Major Erich finally reluctantly ordered the attack.
There are many things on the battlefield that you can't help but do. Many times you do something you know you can't do.
Otherwise, there will definitely be another voice: "How do you know if you can conquer it if you don't try it?"
The German tactics were the same as before, with assault guns firing in front to cover the soldiers in the rear.
There is no doubt that after approaching the Soviet defense line, these assault guns were destroyed one by one by rocket launchers, and then they became real "wrecks", or bunkers to cover the German attack.
The German attack seemed to go smoothly. Although they lost more than a dozen assault guns, they at least succeeded in "laying" a series of bunkers on the position as before, and there were even more bunkers than yesterday.
The next second, the German infantry relied on the bunker to charge against the Soviet defense line on Major Erich's order.
The Soviet troops did not counterattack. They waited in the trenches for the German troops to rush forward.
100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters...
Suddenly fierce gunfire rang out, and dense bullets poured out from the wreckage of the Soviet tanks. The hail of bullets knocked down, scattered, and shattered the German charging formation like a tidal wave, like a torrent crashing into them.
After falling onto the reef, waves burst out and then there was nothing.
If anything, it was the corpses lying on the ground.
At this time, Major Erich suddenly realized something. They used sacrificial assault guns to build "bunkers" in front of the position, which were actually setting up obstacles for themselves.
Before this, because the Soviet army did not have tank wreckage as a cover, the German army could use mortars, grenades, etc. behind the tank wreckage to completely suppress the Soviet army's lower and poorly defended field fortifications, so the German army could easily advance into the Soviet Union.
The defensive line was finally captured in the army's trenches.
However, after the Soviet army moved the tank wreckage into the defense line and modified it, the advantage between the enemy and ourselves was reversed.
The German mortars and grenades could not threaten the enemy inside the tank wreckage.
However, the machine gunner in the wreckage of the tank can safely use his machine gun to block the German army's path forward.
These roads are even predictable, just the open space between the assault guns in front of the position.
In other words, the bunkers formed by those assault guns divided the German charge formation into pieces, and the Soviet army only needed to use machine guns to block these areas with block firepower.
"Mortar cover!" Major Erich ordered loudly: "Blow up those 'tank bunkers'!"
The German army called the remains of tanks placed in front of the Soviet positions "tank bunkers", which is indeed very vivid because it actually functions as a bunker.
However, if it is a conventional bunker, its construction is time-consuming and requires materials. This is unimaginable for Stalingrad, whose supply lines are already in a semi-blockade state.
On the other hand, the Soviet army usually did not build bunkers on reverse slopes.
Before this, the Soviet army believed that it was stupid to build bunkers on reverse slopes... The enemy was charging towards the high ground in front of the high ground. Of course, the bunker should be built on the front slope, so that it could not only hit the enemy but also have a clear view from a high position, and machine guns.
Can control a large area in front.
Build bunkers on reverse slopes?
Don't be ridiculous, can you hit the enemy? If the enemy hits the reverse slope and is already at a high altitude, will these bunkers still be effective?
But the reality on the battlefield is often contrary to imagination.
The fact is that in the absence of air superiority, all fortifications built on a positive slope are actually targets for enemy artillery or aircraft... If one shell cannot blow it up, use two.
It is the anti-slope fortifications that can really play a role.
But of course.
The Soviet Union never thought that it would lose air superiority on the battlefield.
I never thought that the front slope fortifications would be so vulnerable.
I didn't even expect that the enemy could actually reach Stalingrad and reach Mamayev Heights.
All of this has resulted in almost zero solid permanent fortifications on the Mamayev Kurgan antislope.
Until now, when the tank wreckage was placed there, it immediately became a steel fortress with strong defense, and the defense line became a steel defense line.
"Grenade cover!" Major Erich yelled in a hoarse voice.
From this, it can be seen that Major Erich has certain combat experience. What he shouted at this time was not mortars but grenades.
Although mortars are much more lethal than grenades, they ultimately take time to launch and are difficult to scale.
Almost every soldier carries a few grenades. If you throw a few grenades in a row, they will explode in front of the position.
If a charge is launched under the cover of the residual power of the explosion and the smoke it arouses, it is very likely that the enemy will be strangled together, and the "tank bunker" will also lose its effectiveness.
This was also Major Erich's plan when he launched the charge.
After receiving the order, the German officers ordered the soldiers one by one:
"Grenade!"
"Grenade!"
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Hand grenades came back from the direction of the Germans.
Before this, due to condescending reasons, there would be situations where the German grenades could be thrown to the Soviet defense line, but the Soviet grenades could not be thrown and could not threaten the Germans. Therefore, the grenade throwing distance of 50 meters was fatal to the Soviet army.
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But that is not the case now.
A line of defense formed by the remains of Soviet tanks was more than ten meters in front of the trench, which prevented German grenades from being thrown into the Soviet trench.
Major Erich actually knew this, he had observed it in the telescope before.
Therefore, he did not place any hope that a row of grenades would blow open the Soviet defense line.
Major Erich hoped that the smoke from the grenades would cover the infantry charge.
So the next second, the German infantry shouted and charged forward with bayonets drawn.
But soon, Major Erich found that his expectations were shattered... because at this moment, the Soviet army also threw rows of grenades in front of the position.
What the German grenades could do was to blow up a plume of smoke in front of the position, but the Soviet grenades blew the charging German soldiers into smoke.
Then, machine gun and submachine gun bullets poured into the smoke again, and from time to time, rocket launchers suddenly emerged from the trenches, and then fired an anti-infantry rocket into the smoke with a "chirp" sound.
Soon, the German charge was strangled in smoke amidst screams.
Occasionally, a few German soldiers would emerge from the smoke. Their faces were dark, their bodies were covered with rags, and they were holding rifles with bayonets in their hands. They rushed toward the Soviet trenches, dripping with blood and roaring loudly...
These soldiers were brave, but this small-scale charge was unable to have an impact on the Soviet army.
They were either knocked down on the way to the charge, or as soon as they rushed into the trench, they were beaten to the ground by the Soviet army's rifle butts or fists.