Chapter 949: Decisive Battle (16)

Molotov, who was cursed by Zhukov to have a bad ending, had come to Berlin and had a happy reunion with his beloved wife Zhemchuzhina and daughter Svetlana. And according to Yannik's promise, he would soon be able to get a piece of land to build his own country; although this country would exist as a colony or a vassal state, it would be much better than hiding in Moscow and waiting for the end of the world.

On the fourth day, the bombardment of Moscow continued, and more and more people collapsed due to the terrible mental pressure; some committed suicide, some self-mutilated, and some even did extremely extreme and terrible things.

In the area where the American Expeditionary Force was located, a young soldier suddenly jumped up with a roar, picked up his Thompson submachine gun and began to shoot wildly around. Caught off guard, the people around him were shot and fell to the ground, and the heart-wrenching screams came one after another.

His submachine gun has a 50-round drum magazine. By the time people nearby heard the news and rushed over, he had already used up all the bullets in the drum. More than 20 people fell in a pool of blood, most of them were already dead, and only a few were still screaming weakly. But even though all the bullets in the gun had been used up, the young soldier was still pulling the trigger frantically.

"Asshole! What are you doing! Put the gun down!!" The company commander who arrived saw this and his eyes instantly turned red. He shouted angrily, but saw that the soldier's face was hideous, his veins were exposed, and his face was full of madness. He trembled and took out the grenade and reached out to pull the safety ring.

Others saw this and screamed and hid everywhere. The company commander quickly pulled out the M1911 pistol and pointed it at the soldier and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Bang!" The 43mm bullet accurately shot into the soldier's eyebrows, penetrated the entire cranial cavity, and then came out from the back of the head. Along with the bullet, a large amount of brain tissue and skull fragments were ejected. The soldier fell on his back without a sound, and the grenade that had not yet been removed from the safety ring rolled to the side.

At this time, their battalion commander and regiment commander also rushed over after hearing the news. "Oh my God, what's going on?! Come on, send these wounded to the emergency room!"

The company commander put away his pistol and sighed. "This bastard suddenly went crazy."

The battalion commander and the regiment commander had received several reports of soldiers committing suicide, but this was the first time such a serious incident had occurred. "Report it to Commander Eisenhower!"

"What?!" Eisenhower was shocked when he received the report and jumped up directly. "How many casualties are there?!"

"21 people died on the spot and 4 people were seriously injured."

"Damn it!" Eisenhower slammed the table with an expression on his face as if he wanted to eat someone. The caliber of the Thompson submachine gun is also 43 mm. Although it fires pistol bullets, its power cannot be underestimated. If you are seriously injured, it is basically impossible to save you. These poor soldiers did not die in the battle with the enemy, but fell under the guns of their comrades. Is there anything more tragic, cowardly and absurd than this!

"This damn bastard, it's too easy for him to die like this!" Although Eisenhower's chest was filled with rage, he had nowhere to vent. If that bastard was still alive, he would definitely use a flamethrower to burn him into charcoal slag, but now that he has been beaten to death, what can he do? You can't whip the corpse, right? !

After panting for a long time, Eisenhower gradually calmed down, and the adjutant next to him suggested. "Commander, why don't you collect the soldiers' weapons and ammunition first?" The European coalition's crazy bombardment will continue for a few days. If the soldiers continue to keep their guns and ammunition, God knows what kind of big things will happen.

Eisenhower thought about it for a while and nodded. "Go ahead and do it. Put away the soldiers' weapons. Only officers above the platoon level can carry weapons. Tell the soldiers that if they feel unbearable, they can go to the pastor to talk." Although the US military does not have political commissars, they never neglect the morale of the army, the fighting spirit of officers and soldiers, and the ideological work of officers and soldiers. Their military chaplains can actually be regarded as the role of "political commissars". When American soldiers occasionally feel uncomfortable or have emotional fluctuations, the chaplains will provide psychological counseling for them, which is to do ideological work for them.

"Yes!"

Although Zhukov also learned about this, he was not relaxed here and could not care about the internal affairs of the US military. Just yesterday, he received reports of hundreds of soldiers who shot themselves, and there will probably be more today. After hearing Eisenhower's measures, he instructed Minuk who was standing aside. "Go and collect the weapons of our soldiers and have them guarded by someone. When the German army launches an attack, they will be distributed to the soldiers." Although most of the Soviet soldiers were still equipped with Mosin-Nagant, many soldiers were equipped with Thompson submachine guns and M3 submachine guns supported by the United States, and their lethality should not be ignored.

The Soviet Union's own submachine guns only had PPD-34/38 and PPD-40.

This "Popod" PPD-34/38/40 submachine gun was copied by the famous Soviet weapons designer Vasily Degtyarev based on the MP18 and MP28. The Tokarev pistol bullet was copied from the Mauser pistol bullet. The PDD can use a more flexible 25-round magazine or a large-capacity 71-round drum, which is a copy of the Finnish M1 submachine gun.

PPD became the first submachine gun of the Soviet Army in 1935, named PPD-34. However, due to production problems, only 44 were produced in 1934, and only a pitiful 23 were produced in 1935. The production volume increased to 1291 in 1937. Subsequently, 1115 and 1700 were produced in 1938 and 1939 respectively. At that time, PPD was adopted by the internal forces of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the border guards. However, in 1939, PPD-34 was completely retired, and subsequent orders were forced to be cancelled due to the instructions of the People's Commissariat of Defense Industry.

Although the decision was quickly reversed due to the good personal relationship between Degtyarev and Stalin and their personal intervention, it was too late. Due to the previous instructions, the factory was unable to produce a large number of submachine guns in a short period of time, resulting in a serious shortage of individual automatic weapons during the Soviet-Finnish War.

After further modifications, the PPD was renamed PPD-34/38 and PPD-40, and minor changes were introduced to make it easier to produce. Mass production began in 1940, with a total of 81,118 rifles produced that year. (The production of the PPSh-41 PPSh-41 submachine gun was 3,000 per day at its peak)

As for the famous PPSh-41 PPSh-41 submachine gun in the original time and space, its designer Georges Parkin was accused of counter-revolution as early as 1938, and was shot in Siberia without even going there; this was naturally Yannick's method.

"Yes." Minyuk nodded, left the command room, and went to execute the order.