The convoy sped all the way south and arrived at its destination connecting bridge in ten minutes.
In fact, the German army always had the opportunity to intercept the Soviet army.
Warren Fortress was originally a residential area, but because of the war, the Soviet army's defenses had to be continuously expanded...
This can be said to be the need for the evolution of war:
In the cold weapon period, a fortress like a central fortress was enough. A moat was dug around it, and there was basically no army that could break it.
With the emergence of thermal weapons, cannons can easily drive shells into the central fortress, so the fortress needs to be expanded outwards so that the range of the cannon is not enough to threaten the central fortress.
This approach was useful at first, because the old artillery had limited range, and expanding the fort could indeed achieve its purpose.
However, as the range of the artillery became farther and farther and bombers appeared, they could calmly drop bombs on the central fortress, so no matter how much expansion was done, they could not stop the enemy's bombing.
As a result, most forts go through the process of being fortified, expanded, and then abandoned to become a troop rallying point.
Volyn Fortress, located directly to the south, is the result of the expansion of Brest Fortress. It is characterized by dense and diverse buildings.
This means that the German army only needs to set up a few machine guns in the buildings on both sides of the street to block the defenseless Soviet convoy halfway.
The problem is that at this time, the German army did not know at all the Soviet troops driving these cars... They thought that the Holm Rope Bridge was still under the control of the German army, and these cars were German-style cars, so of course they were Germans.
This allowed the Soviet convoy to cross the entire Warren Fortress without any danger until the convoy reached the bridgehead connecting the bridge.
"Comrade Major!" the signal soldier sitting in the passenger seat reported to Major Gavrilov in the rear compartment: "The Germans have sentry posts and machine gun positions on the connecting bridge!"
Major Gavrilov ordered without thinking: "Charge over!"
Of course, we had to rush over. These checkpoints were used to check documents. The Soviet soldiers didn't even change their uniforms or helmets, so it was impossible to get past the German inspections.
"Yes!" the communications soldier responded, turning to convey the order to the driver: "Speed up and rush over!"
As he spoke, the communications soldier took out his submachine gun...it was the MP40 submachine gun captured from the Germans.
Although the Soviet army also had submachine guns, the amount of equipment at this time was very small, and the driving space was too narrow to use long guns, so out of desperation, they were equipped with MP40s seized from the warehouse.
The driver said "hmm", but did not speed up according to the order. Not only did he not speed up, but he also tended to slow down.
The communications soldier looked at the driver doubtfully, but he quickly understood what the driver meant and kept quiet.
The driver's approach was correct. At this time, the German army was far away from the convoy. Premature acceleration would only arouse the suspicion of the German army and make them prepare for battle in advance.
If the driver slowed down, it would be another matter... The Germans could not see the Soviet troops in the car under the illumination of the car lights, that is, they could not detect any abnormalities, so the car could approach the enemy as close as possible.
Things turned out just as the driver thought. Seeing the convoy slowing down, the German soldiers relaxed their vigilance. A German soldier walked out of the guard box and waved a flashlight at the convoy to signal for the car to stop. His movements were relaxed and casual, and he said:
He was even smoking a cigarette and carrying his rifle on his back. Another German soldier was flipping through his book to see if there was any report of this convoy.
At this moment, the driver stepped on the accelerator and the engine roared like a beast, and then the car rushed forward at full speed.
Before the German soldier even understood the situation, he yelled and cursed at the car, but he soon discovered that he was wrong, because a submachine gun had been stretched out from the passenger seat, and then there was a burst of gunfire.
Afterwards, the German soldiers immediately fell into a pool of blood.
Other German soldiers realized something was wrong when they heard the gunshots. They quickly grabbed their rifles from their backs or rushed towards the machine gun positions...
But then it was too late to react.
With a "snap", the car broke through the crossbar blocking the bridge head and rushed onto the connecting bridge, and then exposed a bunch of gun muzzles on the rear compartment.
"Bang bang..." After a burst of gunfire, the German troops guarding the bridge fell in pieces. Occasionally, a few smoking grenades were thrown from the vehicles, causing the German troops to be routed and look for cover.
The car Shurka was traveling in was the fifth in line, so when he saw the battlefield, most of the corpses were left.
However, Shulka still found his target. A German soldier lying on the ground lit the grenade... Originally he could escape as long as he lay on his stomach, because the Soviet army's fast-moving cars could not distinguish between the cars on the ground.
Which one is alive and which one is dead.
But the grenade's flash exposed him.
Without thinking much, Shulka pulled the trigger and fired bullets from the submachine gun at the large location until all the twenty or so bullets left in the drum were empty.
This is one of the reasons why Shulka doesn't like to use submachine guns. It relies more on the surface of the bullet, that is, more bullets to increase the probability of hitting the target. This has a lot of luck.
Shulka doesn't like to always rely on luck. He hopes to control his own destiny, although this is not realistic on the battlefield.
This time, however, Shulka hit his target because the grenade exploded in a German trench rather than blowing up a car in the middle of the road.
A similar battle soon took place on the other side of the connecting bridge.
Although the gunshots on one side of the connecting bridge had alerted the German troops on the other end, the length of the connecting bridge was only over a hundred meters, and it only took a few seconds for the car to rush to the other side at full speed.
At this time, the German soldiers at the other end only had time to turn around and grab their rifles. When they saw a car rushing towards the bridge with its headlights on, they did not even dare to shoot easily... because they did not know the car.
Is the car an enemy or one of our own escaping?
Then, gunfire rang out again, and grenades were thrown to the side of the road like raindrops along the inertia of the car's progress.
Only one of the cars had problems...perhaps the driver was hit by a stray bullet, and the car did not have a good grasp of the direction and rushed directly to the trench built by the Germans with sandbags on the side of the road, unable to move.
The surviving Soviet soldiers jumped out of the car and fought with the Germans without saying a word.
Major Gavrilov shouted an order: "Keep going, keep going..."
This order was correct. The Soviet army was alone and only had more than 500 people left.
On the other hand, the German army, which is good at "blitzkrieg", reacts quickly. Once it stops fighting, it is very likely that the German army will get entangled and never leave.
Therefore, they could only leave behind those lone soldiers.