Half an hour later, even more violent bombings followed.

From the sound, we can tell that it was the Soviet long-range artillery that arrived. Under the guidance of ski soldiers, they shot into the town of Holm.

These shells brought devastating damage, and then several Soviet fighters and bombers joined the ranks of bombing and strafing. Although most of the Germans hid in buildings or hid in trenches and could not see the target at all, they still bombed the lower part indiscriminately.

Every house and even every ruin were repeatedly attacked. Sometimes, you can hear a few unique roars of the "Katyusha" rockets in the shells. The explosions of various shells and bombs shocked the entire town of Holm.

Major General Hartman has the deepest understanding of this scene.

He hid in the church east... Major General Hartman was a smart man. Of course, he knew that compared to his police force and those stragglers, the east side of the First Infantry Regiment was the safest. The east side should be the safest church. After all, this is something of faith. He believed that the Soviets would not easily shell it out, which was one of the reasons why they would concentrate the wounded in the church.

But I didn't expect that the Soviets would be able to fight.

A shell hit the church wall and exploded violently. The whole church shook for a while and a large area of ​​dust fell off from the top. The chandelier swayed over the head and made a "ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-out sound.

The wounded lost control in an instant... This is understandable. The wounded were very fragile when they were deeply injured and were extremely mentally fragile. At this time, they were somewhat unbearable to be threatened.

However, there is another extreme manifestation, which is that you can't move even if you lie down and leave the outside world chaotic. It seems that this world has nothing to do with him.

But more wounded people still made great noises and caused extreme chaos. So moans, shouts and all kinds of weird noises were everywhere, mixed with complaints about the explosion and angry curses.

Another shell fell from the sky, and the wall near the door began to collapse. Dozens of wounded people were crushed into the ruins on the spot. The dust brought by the collapse enveloped everything. The wounded people's throats were constantly choked when they coughed, making sounds like vomiting.

Those who could not move tried to climb over the more injured wounded, panicked, everyone's face was filled with fear, and they wanted to escape in despair, as if this could make them safer. There were terrifying scenes everywhere. Some staggered, crawled or walked, while others tried their best to squeeze into places they thought were safer.

However, under this hell-like massacre, how can there be a safe place? The shells fell around like raindrops, just like the god of death lifting his sickle again and again...

Finally, the bombing was over, Major General Hartman crawled out from under the table in a panic, and all he saw was a mess.

"Quick!" Major General Hartman shouted at several soldiers who were overwhelmed with panic and overwhelmed, "Dig them all!"

While the soldiers were busy, Major General Hartman cursed again: "You idiots, what can we do with just a few of us? Go and call those damn Soviets!"

"Yes, General!"

So soon a group of Soviets were requisitioned by Major General Hartmann... This is how the suffering of the Soviet people began. Danfan who had been requisitioned by the German army would regard them as traitors when the Soviets came.

However, the Soviets did not launch an attack.

If an attack was launched, it would be two tentative attacks. After being shot back by the German army, a line of defense was built a kilometer away... The purpose of their attack was to find the location of the German defense line.

"What are they doing?" Coon asked: "Why are they not attacking?"

"What?" Gerhard asked in surprise: "Aren't they attacking just now?"

"That can only be considered a test, Lieutenant Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "You will soon know what a real attack is!"

Qin Chuan knew what the Soviets were doing, just like what he said to Colonel Slein before... The purpose of the Soviets was not to intersperse the First Infantry Regiment, and of course it was not Gerhard's scattered soldiers, nor did it be Holm.

The Soviets' purpose was to cut off the retreat of the German northern army group.

From this purpose, they cannot stop just because of the town of Holm, so the clever way is to leave a few troops to surround Holm, and then the large army continues to advance.

As for Holm, it was not a threat to the Soviet army... It was just a small town, and it was only a matter of time before it could be conquered.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly. The Soviet 3rd Assault Army had a total of 4 divisions, 7 independent snow infantry battalions, etc., a total of 51,500 people.

Commander General Maxim Alexievich Pukayev ordered the 33rd Infantry Division to surround Holm, and the other troops crossed Holm and continued to move towards Daluki westward.

General Pukayev ordered Major General Vardani, the commander of the 33rd Infantry Division, and said, "Give you a week to occupy Holm!"

"Yes, General!" Major General Vardani answered confidently.

In Major General Vardani's view, there were only 5,000 German troops trapped in Holm... The Soviets could easily grasp the situation of Holm's German troops because there were inside the Soviet army.

This was the preparation made by the Soviet army during the Moscow Defense War. Because Holm was a major transportation route and had a German airport before, it had always been a logistics base and transport base for the German army.

In order to understand the German supply situation, the Soviet army of course had to arrange an inside line in Holm.

Major General Vardani believed that this was not difficult to attack the defeated generals of the German army with more than 10,000 men, and also had an absolute advantage in supply and equipment.

So Major General Vardani placed three regiments in three directions in Holm: the 164th regiment was placed in the north, the 73rd regiment was placed in the west, and the 82nd regiment was placed in the south.

Only the east side was empty because he knew that the east side was the strongest side of the German army's defense. Doing so could not only avoid the enemy's sharpness but also give the enemy a little fantasy of breaking through to achieve the goal of dismantling his morale and will.

Finally, Major General Vardani transferred the 170th Tank Battalion.

This tank battalion has twenty-five tanks, thirteen of which are T34.
Chapter completed!