Chapter 739: S-Mine
"Avenge your comrades. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info"This was the only thought of all the German soldiers after witnessing the tragedy of these flamethrowers. Although the weapon itself does not become stronger due to people's emotions, the angry soldier will also be more proficient in using the weapon, and the damage caused to the enemy will naturally increase a lot.
But when it comes to anger, the Soviets are no less than the German soldiers, the traps have already made them suffer enough, and the comrades lying on the ground, who are still emitting the smell of burning, are still silently urging them to continue to move forward and beat these enemies who have invaded their country back to their Western European homeland! Although there is no distinction between you and me in terms of momentum, the two sides have the advantage of terrain and numbers respectively, so they are still inseparable.
Seeing that there was already some obstacle nearby, the Soviet soldiers launched a new wave of charge. However, before they could speed up, they were directly blown into the air. Almost everyone thought that this was the work of the German tanks, so they dodged the tanks' guns and continued to sprint forward. However, even so, one after another people were blown up, and at this time, only sharp-eyed people saw that this area had been covered with mines by the Germans.
This minefield is the fourth trap of the German army, and it is naturally Hans who came up with this plan. He believed that the Germans could walk through the inside of the trenches when they retreated, but after the trenches were blown up, the Soviets could only walk above the positions, so the area was covered with mines to effectively stop the enemy. Although there were cases where tanks destroyed mines, tanks would not have had enough time to destroy all these mines in such close combat, and these mines could always inflict some blows on the Soviet soldiers.
Moreover, compared to the physical damage caused by landmines, it is the psychological blow to them that is the greatest. After all, even if there is a rain of bullets in front of you, you can see it. Whether or not you can dodge it is another matter, but even if you are hit, you will know where it came from. However, these mines are almost completely stealthy, and they are only felt when the fighters step on them, and this feeling is usually too late.
Although objectively speaking, the damage of landmines to a single soldier is indeed higher than that of bullets. But what the soldiers really fear is this kind of untouchable attack, which is also because the unknown is a great source of human fear.
In fact, in the previous explosions, a very small number of these mines were indeed detonated. But on the one hand, the distance was too far, and on the other hand, the effect of the explosion and the effect of the explosion of the shell itself were combined, which led to the fact that the Soviet troops did not detect this deadly situation at all.
However, when these Soviet soldiers actually came into contact with these mines, they found that half of them were not mines as they generally knew them, but a kind of fragmentation bomb that would fly into the air!
This weapon, which puzzled the Soviet soldiers, was a cross-era weapon developed by the German army -- the jumping mine.
The S-type mine (German Schrapnellmine), numbered S.Mi.35, nicknamed 'Bouncing Betty', was developed and produced by Germany as a new type of anti-infantry mine. Unlike traditional direct-detonation mines, the S-mine's projectile kit is detonated when the soldier leaves the mine trigger. Then the mine body uses the momentum generated by the explosion of the projectile package to fly to a distance of 0.9 meters ~ 1.5 meters above the ground, and the delay package caused by the projectile package will explode, detonating the entire mine body and causing large-scale damage to the nearby infantry.
Although the explosion of the mine can also injure enemies at close range, or even kill them directly, this is really just the lethal function attached to the S-type mine. What it really uses to inflict damage on the enemy is a large number of steel balls, short iron rods, broken metal sheets, and other metal substances that can easily penetrate the flesh wrapped around the main charge. After the explosion of the mine, these small pieces of metal will launch a shotgun attack in all directions, and the killing range and lethality are several levels higher than that of ordinary mines.
Although the explosion of a general mine comes from under the feet, which is difficult to prevent, this kind of jumping mine that throws the mine body into the air is generally difficult to heal because it strikes all parts of the human body (especially the upper part itself) more widely.
Even more lethal is the fact that this S-type mine will work very well when used with anti-tank mines. This is mainly due to the fact that when removing ordinary mines with armored units, the soldiers are always on the sidelines, on the one hand, to prevent the enemy's sneak attack, and on the other hand, to help the tanks to evade the enemy's anti-tank mines. However, if this S-type mine is used, even if the infantry does not step on the mine themselves, it will still be devastating to the infantry around the tank, and if the vehicle that clears the mine is just a normal armored vehicle, or even an open-top structure, then the members inside will not escape the claws of this S-shaped mine.
Hans was thrilled to learn that they still had this weapon. Hans had only seen a handful of such lethal mines in the North African theater of war, and in the later battlefields of Eastern Europe, tank units like theirs, which had been preoccupied with advance, had no chance to use such weapons. And now, he can finally get over the addiction and use these mines on the Soviets.
And as a result, naturally, as Hans expected, the Soviet army had no way to deal with this 'weird mine'. Although everyone moved forward cautiously, if one person accidentally triggered an S-mine, then a large group of people around him would be unlucky.
However, it is a pity that there are no anti-tank mines in these mines, which allows the Soviet tanks to move forward a little presumptuously. However, the tanks could not complete the assault without the cover of the infantry, and these new mines had completely blinded the Soviet soldiers, and the high morale of the former desire to avenge their teammates was scattered at once, and after losing this momentum, their advance was faltering......
However, on the other hand, on the battlefield on the front, their experience may be good, because the situation over there is even worse, and can only be described as chaotic...... (To be continued.) )