German soldiers laid many of these "water mines" around the sandbar after dark, and they even wisely planted them in the shallow areas of the shore...... Cloth in the depths of the water will not work, because the enemy will not step on the bottom of the river but swim through.

Then things will be simple, these "water mines" will help the German army to be on alert, and the German army only needs to lay a few open and dark posts on duty on the coastline, and then they can go to sleep with confidence.

Compared to the mines laid on land, the mines in the water can be said to be almost undetectable: the mines buried in the ground can be slowly tested with bayonets, but these water mines are in the water, and the bottom of the water is full of stones, and it is impossible to distinguish between them.

So the results go without saying......

At one o'clock in the morning, the sound of gunfire, explosions, and the whistling of shells could be heard in the darkness.

Compared to other places, the Battle of Stalingrad was special in that it was almost uninterrupted, and the fighting lasted almost 24 hours a day, day or night.

This is also a characteristic of urban guerrilla warfare, which has no unified front and no clear boundaries, so the enemy and the enemy are staggered together and fight randomly, one side grabs a corner and the other side loses a wall, or one side occupies a room and then the enemy occupies a building.

By now, however, the situation was gradually developing in favor of the Germans.

Although now the Germans occupied the sandbar for only one day...... A day's time was not a big blow to Stalingrad's supply.

But the problem is that the news of the German occupation of the sandbar to cut off the supply of Soviet troops has already spread.

On the German side, Alexander and Paulus deliberately spread the word, and this was obviously a good opportunity to drum up the morale of the army, and they certainly would not give up.

The Soviets kept the news tightly tight, knowing that it would inevitably be a big blow to morale.

But news like this can't be blocked.

On the one hand, this is because the German army will conduct propaganda on the battlefield...... Holding a loudspeaker, he shouted at the opposite side: "Soldiers of the 62nd Army, we have occupied the sandbar and cut off your rear road, there is no point in resisting, you are doomed to failure......"

If German propaganda is not yet credible, then the Soviet artillery poured patches of shells on the sandbar as evidence.

If this does not mean anything, then the blockade by German artillery when the supply ships are docked is even more clear to the Soviet army This is a cruel truth.

Morale is a strange thing, it can't be seen or touched, but it's real.

It depends largely on ideological work or mobilization, but it also depends on the belief of the vast majority of soldiers who will win in the end.

If you believe that your side will win, you are more likely to hold on, and if you are not, you are more inclined to give up...... Because it can't change the outcome anyway, why waste your life to fight?

At first, the Soviets belonged to the latter, but under the call of Chuikov and the correct tactics, the Soviets turned to the former, but the Germans began to doubt themselves because they were not adapted to urban guerrilla warfare.

But at this moment, after Qin Chuan and others occupied the sandbar and seriously threatened Stalingrad's logistics, the whole situation changed again...... Everyone believed that the Germans would be victorious and the Soviets would lose, and even Chuikov could not change this.

As a result, the Germans became more and more courageous, and within one day they took two streets and marched to the central crossing, and even in the direction of Mamayev Gang, the Germans successfully entered the airfield defense line and engaged in a fierce battle with the Soviet army......

It should be said that the Soviet troops in the direction of the Mamayev Gang were the most affected by the loss of the sandbar, because after the loss of the sandbar, the defense of the Mamayev Gang has become a meaningless and unnecessary battle.

Qin Chuan didn't need to care about these things, all he wanted to know was when he would get another batch of reinforcements, after all, more than a hundred people defending the sandbar were still overstretched in terms of troops.

But the news is not encouraging.

"The enemy has strengthened the air defense of the river banks!" Alexander responded on the walkie-talkie: "At the same time, there are many suspicious people around our base, I believe that they are Soviet reconnaissance personnel or intelligence officers, as soon as our helicopter takes off, they will be prepared immediately!" ”

Qin Chuan knew the harm of this trick.

The Soviets may not be able to prepare because they can't predict the helicopters' flight paths, but there is a saying that "everything changes", and the final destination of these helicopters is a sandbank, so the Soviets don't need to make other preparations at all...... They only need to control the airspace above the sandbar with anti-aircraft fire.

And this is very easy to do, the sandbar is only more than 300 meters away from the east coast, just a few anti-aircraft machine guns, a few anti-aircraft guns can easily block this airspace from the east coast, not to mention that the helicopter needs to hover for a few minutes when the rope is landing...... At that time, the helicopter was afraid that it would not survive even the people and the plane.

So it will definitely not work to descend again, and other methods must be found.

"In two days, this problem may be solved!" Alexander said: "Because we have a detachment of troops that have already hit a position only a few tens of meters from the Volga!" ”

Qin Chuan responded, but he didn't dare to have much hope for this, because a few tens of meters was not a "little distance" for Stalingrad, because the advance speed of the German army was sometimes calculated in meters or even the number of corpses.

At this moment, an explosion suddenly came from outside the bunker.

The explosion was distinctly different from the explosion of an artillery shell, it was located near a sandbar, and at the same time it was dull and watery, apparently someone had triggered a "water mine".

Qin Chuan immediately put down the phone and ran along the traffic trench to the direction where the explosion came from.

Kuhn and a few soldiers had already arrived there first and set up their guns, and Qin Chuan ordered: "Flares!" ”

"Teng!" A flare rose into the air, and the originally dark river was immediately illuminated in snow, and a group of Soviet troops in the river were using the fragments of wooden boat wreckage and dead bodies floating on the river as cover in the hope of avoiding the eyes of the Germans.

But this effort of theirs was clearly in vain.

The reason was that the explosion site had drifted a bright red, and at the same time there was a flutter under the water, and it was obvious that the injured Soviet soldiers were struggling in pain.

"Mortar!" Qin Chuan ordered.

FIRED A 50MM MORTAR, AND A VOLLEY OF SHELLS IMMEDIATELY BLEW A DOZEN SOVIET SOLDIERS OUT OF THE WATER.

Seeing that they could not dodge, the Soviet soldiers had no choice but to jump out of the water with a shout and charge at the German positions.