Chapter 745 German-Soviet War (67)

Next to the old man who used the Berdan single-shot rifle was a young corpse, or more accurately, a young girl, who looked no more than twenty-four or twenty-five years old.

"Tsk, tsk, a pretty girl." The soldiers around him were shocked. If it weren't for the war, such a beautiful girl would definitely be pursued by many people, and she might marry a good boy and live a happy life. But now, a bullet accurately pierced her forehead, making her dead.

Another corpse was lifted out of the trench. Seeing this corpse, which was obviously smaller, with a green face and childishness, everyone was stunned. "God, this is still a child!"

They didn't know that at the end of World War II in the original time and space, many underage children in Germany joined the army and established the "Baby Division". In addition, there was the "People's Stormtroopers", which was a militia in Germany, basically civilians who did not meet the conditions for joining the army. In addition to not having good training, the People's Stormtroopers also lacked weapons, and even fought with shotguns and shooting competition rifles. Some of their grenades were made of cement or even wood. These "civilian armed forces" who had no combat experience could only die on the battlefield.

There were also many women and children in the Soviet Union who went to the front. Soviet child soldiers were mostly incorporated into reconnaissance companies. They were small and flexible, and were very suitable for completing the task of reconnaissance of the enemy. Many child soldiers also won medals. There was even a 14-year-old machine gunner named Leontiev who used a captured MG-34 machine gun to eliminate 15 German soldiers.

Just as everyone was sighing, the company commander who passed by came over, looked at the corpse on the ground, and scolded a few words. "What's pitiful? When he picked up a gun and went to the battlefield, he was a soldier, that is, our enemy! The bullets fired from the guns of teenagers are as deadly as those fired from the guns of professional soldiers, or even more deadly. If you have mercy on them, you will fall! It can only be said that Stalin was a beast for forcing such young children to go to the battlefield."

After hearing what the company commander said, the guilt in everyone's hearts was reduced a lot. Yes, the culprit of all this is Stalin, who pushed these women and children onto the battlefield. On the other hand, their crown prince not only called for the women and children in these cities to leave to avoid being harmed by the war; he even mobilized Stalin's eldest son who was captured to persuade Stalin to let these women and children go.

In this comparison, their crown prince is simply an angel, and Stalin is a devil who eats fruit.

The company commander found a few war correspondents and asked them to take pictures of these corpses and send them back to the country. It must be a good propaganda material.

In the underground command post of Smolensk, Commander Shaposhnikov's face was a little ugly. The suburban defense line was broken by the German army in less than a day, and nearly 300,000 defenders were wiped out.

That was nearly 300,000 troops! Although most of them were armed civilian guards, even if there were 300,000 pigs, the Germans could not catch them all in one day! It's a pity that these 300,000 troops seemed to be inferior to pigs, and they were solved by the German army so easily! How long can the White Army of Smolensk hold out if they follow this strategy? Three days, or four days?

"Comrade Commander, the soldiers on the front line have tried their best. Many soldiers have bombs tied to their bodies to blow up German tanks. Their losses in the previous three days of shelling were quite heavy. Those anti-artillery holes can't stop the German heavy artillery shells." Let alone large-caliber heavy artillery, those shoddy anti-artillery holes may not even be able to stop medium-caliber artillery shells. However, this suburban defense line was ordered to be built by Commander Shaposhnikov, and he was very clear about the specific situation. "The Germans have deployed a lot of tanks, and the suburban defense line has no decent anti-tank weapons, and it can't resist the German attack at all."

Commander Shaposhnikov naturally knew this, so he didn't delve into it and sighed deeply. The Germans have strong armored forces and air force advantages, which makes it impossible for their side to fight against the Germans in field battles. Only in urban street fighting can the gap between German equipment be narrowed as much as possible, and it is possible to defeat the Germans.

But I didn't expect the Germans to be completely unreasonable and almost flattened the entire city; what would be the difference from fighting in the field?

"Smolensk must be defended. If it cannot be defended, everyone will know the consequences."

"Comrade Commander, please rest assured that we can definitely defend Smolensk. The following urban street fighting will make the Germans pay a heavy price." The generals and staff in the room looked confident.

Commander Shaposhnikov nodded. "Since the suburban defense line has collapsed, the Germans will probably launch an attack soon. Everyone should guard their respective combat positions. As long as Smolensk is defended, you will be the heroes of the Soviet Union."

However, the German army, which had swept the suburban defense line, did not rush to launch an attack on Smolensk, but instead pushed all the artillery forward so that the entire Smolensk was covered within the range of the German artillery. Now even artillery runs can hit Smolensk.

Bombers dropped bombs of all sizes into Smolensk day and night.

"Keep bombing. These cities will be rebuilt in the future. Instead of paying for the demolition, it's better to flatten them now."

Of course, Yannick also understood that it was a pipe dream to "flatten" a big city in the true sense.

It should be noted that modern buildings have a strong ability to resist damage. In peacetime, to "blow up" a building, a professional blasting team is needed to determine the location and amount of explosives to be placed and used by studying the drawings of the original building, destroying the key bearing points, and causing the entire building to collapse.

In a real war, the defenders will not give you so much time to study how to blow up the building.

Therefore, the attackers can only use artillery or bombs to directly bombard the building, but the effect is not significant.

Reinforced concrete buildings are extremely resistant to normal caliber artillery. Tank guns can only open a hole in the building. 152/155 howitzers can peel off a piece of skin from the building with instantaneous fuses. Rocket launchers above 122mm and below 300mm can gnaw off a piece of meat and shake the main body of the building to a certain extent. Only Tomahawk-level cruise missiles can disembowel the building.

That is to say, at least a large number of 300mm rockets and even cruise missiles are needed to ensure that a building is hit by at least three or four rockets to literally flatten the city. Otherwise, you will need more time and more artillery to achieve your goal.

However, Yannik had to continue bombing Smolensk because he received intelligence that under the careful deployment of Shaposhnikov's Division, the entire Smolensk had become a giant fortress; almost every street and every house had carefully arranged defensive positions.

If you rush in rashly, I don't know how many casualties you will suffer. Therefore, Yannik had to use this high-intensity bombing to destroy the ground fortifications built by the Soviet army as much as possible and reduce his own casualties.

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