Chapter 368: Fire-breathing monsters
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Street battles in the city have always been the deadliest. The defender of the city can deal the greatest blow to the besieger with the help of various pre-constructed fortifications, and as the besieging side, it is necessary to be prepared for bullets that may come from any corner.
Street fighting, that is, a meat grinder, this is almost all axioms.
So, as the attacking side, of course, it is necessary to first destroy the combat potential of the opponent to the maximum, and this is to bombard with artillery!
"Boom!" The 150 mm grenade fell to the ground, and in an instant, a large crater more than one meter deep was blown out, and the flying shrapnel scarred a nearby tree, and a room on the side was even directly lifted off by the air flow of the explosion!
That's the power of heavy artillery!
"Wow!" A Warsaw citizen, lying on the ground, doing the standard dodging maneuvers he had been taught two hours earlier, spat out a mouthful of blood, just before his chest pressed against the ground, and then, the shock wave from the explosion slammed into his internal organs, and he was already bleeding internally.
He looked at the sky in horror, and the rockets were flying like a rain of arrows.
"Boom, boom!" Next, his location was completely covered, and when this round of rockets flew by, there were no living creatures within a radius of a few hundred meters where he was.
If the Polish army can delay the German army on the border for a while, then the rear will quickly reorganize more troops, and if the British and French aid can keep up, it is difficult to say who will die.
But now, the German army came too quickly, and the blitzkrieg had already blinded the Poles, and in a few days Warsaw could not be built into a suitable fortress for street fighting.
And now, the German shelling has immersed the whole city of Warsaw in a state of fear, and the German shelling is so fierce that it seems that if such shelling lasts overnight, the city of Warsaw will be in ruins.
Warsaw, can it still hold on?
Half an hour later, the shelling finally stopped, and the whole of Warsaw, shrouded in great fear.
After receiving the report, the commander of the defending army also turned pale, the German army is too strong!
If the Polish army had been allowed to attack, they would definitely not have such a frenzied artillery bombardment, the Polish were mainly cavalry, which annihilated the other side by movement, and now, it seems, the Germans were so strong.
What to do?
Rainer Fars, who had not slept all night, had bloodshot eyes, and after dawn, the German offensive finally began.
"Boom, boom." The Panther 3 tank let out a burst of roar, and in the street battle, the tank is still useful, and it can use its own artillery fire to take out the fire points that appear in front.
But now, several Panther 3 tanks, starting together, are a bit unusual.
You know, in street fighting, it's useless to have more tanks, generally speaking, it's just a tank, with a group of infantry, you can charge.
Now, several tanks, what's going on?
If you look closely, you can see that the tank in the middle of these tanks is a little different from other tanks.
For example, on its turret, in addition to the iconic 75 mm tank gun, there is also a tube more than a meter long on one side of the barrel.
The Panther 3 tank in front and behind seems to protect the tank in the middle.
The formation was moving forward, getting closer and closer to the city of Warsaw, just in front of the ruins, when suddenly, a flash of fire came out.
An anti-tank gun is hidden there! That's a bunker!
Yesterday's bombing, the ruins covered the place, but it was more hidden, and now, this pillbox, towards the attacking German army, fiercely counterattacked!
Almost at the same time, the counterattack on this side also began.
I saw that the Panther 3 tank in the middle quickly turned the turret, and then, the short pipe on the side sprayed out a stream of liquid, like the high-pressure faucet of a fire truck, and it actually sprayed onto the pillbox sixty meters away.
It was almost instantaneous, and in the next moment, the liquid that was sprayed out burst into flames, like a fiery dragon!
In the fortifications over there, there were screams in an instant.
A Polish soldier opened the gate of the fortifications and ran outside, his body was full of fire, he threw back and forth on the ground, trying to extinguish the fire on his body, but the fire grew stronger and stronger, until his whole body was burning in the fire!
Spitfire Tank!
This Panther 3 tank in the middle is a specially developed and improved tank developed by Germany for street fighting!
In fact, for a long time, there was the Pyro class, which is a glorious and dangerous class.
The flamethrower first appeared on the battlefield of World War I as a weapon of attack. Germany was one of the first countries to develop flamethrowers.
Nitrogen is used to compress the fuel in the fuel tank and eject it, igniting it at the nozzle to make it a pillar of fire, but unfortunately the range is only 25 meters. At the same time, the equipment is too bulky and inconvenient to use.
However, this is still extremely frightening for opponents.
As a soldier, you are not afraid of death, and if you are shot, it just hurts. Moreover, after death, you can still leave a whole corpse.
However, being killed by the flamethrower is only a dark mess, and the pain before death is even more frightening, so the flamethrower is a tool of psychological oppression.
Until the beginning of World War II, infantry flamethrowers were still available, but they were just as bulky and had a limited range.
For example, the knapsack FmW35 flamethrower used by the German army now weighs 35.8 kilograms, carries 11.8 liters of fuel, has a range of about 30 meters, requires two operators, and is quite inconvenient to use.
The flamethrower is a dangerous profession, and the enemy is afraid of being burned to death, so the flamethrower, who carries two large canisters on his back and a large pipe in his hand, is the most priority target for the opposing infantry, machine gunner, and sniper.
The flamethrower's short range results in the flamethrower's hands generally always being exposed to the killing range of the opponent's small arms, often with no return.
So, there was a scheme for attaching a flamethrower to a tank.
For example, now, the Panther 3 tank has strong protection, and it will not be hit like the Spitfire, and it will have to burn into ashes. On the Panther 3 tank, Germany improved the specialized Spitfire tank.
The 75mm barrel on the outside is pretended, and it is absolutely true that you can't have both fish and bear's paws.
Why pretend? Because the Spitfire tank is definitely to find people to hold grudges, and the enemy will kill it no matter how much it costs, so it is best to be able to mix it into an ordinary tank, and it can't be seen by the opponent at a glance.