USSR 1941

Shulka took out the map from his pocket, and found the firepower deployment serial number on the map under the light of the flashlight... This is another evidence that Shulka, the squad leader, is incompetent. He should have memorized the adjacent serial numbers rather than looking at it until needed in wartime.

But this can’t be blamed on Shulka. It took less than ten hours from preparing for battle to now, and all kinds of training and rest were needed during this period. It is inevitable that there are some omissions in the squad leader's command aspect.

Then Shulka observed the situation in the periscope again, and then called the regiment headquarters.

"No. 137 requests fire support from No. 121, and No. 137 requests fire support from No. 121!"

This is a number for the convenience of command and communication. The serial number of the fortification area is two digits, and the bunker and machine gun bunker are represented by three digits.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, presumably they were also looking for the serial number of the bunker reported by Shulka... This cannot be blamed on the headquarters, there are at least a few hundred bunkers under their command, and it is impossible for them to memorize them one by one .

Soon, a response came from the phone: "The request is approved, one minute!"

"Yes, one minute!" Shulka replied.

This method of combat and coordination is obviously extremely clumsy and inefficient. Once the telephone line is blown up, it will not even be able to coordinate with other bunkers, but the current conditions can only do so.

"The 37MM artillery is ready!" Shulka shouted forward: "One minute!"

"Got it, one minute!" Matvey, who was in charge of directing the artillery, responded loudly.

The German tanks continued to cover the soldiers and moved forward slowly. They didn't realize that they had fallen into the enemy's encirclement at all, and they were advancing step by step against the enemy's muzzle and muzzle.

Shulka looked at the watch while looking at the periscope, the pointer moved tremblingly, like a heartbeat, like breathing, and then suddenly... several perforations on the right side of the No. 121 machine gun bunker were pushed away Shots of bullets were shot out from the perforation, and the dense bullets swept back and forth on the position with hot steam, like an invisible sharp sword slashing back and forth in the void.

The German army was caught off guard by the side fire, and they fell into a mess in an instant. They fell regularly like harvested wheat, some died on the spot, and some fell to the ground and screamed like pigs.

But the German army deserves to be a well-trained unit. They immediately lay down on the ground to cover themselves, and then radioed the tank to turn to suppress the right machine gun...and this is exactly what Shulka needs.

Due to communication reasons, it took a while for the tank to stop. First, it turned the turret to align with the machine gun perforation position. One of the tanks fired a shell in that direction, and then turned awkwardly to turn the side armor. exposed to Shulka.

"Fire!" Shulka yelled, "Quick!"

The veteran pushed away the camouflage before the perforation without saying a word, then manipulated the artillery to make some fine-tuning, and then only heard a "boom"... The target was less than 100 meters away from the bunker, and it was still a large area of ​​​​side armor It was exposed in front of him, so it was a hit without any surprise.

Shulka only saw an abnormal tremor in the tank in the periscope, and then stopped after driving for a while.

Speaking of this 37MM anti-tank gun, it can also be said to be a kind of irony, because it is an imitation of the German PAK36 anti-tank gun...

At the end of the First World War, the Soviet Union’s military industry was weak, and they urgently needed assistance from countries producing modern ordnance. However, countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom would certainly not provide assistance for ideological reasons. At this time, Germany was not allowed under the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty Production, so the two countries quickly hit it off: Germany developed and produced anti-tank guns in the name of providing assistance to the Soviet Union.

So there is this 37MM anti-tank that Germany calls PAK36 and the Soviet Union calls M1930.

But now, the Soviet Union is using this anti-tank gun to attack German tanks, which is just astonishing.

Another German tank discovered the danger at this time, and quickly turned its muzzle... But it was too late, and two more shells were ejected from the chamber, and the tank soon became paralyzed in place with a burst of black smoke.

Shulka yelled: "Machine guns fire!"

Immediately there was a burst of gunfire, and the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time pulled the trigger and poured bullets on the enemy's heads the moment they pushed away the perforation cover.

But of course, the Soviet machine gun positions formed a crossfire on the Germans from several directions, and it was difficult for the Germans to escape.

In just ten minutes, the battlefield was full of corpses lying in various positions, and the past was bright red, and even a puddle of blood had gathered in the low-lying land.

People are so fragile sometimes, they look majestic, but if the cover is lost, it only takes a few minutes... It can be the difference between life and death.

The situation in the other defense areas of the 333rd Regiment is basically the same. The German troops who broke into their encirclement were easily beaten back, and suffered heavy losses. Immediately there were more tank wrecks smoking or even blazing fire on the defense line. .

But other defense zones were not so lucky.

Because the other defense zones did not camouflage the bunkers, the Germans could observe the location of the Soviet bunkers from a long distance.

They can even use binoculars to identify whether those perforations are artillery or machine guns... The artillery perforations will be larger than the machine gun perforations, which can be said to be a design error.

Of course, the artillery needs wider and larger perforations due to its larger caliber and longer barrel. The problem is that the Soviet army can artificially expand the perforation of the machine gun and design the two to be the same size, which can at least avoid the enemy You only need to look through the binoculars to know the position of the artillery and then formulate an attack plan in a targeted manner.

To make matters worse, the German army created the tactics of using commandos to attack the enemy's permanent fortifications during the First World War... The first World War was mainly trench warfare. Research how to break through these fortifications with infantry.

By now, this tactic of the German army has been well developed.

They used tanks to cover the infantry and engineers to advance, and after reaching the perforation, they let the infantry and engineers approach from a dead angle under the cover of tank fire, and then threw explosives and grenades into the bunker from the perforation or fired at them with flamethrowers. Fire spews from the hole.

The bunkers of the Soviet army were useless under this tactic, and they could only watch the Germans blow up their bunkers one by one: staying in the bunkers was waiting for death, and getting out of the bunker defense was courting death.