The Bug River Railway Bridge, where the fiercest hand-to-hand combat after the outbreak of the war broke out! The Germans attacked the bridge by an assault engineer regiment of the 12th Army (this is not an engineer who can only bury explosives and clear mines, but an assault engineer whose attack power far exceeds that of ordinary infantry units at close range!). ), and reinforced with a tank battalion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Within a few minutes, the positions of the Red Army stationed in the temporary garrison area on the east side of the bridge were subjected to devastating shelling, with hundreds of shells and rockets falling on the bridgehead area of less than 30,000 square meters. The bridge was the only way for the Warsaw-Moscow railway, and the German military was sure to win it: only by occupying it could it ensure the smooth flow of transportation, and the two sides fought for control of the bridge regardless of casualties!

After covering the shelling, the Germans, led by a tank company, rushed up to the bridge with the help of assault engineers: just now they had seen the terrifying shelling on the other side of the river, and everything in the area of the bridgehead on the opposite side had been blown into the sky, and nothing could stop them from taking the bridge.

At the moment when the tank was halfway to the bridge, several strange munitions with red tail flames flew towards the rapidly charging Germans, the explosion tore through the tank's armor, and the most terrifying thing was the screams of the sappers on both sides when they were hit by scattered shrapnel and small red clicks - the people on the side could even smell the smell of barbecue!

The German offensive was immediately blocked on the bridge, and they did not think that the bridgehead position, which was no longer free of any heavy weapons such as anti-tank guns in direct sight, could pose a threat to their tank columns!

Just a few dozen meters away from the German army, the surviving soldiers of the Border Guard, who had been hidden in the bunker, came out of the ruins and blocked the German attack with all the weapons they could find. Burning tanks blocked access to the bridge, and German sappers rushed forward along the rails and steel beams, welcoming them with a dense barrage of machine-gun bullets.

The German sappers, who were so pressed that they couldn't raise their heads, wondered a little: how could there be so many machine guns? None of the opponent's firing points were single-shot rifles, and although there were not many points of resistance, the dense burst fire made it a luxury to cross the bridge quickly!

Just a few minutes after the stalemate, the aid forces in the rear of the East Bank arrived!

When a reinforced infantry company arrived at the bridgehead, it was shocked by the situation at the scene, and the soldiers, completely ignoring the German fire, rushed to the bridge with a platoon of sharp knives and engaged the Germans.

All the fortifications on the east bank had been destroyed, and a young soldier was lying behind a section of railroad tracks that had been blown off, his assault rifle empty, and several empty magazines thrown on the side.

The reinforced infantry saw that the soldier's left leg was only half of it, and tried to drag him down, and in the darkness the soldier's blackened face seemed to smile at his comrades and then closed his eyes forever. A soldier turned his body over on his stomach - there was a big hole in his stomach, and his intestines had been pulled out!

At this moment, the artillery of the fortress launched a counterattack, and the fierce artillery fire whistled and flew to the German positions on the west side of the bridge, and the branches that blew up all hit the heads of the Red Army soldiers on the east bank!

"Retreat two hundred meters! Retreat two hundred meters! The herald shouted like madness at the commander of the support force.

"What?!" The company commander was already red-eyed, and he couldn't listen to it at all!

"I'm going to blow up the bridge! Evacuate! ”

At this time, the company commander could not continue to hold the position of the bridgehead, and the original secret order included a plan to blow up the bridge, but it was not to use explosives - this was a trade bridge, it was impossible to plant explosives under the bridge, and heavy artillery would be used to bombard the bridge.

The accuracy of this shell is not comparable to the explosives of "fixed-point blasting", and a careless person can also serve his own people!

Less than 200 meters after the reinforcements had withdrawn with the wounded on their backs, the German artillery on the west bank again launched an artillery bombardment on the bridgehead, and the whistling shells exploded violently in the bridgehead area - if the reinforcements had not withdrawn, there was basically no chance of surviving under such a heavy shelling!

The Red Army commanders and fighters lying on the ground heard the screams of the air being torn apart, and the sound even drowned out the loud sound of the explosion of a 105-mm grenade, like a high-speed train driving close to itself - "Fortress guns!" ”

The fortress command knew very well that there were no fortifications strong enough on the east side of the railway bridge over the Bug River to withstand German artillery fire. Zavrilov, the commander of the fortress, had already planned for this important building that the Germans were aiming for: if the Germans launched a large-scale attack, the first task of the five 380-mm Morser M16/L17 mortars in the eastern fortress would be to destroy the railway bridge!

At the same time as the German artillery bombardment, the heavy mortar operation of the eastern fortress was turned around: in a huge artillery battery protected by a reinforced concrete structure, shirtless (do not be surprised, a common phenomenon for super-heavy gunners). The gunners stuffed a 740-kilogram high-explosive shell through the track into the chamber as quickly as possible!

