These artillery fires were urgently summoned by Alexander, and some of them were even Soviet M1910 howitzers. Since their range was only 7.7 kilometers, they had to risk deploying them in Stalingrad to provide artillery reinforcements for sandbanks.

They came very timely, otherwise the sandbank where Qin Chuan and others were stationed would have been lost under this charge.

"How is the situation?" Alexander asked anxiously on the phone.

"It's very bad!" Qin Chuan replied: "We suffered thirty-three casualties, and now only 132 people have combat effectiveness. What's worse is because of the battle just now... our MP43 ammunition is about to run out!"

This is indeed a serious problem.

Because a large part of the reason why Qin Chuan and others were able to block the Soviet charge with more than 100 people was that the MP43... Its range was 350 meters, while the east coast was only more than 300 meters away from the sandbank. This allowed the MP43 to shoot the charging Soviet army at a high speed at close range, while also suppressing the cover firepower of the Soviet army on the east coast, which gave the German army a great advantage. If it were replaced by the Soviet army's Poposa submachine gun, it would not be possible.

After pausing, Qin Chuan continued: "If we do not get supplies and reinforcements, we may not be able to resist this attack tomorrow!"

What Qin Chuan said certainly makes sense.

Although the German army may still be able to rely on artillery fire to blow up the pontoon bridge tomorrow, the problem is that the Soviet army can temporarily suppress the German artillery with artillery fire. Then, as long as the Soviet army has enough pontoon bridges, once or twice... each time, it only needs to consume dozens of German troops or some ammunition, then the German army will be wiped out in a few times.

"But we have not opened the passage to the Volga River yet!" Alexander replied regretfully.

Alexander means that if the Germans attacked the Volga River, they could cross the Volga River to reinforce the sandbank.

But in fact, this is also unrealistic... Not to mention that this passage has not been opened, even if it is opened, the Soviet army will set up firepower along the coast to block the river surface. It will only be possible to do so unless the German army cleared the Soviet army along the Stalingrad coast and even the central ferry.

"You can use Soviet weapons, Major!" Alexander comforted.

"Yes, we may have to do this!" Qin Chuan replied helplessly.

Everyone understands what the result of doing this is... The gap in firepower will make the commandos, which are already insufficient in force, worsen.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Chuan looked at the map and was stunned.

What to do? You can’t get troops or ammunition!

The reason why the Soviet army does not attack now is simply because their pontoon bridges are insufficient.

Tomorrow, after they build enough pontoon bridges, they will obviously launch a more violent charge!

Landmines?

In this case, I am afraid it is useless.

Fighter?

The role they can play is probably very limited, especially since the Soviets would deploy more and more air defense firepower on the east coast, and German fighter jets could not safely attack the target.

Qin Chuan was right, and Yelemenko, who was rushing to capture the sandbank and rescue Stalingrad, even transferred a flight squadron to the east coast.

This flight squadron did not want to compete with the German Air Force, but hoped to harass the German Air Force to cover the Soviet army's pontoon attack on the sandbank.

artillery?

This may be useful, but even as mentioned before, it may be suppressed by Soviet artillery.

So, after thinking about it, Qin Chuan believed that if he wanted to defend the sandbank, he would only get troops and supplies.

But this seems impossible... It is difficult for airdrops to invest materials on this small sandbank, and the same is true for airborne troops, and helicopter transportation is blocked by air defense firepower.

It is even more impossible on land. The sandbank is almost surrounded by the Soviet army, and there is almost no gap except the Volga River.

Wait, Volga!

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but jump out of the chair and immediately asked the correspondent to call Alexander.

"Colin!" Qin Chuan said: "I need you to send me a reinforcement!"

"But... how to do it?" Alexander asked in confusion.

"We have been blowing up many Soviet transport ships, especially these days, aren't we?"

"Yes!" Alexander replied: "To be precise, during the period when you occupied the sandbank, the Soviets even opened several temporary ferries in the upstream industrial zone, but they were all destroyed by our air force!"

After pausing, Alexander asked, "But what does this have to do with our reinforcements?"

"I think..." Qin Chuan said: "There must be many floating objects on the Volga River, so that they will not have any suspicion of floating objects, such as oil barrels!"

"Hmm!" Alexander asked back: "Why do they become suspicious? We also blew up a transport ship yesterday. You know, there are still some factories in Stalingrad that need to be operated, and the Soviets also have dozens of tanks! Oil barrels are floating on the river..."

"This is the point, Colonel!" Qin Chuan interrupted Alexander's words.

"What?" Alexander still didn't understand what Qin Chuan meant.

"Colin!" Qin Chuan said: "What if it was not oil in the oil barrel, but people or ammunition?"

Alexander couldn't help but say "Oh" when he heard this, and immediately said, "Good idea, Major! That's great. I understand what you mean, I'll do it right away!"

As he said that, Alexander immediately hung up the phone.

But after a while, Alexander called again, and obviously he remembered something.

"How did they know they had arrived at their destination?" Alexander asked.

"We will fire signal flares!" Qin Chuan replied: "In addition, you have to roughly calculate the time, so are we, and then we will send someone to pick him up on the shore!"

"No problem!" Alexander replied.

The method is actually very simple, which is to put people and supplies in oil barrels and drift downstream to the sandbank.

As for where to put these oil barrels down... that is of course the Reynolds occupied by the upstream Germans.

This can also be said to be a coincidence, because at the other end of the world, the same thing happened to the US and Japanese troops on the Pacific battlefield at this moment: the Japanese army was blocked by the US troops on Guadalcanal Island and could not get supplies, so the Japanese army thought of a solution: use destroyers to transport supplies to the vicinity of Guadal Island, and then throw oil barrels with supplies into the sea. The tides will bring these oil barrels to the island. The Japanese army called it the "Tokyo Express".

Now, Qin Chuan has used the same method in Shazhou.
Chapter completed!