"Support, we suffered heavy casualties! Where is the first team!? We need support!"
"Bullets! Who still has bullets? Give them to me...ah!"
Fully automatic weapons such as submachine guns and machine guns are indeed quite useful in tunnels with narrow terrain and can exert good combat effectiveness.
But the same principle as when a bitch meets a rapist also applies to war. Tunnel combat, where automatic weapons are supposed to be powerful, unfortunately ends up with something as unreasonable as a flamethrower.
The flamethrower, a war demon created by humans, can be said to be one of the most brutal and inhumane individual weapons in the history of human warfare. Dealing with flamethrowers in open terrain is already nerve-wracking enough, but now in this kind of terrain
Faced with the power of flamethrowers in narrow underground tunnels, it is easy to imagine how bad the situation faced by the German army was.
The merciless flames galloped across a length of more than 30 meters, burning the German troops in the tunnel corridor into burning men running around, with constant wailing.
Those who were burned to death on the spot were a belated relief. Those who were not completely burned to death but whose bodies were on fire had to continue to suffer. And those who were not on fire but watched their teammates being burned alive were the only survivors.
The German army was not much better. The double torture of huge mental and inner pressure was almost crushing people alive!
"I can't stand it anymore! I can't stand it anymore! This is simply hell. We are dying, not fighting! I'm going to surrender to the Russians. It's such a worthless death!"
The bursting of a dam begins with a small gap at the beginning. Whether what happens after that will spiral out of control and become irreversible depends on whether someone can step forward and block the gap in time.
Fortunately, although the German army is currently in a crisis, there are still people who can step forward to turn the tide at critical moments.
boom--
The young panzer grenadier who put down his MP40 submachine gun had just run out not far when a gunshot from behind forcibly interrupted his steps before he could land again.
The German soldier who was shot through the chest from behind didn't even have the strength to struggle to look at the wound. When he struggled, he threw himself forward and fell to the ground. He lay face to face on the ground and died after only a few struggles.
With the sound, large amounts of blood gushed out from the wound and soon formed a pool of blood. The other German soldiers who had witnessed this horrific scene were horrified.
"I did what the Russians would definitely do! Do you think the Russians will let us go if we just surrender like this? If you know the correct answer, you should know what to do next!"
Although the words are simple, the truth is profound.
Being selected into the commando team to do this job is almost certain to be a life-and-death job. These nearly a hundred German soldiers may not all be die-hard and fanatical believers of the Führer, but at least they are loyal followers of the Führer.
A dead soldier who was determined to leave without any return and had no intention of leaving alive from the beginning.
As for the coward who was so frightened that he dropped his weapon and ran to find the Russians to surrender, to put it bluntly, his mental endurance was not up to standard. The determination he made before setting off was hardened by the inhumane flamethrower.
Just defeated.
If he had really been too cowardly from the beginning, then this guy wouldn't have done this semi-volunteer signing up for a life-threatening job.
The remaining dozen or so German veterans who responded silently knew that even if they surrendered immediately, the fire-breathing Russians on the opposite side would definitely not treat them well and let them go.
In other words, the group of Russians on the opposite side had no intention of letting them go, and all thoughts of surrender were limited to illusory fantasies.
Otherwise, judging from the current fighting situation, the Russians should have persuaded them to surrender long ago. Even if they haven't said a word about it yet, they just continue to push forward, fight fiercely, and have no intention of leaving anyone alive, even a fool would be stupid.
You can see it.
"What should we do? Fight with the Russians?!"
A German veteran who had exhausted the MP40 submachine gun magazine in his hand and took out the last spare magazine from the equipment on his chest asked sadly. He had mixed feelings and did not know what to do. The real psychological situation made him
I really don't know how to do it right now.
"No matter what, I will die! Rather than die as a prisoner in the hands of the Russians, I would rather die in battle. I believe that the head of state will take good care of my family! He promised!"
"Maybe we can fight out through the back door, one team... one team may have succeeded!"
Those who fanatically believe in the Führer plan to fight to the end, while those who still hold on to a glimmer of hope will not give up their last hope.
In the final analysis, those who did not want to die eventually made up the majority. The remnants of the German army, which had very little ammunition left in their hands, retreated while fighting, towards the direction of the combat command hall where Chuikov was located, which was the direction of the attack of the team assigned the main attack mission.
Withdrew.
Putting all your eggs in one basket is not something a smart person would do. However, the German army now has no choice but to entrust its last remaining hope to its teammates and hope for a miracle to happen.
Unfortunately, the goddess of victory still did not side with the Germans this time.
Malashenko, who has enough men under his command and more than 400 men, naturally cannot order all the troops to rush into the tunnel at one go and drill in as hard as they can. This is a low-level tactical mistake that only fools would make.
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Chuikov, who was retreating from the back door, had just walked halfway when he ran into the second unit led by Captain Karamov, the commander-in-chief of the group army, who had come around from the back door of the group army headquarters.
This second force separated by Malashenko has a small number of people, only more than 100 and less than 200, and its personnel are mostly composed of non-combatants, such as mechanics and repairmen of the field maintenance battalion.
, plus some civilian staff in Malashenko's regiment headquarters, and even a few survivors of the Workers' Armed Forces who picked up the guy for the first time, it can be called a variety of things.
However, no matter how small the number, no matter how complicated the personnel composition, it is true that there are more than 100 armed soldiers. The German assault team with only more than 20 people and less than 30 people chased Chuikov's ass and chased him not far away.
After being caught off guard and suddenly bumping into a fire ambush point deliberately set up by Captain Karamov and his men, and being shot to death nine people at once, he had no choice but to give in on the spot and start retreating.
Ironically, the idea of the first assault team and the idea of the large force behind were actually the same to some extent.
"As long as we can fight with the large army, we will definitely be able to get out! Their battle situation will definitely be much better than ours!"