Chapter 1383: Anti-tank grenades for the death squad
When the infantry was approaching the tank, it was the most dangerous time for the infantry, and many of the infantry fell on this section of the road.
The Germans, in particular, have long summed up a set of tactics, and when their tanks advance, the infantry fighting vehicles are behind them, ready to unload the infantry at any time and protect their wings.
If the infantry wanted to hit them, they would face the machine guns of tanks, the machine guns of infantry fighting vehicles, the submachine guns of German infantry, and many of the lives of Soviet infantry were sacrificed in vain in the rain of bullets.
Now, it's a good opportunity.
The German tanks, instead of forming an attack line, were in a long formation, and at the same time, they did not have infantry to accompany them, and the screw cars ran to chase the artillery positions.
Such an array as Germany could not fight at all, it was easy to get close and could not form crossfire.
And this trap of the Soviet infantry will make the Germans suffer a big loss.
They didn't have to move, when the German tanks stopped, they were twenty or thirty meters away, they had been waiting for a long time, and some even suspected that their ears were broken, why didn't they give the order?
They were death squads, and each one of them had the belief that they would die, because they knew that once they started attacking, they would not be able to return alive.
It is impossible for them to move in the swamp, they can only step on the trunk of a tree that has fallen into the swamp and come towards this side of the road, and their anti-tank grenades will not be able to clean up all the German tanks, even if there is one left, the tank machine gun will destroy them.
However, they are still fearless, exchanging their lives for one of the other party's tanks, worth it!
In fact, they had already suffered losses just now.
When the howitzers were fired, although they had been accurately aimed, some of the shells missed, and some of them landed where they were hiding.
No one survived, and as soon as a 152-mm grenade exploded nearby, the person would also be killed. Their corpses, wrapped in mud, flew up, on the battlefield, and went unnoticed.
If they were unlucky, then there were lucky, for example, the German screw cars steered ahead of time and avoided their hiding places, otherwise those screw cars would have churned them into meat sauce.
Now the fighters of these death squads, who were determined to die, raised their hands and began to throw their own anti-tank grenades.
Their grenades are also varied, some of them directly bundle several grenades together, even if they are cluster grenades, hoping to rely on more explosives to blow up the opponent's armor.
There are also those who hold in their hands a grenade that many people have never seen, this is the latest anti-tank grenade developed by the Soviets, in later generations, it was named RPG-43, and the RPG here is not a bazooka, but an abbreviation for a hand-held anti-tank grenade.
With the strength of the German armored forces, the Soviet Union felt a lot of pressure, and while they were constantly increasing their own tank production and research and development, they were also thinking about the problem of individual anti-tank.
After all, it is also quite urgent to equip ordinary soldiers with anti-tank capabilities, and in this regard, the United States gave great support and provided the Soviet Union with the principle of the energy gathering effect, according to which the Soviet Union made the current anti-tank grenade.
In fact, the gathering effect is not a secret, as early as 1888, the American Monroe discovered the accumulation effect in the explosives test, so it is also called the "Monroe effect".
However, it was not known what this would do until 1930, when Wood further improved Monroe's experiment by placing a metal cover on the surface of the conical cavity of the column, which greatly increased the armor-piercing ability. The principle is that when a hollow column with a conical hole explodes, the energy is highly concentrated along the axis of the column and can penetrate a very thick steel plate.
Later, the Swiss mastered this technology, and in order to sell it, a group of Swiss experts organized a demonstration test of a new type of anti-tank explosives, and specially invited the British military attache in Switzerland to watch it.
As a result, the British were too expensive, and at the same time, the British military attaché specially invited the explosion experts from the Woollige Arsenal in London to come to Switzerland to watch, and the result was that they saw through the doorway.
After Britain was conquered by Germany, these explosives experts moved to the United States, where they mastered the technology.
In order to help the Soviet Union against German tanks, the United States provided these principles, but did not tell the Soviet Union more core things, but for the Soviets, it was enough to know the ideas.
The current anti-tank grenade is the first anti-tank grenade in the world to use the principle of a hollow charge.
However, the design of its medicine hood is not reasonable enough, so it mainly relies on a large charge to ensure the armor-piercing effect.
For Soviet technicians, it was the most basic common sense that the power was not enough to make up the numbers, and this grenade was loaded with 612 grams of TNT explosives and the total mass of 1200 grams. (How heavy it is, just compare it specifically, an ordinary wooden-handled grenade, the most is only 600 grams, it is twice as much as an ordinary grenade!) )
In such a case, its armor penetration depth is 75 mm, which is certainly not good against the front of the Tiger tank, but if it is against the tail armor of the Tiger tank, then it will be completely fine.
What's more, due to the long serpentine formation of the German tank troops, some of the Panther 3 tanks in the back fell within the range of the Soviet ambush.
They are death squads, if they can be used without them, Rokossovsky will not use them, if the German tanks have been almost beaten by their own side, and then let the death squads come out, it will be the icing on the cake, but now, once the death squads are used, it is almost a lose-lose ending.
Kolov's body was covered in mud, and he felt that a lot of his skin was itching, and there were a lot of blood-sucking leeches in the swamp, and hiding in this would quickly be sucked dry by leeches.
Everyone is in this situation, before they enter the swamp, they tighten their cuffs and trousers, but on their hands and faces, there are still leeches staring at them, and some of them actually bite through their clothes and get inside.
When he stood up, he still had two leeches on his face, hanging in front of his face like that. But Kolov didn't care, the moment he stood up, he pulled the tab of his grenade, raised his hand, and wanted to throw the grenade out.
At this moment, he felt the hand in his hand slip, and suddenly, his heart sank, not good!