Chapter 702: German-Soviet War (45)

When the news that Ashgabat, the capital of the Turkmenistan Soviet Socialist Republic, was occupied by the German army reached the Kremlin, everyone's faces were not very good. Although Turkmenistan is not very developed, and can even be said to be a little backward, Ashgabat is still the capital! It was not even able to hold on for five days and fell. This is a bit exaggerated.

"The German army dropped a large number of incendiary bombs, and the whole city burned for two days and two nights, so our defenders suffered heavy casualties."

"It doesn't matter what weapons the German army used!" Stalin interrupted the staff report rudely. "It's because they are not loyal enough to the motherland and have no determination to fight the enemy to the death!"

"..." Eisenhower rolled his eyes in his heart when he heard it. Are you really sick! You don't know how many people have been burned to death, but you are still not loyal? ! Still lack determination? ! Do they become ghosts and continue to fight to be loyal? ! "When the Germans attacked Belfast, Ireland, and Cairo, Egypt, they used a large number of incendiary bombs. Moreover, these incendiary bombs were specially made and not easy to extinguish, and even water could not put them out."

At this time, the Germans were heading for the next target, the city of Giokjepe, northwest of Ashgabat. The same leaflets and the same warnings were issued.

Stalin also issued an order not to retreat a step and to fight to the last moment, but he still mentioned that they could hide in air-raid shelters when the Germans bombed.

The area of ​​Giokjepe is much smaller than Ashgabat, but the number of napalm bombs dropped by the Germans was no less than when they bombed Ashgabat, and the whole city burned more violently.

Two days later, the Germans who entered the city did not find charred bodies everywhere, but saw densely packed bodies in an air-raid shelter.

"It seems that these people died of lack of oxygen."

"Oh, God! These guys might as well be burned to death." Looking at these hideous corpses, the German soldiers present couldn't help spitting a few times. After all, at least you can't see the expressions of the corpses if they are burned to charcoal.

However, these air-raid shelters still had some effect, and many surviving Soviet soldiers continued to fight.

But the German army not only sent out the "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns equipped with 4 20mm aircraft cannons, the Grizzly assault guns equipped with 150mm caliber howitzers and other ground armored forces, but also dispatched a large number of attack aircraft and helicopters.

The helicopters were not only equipped with 7mm machine guns, but also with external rockets. Although the accuracy of these rockets is not very good, they can be fired at a building close to a building, which is enough to blow up the building. And the power of the 7mm machine gun should not be underestimated. The bullets fired can penetrate the concrete wall of the actual centimeter, or the brick and sand structure wall close to one meter, leaving the enemy hiding in the house nowhere to hide.

The Soviet army could not resist such a joint ground-air attack and was soon wiped out. Two days later, Giokzepe fell into the hands of the German army.

No matter how angry and roared Stalin was, the German army attacked every city in Turkmenistan in an orderly manner and occupied them.

On the other hand, the undercurrents in the major cities of Belarus and Ukraine were becoming more and more turbulent, and were on the verge of an outbreak.

Because there were a large number of Soviet soldiers stationed in major cities such as Minsk in Belarus and Kiev in Ukraine, at least no one dared to mess around on the surface, but most of the other cities were Belarusian and Ukrainian troops.

On this day, the political commissar of the 109th Division stationed in the small Ukrainian city of Lebedin convened a meeting of the political commissars of each brigade, regiment and battalion. "The atmosphere in the army has become more and more wrong recently."

"Comrade Alexei, I was just about to report this to you." A battalion political commissar told what happened yesterday. It turned out that a soldier in their battalion was from the local area. Yesterday, the soldier wanted to sneak out without reporting, but was caught red-handed. The political commissar thought he was a deserter and was ready to shoot him on the spot, but he found that the soldiers watching were staring at him with bad faces, and several soldiers even had their guns in their hands. If the battalion commander hadn't come forward to calm the situation, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"The soldiers in our battalion also showed various phenomena of disobeying orders, and they are getting more and more arrogant."

"It's the same in our regiment."

After discussing with each other, several political commissars found that their situation was quite bad. Most of their troops were Ukrainian soldiers, and the Russians only had these political commissars and one or two activists in each platoon. If there was a commotion, these people would not be enough to fill the gaps in their teeth!

At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside the door, and the guard at the door shouted loudly. "What are you doing?!"

"What's going on outside? Who is making trouble!" Alexei had just asked a question when several gunshots suddenly rang out at the door. Everyone in the room almost instinctively drew out the pistols at their waists and pointed them at the door.

A cold voice came from outside. "Listen, everyone inside, put down your weapons and surrender immediately! Otherwise, I will kill you without mercy!"

Everyone looked at each other in surprise. This was the voice of the division commander Maxim! Alexei shouted subconsciously. "Comrade Maxim, are you going to commit treason?!"

"Treason?" Maxim sneered. "No, I am loyal to Ukraine. And when it comes to treason, you are the first to bear the brunt." There was an indescribable pride and gloating in his tone. "I have issued a surrender broadcast in your name. According to Stalin's "Order No. 270", you should all know what will happen to your family members?"

"What?" Everyone was shocked and almost spit out blood. This is too insidious! They are loyal to the motherland, but their families have to bear the crime of treason. Even if they can be vindicated in the future, what's the use when they are dead? !

"Maxim, you bastard, I will fight you!" One of the political commissars roared in grief and anger, pulled out his pistol and fired wildly at the door.

But it is obvious that Maxim would not stand at the door stupidly and take bullets.

"Grenade ready!"

Everyone in the room hurriedly looked for shelter, but what decent shelter could there be here? Everyone could only turn the conference table over, but this conference table was not thick, nor was it made of metal. The thin wooden board might not be able to stop a grenade. They put the chairs in front of the conference table, and several grenades had been thrown in from outside the door.

These grenades are RGD-33 grenades.

During World War II, various countries used grenades that could be knocked, pulled, bitten, or hung. Each country had its own unique grenades and different powers. Among them, the Soviet RGD-33 grenade was very strange. People who didn’t understand it would be angry or blown to death.

The weight of this type of grenade is not to be mentioned. The key is that the method of use is very hardcore. First, the grenade body and the wooden handle must be twisted together, and then the detonator must be placed on the body separately. When using it, the grenade and the wooden handle must be twisted clockwise to expose the opening for the detonator, and then the detonator must be put in. At this time, the grenade is ready to go, and then it is thrown hard, using the force of the Soviet soldier to trigger the detonator striker, and then after 5 seconds, it is seen whether it explodes or not. Normally, it explodes. The performance of this grenade is indeed random, but when the Soviet soldier throws out the grenade and it does not explode, the German soldier will often take it again and throw it out hard. At this time, the grenade will explode 100%, or the grenade will not explode but is already ready to go. If it is accidentally kicked by a German soldier, it will explode suddenly. Therefore, the use of Soviet grenades must be trained for a certain period of time, so that Soviet soldiers have a certain degree of proficiency to master the use of this grenade.

Therefore, after the more advanced F-1 grenade was put into mass production, the production and use of this grenade was gradually stopped.

Now the soldiers outside the door threw in five or six grenades. Maybe because the force of the close-range throwing was not enough to strike the detonator pin, none of the five or six grenades exploded. They just rolled in front of the conference table and lay quietly.