Cavalry did have the advantage of being fast and powerful on the battlefield, but this was only before cold weapons or machine guns appeared.

Machine guns as soon as they appeared...... Weaknesses such as the cavalry's tall targets and poor survivability were exposed.

War horses seem to be able to block a few bullets, but the problem is that the horse is a living creature, and when it is hit by a bullet, it will be injured, painful and even dead, and worse, the result of the horse's injury will often make the rider incapacitated or even die.

Therefore, this class of troops that has dominated the battlefield for centuries is destined to be eliminated by the battlefield.

Just like now, as soon as Colonel Slein gave the order, the Germans rained down bullets on the 63rd Soviet Cavalry Division.

Suddenly, the shells exploded indiscriminately in the Soviet cavalry group, and the shrapnel that flew in a radial shape everywhere caused the war horse to neigh for a while, and the riders continued to fall off the horse's back, and I don't know if it was because the war horse was frightened and lifted off its owner, or was hit by shrapnel...... The shrapnel of the shells spread from low to high, and the Soviet soldiers on horseback would increase the probability of being hit by shrapnel due to their higher position.

Occasionally, a few large-caliber guns smashed up, blasting the Soviet cavalry into the sky.

Rows of bullets flew in front of the position, and clusters of earth flowers were lifted on the soft ground, and then extended to the war horses behind them......

There was a sad neigh, and the war horse rushed out of blood and fell to the ground, because of the extremely fast running speed, the war horse almost turned over and fell to the ground again, and of course the cavalry was thrown out hard. Even if he didn't die, he would be trampled into a pulp by the heavy hooves that followed.

The most tragic is the Katyusha rocket artillery...... The model of this rocket artillery in the Soviet Army at this time was the BM13 multi-track rocket launcher (note: the initial model used a track instead of a tube).

IT HAS A TOTAL OF 8 PARALLEL LAUNCH SLIDES, AND CAN FIRE 16 ROUNDS OF 132MM ROCKETS IN ONE SALVO...... The track is a railroad track-like "work" character, with one round on the top and one on the bottom, which can fire a rocket salvo in 7 to 10 seconds.

The Germans found 10 of these rockets in the warehouses of the Soviet army, and at this time, 160 rockets were fired in one breath, and a wall of fire was blown up in front of the position in an instant.

But the Soviet cavalry did not flinch, they still shouted and charged forward, and in the process they also had to show their horsemanship to leap over or avoid the corpses of the horses that fell to the ground.

Even so, the charge of the Soviet cavalry got bogged down at about two hundred meters...... The speed of progress was almost the same as that of death, and they could not advance another half a minute.

The reason why it was 200 meters, Qin Chuan thought that this might be due to the heavy use of Bobosha submachine guns by German soldiers...... The range of this thing is barely 250 meters, and it is much less powerful than the MP43's intermediate round.

That is, the Germans had not actually exerted their full combat effectiveness, otherwise the Soviet cavalry would not have been able to rush into this distance at all.

In fact, even if these cavalry were able to storm into the city, it would be a dead end...... A tank was parked in the middle of the street to defend it, and unless their horse could hit the tank, there was little room for the horses to move.

So, under the light of almost uninterrupted flares, one by one the war horses fell in the rain of bullets, and soon the battlefield was full of the corpses of war horses and the cries and struggles of wounded war horses.

However, to the confusion of the Germans, the Soviets did not seem to care about this, and soon after the failure of the first charge, a second wave of the attack was launched.

"Are they crazy?" Eberhard held up the binoculars and watched for a moment, and exclaimed, "What's the difference between them doing this and committing suicide?" ”

"Maybe!" Qin Chuan said: "They think that the first time will not work and the second time will be fine, so there may be a third or fourth ......."

Qin Chuan was right, after the second wave of charges was repulsed, there was a third wave of charges.

Only the third wave of the charge was somewhat different: the Soviet infantry rushed up from behind the cavalry.

This was a creative way of charging, as the tall figures of the cavalry would have blocked the infantry behind them, and the Germans would not have been able to spot the infantry for a while if it had not been for the flares that had gone far.

On the other hand, these infantry can use the corpses of their horses as cover when charging...... The corpses of the war horses in front of the position have been piled up to a distance of more than 100 meters in front of the German trenches, and they are stacked and intertwined like trenches, plus the blood on the ground can provide natural protective colors for those Soviet troops, which will indeed cause some trouble for the Germans in this dark night.

So the Soviet cavalry charge finally came to an end, after all, the infantry scattered on the position would hinder the cavalry charge.

But the battle did not stop because of this, and immediately switched to infantry combat mode...... In fact, it was much more difficult to deal with the infantry than the cavalry, because the infantry knew how to hide themselves and at the same time had some flexible tactical movements, which made the German soldiers suddenly unable to adapt.

A regiment of the 9th Mountain Division, which charged towards the Germans...... In fact, it could not be simply said that the 9th Mountain Division was mixed with other troops that had been withdrawn, and because it was difficult to organize in the night, they were all sent up.

The 9th Mountain Division was a mountain division formed earlier by the Soviet Army.

The Soviet mountain division was not professional, and because of the heavy casualties of the front-line troops and the urgent need for troops, the mountain division was often organized into an infantry division and put into the front, and the 9th mountain division was not withdrawn on the one hand because of the importance of mountain operations in the Caucasus and the fact that it had not participated in the battle...... There is a tradition in the Soviet army that units that have lost several battles on the battlefield are likely to be withdrawn.

The 9th Mountain Division in history was withdrawn because of its poor performance in the Caucasus campaign...... In fact, this cannot be blamed on the 9th Mountain Division, but the German Mountain Division is very well trained, and the German Mountain Division has a team composed of professional rock climbers, who always use ropes and other tools to climb over dangerous peaks and suddenly appear in the rear of the Soviet checkpoint, so they defeated the Soviet army again and again.

As a result, the 9th Mountain Division was withdrawn and converted into an infantry division, and the number was given to the 20th Mountain Division, which performed well.

Of course, the situation is a little different at this time.

Because the Germans bypassed the Caucasus Mountains, the 9th Mountain Division was used as an infantry division before it could show its mountain skills.

This unit is obviously somewhat combat-ready compared to other Soviet troops...... Although they have no combat experience, they are well-trained, which can be seen in the tactical movements of their charges and the coordination between them.

But even so, what the Soviet army did was still useless.

Because, on the other side of them, Manstein had already led the main forces to launch a general offensive against the Soviet army head-on.