Going back an hour, the German captain led his troops to the right bank of the Dnieper River Bridge.
When the soldiers guarding the bridge saw a figure approaching, they immediately raised their guns and asked alertly: "Stop, command!"
The German captain quickly raised his right hand to signal his troops to stop. Then he put down the big box in his hand, walked towards the sentry, and said with a smile: "Comrade soldier, we are from the 73rd Infantry Brigade, and we are ordered by the brigade commander to send some trophies back to the city. "
Hearing that the people coming were from the infantry brigade, the sentry put down his gun. He knew very well that the unit closest to the right bank of the bridge was the infantry brigade. At this moment, it seems logical to send people back to the city to deliver the loot.
Seeing clearly that the officer walking in front of him was a captain, the sentry quickly raised his hand to salute him and asked politely: "Comrade Captain, it's so late, do you still want to deliver trophies to the city?"
"No way." The German captain shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "We seized a large number of important documents during the battle and need to send them to the army headquarters overnight." After speaking, he raised his hands. He waved to the team parked not far away and motioned for them to come over.
The sentry looked at the soldiers who came over, all carrying a large box, and easily believed what the German captain said, thinking that the box contained important documents that had just been captured and were about to be sent to the headquarters.
The German captain took the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment and found that except for the sentry in front of him, in the two machine gun bunkers made of sandbags at the head of the bridge, two machine gunners were sleeping with their backs against the sandbags. Apart from that, no one else was seen. But out of caution, he tentatively asked the sentry: "Comrade soldier, why are you the only one on duty?"
The sentry didn't know that the other party was testing him, and he replied generously: "Comrade Captain, our place is in the depth of defense, and there will be no Germans at all. Therefore, when on duty every night, one person is arranged on the right bank and one on the left bank. Sentinel, the rest are resting in their rooms."
After understanding what he wanted to know, the German captain suddenly pointed in the distance with his hand and said urgently: "Look, someone seems to be coming over there again."
Hearing that someone was coming, the sentry instinctively looked in the direction pointed by the German captain. At this moment, the German captain moved. He covered the sentry's mouth with his left hand, pulled out a dagger with his right hand and wiped it on the sentry's neck.
Seeing that their commander had killed the sentry, two soldiers immediately put down the big box in their hands, pulled out their daggers and rushed into the machine gun bunker. They used the daggers to kill the two sleeping machine gunners.
Seeing that the three Soviet troops on the bridge had been killed, the German captain made a gesture to his subordinates standing at different positions, telling them to go inside and deal with the sleeping Soviet troops. After seeing his gesture, his subordinates pulled out their daggers one after another, carefully entered the room where the Soviet army rested, and started massacring the sleeping soldiers inside.
The German soldiers were very fast and the battle was quietly resolved in less than five minutes. A German second lieutenant came over and asked the captain: "Mr. Captain, what should we do next?"
The captain looked towards the other side and could vaguely see a sentry carrying a rifle walking back and forth at the bridgehead on the left bank a few hundred meters away. If you take someone through the bridge and enter the left bank, you will definitely be discovered by the other party. Rather than exposing your target, you might as well place the explosives near the right bank, which can also destroy the bridge.
"Second Lieutenant, take a few people off the bridge from here and place the explosives we carry at key locations to ensure effective blasting of the bridge."
The second lieutenant agreed, called a few soldiers, climbed over the railing and climbed under the bridge, and began to plant explosives in preparation for blowing up the bridge over the Dnieper River.
Placing explosives seems simple, but in order to blow up this strong bridge, you must find the key support points of the bridge. The best blasting point must be in the middle of the bridge. But in order not to be discovered by the Soviet army on the left bank, the German army could only place the blasting point close to the right bank. With the help of moonlight, the second lieutenant searched for more than half an hour before he found a suitable location.
Just as the Germans began to plant explosives, the soldiers on duty saw a convoy approaching from the left bank and quickly reported to the captain: "Mr. Captain, I see a convoy approaching from the left bank."
The German captain was worried that the convoy crossing the bridge by itself would expose his small team, so he quickly came out to observe the situation. After watching for a while, he discovered that his whereabouts might have been discovered by the Soviet army, because the convoy stopped at the bridge, and then hundreds of Soviet soldiers got off.
