Chapter 695 Le Xilin

Before this, the Soviet air defense forces had obviously ignored Mamayev Kurgan, but now it was different. They had replenished the air defense forces in the direction of Mamayev Kurgan in large quantities.

This can be seen from the several German fighter planes that were shot down in succession in the air.

One of the "Junkers 88" bombers that was carrying out the bombing mission was severely damaged by the Soviet anti-aircraft guns... Qin Chuan and the German soldiers watched black clouds rising around the bomber. The "Junkers 88" shook irregularly, and then the left engine caught fire and circled in the air, slowly descending to the north, dragging a puff of black smoke behind it, and then exploded in the distance with a bang.

Although this time was very short, a white thing still fell behind the plane... A pilot successfully parachuted.

(Note: There are four pilots in the Junkers 8A4)

Perhaps because of the wind direction, the pilot's parachute actually floated towards Mamayev Kurgan.

The Soviets had obviously discovered it, so anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, and even various light and heavy machine guns fired into the sky.

Colonel Slain immediately ordered the artillery observer to guide the artillery fire suppression. It only took a few seconds for a shell to hit Mamayev Kurgan... In fact, Mamayev Kurgan was a target that could be seen by the naked eye within a radius of more than ten miles, and the artillery had already set up all the parameters.

The mortars of the 1st Infantry Regiment also joined the bombing, and the Soviet firepower was quickly suppressed. There was no sound for a full half minute.

The parachute floated over the position of the 1st Infantry Regiment, and the pilot landed safely dozens of meters behind the trench, with holes all over the parachute.

Several soldiers rushed up, carrying a stretcher, and then pushed the pilot onto the stretcher without thinking, and ran for a while, and jumped into the trench with a leap.

The pilot had been frightened to the point of being pale and gasping for breath, but after the medic checked him, he found that the only wound on his body was a scratch from a stone when he jumped into the trench.

"You are such a lucky guy!" The medic patted the pilot's butt in a playful manner.

"You are right!" The pilot came to his senses at this time. He looked at the Soviet position opposite and said thankfully: "My parachute has lost control. If it had drifted a little further..."

After a pause, the pilot added: "Thank you, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would definitely have died!"

Looking at the pilot led away by the medic, Werner whistled and said: "Sometimes I really envy these guys flying in the sky!"

"Why?" asked the baker.

"Because if we were in danger..." Werner replied: "They would definitely not be willing to use so many shells to suppress the enemy's firepower to rescue me!"

"I said they would, Werner!" said Yakop.

"What?" Werner couldn't believe what he heard.

"How about we make a bet!" Yakop said, "Give it a try?"

The soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

The days of being stationed in the trenches without attacking or retreating can only be passed by relying on such small things and small humor.

Of course, there are occasionally some rare situations... When the enemy and us are in a stalemate, a group of new recruits are added to the 1st Infantry Regiment.

As mentioned before, the German training camp was already in name only at this time, so this group of new recruits were thrown directly from Berlin to the front line.

They were almost scared by this scene, so some of them secretly crawled along the trenches, stretched their hands high over the trench walls, and sometimes shook them outside to attract the attention of the Soviet soldiers on the opposite side...

Seeing this, Qin Chuan could only shake his head secretly.

Many soldiers actually saw it, but everyone tacitly did not stop them, because such soldiers often could not survive for a few days on the front line, and even worse, they might be killed if they cooperated with them, so it might not be a bad thing to let them go home in this way.

On the fifth day, Colonel Slaine finally gave the order.

"Ten minutes of bombardment!" Colonel Slaine said, "Then withdraw from the position and move to the second line, understand?"

"Understood!" Qin Chuan replied.

"Let the soldiers prepare for earthquakes!" Colonel Slaine added.

"Yes, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied.

Although there have been many bombing experiences, and the intensity of the bombing may not be less than that of the giant cannon, because the explosion force of the aerial bomb is even greater than that of the giant cannon, especially when fighting the US military in Africa.

But Qin Chuan still couldn't help but look forward to this world-famous "Dora" and "Karl".

As several red flares rose into the sky, the sound of artillery soon sounded... In fact, the red flares were completely unnecessary, just to make the Soviet army mistakenly believe that the German army would launch an attack.

Then a large area of ​​howitzer shells poured towards Mamayev Kurgan.

Qin Chuan and others certainly had no intention of watching the battle. They turned around and retreated to the second line 700 meters behind along the winding communication trench.

This was mainly because they were worried that the accuracy of "Dora" and "Karl" was insufficient and they would accidentally bomb the German defense line. The violent vibrations would be enough to kill the German soldiers in the trenches.

Then Qin Chuan shouted: "Lie down, pay attention to shock prevention!"

The soldiers certainly knew what shock prevention was... Try not to touch the ground with your body but support it with your limbs, so that only a small part of the energy from the ground will be transmitted to the body without causing shock to the internal organs.

Perhaps to give the frontline troops more time to prepare, or perhaps the "Dora" troops were not well prepared. Qin Chuan waited for a long time but still heard no unusual sound from the artillery, so he could not help but climb up from the trench and look at Mamayev Kurgan, which was being bombarded with dust by shells.

As a result, at this moment, a strange whistling sound came from the sky. It was the whistling of shells, but louder, more like the sound of V1 flying at high speed in the air.

Qin Chuan was about to retract his head but it was too late. There was a loud "boom" and the ground shook violently, so that Qin Chuan could not stand and almost fell into the trench. What was strange was that the smoke and dust on Mamayev Kurgan was not much... Qin Chuan originally thought that such a large shell would explode and there would be something like a mushroom cloud.

Later, I learned that "Dora" fired a kind of earth-penetrating bomb called "Leshilin".

The German army designed the "Dora" to deal with the French Maginot Line, which was mostly underground fortifications, which required its shells to have the ability to drill into the ground.

The "Lechlin" shells fired by the "Dora" can penetrate 8 meters of concrete and explode underground.

It is no wonder that Major General Wittelsheim thought of using these huge cannons to deal with the tunnels in Stalingrad.