Barbarossa
“For although the Russians kept their heavy and medium artillery on the east bank, they were consuming small-arms ammunition and mortar bombs at a prodigious rate, and depended on the traffic across the Volga for many other services essential to the fighting spirit of the garrison, ranging from the provision of vodka to the evacuation of wounded. The slight curve in the course of the river and the numerous islets which obstructed the stream between Rynok and Krasnaya Sloboda made it very difficu...lt to enfilade all the crossings even after guns had been installed on the right bank, and well-nigh impossible to do so at night, when the bulk of the traffic was on the move. The Germans were slow to realise this, and instead of putting all their energies into attacks at the extremities of the Russian position and working their way up and down the bank—a tactic which if successful would ultimately have left the garrison stranded on an island of rubble in the centre—they switched their effort to different points in the city, adopting the most extravagant method of simply battering away at one block after another.MoreLess
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