From the trenches and foxholes above our heads, direct-aimed high-explosive bombs were constantly roaring towards us. In the trenches in front of us, enemy infantrymen were constantly approaching and firing in the face.
It is true that the current German army is the most powerful army in Europe. Although there has been an obvious decline in combat power due to the large number of battle losses of veterans and the large number of new recruits, in the final analysis, it still has confidence, far better than the rifles at the end of the war.
It's also brand new and shiny, much better than the original factory French one.
But no matter how strong you are, there is always a limit. With cannonballs flying on your head and your face being strafed by automatic firearms, this kind of extremely strong firepower is really not something that an army of average strength can withstand.
It's not the fault that the German army isn't strong enough, it's just that Comrade Ma is too perverted.
Then, under the cover of the powerful firepower of the tank's direct fire, and the simultaneous suppression of a large number of main guns and coaxial machine guns, the Red Army infantry who shuttled between the trenches and positions made rapid progress, and the fight was extremely smooth.
These Red Army soldiers who fought according to Malashenko's newly arranged group tactics, in groups of three and five, could at least be used in close combat conditions when encountering fully-organized German infantry squads.
Semi-automatic light weapons are equally matched and will never be suppressed by the opponent's individual light weapons.
Those difficult targets were nothing more than the placement of various cunning tactics and extremely cunning German machine gun firepower points.
The general Red Army infantry would indeed have a headache when encountering such an opponent, but there was no such problem in Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division.
The first wave starts with a grenade greeting. If the grenade greeting cannot be knocked down, just throw a smoke bomb and hit the face.
That's right, it's a smoke bomb.
The projectile smoke grenade launcher seized from the German army gave Malashenko a lot of inspiration. This kind of thing can not only be used in tanks, but can also be used as a signal gun in the hands of infantry. It is considered to be one of the German equipment.
A nice little invention that is simple and practical.
After the last division-level expansion, the people under Karamov have now reached the size of a regiment, with quite a lot of personnel. Moreover, this unit that integrates logistics, baggage, repairs, and daily maintenance and upkeep does not yet need to
Participate in any front-line battle. Although you are usually responsible for a lot of work, in the final analysis, you still have a considerable personnel surplus.
With such a large group of people under his command, it is naturally impossible for Malashenko to just let them sit idle and do nothing.
Malashenko found Karamov and asked Karamov to find a way to get him some temporary modified hand-thrown smoke poppers. The quantity does not need to be too many, just test whether it works well first, and if it works well, then
The report requires mass production. In short, let's treat it as a pilot unit to test the actual combat effect.
The principle of smoke grenades is not complicated. The infantry regiment of Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division is equipped with a lot of smoke grenades fired by mortars. It's just that the size of those things is a little large, allowing the infantry to be fired anytime and anywhere.
It's not suitable to carry them around as grenades and throw them out. Karamov's job is to transform them into new varieties that are easier for infantry to carry and throw.
Karamov, who likes to do all kinds of work, happily took up the task. Considering the actual combat use proposed by Malashenko, the charge of this hand-thrown smoke grenade used to mark close-range signals is very small. The smoke generated is very small.
There is no decent smoke screen and it dissipates very quickly, but it is no problem to mark a very obvious general range within half a minute.
For example, a hand-thrown smoke grenade that is smaller than the Soviet army's own lemon grenade can produce enough smoke to cover a radius of five meters, and it can last for at least thirty seconds in an environment without strong winds before gradually emitting smoke.
dissipate.
According to Malashenko's tactical concept, such practical function is undoubtedly perfect.
At first, when this small thing that looked less like a grenade and more like a large stone was thrown at their feet, the German infantrymen who were manipulating the machine guns still felt that something was not right, and they were even slightly confused.
"Hans, why is this thing blowing out white smoke? What did the Russians throw?"
It's definitely not a grenade. Not only is the size and shape wrong, but it's also outrageous that it didn't explode within ten seconds. Delay grenades don't have such a delay.
"Is this... could it be a poison gas bomb? I heard that the Russians also studied this and captured Japanese people in the Far East for experiments. Dirk told me."
"What?! You mean gas bombs? Take out the gas mask, hurry up!"
The large-scale use of poison gas bombs is an old story from World War I, but the German army itself, as the "poison gas master" during World War I, was still quite prepared for this deadly carbon-based biological killer weapon.
There is a gas mask in the tube hanging on the back of every German soldier. This thing is like the famous "condom truth" in later generations: you should carry it with you at all times and would rather not use it, but you would never want to have it.
When I went into battle, I realized I didn't have a gun, so I carried it with me regardless of whether I needed it or not.
A few stupid German recruits, who had just been sent to the battlefield less than two months ago, took out their gas masks and prepared to fasten them on their faces. The smoke under their feet was like a large-scale New Year's fireworks, moving at an extremely fast speed.
The flames rose. Before the gas mask was completely put on, it had already filled the surroundings, permeated the air, and covered several people in it.
"Poison...poison gas, it may really be poison gas. I hope this thing can work..."
Frankly speaking, the white smoke bombs thrown by the Red Army soldiers were indeed poisonous gas, but it was not chemical poisonous gas but physical poisonous gas.
What is the specific physical poison gas method?
Just listen to the roaring cannonballs that follow.
The 85mm high-explosive grenade that escaped from the barrel came with a piercing scream of wind. There was no precise aim at the target, and there was no enemy unit directly targeted. It just whizzed towards the general direction of the rising smoke.
Come.
The flesh and blood body often does not need to be directly hit in the face of larger-caliber surface-based weapons.
The gunner who fired the shells could not really see the MG42 hidden in the trench and used lying fire to block the entire trench. However, he was right to aim in the direction of the rising smoke. This was a tactical arrangement that had been engraved in his head.
It was agreed upon in advance.
The shell finally penetrated the white smoke, triggered the fuse and exploded on the trench soil that had not completely thawed. The scattered flames and projectile fragments swept around like a storm in an instant, and several German soldiers with gas masks on their heads
The soldiers were only four or five meters away, and it was inevitable that they would be instantly devoured by flames and projectile fragments.
As for what the final result will be after this, everyone can probably guess it, so there is no need to say more.