The artillery fire was urgently summoned by Alexander, and some of the artillery was even the Soviet M1910 howitzer, which had to risk being deployed in Stalingrad to provide artillery reinforcements for the sandbar due to its range of only 7.7 kilometers.

They came in time, otherwise the sandbar where Qin Chuan and the others were stationed would have been lost under this charge.

"How's it going?" Alexander asked anxiously on the phone.

"Very bad!" Qin Chuan replied: "We have suffered thirty-three casualties, and now only one hundred and thirty-two people are fighting hard, and what is worse is because of the battle just now...... Our MP43 is running out of ammo! ”

This is indeed a serious problem.

Because a large part of the reason why Qin Chuan and others were able to block the Soviet army's charge with more than 100 people was MP43...... It had a range of 350 meters, while the east bank was just over 300 meters from the sandbar, which allowed the MP43 to suppress the covering fire of the Soviet troops on the east bank while shooting at high speed at close range, which gave the Germans a big advantage. This could not be done if it was replaced with the Bobosha submachine gun of the Soviet army.

After a pause, Qin Chuan continued: "If we don't get supplies and reinforcements, tomorrow the Soviets will pull out another attack like this, and we may not be able to resist it!" ”

What Qin Chuan said certainly makes sense.

Although tomorrow the Germans may still be able to rely on artillery fire to blow up the pontoon bridge, the problem is that the Soviets can temporarily suppress the German artillery with artillery fire. Then, as long as the Soviets had enough pontoons, make one or two ...... Each time, it only took a few dozen German troops or some ammunition to consume, and it would not take a few times for the German army to be wiped out.

"But we haven't opened a passage to the Volga yet!" Alexander replied regretfully.

Alexander meant that if the Germans reached the Volga, then they could cross the Volga to reinforce the sandbar.

But in fact, this is also unrealistic...... Not to mention that this passage could not be opened, even if it did, the Soviet army would deploy fire along the coast to block the river, unless the Germans had almost cleared the Soviet troops along the Stalingrad coast and even at the central ferry.

"You can use the weapons of the Soviets, Major!" Alexander reassured.

"Yes, we may have to!" Qin Chuan replied helplessly.

Everyone knows what the result will be...... The disparity in firepower would make it even worse for an already understaffed commando.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Chuan looked at the map and was stunned.

What to do? Neither troops nor ammunition can be obtained!

Now the Soviets are not attacking only because they have insufficient pontoon bridges.

Tomorrow, when they have built enough pontoons, it is clear that there will be an even more fierce charge!

Mine?

In this case, I am afraid that it is useless.

Fighter?

The role they can play is very limited, especially since the Soviets will deploy more and more anti-aircraft fire on the east coast, and German fighters will not be able to attack targets with confidence.

Qin Chuan was right, Yeremenko, who was in a hurry to capture the sandbar and rescue Stalingrad, even transferred a flying squadron to the east coast.

This squadron did not want to compete with the German airforce, but hoped to harass the Luftwaffe in order to cover the Soviet pontoon attack on the sandbank.

Artillery?

This may be useful, but even as previously stated, it may be suppressed by Soviet artillery.

So, after thinking about it, Qin Chuan thought that if he wanted to hold the sandbank, the only way to get troops and supplies was to get troops.

But again this seems impossible...... It was difficult for airdrops to drop supplies on this small sandbar, as did the Airborne Forces, and helicopter transports were blocked by anti-aircraft fire.

It was even more impossible on land, the sandbar was almost surrounded by Soviet troops, and there were almost no gaps except for a Volga River.

Wait, Volga!

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help jumping up from his chair, and immediately asked the correspondent to call Alexander.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said, "I need you to send me a reinforcement army!" ”

"But...... How to send? Alexander asked, confused.

"All this time, we blew up a lot of Soviet transport ships, especially these days, haven't we?"

"Yes!" Alexander replied: "To be exact, it was during the period when you occupied the sandbar that the Soviets even opened a few temporary crossings in the upper industrial area, but they were all destroyed by our air force!" ”

After a pause, Alexander asked, "But what does this have to do with our reinforcements?" ”

"I think ......," Qin Chuan said, "there will definitely be a lot of floating objects on the Volga, so that they will not have any suspicions about floating objects, such as oil drums!" ”

"Uh-huh!" Alexander asked rhetorically, "Why are they suspicious?" We also blew up a fuel transport ship yesterday, you know, there is still a part of the factory in Stalingrad that needs to be operated, and the Soviets have dozens of tanks! The river is full of oil drums......"

"That's the point, Colonel!" Qin Chuan interrupted Alexander's words.

"What?" Alexander still didn't understand what Qin Chuan meant.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "What if it is not oil that is in the oil drum, but people or ammunition? ”

Alexander couldn't help but let out an "oh" when he heard this, and then immediately said: "Good idea, Major!" Great, I see what you mean, I'll do it right away! ”

With that, Alexander immediately hung up the phone.

But after a while Alexander called again, apparently remembering something.

"How do they know they've reached their destination?" Alexander asked.

"We'll shoot flares!" Qin Chuan replied: "In addition, you have to roughly calculate the time, and so do we, and then we will send someone to meet you on the shore!" ”

"No problem!" Alexandria replied.

The method is actually very simple, which is to put people and supplies in oil drums and float down the river to the sandbar.

As for where to put these oil drums...... That was, of course, the Reynoch area occupied by the Germans upstream.

This can also be said to be a coincidence, because on the other side of the world, the same thing happened to the American and Japanese forces in the Pacific theater at this moment: the Japanese army was blockaded by the American army on Guadalcanal and could not be resupplyed, so the Japanese army came up with a solution: use destroyers to transport supplies to the vicinity of Kuah Island, and then throw the oil barrels with supplies into the sea, and the tide will carry these oil barrels to the island. The Japanese army called it the "Tokyo Express".

Now, Qin Chuan has used the same method in Shazhou.

The difference is only that the Japanese use the tides, while the Qinchuan uses the speed of the Volga.