Two hundred meters away, light mortars from both sides started a fierce battle.
Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the two countries were friendly countries. Many Soviet equipment came from Germany, such as the Mauser pistols that can still be seen occasionally, the 1930-style anti-tank gun, the research and development of tanks, etc.
Therefore, the two armies can find similarities in some aspects. For example, the infantry of both sides are equipped with a large number of light mortars.
This is when these mortars came into play. Shells exploded in front of the position, and the battlefield was soon filled with blood and gunpowder smoke.
However, the German mortars were soon suppressed by the Soviet army, mainly because the Soviet army had a large number of tanks. Their armor could not only block these shells, but their tank guns and machine guns could also suppress the German army.
One hundred meters.
The Soviet soldiers approached the German defense line under the cover of tanks. The German troops on the river bank had some advantages in height. Although it was not high, only about 1.5 meters, this advantage was enough for the German troops to throw anti-tank grenades down and hit the Soviet troops.
On tanks... German anti-tank grenades can penetrate 150mm of armor, so even if the "Matilda" tank has added armor, it still cannot withstand its blows.
Shulka even saw several German soldiers holding anti-tank grenades in their hands and getting ready to throw them.
But this time they failed.
Because the Soviet tank stopped when it drove 70 meters.
This is just outside the attack range of German anti-tank grenades... This German anti-tank grenade weighs about 2.6 kilograms. Although it is not very heavy, in order to ensure that its warhead can touch the target armor and explode instantly, its rear part
A parachute-like tail had to be added.
Obviously, this tail will increase the resistance of the grenade in the air.
This makes the attack range of this anti-tank grenade very limited. It can usually only be thrown to more than 20 meters, and strong soldiers can barely throw it 30 meters.
However, the Soviet tanks stopped seventy meters away, which immediately stunned the Germans... If they wanted to attack these tanks, they had to crawl out of the battlefield and rush forward, which was obviously not feasible.
However, the Germans were not worried because they believed that if the Soviets wanted to attack, they would have to drive tanks sooner or later.
But they soon discovered that this idea was wrong.
Because at this moment, Soviet soldiers with rocket launchers on their shoulders suddenly jumped out from behind the tank. Under the cover of tanks and snipers, they aimed at the German fortifications, and then pulled the trigger...
With a sharp whistling sound, the rockets flew towards the German positions with a trail of contrails.
Then there was an explosion, and the German position was instantly blown up with gaps everywhere.
As mentioned before, mortars and howitzers are actually very difficult to deal with such strong fortifications.
On the one hand, this is because their ballistic bending accuracy is not high, and on the other hand, the Soviet army has difficulty supplying at this time and there are not so many artillery shells... If there are enough artillery shells, the same effect can be achieved by bombing them back and forth several times.
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Although the accuracy of the rocket launcher is not high, it can be launched at close range and has a flat trajectory, which greatly improves the accuracy.
So after a burst of "bang bang", the German army used gravel and soil to freeze the solid defense line together, and soon opened gaps... In fact, many of them were melted, due to the high temperature of the rocket launcher,
High-pressure metal jets, these jets can easily penetrate trenches and kill German troops hiding behind them.
The German defense line immediately heard screams like those of a slaughtered pig. It would definitely not be a good feeling to be penetrated by a high-temperature metal jet. Not to mention that the area that was hit was directly penetrated, and the surrounding flesh, flesh and internal organs were also feared.
It was cooked instantly.
But this is just the beginning.
Then the rocket launcher shooters fired another round of rockets...this time they fired anti-infantry rockets.
This kind of rocket is very simple to make. You only need to change the conical hollow charge of the anti-tank warhead into explosives and steel balls, so it does not even require research and development, and a batch can be produced in just two days.
These rocket launchers penetrated the German trenches through gaps in the defense line.
Needless to say what happened next, steel balls exploded in the German trenches and shot everywhere... The trenches were frozen smooth and hard at low temperatures. Shulka could almost imagine the steel balls bouncing around in the trenches and hitting the Germans from all directions.
The way he looks on his body.
Then there was another round of rockets. Amid the screams of the German troops, a group of Soviet riflemen rushed forward and threw a row of grenades into the trench.
Just after the explosion, the Soviet soldiers shouted and charged towards the German defense lines.
The battle was almost one-sided. The Germans never knew that the Soviet army had this kind of fighting style, especially since they thought that the protagonist of the Soviet attack should be the tanks. All attention was focused on the tanks, but they did not expect that the main force of the attack would be the tanks.
But they are infantry.
When Shulka rushed forward, he saw groups of wounded German soldiers raising their hands and surrendering under Soviet guns. Many of them had steel balls embedded in their bodies, faces, and even eyes.
One of his eyes had been punched out, and the attached nerves were hanging out of his face. He was wailing loudly and yelling in German.
Although he didn't understand, Shulka knew that he was not begging for mercy.
On the contrary, he hoped that the Soviet army could do him a favor and end his suffering.
Shulka stepped forward, took out his pistol, pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger. A stream of blood burst out from the German soldier's head and he fell to the ground motionless.
So sometimes killing is not a kind of cruelty, but a kind of kindness.
The German river bank defenses were immediately broken.
But this does not mean that Tver will be occupied by the Soviet army, because the German army has deployed an infantry division to garrison Tver.
It is possible to succeed if the Germans are caught off guard, but it is obviously unwise to engage in street fighting with the Germans without the cover of tanks.
On the other hand, it would take time for the Soviet army to get the tank up the riverbed and over the obstacles in front of the position. Especially the speed of the "Matilda" was impressive. It only took a few miles to drive from the river bank defense line to the city of Tver.
Twenty minutes.
This gave the Germans time to prepare. They arrived at the houses in the city and set up firepower points to prepare for street battles with the Soviets.
But it is obvious that the German army was not prepared for street fighting from the beginning to the end... This was determined by the German offensive strategy.
Therefore, for the German army, Tver's fall was only a matter of time. The Soviet army could capture Tver even with artillery fire and tanks.
So, a difficult problem was placed in front of Kubiler:
It's time to retreat, otherwise... once Tver is lost, the German troops attacking in the north will be in danger of being surrounded.