RPG40 anti-tank grenades are not a good thing.

It can even be said that it is something that Soviet soldiers do not want.

Because strictly speaking, it can be said to be useless...... It is too heavy to carry, and it can be thrown at a distance of 15 to 20 meters with a kill radius of 20 meters, which means that it is almost a suicide grenade, and it must be thrown in a proper shelter.

What's worse is that it can only deal with the "No. 1" and "No. 2" tanks, and almost all that can be seen on the battlefield at this time are the "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks.

This is not to say that the Germans did not use the "No. 1" and "No. 2" tanks, but they were generally not used when attacking fortified positions, and they were only sent when the battlefield was cleaned.

As a result, the RPG40 anti-tank grenade was a tasteless chicken rib for the Soviet soldiers, and when bombing the tank at close range, the soldiers would rather use explosive packs and cluster grenades than RPG40.

Therefore, the RPG40 was easy to get hold of, and it was in place the next day, and a whole box of them was transported into the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

Major Mikhailvich was somewhat incomprehensible about this.

"Anti-tank grenades?" Major Mikhailvich asked: "It can't blow up anything but kill ourselves!" ”

"Some of them are training bombs!" Shulka replied: "Its role is mainly training!" ”

"Training?" Major Mikhailvich asked suspiciously: "If we train them, doesn't that mean that one day we will use them on the battlefield?" Otherwise, what's the point of our training! ”

"Of course it makes sense!" Shulka replied: "We will get a new anti-tank grenade that weighs and looks like the RPG40, but can blow up tanks 'No. 3' and 'No. 4'!" ”

Hearing this, Major Mikhailvich's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The 82nd Infantry Regiment is mainly small arms, and the most terrifying thing for them is tanks, because they can say that they do not have any effective anti-tank equipment, even if it is a close-range throwing type.

This can be a dead end for a unit on the battlefield, which means that any time a few tanks appear in front of the 82nd Infantry Regiment, the 82nd Infantry Regiment will be captured.

Now, if there is an anti-tank grenade, even if it is thrown at a distance of only 15 to 20 meters, it is a process of starting from scratch for the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

Major Mikhailvich, of course, understood its importance, so he immediately nodded: "Of course, Comrade Shulka! You're right, I think each of them is going to be trained in anti-tank grenades! ”

What made Major Mikhailvich even more happy was yet to come.

Three days later, Kalashnikov sent a batch of bazookas and rockets.

"That's all we can get!" Kalashnikov said to Shulka: "Twenty bodies, plus a hundred rockets!" Some of them have even been repaired! ”

"It's okay, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka said: "Thank you very much! ”

Kalashnikov looked at Shulka and said, "It's a sarcasm, isn't it?" ”

"What sarcasm?"

"Bazookas were even produced and equipped with troops with your efforts, but now you have to sneak in if you want to get them!"

Shulka didn't answer, just smiled wryly in response.

Mikhailvich couldn't help jumping up with excitement when he saw this batch of bazookas:

"This is the kind of new weapon that can destroy the enemy's tank at a distance of a hundred meters, right? Is that the kind of weapon that the 1st Guards Tank Brigade is equipped with? ”

"Yes!" Shulka said.

"Thank you, Shulka!" Mikhailvich hugged Shulka excitedly and muttered to himself: "We are saved, we are saved......"

Then, Major Mikhailvich personally arranged for the storage of these bazookas and sent a special person to manage them, for fear that something would go wrong.

Andrianka laughed: "I've never seen him so excited, Comrade Shulka!" ”

To be honest, this was a bit of a surprise to Shulka.

"It's only twenty bazookas!" "You know, it's less accurate, and if it's going to work on the battlefield, you have to be heavily equipped," Shulka said. So twenty is nothing! ”

"I know!" Andrianka replied: "But you should also know that at the moment the bazooka is only equipped with elite troops!" ”

Shulka couldn't help but let out an "oh".

This is true, this is mainly because the rocket launcher has only been developed for two months now, and the production is not large and it takes time to train shooters, so for the time being, only a few armored divisions and infantry divisions with the title of "Guards" are equipped.

Now the 82nd Infantry Regiment is also equipped, albeit pitifully and mainly for training, but it is an incentive for the 82nd Infantry Regiment...... As said before, this seems to prove the sequence that they took off their "abandoned" hats and returned to normal troops.

Sure enough, after Major Mikhailvich broke the news, the soldiers who were training were so excited that they let out bursts of cheers.

Shulka didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

From a training point of view, it's good to have the soldiers think that way, because it helps the morale of the troops, and of course it helps to make them a qualified unit.

But...... Shulka knew that this was not true, and if one day, the superiors found out about this unusual cannon fodder unit, or if the soldiers knew the truth one day, the blow to them would also be fatal.

But Shulka had no choice but to take one step at a time.

ON THE FIFTH DAY, KALASHNIKOV SENT SEVERAL 82MM MORTARS TO THE TROOPS.

This is normal equipment, but it is supplemented with some of the covering firepower of the troops, and the same amount is almost negligible.

However, this is not the point, the point is that the soldiers of the 82nd Infantry Regiment thought that this was the rectification of their superiors, so they all trained with twelve points of energy as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

"Bobosha is still a few days away!" Kalashnikov said: "Also, I feel that there is something that needs to be told to you, Odessa is lost!" ”

Shulka let out an "oh".

This was expected, originally they estimated that Odessa could only be held for three days, but now five days is considered good.

Shulka reckoned that this was due to the naval infantry brigade stationed there, which was a well-trained unit.

"More than 70,000 people were captured!" Kalashnikov said: "Manstein was cunning, he chose to end the campaign during the day, the Navy could not get close to Odessa to withdraw the troops!" ”

Shulka nodded slowly, more than 70,000 soldiers of the naval infantry brigade, this is a big loss.

However, Shulka knew that this was only the beginning of Soviet losses.