He quickly turned around and ordered: "Put those two machine guns here. Once you find something is wrong, shoot immediately. Before we blow up the bridge, we must not let the Russians get close."
As soon as the two turntable machine guns were in place, there were dozens of Soviet soldiers on the left bank, forming a scattered formation and heading towards the right bank along the bridge. Seeing the Soviet soldiers crossing the center of the bridge and getting closer and closer to him, the captain suddenly waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Fire!"
The crazy machine gun fire knocked down seven or eight soldiers who were caught off guard. The rest either lay down on the spot or hid behind the steel beams of the bridge to avoid the dense bullets fired by the Germans. The German captain was lying on the side of the bridge, looking under the bridge and asked loudly: "Second Lieutenant, how long do you have to complete the blasting preparations?"
The second lieutenant who was placing explosives under the bridge heard the captain's shout and quickly raised his head and replied: "Mr. Captain, the explosives cannot be directly fixed on the blasting point. We are trying to find a way to tie it up. It may take more than ten minutes." time."
"Hurry up." Although the German captain was anxious, he was helpless when he heard what the second lieutenant said. He could only say to the other party: "The Russians have already rushed up. I don't think I can stop them for long."
"I will be as quick as possible, Mr. Captain."
When the special company launched an attack from the left bank to the enemy-occupied right bank bridgehead, several companies of the infantry brigade had already arrived near the bridge and were ready for battle.
In fact, Mikhailev had already arrived here half an hour ago. He observed the movement on the bridge through the telescope and saw two sentries walking back and forth on the bridge. There were machine gunners in the two machine gun bunkers piled with sandbags, looking in all directions warily.
Seeing this scene, Mikhailev had a question in his heart: Could it be that there was something wrong with his judgment, and the enemy's goal was not to blow up the bridge at all? In order to find out what was going on, he ordered the troops to stop approaching the bridge to avoid misunderstandings with the soldiers guarding the bridge.
Going back an hour, the German captain led his troops to the right bank of the Dnieper River Bridge.
When the soldiers guarding the bridge saw a figure approaching, they immediately raised their guns and asked alertly: "Stop, command!"
The German captain quickly raised his right hand to signal his troops to stop. Then he put down the big box in his hand, walked towards the sentry, and said with a smile: "Comrade soldier, we are from the 73rd Infantry Brigade, and we are ordered by the brigade commander to send some trophies back to the city. "
Hearing that the people coming were from the infantry brigade, the sentry put down his gun. He knew very well that the unit closest to the right bank of the bridge was the infantry brigade. At this moment, it seems logical to send people back to the city to deliver the loot.
Seeing clearly that the officer walking in front of him was a captain, the sentry quickly raised his hand to salute him and asked politely: "Comrade Captain, it's so late, do you still want to deliver trophies to the city?"
"No way." The German captain shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "We seized a large number of important documents during the battle and need to send them to the army headquarters overnight." After speaking, he raised his hands. He waved to the team parked not far away and motioned for them to come over.
The sentry looked at the soldiers who came over, all carrying a large box, and easily believed what the German captain said, thinking that the box contained important documents that had just been captured and were about to be sent to the headquarters.
The German captain took the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment and found that except for the sentry in front of him, in the two machine gun bunkers made of sandbags at the head of the bridge, two machine gunners were sleeping with their backs against the sandbags. Apart from that, no one else was seen. But out of caution, he tentatively asked the sentry: "Comrade soldier, why are you the only one on duty?"
The sentry didn't know that the other party was testing him, and he replied generously: "Comrade Captain, our place is in the depth of defense, and there will be no Germans at all. Therefore, when on duty every night, one person is arranged on the right bank and one on the left bank. Sentinel, the rest are resting in their rooms."
After understanding what he wanted to know, the German captain suddenly pointed in the distance with his hand and said urgently: "Look, someone seems to be coming over there again."
Hearing that someone was coming, the sentry instinctively looked in the direction pointed by the German captain. At this moment, the German captain moved. He covered the sentry's mouth with his left hand, pulled out a dagger with his right hand and wiped it on the sentry's neck.
