Chapter 1897 Yang Mingzhi talks about street fighting (2)
Yang Mingzhi really knows a lot about street fighting. After all, in online games in that dimension, there are often more than a dozen people fighting endless street fights across the network cable.
Yang Mingzhi also served as a soldier and received quite sufficient training in street fighting in the army. Besides, he actually participated in street fighting in the 1941 era.
In Yang Mingzhi's impression, the image of those counter-terrorists has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. They are all experts in urban combat, and the cooperation of the tactical team has been perfected.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the US military fell into a bad local war. They could use elite weapons and huge troops to attack small countries. However, their actions were ultimately unjust, so it was natural for them to fall into people's war.
Urban warfare began to become a normal state of war, and the elite US military also had to face endless security wars. The long-term security wars caused the Army, which was originally built for wilderness operations, to suddenly become incapable of conventional warfare.
On the contrary, he has become extremely skilled in urban combat.
Since the U.S. military always had to send soldiers to search for enemies in cities, battles often started and ended suddenly. As a result, the soldiers' armament underwent major changes.
So, what kind of weapons should an excellent street fighting unit be equipped with?
In Yang Mingzhi's view, assault rifles and general-purpose machine guns are necessary.
In addition, soldiers must be equipped with RPG weapons, automatic grenade launchers, grenades, smoke grenades and shock bombs.
Soldiers must also develop good skills so that in sudden close combat, they can defeat the enemy with just their fists.
This is no problem for the US military, which has very superior material supplies, because not only are they naturally taller, but daily training has turned all soldiers into strong men.
But in the Soviet army in 1942, strong men were rare. Since the supply of materials was not abundant, it was very gratifying to be able to maintain the strength to fight in most wars.
In fact, in Yang Mingzhi's opinion, the current street fighting capabilities of the Soviet army are rudimentary.
For example, what was the equipment of the Soviet soldiers trapped in the purgatory of street fighting in Stalingrad?
A soldier holds a Bobosha submachine gun, two spare cartridges hanging in the bag on his waist, two offensive grenades, and a dagger stuck in his military boots. They generally wear steel helmets, but when fighting at close range
Under such circumstances, the role of the helmet is very limited.
They fought bloody battles with the Germans with this kind of equipment. Even so, the Germans were very envious of the Soviet equipment.
Look at the situation of the German army now!
In the whole year before the bloody street fighting in Stalingrad, where did the German army experience any terrible street fighting? Of course the German army frequently succeeded in attacking the city, because the battles often ended with the German victory outside the city.
So it wasn't until Stalingrad that the top German military leaders realized how poor the German army's street fighting capabilities were.
The current Paulus Ninth Army still maintains a combat strength of up to 350,000 people, which is a very large number.
In fact, in the battles in September, Paulus had already lost a total of 50,000 troops. Almost all of these 50,000 casualties occurred in the city of Stalingrad. After all, in mid-September, the German army experienced the craziest city since its attack on Poland.
The battle was also the battle with the heaviest losses in a short period of time.
The German army lost so many men, but Paulus' strength was still guaranteed.
This is because some wounded soldiers returned to the army after recovering from injuries. Paulus was forced by the current situation to forcibly integrate some Stalin civilians into the combat troops. Together with the new soldiers from the rear, he still maintained a huge force.
It was precisely because of this that Mustache kept ordering Paulus to continue the attack.
However, Mustache has been staying at Wolfsburg, staying with his smart staff. At this point in the war, the staff are no longer optimistic about this strategic decisive battle, because the German army actually lacks the ability to continue to advance, whether it is to maintain
Azima is still Stalingrad, and the German army intends to continue to take the initiative to break through. The reality is very cruel. All the German army's breakthrough efforts have been blocked by the Soviet army.
Although the Soviet army lost a lot of people, they could afford the loss!
Whenever the staff members questioned the significance of continuing the fight to Mustache, Mustache immediately came up with the so-called "war economics", and this so-called "war economics" was always criticized by the staff members.
In principle, there is nothing wrong with this "war economics". It is the modern version of fighting to support war, and it is theoretically feasible. After all, the Mongolian Empire relied on this method to create a huge territory in history.