The first round of German shelling was not focused on the eastern forts, and the preparation of the heavy artillery battalions for firing did not suffer much - even if the Germans smashed the shells on the top of the batteries, it was fine, unless the German shells were as large as MorserM16/L17 mortars! This is the main firing position of the mortar, the battery is protected by a reinforced concrete structure with a thickness of more than 2 meters, and the independent electricity and artificial emergency mobile device can ensure that the cannon can move out of the bunker and into the firing turntable or into the reserve position as soon as possible.

"Target One! Ready for launch! "The guns were tens of meters apart, but they were ready to fire almost at the same time. More than a year of training was not in vain, and the members of the artillery crew were well-trained. The parameters of shelling of all important targets near Brest have long been documented, like the railway bridge is less than 3 km away, and the effect of shelling is no different from hitting a kettle with a rifle in a room.

"Attention of the whole battalion, from one to five, with an interval of 3 seconds, put!" In fact, no one could hear the battalion commander's shouting, but all that was needed was to look at the signal flag.

The 380-mm cannon roared, and the shells whistled at a wide angle towards the railway bridge amid the earth-shattering shelling.

One, two, three, four, five!

The Red Army soldiers hiding on the east bank of the bridge saw an unforgettable sight: the fortified railway bridge was hit by heavy shells one after another, and the bridge was scattered like paper paste in the violent explosion.

After 15 seconds, the sturdy Bug River railway bridge no longer exists!

The artillery positions of the German artillery for the shelling of the railway bridge had already been detected at the shelling observation post on the church tower, and the observation post reported to the special rocket artillery battalion the shelling parameters - 36 132-mm rocket launchers of the 8-track БМ-13 type (16 rounds, two rounds above and below each track). Already unfolded, at the command of the commander Major Ivan Andreyevich Ferelov to "fire a whole battalion salvo", the M-13 rocket, dragging a long flaming projectile, flew over the Bug River with a clear trajectory.

The whole night sky was lit up by the light of the rockets, and the Red Army soldiers who held their positions, although most of them did not know what was whizzing behind them, understood that it had smashed into the heads of the Germans, and their morale was greatly boosted!

The sky was red, and 576 rockets swept through the German positions like a storm of steel, and the artillery observers from above did not expect such a spectacular sight in the salvo of rocket artillery, and the scene in the artillery mirror made him even more excited! In fact, anyone who is high enough can see with the naked eye the spectacular scene that is taking place 8 kilometers away - a huge area is exploding and burning, like the next metal storm in the sky, and that area should be flattened!

"Retreat to the reserves!" Major Fellelov, at the same time as the rockets were fired, gave the order, and the ЗИС-6 truckers of the battalion "drove and ran" in the order that had already been drilled many times - if the Germans were not stupid, soon the German artillery would have shelled their positions fiercely!

Fifteen minutes after the start of the battle, there was not a single living German on the entire front of the Brest fortress area on the east bank of the Bug River, which made the German commander unbelievable! What's even worse is that the firepower of the fortress artillery far exceeded their own expectations, and even more fierce than their own!

In just 10 minutes, 10 of the 12 artillery detachments of the Germans were subjected to retaliatory shelling, and the artillerymen suffered heavy losses. The two "Karl" giant mortars, which were secret weapons, were subjected to covering shelling after firing a single shell, and the entire position was completely destroyed. The Soviet shell was also hitting a shell transporter, which happened to stop next to the huge "Karl", and the detonated two 600-mm concrete-destroying shells made the tracked transporter disappear without a trace, and the "Karl" was blown into a pile of scrap metal!

It was estimated that a bridgehead would be built to cross the river in 15 minutes, but now it seems that it was a fool's dream - the troops storming the Terespol Gate were subjected to a hellish scene, and the German soldiers were faced not only with the roaring of large-caliber shells and a dense barrage of machine-gun bullets, but also with an overwhelming barrage of rapid-fire artillery shells!

Just a few hundred meters on the west bank of the Bug River in front of the Terespol Gate, two German infantry battalions that were hiding and waiting were crippled in 5 minutes by the rapid-fire guns fired wildly in the fortifications of the fortress on the opposite side of the riverbank! Even the dense woods have become bald!

The Soviets didn't care about ammunition at all, they actually equipped a large number of anti-aircraft guns in the fortifications on the city walls, and the most terrible thing was that these anti-aircraft guns could shoot at large depression angles! The German 37-mm and 75-mm anti-tank guns specially prepared for the destruction of fortifications were still basically there, but the gunners had already fallen near the gun emplacements - the overwhelming anti-aircraft shells made it a hell on earth, and the cannon shields, large frames, high and low machines..... could see the minced flesh of the human body everywhere!

Now the Germans understood: in front of them it was not a fortress, it was a monster that ate human flesh and blood! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )