as possible.

In fact, the vast majority of these German soldiers reinforced from the oil barrels were submachine gunners, which was determined by the height of the oil drums, and it was impossible to turn around in the oil drums with a K98K, and even some soldiers did not even carry submachine guns with only a pistol, the reason is, of course, because the space in the oil drums was too narrow.

Therefore, these soldiers almost do not need training to use the Bobosha submachine gun, and only need to pay attention to the points under popular science.