Chapter 1593

Trekov and I, as well as the war chief bereyavsky, stood on the bell tower of the church, holding up our binoculars and looking at the motorcade passing through the pontoon one after another. Trakov's face was wearing a smile that could not be disguised. Perhaps he was thinking that the more motorcades crossing the bridge, the more materials he hoarded in the West Bank's magnushev landing site. After the tank troops passed, he would be able to expand the landing site by adding two divisions.

He didn't notice that I was absent-minded. Instead, he said excitedly, "look, Rita, in just an hour, almost a hundred trucks have passed the pontoon. At this rate, when it gets dark, the landing site will be able to store enough materials for at least three months. If we can transfer two more tank brigades, we can double the area of the landing site in the near future. "

Seeing his optimistic attitude, I didn't want to pour cold water on him to disappoint him, but in order to keep him from being complacent, I kindly reminded him, "general trakov, this floating bridge we built may not take long to be discovered by German reconnaissance planes, and then the enemy will send bombers to carry out bombing."

Trekov put down his telescope, turned to look at me and said, "the German army will find out sooner or later about our floating bridge over the visva river. But they are not afraid even if they send out bombers. The Polish anti-aircraft artillery regiment deployed at the ferry can make them come back

Seeing that trakov was so confident, I said with a bitter smile: "Comrade General, you should know better than me that the Polish Anti-aircraft Artillery Force has just been established. Perhaps the commanders and fighters have performed very well in the training field, but after all, they have never been on the battlefield and have no combat experience. After the emergence of German planes, they can play half of their training level, Well, thank God for that. "

"It won't be that serious," trekov said dubiously. "Even if Polish antiaircraft artillery have no combat experience, thirty or forty m1039 type 37mm on both sides of the Strait can fire at the same time, forming a dense fire network above the ferry. As long as the German planes break in, they can't escape the fate of being shot down."

"Enemy aircraft!" General bereyavsky, standing beside him, suddenly called out.

"Where is it?" Trekov and I immediately asked in unison.

Bereyavsky raised his hand and pointed to the air, and said aloud, "at 11 o'clock, we found an enemy plane."

I looked in the direction he had directed and found that it was just an unarmed reconnaissance plane coming towards the ferry. After seeing the enemy aircraft in the air, trakov sighed and said easily, "Comrade chief of operations, you are so surprised. This is just a German reconnaissance plane."

I turned my telescope and looked at the anti-aircraft guns in the two sections of the pontoon. I saw that there were camouflage nets on these air defense positions, which covered dozens of anti-aircraft guns tightly. But without waiting for me to breathe a sigh of relief, I suddenly heard the sound of dense anti-aircraft gun fire.

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing this situation, trikov almost hit his chin directly on the ground. He raised his hand to his forehead and said with an expression of Agony: "these idiots, the German reconnaissance plane is still a few kilometers away, so they are in a hurry to open fire. Isn't that exposing the target?"

I know very well that this kind of 37mm antiaircraft gun is mainly used to attack low altitude aircraft. For high altitude reconnaissance aircraft, the effect is not very good. Moreover, it can fire from such a distance. This round of firing not only wasted high explosive armour piercing ammunition, but also exposed the location of the antiaircraft gun prematurely.

The German reconnaissance plane flew over the visva River, completely ignoring the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, circled twice in the air, then turned around and headed north.

Seeing the return of the German reconnaissance plane, I couldn't help feeling a little worried. I immediately yelled to trakov, "general trakov, please call Colonel prokopovich of the antiaircraft artillery division immediately and ask him to adjust the position of the antiaircraft artillery immediately."

But trekov just gave me a strange look and said, "don't worry, Rita. If the German army wants to send bombers to bomb our bridges, it must lower the altitude, and then our anti-aircraft artillery will be able to swat them down like flies. "

Seeing that trikov trusted the antiaircraft artillery regiment by the river too much, I didn't talk to him anymore. Instead, I went directly to the corner of the clock tower, picked up the phone on the table and called the headquarters of the front army. After a brief report to rokosovsky, I put forward my own request: "marshal, please send a fighter squadron to patrol the visva river immediately to prevent possible German bombing."

Listen to me so urgently, rokosovsky realized the seriousness of the problem. After a moment of silence, he replied decisively, "I will contact the air force immediately. The fighter squadron will arrive at the battlefield in half an hour to provide you with the necessary air cover."

