The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The entire rappel was completed within two minutes. After the helicopter dropped the commando, it immediately accelerated and continued to fly forward along the Volga River. German fighters would cover them from the German-controlled area on the other side, which was the defense line of Huth's 4th Armored Group. Fly back to base.

The Soviet air defense forces did not react until then, and quickly organized anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns to shoot into the air...

With a crisp sound of "ding-ding-dang", two helicopters were shot and smoke erupted. One of them may have been killed by the pilot. The helicopter lost its balance and fell to the ground. The engine of the other one was damaged. After hitting it, it spun back and forth several times in the air and then fell to the Volga River.

In this regard, Conrad's previous concerns were correct. The helicopter was still too vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire.

But helicopters are all about fighting with speed. For example, all the assault members had successfully landed at this time. At the same time, eight of the ten helicopters were able to successfully escape and return to the base. They even used the weapons on their fuselage before leaving. The machine guns fired wildly at the Soviet soldiers they could find along the way.

Therefore, this can be regarded as a very successful landing.

The next thing that will be in trouble is the Soviet army... The two hundred elite German troops who landed on the sandbank will be a nightmare for the Soviet army, especially here is a sandbank. The other Soviet troops are the Southeast Front Army on the east bank of the Volga River. Even if they received the danger for a while, There will be no reinforcements.

There was no need for Qin Chuan to command at all. The battle entered a fever pitch almost as soon as Qin Chuan and others had their feet on the ground, because they parachuted directly into the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery position.

At this time, the Soviet soldiers did not even realize that the enemy was already on the ground or even next to them. The Soviet soldiers of the anti-aircraft artillery unit still habitually entered the artillery position and nervously aimed into the air... This cannot be blamed on them, they were affected by This is their training. At the same time, they also know that this is a sandbank. The enemy cannot enter the hinterland as soon as the battle begins, so they have no defense against the ground, especially since they have just woken up and it is not bright yet.

This made the German soldiers a little puzzled.

But I thought it was the same thing, but the movements in my hand were not slow at all. As soon as the trigger was pulled, all the targets in sight were eliminated one after another.

It is not an exaggeration to regard this battle as a massacre. These Soviet artillerymen can almost be said to be unarmed... To be precise, they cannot be said to be unarmed. They are operating anti-aircraft machine guns or anti-aircraft guns, and these anti-aircraft machine guns Strictly speaking, you can still lower the firing range to confront German soldiers.

(Note: Most of the Soviet anti-aircraft guns in World War II were M1 anti-aircraft guns, whose high and low firing range ranged from -5 degrees to 85 degrees)

But in this case, they had no time to adjust. The German soldiers were like wolves that broke into the flock of sheep, killing everyone they saw. For a while, the anti-aircraft artillery position was filled with gunshots, grenade explosions and Screams.

Qinchuan pulled the trigger and killed two Soviet soldiers who were hiding behind the anti-aircraft gun and were about to throw out grenades... There are eight people in a Soviet 37MM anti-aircraft gun squad. The eight people in this anti-aircraft gun squad work closely together. They immediately asked two team members to continuously throw grenades outward to stir up smoke, or it could be said to temporarily prevent the German attack, while the others took advantage of this time to adjust their anti-aircraft guns and turn towards the Germans.

There is no need to think about what would happen if they succeeded.

Qinchuan believed that even if the German army and the Soviet army were fighting together, these Soviet troops would still fire regardless of the enemy or ourselves... Under normal circumstances, the Soviet army would not have such a saying as "throwing a weapon against a rat".

In fact, this is one of the reasons why the commandos attacked the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery units first instead of the howitzer units. In this kind of close combat situation, the greater threat to the German army was the ones that could shoot flatly and with a fast rate of fire. Anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, not large-caliber howitzers.

Of course Qin Chuan would not let them succeed.

Then, under the cover of Qinchuan's sniper rifle, Werner and Keller stepped on the "Z" shape and flexibly surrounded them from left to right. They were all eliminated with a few gunshots.

A little further away, several anti-aircraft machine guns had been leveled and were firing fiercely in this direction, but this was also of no avail... An anti-infantry rocket was fired with a scream, and the gunfire soon stopped. , instead there was a scream from the Soviet army.

Several artillery shells exploded near the German army, which was a good thing done by the Soviet howitzer unit. This once again proved that the Soviet army would not hesitate to choose indiscriminate attacks when the enemy and ourselves were mixed.

In fact, the Soviet army's approach is still correct, especially in this situation... If the Soviet army did not do this but took up weapons such as rifles and pistols to resist, they would undoubtedly die in the end of the German army. In their hands, even though they had much more troops than the Germans.

But if they could organize more artillery to blast in the direction of the enemy... then the result would be different.

However, this still doesn't change anything.

Because the German army also had air superiority in addition to the commandos dropped by air.

The German fighter planes hovering in the air quickly discovered these threats. Immediately, several "Stuka" bombers swooped down and dropped bombs into the Soviet artillery positions. Then six more BF fighters rushed toward the bottom in a frantic manner. The strafing fire left the Soviet artillerymen in a state of confusion, holding their heads and running around, making it impossible to organize an effective defense.

Then, the German commandos had finished dealing with the anti-aircraft artillery unit and rushed into the howitzer unit. There was no doubt another massacre.

The battle was over within half an hour.

The reason why it took so long was more due to the larger area of ​​the sandbank and more areas that needed to be cleared rather than the Soviet resistance.

In fact, the Soviet resistance almost completely collapsed after ten minutes.

Although the Soviet army was several times larger than the German army, more than seven times to be exact... The total strength of the Soviet army was about 1,500, while the German army only had 200.

However, the German army caught the Soviet army by surprise. It launched an air-ground integrated attack and the MP43 attack was similar to modern special operations. Of course, the fragile Soviet artillery could not resist it.

The German soldiers did not have time to count the results of the battle, because they had to defend the sandbank as soon as possible.

It was later estimated that there were at least 800 Soviet casualties and more than 100 prisoners in this battle... The reason why there were so few prisoners was that the Germans were unwilling to capture prisoners, because these prisoners were likely to become trouble for them.

There were also more than 500 Soviet soldiers who could swim. They jumped into the Volga River and fled to the east bank.

After reporting "safety" from all directions, Qinchuan reported to the headquarters through the walkie-talkie: "Successfully captured the sandbank!"

The headquarters immediately burst into cheers.