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In addition to the defenders in the nearby area, the reinforcements from other places, especially the armored troops, were difficult to arrive on a large scale within two days due to the difficult roads caused by the aerial bombardment of the Ming army.

In this situation, Bock strengthened his conviction to recapture the bridgehead position as soon as possible. Because he knew that once the Ming army used this place as a starting position to carry out an attack, it would be an extremely disadvantageous thing for the defense of the entire Prague area.

The stubborn resistance of the Ming army during the day also gave Bock the illusion that the Ming army wanted to hold the bridgehead and launch a fierce attack after the arrival of the armored forces. Therefore, feeling that time was pressing, Bock mobilized his army group reserves and threw himself into battle on the night of 8 June.

The fierce fighting between the two sides during the night was extremely fierce. The fires caused by the war could not be extinguished even by heavy rain. Wave after wave of officers and soldiers were thrown into the battlefield, and many young lives quickly disappeared on this battlefield.

While the battle was in full swing on the bridgehead positions in the city of Prague, a large army had quietly assembled in the area of Husinez on the opposite side of the river from the town of Roztoki, about ten kilometers north of Prague.

This is an operational group consisting of two infantry divisions and more than a dozen armored battalions. Its commander was Lieutenant General Sun Ren, commander of the 357th Infantry Division directly under the 33rd Infantry Army of the Ming Army, and this combat cluster was also named Sun Ren Cluster.

At half past three o'clock in the morning of June 9, fierce fighting was in full swing in the city of Prague. Sun Ren's combat cluster began to sort.

More than 1,000 Ming army engineers drove a large number of construction machinery vehicles and rushed towards the Vltava River. These brave Ming sappers were to erect pontoon bridges over the river under German fire so that the Ming army's heavy machinery and equipment could cross the Vltava River.

At the same time, thousands of Ming officers and soldiers also rushed to the Vltava River with kayaks on their shoulders, preparing for a forced crossing operation.

The German troops on the opposite side were quickly awakened, and rows of flares were shot into the sky, and even in such a rainy night, the German sentries could still see in horror the dense Ming troops on the opposite side like a moving ant colony.

The sound of artillery rang out, and after the terrible sound of artillery bombardment, the powerful cannonballs smashed into the attack queue of the Ming army. Soon, the Ming troops in the nearby circle fell to the ground.

Gunfire rang out, and about a battalion of German soldiers stationed on a large sandbar in the Vltava River, the main target of the Ming army, quickly set up machine guns and fired long chains of bullets mixed with dazzling tracer bullets at the opposite bank.

The incandescent bullet chain disappeared into the ranks of the Ming army, and rows of Ming soldiers fell in pools of blood, and the wounded howled bitterly, shouting the names of the medics. However, this kind of resistance could not stop the Ming army's advance.

Because the fierce fighting near the bridgehead was carried out very fiercely, the Germans suffered heavy losses. As a result, Bock had to draw troops from nearby areas to the battlefield in the city of Prague. The Germans, who were originally stationed in the vicinity of the town of Roztoki, had about one infantry division, which was not weak in strength although it was not weak.

However, because Bock sent a main infantry regiment from here to the city of Prague to fight for the bridgehead position, the German army defending here at this time was left with only two infantry regiments and some auxiliary forces, with a total strength of only about 8,000 men.

And the number of Ming troops they faced was close to 50,000! Moreover, the Ming army also has a strong artillery and armored force, once the Ming army successfully erects a pontoon bridge to drive the armored troops over, the German resistance will be beaten into powder.

When the Germans began to resist, the Ming artillery also moved quickly. The artillery units, much more powerful than the Germans, smashed swarms of shells through the rain curtain like meteors on the opposite bank of the German positions. The huge spots of light that are constantly rising up reflect almost the entire earth.

The brave and fearless Ming officers and soldiers rushed into the Vltava River, threw the kayaks they carried on their shoulders into the water, and a group of people immediately jumped on it.

The Heavy quickly set up a general-purpose machine gun in the bow of the ship, loaded the chain and immediately fired suppressively at the opposite direction. The other officers and soldiers waved their sapper shovels and gun butts vigorously, and rowed desperately in the river with all their might, trying to reach the opposite bank as soon as possible.

The German garrison here was a third-rate infantry division, which was basically a few urgently conscripted soldiers. Naturally, their gear doesn't have too many bright colors.

The artillery of this German infantry division was less than a hundred, even with mortars. Naturally, this kind of firepower could not withstand the strong attack of the Ming army. What's more, the Ming army had a strong artillery firepower, and they quickly suppressed the German firepower on the opposite bank in the artillery fire.

The German machine guns and rifles on the position went into battle together, shooting a dense rain of bullets at the Ming army's charging troops in the river, bringing considerable losses to the Ming army. If the rubber boat is targeted by a machine gun and a shuttle bullet, it is basically difficult for the entire boat to be spared.