However, for Germany, this approach is out of date.
When the war broke out, the German army had to rely on blitzkrieg to capture Moscow in order to have the possibility of forcing the Soviet Union to surrender. As a result, the mustache suddenly set its sights on Ukraine, so-called obtaining food and oil here. This tough decision once made Guderian panic
for dissatisfaction.
From a purely military perspective, Germany really only had one chance to capture Moscow. As a result, its superior troops were used to move south to encircle the southern Soviet army. Although Germany successfully obtained wheat from Ukraine, it also lost the opportunity to capture Moscow.
If Moscow cannot be captured in a flash, the war will fall into a protracted war.
Today, the war has turned into a bad war of attrition!
Moreover, the current war of attrition is not about who consumes more strategic materials, but about who can withstand the casualties of soldiers better. In this comparison, the German army is simply consuming its own effective strength rapidly!
Stalingrad seemed to be impossible to capture. Mustache became so angry that he turned into an anxious child. Capturing Stalingrad seemed to be the last step he had to take in his life. Capturing it was of great political significance.
The mustache also adds a sense of ritual.
He was a paranoid man. He knew very well that the German army lost 50,000 people in one month of fighting, but he still continued to order Paulus to continue the attack.
Standing in Paulus's position and continuing the attack? That's a fool's errand.
By now in the war, the tactical advantage of the German heavy equipment has been lost. Fighting in the devastated city, the German army had to drag its slovenly figure and hold unqualified weapons to fight the Soviet army.
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Therefore, quite a few German soldiers always like to check the dead bodies of Soviet soldiers, firstly to make sure they are not ambushes who faked their deaths, and secondly to take away the Soviet submachine guns.
As long as they get a submachine gun, German soldiers will not hesitate to throw away their Mauser rifles.
Of course, this situation is a serious violation. At first, the military police will take care of it, but then as all the troops are doing it, why should the military police take care of it? Because the military police in the battlefield themselves are doing the same.
The submachine gun in street fighting is really easy to use, not to mention that the Soviet Bobosha has twice the ammunition capacity of the German MP40, and the rate of fire is even more amazing.
The Soviet army lost too many submachine guns, so in October, the fighting continued, and both sides were using submachine guns to fire wildly on the urban battlefield.
Generally speaking, the situation of the German army was the worst. Many people carried captured weapons. They hid in the corner and slept vigilantly all night. After the day, they continued to fight in the ruins. They had almost no chance to wash their faces, and their beards
Not to mention being slovenly and smelling of gunpowder smoke, everyone from the officers to the soldiers were in terrible condition.
Such a slovenly and decadent image of the German army was unimaginable in the past.
However, this is the current situation of ordinary officers and soldiers of Paulus's Ninth Army.
With such a scene, Paulus had no intention of attacking. He no longer had the troops to continue a large-scale active attack. Because each division under his command had its own enemies, his reserves had already been engaged in street fighting, and even the Slavic civilians were armed.
, how useful can it be?
Being able to maintain the current front line means that the majority of soldiers are worthy of the empire.
Of course, Paulus just thought about it this way. Now he has very much questioned whether Mustache has a mental problem. Now he continues to waste money in the city, not for oil or for food. It is simply a competition with the Soviet army to see who is better in rotten tiles.
Scrap bricks are more resistant to sloppiness.
Paulus was also disappointed with the weapons and equipment of the troops, because bolt-action rifles were not suitable for street fighting at all, and the Soviet weapons were the most useful.
However, Paulus never imagined that General Berekov in the Soviet army, this young guy, was determined to make a big fuss in street fighting!
Of course, Paulus' troops could not enjoy more crazy street fighting.
Facing the old comrades sitting at the dining table, Yang Mingzhi emphasized again: "Comrades, we must need anti-tank guns and mobile and flexible 37mm anti-tank guns."
"Use them to attack German tanks entering the city?" Balzen sat upright in awe, "Comrade General, I don't quite understand what you mean. But are these anti-tank weapons still suitable? We fight in the swamps.
At that time, by inspecting those German tanks destroyed by rocket launchers, such as the terrible Panzer IV tanks, their armor was too thick and could not be penetrated by 37mm armor-piercing bullets, let alone anti-tank guns. That was impossible.
