Eight hundred and sixty first chapter new equipment
"If that's the case..." Rokossovsky said, "should our defense also be directed against enemy tanks?"
"Yes!" Shulka replied: "The problem is how to target the enemy tanks!"
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but fell silent.
From a defensive perspective, there are indeed many preparations that can be made, such as mines, barbed wire, anti-tank trenches, etc., but as the saying goes, where there is a spear, there is a shield. The defender can have these arrangements, and the enemy will of course have a solution.
For example, you can use artillery to blast it first, and then use infantry and engineers in the front to clear the way: clearing mines, cutting barbed wire, clearing obstacles, filling trenches... It takes the defender several months to open a road for the attacker in just a few days.
Of course, this comes at the cost of blood and life.
"The Germans also have mine-sweeping tanks!" Vatutin said: "We captured one, and they learned it from us!"
As he said this, Vatutin glanced at Shulka.
Shulka knew why Vatutin looked like this, because the mine-sweeping tank was invented by Shulka, and now it has become the equipment of the Germans.
"There are also rocket launchers!" Rokossovsky said: "The Germans have also learned it. We have seen the enemy use it in battle..."
"Is it our rocket launcher?" Vatutin asked, "was it captured by the Germans?"
"No, they developed it themselves!" Zhukov said as he rummaged through the folder, then took out a photo and said: "That's it. They added a shield to the rocket launcher, and the caliber is much larger than the rocket launcher.
88MM! We tested several of these rocket launchers and found that they have a longer range and more power than our rocket launchers!"
Schulka knew this. It was not actually called a rocket launcher. It was a German "tank killer." German soldiers often called it a "chimney" because when it was launched, it produced a large amount of smoke like a chimney, exposing the shooter's position.
The caliber of the bazooka rocket launcher is only 51MM, the projectile body is much smaller than the "tank killer", and the range and power are of course much smaller.
"That is to say..." Vatutin said with some difficulty: "We may have to face more than just tanks!"
"Actually, there are more!" Then Zhukov took out another photo and placed it in front of everyone.
"What is this?" Vatutin asked doubtfully.
"The rifles that the Germans equipped in Stalingrad!" Zhukov turned his attention to Rokossovsky and gave him the right to speak.
"The Germans call it a submachine gun, model MP4!" Rokossovsky explained: "But I think it is not actually a submachine gun, because its bullets are not pistol bullets, but between rifle bullets and pistol bullets!"
As soon as I heard this model Shulka, I knew it was the German assault rifle STG44... In the early days, the Germans called it a submachine gun and the model was MP4 because Hitler did not agree to its production. The Germans did not go against the wishes of the Führer.
It was renamed a submachine gun and secretly produced and put on the battlefield late in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Zhukov turned his attention to Shulka: "This coincides with the thoughts of our comrade Shulka!"
"Oh, really?" Rokossovsky cast a surprised and questioning look at Shulka.
"Yes!" Shulka did not deny: "I once suggested to Sisoy to produce this kind of bullet and its supporting rifle! Our scientists are also developing it, but I think there is no result yet!"
Zhukov nodded and said: "The bullets have been mass-produced, but a gun suitable for using this bullet has not been designed yet. Unexpectedly, the Germans were the first to do so!"
"You are very forward-looking, Comrade Shulka!" Rokossovsky sighed: "Because actual combat has proven that this rifle is very good. It almost completely suppresses all our individual weapons, including the 'Bobo'
Sha' submachine gun!"
"Where's the machine gun?" Vatutin asked.
"They only need two or three of these rifles to suppress our machine guns!" Rokossovsky shook his head and said: "If the Germans had equipped a large number of such weapons, the Battle of Stalingrad would probably not have been what it is now.
The result!"
Because this rifle was only equipped in small quantities in Stalingrad, and the Soviet army was worried that spreading this weapon would cause unnecessary panic, Soviet commanders in other directions did not know about it for the time being, including Vatutin.
Vatutin looked at the photo and asked: "Its bullets are shorter than rifle bullets, which means the range is not as good as that of a rifle, right?"
"Yes!"
"I can understand that it can suppress rifles, but why can it suppress machine guns?" Vatutin didn't believe it.
"I'm talking about two or three people!" Rokossovsky replied: "They cover each other and shoot alternately. The firepower is even more sustained than a machine gun. In ruins and street fighting, both sides are within the shooting range of each other!"
Vatutin also came out of the battlefield, so you can understand.
"Then, the reason why Bobosha can be suppressed is because they have a longer range!" Vatutin said.
"Yes!" Rokossovsky replied: "In fact, a considerable part of the range of our rifles is redundant! Few people can hit the target five hundred meters away, and this kind of equipment of the Germans is exactly
Set the firing range at 500 meters, and at the same time, reducing the firing range also reduces the recoil, making it an individual repeating rifle!"
Vatutin thought for a while and said to Zhukov: "We need this kind of rifle, Comrade Zhukov! Is it possible for it to be equipped with troops this winter?"
"I'm not sure, Comrade Vatutin!" Zhukov replied: "In fact, scientists can't guarantee it! So, we must be prepared not to have such a rifle!"
"That is to say!" Vatutin said with some dejection: "What we are going to face is a lot of new enemy equipment, and the performance of these new equipment will completely surpass the existing equipment of our army... We must be in this situation.
Will it consume their vitality?"
"You can say that!" Zhukov nodded.
Vatutin smiled bitterly and said, "We'd better not let our soldiers know this, otherwise they won't have the confidence to fight this battle!"
"No, we should let them know!" Shulka said: "We even have to assume that the enemy has a large number of these new equipment and conduct training based on it!"
Zhukov nodded: "Otherwise, if they don't know until the battle starts, it will be a nightmare!"
This is a matter of being mentally prepared or not.
It seems to have no difference on the surface, but it will affect morale... The sudden appearance of a new piece of equipment brings unparalleled shock and fear to the troops, and it often causes greater damage than the equipment itself.
Much like tanks appearing on the battlefield for the first time. (To be continued)