Seeing that their commander had killed the sentry, two soldiers immediately put down the big box in their hands, pulled out their daggers and rushed into the machine gun bunker. They used the daggers to kill the two sleeping machine gunners.
Seeing that the three Soviet soldiers on the bridge had been killed, the German captain made a gesture to his subordinates standing in different positions, telling them to go inside and deal with the sleeping Soviet soldiers. After seeing his gesture, his subordinates pulled out their daggers one after another, carefully entered the room where the Soviet army rested, and started massacring the sleeping soldiers inside.
The German soldiers were very fast and the battle was quietly resolved in less than five minutes. A German second lieutenant came over and asked the captain: "Mr. Captain, what should we do next?"
The captain looked towards the other side and could vaguely see a sentry carrying a rifle walking back and forth at the bridgehead on the left bank a few hundred meters away. If you take someone through the bridge and enter the left bank, you will definitely be discovered by the other party. Rather than exposing your target, you might as well place the explosives near the right bank, which can also destroy the bridge.
"Second Lieutenant, take a few people off the bridge from here and place the explosives we carry at key locations to ensure effective blasting of the bridge."
The second lieutenant agreed, called a few soldiers, climbed over the railing and climbed under the bridge, and began to plant explosives in preparation for blowing up the bridge over the Dnieper River.
Placing explosives seems simple, but in order to blow up this strong bridge, you must find the key support points of the bridge. The best blasting point must be in the middle of the bridge. But in order not to be discovered by the Soviet army on the left bank, the German army could only place the blasting point close to the right bank. With the help of moonlight, the second lieutenant searched for more than half an hour before he found a suitable location.
Just as the Germans began to plant explosives, the soldiers on duty saw a convoy approaching from the left bank and quickly reported to the captain: "Mr. Captain, I see a convoy approaching from the left bank."
The German captain was worried that the convoy crossing the bridge by itself would expose his small team, so he quickly came out to observe the situation. After watching for a while, he discovered that his whereabouts might have been discovered by the Soviet army, because the convoy stopped at the bridge, and then hundreds of Soviet soldiers got off.
He quickly turned around and ordered: "Put those two machine guns here. Once you find something is wrong, shoot immediately. Before we blow up the bridge, we must not let the Russians get close."
As soon as the two turntable machine guns were in place, there were dozens of Soviet soldiers on the left bank, forming a scattered formation and heading towards the right bank along the bridge. Seeing the Soviet soldiers crossing the center of the bridge and getting closer and closer to him, the captain suddenly waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Fire!"
The crazy machine gun fire knocked down seven or eight soldiers who were caught off guard. The rest either lay down on the spot or hid behind the steel beams of the bridge to avoid the dense bullets fired by the Germans. The German captain was lying on the side of the bridge, looking under the bridge and asked loudly: "Second Lieutenant, how long do you have to complete the blasting preparations?"
The second lieutenant who was placing explosives under the bridge heard the captain's shout and quickly raised his head and replied: "Mr. Captain, the explosives cannot be directly fixed on the blasting point. We are trying to find a way to tie it up. It may take more than ten minutes." time."
"Hurry up." Although the German captain was anxious, he was helpless when he heard what the second lieutenant said. He could only say to the other party: "The Russians have already rushed up. I don't think I can stop them for long."
"I will be as quick as possible, Mr. Captain."
When the special company launched an attack from the left bank to the enemy-occupied right bank bridgehead, several companies of the infantry brigade had already arrived near the bridge and were ready for battle.
In fact, Mikhailev had already arrived here half an hour ago. He observed the movement on the bridge through the telescope and saw two sentries walking back and forth on the bridge. There were machine gunners in the two machine gun bunkers piled with sandbags, looking around vigilantly.
Seeing this scene, Mikhailev had a question in his heart: Could it be that there was something wrong with his judgment, and the enemy's goal was not to blow up the bridge at all? In order to find out what was going on, he ordered the troops to stop approaching the bridge to avoid misunderstandings with the soldiers guarding the bridge.
