Chapter 743 German-Soviet War (65)

Accompanied by the continuous explosions on the ground, some dim lights in the underground command center flickered, as if they would go out at any time.

"Do these damn Germans want to destroy Smolensk with bombs? Where do they get so many bombs?" Commander Shaposhnikov cursed angrily. This high-intensity bombing has lasted for half a month, but there is no sign of stopping. He doubts whether the Germans have transported all the bombs in the military factories to Smolensk. What is even more puzzling is that Stalingrad and Leningrad have also been bombed with the same intensity for half a month.

What he didn't know was that Yannick had a sudden idea before and asked people to count the munitions inventory. This check revealed that the various shells/bombs left over from the last world war were simply piled up like mountains. He immediately contacted European countries and asked them to turn out all the accumulated shells/bombs.

The number is simply astonishing. No one can tell exactly how many there are. According to a rough estimate, the air forces of European countries dispatched thousands of bombers to bomb Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Smolensk. It took several months of bombing to consume all these shells/bombs.

It has to be said that humans spare no effort to deal with their own kind.

Yannick ordered people to install simple fuses on these shells/bombs and throw them all into the city of Smolensk. In this way, it has only been half a month, how could the bombing stop?

It would be fine if it was just ordinary bombs, but the bunker-buster bombs thrown by the German army at the same time made the Soviet army in the underground fortifications suffer a lot. Every day, there would be a few "lucky" bunker-buster bombs that drilled into the underground fortifications and exploded violently. If it was ordinary high explosives, it would be fine, but if the bunker-buster bombs with napalm or cloud explosives drilled into the residential area, it would be a terrible disaster. In just half a month, the number of casualties of soldiers and civilians in the underground fortifications exceeded 30,000.

In order to prevent being wiped out by these terrible earth-penetrating bombs, Commander Shaposhnikov's headquarters had to move to the second underground floor.

Just as Commander Shaposhnikov was complaining in frustration, the German street fighting troops had gathered outside Smolensk. Since the outbreak of the war, these troops have experienced various street battles of all sizes, and are naturally more suitable for fighting in the city than front-line infantry.

Moreover, the equipment of the street fighting troops is slightly different from that of other combat troops. For example, the urban camouflage designed specifically for street fighting can better integrate into the urban environment and conceal itself. The weapons are also fully automatic weapons mainly based on MP44 and MP40. There are still two or three 98Ks in the squad weapons of the front-line combat troops, and there are more in the foreign legion. Some foreign legion squads have four or five 98Ks.

The street fighting troops have completely eliminated the manual rifle such as 98K. In addition to MP44 and MP40, there are also G43, shotguns, flamethrowers, grenade launchers and other weapons, which have increased the close-range firepower density of the troops. It is no exaggeration to say that today's German street fighting troops are the most firepower-intensive troops in modern times.

The people responsible for attacking these three cities are Ewald von Kleist; Sigmund Wilhelm List; Fedor von Bock.

In German history, the Kleist family is known as the House of the Sword and the Music. Kleist's great-grandfather was a marshal under Frederick the Great, and his descendants have been brave soldiers for generations. But Kleist himself did not come from a military family. He was born in a professor's family in Braunfels. After graduating from high school, Kleist was sent to the Third Field Artillery Regiment as a trainee officer and was promoted to captain a year later. He then participated in World War I and World War II; he was promoted to marshal in 1942. After the war, Kleist was captured by the British army. In 1946, as a war criminal, he was first extradited to Yugoslavia and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1948, he was extradited to the Soviet Union and imprisoned in a single cell in a Moscow prison. In 1954, he was transferred to the generals' prisoner camp in Vlabenmirovka, where he died in the autumn of the same year.

Sigmund Wilhelm List. He participated in the battles in Lorraine and other areas during the First World War. He was finally replaced on the battlefield because of serious injuries. Although the German Army was reduced to 100,000 people after the war. However, due to his outstanding performance, Sigmund Wilhelm List remained in the army and was gradually promoted to the position of army commander.

After the mustache came to power, List's position was improved again. As the commander-in-chief of Germany, he commanded the annexation war against Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938. Because of his outstanding performance in the war, he was independently responsible for commanding the newly established 14th Army in the Battle of Poland in 1939. He led the way in the battle and marched forward bravely, making great contributions to shortening the war process. The following year, he commanded the 12th Army to attack France, and made outstanding contributions. Because of his accumulated military merits, he was promoted to marshal after the end of the French war and was awarded the marshal's cane. Although he is not as famous as some other marshals, he is generally a doer. His achievements helped Germany clear many obstacles. He was dismissed for his disagreement with the combat philosophy of the mustache. After the war, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the military court. He was released early due to illness and died in 1971. He is considered to be one of the luckier German marshals. He not only has superb combat skills, but also can survive the war safely and live out his life.

