Chapter 406: Anti-Tank Dog (Part I)

Although the infantry is slower to accompany the tank attack, its own infantry can flexibly protect its attacking tanks and prevent the enemy's infantry from destroying their attacking tanks with various anti-tank weapons, but this speed is more than half slow.

For the use of these two tactics, Army Group South has never rigidly stipulated which tactics to use, Li Mo has long since lowered the authority to the commanders of the first line, how they decide how to fight, Li Mo only needs the result, this method can give full play to the subjective initiative of the first-line commander, and use more flexible tactics.

"1000 meters."

There was no reaction from the Soviet positions, and there was still a deathly silence.

"500 meters."

"300 meters"

"200 m"

Frieze was wondering why the Soviet positions had not reacted so far, could it be that they had been completely wiped out by the shelling from their own side, and this situation could not have happened!!

Suddenly, countless heads appeared in the position of the Soviet army, and at the same time hundreds of dogs rushed towards the German tanks, Flitz quickly rubbed his eyes, and looked carefully, it was indeed countless dogs that were released by the Soviet army out of the trenches, these dogs were a little strange, other dogs saw the monster of the tank, and they had already fled, these dogs rushed towards the German tanks instead, and the speed was quite fast.

"That's not right."

Frieze quickly opened his eyes wide and noticed that the dogs were carrying a large package with an upright lever on it.

"Shoot, there is something wrong with these dogs. Speed shooting. ”

Flitz realized that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered to shoot, and as soon as the infantry behind the tank saw that the tank began to shoot, they also began to shoot the dogs who pounced on their tanks desperately.

"Click...... Click...... Bumper ...... Barking...... Woowoo"

At such a short distance, the dogs were fast and the target was small, and although the tanks and infantry of Flitz were desperately shooting, of course, countless dogs were shot on the spot, and some of the dogs had a violent explosion, which was almost as powerful as a 155-mm shell.

Flitz now understood. These are anti-tank dogs. Those damned Soviets, strapped bombs to dogs, rushed at Flitze's tanks, which were soaked in cold sweat.

"Hurry, hurry. Shoot. Click...... Click...... Boom...... Boom ......"

Machine guns of tanks. Machine guns of armored vehicles, submachine guns of infantry, began to shoot desperately. It's easy to beat people, this dog is really not easy to fight, these sudden dogs made Flitz not react, and when they reacted, those dogs had run out of dozens of meters, and in front of the Soviet position, because they had been shelled by Germany, there were craters everywhere, and it provided good cover for those charging bomb dogs.

There is also a more sad thing is that Frieze can't order his armored assault group to reverse at full speed, because there are infantry behind, and reversing indiscriminately will crush his own people, of course, Flitz's armored assault group is trained to reverse collectively, but in this kind of situation accompanied by infantry, the tank reverses at full speed, it is easy to crush its own follow-up infantry, and the German army can't do it to the point of using infantry as cannon fodder.

As the Soviet defense forces were quickly swallowed up by the steel torrent of the "Wehrmacht", the Soviet Red Army had to take some special measures in desperation - including the legendary "anti-tank dogs". Initially, these dogs were trained as "bomb planting dogs", where they would bring bombs to specific targets, use them to drop explosives, and then return to their owners. Unfortunately, with the rapidly advancing tanks, it was almost impossible for the dogs to accomplish such a "bomb-planting" task, so the Soviets had to resort to a simple but crude but effective method (although Lao Maozi's weaponry was always like this): bomb and dog with the dog, which was called Hundminen or Mine Dog. After training, the bomb is strapped to the puppy, and they will run to the enemy tank, which will then be detonated along with the bomb. This practice is undoubtedly very cruel to dogs.

At first, the dogs were trained to carry supplies, detect landmines and rescue people, and the dogs excelled in these areas. In the early 30s of the 20th century, they began to think that it would be a great idea to turn a good friend of humanity into an anti-tank weapon. As a result, three of the schools began to train mine dogs. At first, they had the dogs drop the mines next to the tanks and then quickly flee back, and then the controllers detonated the bombs remotely or used time bombs to detonate them in advance.

However, this method does not work well for the following reasons. First of all, to unload the bomb, the dog has to put on a bomb carrier that can be removed with its teeth, but this is too complicated, and they will often bring the bomb directly back to their own position. Secondly, remote control was too expensive for the technology of the time, so time bombs were mostly used. If the dog runs back without dropping the bomb, then it will pull its trainer and go to Yellow Springs with him. Also, even if the bomb is unloaded next to the tank, if the tank is running at the time and the explosion time is not just right. Then the bomb explosion will not hurt half of the enemy's hair at all.

So the Soviet government abandoned their initial plan, and unfortunately, they came up with a new one. This time they didn't drop the bomb, they tied the bomb to the dog with a leather leash. When the dog runs under the tank, the bomb explodes, killing the dog (and if you're lucky, you can break the tank).

It's not enough to blow yourself up, training is not real. During the exercises, the dogs are forced to starve, and then the food is placed under the practice tank, giving the dog the impression that there is food under the tank all over the world. At the same time, the dog should be used to the roar of the battle when running, so as to prevent the puppy from being frightened and affecting the success rate of the mission......

In real history, according to the Soviet government, the anti-tank dogs destroyed about 300 tanks, but it is unknown whether this figure is the number of false reports made by the Soviet government to cover up the failure of the project.

Zhukov thought of a way, another way, and actually came up with such a cruel bomb dog, there were nearly a thousand bomb dogs in this position, but the German shelling killed some dogs, but there were still more than 500 left, when the German tanks attacked the Soviet position 200 meters, suddenly released these bomb dogs that had been starved for a few days, and there was food under the tanks!!

Of course, some dogs still didn't dare to drill under the moving tank, and some dogs were hungry and ran crazy against the German tank, and these dogs had a high trigger lever on their backs, and as long as these bomb dogs drilled under the tank, the trigger rod on their backs was knocked down by the tank's chassis.

"Click...... Click...... Barking...... Boom"

…… (To be continued......)