He had just seen that the five Germans who had been let go had already run to the bridge, been captured by the German defenders, and then taken back directly. There was no need to worry about these "messengers" being bombed to death anymore!
There are still more than ten seconds left.
Rechev ordered loudly; "Prepare the rocket launcher! Last ten seconds!"
Ten seconds passed quickly. The rocket launcher tightened his grip on the rope bolt. After they heard the battalion commander's words "fire", they pulled the rope bolt hard.
There was a crisp roar, violent smoke clouds poured out from the tail nozzle, and two white dragons flew towards the bridgehead of the railway bridge at a speed of more than 170 meters per second! Then, there were two violent explosions.
At the same time, the Soviet army launched artillery attacks from four directions!!!
70mm grenades, 45mm high-explosive bombs, they use ground-level ammunition to bombard the city aimlessly.
It has to be said that concrete buildings can withstand bombardment very well, and only the ultra-high pressure created by thermobaric bombs can crush them.
The total energy of the hundreds of artillery shells the Soviet army planned to launch was not high, and the method of achieving damage mainly relied on fragmentation. Even so, it was enough. The Soviet army achieved good results in the first round of shelling.
The entire city of Loyev has a total population of 1,200 people, including 1,000 soldiers. Of the more than 100 people who were thrown out of the city, there were only more than 800 defenders.
Among them, the German army had rich combat experience, with only about 300 troops left. Those puppet troops were a group of weak combatants. The German officers simply did not believe that these people could fight against the regular Soviet army.
At the last moment, the German army learned from the soldiers who escaped that the expedition team had suffered a disaster at the train wreckage. The German army had no time to take further precautions, and the artillery shell hit its head!
For a moment, the small city of Loev was filled with thick smoke.
The rising smoke did not interfere with the artillery, because the artillery had one target - the entire city of Loyev. They did not need to deliberately aim at anything, they only needed to fire the prepared artillery shells in the direction of the city.
It was only one kilometer from the Soviet ambush to the edge of the city of Loev. When faced with the artillery fire, the German machine gunners tolerated it. Most of the German soldiers were lying in the trenches, while the puppet troops were attacking.
They fled towards the city center one after another.
The main casualties caused by the shelling came from this group of fleeing puppet troops. More than fifty people died on the spot and more than a hundred were injured.
Each gun fired ten rounds in a row, causing the top floors of many buildings in the city to collapse, along with a group of German machine gunners lying on the roofs. Regardless of whether they were dead or alive, their bodies must have been buried under the rubble!
The most brutal bombardment came not from the right bank of the river, but from those rocket launchers on the left bank!
The power of Catfish rockets was equivalent to that of two 152mm heavy howitzers. Reichev ordered to fire six of them, with only one focus of the attack - the German bridgehead.
After all, Reichev received a direct order from the army headquarters to blow up the railway bridge after the battle started. To implement this plan, the bridgehead must first be captured.
As a result, those two concrete bunkers became the targets of the Soviet army's most powerful firepower.
Under the devastating bombardment of six rocket launchers, the German army's proud defenses, together with the defenders and machine guns inside, were blown more than a hundred meters into the sky along with huge smoke clouds, and then shattered into massive fragments.
Fall into the water.
The Soviet artillery fire gradually subsided, and the smoke caused by the bombardment became larger and larger. The city seemed to be burning!
The most terrifying thing was the east exit of the railway bridge. The more than 20 defenders here were wiped out in the first place. The smoke and dust created a fog of war for a while, and Reichev didn't know for a while how effective the shelling was.
He decided to stand still, let the smoke dissipate a little, and then start the bridge bombing operation again.