Many Ming officers and soldiers were hit by a dense rain of bullets or rubber boats were destroyed by fire when they forcibly crossed the river, and the officers and soldiers fell into the river screaming. Many Ming officers and soldiers who were fully loaded with equipment were drowned because they fell into the water and could not break free in time. However, the number of Ming troops was too much.

The Ming army of the first attack wave dispatched two regiments of more than 6,000 officers and men, and hundreds of rubber boats crossed the Vltava River like a school of fish. More than ten minutes later, the first wave of Ming troops landed on the sandbar in the center of the river.

A rubber boat of the Ming army had just rushed ashore, and before the officers and men had time to disembark, a German heavy machine gun not far away had already strafed the dense fire. Under the rain of bullets, more than a dozen Ming officers and soldiers on board were either killed or wounded. Blood instantly stained the entire dinghy red.

However, the Ming army was not intimidated by the huge casualties, and one rubber boat after another rushed onto the sandbar. The artillery support in the rear was also very good, and even in the dark and rainy night, it was able to accurately send shells to the German positions. When hundreds of Ming officers and soldiers rushed into the German positions regardless of casualties, the situation on the battlefield was immediately reversed.

The officers and men of the Ming Dynasty used close combat weapons, submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, which were not highly accurate, but they were unscrupulous killing weapons in the trenches. The Ming officers and men who rushed into the German position pulled the trigger and fired a dense rain of bullets towards the Germans. And the Mauser 98K rifle, which the Germans were mainly equipped with, could hardly play its role in this environment.

The Mauser 98K rifle has a high accuracy of shooting, but it is a bolt-action rifle that requires a pull on the bolt of the gun when firing. This rate of fire is at most a kill of one person when the two sides face each other, and the enemy behind can lie down on the spot with a shuttle of bullets.

Moreover, although the Mauser 98K rifle has a bayonet, the barrel is also very long, which is suitable for fighting bayonet combat. However, the German army was actually an army that emphasized the supremacy of firepower like the Ming army. In fact, they did not pay much attention to the training of fighting bayonets, and it was difficult for them to give full play to their strengths in fighting bayonets when facing the Ming army.

Moreover, not to mention that the Ming army basically used bullets to solve problems, even if the Ming army gave up its strengths and fought with the Germans with bayonets, it was not necessarily lost. The Ming army's use of sharp sapper shovels and head-smashing grenades was equally powerful, and the Germans might not be able to gain the upper hand if they really fought together.

Twenty minutes later, a battalion of German infantry stationed on the sandbar was wiped out. The Ming army successfully occupied this important stronghold.

With the cover of the sandbar, the sappers in the rear immediately set up the pontoon bridge faster. And as the artillery observers came to the sandbar, the powerful artillery fire of the Ming army destroyed one German position after another with accurate artillery bombardment. This greatly reduced the losses of the Ming army, and at the same time accelerated their speed.

By half-past four in the morning, the Ming infantry had successfully rushed to the German positions on the other side of the Vltava River and engaged the defenders in a fierce firefight. The engineering troops, after intense busyness, have succeeded in erecting two steel pontoon bridges leading from the shore to the sandbar.

The impatient Ming armored troops, who had been waiting for a long time, couldn't wait to drive onto one of the pontoon bridges, and roared the tanks up the sandbar to fire directly at the opposite bank. The Ming army sappers took various equipment and used another pontoon bridge to quickly erect another section of the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank.

The appearance of the Ming armored forces made the German commanders stationed on the opposite side aware of the seriousness of the situation. Again, they sent a telegram to General Bock asking for reinforcements at once.

By this time, however, Bock, who had already put his reserves into the bridgehead battle, had no troops left to support the defenders of Roztoki.

In fact, as early as when the Ming army had just launched an attack, the defenders of Roztoki had already sent a telegram to Bock asking for help, and Bock was aware of the menacing Ming army at that time. But the strength in his hands has already been put into battle, or he is holding on to the important defensive lines everywhere. By this time he had no reserves.

In desperation, Bock could only transfer some troops from the vicinity of Roztoki to support, and at the same time collected a group of guard troops, baggage troops, staff officers, signal corps and even medical soldiers in his own headquarters to go to Roztoki again for reinforcements. At the same time, he began to do his best to prepare for the transfer of troops from the battlefield.

Bock's response was not slow, but it was too late for this emergency measure. How could the long-planned offensive of the Ming army be so easily blocked? With the determination to break the cauldron and sink the boat, Lu Mo had already come to the front line of Rodtoki to personally direct the battle. Even the incomparably important bridgehead battlefield was not taken care of. (To be continued.) )