"Understood, please confirm. The self-propelled artillery unit is about to enter the city. Support is on the way. Please be prepared."
"Received, please continue to attack according to the original plan. Repeat, continue to attack according to the original plan and advance towards the core area."
Once the battle begins, the forward headquarters of the leading division will be busy. The sound of various communications and noises is comparable to the vegetable market in the early morning, but it is busy and orderly, and there is no chaos in the busyness.
Malashenko, who is still in command today, is reviewing various information that is constantly being collected, and then building a complete and ever-changing battlefield situation model to ensure a full understanding of the confrontation between the enemy and ourselves on the line of fire as much as possible.
Malashenko, who was sitting behind the desk in the command hall, was reading a telegram that had just been sent. Kulbalov, who had just made a phone call a few seconds ago, was facing his comrade, the division commander.
Come on, speak up and report.
"Good news, Comrade Commander!"
"News came from the forward siege team that the enemy defenses on the main road in the center of the construction area have been breached, and the remaining enemy forces are fleeing towards the core area. The siege team suffered minor losses and is continuing to advance as planned."
"Well, how strong is the enemy's resistance?"
As if he was not surprised to hear something that was already destined, Malashenko, whose expression did not change at all, then asked in a deep voice. He probably expected that Comrade Commander's expression was not surprising to Kurbalo.
The husband replied immediately.
"As Comrade Political Commissar predicted and analyzed before, the further we advance, the intensity of the enemy's resistance will increase exponentially."
"It seems that those tall outer buildings did block most of the direct artillery barrage, and the bombing intensity of aerial bombs alone was not enough to completely destroy the building area. It should be that most of the Germans hid in the basement during the bombing. In short,
The enemy's current strength can still cause a lot of trouble, and the survival rate of technical equipment is currently higher than expected."
Tanks, aircraft, artillery, these heavy firepower equipment are very useful, but usefulness does not mean omnipotence.
It is no exaggeration to say that the ability of large first-tier cities to resist and absorb heavy firepower is the strongest among all battlefield environments.
This strength does not mean that conventional weapons are difficult to destroy, but that in the next era, mankind's top weapons - nuclear weapons, will be difficult to destroy modern first-tier metropolises.
To this day, Malashenko still clearly remembers that at the peak of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the number of nuclear warheads the United States planned to use to bomb Moscow was not three, nor thirty, but more than three hundred.
pellets.
Of course, the Americans are not stupid and would not bomb a piece of rotten land that has been plowed into deep pits and ruins with nuclear weapons more than 300 times just for fun.
The reason for doing this is very simple: to ensure the complete destruction of the Russian brains and eradicate the roots.
The ability of modern first-tier cities to digest and absorb any energy-containing explosions is so strong that a nuclear bomb's air explosion will not destroy an underground nuclear-proof bunker with three defense facilities on the lower floor of the building, but the power of a nuclear bomb's ground-to-ground explosion can blow up an underground nuclear bunker.
, but the shock wave will be severely blocked by high-rise buildings, greatly weakening the dispersion power, and the killing radius will plummet to an unacceptable level.
Therefore, no matter which explosion mode is used before or after, it is difficult to handle. The only solution is to pile up the amount, so that even if a nuclear bomb is exploded, its severely weakened damage range can completely cover an entire city and be bombed repeatedly.
No hidden dangers are left.
What? You mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Compared to places like Berlin, Moscow, and Washington, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are nothing like first-tier cities, are just fucking villages in the city. They have weak defense capabilities and cannot be regarded as modern first-tier cities to withstand nuclear explosions.
Powerful reference sample.
We are well aware that large first-tier cities have an astonishing ability to digest and absorb nuclear weapons, let alone conventional weapons.
Malashenko, who had personally experienced the Battle of Stalingrad, would certainly not be surprised that so many Germans survived along with their equipment under the seemingly overwhelming artillery fire and aerial bombardment.
Or to put it another way, after being bombarded indiscriminately, the German guy can still crawl all over the ground and swarm out like a cockroach nest. In Malashenko's view, this is expected.
"Reasonable and appropriate".
Moreover, Malashenko, who had long expected that such a situation would happen, had indeed prepared corresponding back-up measures, just waiting to take action.
"We don't have time to work with the scum. Send the TOS-1s, all the basic prototypes and mass-produced models, leaving no one behind. Make sure that every siege unit can get enough fire support.
, aim at any bunker occupied by the Germans, and shoot it for me."
At least for Malashenko, the reason why the TOS-1, a weapon that should not have been born at this time, can come out now is not only to make up for the gap in the mid-range fire support range of the leader division, but also to
The purpose was still for the Battle of Berlin, or any fierce street fighting that took place on German soil in the later stages of the war.
Malashenko had already personally experienced the Battle of Stalingrad once and did not want to have a similar experience again in his life.
When a person is still alive, it is enough to go to hell once. There is no need to drag his comrades and brothers to go there a second time like a coward. And TOS-1 is when Malashenko declined the invitation to hell and
The final answer given to it.
Berlin will indeed be a hell, but don't get me wrong, it is the hell of your thugs, not my leader.
Under Malashenko's direct order, launch boxes full of ammunition were set up at the starting position at the entrance of the block, and the fully armed rocket assault tanks set off immediately.
Being able to witness with one's own eyes these steel behemoths, which are even bigger than the IS7, line up and rumble through the block, disperse at the entrance of the block, and then look forward to the battlefield at the end of the square, which is not too far ahead.
The siege troops successfully captured the city, and rushed straight into the outer construction area where the threat of direct fire had been eliminated, feeling the roar of machinery and the flying dust so close at hand.
I have to say, this is indeed heart-warming and exciting.
So much so that the soldiers of the Reserve Division of the Leader's Division who were also on the starting position, waiting for follow-up reinforcements and attack orders, all shouted loudly when they saw this scene, and their morale was astonishing.
"Come on! Land bombers, blow up those naughty butts!"
"The great leader is invincible! Ula!!!"
"Onward, comrades! Onward! Victory belongs to us!"