German bombers came faster than I expected. More than a dozen bombers easily crossed the firepower network of Polish antiaircraft artillery regiment and dived down in two ways. All the way to attack the anti-aircraft artillery positions that are firing, and all the way to bomb the floating bridge that is open to traffic.

One of the enemy planes that bombed the pontoon opened fire on the car moving on the pontoon. The enemy plane's airborne machine gun sprayed with flame tongue plowed over the bridge, killing the driver in the car on the spot. The out of control car fell into the turbulent visva River, splashing a huge spray.

Then the second enemy plane behind tried to attack the second car, but the experienced driver stepped on the brake in time, and the bullet made two huge holes in the bridge deck. After the enemy plane pulled up, the driver stepped on the accelerator and rushed forward, trying to rush down the bridge. Following the dive, the enemy plane did not strafe any more, but dropped two bombs directly. The bomb went over the bridge and landed in the water. It exploded, setting off two jets of water. The two engineers standing on the wooden boat were also thrown into the water. Then came the enemy plane, either dropped bombs or strafed, destroyed several cars running on the bridge, and the burning vehicles blocked the vehicles behind. The vehicles parked on the bridge immediately became the targets of German attack. Little effort, nearly a kilometer of bridge deck, full of burning vehicles, drivers have jumped into the river to escape. In addition to the German attack on the pontoon, the anti-aircraft artillery positions on both sides of the Strait were also heavily bombed by the German army. Although the soldiers of the Polish army were extremely tenacious, due to their lack of combat experience, the anti-aircraft guns on the positions were constantly destroyed by the German bombs, and the soldiers fell into a pool of blood one by one, but they didn't even fight an enemy plane. With the loss of more and more anti-aircraft guns, the artillery fire on the air defense position becomes sparse. In the face of the enemy planes that dive, drop bombs and strafe from time to time, the living artillery still stick to their posts and bravely fight the last battle. I saw an enemy plane turn around and fly towards the church. I cried out in a hurry: "no, the enemy is coming towards us. Move quickly." At the moment, trikov finally followed the good example and ran out of the church with me towards the bomb shelter. But as soon as our party rushed into the bomb shelter, there was a shaking explosion behind us. Turning around, we saw that the church we had just escaped had collapsed because it was directly hit by the bomb“ Deputy commander comrade, "seeing this scene, bereyavsky said happily," fortunately you told us to move in time, otherwise we would be buried in the ruins now. " I didn't speak. I just gave him a faint smile. My heart said that the church is on the hillside, and you can see the area with a radius of more than ten kilometers. At the same time, it's also the most eye-catching target. It's strange that the German found it and didn't get bombed. I looked up in the air and thought to myself: why haven't our fighters arrived at the battlefield yet? Ten minutes later, our fighter finally arrived late. Although the number of fighters dispatched is far more than that of rokosovsky's commitment, at least two brigades, they are still late. At the moment, the direction of the visva river is full of fire and smoke. After the fighters arrived over the visva River, they started a dogfight with the German bombers, successfully shot down three and injured two. The remaining enemy planes quickly dropped the bombs and fled the battlefield. When the three of us drove past the anti-aircraft gun position, we found that it had already become a piece of scorched earth, with craters all over it, and there was a strong smell of blood in the smoke in the air. The surviving artillery soldiers are trying to collect the bodies of their dead comrades and put them neatly on a flat open ground. When we came to the river, we found that the situation here was even worse. There were vehicles destroyed by enemy planes and the remains of soldiers all over the bank. The floating bridge across the viswa river is now only 30 to 40 meters away on both sides of the river. The rest of the bridge has disappeared. I don't know whether it sank in the river or was washed away by the rapid water. Trikov looked at all this without expression and murmured, "the Germans owe us another blood debt. Sooner or later, we will ask them to pay back."“ Two hours, "bereyavsky continued," our pontoon was only used for two hours, and it was destroyed by the German army. If you give us just one more hour, we can get at least one tank brigade across“ Comrades in charge of operations, "I heard bereyavsky say so, and immediately pointed to the burning vehicles on the shore and said to him," don't forget that our tanks have no air defense capability. Once they are attacked by enemy planes when they cross the bridge, they can only sit and wait for death. In that way, our losses will be even greater. "