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The indiscriminate bombardment by Italian bombers, although it stunned the Soviet troops in the city, also caused inevitable losses to the Spanish and German officers and soldiers who rushed into the city.
When these air force units sent by the Italian Expeditionary Force arrived over the city, they had no direction at all. They hurriedly exploded randomly and unloaded all the explosives they had carried, as if they were in a hurry to return.
Keep throwing bombs around.
"Frank! Let our people find a place to hide!" Lieutenant Lentep of the first company of the German teaching camp shouted to Second Lieutenant Frank: "It seems that the Italian bombers are coming, but they are simply blind. Even us and the Spanish
Everyone is going to explode!”
"My platoon has already found a bunker to avoid!" Frank was also very alert and immediately replied loudly to Lutep, who was only less than ten meters away from him: "Although it can't stop the Italian bombs, at any rate
Able to avoid being hit by debris!"
"Boom!" A bomb happened to explode on a building to the right of the two of them. The huge explosion shocked both of them.
What a danger! If the Italian bombers that dropped the bombs had dropped the bombs on the building next to them, or if their hands had shaken a little when they dropped the bombs, the Italians would probably have achieved the record of killing two German officers.
You know, if the Soviets wanted to kill two German officers of this level on a land battlefield, they would suffer an average of about a hundred casualties.
Italian bombers are still dropping bombs, and it seems that the bombs they carry this time are very sufficient.
This made Lieutenant Luntep extremely stressed for a while: "Damn, the advance was going well, but it was disrupted all because of the Italian bombing. Now I can't contact the other companies, and I don't know where the battalion commander is!"
Not to mention establishing contact with other companies in the training camp, Luntep now cannot even find all the soldiers in his own company.
At first, they were able to maintain the coordinated operations of each platoon, but the moment the Italian bombers started bombing, everything went into chaos.
The first ones to lose contact were the Spanish tank soldiers. At the beginning of the bombing, they were in disarray and rushed towards an unknown street.
Then, because they needed to find some cover and prevent excessive casualties from bombing, the German training camps had to spread out to reduce losses after being hit by bombs.
In this way, the chaos becomes more and more chaotic, and the scale of independent operations becomes smaller and smaller.
Even so, casualties continue to occur.
Under the bombing, the firepower of the Soviet troops in the city had already been weakened to the point of being negligible. This can be regarded as a positive effect of the bombing. If the Luftwaffe had carried out this bombing, the effect would have been very good.
Unfortunately, the Italian bombing not only weakened the Soviet firepower, but also weakened the firepower of the German and Spanish troops in the city.
The most annoying thing is that most of the wounded soldiers in the German training camp were accidentally injured by Italian bombings.
We can't continue to follow the crowd like this!
Lieutenant Luntep, who was unable to contact the main force, resolutely decided to complete the key tactical goal of this operation first - to capture the bridge in the city.
"Frank, take a few people and follow me to seize the bridge!" Lentep didn't care how many people he could gather. He had to take advantage of the chaos to attack the bridge, otherwise after they recovered, the Soviets also recovered. In that case, the attack would be
The bridge battle will be quite difficult.
Not caring about taking care of the wounded, Rentep and Frank took four German training camp soldiers who were still able to move. They drove three motorcycles in teams of two through the burning neighborhoods and went straight to Jess in the south of the city.
Breaking through the Nahe River Railway Bridge.
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"What to do! We have lost contact with the German teaching camp, do we need to retreat?" The Spanish armored battalion that entered the city with the teaching company is now fighting on its own. Their battalion commander even has the intention to retreat.
"Two officers in our battalion were accidentally injured by the Italian bombing. For this reason, we also lost two tanks." The Spanish battalion commander looked confused: "Now the German training camp does not know which direction to fight. Maybe we
It’s better to withdraw from the city and reorganize the attack. It’s better than staying here and being bombed by our allies. It’s so frustrating!”
"Wait a minute! Battalion Commander, there seem to be three German motorcycles ahead!" A Spanish second lieutenant suddenly spotted Luntep and his party passing in front of their battalion.
"Gather all the people in the battalion that can be gathered and follow them!" The battalion commander was also unambiguous. At this time, the German troops who appeared here must be from the teaching camp. There is nothing wrong with following the German troops in the teaching camp. Someone will lead the team.
It's easier to handle, and it's better than them running around like headless flies.
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North of the bridge over the Desna River.
"Ivan! Come and escape with us! These enemies are so ruthless, they dare to fight against such bombings! I estimate that the enemy troops rushing into the city are their death squads, deliberately guiding the planes to bomb
important goals of the city.”
"But, wouldn't their death squads also be bombed by their own planes?" The soldier named Ivan obviously didn't understand why this happened.
"You don't even understand this?!" the Soviet officer who reminded Ivan to avoid it laughed and said: "These demons from the Allies are beasts that are not afraid of death, especially the Germans. I heard that they will not even risk their lives in a war! This time they
Isn't it crazy enough to brave the bombing and attack the city?!"
That’s it! Ivan nodded his head after hearing this. He thought the enemy accidentally blew up one of his own, but it turned out that this was the tactic of the opponent’s death squad.
"Enemy situation!" Suddenly, a shrill scream broke the conversation between Ivan and the officer.
I saw three motorcycles in front, leading more than a dozen tanks, speeding towards the bridge.
The six soldiers wearing German helmets on the motorcycle were obviously the German soldiers they were just talking about.
Thinking of how unafraid and crazy the Germans were, daring to launch an attack despite such bombings, the defenders of the bridge felt frightened for a moment.
Within a few minutes, they broke up and scattered to avoid the charging German army.
Luntep and his party took advantage of the situation to speed up, leaving behind Frank and the German teaching company soldiers who passed by on his motorcycle. They got off the car and promptly eliminated the explosives left by the Soviets to blow up the bridge.
Spanish tanks rushed across the bridge and captured the bridgehead on the south bank.
Subsequently, Mora directed the main force of the Spanish Armored Division to drive across the bridge in a mighty manner and advance further south.
The next day, the Spanish Armored Division successfully joined forces with the German 1st Armored Group and established an outer encirclement net.
Two days later, the Italian Black Shirt Army captured Priluki on the Uday River, an important transportation town, cutting off the Soviet rear channel and completing the inner encirclement.
