In a way, Petronorev was right, because now the situation was moving towards the unfavorable side of the German army...... Everything came too quickly, or the Soviets prepared for the offensive and kept it secret, and the Germans did not expect that the Soviets would attack the Lovady line in this way of building bridges with engineering troops.

That is, the Germans were taken by surprise by the Soviet troops.

The main thing is the threat from those engineering vehicles...... Therefore, it is also said that in offensive and defensive battles, sometimes engineering vehicles are more threatening than tanks.

The Germans wanted to blow up the engineering vehicle with a grenade, but the bridge erection vehicle below was supported by the tank chassis, and the upper layer was a steel frame structure that was wide and strong, enough for dozens of tons of tanks to move on top (note: the T34 tank was 32 tons), and the grenade could not pose a threat to it at all.

Several soldiers threw grenades at the construction truck, which had the effect of shaking the bridge deck on the construction truck.

Some German soldiers threw the explosives packets, but the explosives packs were with a time-delay fuse, which quickly made the Soviet soldiers lying on the bridge deck and following the construction vehicles to throw them away.

There were also German soldiers who wanted to blow it up with bazookas, but the bazooka shooters at high places could not hit the main body of the engineering vehicle at such an angle, at most they made a few holes in the bridge deck with their metal jets, and this did not even affect the enemy at all.

Soviet soldiers poured up in droves from under the defensive line.

Since the Lovaj defense line is only twenty meters away from the drop line...... This was due to the previous defensive needs, where German soldiers could easily throw grenades, explosive packets and other explosives into the drop line to prevent the Soviets from climbing.

But now this distance became the fatal weakness of the German army: as soon as the Soviet army climbed up, it was only twenty meters away from the German army, and even worse in this case, the Soviet army could throw grenades while the Germans could not throw grenades...... Unless the grenades thrown by the Germans are exactly about 20 meters, they will slide down the slope behind the drop line and will not pose a threat to the current Soviet army.

To make matters worse, Soviet tanks "rumble" on the bridge deck and will come up at any time.

"Anti-tank guns!" Qin Chuan shouted.

The crew immediately dragged out the only anti-tank, and they began to work without thinking, as they had done in countless previous exercises, with gunners No. 1 and No. 2 holding the wheels in place, gunners No. 3 and No. 4 separating the large racks, and aiming hands lowering the barrels to a horizontal position to adjust the range. The loaders opened the breech and the bolts, and several porters brought boxes of shells out of the cellar and placed them next to the anti-tank guns.

One of the sergeants gave a loud order: "Straight ahead, a range of a hundred meters, tanks ...... Fire! ”

A T34 tank just "rumbled" up from the bridge deck and exposed its weakest belly to the anti-tank guns, so it only heard a "boom", and a large hole was blown open in the belly of the tank, and the tank trembled like a frightened monster and then stopped.

Anti-tank guns or bazookas can be effective at attacking tanks at this point, and they can even block an inclined plane after damaging an enemy tank, making it impossible for subsequent troops to attack.

The problem was that there were too many Soviets, like ants, who were constantly pressing towards the German defense line from the defensive line, throwing grenades at the Germans, or holding the Bobosha submachine gun in their hands while charging wildly, and then more than a dozen Soviet fighters joined the battle group in the air and bombarded the German positions indiscriminately.

"Captain!" Gerhard shouted at Qin Chuan while shooting at the enemy with his pistol: "We can't stop it, retreat!" ”

"No, you can't retreat!" Qin Chuan replied.

Gerhard was inexperienced, and in this case, that is, when the distance between the enemy and us was only about 20 meters, he must not retreat, otherwise the group of Soviet troops like wolves would immediately catch up from behind and wipe out all the German troops.

"So what else can we do?" Gerhard asked.

Qin Chuan didn't hesitate any longer, and responded loudly: "Counterattack!" ”

"What?" Gerhard didn't hear clearly, or perhaps couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Counterattack!" Qin Chuan ordered: "Only by launching a counter-charge to defeat them can we have a way to live, understand?" ”

"Yes, Captain!" Then Gerhard did not hesitate any longer, and he gave a loud order: "Everyone, forward, rush!" ”

"Rush!"

……

The German soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the Soviets, and they didn't even have time to use their bayonets, it was a random charge that broke out suddenly.

But the facts proved that Qin Chuan was right.

In this case, the Germans had no advantage at all, and were even at a disadvantage because of the problem of grenades.

It stands to reason that the Germans should try to avoid hand-to-hand combat with the Soviet army, not only because the German army has few troops, but also because the Soviet army is used to fighting in the snow, especially since the Soviet Northwestern Front is still transferred from Siberia, where the cold is the worst. In addition, the quality of the German army was generally superior to that of the Soviet army...... Many of the soldiers of the Soviet army were directly converted from civilians, and many did not even need to pick up the rifles in the hands of their fallen comrades in front of them to fight.

Therefore, hand-to-hand combat was clearly not cost-effective for the German army.

But there are exceptions to everything.

The first is that hand-to-hand combat is unavoidable in this situation.

Secondly, the Soviets had planes in the air, tanks on the ground, and Makmi machine guns and mortars in the distance to suppress them. And the Germans had nothing...... If anything, it was a few captured tanks hiding in the rubble, but because they did not have air supremacy, these tanks did not dare to show their faces at all (when they appeared, they were either blown up by Soviet artillery fire or chased by their fighters).

In this case, it is a good choice to take the initiative to initiate hand-to-hand combat, because when the two armies are mixed together, the Soviet planes, tanks and Makmi will not be able to play a role, especially when the Soviet army is still in a low place and the German army is in a high place, especially if the feet are still on smooth snow......

"Rush!" Qin Chuan shouted, holding his rifle and rushing forward with the troops.

The Soviet soldiers in front of them obviously did not expect the Germans to take the initiative to meet them, and it seemed that they had just finished shooting their own bullets, and they were at a loss for a moment and did not know how to face them...... As mentioned earlier, the quality of Soviet soldiers was generally poor, and they lacked the ability to react quickly in times of crisis.

Qin Chuan rushed forward as fast as he could, then picked up the butt of his rifle and smashed it the chest of the Soviet soldier, transmitting all the momentum to him.