USSR 1941

Chapter 42: to break out

??Chapter 42 Breakthrough

??The convoy galloped all the way south, and arrived at the destination connecting bridge in ten minutes.

??The German army has always had the opportunity to intercept the Soviet army.

??Warren Fortress was originally a residential area, but because the war required the Soviet army’s defenses to be continuously expanded...

?? This can be said to be the need for the evolution of warfare:

??In the period of cold weapons, only a fortress like a central fortress is enough, and moats are dug around, and there are basically no troops that can break through it.

??With the emergence of hot weapons, cannons can easily drive shells into the central fortress, so it is necessary to expand the fortress so that the range of the cannon is not enough to threaten the central fortress.

??This approach worked at first, because the old artillery has limited range, and expanding the fort can indeed achieve the purpose.

??But as the range of artillery gets farther and farther, and bombers appear to be able to calmly drop bombs on the central fortress, no matter how they expand, they can't stop the enemy's bombing.

??Thus, most forts go through this process: the fort, the fort spread out, and then abandoned to become a troop rally point.

??The Warren Fortress in the south is the result of the expansion of the Brest Fortress. It is characterized by dense and diverse buildings.

??This means that the German army only needs to install a few machine guns in the buildings on both sides of the street, and it is possible to block the defenseless Soviet convoy halfway.

??The problem is that the German army at this time did not know the Soviet army driving these cars... They thought that the Holm Cable Bridge was still under the control of the German army, and these cars were German cars, so of course they were Germans.

??This allowed the Soviet army convoy to traverse the entire Warren Fortress without any danger, until the convoy reached the bridgehead of the connecting bridge.

?? "Comrade Major!" The signal soldier sitting in the co-pilot's seat reported to Major Gavrilov in the rear compartment: "The Germans have set up checkpoints on the connecting bridge and machine gun positions!"

??Major Gavrilov ordered without thinking: "Rush over!"

??Of course we have to rush over. These checkpoints are used to check documents. The Soviet soldiers didn’t even change their uniforms and helmets. It was impossible to get past the German inspection.

?? "Yes!" The communications soldier responded, and turned his head to convey the order to the driver: "Speed ??up and rush over!"

?? As he said that, the communicator brought out a submachine gun... It was an MP40 submachine gun captured from the Germans.

??Although the Soviet army also had submachine guns, they had very little equipment at this time, and the space in the driver's seat was too narrow to use long guns, so they were equipped with MP40 seized from the warehouse in desperation.

??The driver let out a "huh", but did not accelerate according to the command. Not only did he not accelerate, but he also had a tendency to slow down.

??The communications soldier looked at the driver suspiciously, but he quickly understood what the driver meant and kept quiet.

??The driver's approach is correct. At this time, the distance between the German army and the convoy is relatively long. Premature acceleration will only arouse the suspicion of the German army and make them prepare for battle in advance.

??If the driver slows down, it's another matter... The German army can't see the Soviet army in the car under the light of the car lights, that is, they can't find any abnormalities, so the car can approach the enemy as close as possible.

Things really happened as the driver thought. Seeing that the convoy slowed down, the German soldiers relaxed their vigilance. A German soldier came out of the sentry box, waved a flashlight at the convoy a few times to signal the convoy to stop. He even had a cigarette in his mouth, with a rifle on his back. Another German soldier flipped through the book to see if there was a report from this convoy.

?? At this moment, the driver slammed on the accelerator and the engine let out a beast-like growl, and then the car rushed forward at full speed.

The German soldier didn't even understand the situation, he yelled and cursed at the car, but soon he found out that he was wrong, because a submachine gun had been extended from the passenger seat, and then there was a burst of gunfire Afterwards, the German soldiers immediately fell in a pool of blood.

??Other German soldiers realized that something was wrong when they heard the gunshots, and hurriedly grabbed the rifle from their backs or rushed to the machine gun position...

??But it was too late to react at this time.

??The car broke through the crossbar blocking the bridge head with a "snap" and rushed onto the connecting bridge, and then exposed a bunch of muzzles on the rear compartment.

?? "Bang bang..." After a burst of gunfire, the German troops guarding the bridge fell in pieces. Occasionally, a few smoked grenades were thrown from the car, causing the German troops to be routed and looking for cover.

?? Shulka's car was ranked fifth, so when he saw the battlefield, there were mostly corpses left.

However, Shulka still found his target. A German soldier who was lying on the ground pulled a grenade... Originally, he could have escaped as long as he was lying on his stomach, because the Soviet army could not distinguish the people on the ground in the fast-moving cars. Which one is alive and which one is dead.

?? But the flash of the grenade gave him away.

??Shuerka didn't think much about it. He pulled the trigger and fired the bullets of the submachine gun at the large position until the remaining twenty bullets in the drum were all emptied.

?? 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.

??Shuerka doesn't like to always rely on luck, he hopes to control his own destiny, although this is not realistic on the battlefield.

?? But this time, Shulka still hit the target, because the grenade exploded in the German trenches instead of 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 from one side of the connecting bridge had already warned the German army on the other side, the length of the connecting bridge was only more than 100 meters, and it only took a few seconds for the car to rush to the opposite bank at full speed.

At this point, the German soldiers on the other side only had time to turn their heads and grab their rifles. When they saw a car rushing towards the bridge with its headlights on, they didn't even dare to shoot easily... because they didn't know the car Be it the enemy or your own people who are fleeing.

?? Then, the gunfire rang out again, and grenades were thrown to the side of the road like raindrops along the inertia of the car's advancement.

?? Among them, only one car had a problem... Maybe the driver was hit by a stray bullet, and the car didn't grasp the direction and rushed directly to the trench built by the German army 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 loudly ordered: "Go on, go on..."

??This order is correct, the Soviet army is alone and there are only more than 500 people left in the whole army.

??On the other hand, the German army, which is good at "blitzkrieg", responded quickly. Once it stopped fighting, it was very likely that it would be entangled by the German army and never leave.

??So, they can only leave those fighters who are alone.

??(end of this chapter)