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"Ah! What he said makes sense." Lavrenti added, "But if you shoot the enemy with an anti-tank gun, you will definitely kill him with one hit."
Yevgeny shook his head and said, "You think the general is too superficial."
"Oh? My commander of the 323rd Division, do you understand?" Balzen said jokingly.
"Of course! Of course we can't penetrate the front, and even our RPGs are not very easy to use. However, we can attack the tank roof from a high position! The German tank crew consists of four people. As long as we hit accurately, the anti-tank
The gun directly killed the commander of the vehicle, and the entire vehicle crew lost one person, and its combat capability plummeted."
Yang Mingzhi was once watching a play, and now he also praised Yevgeny's ideas.
"Yes, it's no problem to penetrate the top armor. We can also penetrate their tail engine exhaust pipes. Believe me, it's still possible for anti-tank guns to penetrate their engines. This is because the German army generally will not take the initiative to attack their tails."
exposed.
Comrade Yevgeny, what you said is my opinion.
In fact, my main idea is not that, I am really optimistic about their armor-piercing ability, but the reinforced concrete they need to penetrate."
Yang Mingzhi then explained what the so-called reinforcement of reinforced concrete buildings was. He looked at the three men talking about the defense battle of Lechicha. The so-called city had been bombarded indiscriminately by German heavy artillery, and there were still a large number of buildings in the city to be damaged.
The ruined form of the wall remains.
"Even if it is a bolt-action rifle that can penetrate a concrete wall at zero range, ten centimeters is the limit. But what about an anti-tank gun? Residential houses do not have walls thicker than twenty centimeters!"
With just these words, the three of them suddenly understood.
"Ah! I understand!" Balzen said, "Do you want us to use anti-tank guns to kill the enemies hiding behind the wall?!"
"Yes!" Yang Mingzhi answered with satisfaction, "There is also our small-caliber anti-tank gun, which is light and maneuverable. Another point is that its shells are very cheap. In comparison, the bullets of anti-tank guns are more expensive.
cheap.
Although our RPG warhead can also have good armor-piercing capabilities, which is enough to penetrate a 20-centimeter-thick wall. However, its cost is more expensive, and it is too luxurious to use it to attack a hiding enemy. It is better to let it attack the German army first.
The armored vehicles are good.”
Now, the Soviet infantry divisions are still equipped with many 37mm combat anti-cannons, which are obviously not very practical anymore! In the spirit of better than nothing, the new infantry divisions still need them.
Yang Mingzhi continued: "Actually, I value another street fighting weapon more, which is the so-called fuel-air weapon. In layman's terms, it is our secret weapon to destroy the SS59 regiment."
"Ah! That's the one!" Balzen was overjoyed. After all, that battle was his glorious moment.
"Yes, that is high-energy fuel. A moment of deflagration can expand hundreds of thousands of times! It is so powerful that the unprecedented huge pressure generated by the seal is enough to open various reinforced fortresses. In other words, we
There is no need for death squads to approach the enemy's bunker with explosive packages at great sacrifice, and there is no need to go to great lengths to deploy heavy artillery to blast horizontally. We only need to launch rockets with such warheads in that direction to achieve the goal."
Yang Mingzhi's words made everyone full of hope, but everyone also understood very rationally that, like the remote-controlled rockets the general just mentioned, they do not exist for the time being.
However, the words came from the general's mouth, and the conceptual weapons he had personally revealed so far quickly became a reality.
Balzen, Lavrenty and Yevgeny all knew that the chemist Ivanov prepared a terrible drug in the swamp. The first experiment caused an uproar. The violent vibrations made many soldiers think that the ammunition depot had exploded.
!Actually, it is just a huge roar caused by the deflagration of high-energy fuel.
Yang Mingzhi shook his head regretfully: "Our Shark Rocket is this kind of weapon. It can be reproduced. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to miniaturize it for the time being. It is actually very dangerous. If that large cylinder encounters a cold gun from the Germans, it will
Horrible bombings also occurred."
"But...but it can inflict huge damage to the enemy. Comrade general, you don't have to be in a hurry." Yevgeny said.