Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"Ula!"

With loud shouts, densely packed Soviet soldiers rushed towards a hillside occupied by the Germans not long ago.

On the temporary position on the hillside, the German battalion commander looked at the Soviet soldiers who were rushing towards them, shouting "Ula" slogans as if they had been beaten to death, with a look of disdain. "Tsk, tsk, the tactical thinking of these Soviet commanders is still stuck in the last war."

In fact, as early as the Russo-Turkish War, people discovered that intensive charges were becoming obsolete. However, by World War I, the tactics of various countries were to dig very deep trenches and then lay barbed wire. This thing will greatly hinder the attacker's speed and cause greater casualties. The defender's field artillery muzzles are always aimed at the "no man's land". This situation forces the attacker to use the human sea tactic (there are fewer people to attack). Don’t go).

During World War II, except for the Soviet Union and the Japanese Army, almost no country used this human sea tactic on a large scale.

Of course, their human wave tactics were not a mindless charge. The Japanese charge was very organized, and the formation was neither too concentrated nor too dispersed. Thirteen or four soldiers in each squad were divided into four combat groups. Three rifle groups were arranged diagonally in front to cover the machine gun groups in the rear. In this way, the shooting field of view of each group is not blocked, and cross fire can be formed to cooperate with each other.

The Japanese military drill code also has detailed requirements for the tactical specifications of individual soldiers. In the first half of the charge, the Japanese army required soldiers to straighten their backs, so that the attack speed would be faster and help maintain military appearance and morale. When approaching two to three hundred meters in front of the enemy's position, soldiers are required to bend their knees as much as possible and use various favorable terrains as cover. After crossing the last two hundred meters, the hand-to-hand combat that the Japanese army was best at began. However, the Japanese offensive relied heavily on artillery support. The Banzai Charge would only be effective if there was sufficient artillery support, otherwise it would become a suicide charge.

In the early 1930s, the Soviet army began to develop a variety of new weapons and attempted to motorize some of its troops. Under the influence of a group of outstanding generals represented by Tukhachevsky, the Soviet army's concepts were very advanced and were even able to accept new weapons such as submachine guns that were considered "useless" at the time, requiring every combatant to Units are fully furnished.

The Soviet Army's "Great Depth" combat theory was a complete and powerful combat system. However, due to the occurrence of the counter-revolutionary movement, the quality of the officer group declined rapidly, and the Soviet Army's vigorous development period was interrupted. The "Great Depth" became increasingly Rigid, the concept of large-corps operations established in the early stages is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, the level of officers who were hastily promoted was limited, and most of them were not suitable for commanding large corps in combat. Many officers' minds were still stuck in the First World War, and they would only let the infantry charge towards the enemy's positions.

However, such a mindless charge was not the original intention of the Soviet charge tactics; the serious infantry charge tactics actually went through a long period of development and improvement. As early as the Tsarist Russia era, the Russian army stipulated that when infantry launched an attack, individual soldiers should keep a distance of about one step between each other and attack each other in a dense formation; combat units should maintain 300-400 steps between units. During the Soviet period, this tactic was strengthened, stipulating that the distance between individual soldiers should be about 5 steps, and a wide variety of combat formations were developed according to different situations, aiming to disperse the enemy's firepower and attack the opponent's defense line flexibly, quickly and ferociously.

It can be seen that the authentic Soviet infantry charge tactics and "brainless charge" are completely different things. After the Soviet army withstood the defeat in the early stages of the war, they not only adapted to the intensity of the war and the German tactics, but also came up with A way to crack the German attack. The Soviet army that calmed down was undoubtedly very terrifying. They used the power of infantry charge tactics to the extreme.

In the battle to liberate Ukraine, many of the German troops who were originally well prepared were on the verge of collapse. Why did the German soldiers with extremely high combat qualities become so vulnerable? Some prisoners of war once said that when they were observing the Soviet attack in the fortifications, they initially saw only a row of soldiers charging towards them; after a while, this thin line of figures quickly thickened, and soon, all the Soviet troops were visible at the end of the field of vision. Soldier. These Soviets shouted slogans and rushed in like a tide. The shouts and footsteps were deafening. "It was like a million Soviets rushing in at the same time." After witnessing this scene, the German soldiers had long since lost interest in fighting. A large number of soldiers simply gave up resistance, and many even collapsed on the spot. The German army was defeated like a mountain.

At this time, the Soviet army was obviously still in the "brainless charge" stage.

The deputy battalion commander on the side nodded in agreement. "There is not even a tank, and there is not even artillery fire preparation. Aren't they just here to die?" Are these soldiers alive to prevent their superiors from getting promoted and making a fortune?

"Is our secret weapon ready?"

"It has been prepared for a long time."

"The distance is almost there, let them fire."

The so-called secret weapon is a 160mm self-propelled mortar that combines the Jackal tank's territory with the barrel of the V3 cannon. The mortar is naturally not a new weapon, but its shells are special anti-infantry cluster bombs.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Five mortars roared.

Large mortars have too long barrels, making it difficult to insert ammunition through the muzzle. Therefore, the breech loading method will be used like ordinary artillery. When loading shells, lay the gun body flat, open the barrel, load the shells and then adjust the shooting angle. Then pull the gun rope to fire the primer of the shell. The disadvantage is that the rate of fire is slow, and it can only fire 2-3 shots per minute on average. The advantage is that the caliber is large and the power is great.

The shell did not explode like an ordinary mortar shell. When the shell reached its highest point, the shell split into two pieces, throwing out countless clever spherical things, like a goddess scattering flowers.

"boom!"

"boom!"

These bomblets exploded two or three meters above the ground. Each shell could carry 50 bomblets. The scattered fragments swept over the Soviet soldiers below like a storm.

Thousands of Soviet soldiers fell instantly, and screams came one after another. Before the remaining people had time to recover from this terrible attack, intensive gunshots rang out on the German position, and a large area was swept away in an instant. .

Just when the Soviet soldiers were hesitant about whether to advance or retreat, the second wave of artillery shells struck again.

The Soviet army finally retreated, but the German army did not have the extra troops to carry out a counterattack. At this time, it was necessary to organize ammunition and strengthen the position.

But at this moment, someone behind the Soviet army shouted hysterically with a loudspeaker. "The great leader Comrade Stalin requires every soldier to move forward bravely and not to retreat! According to Order No. 270, anyone who retreats or hesitates is treason! If you retreat again, we will shoot!"