Being greeted personally by Commander Paulus's chief adjutant was already a great honor for an ordinary sergeant.
Normally, this sergeant would express gratitude to Colonel Adam, salute, shake hands, and smile with a very respectful attitude.
But now, the sergeant, who was about to die, no longer had the strength to even sit up from the hospital bed.
"We hid behind a wall to rest... where were all the people."
As Colonel Adam listened quietly, the sergeant who temporarily stopped moaning in pain began to tell his story.
"Everyone thought that the Russians were far away and would not appear for at least half an hour, but it turned out that all of us were wrong."
"Russian sappers...Russian sapper commandos used explosives to blow open the walls. They've always done that."
"They concentrated explosives and submachine guns. Those engineer commandos are well-equipped and have a lot of combat experience. If we fight hand-to-hand, we are often the ones who fail and suffer the consequences. This has always been the case."
"I was very close to the wall at the time... I was leaning against the wall while eating to replenish my strength. The explosive blew me away about five or six meters. I fainted. When I woke up, the battle was over."
"I'm very lucky, Mr. Colonel... There was a company of soldiers in our yard and building. The Russian engineer commando team was defeated and quickly withdrew, leaving more than a dozen people behind.
We have more than twenty corpses. Their... er, submachine gun called Bobosha is very powerful. If such a thing can be captured, everyone will be happy to use it. "
Colonel Adam couldn't help but frowned when he heard this, showing a rather unhappy expression on his face.
Ever since he entered the main city of Stalingrad and started fighting in the streets, "praise" and "praising" about the Russian's charge kept coming to his ears.
So in the end, Colonel Adam couldn't hold back his strong curiosity. When he went to inspect the front-line troops, he deliberately took away two of the captured Bobosha submachine guns, wanting to see this touted gadget.
What's so good about it.
As the saying goes, you don’t know if you don’t try, but you’ll be surprised if you try.
Taking two Bobosha submachine guns, he went to a deserted place and randomly fired two drum drums to test the guns. Colonel Adam, who was an infantryman, quickly understood why the soldiers on the front line called this thing "Stalin's."
Harvester".
Rate of fire, persistence of fire, and even shooting accuracy within the effective shooting range...
This wooden submachine gun that looks rough in workmanship can be said to be impeccable! When Colonel Adam tried the gun, he even felt like he couldn't stop pulling the trigger. A row full of glass bottles and iron cans was used by Colonel Adam with only one
If the drum can't be played, it will fly all over the ground.
Although he did not want to admit the superiority of the so-called "inferior races", Colonel Adam, who was greatly shocked after the gun test, could not help but realize that even the most basic individual weapons in the hands of the Russians had surpassed his own.
At least in close combat such as street fighting, the MP38 and MP40 submachine guns equipped by our own standard are inferior to the Russian Bobosha and even a fire stick! The frontline soldiers said that they were pressed and beaten by this thing, which is not true.
No bragging or falsehood at all!
If I had to say it, the Somi submachine gun purchased from Finland might be able to overwhelm this Russian guy's Bobosha.
But the submachine gun made in Finland is ridiculously expensive! It is much higher than the purchase price of a machine gun!
Germany, which is rich and wealthy, has not purchased many Somi submachine guns from Finland, and they are basically equipped to the Führer's armed SS and some elite units of the Wehrmacht, such as the newly expanded and upgraded Grossdeutschland Infantry Division.
As for the general Wehrmacht troops, they are far from wealthy enough to equip them with Somi submachine guns. The cheap MP38 and MP40 are the only options.
The semi-disabled sergeant, who was tired after talking, began to lie on the bed again and continued to groan in pain.
Colonel Adam, who had a dark face and said nothing, was about to turn around and leave, but a sergeant who looked like his arm was only injured and wearing a bandage suddenly interrupted and stopped Colonel Adam from leaving.
"We are not fighting there, we are in a slaughterhouse, Mr. Colonel."
"There is no real position in Stalingrad at all, there are damn ruins everywhere! The Russians can suddenly attack us from any place, any unexpected position. God, Mr. Colonel, have you seen the ruins that speak Russian?
?I’ve seen it! Everyone here has seen it!”
"Our superiors asked us to attack fiercely. If we can't capture the Russian position, it means the offensive is not strong enough. We must continue to increase the intensity of the offensive. I know it's ugly to use swear words, but this is simply fart! Not to mention that the position is not strong enough at all.
existence, even if we attack more violently, it will only make us lose our lives faster."
Colonel Adam was born into the Junker aristocracy and had the unique elegance and reserved aristocratic temperament of the Junker aristocratic officer corps. He was the kind of person who understood the truth that "loyalty is hard on the ears but helps the deeds". He was also very willing to listen to the complaints and complaints of the grassroots soldiers below.
At least in Colonel Adam's own view, a brief complaint from a lower-level soldier is often much better than a group of officers sitting in a conference room discussing for a long time.
Colonel Adam, who was interested, was about to turn around and order the sergeant to continue speaking. Unexpectedly, the sergeant's words had already resonated with the seriously wounded on the surrounding beds and the lightly wounded sitting on the ground.
"We should learn from those Russians, Mr. Colonel. They are all veterans of street fighting, skilled hunters, good at using every bunker and ruins, every pile of rocks and broken walls like the natural comrades of the Russians. Those
The Russians can attack us from any unexpected place, which we have not yet been able to do."
Before coming to the field hospital, Colonel Adam had already expected that the Sixth Army, which suffered heavy casualties, would definitely experience some depression and low morale, because even Colonel Adam himself felt that those Russians were simply too powerful in the city, so powerful that it was impossible to
Like the same old rival.
But Colonel Adam never expected that the wounded soldiers' "admiration" and frustration for the Russians would reach such an extent.
"You have such an army that can attack the sky!"
Colonel Adam, who was in a daze for a moment, suddenly remembered the words the Führer had said to Paulus himself when he praised the Sixth Army.
Colonel Adam was a little distracted as the voice of the Führer kept echoing in his mind. How could the Sixth Army undergo such a big change in just half a month? What is the problem?