German fighter jets were quickly put into the battlefield, but they did not play any role.

Because as mentioned before, the pontoon bridge is composed of many small boats and has good resistance to sinking. Even if the fighter hits a string of bullets, it basically has no response.

The "Stuka" bomber is of course useful, but the problem is that the pontoon bridge is slender and in motion, and the large amount of smoke is released at the central ferry to enable the bottom to reach a low bottom. The three "Stuka" dived and dropped six shells but failed to hit.

Then the pontoon bridge entered the position between the sandbank and the east coast, and the Soviet artillery fire also stopped.

It is obvious that the Soviet army's pontoon bridge was accurately calculated, and its length was slightly shorter than the distance between the sandbar and the east bank, which was more than 200 meters... If it was too long or just right, it would be difficult to enter the valley and set it in a correct position. If it was shorter, this problem would not exist. Moreover, the Soviet army, on the other end, on the east bank of the valley, also prepared other iron boats and tools for splicing, and it would take not long to complete the entire pontoon bridge and launch a charge.

Before the floating bridge could stop, Qin Chuan issued an order to open fire.

However, the firepower on the sandbank did not cause much damage to the pontoon bridge. As mentioned earlier, the pontoon bridge faced the German sandbank with thicker armor and larger ships. There was even an iron baffle on the bridgehead that looked like an ancient siege crossing a moat. When the machine gun bullets hit it, they would only make a "clang clang" sound and then bounced away without exception. Even anti-aircraft guns were powerless to do anything about it.

Then the baffle was slowly lowered. Qin Chuan thought that he could use firepower to kill the Soviet army on the pontoon bridge at this time, but after the baffle was lowered to form a bridge, a T34 tank was exposed. With a "boom" in the direction of the bunker, a shell was shot... Although it failed to hit the undulating pontoon bridge, it was enough to shock the German army, because this T34 had already formed a certain amount of firepower in front of them and covered the subsequent Soviet army to launch an attack on the sandbank along the pontoon bridge.

Sure enough, the Soviet army then launched a steady stream of attacks on the sandbank from the floating bridge.

The Soviet army's impact was not just along the floating bridge.

In fact, a T34 has blocked almost half of the bridge deck of the pontoon bridge, so only a very narrow passage was left at the head of the German army. If we only charge along this passage, the German army only needs a few MP43 shots in turn to block it.

When the Soviet army reached the nearest end of the pontoon bridge, they jumped into the river from both sides and entered the shallows, and then spread from both sides to the front to launch a charge.

What's worse is that there is more than one pontoon bridge, and soon another pontoon bridge floated down the upstream... These pontoon bridges always use power to rush one end to the sandbank near the beach, throw an iron anchor in the middle, and fix the other end with ropes and then fill the gap by engineers. Soviet soldiers can launch a charge, and even light tanks can "rattle" the pontoon bridge to cover the infantry to launch a charge.

Therefore, attacking this sandbank is still very different from naval battles. There is basically no situation where a floating bridge is built to attack, but this is not the case in the sandbank.

"Call for artillery reinforcements!" Qin Chuan shouted.

"Yes, Major!" Eberhard responded and immediately commanded the post-aircraft observer to report the coordinates to the rear artillery troops.

In less than a minute, a large number of shells whistled from the rear and exploded the sky-sooning water columns on the Volga River. Along with these water columns, there were also pontoon bridges and screaming Soviet soldiers.

But before the German soldiers could breathe a sigh of relief, the Soviet army also heard cannons, and the shells roared across the sandbank and headed straight for the direction of Stalingrad.

Qin Chuan cried out inwardly, bad... It seems that the Soviet army was prepared for this. They arranged artillery on the east coast with a range comparable to that of the German army. The German artillery was afraid of heavy losses without being prepared.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly, Yeliaomko added two elite artillery regiments to the direction of the sandbank... These two artillery regiments were equipped with more advanced and longer ranges M1938 howitzers, with a maximum range of 11.8 kilometers, which was even longer than the German 10 kilometers.

In other words, if the Soviet army placed the M1938 howitzer within 1.8 kilometers of the sandbank, then the German artillery fire could hit the sandbank, and the Soviet M1978 would definitely hit the German artillery position.

Sure enough, after a while, the correspondent reported to Qin Chuanhui: "Our artillery was suppressed and suffered heavy losses, and it was temporarily unable to provide artillery reinforcements!"

Let’s look at the direction of the Soviet pontoon bridge. The engineers have begun to be busy repairing the pontoon bridge... The emergency repair of the pontoon bridge is not difficult. You only need to row a few iron boats to the gap and tie them with wire ropes and lay them with wooden boards or iron boards.

Therefore, even if German Air Force fighter jets and bombers dive down and strafuse and bomb again and again, they would blow up the pontoon bridge from time to time, which would not stop the Soviet army from rushing up the sandbank like a tide.

The battle soon became fierce, and the Germans all beat the weapons in their hands, and although rows of Soviet soldiers fell on the way to charge, they were as dense as ants, regardless of casualties and landmines, and charged forward regardless of landmines.

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan ordered: "Leave two people behind, and the others will go out to defend!"

The soldiers responded and carried rifles from the rear exit and entered the trench on both sides of the bunker along the traffic trench.

Although the bunker is safe, its disadvantages are also very obvious, that is, it has low external perception like a tank and has blind spots. What is more serious is that the firepower is too concentrated and cannot be used for mortars.

This will undoubtedly limit the firepower of MP43 in the hands of soldiers to a considerable extent.

Therefore, if we want to block the charge of the Soviet army, we must go out to fight.

Sure enough, when the German soldiers entered the position and started MP43, they quickly suppressed the Soviet soldiers who were charging in a dense manner, rushed up and knocked down one by one, and soon piled up rows of corpses in front of the barbed wire.

Then came the Soviet tank... The bazooka shooter approached the target under the cover of German soldiers. After firing three rockets, he finally hit the target and hit the target and hit the T34 into a fireball.

However, the Soviet army's charge did not stop because of this. There were still countless Soviet soldiers on the other side of the Volga River, which were densely packed and could not see at a glance. Some of them didn't even wait for the pontoon bridge to be repaired, jumped into the river and swam for a while before climbing the pontoon bridge to rush towards the sandbank.
Chapter completed!