Fedor von Bock, this marshal was unlucky. He was promoted to marshal in July 1940 in the original time and space. On May 5, 1945, the German army was marching on the Kiel Highway in Schleswig-Holstein. Suddenly, a group of fighter-bombers of the British Air Force flew over to carry out a low-altitude attack. One of the bombers stared at an open car and fired wildly. The three women and the driver in the car were killed immediately, and the only officer was seriously injured. After being rescued by the German army, the officer was immediately sent to the hospital in Oldenburg. After rescue failed, he died that night. This officer was the only German marshal Bock who died from Allied bullets.

It can be said that the famous German generals during World War II were like stars, so many that they were countless. Yannick didn't even need to look for them deliberately, just picked a few from a list to be competent.

Fedor von Bock, who was in charge of Smolensk, issued the order to attack. They first had to completely clear the suburban defense line of Smolensk so that the street fighting troops could enter the city to fight.

Accompanied by the dull sound of the engine, the German tank troops slowly advanced towards the Soviet position.

A shrill whistle sounded from the Soviet position that had long been in tatters.

"Prepare for battle! The Germans are going to attack!" Soviet officers shouted loudly to their soldiers. "Quick, enter the position! The enemy has launched an attack, pick up your weapons and repel their attack!"

Despite three days of fierce artillery bombardment, many people on the Soviet defense line survived, which can be said to be extremely lucky. But how long their good luck can last is unknown.

"Bang! Bang!" Not very dense gunshots sounded, this is the Soviet army shooting with Mosin-Nagant rifles.

"Tu Tu! Tu Tu!" A Maxim M1910 heavy machine gun roared, and dense bullets hit the front armor of the German jackal tank, making a crisp sound of ding-dong. Unfortunately, it could not pose any threat to the German tanks.

A Jackal tank stopped and the turret slowly turned. The black muzzle was aimed at a machine gun fire point in the Soviet position. The Soviet-made Maxim M1910 heavy machine gun has a water-cooled sleeve like a gun barrel on the barrel, and a steel baffle is installed at the rear of the gun body, which makes it very conspicuous on the battlefield, so it will naturally become the first choice of German tanks.

"Boom!" The orange-red flame flashed at the muzzle, and a 75mm shell whizzed away from the muzzle. In the blink of an eye, the shell had hit the Soviet machine gun fire point, blowing it all over the sky.

"Anti-tank gun, pull the anti-tank gun over!!" A Soviet regiment commander shouted loudly on the position.

"Comrade commander, our anti-tank guns have long been destroyed by German artillery fire." People can hide in anti-gun caves, but tank guns cannot enter, so they can only be placed in bunkers. As a result, they failed to withstand several rounds of German artillery fire and were blown to pieces.

"Damn it!" The Soviet commander couldn't help but curse. Without anti-tank guns, they could only watch the German tanks approach their positions. And they were helpless about this. Well, it's not that there is no way. After hesitating for a few seconds, the Soviet commander shouted again. "Form a death squad!" Since there are no tank guns, we can only send people to destroy the German tanks.

As the order was issued, several death squads were immediately formed.

This kind of death squad is generally composed of three to five people, divided into demolitionists and fire cover hands. The demolitionists carry a large amount of explosives, such as explosive bags, blasting tubes, cluster grenades, etc. ... and the fire cover hands generally carry submachine guns or light machine guns to provide fire cover for the demolitionists, and take over the explosives from the demolitionists to continue the mission when necessary.

At this time, the German armored forces were less than 500 meters away from the Soviet defense line. As the Soviet army commander issued an order, a group of death squads jumped out of the trenches, flexibly using the dense craters in front of the trenches to hide and leap forward quickly. The dense bullets fired by the German tank machine guns did not have much effect. Only a few unlucky guys were hit by bullets while advancing and fell down.

The rest of the death squads were successfully dispersed and hidden two hundred meters in front of the trench. They hid in craters or blind spots, and some were even mixed with corpses and it was difficult to tell the real from the fake.

"Stop moving forward." Seeing this, the armored force commander issued an order. They now have a complete advantage, and there is no need to act rashly and incur unnecessary losses. "Request artillery support. Let the "Porcupine" indiscriminately cover the open space 200 meters outside the Soviet position."

While waiting for artillery support, they were not idle. A tank adjusted the angle of the gun barrel, and then a shot "boomed" blew up a Soviet machine gun position into the sky. Several Soviet machine gunners were covered in blood and fell to the side, their lives uncertain, and their machine guns were blown into pieces and scattered around.

Other tanks also opened fire, and their targets were all machine gun positions in the Soviet positions or areas with concentrated firepower. {Sorry, it's only one chapter today}

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