Shulka understood at that time the reason why the Germans poured artillery shells into the central fortress instead of the Kobrin Fortress... That hateful instructor, he told the Germans the entire plan, and he betrayed everyone.
Shulka's guess was correct, and the German army urgently used two 600mm mortars.
Colonel Lucas even couldn't help but praise when he heard this plan: "Who said those Ivans don't know tactics and only know how to fight? This is a perfect plan. If there hadn't been a traitor among them, we would have
We must successfully escape from our encirclement!"
Colonel Lucas was right. He himself believed that the direction of the Soviet breakthrough was in the northern forest and mobilized the main forces to the corresponding positions. Only now did he realize that the Soviets had deliberately released the news.
At this time, Colonel Lucas certainly would not continue this mistake. He immediately ordered artillery to bomb the possible positions of the Soviet army, and then immediately sent reinforcements eastward.
This caused trouble for the Soviet troops who were gathering near the church.
The first is psychological.
If it was just an ordinary soldier who rebelled and surrendered, it would be nothing. After all, the Soviet army was indeed in crisis at this time... Even if they could break through and get rid of Brest's pursuers as planned, they would still be waiting for them at the front.
But it is an endless swamp.
The Soviets knew this swamp, so they knew what they were about to face. Moreover, even crossing the swamp did not necessarily mean safety.
The problem is that it was the instructor who rebelled. The instructor who usually stood on the commanding heights and preached great truths would always shoot his subordinates as traitors and cowards. The instructor who did not treat soldiers as human beings... At this time, he did something shameless
traitor!
This had an extremely heavy psychological impact on the soldiers.
Perhaps considering this, Major Gavrilov was stunned for a while and then denied: "No, this is an irresponsible rumor. You..."
Major Gavrilov glanced around, and then ordered in a voice that could not be doubted: "No one is allowed to talk nonsense without making it clear. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Comrade Major!"
"yes!"
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Major Gavrilov's approach is correct, although it is unfair to many soldiers, especially those who were shot or accused of crimes by their instructors... Why do soldiers jump to conclusions or even shoot them without carefully verifying their crimes?
The instructor's crime was "rumors".
But there is never fairness in the battlefield, there is only "right" and "wrong".
Okunev was so angry that he couldn't help but spit and said in a lower voice: "I have an idea, Shulka, why don't we surrender to the Germans and kill that guy?"
Shulka could understand Okunev's thinking.
Compared with those enemies, what is more hateful are those who usually ride on the soldiers' heads and dominate them, but switch sides at critical moments. This will make people crazy, and they will want to find him and kill him at all costs, even if it is
He doesn't hesitate to bear the infamy.
But this approach is obviously not a wise choice.
"Don't be stupid, actor!" Shulka said: "Even if you do this, they won't lock you with the instructor!"
"Are we just going to let him live like this?" Okunev said: "Somewhere across the river, that guy may be leisurely watching us fall in pieces under the gunfire of the Germans.
Down, bleeding, losing lives..."
"Don't worry, actor!" Shulka interrupted Okunev: "The Germans will not make it easy for him!"
Shulka said this because he knew that the Germans had a habit of shooting Soviet military political workers.
Of course, the war had just broken out and the instructor didn't know this, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to surrender.
While they were talking, the first batch of attacking troops had already carried rafts and rushed to the river bank in the night. They put the rafts into the river, set up a machine gun, loaded them with people, and rowed towards the other bank.
There are twenty-five rafts in total, each of which can carry ten people, and most of these ten people can swim... Most of the Soviet troops stationed in the Brest Fortress can swim, because the fortress is surrounded by rivers everywhere.
It has become a habit to take a dip in the river in my free time.
The twenty-five ships were divided into three parts, with eight or nine ships in each part. They were spread out as far as possible from the top, middle and bottom to attack the opposite shore.
If the plan is not leaked, there is no doubt that the chance of success is quite high... The first wave of attack involves 250 people against a platoon of German troops on the opposite side, and it is a night attack. It is very possible to capture the opposite position with one charge.
Then, the Soviet army could build fortifications on the other side to resist enemy reinforcements, and rafts would transport subsequent personnel across the shore in waves.
but now……
Not long after the raft was rowed out, several flares were suddenly fired from the opposite side, and the entire river was illuminated as white as a mirror.
Then dense bullets and artillery shells poured out from the darkness on the opposite side. In an instant, the Bug River turned into a mess. The rain of bullets rolled through the raft like a whirlwind, knocking down the Soviet soldiers on it one by one and falling into a pool of blood.
When it entered the river, one of the ships was hit by a mortar and was blown to pieces.
But this is not bad. The Soviet army's attack surface is very wide. Although the German army on the opposite side has more than one platoon, its firepower is still slightly weak. If it can defend this side, it will not be able to stop that side. If this continues, the Soviet army will still have
Opportunity to storm ashore and break out of the siege.
But this hope was quickly dashed...
There were two loud "boom boom" sounds, and two "super cannonballs" roared in again.
This time, they had obviously been corrected by German artillery observers... To put it simply, the German soldiers who knew how to calculate ballistic trajectories lay down on the other side and observed with binoculars. After calculating the location of the explosion of the first shell, they quickly calculated the distance to the target.
The distance is then corrected by the artillery through the walkie-talkie.
As a result, these two shells were fired quite accurately. One exploded only more than a hundred meters away from the church. The violent shock almost made Shulka vomit blood. There was a "buzzing" in his ears and then
Nothing could be heard.
The other shot accurately hit the church. The shell easily penetrated the outer wall and smashed into the foundation of the church. Then it exploded with a "boom".
This thing was designed for the Maginot Line. When it was first tested, it exploded a large crater with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of 5 meters. Now the explosion inside the church was even more powerful, and the glass windows seemed to explode.
The balloon shattered into pieces like a "ping-ping-pong-ping" and then flew everywhere. Many people around were scratched by the flying broken glass.